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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS VACCINATION TRACKING SYSTEM COMING OUR WAY (LIKE IT OR NOT!) “ T= Australian Government, as part of the 1995-96 Budget, has allocated funds to unresolved human health issues related to bovine growth hormone than your Agency was when it authorised the product.” This is not true. There has been a huge trial a National Childhood Immunisation Register. The Register will provide outcry in the US regarding the introduction information on the vaccination status of virtually every baby born in this country. of rBGH/rBST, but the FDA has ignored it. | (The only exceptions are those who are not in Medicare.) It will also form the basis of a (Source: Citizens For Health Report, Vol.3:1, |recall/reminder scheme that will inform parents when their child's next vaccination is 1995) \expected. Other details include name of vaccinator, Medicare number, manufacturer and batch number of vaccines administered, and dates of vaccinations. There is no pro- CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST vision for monitoring and recording vaccine adverse reactions. THE FDA The scheme is primarily designed to counter the declining vaccination coverage rates The Life Extension Foundation has |in Australia—a trend that is mainly due to the growing concern by parents recognising engaged an Illinois attorney to file a class- |the dangers and ineffectiveness of vaccinations. action suit against the FDA, Chicago branch, | The carrying out of the Register will be co-ordinated by the National Childhood on behalf of a growing number of people |{mmunisation Committee (NCIC) and will be administered by the Health Insurance who have had “unapproved” drugs (vita- |Commission. The NCIC had invited the public to make submissions about the imple- mins, herbs, mineral supplements), ordered |mentation of the Register. Unfortunately, however, they didn't ask the public whether for personal use, illegally detained by the they actually wanted the scheme! FDA. The implementation of the Register would greatly widen the powers of health bureau- The suit is justified on the basis that the |&rats and the medical establishment in achieving their agenda of universal vaccination FDA's official public policy permits individ- |¢overage of our children. The proposed Register would empower bureaucrats and others uals to import small amounts of unapproved who have a strong interest in vaccinations to have at their call a computerised, state- drugs and substances for personal use with- | inked, vaccination tracking system. : ao out fear of reprisal. Although Section 51, Part 23A of the Australian Federal Constitution is supposed to The action against the FDA's Chicago |Protect us from any form of compulsory medication, and this includes vaccinations, our branch is part of a larger public outcry |Tghts can still be seized by the state. In recent times in this country, governments have against FDA excesses in general, especially |ShOWN an increasing propensity to override, circumvent or simply ignore the with respect to alternative medicine where it paiexetje. 3 This is achieved ey the ae Court's willingness to allow international treaties and agreements to override our Constitution. tude. ——— Australia is already signatory to a number of UN agreements that could be misused by In January this year, the Washington the High Court to override Section 51, Part 23A of the Constitution. Among these is the Legal Foundation took out a full-page ad in “Convention on the Rights of the Child", which imposes on signatories an obligation to The New York Times with a banner headline, | °™S¥t the highest possible standards" of health care for children. The High Court "The problem with health care in America i 3 could easily interpret this as an obligation to ensure mandatory vaccinations. the FDA" Mandatory vaccination laws already exist in many states in the USA. The following (Source: Alternative Medicine Digest, vol. 7, el eee atthe pa inert ks : : 7 . 7, July 1995) * A Middletown, Ohio woman, with two children killed by the DPT vaccine, received me he ANY two letters from the Ohio Department of Health that her only surviving child had to be DON'T LISTEN TO PROZAC vaccinated. (Dalton Daily News, 11 Sept. 1988) In case you've been tempted to try out the ¢ A Kansas mother, in response to questioning a public health nurse about what would F : happen if she did not vaccinate her child, was told that the state would have her immu- highly popular antidepressant drug Prozac, |nised and would place her in a foster home. The child was permanently handicapped by think again, Be advised that just because the |ihe injection. (Graham vs. Wyeth, No. 85-1481-K, US District of Kansas, 1987) FDA approved it, this doesn’t mean it's safe. |. 4 Bellefontaine woman, whose baby died 17 hours after receiving a DPT shot, was In fact, the mounting evidence suggests it is |:hreatened with losing her WIC benefits (food assistance for low-income families with far from safe. The FDA has received more | children) for refusing to vaccinate her subsequent child. (Dayton Daily News, 28 May adverse reaction reports for Prozac than for | 1993) any other product in the last 24 years. Unvaccinated children could be at a threat of being injected at their school, pre-school The FDA doesn't want anyone to know |or other institution without parental consent or knowledge. This has already been that as far back as September 1993 it had |known to happen at some pre-schools in New South Wales. The NSW Department of received 28,623 reports of adverse reactions |Health Immunisation Program Coordinator, Sue Jobson, revealed to a group of school to the drug. This is 10 times the number |teachers during her talk on Immunisation Regulation at the Montessori Teachers’ reported for Halcion, another psychiatric |Workshop, Meadowbank TAFE (12 Nov. 1993) that some pre-schools had had nurses in drug that was eventually banned in the UK, |to immunise children without consent. (Letter from attending teacher, C. Shields, 13 but not in the USA. Noy. 1993) The adverse reactions to Prozac include | The proposed Register could possibly give parents a false understanding that provid- convulsions, hallucinations, aggression, |ing information about their child's vaccination status may be obligatory, and some par- delirium, violent hostility and psychosis. |ents may actually believe that vaccinations have become mandatory. Add to this the reports of 1,885 attempted As parents in a ‘free’ society, we should have the ultimate responsibility for protecting suicides and 1,734 deaths (1,089 by sui- | the rights and well-being of our children. cides), and Prozac's real story emerges. (Sources: Campaign Against Fraudulent Medical Research, PO Box 234, Lawson, NSW (Source: Perceptions, Fall 1994) 2783; Immunisation Investigation Group, PO Box 900, Katoomba, NSW 2780, Australia) NEXUS ¢ 9 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1995