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Dr Archie Kalokerinos, who worked among Aborigines during the 1960s and 1970s, attributed the increased death rate of Aboriginal infants to the expanded immunisation programme. He postulated that malnourished infants had a weakened immune system, and that the injection of vaccine only worsened the situ- ation, resulting in many deaths. Dr Kalokerinos, speaking at the Natural Health Convention, Stanwell Tops, NSW, on Sunday 24 May 1987, stated: VACCINE LINK TO DISEASES IN CHILDREN Many doctors have linked vaccines with the increasing inci- dence of chronic and acute disease amongst children, including arthritis, juvenile diabetes, multiple sclerosis, allergies, eczema, Reye's syndrome, cancer and many others. In 1979 at the Fourth International Symposium on Pertussis (whooping cough) in Maryland, USA, evidence was presented which showed that pertussis vaccine could lead to disorders of insulin metabolism. Could this have anything to do with the ris- ing incidence of juvenile diabetes and hypoglycaemia, both con- ditions involving insulin disorder? In both Europe and the USA, many physicians have observed that allergic and immunologic disorders in children are rapidly increasing. The May 1983 edition of Modern Medicine con- tained a review of an international allergy meeting in London, which stated: "My original introduction to the problems of vaccination was in the field of Aboriginal health. At the time, we had one of the highest infant mortal ity rates in the world, higher than in rural India. In some Aboriginal communities, every second baby was doomed to die in infancy, but the medical authorities didn't seem to have an answer to this. “On the invitation of the then Minister for the interior, | went to the Northern Territory to investigate and found that the infant death rate had doubled in one year, and looked as if it was going to double again. | couldn't explain it. Things hadn't changed, the seasons hadn't changed, everything seemed to be basically the same. So | went to America to discuss the problem there with colleagues, but no one seemed to have an explana- tion. "Back in Australia, | sifted through the various factors that | knew could make a child sick. One factor was that under cer- tain circumstances, routine immunisation could do harm. | ees | eMeMbered that the Minister had said to me: ‘Amongst other things that we have done, we have stepped up the immunisation campaign.' | said to ‘ myself, 'Eureka, that is it, that's what kerinos, who re happened!’ Next day | caught a g Aborigines ape back to the Northern Territory, é ut in Alice Springs it was just a waste Os and 1970s, of time. My colleagues didn't want to hear about my ideas, yet | saw doctors icreased death and health workers Satiog, Apertghe |