Posted 8/13/2014
By Barbara Loe Fisher
By Barbara Loe Fisher
As summer
comes to an end, the drumbeat promoting back-to-school vaccinations grows
louder and louder in America. Unlike children in Canada and the European Union,1 2 our
children must get dozens of doses of vaccines or they can’t get a public school
education.3
No Shots, No School, No Exceptions
Over the
past century, denial of a public school education has been used like a club by
public health and medical trade officials demanding that state legislators
enact “No Shots, No School, No Exceptions” vaccine laws.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 In 1914,
children had to get one dose of smallpox vaccine to go to school.13 In 2014,
children entering kindergarten must get a minimum of 29 doses of 9 vaccines.14 Babies
enrolled in daycare get even more vaccines.15
Medical Exemptions Rarely Granted
Parents in
48 states can file a religious or personal belief vaccine exemption but some
states make those exemptions very hard to get.16 A medical
exemption is allowed in all states but doctors rarely grant them to children
anymore because almost all medical reasons for delaying or withholding a
vaccine have been eliminated.17 18 19
Government
and medical trade officials have narrowed medical contraindications to
vaccination after Congress shielded doctors and vaccine manufacturers from
vaccine injury lawsuits.20 Today,
even children with severely compromised immune systems are given most vaccines.21
Doctors Practicing Authoritarian
Medicine
Now that
everybody is a candidate for vaccination all the time, liability free doctors
have been given a green light to practice authoritarian medicine.22 23 24
Distraught parents are contacting NVIC and telling us that pediatricians are
dismissing their child’s vaccine reactions as unimportant and refusing to make
a report to the federal vaccine adverse events reporting system. Mothers
describe how pediatricians are screaming at them if they decline a vaccination
or simply ask for fewer shots to be given to their child on the same day.25
Recently, a
member of the American Academy of Pediatrics26
proclaimed publicly that he is justified in getting angry at and discriminating
against parents disobeying his orders to give their children every federally
recommended vaccine on schedule27 which, by
the way, means 49 doses of 14 vaccines between day of birth and age 6 with 20
more doses of vaccines by age 18.28
Calling
those parents “a public health menace” and comparing them to “substance
abusers,” he refuses to treat their children. He said – QUOTE - “That person is
a danger, not only to themselves but is a danger to society, a danger to other
children in my practice, a danger to old people, a danger to everyone.”29
Pediatricians Exempt from Vaccine
Injury Lawsuits
It is sad
and frightening when doctors demonize and threaten parents making thoughtful
medical risk decisions for their children. The American Academy of Pediatrics
knows that vaccines carry serious risks for some children because AAP leaders
successfully lobbied Congress to be exempt from vaccine injury lawsuits.30 31
Some People More Susceptible to
Vaccine Reactions
But even if
$3 billion dollars in federal vaccine injury compensation had not already been awarded to vaccine
victims in America,32 and even
if the Institute of Medicine had not
published a series of reports confirming that vaccines can cause injury and
death,33 34 35 36 37 everybody
knows that people do not all respond the same way to pharmaceutical products38 like
vaccines.
Each one of
us is born with unique genes and a unique microbiome39
influenced by epigenetics,40 which
affects how we respond to the different environments we live in. Some of us are
more susceptible to vaccine complications.41 42 Public
health officials have known this for a long, long time.43 44
Learn How to Identify Vaccine
Reactions
With so
many pediatricians denying vaccine risks and failures, it is even more
important for parents to do their own research. If your child is getting
back-to-school shots, you should know how to identify symptoms of a vaccine
reaction. Once your child has had a vaccine reaction, revaccination may cause a
more serious reaction.45 Plus, you
only have two years to file a claim in the federal vaccine injury compensation
program after a vaccine-related death or three years after a vaccine injury.46 47
A few of the more serious vaccine reaction symptoms are:
- Convulsion or seizure symptoms include eyes fluttering and rolling back in the head; twitching, trembling, jerking, shaking or sudden rigidity of one or more parts of the body.53 54 55 56
- High Fever between 103 and 105 degrees F. or more.48 49
- High Pitched Screaming, also known as the encephalitic cry, is described as a shrill scream, shriek or wail that goes on for hours. Mothers often say they have never heard this type of crying before. Sometimes babies arch their backs while screaming, which can be a sign of brain inflammation.50
- Collapse/Shock. The child may be pale, have bluish lips and suddenly go limp and appear to be unconscious.51 52
- Excessive Sleepiness is when the child sleeps deeply without moving for hours after vaccination and does not respond to noise, touch or light and cannot be easily awakened to eat.57 58 59
- Brain Inflammation, also called encephalitis or acute encephalopathy,has been recognized as a very serious complication of vaccination since the first vaccine for smallpox. Symptoms can include convulsions, high-pitched screaming, collapse, and hours of unconsciousness.60 61 62 63 64 65 66
- Encephalopathy or chronic brain dysfunction can include physical and mental regression, dramatic personality and behavior changes, loss of muscle control, speech and other abilities, or the child may be unable to continue to meet developmental milestones.67 68 69 70 71
Vaccine Reactions May Take A Week or
Longer to Appear
This is not
a full list of vaccine reaction symptoms and there are other types of reactions
affecting immune and brain function involving the skin,72 73 74 joints,75 76 blood77 78 and other
parts of the body that can be warning signs a child may be sensitive to one or
more vaccines. Some reactions develop within hours of vaccination while others,
like convulsions following MMR vaccination, can take a week or more to appear.79
Review Vaccine Manufacturer
Information & Vaccine Ingredients
Before
vaccination, read the vaccine manufacturer’s product inserts so you are aware
of the types of serious health problems reported in pre-licensure clinical
trials and during post-marketing surveillance.80 Take a
look at vaccine ingredients as well, because some children are allergic to
antibiotics, gelatin, MSG, Thimerosal, yeast, egg protein and other vaccine
ingredients.81 82
Vaccine Immunity Not Permanent:
Pertussis Vaccine Failures
Parents
also need to know that vaccine acquired immunity is not permanent and fully
vaccinated children can still get and transmit infectious diseases.83 Vaccine
failures and waning immunity is a real problem for vaccines like B. pertussis,84 85 also
known as whooping cough. The FDA reported last year that vaccinated persons
still can be infected with and transmit pertussis, sometimes without even
showing any symptoms.86 The
majority of children in many pertussis outbreaks have been vaccinated.87 88
Learn Symptoms of Pertussis
(Whooping Cough)
Signs of B.
pertussis whooping cough range from a low fever, loss of appetite and a mild
cough to violent paroxysmal coughing with choking and vomiting of large amounts
of sticky mucus for many weeks.89 Small
infants can suffer brain damage or die from pertussis if they cannot clear
mucus clogging their airways.90
Understanding
vaccine risks and failures is a vital part of conscious parenting today.
Ask 8 Questions Before Vaccination
At
NVIC.org:
- You can find well-referenced information about vaccines and diseases, including vaccine manufacturer product inserts, and a brochure that lists 8 questions you should ask yourself before your child is vaccinated;
- You can review vaccine reaction reports made to the federal vaccine adverse events reporting system.
- You can read testimonials on the Cry for Vaccine Freedom Wall by Americans describing how they are being persecuted when they try to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination for themselves and their children.
- You can signup for the free online NVIC Advocacy Portal and work to secure informed consent protections in your state’s vaccine laws.
It is
really important to find an intelligent, enlightened doctor you can trust, who
treats you with respect and your child with compassion. Plan to spend at least
as much time empowering yourself with information and carefully thinking about
vaccines and diseases as you do when you buy a new car or a new home.
It’s your
health. Your family. Your choice.
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