Article: Dr. Incao's Hepatitis B Vaccination Testimony in Ohio - OT

[Guest guest]

Since the subject of vaccines was touched on here recently - might as

well keep the can of worms wriggling

 

seriously though - I truly believe that good hygiene, smart nutrition,

and the knowledgeable use of herbs, oils and pharmaceutical preparations

(such as homeopathic) that stimulate the body's own natural immune and

healing responses are the best way to keep healthy.

 

Dr. Incao is my family doc, for almost 6 years now. Yes, he's still in

Denver, Colorado and I'm now in Sugar Land, TX (Houston area

 

More articles by Dr Incao can be found in the group's files section:

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*Smile*

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Incao's Hepatitis B Vaccination Testimony in Ohio

 

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March 1, 1999

 

Representative Dale Van Vyven

Chairman, Health Committee

Ohio House of Representatives

77 South High Street

Columbus, Ohio 43266

 

Dear Representative Van Vyven:

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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 <http://www.909shot.com/> 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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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. "

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

above emphasizing the importance of vaccine safety monitoring.

 

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.

 

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

 

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!

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

vaccinated to unvaccinated children has never been done in America for

any vaccination.

 

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

on our nation's children.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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?

 

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.

 

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.

 

In a statement at the First International Public Conference on

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

 

" .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.

 

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.

 

So, what can we 'teach' the public if we ourselves, the medical

scientific community, have not done the proper and required studies?

 

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

questions about the vaccination of young children for hepatitis B.

 

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. "

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Vaccinations are powerful medical tools which impact human immune

systems to achieve the desired effect of preventing certain infectious

disease manifestations.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Yours,

Philip Incao, M.D.

 

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[Guest guest]

Excellent article! One for the file.

Thank you so much Chris.

How do you do it, with small kids and all?

 

I particularly like this quote:

 

<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 >

 

Another way of looking at it is:

 

Illness is part of the human condition.

For whatever reason, the soul often uses illness

as a tool for personal growth.

How many people who have survived a serious

health threat have said in retrospect that it was one

of the best things to ever happen to them?

 

So, if we as a species conquer one disease

another one pops up to take its place.

 

Of course, attempting to heal disease is part

of the human condition too.

Where would people who love to play the

role of Healer be without patients?

 

Ien in the Kootenays

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