Vaccines: Unsafe and Unnecessary

A headline and full page article exploded from USA Today: “Polio-like illness paralyzes children. Doctors stymied as kids struggle: What is it? How can it be treated?” (2/17/15)

Well, it turns out that this illness is actually not unknown. The diagnosis has been made tens of thousands of times recently in developing countries, but only a hundred or so times, so far, in the US. The symptoms match those in India where to date approximately 48,000 children have been affected with a paralytic polio-like illness following the administration by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of oral polio vaccine, a form of the vaccine which was discontinued in the in the U.S. in 2000 but is deemed suitable for export to poor countries.  As the Gates continue to tout their success in eliminating polio, others note the convergence of the polio vaccination with another disease called ‘non-polio acute flaccid paralysis‘(NPAFP) in vaccinated children. The disease affecting tens of thousands of children is quickly overwhelming the public health capacity of third world countries.

… while India has been polio-free for a year, there has been a huge increase in non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP). In 2011, there were an extra 47,500 new cases of NPAFP. Clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis but twice as deadly, the incidence of NPAFP was directly proportional to doses of oral polio received. … . The principle of primum-non-nocere [first do no harm] was violated.

Vaccine doesn’t cause disease only in developing countries.

… Dr. Jonas Salk, creator of the killed-virus vaccine used in the 1950s, testified that the live-virus vaccine [used almost exclusively in the U.S. from the early 1960s to 2000] was the “principal if not sole cause” of all reported polio cases .  (Washington Post, September 24, 1976.)

As the recent self-limited outbreak of Ebola in Africa and the few cases elsewhere in the world makes clear, infectious diseases can be controlled without vaccination. To contain a disease, the sick are isolated until they recover and are no longer infectious. Health care workers would help the process if they maintained the basic levels of hygiene they so often disregard now, like hand washing and disinfecting equipment. For as long as a germ cannot infect others it will die out. Our disease statistics might be better if we tried working with mother nature instead of, once again, trying to conquer it. .

But working with nature is not on our agenda. Most of the US public continues to believe the carefully crafted media and Big Pharma nonsense that modern medicine is responsible for our health. Headlines scream “Anti-Vaxxers Have Blood on Their Hands”, an opinion that might be different if the screamer had less hubris and more historical information. Like that on the graph below.

The measles vaccine was discovered in 1963.

All infectious disease specific information, follows the same curve.

The graph shows deaths – not cases – per 100,000 from infectious diseases since 1900.You will note that they were dropping like a rock long before vaccines showed up, that clean water established by health departments in 40 states had a major impact, and that vaccines had little influence as contagious diseases became increasingly rare. Diseases for which there is no effective vaccine, like scarlet fever and tuberculosis, followed the identical trajectory.

In 1900 living conditions were squalid for most urban dwellers, including millions of new immigrants. They lived in overcrowded conditions with large families in one room. Access to clean water, decent sanitation, sunlight and fresh air was often a luxury. In 1900 infant mortality was more than 162 in every thousand births compared to 6 per thousand today. Life expectancy was 47 years in 1900 and 78 years in 2010.

Since infectious disease deaths were declining rapidly before vaccines and have now all but vanished, it appears that vaccines, with their known and randomly devastating side effects, are actually unnecessary to control what have become rare diseases. There is a growing body of hidden evidence that vaccines do more harm than good.

Despite the current measles hysteria, the observant never regarded vaccines as an all-purpose fix. There were always too many cases of vaccines causing the disease they were supposed to prevent, of side effects destroying the life or health of the recipient, or of the vaccinated spreading disease to others. Pregnant women today are advised to stay away from recently vaccinated children who may shed live virus, like little Typhoid Marys, for up to a month.

There are currently 49 doses of 14 vaccines recommended by age 6, and more are on the way.  There has been no study of autism or SIDS, to which early childhood vaccines have also been connected, in vaccinated vs voluntarily unvaccinated children.

The state of Colorado, which has a vaccination rate of less than 82%, would be an ideal place for such a study. There have been no epidemics of any kind in Colorado.  But instead of seeing the obvious, that vaccines make little difference to the health of youngsters, the members of the medical profession in Colorado say:

We are going to have a large outbreak of measles. We are like a forest waiting to catch fire.

DenverPost 2/4/15

Oh?

Any responsible public health professional will tell you that 154 cases of anything spread over 17 states and Mexico (as one source reported), does not constitute an epidemic. It barely constitutes an outbreak, especially since CDC counted almost 383 cases last year and the sound you heard from the media was silence.

With a national average of 95% of children vaccinated, there should be more than enough immunity to go around. And there should, obviously, be no worries among the vaccinated about exposure to the unvaccinated.  Why the hysteria?

So where do measles cases come from? A few originate outside of our borders. The rest generally come from vaccinated children for whom the vaccine failed, which according to figures from the CDC, happens roughly 20% of the time and helps to explain the large number of vaccinated children who caught measles in the recent ‘outbreak.’ That means that 20% of children are exposed to the side effects of the vaccine while getting no protection from the disease. Further, vaccine protection eventually wears off leaving the vaccinated vulnerable at an age when the disease may do more harm.

The shrill pro-vaccine voices in and out of the U.S. media may have to eventually concede that non-vaccinating parents had it right all along. How much damage will be done by vaccines for rare diseases before that happens?

 

Vaccination: Truth or Dare?

In 2003, the US entered its war with Iraq and everyone headed for the Middle East, including soldiers, support personnel and onlookers, was required to get a smallpox vaccination.

David Bloom, an NBC journalist embedded with the troops, died suddenly soon after arriving in Iraq from a blood clot called Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT). The news media speculated that his death may have been caused by the long plane ride to Iraq.

But in the halls of the nation’s premier public health agency they were whispering something else: Bloom’s death was probably caused by the smallpox vaccine, which is well known to have cardiovascular side effects.

Since smallpox had been eradicated from the planet in the 1970s, the only smallpox risk in 2003 came from the vaccine itself. The government’s possible complicity in the death of David Bloom and uncounted others was never made public.

Soon after the Gulf War started in 1991 we were introduced to Gulf War Syndrome, a debilitating condition with many and varied devastating autoimmune symptoms. Even today it compromises the life and health of over 1/3 of the 700,000 combat veterans who served in the Middle East. The government’s best shot at an explanation ranged all over the place, from sarin gas, to depleted uranium, to smoke from burning oil wells, to ‘it’s all in their heads’. Outside researchers, however, reached another conclusion that provides something that eluded the military: an explanation that makes sense. They found compelling evidence that the symptoms of an induced autoimmune disorder are consistent with the administration of an experimental anthrax vaccine that was secretly administered to half the troops, without informed consent, as an illegal research study on a captive audience.  The problematic ingredient in the vaccine was an additive called squalene, which has been shown to be a disaster for the immune system. It is still used in some vaccines today.

In Syria last year, 15 children died after receiving a contaminated measles vaccine sponsored by the U.N. Unlike the vaccine, there were no deaths reported from the disease. In what appeared to be an effort to reassure the public, there was an intense campaign designed to convince us that the poison vaccine was contaminated due to human error. It was all just a tragic accident. Big Pharma wasn’t at fault. Honest.

Do you get the heavily promoted annual flu vaccine? Well, CDC admits that the formula for the vaccine this year is a near-total miss. It won’t work for the strain now going around, although they claim, incongruously, that it is partially effective for a few. They have yet to admit how often the flu vaccine is produced based on a wrong guess, which in my experience in public health, is pretty often. Production of the flu vaccine requires a 2-year lead time in advance of the expected outbreak, far too early to know which strain of the ever-mutating virus will show up. A flu shot exposes us to all of the potential side effects that go along with vaccines, including those spelled out in the 1986 Vaccine Act, such as brain damage, paralytic disorders, anaphylaxis, seizures and death, and very likely none of the benefits we expected. The government knows this. They didn’t tell you?

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is currently spending a fortune vaccinating children in developing countries. Unfortunately, the secondary effects of the polio vaccine is being blamed for 47,500 cases in India alone of a polio-mimicking paralytic disease. While Bill Gates is congratulating himself on the near eradication of polio, India is overwhelmed by the human side effects of his largesse. The problem is well documented in the international press but is carefully censored in the vaccine-hysterical US.

This is not the first episode where a vaccine has, sadly, caused the disease being inoculated against. The Salk Vaccine for polio seemed God-sent in the 1950s, except by families where the vaccine actually gave polio to their children. Virologists estimated in 1955 that the vaccine caused as many cases of polio in the U.S. as it prevented.

Autism and childhood vaccines? There is far too much anecdotal evidence that young children react badly when their immune systems are challenged by 30 to 40 vaccines for the government to glibly dismiss cause and effect. Scientists know that they can’t prove that autism is not related to vaccines, but their careful wording is continually misinterpreted to mean that they have done the impossible and proven a negative.

Over and over we hear the groupthink repeated: vaccines do not cause autism. But that is not what researchers say. What scientists actually admit is that they have found no link between autism and vaccines, a statement that exists in an entirely different dimension. That they have not identified cause and effect does not mean that it doesn’t exist, as they know well.

In the meantime, the number of autistic and neurologically damaged children in the U.S. continues to skyrocket beyond all reason, in tandem with the increasing number of officially mandated vaccines.

One possible reason for the government’s public insistence that vaccines are “safe and effective” is the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), monitored by the CDC, and the Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund (VICP) adjudicated by the Department of Justice. Despite the hurdles, roadblocks and bad faith that make collecting from the fund nearly impossible,  the fund has nevertheless compensated 2500 claims with roughly $2 billion since the inception in 1986 of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (the Vaccine Act). We can only imagine what the cost to taxpayers would be if CDC admitted their major vaccine problems.

Does it sound like the government really believes that vaccines are “safe and effective”?

In addition to mandating the compensation of vaccine injured children, The Vaccine Act of 1986 does something else. It removes all liability from Big Pharma for the damages their vaccines cause and places it squarely on the taxpayer. It’s a get-out-of-jail-free card and a major contributor to the profitability.of vaccines.  It is also a fundamental reason why the pharmaceutical companies are anxious to develop new, untested, vaccines and then convince us that we need them.

Does it sound like Big Pharma thinks its products are safe?

Another reason for the government’s insistence on unsafe vaccinations is its allegiance to the profits of big business. Vaccines are a big moneymaker for Merck, Pfizer, and others, and Big Pharma is a huge contributor   to both political parties and individual politicians.

There are compelling reasons beyond the sordid government-corporate history of vaccines that leads informed parents to say no to vaccinating their children. That will be the discussion in my next post.

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References:

Gary Matsumoto, Vaccine-A; the Covert Government Experiment that is Killing Our Soldiers, 2004

Louise Kuo Habakus and Mary Holland, JD:  Vaccine Epidemic:  How Corporate Greed, Biased Science and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children, 2012.

Stephanie Humphries, MD, and Roman Bystrianyk:  Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History, 2013.