Smallpox Vaccine Has the Pox

September 18, 2003

http://www.mercola.com/2003/sep/17/smallpox_vaccine.htm

BioShield Bill turns Pharmaceuticals Into BioWeapons Factories

Dr. Mercola's Comment:

The smallpox vaccine poses high risks and has been associated with a number of

adverse affects. If this isn't reason enough of why it should be avoided,

consider that it is very unlikely that the United States will be the target of a

smallpox bioterrorism attack.

Further, it looks like all the anti-terrorism protection is unnecessary as the

largest research project of its kind ever conducted shows 90 percent of those

vaccinated with smallpox maintain a substantial level of immunity, even if the

immunization was up to 75 years ago.

Researchers also concluded that in the long term, repeated vaccinations do not

result in a higher level of disease protection. It is all a moot issue anyway as

it is likely the vaccine is not necessary to avoid smallpox. If this sounds like

heresy then you have likely not read why hygiene is more important than

vaccination against smallpox.

An essential resource for anyone interested in protecting their health and the

health of their loved ones is " Vaccines: What CDC Documents and Science Reveal, "

a two-hour video by world-renowned vaccine expert Dr. Sherri Tenpenny. The video

is the culmination of Dr. Tenpenny's three-year investigation into the real

story behind vaccines. The facts on several crucial areas are covered including:

How vaccines can cause illnesses including autoimmune diseases, allergies,

ear infections, and more

The very real link between vaccines and developmental learning and behavioral

disorders in children

How vaccines have never been proven safe

The ingredients and contaminants in vaccines and why they're detrimental to

your health

How vaccine studies are seriously flawed

If you are a parent, a medical practitioner, or otherwise interested in how to

exercise your freedom of choice to bypass vaccines, you should also consider Dr.

Tenpenny's insightful cassette tape, " The Dangers of Vaccines, and How You Can

Legally Avoid Them. " Those interested in both the video and the tape can take

advantage of our free shipping offer now.

The following article is an excellent historical paper on the startling fraud of

the smallpox vaccine and how it is being used for Operation BioShield and

Homeland Security.

By Lynne Born

The BioShield Bill currently making its way through Congress gives $6 billion of

taxpayer money to the major pharmaceuticals to subsidize the development of

drugs and vaccines as " countermeasures " to possible biological and chemical

attacks. The bill pays for the warehousing of drugs and vaccines for which the

FDA has granted a special exemption from the usual approval process to allow the

countermeasures to be fast tracked through FDA approval and used on the public

with no human testing at all, an unprecedented step for an industry that is

already the 3rd leading cause of death in the United States.

The pharmaceutical industry sustains a generally excellent reputation, as most

people believe the drug companies always put safety first in their humane

mission to develop medicines to heal the sick. But the facts belie this gentle

reputation--between 100,000 and 200,000 people die each year from correctly

prescribed medications in the hospital alone, not including drug-induced deaths

occurring outside the hospital or from incorrectly prescribed medications.

Compare these numbers to the 65,000 dead American soldiers during the entire

Vietnam War or the 20,000 dead from the initial chemical release in the Bhopal

disaster.

No other industry is responsible for such a shockingly high death rate repeated

year after year, a death rate that would probably cause great alarm and

Congressional hearings if it occurred in any other industry. And yet even these

numbers are underestimated as David Kessler who ran the FDA for much of the

1990s has stated that from 90 percent to 99 percent of all adverse drug

reactions are never reported, which would make the actual death and injury rate

from legal drugs astronomical.

Bush's Smallpox Program Fiasco

Looking at Bush's Smallpox Vaccination program reveals the kind of unscientific

and fraudulent thinking on the part of the pharmaceuticals that leads to these

kinds of death and injury rates. When the program began, Bush called for

vaccination of 500,000 health care workers, the so-called " first responders " to

a possible biological attack of smallpox. In the months leading up to the

program, the mainstream media informed us that the public could expect one to

two deaths per million from the vaccine and a serious adverse reaction rate of

one in 4,000.

However, there is no basis on which to estimate the death and injury rates for

adults taking the vaccine since there has never been a single long-term study on

the safety of the smallpox vaccine, or in fact, on any vaccine, another fact

that is consistently suppressed from the public.

Because of the exorbitant number of deaths and injuries, multiple states

suspended the program in the spring of 2003 and Bush's smallpox program

essentially ground to a halt. As of June 2003, approximately 35,000 civilians

(including the several hundred embedded reporters) of various ages and health

status have been vaccinated, which gives us an initial test group from which to

draw some conclusions.

Of the 35,000 civilians vaccinated, three have died, which makes the death rate

80 times higher than we had been told to expect. And yet even in mainstream

media articles about the deaths in the smallpox program, the public continues to

be misled with the old, inaccurate numbers rather than the newly updated and

much higher death rate.

And serious adverse reactions which result in hospitalization, permanent

disability and life threatening illnesses including heart attacks, heart

inflammation, brain encephalitis, uncontrolled ulceration of the skin and more,

turns out to be one in 583, seven times higher than the CDC's original

guesstimate of one in 4,000.

However, it is virtually certain that even these increased death and injury

rates are inaccurate and much higher than reported. First, the official

definition of " serious " reactions discounts some effects that most of us would

consider serious, such as the young, healthy 20-year-old volunteers in a test

before Bush's program began who stated that the pain in their arm after

vaccination was so intense that they wanted to " cut their arm off. "

There were reports of fevers so high and infections so uncontrolled that

antibiotics were given to 30 percent of the participants. If vaccination

occurred on a mass scale as planned, the hospitals would be flooded with

hundreds of thousands of acutely ill victims who would be unable to get

treatment, overwhelming the system and increasing the death toll.

Also omitted from mainstream media is the fact that the federal reporting system

is not mandatory, and that the time frame in which adverse reactions are noted

is a vague " three to four weeks. " As any doctor who treats, or person who has

suffered a serious chronic health problem knows, it takes time for the body to

develop and display disabling symptoms of a chronic disease.

Just because the causative factor is a vaccine does not mean that serious,

chronic illnesses will surface quickly and suddenly, or that they will be

" easier " conditions to treat than " regular " chronic illnesses. The fact that the

causative factor was an avoidable event--the vaccine--is even worse, as the

recipients may continue to suffer from serious illnesses such as chronic heart

conditions over time, which the medical profession will then deny was related to

the vaccine.

Because they are not doing any kind of vaccine trial comparing vaccine

recipients to a healthy control group, the opportunity to accurately track the

first 35,000 has been squandered and future participants are being recklessly

endangered.

How simple it would be to design and require a mandatory reporting program that

allows adequate time for reactions to surface and tracks the recipients of the

vaccine for many months and then years, especially since the current recipients

are all health care providers who understand the need for, and would be readily

available to report back any and all effects. Good science demands it, and it

can only be fear of recording the true consequences of the vaccine that is

preventing it.

Poor and even non-existent adverse reporting systems are standard procedure in

the pharmaceutical industry. Most people don't know that the release onto the

market of a new drug or vaccine is actually the final phase of the new drug

trial called Phase IV. When thousands of people are prescribed a new drug, they

are unwittingly participating in the largest, most poorly controlled drug study

in the world, as this is generally the phase when the 100,000 to 200,000 deaths

per year noted earlier occur.

Neither the pharmaceutical industry nor the FDA requires mandatory reporting of

adverse reactions or even death--it is entirely voluntary. Forty percent of all

doctors don't even know that an adverse reaction reporting system exists. And in

a profound and deadly conflict of interest, the marketing department responsible

for recouping the hundreds of millions of dollars invested in developing the new

drug is also in charge of tracking and compiling any adverse reactions that

would get the drug pulled from the market.

This legal but flawed system is why so many deaths occur before the FDA pulls

the product from the marketplace, as the delay and obfuscation can mean millions

and millions of dollars for the pharmaceuticals before the drug's demise.

Stay tuned for the second half of this article in the next newsletter.

Lynne Born is a long time health care activist, writer and independent

researcher.

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