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"Between 1974 and 1978 acceptance of pertussis vaccine had According to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report been falling. Health authorities were offering a double vaccine (MMWR, 5/7/1985), a pertussis outbreak occurred in Washington, (diphtheria plus tetanus) instead of a triple vaccine and this, USA, between 1 January to 1 October 1984 involving 162 cases. together with poliomyelitis vaccine, was proving itself to be Sixty-nine of these cases occurred in children between 3 months old acceptable and unquestionably safe. But the government's and 6 years. The report states: "Of the 69 patients 3 months advisers were predicting a disastrous epidemic of whooping through 83 months (6 years) of age with cough in the unprotected POpUlatiON, ll known immunisation status, 34 (49%) were On the three-to-four-year cycle, the next appropriately immunised for their ages with epidemic was due to begin in 1977, and F = ~ : it has to be acknowledged that notifica- u i jg ‘diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis tions of whooping cna, which began ‘The worst vaccine of all IS vaccine. to increase, then continued through i On 2 September 1978, NBC News, 1978 and 1979 and amounted in total to the whooping cough Florida, USA, made the following what appeared to be the biggest epidem- vaccine...it is responsible announcement: "The Atlanta Center for ic since 1967. The mortality rate, how- Di Control h ked doctors to sti ever, was the lowest ever, ould thee was fora lot of deaths and fora wees tet ber dighthai, tetas ao no doubt that the general pattern of pre- 4 il sa} ’ i i j whooping cough because a number of chil- vious Te was being followed, in lot of infants suffering dren fave bean geting bad reactions.” Such i ti . * * = sm B haered aon full vaccinated cnt. — irreversible brain damage." “bad reactions” may include Sudden Infant dren. For the First time, there was a Death Syndrome, commonly known as sharp difference in reports from different Dr Archie Kalokerinos SIDS. According to Dr Alan Hinman, parts of the country. Some observers S 1I Tops, NSW, 24 May 1987 director of the Center for Disease Control, teported a low or even zero incidence in taney’ LOPS $ any Atlanta, USA: "Since the CDC instituted its vaccinated children, while others found monitoring system in 1978, we have little difference between the vaccinated received reports of 44 deaths occurring and unvaccinated. within four weeks of DPT immunisation. Thirty-two of the deaths "Internationally, the situation was equally confusing. In some were SIDS." Leon Chaitow (Vaccination And Immunisation) points countries like the USA and Canada, pertussis vaccine was used to a study undertaken in 1979, at the University of California, Los intensively and it was claimed that whooping cough was a dis- Angeles (UCLA), under the sponsorship of the Food and Drug ae ae Se A — ciel Administration (FDA), and which has been confirmed by other outbreaks hai n reported since 1974 in which {as in the UK) studies, that indicates that in the USA approximately 1,000 infants 30-50 per cent of cases were fully-vaccinated. In West : : et Germany, largely as a result of Professor Ehrengut's work on die annually as a direct result of DPT vaccination, and these are toxicity, pertussis vaccine had been under suspicion for years classified as SIDS deaths. ss and had been abandoned in Hamburg without any increase in Dr William Torch of the University of Nevada, Reno, USA, has incidence or mortality from sia | cough. Similar decreas- undertaken studies of SIDS cases. In one study, Dr Torch found es, without extensive use of vaccine, had occurred in Egypt and that two-thirds of 103 children who died of SIDS had been immu- Italy. nised with the DPT vaccine in the three weeks prior to their deaths. "There is no doubt in my mind that in the UK alone some hun- Many died within one day of vaccination. In 1982, Dr Torch, a dreds, if not thousands, of well infants have suffered irreparable ted paediatric jodi id that the DPT ane be brain damage needlessly and that their lives and those of their — 2 hee of SIDS". P _- = parents have been wrecked in consequence. x —_ "There are also, to my certain knowledge, a number of deaths From her book, Had No Say, Sister Joyce Lubke writes: after vaccination in the UK and the USA which await explana- "When immunisations were given commencing at 3 months tion. | see no use or justification for this kind of medical policy, old, the peak of cot deaths was from 3-4 months. We are now tald that the neal ic 9-2 manthe and thic hac hannanad cinco "When immunisations were given commencing at 3 months old, the peak of cot deaths was from 3-4 months. We are now told that the peak is 2-3 months, and this has happened since the immunisations commenced at 2 months. | feel there is some connection between cot deaths and immunisation." Pertussis in England and Wales 1970-1982 Percentage Vaccinated Year Cases Notified England Wales 1970 16,597 1971 16,846 1972 2,069 1973 2A41 1974 16,230 1975 8,910 1976 4,278 1977 18,717 1978 67,008 1979 33,197 1981 21,261 1982 (first 9 mths) 47,508 and | think that the use of pertussis vaccine should be discontin- ued until, by better research or a better vaccine, these doubts are resolved." In Health Report (vol.6, no.12, December 1986), Dr H. Buttram and J. Hoffman tell of a study conducted by the Department of Pediatrics, University of California School of Medicine, on 145 SIDS victims. Of this number, 53 had received DPT immunisation shortly before their deaths. Of these 53, 27 died within a month of being vaccinated, 17 within a week and 6 within 24 hours. From his book, How To Raise A Healthy Child In Spite Of Your Doctor, Dr Robert Mendelsohn writes: Cases Notified 79 79 79 79 72 60 39 Al 31 44 23 24 16 23 "My suspicion, which is shared by others in my profession, is that the nearly 10,000 SIDS deaths that occur in the US each year are related to one or more of the vaccines that are routine] piven to children. The pertussis vaccine is the most likely vil- ain, but it could also be one or more of the others." Dr Archie Kalokerinos has also observed the link between SIDS and immunisation, noting that a number of apparently healthy abo- riginal children, upon being vaccinated, would go into shock and die. Speaking at a natural health convention in Stanwell Tops, NSW (24 May 1987), he had this to say about the whooping cough vaccine: 50 "The worst vaccine of all is the whooping cough vaccine...it is responsible for a lot of deaths and for a lot of infants sufferin irreversible brain damage. In susceptible infants, it knocks their immune systems about, — to irreparable brain damage, or severe attacks or even deaths from diseases like pneumonia or The following table which appears in Infectious Diseases (WHO), clearly shows the ineffectiveness of whooping cough vaccine: Source: Community Disease Surveillance Centre 28¢NEXUS JUNE - JULY 1993