Woman paralyse by flu shot August 23

At 26 years old, Desiree Jennings was the picture of health. She's a Washington Redskins cheerleader and an avid runner. Her life changed forever on August 23 when she says she got a seasonal flu shot at a local grocery store.

"I was training for a half marathon then," said Jennings, crying. "It just all went so fast."

Ten days after receiving the shot, she came down with the flu. After that, her health spiraled downwards. She started passing out and had to be hospitalized twice.

"We went to an urgent care place and they wouldn't even let her get out of my truck because she was seizing in the back so bad, so they called an ambulance immediately," says her husband, Brendan Jennings.

Doctors at Fairfax Inova and Johns Hopkins diagnosed her with a rare neurological disorder called dystonia. They think it was caused by a severe reaction to the flu shot.

Desiree now has difficulty speaking, walking, and even eating. During an interview with FOX 5, she had several seizures. The effects are irreversible.

"The symptoms will get worse if I use my voice or walk when the brain signals are misfiring," says Jennings.

Desiree reported her health problems to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) thinking there might have been something wrong with her vaccine. We also contacted the FDA and we were told they found no problems with the particular lot of flu vaccines that Desiree received, and the agency has not received any other reports of adverse effects from this lot.

Health experts stress that overall, extreme side effects are rare.

"The flu shot is safe for the majority of the public, and as I said before, your heart goes out to someone that experiences this sort of thing-- thinking that they are doing something great for their wellness and their general health, but it does happen in extremely rare cases," says Rachel Lynch with Fairfax Inove Health System.

For Desiree, she just happened to be one of those rare cases.

"I just don't want this to happen to anyone else," says Jennings.

Desiree and her husband plan to visit the Mayo Clinic in Arizona in November. They're hoping to get more answers about this disease and how they live with it.

Desiree has received flu shots before in 2007 and 2008.

Are New Vaccines Laced with Birth-Control Drugs? ( who wants to control Global population and why) Lets show you how.

During the early 1990s, the World Health Organization (WHO) had been overseeing massive vaccination campaigns against tetanus in a number of countries, among them Nicaragua, Mexico, and the Philippines. In October 1994, HLI received a communication from its Mexican affiliate, the Comite' Pro Vida de Mexico, regarding that country's anti-tetanus campaign. Suspicious of the campaign protocols, the Comite' obtained several vials of the vaccine and had them analyzed by chemists. Some of the vials were found to contain human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG), a naturally occurring hormone essential for maintaining a pregnancy.

hCG and Anti-hCG Antibodies

In nature the hCG hormone alerts the woman's body that she is pregnant and causes the release of other hormones to prepare the uterine lining for the implantation of the fertilized egg. The rapid rise in hCG levels after conception makes it an excellent marker for confirmation of pregnancy: when a woman takes a pregnancy test she is not tested for the pregnancy itself, but for the elevated presence of hCG.

However, when introduced into the body coupled with a tetanus toxoid carrier, antibodies will be formed not only against tetanus but also against hCG. In this case the body fails to recognize hCG as a friend and will produce anti-hCG antibodies. The antibodies will attack subsequent pregnancies by killing the hCG which naturally sustains a pregnancy; when a woman has sufficient anti-hCG antibodies in her system, she is rendered incapable of maintaining a pregnancy.(1)

HLI reported the sketchy facts regarding the Mexican tetanus vaccines to its World Council members and affiliates in more than 60 countries.(2) Soon additional reports of vaccines laced with hCG hormones began to drift in from the Philippines, where more than 3.4 million women were recently vaccinated. Similar reports came from Nicaragua, which had conducted its own vaccination campaign in 1993.

The Known Facts

Here are the known facts concerning the tetanus vaccination campaigns in Mexico and the Philippines:

* Only women are vaccinated, and only the women between the ages of 15 and 45. (In Nicaragua the age range was 12-49.) But aren't men at least as likely as young women to come into contact with tetanus? And what of the children? Why are they excluded?

* Human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) hormone has been found in the vaccines. It does not belong there -- in the parlance of the O.J. Simpson murder trial, the vaccine has been "contaminated."

* The vaccination protocols call for multiple injections -- three within three months and a total of five altogether. But, since tetanus vaccinations provide protection for ten years or more, why are multiple inoculations called for?(3)

* WHO has been actively involved for more than 20 years in the development of an anti-fertility vaccine utilizing hCG tied to tetanus toxoid as a carrier -- the exact same coupling as has been found in the Mexican-Philippine-Nicaragua vaccines.(4)

The Anti-Fertility Gang

Allied with the WHO in the development of an anti-fertility vaccine (AFV) using hCG with tetanus and other carriers have been UNFPA, the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank, the Population Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, and a number of universities, including Uppsala, Helsinki, and Ohio State.(5) The U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (part of NIH) was the supplier of the hCG hormone in some of the AFV experiments.(6)

The WHO begain its "Special Programme" in human reproduction in 1972, and by 1993 had spent more than $356 million on "reproductive health" research.(7) It is this "Programme" which has pioneered the development of the abortificant vaccine. Over $90 million of this Programme's funds were contributed by Sweden; Great Britain donated more than $52 million, while Norway, Denmark and Germany kicked in for $41 million , $27 million, and $12 million, respectively. The U.S., thanks to the cut-off of such funding during the Reagan-Bush administrations, has contributed "only" $5.7 million, including a new payment in 1993 by the Clinton administration of $2.5 million. Other major contibutors to the WHO Programme include UNFPA, $61 million; the World Bank, $15.5 million; the Rockefeller Foundation, $2.5 million; the Ford Foundation, over $1 million; and the IDRC (International Research and Development Centre of Canada), $716.5 thousand.

WHO and Philippine Health Department Excuses

When the first reports surfaced in the Philippines of tetanus toxoid vaccine being laced with hCG hormones, the WHO and the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) immediately denied that the vaccine contained hCG. Confronted with the results of laboratory tests which detected its presence in three of the four vials of tetanus toxoid examined, the WHO and DOH scoffed at the evidence coming from "right-to-life and Catholic" sources. Four new vials of the tetanus vaccine were submitted by DOH to St. Luke's (Lutheran) Medical Center in Manila -- and all four vials tested positive for hCG!

From outright denial the stories now shifted to the allegedly "insignificant" quantity of the hCG present; the volume of hCG present is insufficient to produce anti-hCG antibodies.

But new tests designed to detect the presence of hCG antibodies in the blood sera of women vaccinated with the tetauns toxoid vaccine were undertaken by Philippine pro-life and Catholic groups. Of thirty women tested subsequent to receiving tetanus toxoid vaccine, twenty-six tested positive for high levels of anti-hCG! If there were no hCG in the vaccine, or if it were present in only "insignificant" quantities, why were the vaccinated women found to be harboring anti-hCG antibodies? The WHO and the DOH had no answers.

New arguments surfaced: hCG's apparent presence in the vaccine was due to "false positives" resulting from the particular substances mixed in the vaccine or in the chemicals testing for hCG. And even if hCG was really there, its presence derived from the manufacturing process.

But the finding of hCG antibodies in the blood sera of vaccinated women obviated the need to get bogged down in such debates. It was no longer necessary to argue about what may or may not have been the cause of the hCG presence, when one now had the effect of the hCG. There is no known way for the vaccinated women to have hCG antibodies in their blood unless hCG had been artificially introduced into their bodies!

Why A Tetanus Toxoid "Carrier"?

Because the human body does not attack its own naturally occurring hormone hCG, the body has to be fooled into treating hCG as an invading enemy in order to develop a successful anti-fertility vaccine utilizing hCG antibodies. A paper delivered at the 4th International Congress of Reproductive Immunology (Kiel, West Germany, 26-29 July 1989) spelled it out: "Linkage to a carrier was done to overcome the immunological tolerance to hCG."(8)

Vaccine Untested by Drug Bureau

After the vaccine controversy had reached a fever pitch, a new bombshell exploded; none of the three different brands of tetanus vaccine being used had ever been licensed for sale and distribution or registered with the Philippine Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD), as required by law. The head of the BFAD lamely explained that the companies distributing these brands "did not apply for registration."(9) The companies in question are Connaught Laboratories Ltd. and Intervex, both from Canada, and CSL Laboratories from Australia.

It seemed that the BFAD might belatedly require re-testing, but the idea was quickly rejected when the Secretary of Health declared that, since the vaccines had been certified by the WHO -- there they are again! -- there was assurance enough that the "vaccines come from reputable manufacturers."(10)

Just how "reputable" one of the manufacturers might be is open to some question. In the mid-`80s Connaught Laboratories was found to be knowingly distributing vials of AIDS-contaminated blood products.(11)

Epilogue

At this juncture, evidence is beginning to appear from Africa.(12) HLI has called for a Congressional investigation of the situation, inasmuch as nearly every agency involved in the development of an anti-fertility vaccine is funded, at least in part, with U.S. monies.

Source : http://new-atlantean.com/birthcon.htm

NOTES:

(1) "Abortifacient vaccines loom as new threat," HLI Reports, November 1993, pp. 1-2.

(2) World Council Reports, 28 November 1994, pp. 4-5.

(3) A call placed by this writer on 5 May 1995 to the Montgomery County (Maryland) Health Department, Epidemology Division -- Infectious Diseases -- Adult Immunizations, elicited the following information:

Q. For how long a time does the tetanus vaccination offer protection?
A. 10 years.
Q. Have you ever heard of any adult requiring three tetanus vaccinations within a 3 or 4 month time period, and a total of 5 vaccinations in all within a year or so?
A. Whaaaat! Never. No way!

Reports from the Philippines appear to confirm the 10-year immunity afforded by tetanus toxoid vaccinations: prior to the campaigns begun in 1993, the so-called booster shots were given only every 10 years.

(4) More than a score of articles, many written by WHO researchers, document WHO's attempts to create an anti-fertility vaccine utilizing tetanus toxoid as a carrier. Some leading articles include:

"Clinical profile and Toxicology Studies on Four Women Immunized with Pr-B-hCG-TT," Contraception, February, 1976, pp. 253-268.

"Observations on the antigenicity and clinical effects of a candidate antipregnancy vaccine: B-subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin linked to tetanus toxoid," Fertility and Sterility, October 1980, pp. 328-335.

"Phase 1 Clinical Trials of a World Health Organisation Birth Control Vaccine," The Lancet, 11 June 1988, pp. 1295-1298. "Vaccines for Fertility Regulation," Chapter 11, pp. 177-198, Research in Human Reproduction, Biennial Report (1986-1987), WHO Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (WHO, Geneva 1988).

"Anti-hCG Vaccines are in Clinical Trials," Scandinavian Journal of Immunology, Vol. 36, 1992, pp. 123-126.

(5) These institutional names are garnered from the journal articles cited in the previous footnote.

(6) Lancet, 11 June 1988, p. 1296.

(7) Challenges in Reproductive Health Research, Biennial Report 1992-1993, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1994, p. 186.

(8) G.P. Talwar, et al, "Prospects of an anti-hCG vaccine inducing antibodies of high affinity...(etc)," Reproductive Technology 1989, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1990, Amsterdam, New York, p. 231.

(9) "3 DOH vaccines untested by BFAD," The Philippine Star, 4 April 1995, pp. 1, 12.

(10) "BFAD junks re-testing of controversial shot," Manila Standard, 7 April 1995; "DOH: Toxoid vaccines are safe," The Philippine Star, 7 April 1995.

(11) "Ottawa got blood tainted by HIV." Ottawa Citizen, 4 April 1995.

(12) A nearly two-year old communique from Tanzania tells a familiar story: tetanus toxoid vaccinations, five in all, given only to women aged 15-45. Nigeria, too, may have been victimized; see The Lancet, 4 June 1988, p. 1273.

Credit: Copyright June/July 1995 by James A. Miller, special correspondent for Human Life International. This article was originally published in HLI Reports, Human Life International, Gaithersburg, Maryland; June/July 1995, Volume 13, Number 8. Permission to reprint granted to Thinktwice/New Atlantean Press.

Swine flue Not the Deadly influenza the media make it to be)

On Saturday, Narace announced that there were 16 cases in Tobago and nine in Trinidad, bringing the total number in the country to 25.

"Out of these total 25 cases, 12 people have recuperated and have resumed their normal activities, as they are not infectious or ill anymore. All cases thus far have shown mild severity of the disease and have responded well to treatment. The most recent cases have been placed in isolation and are currently receiving proper treatment. Those patients are also doing well," Narace said in a release.

Medical director of the adult emergency department at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mt Hope Dr Helmer Hilwig is in charge of screening, testing and treating the suspected and confirmed cases of swine flu in Trinidad.

Well appreciative of T&T culture, he is well-placed to understand the ways and means by which the A (H1N1) influenza virus can be transmitted, and how we can prevent it from spreading.

Q: Should we panic, doctor?

A: The swine flu, luckily, is still a mild to moderate virus. Initially, we were a little bit scared because so much people had died in Mexico, but after that, it started to slow down. ...Now we see that the people who died had morbid conditions, like the girl in Dominican Republic; first case in the Caribbean who died. She was 17, pregnant; she had tuberculosis. If you're like that and you get the virus, it might be the last drop that killed the horse. The other cases are, in principle, quite mild. It is even so that in the United States now, people say if you have mild symptoms, don't even bother to go to the hospital or go to a doctor. Just sit it out at home. And cases that I've treated here in Trinidad, the first day you're sick. The second day, you're kind of sick and within five days, all of them are back on their feet.

Didn't you give them Tamiflu?

Protect your mouth: Dr Helmer Hilwig

I absolutely didn't give them Tamiflu. We are very restricted in our way how we providing Tamiflu. It's only a few doctors in the hospital who are allowed to prescribe Tamiflu. According to research done by the company that sells Tamiflu, it shortens the sickness process by 1.3 days maximum. So instead of being sick for seven days, you're sick for 5.7 days.

Okay, so we shouldn't panic?

No, no, no, no. Not at the moment. I don't want to say when this virus comes back after it has gone to Chile in the flu season, in the southern hemisphere, and it starts to mutate again and again-but you also have to keep in mind...SARS, which was quite deadly-40-50 per cent deaths-stopped in its tracks while Ebola, which is a really nasty virus, is still so contained...The virus that adapts itself nicely to the human environment will have a much better chance to survive and, therefore, when we start getting immune to the virus, it will mutate slightly and it comes back to haunt us. And then it will mutate slightly again and so on.

Trinidad is trying to do the impossible. We are a Caribbean island, so we can still track the trail of the virus a little bit. It comes in by plane-you know that? We have a good surveillance system. There's a case I can track back to a house in New York, and I know in which street that house is. We're small, everybody knows everybody, so we can still keep track of where it came from. But it's here to stay- there's no doubt about that. And there comes a moment when we cannot trace back anymore, it becomes community acquired, and you might wonder if that has happened in Tobago already where a Tobagonian is passing it on to other Tobagonians. The cases that I have dealt with, so far, I can still trace it back to the outside world. It all has to do with the United States.

But there comes a moment when we stop checking. Australia has stopped checking by the airport because there are hundreds of cases over there, and it makes no sense anymore... you cannot trace back anymore-it's just there. So you just deal with it. We were the 69th country to get it-so 68 countries before us. It is amazing that we could still keep it out so long. You have to keep in mind, in the United States, 35,000 people a year are dying from the normal flu virus and, so far, in the US, only 29 cases have died from the swine flu virus. So the normal flu virus is, in principle, worse than the swine flu virus. So that's why I tell the people who I've treated, "Yuh lucky that it is swine flu because you are now immune against swine flu. You don't have to worry about masks because you cannot get it anymore."

So even if it mutates and comes back, they will have immunity?

If it mutates, then, no. But for the present virus, they are the safest persons to talk to in Trinidad or to sleep with or to kiss or to cough with.

Okay, let's deal with the high-risk groups. We have a high number of HIV-positive

people.

Pregnant women, people who have asthma, pre-existing lung diseases, chronic obstructive airway disease, emphysema-you have to be careful because that can push them over the edge. The elderly, children under two years.

From the literature about swine flu, it seems that once we see the

symptoms and we treat it, the person should be okay?

I don't think I will see anybody dying from the swine flu very soon, unless it is an elderly gentleman who already has, say, emphysema, is diabetic or has heart disease, kidney/renal failure- these are people you have to keep an eye on, people on dialysis. But for a healthy person like you, if you get swine flu, I wouldn't worry too much about that. And keep in mind, 98 per cent of the cases could be treated at home. Only two per cent needed hospitalisation. The fact that you test positive doesn't mean that you need to be in the hospital. The best place is to be at home. You sit at home, on your porch, you're fine.

A lifeguard thinks all of them should be outfitted with masks. I said the safest job in the entire world is being a lifeguard on the beach. Especially Mayaro beach because it always has breeze there. What is interesting is the girl [the first confirmed case in T&T] was sitting in the plane talking to the guy next to her for ten hours...The girl goes home, she stays there for about two to three days before she came by us and we could test her. In her home, she has her father, her mother and her sister who is sleeping with her-and she is unable to pass this virus on to any of her family members. They're living in a house with louvres, a door open, a little porch and a standing fan. And I am getting so convinced now that this is why in Africa-it might be that they don't test there properly yet, or they don't have the infrastructure-but you're not seeing many cases because they have an outside life. And it's the best place to be. The one place you cannot get it is on the beach.

Then why has it spread so quickly in

Tobago where you imagine most people are outdoors or on the beach? Maybe the

conditions were different?

Perhaps, they were different. I don't know yet. We still have to find out exactly what happened in Tobago.

What about offices with their air conditioning? Let's deal with the mask hysteria-do people need to wear masks on the street?

No. Because only when somebody coughs straight in your face.... That's why I say they can treat the people at home. I constantly tell them this. [He gets up and walks to the door.] You're in your room. I've confined you in your room. First, I want you to open your windows. And, if anybody comes into the room, you put back on your mask...

This virus is not alien, it's not from Mars. We know everything about it. We know that it takes one to four days to incubate. We know that after seven days, in principle, you cannot share it anymore. We know that it belongs to the Influenza A family. That is why we will have a vaccine in September. HIV when it came around, we didn't know anything. People were dying-from what? Was it a virus? Was it bacteria? We took years to find out.... But at this point, we still don't have a vaccine for HIV, and I'm telling you, in two to three months, some companies are going to make plenty money for a vaccine which gives you five or seven days of the flu. It would have been nice if we had spent all that money and effort in finding a vaccine for malaria or any other tropical disease. But we don't care so much because we don't see it so much in the Western hemisphere. But it's there, somewhere in Africa. Who cares about that?

And you're seeing it already in the newspapers-GlaxoSmithKline is willing to donate 36 million free doses to the Third World. Thirty-six million? We have six billion people in this world, of which five billion live below the poverty line. Novartis says they are willing to give it for a discount. It's the same thing with the anti-retroviral drugs...

So there is no doubt that there are some in the pharmaceutical industry who have an enormous interest in keeping the scare alive as long as possible. That is why everybody was angry with France because they bought up the entire Tamiflu supply. Britain announced that it had 36 million doses or whatever. And all this Tamiflu, I am sure, it will end up in the drains.

There's a misunderstanding that the virus is airborne, in that people can get it because it's in the air, and that's why they're wearing masks.

Yes, and it is not a virus that when I cough, it hangs now on the ceiling, waiting to jump on an innocent passer-by. Am I going to be sick? No. It's a very simple fact: it comes out of your mouth and it goes into your mouth. It doesn't go into your skin. So if you protect this [he covers his mouth and nose] and luckily, in Trinidad, we have a reasonably good cough etiquette already. Very few Trinidadians cough straight in your face cuz all the grannies and the mothers have to get complimented for the fact that Trinidadians have learnt you don't cough in somebody's face. Go and buy your doubles, and look at the man who is handling the money is not handling the paratha [bara], yeah? Because he will not sell one doubles. So in Trinidad, we have already a sense that your hands can be your enemy and your friends. In France, people buy the baguette and the baker gives you the change, and they put the baguette under their arm and go with it. And I never noticed it until I was in Trinidad!... What I hope will be the legacy of this virus is that we re-emphasise what we have already over other countries, which is that we wash our hands.

I want to get the message out: don't panic, it's just a flu.

Yes, correct.

...the only thing, perhaps, we should change is our social interaction. If I see you, I should go for the Indian way (he clasps his hands together and bows). Or you know, like the Japanese [he bows].

Natural ventilation, use it. When I was a young doctor, I worked at a children's hospital, and of course, it had endless amounts of viruses there. And then, you didn't have anybody who was immunised against mumps and rubella and all the viruses from the children. So what you had was a little balcony built on the northeast side because in Europe, you have a lot of northeastern winds, and I was always taught this, you examined the child, you go wash your hands, now, you go to the balcony, stand for two minutes in the wind, and sometimes it could be freezing cold, then you go back to the next child, wash your hands again, go back to the balcony. Because the wind kills the virus.

So in Mt Hope, I have arranged in the emergency department, we have a little area called the hyperbaric [area] where we're trying to keep the traffic away [to assess all respiratory cases]. The staff put on and take off their gowns outside, so you don't spread it. Now, the doctor has to walk via a little corridor on the outside, and the staircase is on the outside back into the emergency department, so you get a complete extra disinfection from just a little breeze in the outside world and in the sunshine. So we can use this advantage that we have over other countries.

What about your eyes? Some of

the literature says they can be

a point of entry for the virus?

Yeah, but it's very low on the list. It goes in here [pointing at his mouth] and here [pointing at his nose]. It can't go via your ears, your bottom, your toes. And 90 per cent of the cases, you did it yourself.

royalblood :I am very weary of vaccination programs

After pandemics comes vaccinations (natural order of things)

In My country we have a few cases of the swine flue ...
I have been looking at the WHO site for a while for clues at to previous movements and stats on flues in times past ..
This information is hard to come by.
Logic will suggest that mandates to start very soon start major vaccination programs will be the call of the populace.. Were we coerced under a well conceal plan..
I wanted to put this on record ...
There is enough evidence that vaccination over the past decade has contributed to problems such as Autism and others. In the past many of the sicknesses floating around like measles , flues were fought against by having parties to encourage people to come together to give the disease naturally under control conditions to build up immunity.. Now we are ordered to take a needle. God alone knows what is in those laboratory produced vaccines.. And the people at the top what are their agendas.
What ever the purpose of the Hype of swine flue,the media blitz , its sure working ..many people will take the swine flue vaccine readily if the media makes it frightening enough...

My advice! do more research on vaccination..The information is out there, look for it.. Especially you parents like myself.


Thesis - Antithesis - Synthesis
manufacture a problem call for solutions the public otherwise would think twice of but under crisis mode will accept.


Peace and Love
Royallbood

Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective?

I am m still searching for Info on Influenzas in the past , how deadly were they ,are they any less or more deadly than the Swine flue ? These are some of the questions I have ..Are the people on both side of the debate being honest ? my research continues but i will present what i find from time to time. If someone or some group wants the world to give into vaccination by fear , I want to know and am sure you would like to know also . As it stands now .. no vaccination for me or anyone in my family till am completely convince that this is not someones global experiment.
royalblood

This is from an article I found from someone who has been digging longer than i am ,l ong before the swine flue came on the scene.

How Vaccines Work
Our immune systems attack germs of various sorts that enter our body, partly by making antibodies to destroy the germs. However, in many cases the germs have already multiplied greatly before our immune system is able to fight back, causing us to experience the symptoms of the sickness. After the germs are destroyed, antibodies for fighting that type of germ remain in our body, guarding against future attacks by that same germ.

The theory behind vaccines is that they cause your body to develop immunity to a disease without having to first catch the true disease. They do so by exposing your body to killed or weakened forms of the given germ, causing the body to fight back with antibodies against the invader. In most cases, the germs should not actually result in sickness or serious side effects because of their weakened or killed state.
One of the criticisms of vaccinations in general is the means by which germs are introduced to the body. With the exception of the oral polio vaccine, these vaccine germs are introduced into the body by means of injection.In the natural environment, most germs enter through our mouths and digestive system or through the air into our nose or lungs. Our body's normal defenses include much more than the antibodies present in the bloodstream. Direct injection bypasses many of the body's defenses, perhaps impacting both the body's ability to safely deal with the weakened germ, and also the degree of immunity resulting.

Key Issues in the Debate
The debate about vaccines has become much broader than some may realize. There seems to be very little common ground of agreement between the two camps. They appear to disagree about the diseases, the research, the statistics, and most everything else. There appears to be clear evidence of exaggeration, fear tactics, selective information and purposeful distortions /lies - on both sides. Following are some of the key issues in this debate:

1) Risks of the Diseases. Just how dangerous are these diseases for which vaccines exist? One side often quotes infection and death rates based on experience in the U.S. shortly before the vaccine was introduced. The other side notes the strong trend before the vaccine indicating the disease was becoming much less common and deaths and complications were also dropping. They may also quote more modern estimates of death rates based on current medical treatments available or experience in other countries where the vaccines has not been widely used. With some diseases, one side will stress that the disease is a serious one and that children do die from this disease. The other side will say that the disease is relatively harmless and only very unusual cases with complicating factors ever result in death or serious injury.

2) Vaccine Effectiveness. How effective is the given vaccine in protecting any given individual from the disease? No one claims 100% effectiveness, but there is much debate as to just how high a percentage and how long immunity lasts. The one side regularly cites 90+% effectiveness and probably lifetime immunity, if the prescribed timing is followed and boosters taken as instructed. The other side cites their evidence that certain vaccines are perhaps only 50-60% effective with immunity often wearing of in 5-10 years (making the diseases even more dangerous with most adults lacking immunity). Some claim that research does not support any vaccine immunity lasting beyond 10 years (versus usual lifetime immunity when acquired naturally from the disease).

3) Adverse Vaccine Reactions. This is the area of hottest debate. The one side cites statistics and studies indicating that adverse reactions are extremely rare and have not been found to result in death or hardly any serious condition. Some go so far as to state, "No deaths are known to have ever been caused by DTP or DtaP vaccine".

The other side presents the cases of many children who exhibited vaccine reactions that appeared to progress to the point of death within hours or days of receiving such a vaccine. They also point to the many studies and publications of concerns by doctors and researchers that certain vaccines appear to be causing a small number of deaths. They refer to the many cases taken to the U.S. Court of Claims, with the verdict that the vaccine was the probable cause of death (and large sums were awarded in damages). Many of these deaths are attributed to the DTP vaccine.

Then there are the claims or at least suspicions, by certain researchers and parents, that certain vaccines are contributing to SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) deaths and many longer-term serious health conditions (autism, juvenile diabetes, brain damage, autoimmune diseases, etc.). Few will claim that these associations are positively proven, but many cite anecdotal evidence and "coincidences" that might imply causation. Certainly there is a great mystery as to the cause of the huge upsurge in some of these diseases in the last 50 years (and explaining it by just better recognition and reporting of the condition seems unbelievable). However, the other side cites large-scale studies and analysis of statistics that they believe refute the possibility of vaccines being a cause of these other problems.

4) How Vaccines Are Produced & What They Contain. Vaccine opponents raise the moral issue of using vaccines cultured using aborted babies. (Note: there are alternative vaccine brands in most cases that were not cultured from fetuses). Likewise concerns are raised about other vaccines cultured in monkeys or other animals and the possibility of foreign proteins and viruses being transmitted along with the vaccines. Other chemicals present in vaccines as preservatives are also questioned as to their toxicity, cancer causing impact, and risk for allergic reaction. The other side counters that these problems ar e mostly illusory. There are no harmful animal viruses or proteins in the vaccines and the chemicals used are safe. They recently changed the formulation of one such vaccine to exclude a chemical that many had become concerned about.

5) Herd Immunity. Those in favor of vaccines argue the importance of maintaining a high level of vaccination in order to protect the population as a whole. They note that vaccines fail to provide immunity to a small number of people and a very small minority is unable to be vaccinated because of severe reactions. Therefore it is everyone's duty to be vaccinated for the sake of the community as a whole - to protect others. It is unfair for some to refuse vaccination as they endanger others while enjoying the protection provided by most others being vaccinated.

Those opposed to vaccines argue for parents' responsibility to make the best decision for their own family. They ask whether it is right to ask some to sacrifice their children for the good of the whole (especially when little effort is made to identify risk factors that predispose some to serious risk). They also question just how effective many vaccines are in truly protecting populations.

6) Vaccine Policies and Informed Consent. Vaccine critics believe parents are not being given the opportunity for informed consent. The risks are generally not being mentioned at all, even the legal disclosures of risks that come with the vaccines are not being shown to the parents. Parents are being pressured by fear tactics, laws enacted requiring vaccinations, school admission requirements, even sometimes threats of turning them in to Child Protection Services for neglect of their children's vaccinations. Parents are not being told about legally provided reasons for exemption from vaccination requirements. Vaccines are being promoted to the public in a less than fully honest way.
The other side denies any misrepresentation and stresses the critical need to keep people from fearing vaccines. The population as a whole is only protected if nearly everyone gets the vaccine. We must do nothing that might dissuade people form vaccinating their children.

Good Sources for Studying Yourself
There are vast resources on the internet for those desiring to search and study for themselves. However, you should realize that some of the material presented may be inaccurate, distorted or even purposefully deceptive. Consider your sources carefully and validate them by comparing with other sources, even those on the opposite side of the issue. Perhaps the best place to start, is with the Center for Disease Control's site (www.cdc.gov). Here you can see what the chief governmental authority on vaccines says. This site also includes links to many other vaccine supportive sites.

Then perhaps one of the best sites for the anti-vaccine camp is the National Vaccine Information Center site (www.909shot.com). This site appears to be more careful with facts and assertions while still championing the cause for safer vaccines, accurate and honest disclosure of risks, etc. Links are provided to many other sites with information critical of vaccinations.

A third site I found of particular interest was www.pathguy.com/antiimmu.htm. This is the site of a medical pathologist, who is admittedly biased in favor of vaccines but admitting the possibility of some severe side effects. His site is focus primarily on pointing out false or misleading information presented by anti-vaccine activists. You may or may not agree with his position and assessments, but I think we all would like more honesty from both sides!

I highly recommend the book, "How to Raise a Healthy Child … In Spite of Your Doctor" by Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D., which contains one chapter addressing vaccines. It is a little out of date (1984), but offers terrific insights from a pediatrician with about 30 years of experience. He is the unusual pediatrician who is openly opposed to vaccines and willing to share his insights from the medical evidence and his personal experience. Another book I found interesting, though perhaps a little too extreme in some assertions and tone, was Neil Z. Miller's, "Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective?" This book was published in 1992 and is the result of extensive research by Mr. Miller and is thoroughly footnoted, encouraging you to verify his assertions for yourself.
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