Case against vaccines: Exposure to natural environment/germs good for immunity.

April 19, 2006

THIS NVIC MAIL RAISES A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION BESIDES THE APPARENT ONE. ARE ALL DISEASES HARMFUL? DO ALL DISEASES GO AGAINSTTHE BODY? PERHAPS NOT. MANY DISEASES ARE THE BODY'S ATTEMPTSTO REALIGN, ADJUST TO A CHANGING PHASE OF GROWING UP, OR ANATTEMPT TO THROW OUT ACCUMULATED TOXINS. ARE ALL DISEASES DUETO VIRUSES? THE SEARCH FOR VIRUSES IN LIFESTYLE INDUCED DISEASESPUT A QUESTION MARK ON THE VIRUS THEORY. ARE VIRUSES PRESENTFOR REASONS OTHER THAN CAUSING DISEASE? WHAT IS THE REAL ROLEOF VIRUSES? ARE ALL VIRUSES HARMFUL?AND AGAIN, WE HAVE VACCINE INDUCED DISEASES WHICH THE SYSTEM REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE.BY HAVING VACCINES AGAINST THESE VACCINE INDUCED DISEASESWE ARE QUALIFYING FOR THE "MADDEST SPECIES ON EARTH

AWARD".-----------------------------E-NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER Vienna, Virginia http://www.nvic.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * UNITED WAY/COMBINED FEDERAL CAMPAIGN #8122 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Protecting the health and informed consent rights of children since 1982." ========================================================================================== BL Fisher Note: During the past 25 years, the Centers for Disease Control and American Academy of Pediatrics have insisted that all American children get vaccinated with more and more vaccines from the moment of birth throughout childhood in order to prevent all infection, even with common, primarily benign childhood diseases such as chickenpox and diarrhea.

And during that same time period, the number of children suffering with brain and immune system dysfunction - ranging from learning disabilities, ADHD and autism to asthma, diabetes and severe allergies - has risen dramatically. Maybe it is not such a good idea to suppress all infection in early childhood and alter the way the developing human immune system has matured for thousands and thousands of years. Maybe Mother Nature knows best after all. http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/04/05/cohen.allergies/ Are germs good for children's health? By Elizabeth Cohen CNN FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (CNN) -- Little Madison Sukenik crawls around her Fort Lauderdale home, grabbing everything in sight, putting much of it in her mouth. A piece of French toast that has fallen on the floor, a ball that her dog, Nugget, just chewed on, a shoe -- all get chomped on. So are her parents freaked out? Running for the antibacterial mouthwash? No -- Michelle and Mark Sukenik are more than happy to let 14-month-old Madison crawl around the house, restaurants, even her doctor's office, and put her fingers and other objects into her mouth. In fact, Mark is a pediatric ear, nose and throat specialist and he says exposure to germs will build up her immunity. Now some immunology experts are beginning to agree that germs that many parents bleach and disinfect out of existence might help children. "Hygiene hypothesis" holds that when babies are exposed to germs, it helps them fight allergies and asthma later. The prevalence of allergies has increased substantially in the past 15 years, according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and some experts believe that too much cleanliness might be a contributing factor. Dr. Dennis Ownby, chief

of allergy and immunology at the Medical College of Georgia, found in a study that babies in households with multiple pets have fewer allergies at age 6 or 7 not just to animals, but also to ragweed, grass and dust mites. Ownby also said studies of babies in day care have found that while they have more infections early, they have fewer allergies and less wheezing later. The Sukeniks say they know not every parent agrees with their easygoing lifestyle. Michelle said she used to be a "germaphobe." When her husband would come home and hug Madison wearing the scrubs he had worn all day while treating sick kids, she said she was "mortified." She was "grossed out" when Mark let Madison eat food right off the floor of his office. But then she noticed that Madison wasn't getting sick. She didn't get her first cold until she was 13 months old while the children of friends who were meticulously clean were sick many times before their first birthday. But Kara Sherry of Columbus, Ohio, says her kids are also rarely sick, and she's a self-described "clean freak." She sanitizes the family's toothbrushes by putting them either in the dishwasher or boiling water. When she goes grocery shopping, she wipes down the edges of the cart with antibacterial wipes before her children Sam, 3 ½, and Hayden, 5, climb in. Her daughter Carleigh, almost 2, sits on a piece of fabric in the front of the grocery cart that covers the handle. Kara said she never touches the handle of a grocery cart, and would never let her children touch it either. "Anything could be on that handle," she said. "Someone could have gone to the bathroom and not washed their hands, someone could have a cut on their hand. It could be staph, E. coli, it could be anything." She said she does this out of "love and protection. I look at it as a way, as another way I protect my kids." Ownby said studies don't

show that Sherry is hurting her children, but that anything much more than basic hygiene like hand-washing isn't really necessary. "It would be more than what I'd be willing to do in my own kitchen," he said. ============================================= News is a free service of the National Vaccine Information Center and is supported through membership donations. Learn more about vaccines, diseases and how to protect your informed consent rights http://www.nvic.org Become a member and support NVIC's work https://www.nvic.org/making%20cash%20donations.htm To sign up for a free e-mail subscription http://www.nvic.org/emaillist.htm To from this list, please go to http://nvic.org/emaillistunsub.htm or send an email to news-request and type UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the email. NVIC is funded through individual membership donations and does not receive government funding. Barbara Loe Fisher, President and Co-founder. NOTE: This is not an interactive e-mail list. Please do not respond to messages. "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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