Vaccinating For Profit - From Cradle to Coffin

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February 20, 2006

 

Vaccinating For Profit - From Cradle to Coffin

 

 

by Evelyn Pringle

 

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Due to the flooding of special education classrooms, along with the

rising medical costs of treating injured children, local taxes will

soon go through the roof, at which time the public will be forced to

face the unthinkable truth about the poisoned generation.

 

And when that happens, government officials had better not even think

about trying to feign ignorance because parents, scientists, and

medical experts have been screaming about the epidemic in vaccine

injuries, from one end of the country to the other, since the 1990s,

and the fact is that lawmakers knowingly allowed it to happen.

 

Over the past twenty years, our government has facilitated a

nationwide experiment on our country's youngest citizens via the

Mandatory Childhood Vaccine Schedule, and the tragic results of the

experiment can be equally credited to the joint efforts of compromised

regulatory officials and politicians, and the pharmaceutical industry

that stood to make billions.

 

In a perverse twist of fate, the vaccine program has evolved into a

grand profiteering scheme, second only to the military industrial

complex's war on terror fiasco. Instead of prevention, the program has

resulted in an epidemic of serious health problems for an entire

generation of children and at the same time, produced an infinite

market expansion for the sale of other prescription drugs, for the

scheme's developers.

 

The start of the epidemic can be traced to the late 1980s, when public

health officials dramatically increased the number of vaccines, which

contained the mercury-based preservative thimerosal, without taking

into consideration the impact of the cumulative mercury load on

developing brains of infants.

 

Once the mercury poisoning was discovered by the FDA in 1999,

vaccine-makers claimed they were eliminating thimerosal from vaccines

but they never recalled the vaccines already on the market and

children continued to receive mercury in vaccines for several more

years. Even today, the flu vaccine recommended for 6-month-old babies

and pregnant women still contain a full dose of thimerosal.

 

Instead of ordering drug companies to get the preservative out of all

vaccines, Congressional Republicans and President George W Bush spent

much of the past 3 years working on strategies to give the

pharmaceutical industry protection against lawsuits from vaccine

injured children. A handful of shameless Congressional Republicans

remained lurking around in the shadows for years, just waiting for the

right moment to attach the protective provision to some " anti-terror "

spending bill until they succeeded in December 2005.

 

Before the age of two in this country, children receive at least 20

injections involving twelve diseases. By the time they reach first

grade, they have had at least 24 vaccinations, if they are in

compliance with the CDC's 2005 Immunization Schedule.

 

For good reason, many parents do not want their children to receive 24

injections for diseases they have never heard of. However, government

officials use every trick in the book to force them to inject these

poisonous concoctions into their children, including economic

sanctions for refusing to comply.

 

Refusing vaccination can result in citizens being denied enrollment in

daycare, elementary school, and college; denial of health insurance;

denial of employment; and denial of federal and state benefits for

poor children including cutting off medical care under Medicaid, and

food, under the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program.

 

Medical professionals have been trying to get lawmaker to take notice

of the health problems caused by vaccines since the 1990s. On June 14,

1999, Jane Orient, MD, Executive Director of the Associating of

American Physicians and Surgeons, testified before the Subcommittee on

Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources of the Committee on

Government reform and said:

 

" Striking increases in chronic illnesses have occurred in temporal

association with an increase in vaccination rates, " she said. " Asthma

and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, causes of lifelong morbidity

and frequent premature death, have nearly doubled in incidence since

the introduction of many new, mandatory vaccines. "

 

" There is no explanation for this increase, " Orient added.

 

" Even more alarming, " she told lawmakers, " is the huge increase in

reports of autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, with

devastating, life-long impacts. "

 

" Measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, and the whole panoply of

childhood diseases are a far less serious threat, " Orient warned,

" than having a large fraction (say 10%) of a generation afflicted with

learning disability and/or uncontrollable aggressive behavior because

of an impassioned crusade for universal vaccination. "

 

About 3 years later, across the country on the West Coast, Barbara Loe

Fisher, President of the National Vaccine Information Center,

testified before the California Senate Committee on Childhood

Immunization Mandates: Politics vs Public Health on January 23, 2002.

Fisher acknowledged that the CDC, and American Academy of Pediatrics,

vigorously deny that the vaccines could have anything to do with more

children being chronically ill.

 

" Yet, the haunting question remains, " she said, " if we have wiped out

polio and almost eliminated measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough

and other childhood diseases with vaccines - why are so many of our

children stuck on sick? "

 

" Why are our special education classrooms so crowded that we can't

find enough money or train teachers fast enough to care for these

learning disabled, hyperactive, autistic, asthmatic, diabetic,

emotionally disturbed, sick children? " Fisher asked.

 

Since 1982, she charged, " the numbers of American children with

learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder and asthma have

doubled; diabetes has tripled; and the incidence of autism has reached

epidemic proportions, increasing 200 to 600 percent in every state,

marking a staggering 3400 percent increase in the prevalence of autism

in our children. "

 

Scientist have also been warning lawmakers about the vaccine injuries.

Dr Mark Geier, holds a PhD in genetics, and was a researcher at the

National Institutes of Health for10 years. He has studied vaccines for

over 30 years. Dr. Geier and his son, David Geier, are the only

independent researchers who have gained access to the Vaccine Safety

Datalink database controlled by the CDC, to conduct studies on the

connection between vaccines and the epidemic in neurological problems.

 

In a March 22, 2003 letter to Senator Hillary Clinton, the Geiers

reported: " we have concluded in our studies that a causal relationship

exists between mercury from thimerosal in childhood vaccines and

neurodevelopmental disorders. "

 

" Our best estimates are that the thimerosal contributed to about 75%

of the cases of neurodevelpmental disorders while the MMR contributed

to about 15%, " they said. " The remaining 10% of the cases were related

to mercury in Rhogam, a shot given to Rh-negative women, and to other

sources of neurotoxicity. "

 

On June 18, 2004, Representative Dave Weldon (R-FL), a doctor by

calling, was on the floor of Congress waving red flags, and literally

begging Congress to recognize the seriousness of the epidemic in

children with neurological disorders all over the country.

 

" Mr. Speaker, something dreadful is happening to our youngest

generation, and we must sound the alarm and figure out what is going

on with our children, " he said.

 

He quoted the Department of Health and Human Services when explaining

that one in every 167 children was being diagnosed with an autism

spectrum disorder. " Furthermore, " Weldon reported, " one in 7 children

is being diagnosed with either a learning disability or a behavioral

disability. "

 

On June 19, 2002, James Bradstreet, MD, Clinical Director of The

International Child Development Resource Center in Florida, testified

in Washington before the Government Reform Committee, and warned

lawmakers about the cost of the autism epidemic back then.

 

" ICDRC estimates the minimal cost in present value, to care for those

420,000 existing children with autism is $1,260,000,000,000 (based on

$3million/lifetime and 420,000 children affected). "

 

" So a little over a $1 trillion in the next 50 years would be required

if we stopped creating new cases today, " Bradstreet said.

 

" Because autism is doubling every four years, this is likely an overly

conservative estimatem " he added. " The societal cost could easily be

$3-4 trillion. "

 

On June 20, 2005, Robert F Kennedy, Jr, a relatively new advocate

calling for the removal of thimerosal from vaccines, appeared on the

Don Imus Show on MSNBC, and warned the public that our government is

allowing drug companies to ship thimerosal-containing vaccines for use

on children in other countries.

 

" They're giving this now to kids all over the third world, " Kennedy

warned. " In China, autism was unknown five years ago, " he said. " They

started giving them American vaccines containing thimerosal and now

they've got 1.8 million cases of autism, " he added.

 

Autism is also exploding in Argentina, India, and Nigeria, Kennedy said.

 

" What's going to happen when our enemies around the world realize that

the United State's most heralded foreign policy which is vaccinating

the children of the world is poisoning the brains of developing third

world children? " he warmed.

 

" This is just a disaster, " Kennedy told Imus.

 

But it gets worse. Over the past 15 years, the vaccine scheme has

resulted in a full-circle cycle of profits for the pharmaceutical

industry. After poisoning an entire generation, drug companies are now

making record profits from drugging their victims.

 

And the true irony of the situation is that due to their partnership

with compromised officials and lawmakers, they were able to pull most

of it off on the tax payer's dime. Federal and State government

programs, are the largest buyers of vaccines, administered " free "

beginning with pregnant women all the way up to seniors citizens in

nursing homes.

 

The vaccine racket is raging on at full-throttle. In 2005, more

vaccines were administered to infants under the age of 1 in the US

than in any other country. The current immunization schedule calls for

3 doses of Hepatitis B, the first at birth, 3 doses each of DTAP, HIB,

IPV, Prevnar, and one dose of flu vaccine before a child's first birthday.

 

The first year of childhood vaccines costs $620, and the second year

costs $340, according to Pediatric Preventive Care Cost, Estimated US

Average, 2005, by Patient Age, Recommendations for Preventive

Pediatric Health Care (RE9939) and Recommended Childhood and

Adolescent Immunization Schedule, US, 2005.

 

For the year 2004, the CDC reported the US birth rate to be 4,115,590.

Without an industrial size calculator, it would be impossible to do

the math to multiply the birth rate by the vaccine costs above.

Suffice to say that the total amount represents major profits for

vaccine makers especially when most of the bill is sent directly to

the tax payers.

 

As for making money off the vaccine-injured children, between 2000 and

2003, the number of children treated for " severe behavioral

conditions " related to conduct disorder and autism rose more than 60%,

according to Behavior Drugs Lead in Sales for Children, New York

Times, May 17, 2004.

 

Tax dollars are being directly funneled to the pharmaceutical industry

through the damaged children. Public funds currently account for 63%

of all mental health spending and Medicaid spending has risen more

than 50% since 2000 to more than $300 billion per year, according to

Parity-Plus: A Third Way Approach to Fix America's Mental Health

System, Progressive Policy Institute, June 22, 2005; Medicaid Largest

US Payer, Daily Health Policy Report, March 30, 20005.

 

Drug companies have also been raking in major profits from the sale of

attention deficit drugs, with much of it coming from the public

trough. The National Center for Health Statistics, reports that the

number of children aged 3 to 17 with ADHD went from 3.3 million in

1997 to 4.4 million in 2002. Between 2000 and 2004, use of attention

deficit stimulant drugs rose 56% among children, according to data

compiled Medco Health Solutions, one of the largest prescription

benefit managers in the nation.

 

According to testimony at the February 18, 2004, FDA hearing, by Dr

Gianna Rigoni, of the FDA's Office of Drug Safety, a combined total of

approximately 10.8 million prescriptions were dispensed for SSRI

antidepressants and atypicals antipsychotics to the 1 to 17-year-old

population in 2002, and children between 1 and 11-years-old, accounted

for about 2.7 million of those prescriptions.

 

In 2004, SSRIs and antipsychotics became the third-and fourth-biggest

classes of drugs in the country, with sales of $20.7 billion. And much

of that cost was borne by government health-care plans, according to

the July 27, 2005 Wall Street Journal.

 

As for the continued use of thimerosal-laced flu vaccines with

infants, according to the ACIP report of July 29, 2005 /

54(RR08);1-40, actual deaths from influenza are uncommon among

children with and without high-risk conditions. A study that modeled

influenza-related deaths estimated that annually, an average of 92

deaths, or 0.4 deaths per 100,000, occurred among children under 5

during the 1990's.

 

So, are the risks associated with injecting a full dose of thimerosal

into 4,115,590 six-month-old babies worth it when weighed against the

benefits, if any, of flu vaccines? More and more parents think not.

 

Evelyn Pringle

 

More information for injured parties can be found at Lawyers and

Settlements

 

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