Incao testimony re hepatitis b vaccination

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Incao testimony re hepatitis b vaccination

 

 

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> Incao's Hepatitis B Vaccination Testimony in Ohio

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> Representative Dale Van Vyven

> Chairman, Health Committee

> Ohio House of Representatives

> 77 South High Street

> Columbus, Ohio 43266

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> Dear Representative Van Vyven:

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> I have been asked by Kristine M. Severyn for testimony regarding hepatitis

B vaccination. Dr. Severyn is doing excellent work on behalf of the children

of Ohio and of our nation and I am honored to add my voice to hers in a plea

for reason and objectivity regarding vaccination policy in the U.S.

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> I am a physician in private general practice, having received my M.D.

degree in 1966 from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City.

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> For 29 years I have privately and independently pursued a study of

vaccinations and vaccine policy. I have served as an expert witness in court

trials concerning vaccinations and have submitted medical opinions in cases

of vaccine-damaged children adjudicated under the National Vaccine Injury

Compensation Program. I was an invited speaker at the First International

Public Conference on Vaccinations sponsored by the National Vaccine

Information Center in Alexandria, Virginia in September 1997.

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> I am one of the two physician-signers of the cover letter to the 16-page

special report " Hepatitis B Vaccine: The Untold Story " which the National

Vaccine Information Center sent out recently to 55,000 U.S. pediatricians.

The report was also sent to 8,000 state and federal legislators and to 1500

media outlets in the United States.

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> In October 1998 I was invited to speak at a special workshop on

vaccinations in Manchester, New Hampshire where a citizens’ initiative to

roll back the hepatitis B vaccine mandate is under way.

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> As a private physician with no ties to any academic or government

institution, I am free to give voice to my conscience without the usual

constraints that group affiliation confers. In what follows I am motivated

simply to express the truth as I see it, by a deep concern for the long term

health of our nation’s children.

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> The present growing distrust of vaccinations by concerned parents

nationwide is a grassroots movement that will not go away because it springs

from a very real source: from a frequency of acute and chronic adverse

effects of vaccinations far greater than is being officially acknowledged.

This grassroots movement is only bound to increase until its concerns are

acknowledged and dealt with in a scientifically objective and forthright

manner.

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> In 1979 the Centers for Disease Control stated: " Vaccinations are

recommended and administered to millions of children and other individuals

each year on the presumption (emphasis mine) that the benefits far outweigh

the risks. The benefit side of the equation is straightforward: vaccinations

can prevent serious disease. The risk side is not as straightforward since

it includes factors that are known and others that may exist but have not

yet been discovered. It is necessary, therefore, to maintain surveillance of

potential risks of vaccination to continually reevaluate whether individual

vaccinations are, on balance, good for people. "

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> The above clear statement of purpose to monitor vaccine safety has

unfortunately been totally eclipsed by our nations’ enormous intellectual,

bureaucratic and economic commitment to vaccination as the method to

eradicate illness.

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> This commitment has made it virtually impossible to achieve an open, fair

and unbiased risk-benefit evaluation of any vaccination in use today. With a

conflict of interest of this magnitude, the pressures that exist to maintain

the momentum of our national vaccine initiative and to avoid " alarming the

public " overshadow by far those voices who might question the wisdom of such

a one-sided and politicized health agenda.

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> In addition, severe constraints are placed on the media in the name of

" responsible journalism " with the result that the American public very

seldom hears both sides of the vaccination story, and comes to have an

unquestioning faith in vaccinations as our greatest hope against future

imagined disease plagues. In this fear-based scenario, the questioning voice

of reason is drowned out amid the hysteria surrounding the emerging " killer

infections " which are such a favorite media topic.

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> This propagation of fear by the media and by its sources in the public

health industry has resulted in a growth of power of this industry far

beyond the usual checks and balances of our democracy.

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> One aspect of this power is the ability of many state health departments

to legally mandate a new vaccination for all children completely bypassing

any discussion or deliberation in that state’s legislature. In a democracy

this cannot and must not be.

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> Practicing physicians and the general public rely on the monitoring

capacity and the scientific objectivity of the C.D.C., the F.D.A. and the

health departments of our 50 states to alert us to the very real risks of

vaccinations in use today, and to provide us with as accurate an assessment

of that risk, both acute and chronic, as is scientifically possible.

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> In fact, the C.D.C. has retreated utterly from its 1979 statement quoted

above emphasizing the importance of vaccine safety monitoring.

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> It is extremely regrettable, but no exaggeration to say that with regard

to informing physicians and the public on vaccine safety, the responsible

agencies have failed the American people.

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> In support of this assertion, I cite the following facts:

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> 1. In 1994 a special committee of the Institute of Medicine of the

National Academy of Sciences published a comprehensive review of vaccine

safety which had been commissioned by federal law. Of five possible and

plausible adverse effects of the hepatitis B vaccination which the committee

investigated, they were unable to come to any conclusion for four of them

because they found to their dismay that the relevant research had not been

done!

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> Why aren’t the agencies responsible for vaccine safety commissioning such

research? For the fifth adverse effect, anaphylactic shock, the committee

concluded that the evidence positively established a causal relation to the

hepatitis B vaccination.

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> 2. In contrast to the lack of research on the adverse effects of hepatitis

B vaccination found by the Institute of Medicine, the National Vaccine

Information Center in its recent special report on hepatitis B vaccination

sites 38 reports in the international medical literature, some dating back

to 1987, that hepatitis B vaccination is causing chronic autoimmune and

neurological disease in children and adults.

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> 3. In July 1998, 15,000 French citizens filed a class action lawsuit

against the French government accusing it of understating the risks of

hepatitis B vaccine and of exaggerating its benefits for the average person.

In October 1998 the French government declared a moratorium on hepatitis B

vaccination in public schools while it evaluates more carefully the true

risk-benefit profile of the vaccine.

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> 4. Since July 1990, 17,497 cases of hospitalizations, injuries and deaths

in America following hepatitis B vaccination have been reported to the

Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) of the U.S. government. This

figure includes 146 deaths in individuals after receiving only hepatitis B

vaccine without any other vaccines, including 73 deaths in children under 14

years old.

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> In 1996 alone there were 872 serious adverse events in children under 14

years old reported to VAERS. 658 of those injuries were following hepatitis

B vaccination in combination with other vaccinations and 214 of these

injuries were after hepatitis B vaccination alone. In these children under

14 years old, there were 35 deaths after hepatitis B vaccination in

combination and 13 deaths after hepatitis B vaccination alone, for a total

of 48 deaths. Compare these statistics with the total number of hepatitis B

cases nationwide reported that same year (1996) in children under 14, just

279, and the conclusion is obvious that the risks of hepatitis B vaccination

far outweigh its benefits.

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> In those infants who died under one month of age, most of the deaths are

classified as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). However, in the past this

syndrome has never struck infants so young, and SIDS is officially defined

as beginning only after one month of age.

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> With 6,000 children dying of SIDS every year, we have no idea how many of

these deaths are actually caused by hepatitis B vaccination. Though the

Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting system was created by federal law to permit

a more accurate assessment of the risks of vaccination, and although the raw

data it generates is analyzed, the individual reports of injury or death are

rarely, if ever, investigated. If one factors in that fewer than 10% of

physicians report adverse reactions to vaccines because we are taught to

regard them as merely " temporally related " , as only a coincidence, it would

be quite plausible to say that the risks of hepatitis B vaccination clearly

outweigh its benefits for 99% of the children who receive it.

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> 5. The best way to determine the risk-benefit profile of any vaccination

is well known and in theory is quite simple: Take a group of vaccinated

children and compare them with a matched group of unvaccinated children. If

the groups are well-matched and large enough and the length of time the

children are observed following vaccination long enough, then such a study

is deemed the " gold standard " of vaccine research because its data is as

accurate a reflection as medical research is capable of achieving of how

vaccinations are actually affecting our nation’s children.

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> Incredible as it sounds, such a common-sense controlled study comparing

vaccinated to unvaccinated children has never been done in America for any

vaccination.

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> This means that mass vaccination is essentially a large-scale experiment

on our nation’s children.

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> 6. A critical point which is never mentioned by those advocating mandatory

vaccination of children is that children’s health has declined significantly

since 1960 when vaccines began to be widely used. According to the National

Health Interview Survey conducted annually by the National Center for Health

Statistics since 1957, a shocking 31% of U.S. children today have a chronic

health problem , 18% of children require special health care or related

services and 6.7% of children have a significant disability due to a chronic

physical or mental condition. Respiratory allergies, asthma and learning

disabilities are the most common of these.

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> Three controlled studies comparing vaccinated to unvaccinated children in

England and New Zealand have shown that the vaccinated children have

significantly more asthma, ear infections, hospitalizations and inflammatory

bowel disease than their unvaccinated cohorts.

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> Since vaccinations have a lasting effect on the immune system, and since

it is known that many vaccines shift the balance of the immune system away

from its acutely-reacting " Th1 " side and toward its chronically-reacting

" Th2 " side , it is a very plausible scenario that vaccines are contributing

greatly to the large-scale and unprecedented increase in chronic conditions

such as allergies, asthma, diabetes and a wide range of neurological

dysfunctions including learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder,

seizures and autism in U.S. children today.

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> The shocking facts that 31% of U.S. children today suffer from a chronic

condition and that the rate of disability from such chronic conditions in

children has seen nearly a fourfold increase since 1960 ought to seriously

challenge our medical research establishment.

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> But, far from taking a proactive approach toward these disturbing facts,

our medical establishment remains curiously uninterested in children’s

chronic diseases and instead continues to pursue its narrow focus of using

vaccines to eradicate every possible acute childhood illness, even those

like hepatitis B and chicken pox which pose no threat to 99% of children.

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> The idea that illnesses exist in an ecological balance like everything

else in nature and that eradicating acute diseases could very likely upset

the balance and cause chronic disease to increase is not seriously

considered or pursued in medical science today. Whenever any evidence

pointing in this direction is published, usually in the international

medical literature, it is usually dismissed out of hand by American

physicians or angrily repudiated with the implication that such research is

" irresponsible " because it might cause the American public to lose trust in

our vaccination program.

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> With such a total commitment of our medical community to a policy of

universal vaccination, is it any wonder that new and potentially upsetting

discoveries relating to the role of vaccinations in the alarming prevalence

of chronic illness in our children are never seriously considered much less

pursued?

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> When the Institute of Medicine published its Federally mandated reports on

vaccine safety in 1991 and 1994, their disturbing conclusion was that there

is very little data on vaccine safety because the necessary research is

simply not being done.

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> 7. Eugene Robin, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Medicine from Stanford

Medical School is one of the world’s leading experts on risk/benefit

analysis in medicine. He authored the definitive book on the subject,

Matters of Life and Death: Risks vs. Benefits of Medical Care.

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> In a statement at the First International Public Conference on Vaccination

in September, 1997, Dr. Robin said the following:

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> " …The scientists who develop vaccines should be given great credit and

respect for their pioneering work. But it must be recognized that once a

promising vaccine is available, that should be the beginning and not the end

of the process.

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> Accurate assessment of the risk/benefit ratio of the vaccine by means of a

… controlled clinical trial should be obligatory. An educational process

involving the public should be mandatory in which the risks and

uncertainties are described as well as the potential benefits.

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> So, what can we ‘teach’ the public if we ourselves, the medical scientific

community, have not done the proper and required studies?

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> A true process of informed choice would, for example, raise grave

questions about the vaccination of young children for hepatitis B.

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> We must be honest and admit that we do not know the impact of

administering multiple, different vaccines on very young children or,

indeed, on anyone. "

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> 8. My final comments are drawn from my 27 years of experience as a general

practitioner of medicine. Twenty-three of those years were in a rural

farming community in upstate New York where as many as 50% of my pediatric

patients were unvaccinated due to their parents’ conscientious personal

choice.

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> When I started my practice I believed, as I had been taught in medical

school, that the benefits of vaccinations outweighed the risks. I also

believed that the right of parental choice in vaccinations ought to be

respected.

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> For 23 years I had the opportunity to observe my young patients grow from

infancy to young adulthood and to appraise their overall health and

vitality. It was out of this experience that my present views took shape. I

observed that my unvaccinated children were healthier, hardier and more

robust than their vaccinated peers. Allergies, asthma and pallor and

behavioral and attentional disturbances were clearly more common in my young

patients who were vaccinated.

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> My unvaccinated patients, on the other hand, did not suffer from

infectious diseases with any greater frequency or severity than their

vaccinated peers: their immune systems generally handled these challenges

very well.

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> Conclusion

> Like all science, medicine has radically changed many of its views over

time. What seems wise and prudent today may be totally repudiated a decade

or two later.

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> Vaccinations are powerful medical tools which impact human immune systems

to achieve the desired effect of preventing certain infectious disease

manifestations.

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> In the early 1900’s when diphtheria and whooping cough were

life-threatening, the uncritical acceptance and implementation of

vaccination was understandable and perhaps unavoidable. Today, when far more

children suffer from allergies and other chronic immune system disorders

than from life-threatening infectious diseases, it is neither reasonable nor

prudent to persist in presuming that the benefit of any vaccination

outweighs its risk.

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> When the medical scientific community makes a total and one-sided

commitment to any public policy, no matter how noble its intentions, then

vigorous debate and fact-finding tend to be neglected.

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> The facts on hepatitis B brought out by Dr. Severyn and by the special

16-page report of the National Vaccine Information Center deserve our very

careful consideration. They indicate that the risk of hepatitis B

vaccination outweighs its benefit for the vast majority of American children

today.

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> When these facts are ignored, and when vital medical research on the

safety and adverse effects of hepatitis B vaccine is left undone, then the

truth suffers, our children suffer and we all suffer.

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> Yours,

> Philip Incao, M.D.

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