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revealed that 5-10 per cent of teenage girls and in excess of 30 per cent of women experienced adverse reactions to the rubella vaccine. Such reactions include arthritis, arthralgia, neuritis and polyneuritis. These symptoms may last for several months and may not occur until as long as two months after the vaccination. Dr Aubrey Tingle, a paediatric immunologist at Children's Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, has found that 30 per cent of adults who had been exposed to rubella vaccine suffered arthritis two to four weeks after vaccination, ranging from mildly aching joints to severe crippling. As reported in Maclean's Magazine (8/2/1982), Dr Tingle and fellow researchers found live tubella virus in one-third of patients—both children and adults— with rheumatoid arthritis. What's more, Dr Tingle stated that some patients had recurrent episodes of arthritis for up to 10 years after their immunisations. Referring to children who received rubella shots, Dr Tingle warns: "The long-term effects are the major unre- solved issue that we have to face." The magazine, Australian Wellbeing Annual 1991, contains an article, "Jab Happy", by Leon Chaitow, in which he writes: - rubella antibodies, either naturally occurring or vaccine- induced, will provide the protection we had hoped for. "The mass rubella immunisation campaign has only been going for about seven years, so by and large the first batch of vaccines have not reached the age at which most women have their first child, about 22 years. Not till then will we know for certain whether the rubella immunisation programme has been successful. "Note first of all that nobody knows if this much-publicised campaign will bring forward the success so dishonestly promot- ed; indeed, we already know the programme failed in the UK... "CENDEVAX was = to solve the problems associated with rubella, but after a decade of vaccinating it is now conceded in the UK that the programme has failed. Teratogenicity is still as much a problem now as it was 10 years previously when the scheme was introduced, to say nothing of the side-effects caused by the ‘harmless lite-contenring immunity! promised by the medical profession." the medical profession.” The failure of the rubella vaccination campaign in the UK has been confirmed in both the British Medical Journal and The Lancet. According to the British Medical Journal (2/4/1983, p. 1083): "On top of this danger (referring to arthritis from rubella shots), Nobel Prize winner Dr John Enders, also wala in the New England journal of Medicine, suggests that rubella vaccination of young girls actually makes it more a that they will con- tract rubella when they grow up, rather than less likely, as vaccination only offers partial protection, unlike the full protec- tion gained by having the illness." He then goes on to say: “To cap it all, if there has been an inadequate immune * response after immunisation (and this, it suffering seems, is all too common), there is a great nag? danger that such a person may then cations from become a carrier of rubella along with the development of arthritis and enlarge- ines is far ment of the thyroid." abs Mu "No scientific defence is possible of the current British roach to rubella vaccination. It has failed to protect women of childbearing age..." eee o-oo" tract rubella wnen tney grow up, ratner 2 than less likely, as vaccination only offers The Lancet (1/1/1983, p. 39) states: partial protection, unlike the full Testes. "Current rubella vaccination pro- tion gained by having the illness." He grammes devised when knowledge of then goes on to say: “To cap it all, if vaccine ey een C still re there ae hove i ——e ver lete, have not been fully successful in it * * respons lunisation {and this, i men dene those at wrumitreg! risk of the The risk of suffering seems, is all too common), there is a great inati * * . danger that such a person may then “SI the UK there hee been. ae predic. _ S@rious Complications from become a carrier of rubelta along with j ; . * the development of arthritis and enlarge- ef.itectngein We eculaierde’ the flu vaccines is far ment meta . demics occurred in 1969-81 with sub- " . . ‘ , stantial increases in the number of greater than the flu. at ao Lal the journal Science ~~ nore Wn mone _ (26/3/ ) reports: syndrome and in the number of thera- SS " . tic abortions for rubella infections. Dr William Frosehaver much at se% of crildven reveling tabel hese events suggest incomplete com- la vaccination in national testing pro- pliance with the rubella vaccination rams, developed arthralgia and arthritis. tragedy..." ce had to seek medical attention and . . . some were hospitalized to test for Dr Beverly Allen, a medical virologist at rheumatic fever and rheumatoid arthritis. the Australian Laboratory of Microbiology In New Jersey this same testing pro ram arti and Pathology in Brisbane, Queensland, has conducted studies on —_— showed that 17% of all children vaccinated develop ral- the effectiveness of the rubella vaccinations. These studies provide _gia and arthritis." overwhelming evidence that rubella vaccinations provide no protec- tion whatever. Army recruits received the rubella vaccine and were The Lancet (1/8, January 1983, p. 40) says: then sent to a camp which usually had an annual epidemic of rubel- Se honeniell a tie a) infected with seen in large-scale vaccination programmes, the occurrence of — as en a - 3 both increasing with age. Arthralgia occurs in approximately In wat. is Cum Wyoming, USA, epee he mg 25% and frank arthritis in about 1% of adult female vaccinees." one year after 83 per cent of the city's school children had been vac- ; p. te cinated against the disease; 91 of the 125 cases occurred in vaccinat- Commenting on rubella vaccination, Mendelsohn says: ed children. . "There is no need to protect children from this harmless dis- Dr Mendelsohn has written: ease, so the adverse reactions to the vaccine are unacceptable "Arthralgia and arthritis are the most troublesome reactions "Current rubella vaccination pro- grammes devised when knowledge of vaccine characteristics was still incom- plete, have not been fully successful in protecting those at maximum risk of the sequelae of rubella vaccination. "In the UK there has been, as predict- ed, little change in the secular trend of tubella occurrence. Two sizeable epi- demics occurred in 1969-81 with sub- stantial increases in the number of infants born with congenital rubella syndrome and in the number of thera- tic abortions for rubella infections. hese events suggest incomplete com- pliance with the rubella vaccination tragedy..." "The HEW reported in 1970 that as m Frosehaver much as 26% of children receiving rubel- la vaccination in national testing pro- grams, developed arthralgia and arthritis. any had to seek medical attention and some were hospitalized to test for rheumatic fever and rheumatoid arthritis. In New Jersey this same kori pra ram showed that 17% of all children vaccinated developed arthral- gia and arthritis." "Arthralgia and arthritis are the most troublesome reactions seen in large-scale vaccination programmes, the occurrence of both increasing with age. Arthralgia occurs in approximately 25% and frank arthritis in about 1% of adult female vaccinees." "There is no need to protect children from this harmless dis- ease, so the adverse reactions to the vaccine are unacceptable in terms of benefit to the child... In Connecticut, a group of doctors, led by two eminent epidemiologists, have actually suc- ceeded in getting rubella stricken from the list of legally required immunizations." "Study after study has demonstrated that many women immu- nized against rubella as children lack evidence of immunity in blood tests given during their adolescent = Other tests have shown a high vaccine failure rate in children given rubella, — and mumps shots, either separately or in combined form." FLU VACCINES On 23 June 1979, The Australian newspaper published a letter from Dr A. O'Rourke, Medical Superintendent of the Toowoomba General Hospital, which contained the following remarks: "immunity to infection by rubella virus, whether the result of natural infection or from attenuated vaccine, is by no means absolute. Subclinical infections may ensue and this is more likely in those whose immunity is vaccine-induced than in those who acquired it from natural infection." In April 1971, a report by Merch, Sharp and Dohme, USA, "A recent editorial in the British Medical Journal points out that influenza is widely distributed among animals and birds throughout the world. The journal goes on to suggest that the manufacture, even the concept, of an effective vaccine is a will JUNE - JULY 1993 NEXUS*33 The Lancet (1/1/1983, p. 39) states: The Lancet (1/8, January 1983, p. 40) says: Commenting on rubella vaccination, Mendelsohn says: The Lancet contains an article on rubella which states: