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VACCINATION TRUTH #4: "Many of the assumptions upon which immunisation theory and practice are based have been proven false in their application." Carefully selected epidemiological studies are yet another justi: . VACCINATION TRUTH #4: "Many of the assumptions fication for vaccination programs. However, many of these may upon which immunisation theory and practice are based not be legitimate sources from which to draw conclusions about have been proven false in their application." vaccine effectiveness. For example, if 100 people are vaccinated and five contract the disease, the vaccine is declared to be 95% VACCINATION MYTH #5: "Childhood diseases are effective. But if only 10 of the 100 are actually exposed to the — extremely dangerous." disease, then the vaccine is really only 50% effective. Since no __ ...or are they, really? one is willing to directly expose an entire population—even a Most childhood infectious diseases have few serious conse- fully vaccinated one—to disease, vaccine effectiveness rates may quences in today's modern world. Even conservative CDC statis- not indicate a vaccine's true effectiveness. tics for pertussis during 1992-94 indicate a 99.8% recovery rate. Yet another surprising concern about immunisation practice is In fact, when hundreds of pertussis cases occurred in Ohio and its assumption that all children, regardless of age, are virtually the Chicago in the fall 1993 outbreak, an infectious disease expert same. An eight-pound, two-month-old receives the same dosage from Cincinnati Children's Hospital said, "The disease was very as a 40-pound, five-year-old. Infants with immature, undeveloped mild; no one died, and no one went to the intensive care unit." immune systems may receive five or more times the dosage (rela- The vast majority of the time, childhood infectious diseases are tive to body weight) as older children. benign and self-limiting. They also may impart lifelong immuni- Furthermore, the number of "units" within doses has been found ty, whereas vaccine-induced immunity is only temporary. upon random testing to range from a half to three times what the About half of measles cases in the resurgence of the late 1980s label indicates. Manufacturing quality controls appear to tolerate were in adolescents and adults, most of whom were vaccinated as a rather large margin of error. "Hot lots"—vaccine lots with dis- children.* Moreover, recommended booster shots may provide proportionately high death and disability rates—have been identi- protection for less than six months.” fied repeatedly by the NVIC, but the FDA refuses to intervene to In fact, the temporary nature of vaccine immunity can create a prevent further unnecessary injury and more dangerous situation in a child's deaths. In fact, it has never recalled a future. For example, the new chicken- vaccine lot due to adverse reactions. A Minnesota state epidemiologist pox vaccine has an effectiveness esti- Some would call this infanticide. 7 A mated at six to 10 years. If effective, Finally, vaccination practice concluded that the Hib vaccine it will postpone the child's vulnerabili- apumes ara cen. ees increases the risk of illness, when J "stood. when et om tion or any other circumstances, will | @ study revealed that vaccinated Furthermore, some healthcare pro- spond in the sz ay. This was F H F fessionals are concerned that the virus sponds are ene | children were five times more J e-irt s gewme! at he proved ‘han an insane a ew years likely to contract meningitis than reactivate seein n ne fom of ago in Australia's Northern Territory, . . erpes zoster (shingles) or other where stepped-up immunisation cam. were the unvaccinated children. immune system disorders". 7 Dr A. paigns resulted in an incredible 50% Lavin of the Department of Pediatrics, infant mortality rate in the native St Luke's Medical Center in Aborigines.* Researcher Archie Kalokerinos, M.D., discovered Cleveland, Ohio, strongly opposed the licensing of the new vac- that the Aborigines’ vitamin C-deficient ‘junk food' diet (imposed cine "...until we actually know...the risks involved in injecting on them by white society) was a critical factor. (Studies had mutated DNA [herpes virus] into the host genome [children]."* already shown that vaccination depletes vitamin C reserves; and The truth is, no one knows, but the vaccine is now licensed and that children in shock or collapse often recovered in a matter of | recommended by health authorities. minutes when given vitamin C injections.) Kalokerinos consid- Not only are most infectious diseases rarely dangerous, but they ered it amazing that as many survived as did. One must wonder can actually play a vital role in the development of a strong, about the lives of the survivors, though, for if half died, surely the healthy immune system. Persons who have not had measles have other half did not escape unaffected. a higher incidence of certain skin diseases, degenerative diseases Almost as troubling was a very recent study inthe New _ of bone and cartilage, and certain tumours; while absence of England Journal of Medicine which revealed that a substantial mumps has been linked to higher risks of ovarian cancer. § P' g number of Romanian children were contracting polio from the yacemarion TRUTH inh mgangers of lene as - vaccine—a less common phenomenon in most developed coun- eases are greatly exaggerated in order to scare parents into tries. Correlations with injections of antibiotics were found: a compliance with a questionable but profitable procedure." \) Ip q p p single injection within one month of vaccination raised the risk of polio eight times; two to nine injections raised the risk 27-fold; | VACCINATION MYTH #6: "Polio was clearly one of the and 10 or more injections raised the risk 182 times (Washington great vaccination success stories." Post, 22 February 1995). .or was it? What other factors not accounted for in vaccination theory will Six New England states reported increases in polio one year surface unexpectedly to reveal unforeseen or previously over- after the Salk vaccine was introduced—increases ranging from a looked consequences? We will not begin to comprehend fully the = more than doubling in Vermont to an astounding 642% in scope of this danger until researchers begin looking and reporting Massachusetts. In 1959, 77.5% of Massachusetts' paralytic cases in earnest. had received three doses of IPV (injected polio vaccine). In the meantime, entire countries’ populations are unwitting During 1962 US congressional hearings, Dr Bernard gamblers in a game that many might very well choose not to play © Greenberg, head of the Department of Biostatistics for the if they were given all the ‘rules’ in advance. University of North Carolina School of Public Health, testified VACCINATION MYTH #6: "Polio was clearly one of the great vaccination success stories." -OF was it? Six New England states reported increases in polio one year after the Salk vaccine was introduced—increases ranging from a more than doubling in Vermont to an astounding 642% in Massachusetts. In 1959, 77.5% of Massachusetts' paralytic cases had received three doses of IPV (injected polio vaccine). During 1962 US congressional hearings, Dr Bernard Greenberg, head of the Department of Biostatistics for the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, testified 24 * NEXUS OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1997