Hepatitis B Vaccine: Why we should oppose it.

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Hepatitis B Vaccine: The Untold Storyhttp://www.909shot.com/Diseases/hepbnlr.htmHEPATITIS B VACCINE: THE UNTOLD STORYParents Question Forced Vaccination As Reports of Hepatitis B VaccineReactions MultiplyIn increasing numbers, parents across the country are contacting theNational Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) to report opposition toregulations being enacted by state health department officials that legallyrequire children to be injected with three doses of hepatitis B vaccinebefore being allowed to attend daycare, kindergarten, elementary school,high school or college. Simultaneously, as more schools and employers bowto pressure from government health officials and require individuals toshow proof they have been injected with hepatitis B vaccine before beingallowed to

get an education or a job, reports of serious health problemsfollowing hepatitis B vaccination among children and adults are multiplying.The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) maintains that federal andstate public health officials are promoting forced vaccination withhepatitis B vaccine without truthfully informing the public about the risksof hepatitis B disease in America or the known and unknown risks ofhepatitis B vaccine. Without being provided with accurate and completeinformation about disease and vaccine risks, citizens cannot exerciseinformed consent, which becomes a human right when an individual considersundergoing a medical procedure that could cause injury or death.Following is a general overview of what is and is not known about hepatitisB disease, the hepatitis B vaccine and the politics of hepatitis Bvaccination.Hepatitis B Not Highly Contagious - Unlike other infectious diseases

for which vaccines have been developed and mandated in the U.S., hepatitis B isnot common in childhood and is not highly contagious. Hepatitis B isprimarily an adult disease transmitted through infected body fluids, mostfrequently infected blood, and is prevalent in high risk populations suchas needle using drug addicts; sexually promiscuous heterosexual andhomosexual adults; residents and staff of custodial institutions such asprisons; health care workers exposed to blood; persons who require repeatedblood transfusions and babies born to infected mothers.According to CDC Prevention

Guidelines: A Guide to Action (1997), a bookwritten by federal public health officials at the U.S. government Centersfor Disease Control (CDC), "the sources of [hepatitis B] infection for mostcases include intravenous drug use (28%), heterosexual contact withinfected persons or multiple partners (22%) and homosexual activity (9%)."According to Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (1994), mother tochild transmission of hepatitis B "is uncommon in North America and westernEurope."Although CDC officials have made statements that hepatitis B is easy tocatch through sharing toothbrushes or razors, Eric Mast, M.D., Chief of theSurveillance Section, Hepatitis Branch of the CDC, stated in a 1997 publichearing that: " although [the hepatitis B virus] is present in moderateconcentrations in saliva, it's not transmitted commonly by casual contact."Hepatitis B Not A Killer Disease For Most - Symptoms of hepatitis B

diseaseinclude nausea, vomiting, fatigue, low grade fever, pain and swelling injoints, headache and cough that may occur one to two weeks before the onsetof jaundice (yellowing of the skin) and enlargement and tenderness of theliver, which can last for three to four weeks. Fatigue can last up to ayear. According to Harrison's, in cases of acute hepatitis B "most patients do not require hospital care" and "95 percent of patients have a favorablecourse and recover completely" with the case-fatality ratio being "very low(approximately 0.1 percent)."Those who recover completely from hepatitis B infection

acquire life-longimmunity. Of those who do not recover completely, fewer than 5 percentbecome chronic carriers of the virus with just one quarter of these indanger of developing life threatening liver disease later in life,according to Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease (1994), a medical collegetextbook.The Guide to Clinical Preventive Services (1996), written under thesupervision of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS),states that the risk of developing a chronic hepatitis B infection ishigher in infected infants than in infected older children and adults:"Infections during infancy, while estimated to represent only 1-3% ofcases, account for 20-30% of chronic infections." Because infants born toinfected mothers are at highest risk for developing chronic hepatitis Binfections, routine screening of pregnant women for hepatitis B infectionis one of the most important public health measures that

can be taken toprevent chronic hepatitis B carriers. The Merck Manual (1992), a majormedical reference used by physicians, notes that "postexposure vaccinationis recommended for newborn infants of hepatitis B positive mothers."Hepatitis B Low In U.S. - The U.S. and western Europe have always had amongthe lowest rates of hepatitis B disease in the world (0.1% to 0.5% of thegeneral population) compared to countries in the Far East and Africa, wherethe disease affects 5-20% or more of the population. According to Guide toClinical Preventive Services, in the U.S. "the greatest reported incidence[of hepatitis B] occurs in adults aged 20-39" and "the number of cases peaked in 1985 and has shown a continuous gradual decline since that time."Even though hepatitis B disease is uncommon in the general population inthe U.S., it continues to be high among those engaged in high-riskbehaviors, especially IV drug use. Guide to Clinical Preventive Servicesstates that "In recent years, a growing number of injection drug users havebecome infected; currently, between 60% and 80% of persons who use illicitdrugs parenterally (through the skin such as with a needle stick) haveserologic evidence of [hepatitis B] infection."In 1991, there were 18,003 cases of hepatitis B reported in the U.S. out ofa total U.S. population of 248 million. According to the October 31, 1997Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published by the CDC, in 1996 therewere 10,637 cases of hepatitis B reported in the U.S. with 279

casesreported in children under the age of 14 and the CDC stated that "HepatitisB continues to decline in most states, primarily because of a decrease inthe number of cases among injecting drug users and, to a lesser extent,among both homosexuals and heterosexuals of both sexes."CDC Recommends All Infants Get Hep B Vaccine - Even though hepatitis B isan adult disease, is not highly contagious, is not deadly for most whocontract it, and is not in epidemic form in the U.S. (except among highrisk groups such as IV drug addicts), in 1991 the Advisory Committee onImmunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)recommended that all infants be injected with the first dose of hepatitis Bvaccine at birth before being discharged from the hospital newborn nursery.A similar recommendation was also made by the Committee on InfectiousDiseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). This, despite

thefact almost nothing is known about the health and integrity of anindividual baby's immune and neurological systems at birth. In 1991, media reports generated by the CDC used hepatitis B diseasestatistics that were not anchored in documented fact but are still usedtoday to promote mass hepatitis B vaccination. Most of the inflated diseasestatistics originate with statements generated by the Centers for DiseaseControl. In the 1991 ACIP Recommendations calling for mass vaccination withhepatitis B vaccine published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,the CDC states that there are an "estimated 1

million-1.25 million personswith chronic hepatitis B infection in the United States" and that "eachyear approximately 4,000-5,000 of these persons die from chronic liverdisease" and that "an estimated 200,000-300,000 new [hepatitis B]infections occurred annually during the period 1980-1991." The CDC gives noscientific reference for this data other than the CDC.Just one year before the government's call for mass vaccination, hepatitisB vaccine maker SmithKline Beecham in their 1990 hepatitis B vaccineproduct insert stated, "The CDC estimates that there are approximately 0.5to 1.0 million chronic carriers of hepatitis B virus in the U.S. and thatthis pool of carriers grows by 2% to 3% (12,000 to 20,000 individuals)annually."Federal Recommendations Become State Laws - Because vaccinationrequirements are controlled by states and not the federal government, inorder for federal health officials to achieve their goal

of a 100 percentvaccination rate with new vaccines marketed by drug companies, they mustpersuade states to turn federal vaccine policies into state law. And,because during the past 50 years, most state legislatures have completelyturned over the power to mandate vaccines to state health departmentofficials, very infrequently do state legislators take a vote to approvethe mandating of a new vaccine such as hepatitis B. So, while American children born in 1948 were only required by state health officials to showproof of smallpox vaccination to enter school, American children born

in1998 are required by most states to be injected with 33 or 34 doses of 9 or10 different viral and bacterial vaccines to enter school, including threedoses of hepatitis B vaccine.Federal Health Officials Give State Health Officials Money To Force Hep BVaccination - Following the 1991 CDC recommendation for universal use ofhepatitis B vaccine by all children, state health department officialsbegan issuing mandates requiring children to show proof they have beeninjected with three doses of hepatitis B vaccine in order to attend daycareor school. By the end of 1997, 35 states had regulations on the booksrequiring children to get 3 doses of hepatitis B vaccine and, yet, only 15states had passed laws requiring prenatal screening of pregnant mothers forhepatitis B infection.To encourage states to mandate use of hepatitis B vaccine by all children,federal health officials at the Centers for Disease Control give

grants andother financial incentives to state health departments to reward them forpromoting mass vaccination. Since 1965, the CDC has given state healthdepartments hundreds of millions of dollars through categorical grantprograms to promote mass use of federally recommended vaccines. At the sametime, if state health officials do not show federal health officials proofthey have attained a certain vaccination rate in their state, federalgrants to state health departments can be withheld.In 1993, the Comprehensive Childhood Immunization Act of 1993 was passedgiving the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) the authority toaward more than $400 million to states to set up state vaccine registriesto tag and track children and enforce mandatory vaccination with federallyrecommended vaccines, including hepatitis B vaccine. The Performance Grant Program rewards a state with either $50, $75 or $100 per child who is fullyvaccinated with all federally recommended vaccines, including hepatitis Bvaccine and, in 1995, DHHS Secretary Donna Shalala gave the states thepower to approve a newborn's social security number in order to set upvaccine tracking registries in more than half the states. The CDC plan isto hook up the state vaccine tracking registries in order to create a defacto centralized electronic database containing every child's medicalrecords.Pharmaceutical Industry Also Funds Forced Hep B Vaccination - In additionto federal grants, many states get money from the Robert

Wood JohnsonFoundation (Johnson & Johnson), which operates All Kids Count, to set upvaccine tracking systems to enforce state vaccination mandates. (In 1989,Merck & Co., the U.S. manufacturer of the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR),chicken pox and hepatitis B vaccines, joined with Johnson & Johnson to formWorldwide Consumer Pharmaceuticals Co. with the goal of becoming "one ofthe premier worldwide consumer products companies." Merck's 1997 vaccinesales reached 1 billion dollars.)All Kids Count is a project of the Task Force for Child Survival andDevelopment headquartered at The Carter Center (former President JimmyCarter) in Atlanta, which is directed by former CDC director Dr. WilliamFoege. The Task Force is supported by the World Health Organization, WorldBank, Rockefeller Foundation, United Nation's Population Fund and vaccinemanufacturers, entities which also sponsor the Children's VaccineInitiative

(CVI). The CVI, headquartered in Geneva, was launched in 1990 atthe World Summit for Children and promotes "the development andutilization" of vaccines by all of the world's children.Forced vaccination with hepatitis B vaccine is also promoted in states bynon-profit organizations such as Every Child by Two, founded in 1991 by former First Lady Rosalyn Carter and Betty Bumpers, wife of ArkansasSenator Dale Bumpers. Every Child by Two is funded in part by grants fromMerck, Lederle and Connaught, the three largest U.S. vaccine manufacturers.The non-profit CDC Foundation, which began operation in

1995, has raisedmore than $15 million in the past four years to augment the CDC's campaignto enforce mass vaccination. The CDC Foundation, the Task Force for ChildSurvival & Development and vaccine manufacturers funded the recent NationalImmunization Conference held in Atlanta.The five-year-old non-profit Immunization Action Coalition operates theHepatitis B Coalition, which nationally promotes hepatitis B vaccinationfor all children. Funding comes from private donations, including a grantfrom SmithKline Beecham, manufacturer of the hepatitis B vaccine, and a new$750,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control. A newsletter producedby this group contains the assurance that "Everything herein is reviewed bythe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for technical accuracy(unless it is an opinion piece written by a non-CDC author)."Pharmacists Now Vaccinate - SmithKline Beecham, through the

AmericanPharmaceutical Association, has also funded a nationwide campaign called"Pharmacy-Based Immunization Advocacy" which allows pharmacists tovaccinate children and adults. As of 1998, the Hepatitis B Coalitionreports that 23 states have passed laws giving pharmacists the right tosell and administer hepatitis B and other vaccines.Families Penalized For Refusing Hep B Vaccine - As state health departmentsaccumulate power and money to force vaccination with all federallyrecommended vaccines, including hepatitis B vaccine, child and adultcitizens are punished by both federal and state health officials witheconomic sanctions for refusing to comply. Refusal to be injected with hepatitis B vaccine can result in citizens being denied an education,including enrollment in daycare, elementary school, high school, collegeand graduate school; denial of health insurance; denial of employment;denial of federal entitlement benefits for poor children including foodunder the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program and medical care underMedicaid. In some states, like Texas, a needy family loses $25 per monthper child in state health benefits if all children have not received allfederally recommended vaccines, including hepatitis B vaccine.Hep B Vaccine Licensed By FDA Without Adequate Proof of Long Term Safety -In 1986, the FDA gave Merck & Co. a license to market the first recombinantDNA hepatitis B vaccine, which replaced the old hepatitis B vaccines madefrom blood taken from human chronic hepatitis B virus carriers. In awardingMerck & Co.

and, later, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, licenses tomarket their genetically engineered hepatitis B vaccines in the U.S., theFDA allowed both drug companies to use "safety" studies which only includeda few thousand children monitored for only four or five days aftervaccination to check for reactions. As "proof" their hepatitis B vaccine issafe to be used in children, Merck & Co. stated in their 1993 productinsert that "In a group of studies, 1636 doses of RECOMBIVAX HB wereadministered to 653 healthy infants and children (up to 10 years of age)who were monitored for 5 days after each dose."Merck & Co. found that injection site and systemic complaints, such asfatigue and weakness, fever, headache and arthralgia (joint pain), werereported following up to 17 percent of all hepatitis B injections. Becausethe FDA did not require drug companies to provide scientific evidence thathepatitis B vaccine does not

compromise the immune and neurological systems of children and adults over weeks, months or years post-vaccination, Merck & Co. warns in the 1996 product insert that "As with any vaccine, there isthe possibility that broad use of the vaccine could reveal adversereactions not observed in clinical trials" and SmithKline Beecham (1993)has a similar warning that "it is possible that expanded commercial use ofthe vaccine could reveal rare adverse reactions.Another warning in the Merck 1996 product insert is "it is also not knownwhether the vaccine can cause

fetal harm when administered to a pregnantwoman or can affect reproduction capacity" and "it is not known whether thevaccine is excreted in human milk. Because many drugs are secreted in humanmilk, caution should be exercised when the vaccine is administered to anursing woman."And, although doctors routinely inject hepatitis B vaccine into childrenalong with many other vaccines such as DPT, HIB, MMR and chicken poxvaccine, Merck & Co. state in the 1996 product insert: "Specific data arenot yet available for the simultaneous administration of RECOMBIVAX HB withother vaccines."Hep B Vaccine Efficacy Also Questioned - All vaccines stimulate only anartificial, temporary immunity, and the length of immunity conferred by thehepatitis B vaccine and the future need for more "booster" doses later inlife is still not clear. Merck & Co state in their 1996 hepatitis B vaccineproduct insert that "the duration of

the protective effect of RECOMBIVAX HBin healthy vaccinees is unknown at present and the need for booster dosesis not yet defined."In the CDC Prevention Guidelines: A Guide to Action (1997), the CDC states"The duration of protection [of hepatitis B vaccine] and need for boosterdoses are not yet fully defined. Between 30% and 50% of persons who developadequate antibody after three doses of vaccine will lose detectable antibody within 7 years but protection against viremic infection andclinical disease appears to persist." If immunity only lasts 7

years,babies vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine may be candidates for more shotsat age seven.IOM Report Reveals Lack Of Adequate Scientific Studies - In Adverse EventsAssociated with Childhood Vaccines published in 1994 by the Institute ofMedicine, National Academy of Sciences, observations about the limitationsof hepatitis B vaccine studies included the statements that "it isimportant to note that individual trials usually involved a few hundredsubjects for study...when larger vaccination programs were monitored,observations of adverse events were necessarily less detailed and lessaccurately reported" and "the studies were not designed to assess serious,rare adverse events; the total number of recipients is too small and thefollow-up generally too short to detect rare or delayed serious adversereactions."The IOM report also noted that no controlled observational studies orcontrolled clinical trials have

ever been held to evaluate repeated reportsthat hepatitis B vaccine can cause Guillain-Barre syndrome; arthritis;transverse myelitis, optic neuritis, multiple sclerosis and other centraldemyelinating diseases of the nervous system (degeneration of the myelinsheath of the brain that helps transmit nerve impulses); or sudden infantdeath syndrome (SIDS).A major conclusion of the Institute of Medicine report was that almost nobasic science research has been undertaken to define at the cellular andmolecular level the biological mechanism of vaccine-induced injury anddeath. The report concluded that "The lack of adequate data regarding manyof the adverse events under study was of major concern to thecommittee...the committee encountered many gaps and limitations inknowledge bearing directly or indirectly on the safety of vaccines. These include inadequate understanding of the biologic mechanisms underlyingadverse events following natural infection or immunization, insufficient orinconsistent information from case reports and case series...and inadequatesize or length of follow-up of many population-based epidemiologic studies…."Medical Literature Cites Immune System/Brain Damage - During the pastdecade, there have been many reports in the medical literature (primarilyin international medical journals rather than U.S. medical journals) thathepatitis B vaccination is causing chronic immune and neurological diseasein children and adults, including lupus: Tudela & Bonal (1992); Mamoux & Dumont (1994); Guiserix (1996); arthritis, including

polyarthritis andrheumatoid arthritis: Christan & Helin (1987); Hachulla et al (1990);Rogerson & Nye (1990); Biasi et al (1993),(1994); Vautier & Carty (1994);Hassan & Oldham (1994); Rheumatic Review (1994); Gross et al (1995); Popeet al (1995); Cathebras et al (1996); Soubrier et al (1997); Guillain BarreSyndrome GBS): Shaw et al (1988), Tuohy (1989); demyelinating disorderssuch as optic neuritis, Bell's Palsy, demyelinating neuropathy, transversemyelitis and multiple sclerosis: Shaw et al (1988); WHO (1990); Reutens etal (1990); Herroelen et al (1991); Nadler (1993); Brezin et al (1993);Mahassin et al (1993); Kaplanski et al (1995); Baglivo et al (1996);Marsaudon & Barrault (1996); Berkman et al (1996); Waisbren (1997);diabetes mellitus: Poutasi (1996); Classen (1996); chronic fatigue: Salit(1993); Delage et al (1993); vascular disorders: Fried et al (1987);Goolsby (1989); Cockwell et al (1990);

Poullin & Gabriel (1994); Mathieu etal (1996); Graniel et al (1997); and others.In 1996, Burton A. Waisbren, M.D., a cell biologist and infectious diseasespecialist, who is a founding member of the Infectious Disease Society of America and past President of the Infectious Disease Society of Milwaukee,pointed out in the Wisconsin Medical Journal that "there is an increasingnumber of reports in the refereed medical literature about demyelinizingdiseases occurring after an individual has received the hepatitis Bvaccination...since the hepatitis B virus itself has been

reported to causeautoimmune problems, should we not be wary of giving antigens that seem tohave triggered these problems?" Waisbren, in a presentation before a 1996Institute of Medicine Vaccine Safety Forum, warned that geneticallyengineered hepatitis B vaccines contain polypeptide sequences that arepresent in human neurologic tissues such as myelin and that, by a mechanismcalled molecular mimicry, these polypeptides can act as autoantigens whichcan induce autoimmune demyelinating diseases of the brain such as multiplesclerosis.In that same year, Montinari et al published a study in Italy evaluating 30children and adults, the majority aged 3 to 9 months, who suffered centralnervous system disorders, such as seizures and autism, following hepatitisB vaccination. The purpose of the study was to investigate whether there isan immunogenetic basis (autoimmune type) responsible for the demyelinationprocess in the brain

that can occur following recombinant hepatitis Bvaccination. The authors concluded "autoimmune diseases are more frequentin nations where vaccines are widely used, the so called "clear"communities" and they identified several potential genetic markers that"may visualize risk patients for autoimmune diseases following hepatitis Bvaccination.Montinari's work to identify genetic factors for predisposition tohepatitis B vaccine reactions is important in light of the study in 1989 byAlper et al to identify genetic factors for those who do not respond tohepatitis B vaccination. In that study, the authors concluded that there was genetic predisposition to failure to respond to the vaccine. Theystated: "These results support our hypothesis that the production ofanti-HBsAg [vaccine-induced antibodies] is a dominant trait and that theinability to produce high titers of anti-HBsAG after adequate immunizationis a recessive trait..." The authors concluded that the genetic markersthey identified are most prevalent in caucasians of European descent "andis associated with a wide variety of diseases with autoimmune features inthis population, including Type 1 diabetes mellitus..."In 1996, Barthelow Classen, M.D., CEO of Classen Immunotherapies Inc.,published an epidemiologic study in the New Zealand Medical Journal andreported that there was a 60 percent increase in Type 1 diabetes (juvenilediabetes) following a massive campaign in New Zealand from 1988 to 1991 tovaccinate babies six weeks of age or

older with hepatitis B vaccine. Hisanalysis of a group of 100,000 New Zealand children prospectively followedsince 1982 showed that the incidence of diabetes before the hepatitis Bvaccination program began in 1988 was 11.2 cases per 100,000 children peryear while the incidence of diabetes following the hepatitis B vaccinationcampaign was 18.2 cases per 100,000 children per year.Vaccine Injuries Reported At NVIC Conference on Vaccination - At the FirstInternational Public Conference on Vaccination sponsored by the NVIC onSeptember 13-15, 1997 in Alexandria, Virginia, physicians and scientistsfrom around the world gathered to speak about vaccine-induced chronicillness. Canadian physician Byron Hyde, M.D., Chairman of the NightingaleResearch Foundation, and an internationally recognized authority on myalgicencephalomyelitis (also known as chronic fatigue syndrome), spoke about thedata he has accumulated on more than 200

cases of serious immune andneurological dysfunction following hepatitis B vaccination. Dr. Hyde said: "There was a nurse in Wisconsin who had had two immunizations againsthepatitis B. After the second, she started to complain. They insisted thatshe have three more [shots], full dosage. They gave her the first, shecomplained of headaches, pain, and they told her this was anxiety neurosis.They gave her the fourth and fifth and she lost I.Q., measurable loss ofintelligence, measurable loss in stamina, all of the things you see in theworst cases of ME or chronic fatigue syndrome.....A lot of these cases thatwe've looked at

suggest demyelinating disease, disseminated myelitis,localized injuries, three unexplained deaths...the problem with all of thisis that nobody has ever seriously studied it...."Dr. Hyde was particularly critical of the poor science and medicine thathurts patients. He concluded "Almost all of these people who had adversereactions after the first immunization, after the second immunization wereindividuals who had immunological side effects and who told theirphysicians and the physicians did nothing about it but continued to proceedwith immunization... I think part of the problem is the pharmaceuticalcompanies and the governments themselves have attempted to say 'Here, takethis sugar pill, it is danger-free, it is a wonderful thing, it has norisk, no problems' and doctors have become lazy and actually believed thisdangerous philosophy put out by the pharmaceutical companies and thegovernments."Hep B Vaccine

Infant Deaths Reported In VAERS - Even though fewer than 10percent of all doctors report health problems following vaccination, thereare more than 16,000 reports of hospitalizations, injuries and deathsfollowing hepatitis B vaccination that have been reported to the U.S.government Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) since July 1990.There are reports of deaths in infants under one month of age following hepatitis B vaccination in VAERS, with most of the deaths being classifiedas sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), even though SIDS is nothistorically recognized in the medical literature as occurring

in babiesunder two months of age.One of those death reports was made for a 15-day old baby boy who diedwithin 48 hours of his first dose of hepatitis B vaccine. His fathertestified at a 1995 Institute of Medicine Vaccine Safety Forum workshop. Hedescribed what happened:"For the first 13 days of his life, Nicholas was no different than anyother baby. He ate well. When he slept, he slept well. He acted just likemy first son acted when he came home from the hospital." Nicholas was givena hepatitis B shot at his regular check up at the pediatrician's office onthe 13th day of his life. His father said:"That night when I got home from work, I noticed that Nicholas was crying alot more than usual. In fact, he was screaming some of the time. He wasacting differently, but because we had just taken him to the doctor for acheckup and they told us he was a big healthy boy, we thought everythingwas OK. When he was

just acting fussy, like babies sometimes do, we didn'tknow anything about vaccines or that they can cause problems for some babies.""Nicholas cried on and off for most of the night. When I got up and went towork the next day, he was still crying on and off. He continued during mostof the day and into the evening. The next morning, his mother found himdead in his crib. From the way he looked, he had been dead for several hours."An autopsy was done the next day. A couple of weeks later, our pediatriciantold us over the phone that the autopsy showed Nicholas had died of suddeninfant death syndrome. He told us Nicholas was one of the healthiest babieshe had ever seen…. What I didn't know then but I know now is that the pediatrician had made a report within 17 days of Nicholas' death to thegovernment's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, VAERS. In VAERS,Nicholas' death is listed as SIDS. Even though I didn't know anything aboutvaccines or SIDS, something told me that there was a reason why Nicholasdied, and I had to find out why."After seeing an article in the Washington Post about the Institute ofMedicine report on adverse events associated with childhood vaccines,Nicholas's father called the National Vaccine Information Center and begantalking to experts and researching infant death and vaccines. Eventually aclinical professor of pathology, who had reviewed Nicholas' medicalrecords, autopsy and slides, stated in writing that Nicholas did not die ofSIDS but died a cardiac death,

caused by passive congestive changes withpulmonary edema and hemorrhage caused by the active immunization withhepatitis B vaccine. The pathologist stated "I do not believe this was asudden infant death syndrome death. Sudden infant death syndrome is themost abused diagnosis in pediatric pathology. In this particular case, theinfant was two weeks old. Sudden infant death at two weeks old is so rareas to be virtually unheard of."The pathologist went on to say that Nicholas was at high risk forcongestive heart failure because his mother had gestational diabetes, butthat he would definitely have survived were it not for the stress inducedby the hepatitis B vaccination.Nicholas's father, in his testimony before the Institute of Medicine, asked"How many other newborn babies are dying from the effects of hepatitis Bvaccine, but are being wrongly diagnosed as SIDS and no one ever knows thedifference? I looked at the

computer printouts of VAERS reports at theNational Vaccine Information Center, and I saw there were other reports ofbabies just a few days or weeks old, who have died shortly after hepatitis B vaccination. Many are listed as SIDS deaths, but are they?"Adults Report Hep B Vaccine Injury And Death To NVIC - As hepatitis Brequirements force more adults to get vaccinated as a condition for gettinga higher education or working in the health care field, NVIC is receivingmore and more reaction reports like this one from a disabled nurse, whorecently wrote in:"24 hours after

my first [hepatitis B] shot, I had muscle pain in legs andarms - was told this was 'normal.' Same thing after 2nd shot. Six weeksafter 2nd shot I had my first episode of Raynauds [temporary loss of bloodflow to fingers resulting in tingling, throbbing, swelling, intense pain]and also began having rashes on arms and neck. At this point it was minorand not constant. I asked if it had anything to do with the vaccine and wastold no."Six months after the 1st shot, I received the booster. From then (1995) totoday, I have constant daily fevers up to 100.5, tormenting rashes andprickling on arms, hands, neck and legs, muscle degeneration, joint painwith restricted movement, difficulty swallowing and Raynauds has becomesevere."I was perfectly healthy until the hepatitis B vaccinations and still allthe doctors tell me it has nothing to do with my illness. I had reactionsto two of the drugs they tried to treat me with. I

am on total disabilitybecause of these symptoms. I am an RN but was taught that the vaccines wereperfectly safe."Parents Oppose Hepatitis B Vaccine Mandate In Illinois - In the spring of1997, a suburban Chicago mother of two daughters, ages 9 and 11, becameconcerned when she received a notice from the school system stating thather older daughter had to be vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine bySeptember 1997 or she would be barred from attending school. Although bothof Kathy Rothschild's daughters were fully vaccinated with all other childhood vaccines, she didn't know anyone with

hepatitis B and couldn'tunderstand why her daughter had to get the vaccine. Her research led her toa public library and then to NVIC.With the help of Kathy Rothschild's State Senator, Kathy Parker, anagreement by the Illinois Department of Health to not voice opposition, andwith support from NVIC members around the state, a bill passed the IllinoisSenate 52-2 on March 20, 1997, allowing parents the right to philosophicalexemption to vaccination. The bill also created a Task Force and requiredthe Board of Health to hold public hearings to review how Illinois publichealth employees add new vaccines to state vaccination laws and how theyimplement those laws.After the bill overwhelmingly passed the Senate, the Illinois Department ofHealth went back on its pledge not to oppose the bill and vigorously foughtagainst the bill in the House, successfully killing it in committee beforeit had a chance to come to a floor

vote. However, the health department didagree to roll back the hepatitis B mandate for one year (until September1998) and to hold three public hearings, which resulted in testimony fromphysician expert witnesses and parents and reinforced the dangers ofhepatitis B vaccine and the need for informed consent rights to beestablished within state vaccine requirements.Doctor, Mothers Say Vaccine Safety Data Poor - In a December 1997 publichearing in Chicago before the Illinois Board of Health, Mayer Eisenstein,M.D., M.P.H., who is board certified in public health and preventivemedicine, quality assurance utilization review, by the National Board ofMedical Examiners and has recently completed a law degree, testifiedagainst the proposed hepatitis B mandate. He said: "The idea of giving thisvaccine to a one-day old baby, a newborn, is preposterous. There is noscientific evidence for this. In fact, I called up the [hepatitis

B vaccine] manufacturer and I had [a representative] come to St. Mary ofNazareth Hospital, where I am Chairman of the Department of Medicine, and Iasked him: ‘Show me your evidence on one-day old infants as to side effects[from the hepatitis B vaccine]’ – we have none. Our studies were done on 5and 10 year olds....As a father, grandfather, a physician, as a lawyer, Iwant the option of not giving it to my children unless I believe thescientific evidence is there."Later during the public hearing, a mother whose child reacted to thehepatitis B

vaccine testified that "We were told unless we had the shot ourchildren were not getting into school. In the past, I got the shots for mychildren. So I went and got the [hepatitis B] shot. First shot, my daughtergot slightly sick. We didn't associate it with the shot. We associated itwith possible flu. Her legs hurt. Her back hurt....""The second shot, within two days of this shot, my daughter's symptoms wentfrom mild to severe abdominal pain around the clock. She couldn't eat. Shecouldn't sleep. Her legs hurt. She broke out in a rash. She had eczema overmost of her body. Going to the doctor, we were told it was in her head,that she needed a psychiatrist. Then we decided we would find out forourselves."It was the people who gave me [information on the vaccine], the list thatI should have gotten first that said what the reactions were, includingsevere abdominal pain, eczema, rash, hair loss. My doctor didn't tell

methat. I was given a piece of paper that said reactions would be a minimum,maybe a small fever. She had a fever the whole time."I never knew any of this existed, and this is $18,000 later, a child who[had to be] out of school for the first three months and was tutored athome. I don't want to see other kids go through this. I think there shouldbe more testing done. I think the parents should know that this shot isn't for something that's easily picked up. This is for sexual transmission ordrug use. My child is ten years old. She plays with Barbie dolls and paintsher

fingernails. She doesn't know about this stuff. I don't want to giveher a shot to protect her from something and someplace she's not at yet."Citizens Make Plea for Informed Consent - Before testifying at a Board ofHealth public hearing held in Springfield on March 26, 1998, NVIC held apress conference in the State Capitol building. Then, along with scores ofIllinois parents who traveled to Springfield to make public comment, NVICPresident Barbara Loe Fisher Reverend Robert VandenBosch, President of theAmerican Research Foundation, and Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D., professor of cellbiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, presented formal testimony.Fisher told the Board of Health "There is a six year old girl namedKatherine lying in a bed in Skokie, Illinois unable to lift her head offher pillow or walk to the bathroom. Just 13 weeks ago, Katherine was an iceskater with boundless energy and a dream of going to the

Olympics. Hermother didn't want her to get the hepatitis B shot but her pediatriciantold her it was a political issue like AIDS and the American Academy ofPediatrics (AAP) was going to mandate the vaccine soon. Katherine got thathepatitis B shot and now she may never skate again. Where were her informedconsent rights? And where will the doctors from the state health departmentand the CDC and the AAP be when her mother carries her up the stairs to thebathroom? And will the state of Illinois pay her medical bills when herinsurance runs out after DHHS and the Justice Department oppose giving herfederal compensation?"During limited public comment time, all of the parents asked the Board ofHealth to allow citizens to follow the judgement of their conscience whenmaking vaccination decisions for their children, including the right to exercise informed consent to vaccination without suffering harassment andpunishment at the hands of state health and school officials. Some, like ayoung man who was kicked out of an Illinois college in the middle of thesemester because of his sincere religious beliefs, asked for the right tofollow his religious convictions without being punished by doctors employedby the state. He said:"They have refused to give me credit for this semester and have told me notto attend class and have cancelled my appointment with my advisors. Iapplied for a religious exemption. Both my parents wrote lettersidentifying my objection. We

were refused on the grounds that, in order fora religious exemption to occur, I must identify 'a recognized church orreligious organization.' I don't believe that anyone has a right to judgemy religion. How does recognition of my belief by another human being makeit more or less? I am confused by the word 'organized.' How does the numberof people or the structure under which they operate validate my beliefs?This is a violation of my Constitutional right to religious freedom."Rev. Robert VandenBosch, an ethicist, warned that "The First Amendment [ofthe U.S. Constitution] clearly defines the free exercise of religiousbeliefs and the moral rights of individuals to obey the judgement of theirconscience in matters of life and death. The Ninth Amendment of theConstitution guarantees that governmental authority cannot overrideindividual rights of conscience. It states: 'The enumeration of theConstitution of certain rights

shall not be construed to deny or disparageothers retained by the people.' One of the rights retained by the people isthe right of conscience."Professor Of Cell Biology Investigates Hep B Vaccine Damage - ProfessorBonnie Dunbar, Ph.D., who has a distinguished 25 year career in academicand laboratory science and has been honored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her pioneering work in contraceptive vaccinedevelopment, presented at the March 26 Illinois Board of Health hearing anddescribed disabling reactions to hepatitis B vaccine suffered by herbrother and a research

assistant."Three years ago my brother, who is a geologist Ph.D. agronomist with fourcollege degrees, came to work with me at Baylor College of Medicine to workon a collaborative project in molecular genetic engineering of wheatproteins. He was required to take the hepatitis B vaccine. Within 24 hoursto four days after the first injection, he had fever and severe fatigue forone week. Two to four weeks after that injection, he ended up with a wholeseries of symptoms that now 15 doctors have said are clearly symptoms of anadverse reaction to this vaccination. Even workman's compensation for thestate of Texas is compensating him for over $300,000 worth of medicalexpenses.""At about the same time, a 21-year old girl, a medical student, came towork in my lab for the summer, She, too, had to get the hepatitis Bvaccine. After the first injection, she had fever and fatigue. Three weeksfollowing her second injection,

she lost vision in her one eye but, after 6months, regained most of her sight. She was reluctant to get the third doseof vaccine, and talked with her doctor and he told her this [hepatitis B]vaccine is the safest, there's no problem. After the third injection, sheended up in the hospital for two months extremely ill and she has lost allof her eyesight in one eye."Dr. Dunbar went on to explain to the Board of Health members that duringthe past three years of collecting data on the hepatitis B vaccine, she hasbeen contacted by hundreds of doctors and patients around the world whohave reported severe autoimmune and neurological complications to hepatitisB vaccination in previously healthy children and adults, including serious rashes, fever, joint pain, chronic fatigue, multiple sclerosis andlupus-like symptoms, rheumatoid arthritis and neurological dysfunction. Asa basic science researcher with expertise in cell and molecular biology,she is investigating the possibility that molecular mimicry or otherautoimmune mechanisms may be the reason why the genetically engineeredhepatitis B vaccine "tricks" the immune systems of genetically susceptibleindividuals into attacking their own bodies, causing debilitatingautoimmune disorders.After analyzing the data she has accumulated, Dr. Dunbar, in collaborationwith colleagues at other academic and medical institutions, applied for aNIH research grant to investigate the role that genetic factors may play inhepatitis B vaccine

reactions and in vaccine failures. Their goal is toidentify genetic markers so high risk children and adults could be screenedout of the mass vaccination program and spared injury and death. The grantwas turned down twice by the government in July 1997 and July 1998 but Dr.Dunbar and her colleagues are in the process of refiling the grant, alongwith additional data.Hep B Vaccine Victims In France Sue - An article in the July 31, 1998 issueof Science, an American scientific journal, reports that French attorneysrepresenting 15,000 French citizens filed a lawsuit against the Frenchgovernment "accusing it of understating the vaccine's risks andexaggerating the benefits for the average person." One French physician hasreportedly collected data on more than 600 people suffering from seriousimmune and neurological dysfunction following hepatitis B vaccination, manywith symptoms resembling multiple sclerosis. Science quotes

a World HealthOrganization official as saying "These fears [of the hepatitis B vaccine]are quite unfounded" and reveals that CDC employee Robert Chen, who isresponsible for monitoring vaccine safety for the U.S. government, has a simple explanation for the growing number of reports of hepatitis B vaccineassociated injury and death in the U.S., Canada and Europe. His scientificanalysis leads him to believe that "It's human nature to attribute cause toalmost anything that precedes a tragedy."Hep B Vaccination Can Mean A Positive Hep B Blood Test - A little knownfact about hepatitis B vaccine

is that those who are vaccinated can testpositive for hepatitis B on some routine blood tests. NVIC has receivedcalls from adults who report that, after getting hepatitis B vaccine, theyare testing positive for hepatitis B when they undergo routine blood testsin doctor's offices. The Red Cross maintains that more sensitive lab testsused by blood banks can differentiate between hepatitis B antibodiesproduced by disease and those produced by the vaccine.HIV vaccines now being tested in humans also produce positive tests forHIV. As noted in a September 1997 Washington Post article about HIV vaccinetrials: "Foremost among the worries of many would-be volunteers is theproblem of forever testing positive for AIDS antibodies...althoughsophisticated laboratory tests can usually tell the difference between AIDSantibodies caused by a vaccine and those that indicate a real HIVinfection, few laboratories are equipped to make that

distinction.Moreover, as vaccines get better by more closely mimicking the realinfection, it will become more difficult to distinguish between the two."Is Forced Hepatitis B Vaccination Paving Way For Forced Vaccination WithAIDS Vaccine?Hepatitis B is the first disease transmitted not by casualcontact like smallpox or polio, but by high risk behavior such as IV druguse and sexual promiscuity, that has been mandated for use by all children.With the identical transmission routes as HIV, there are strong indicationsthat forced vaccination of infants and children with hepatitis B is just a trial run for forced vaccination

with an AIDS vaccine when it is put on themarket in the next few years. AIDS vaccines are currently in human trialsas a race to bring them to market intensified after a call last year byPresident Clinton to make the creation and use of an AIDS vaccine "anational mission."CDC Plans For Mass Vaccination Of All Children With AIDS Vaccine – In aFebruary 12, 1997 meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on ImmunizationPractices (ACIP), Neal Halsey, M.D., chairman of the American Academy ofPediatrics (AAP) Committee on Infectious Diseases, AAP liaison member ofthe ACIP and Director of the Institute of Vaccine Safety at John's HopkinsUniversity, reminded HIV vaccine researchers and developers at the meetingthat the CDC plans to target 11 to 12 year old children for "universalapplication" of an HIV vaccine. Halsey told them:"One of the things that's happened in the past with vaccines is thatsometimes the manufacturers

have developed them and tested them primarilyin an age group or a population which may not be the final targetpopulation that this committee has considered. Over the last few years wehave developed a statement on adolescent immunization and it probably wouldbe worth your reading that, and others, because we really see age 11 to 12as the target age for introduction of vaccines for prevention of sexuallytransmitted diseases. And I know that, at this time, you are reallystudying adults and you're also some distance away from the actual - havinga [HIV] vaccine in hand that might be licensed and approved - but at leastit would be nice if there were studies that were planned in parallel whenyou move another step in the direction of actually having a candidatevaccine, realizing where WE think we would want to use universalapplication of such a vaccine. And so I think maybe [you should get] a copy of the adolescent immunization statement."With the Children's Vaccine Initiative (CVI) and pharmaceutical industrysetting up the mechanism for global mass vaccination of children andadults, including the creation of national and international vaccinetracking systems, countries with low HIV rates like the U.S. and Europewill be forced to use an HIV vaccine in order to pay for the vaccination ofpopulations in Asia and Africa where HIV infection rates are skyrocketing.In 1996, HIV vaccine developer Stanley Plotkin, M.D., of Pasteur MerieuxPharmaceuticals (who developed the rubella vaccine and has been a vaccinepolicymaker

member of the AAP Committee on Infectious Disease and AAPliaison member of the ACIP) explained why mandatory vaccination in richcountries like the U.S. help deliver vaccines to Third World markets:"The keystone of the [global mass vaccination] system is that the researchcosts [of drug companies] are recouped in North America and Europe and thevaccines are sold in the developing world at much, much lower margins...therelatively high rate of childhood vaccination seen lately in most parts ofthe world is the result of that system," explained Plotkin.CDC Tells Congress About Future Vaccines - In testimony before the U.S.Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources in 1997, CDC official WalterOrenstein, M.D., made a bid to persuade Congress to reauthorize 288 milliondollars for the CDC's Immunization Grant Program in the $427 million 1998DHHS budget request for immunization activities. In a review of the historyof

vaccination, Dr. Orenstein recounted that, although almost a centurypassed between the development of the smallpox vaccine in 1796 and that ofthe rabies vaccine in the 1880's, by the middle of the 20th century therewere nearly two dozen vaccines on the market.Painting a picture of the future, Orenstein said: "On the horizon are vaccine technologies that would have been considered science fiction just adecade ago, but are now reported at scientific meetings. Snippets ofsynthetic DNA have worked as experimental vaccines in animals. Edibleplants have been

bioengineered to become vaccine factories....vaccines havebeen enclosed in microscopic capsules, permitting them to be releasedslowly over time..."Orenstein reminded legislators that "Every day about 11,000 babies are bornin this country. Each of these children starts with immunization coverageof zero. There is why our responsibility to our Nation's children neverends; it must be sustained every day of every year....completingstate-based immunization registries is the cornerstone of assuring diseaseprevention."Vaccine Registries To Tag, Track, Force Vaccination - Even though CDCofficials admit that there is already a 96 percent vaccination rate in theU.S. with federally recommended vaccines, they are setting up state vaccinetracking registries and plan to link them together to create a de factonational electronic tracking system to ensure mass compliance with federalvaccine policies. Citizens will be tagged

with a number at birth andtracked even when moving from state to state.In 1995, DHHS Secretary Donna Shalala appropriated the social securitynumbers assigned to newborns to allow states to enter all babies in statevaccine tracking systems. In 1996, the Health Insurance Portability andAccountability Act (HIPAA), also known as the Kennedy-Kassebaumlegislation, outlined plans for a "unique health care identifier" number,which is an alternative to the social security number, to be assigned tocitizens at birth and electronically monitor their medical records,including vaccination records.In a 1998 CDC publication entitled Initiative on Immunization Registries,the CDC states that "we see [vaccine] registries as a possible first step in the development of an electronic pediatric record" and "computerizedregistries will eventually be capable of capturing immunization forindividuals of all ages" and "until a unique personal identifier can beestablished on a national basis, multiple means of identification must beused [in state vaccine registries]." Core data that is now collected inmany state vaccine tracking systems include a citizen's name, address,phone number, social security number, birth date, sex, race, primarylanguage, patient birth order, patient birth registration number, patientMedicaid number, mother's name (including maiden name) and social securitynumber and father's name and social security number.Most often state officials automatically enroll newborns into

the vaccineregistry without informing parents or giving them the right to "opt-out" ofthe registry. In the state of Texas, PROVE, a parent group led by DawnRichardson, worked to get legislation passed in 1997 requiring the statehealth departments to obtain a parent’s prior written consent to enroll achild in a vaccine registry.The CDC goes on to state that one of their main goals is "establishing atarget date to achieve the goal of establishing immunization registries inevery community in the Nation" and "promoting the inter-operability ofregistries with other developing medical information systems" and"promoting the automated exchange of immunization records between registries."What You Can Do - If you want to make informed, voluntary decisions abouthepatitis B vaccination, there are several actions you can take to educateyour community and protect your informed consent and privacy rights.Circulate this

newsletter in your community among your family, friends, andneighbors. Get reprints by sending in the enclosed reprint order card.Reprints are available for $1.25 each. Bulk pricing is available. Give copies to your doctors, lawyers, teachers, school principals, nurses andothers. Send a copy to your favorite newspaper, radio and TV station. Senda copy to your state and federal legislators with a personal letter. Reportvaccine reactions by calling NVIC at 1-800-909SHOT or accessing NVIC'swebsite at www.nvic.org. If you are pregnant, get tested for hepatitis Bdisease. If you are infected, your baby is a candidate for vaccination.Stand up for your informed consent rights. If you do not test positive forhepatitis B; do not fall into one of the

high risk categories described inthis newsletter; and decide you do not want your newborn vaccinated beforeleaving the hospital newborn nursery, you can amend the "consent formedical treatment" forms you sign upon entering the hospital before givingbirth by writing on the form that you do not give consent for hepatitis Bvaccination of your baby in the hospital. Check to see if your state has avaccine tracking system and, if you do not want your baby enrolled in atracking system, find out how you can exercise your informed consentrights. Get more information, including checking your state vaccinationlaws for requirements and exemptions. Hepatitis B vaccine is required in 35states. There are medical exemptions in all states, religious exemption inall but two states (West Virginia and Mississippi) and philosophicalexemption in 16 states. Don't let anyone intimidate or coerce you intotaking action before you have had the

opportunity to become fully informedabout all your options and are comfortable with your vaccination decision. "In conclusion, vaccines are a perfect manifestation of everything that is satanic. They represent an adulterous and arrogant tampering with divine creation, based on the intellectual conceit of "perfecting" creation. They are poisonous, containing derivatives from metals such as mercury and aluminum, and from formaldehyde. They are made from the cell lines and viruses of biblically unclean animals such as monkeys, cats, etc. Worst of all, they are made from the cell lines of premeditatedly murdered children. " Bob Sperlazzo Christian Digest 11/29/2002

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