Truth About Vaccines

As a former research fellow at the National Immunization Program in the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and formerly a staunch advocate of vaccines, it pains me to discover the following facts and to have to share them with you. I wish that much of it was not true but here goes…

Have you ever been told that you must vaccinate your children because it’s the law? The widespread notion that it’s against the law not to vaccinate your children is entirely FALSE!

In fact, all 50 states allow a medical exemption to vaccination and all states allow a religious exemption except Mississippi and West Virginia. 18 states allow exemption to vaccination based on philosophical, personal or conscientiously held beliefs, including: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin.

(Source: http://www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Laws.aspx)

However, according to anti-vaccination activist groups such as the Vaccine Liberation organization, the American Medical Association and ChildrensHealthCare.org are actively promoting the abolishment of religious and philosophical exemptions.

(Source: http://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm)

This is against the constitution and a personal violation of your health freedom.

Below is my summary of important points from a recent article in Natural News, which is posted at: http://www.naturalnews.com/031389_vaccines_philosophical_exemptions.html#ixzz1YezPAnoi These facts should be considered carefully before you decide to vaccinate yourself or your children.

There are serious questions concerning the reliability of vaccine medical research and the availability of proven alternatives to conventional immunizations, which ought to compel state legislatures to provide citizens with the right to a conscientious exemption from immunizations.

There is a growing body of medical experts who are speaking out with concerns about vaccines.¹ Independent medical research contradicts pro-vaccine research funded by the pharmaceutical industry.

We are told by the establishment on media clips and by the conventional healthcare system that vaccines are entirely safe. But did you know that in actuality, "No data get collected, and it remains unknown whether vaccination increases the incidence of most [chronic] diseases, particularly rare diseases."²

The herd immunity theory for which population vaccination practice is based states that if most of a population is immune, the entire population is protected. However, this theory has been shown to be false because disease outbreaks have continued to occur in communities where most of the kids were vaccinated. For example, measles, mumps, small pox, pertussis, polio and Hib outbreaks have all occurred in vaccinated populations.^3,4,5,6,7 This fact counteracts the widespread notion that unvaccinated persons somehow become "disease magnets" that "create" or "attract" disease in communities where diseases have been absent for decades, even prior to the introduction of vaccines.

Homeoprophylaxis is much more effective and has none of the side effects of conventional vaccines. There is considerable amount of clinical evidence showing that HP provides a high level of protection against targeted infectious diseases. (See Table 1 below.)

A recent Japanese study found that "Vitamin D [is] better than vaccines at preventing flu,"⁸ and experts say that vitamin D toxicity fears are unwarranted.⁹

Reliance on the Pharmaceutical Industry is Severely Misplaced. In December of 2009, the WHO reported: "Corruption in the pharmaceutical sector occurs throughout all stages of the medicines chain, from research and development to dispensing and promotion."¹⁰

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/031389_vaccines_philosophical_exemptions.html#ixzz1Yf0wHEnE

Table 1: The Effectiveness of HP – Statistical Trials in Humans

Year	Researcher*	Numbers of Participants	Length of Survey	Effectiveness %
1907	Eaton	2,806	< 1 year	97.5
1950	Taylor-Smith	82 (12 definitely exposed)	< 1 year	100.0
1963	Gutman	385	< 1 year	86.0
1974	Castro &Nogeira	HP 18,000Not HP 6,340	3 months	86.1
1987	English	694	2 years	87.0 - 91.5
1987	Fox	61	5 years	82.0 - 95.0
1998	Mroninski et al	HP 65,826Not HP 23,539	6 months12 months	95.091.0
1997	Golden	593 children 1,305 questionnaires	10 years	88.8
2004	Golden	1,159 children2,342 questionnaires	15 years	90.4

* References for these studies may be found in Vaccination and Homoeoprophylaxis – A Review of Risks and Alternatives, 6th edition (7)

(Source: http://www.lifehealthchoices.com/the-center/health-options/homeoprophylaxis)

Did you know that you can look up reports of vaccine side-effects at a CDC database called VAERS, which is available at: http://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html

As for me, all of the above definitely gives me pause to reconsider whether or not to continue to vaccinate my children. If nothing else, I simply object to many of the ingredients in the vaccines, including fact that there are trace amounts of heavy metals in the vaccines which are harmful to human health, such as aluminum and mercury, harmful chemicals such as formaldehyde and ammonium, as well as some really disgusting and non-kosher human and animal byproducts, such as monkey kidney tissue, chick kidney cells, and human serum albumin which comes from aborted fetuses. If you don’t believe me, here’s the CDCs own list of ingredients for the vaccines: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf

It’s funny, or sad rather, that in the the two years that I worked there and even while helping to update the vaccine literature on adult immunizations, the issue of what ingredients are in the vaccines never came up as a topic of discussion needing public disclosure. I believe that virtually al of the people who work at the CDC are well=meaning folks, as are the majority of healthcare workers who genuinely want to help people by offering them vaccines. But had I known then that these ingredients were in the vaccines, I may have been more likely to ask questions and less enthusiastic about promoting vaccines to the general public as part of my job duties.

HPV Vaccine Facts

Regarding the controversy over the HPV vaccine Gardasil® as discussed in the current GOP presidential debates, according to the CDCs own statistics reported to VAERS, which captures only about 10% of the total adverse events due to vaccination, a total of 18,727 reports of adverse events following Gardasil® vaccination have been received since the vaccine was first introduced, including 68 deaths out of the approximately 35 million doses that have been distributed throughout the U.S.

17,958 of these adverse events occurred in females and 346 reports in males. The vaccine was licensed for males in October 2009. 423 reports were of unknown gender.

Of the total number of VAERS reports following Gardasil®, 92% were considered to be non-serious, and 8% were considered serious, meaning that they led to hospitalization, permanent disability, life-threatening illness, congenital anomaly or death. (Source: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/vaccines/hpv/gardasil.html)

What this boils down to is approximately 1,498 people, mostly young previously healthy teenage girls, who are documented to have been either hospitalized, become permanent disabled, received a life-threatening illness, congenital anomaly or died as a result of the vaccine in America alone! Since only about 10% of adverse events are reported to VAERS, the true figure for this death and disability is probably closer to fifteen thousand!

MMR and Autism Question

Regarding this, I feel that the verdict is still out, although the circumstances by which Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 study was removed from the Lancet medical journal and his reputation tarnished for his research seems definitely suspicious. His study seemed to indicate a connection between the vaccine and autism and was later discredited. See http://www.naturalnews.com/031116_Dr_Andrew_Wakefield_British_Medical_Journal.html

However, the mainstream scientific consensus is that no evidence links the vaccine to the development of autism, and that the vaccine's benefits greatly outweigh its risks.

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine_controversy)

I feel that I personally need to look more deeply into this before taking a position either way on it, so I would love to receive your comments about this topic!

Cancer and Vaccines

The rates of cancer have skyrocketed lately, and it has been postulated that this is no coincidence. There have been allegations made by Alex Jones and others that the pharmaceutical companies are involved for years in a conspiracy to add live cancer viruses to all vaccines! (Source: www.infowars.com live broadcast 9/21/2011) On the broadcast, “Alex delves into why cancer has risen despite billions in research and a bevy of vaccines supposedly designed to prevent the illness.” http://www.infowars.com/infowars-nightly-news-the-vaccine-cover-up-implodes-onstar-spying-more/

I recently watched this disturbing video where Merck vaccine scientist Dr. Maurice Hilleman apparently admits to SV40 cancer virus knowingly being put into the polio vaccine and to the creation of the AIDS virus in a laboratory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaokq8v9JPI The video was referenced on Natural News at (http://www.naturalnews.com/033584_Dr_Maurice_Hilleman_SV40.html#ixzz1YffStegM)

Please let me know what you think of the video above and about this whole issue! I would really like to hear from you.

Thanks

Carolyn

References

See, e.g., the International Medical Council on Vaccination at http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org, and The Pandemic Response Project, http://www.pandemicresponseproject.com
Associating vaccines and subsequent diseases, Meryl Nass, M.D., February 8, 2011, http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/...
Measles vaccine failures: lack of sustained measles specific immunoglobulin G responses in revaccinated adolescents and young adults. Department of Pediatrics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 13(1):34-8, 1994 Jan.
Measles outbreak in 31 schools: risk factors for vaccine failure and evaluation of a selective revaccination strategy. Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, University of Toronto, Ont. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 150(7):1093-8, 1994 Apr 1.
Haemophilus b disease after vaccination with Haemophilus b polysaccharide or conjugate vaccine. Institution Division of Bacterial Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Md 20892. American Journal of Diseases of Children. 145(12):1379-82, 1991 Dec.
Sustained transmission of mumps in a highly vaccinated population: assessment of primary vaccine failure and waning vaccine-induced immunity. Division of Field Epidemiology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 169(1):77-82, 1994 Jan. 1.
Secondary measles vaccine failure in health care workers exposed to infected patients. Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 14(2):81-6, 1993 Feb.
Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims, The Sunday Times (U.K.), March 15, 2010, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ne... American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Am J Clin Nutr (March 10, 2010). doi:10.3945/ajcn.2009.29094)
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