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Fantasy: "vaccines remarkably safe and effective"
By Jon Rappoport
The article below was a small section of my book, AIDS INC.,
which I wrote in 1987-8. At the time, I decided to take a look at
vaccines and see what I could find out about them.
My ensuing research led me into all sorts of surprising areas.
Since the period of 1987-8, much more has come to light about
vaccine safety and efficacy. Here is what I discovered way back when---
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"The combined death rate from scarlet fever, diphtheria,
whooping cough and measles among children up to fifteen shows that
nearly 90 percent of the total decline in mortality between 1860 and
1965 had occurred before the introduction of antibiotics and widespread
immunization. In part, this recession may be attributed to improved
housing and to a decrease in the virulence of micro-organisms, but by
far the most important factor was a higher host-resistance due to better
nutrition." Ivan Illich, Medical Nemesis, Bantam Books, 1977
"In a recent British outbreak of whooping cough, for example,
even fully immunized children contracted the disease in fairly large
numbers; and the rates of serious complications and death were reduced
only slightly. In another recent outbreak of pertussis, 46 of the 85
fully immunized children studied eventually contracted the disease.
"In 1977, 34 new cases of measles were reported on the campus
of UCLA, in a population that was supposedly 91% immune, according to
careful serological testing. Another 20 cases of measles were reported
in the Pecos, New Mexico, area within a period of a few months in 1981,
and 75% of them had been fully immunized, some of them quite recently. A
survey of sixth-graders in a well-immunized urban community revealed
that about 15% of this age group are still susceptible to rubella, a
figure essentially identical with that of the pre-vaccine era." Richard
Moskowitz, MD, The Case Against Immunizations, 1983, American Institute
of Homeopathy.
"Of all reported whooping cough cases between 1979 and 1984
in children over 7 months of age - that is, old enough to have received
the primary course of the DPT shots (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus) -
41% occurred in children who had received three or more shots and 22% in
children who had one or two immunizations.
"Among children under 7 months of age who had whooping cough, 34% had been immunized between one and three times...
"... Based on the only U.S. findings on adverse DPT
reactions, an FDA-financed study at the University of California, Los
Angeles, one out of every 350 children will have a convulsion; one in
180 children will experience high-pitched screaming; and one in 66 will
have a fever of 105 degrees or more." Jennifer Hyman, Democrat and
Chronicle, Rochester, New York, special supplement on DPT, dated April,
1987.
"A study undertaken in 1979 at the University of California,
Los Angeles, under the sponsorship of the Food and Drug Administration,
and which has been confirmed by other studies, indicates that in the
U.S.A. approximately 1,000 infants die annually as a direct result of
DPT vaccinations, and these are classified as SIDS (Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome) deaths. These represent about 10 to 15% of the total number of
SIDS deaths occurring annually in the U.S.A. (between 8,000 and 10,000
depending on which statistics are used)." Leon Chaitow, Vaccination and
Immunization, CW Daniel Company Limited, Saffron Walden, Essex, England,
1987.
"Assistant Secretary of Health Edward Brandt, Jr., MD,
testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human
Resources, rounded... figures off to 9,000 cases of convulsions, 9,000
cases of collapse, and 17,000 cases of high-pitched screaming for a
total of 35,000 acute neurological reactions occurring within
forty-eight hours of a DPT shot among America's children every year."
DPT: A Shot in the Dark, by Harris L. Coulter and Barbara Loe Fischer,
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
"While 70-80% of British children were immunized against
pertussis in 1970-71, the rate is now 39%. The committee predicts that
the next pertussis epidemic will probably turn out to be more severe
than the one in 1974/75. However, they do not explain why, in 1970/71,
there were more than 33,000 cases of pertussis with 41 fatal cases among
the very well immunized British child population; whereas in 1974/75,
with a declining rate of vaccination, a pertussis epidemic caused only
25,000 cases with 25 fatalities." Wolfgang Ehrengut, Lancet, Feb. 18,
1978, p. 370.
"... Barker and Pichichero, in a prospective study of 1232
children in Denver, Colorado, found after DTP that only 7% of those
vaccinated were free from untoward reactions, which included pyrexia
(53%), acute behavioral changes (82%), prolonged screaming (13%), and
listlessness, anorexia and vomiting. 71% of those receiving second
injections of DTP experienced two or more of the reactions monitored."
Lancet, May 28, 1983, p. 1217
"Publications by the World Health Organization show that
diphtheria is steadily declining in most European countries, including
those in which there has been no immunization. The decline began long
before vaccination was developed. There is certainly no guarantee that
vaccination will protect a child against the disease; in fact, over
30,000 cases of diphtheria have been recorded in the United Kingdom in
fully immunized children." Leon Chaitow, Vaccination and Immunization,
p. 58.
"Pertussis (whooping cough) immunization is controversial, as
the side effects have received a great deal of publicity. The counter
claim is that the effectiveness and protection offered by the procedure
far outweigh the possible ill effects... annual deaths, per million
children, from this disease over the period from 1900 to the
mid-nineteen seventies, shows that from a high point of just under 900
deaths per million children (under age 15) in 1905, the decline has been
consistent and dramatic. There had been a lowering of mortality rates
of approximately 80% by the time immunization was introduced on a mass
scale, in the mid-nineteen fifties. The decline has continued, albeit at
a slower rate, ever since. No credit can be given to vaccination for
the major part of the decline since it was not in use." Chaitow,
Vaccination and Immunization, p. 63.
"... the swine-flu vaccination program was one of its (CDC)
greatest blunders. It all began in 1976 when CDC scientists saw that a
virus involved in a flu attack outbreak at Fort Dix, N.J., was similar
to the swine-flu virus that killed 500,000 Americans in 1918. Health
officials immediately launched a 100-million dollar program to immunize
every American. But the expected epidemic never materialized, and the
vaccine led to partial paralysis in 532 people. There were 32 deaths."
U.S. News and World Report, Joseph Carey, October 14, 1985, p. 70, "How
Medical Sleuths Track Killer Diseases."
"Despite (cases) in which (smallpox) vaccination plainly
failed to protect the population, and despite the rampant side-effects
of the methods, the proponents of vaccination continued their attempts
to justify the methods by claims that the disease had declined in Europe
as a whole during the period of its compulsory use. If the decline
could be correlated with the use of the vaccination, then all else could
be set aside, and the advantage between its current low incidence could
be shown to outweigh the periodic failures of the method, and to favour
the continued use of vaccination. However, the credit for the decline
in the incidence of smallpox could not be given to vaccination. The fact
is that its incidence declined in all parts of Europe, whether or not
vaccination was employed." Chaitow, Vaccination and Immunization, pp.
6-7.
"Smallpox, like typhus, has been dying out (in England) since
1780. Vaccination in this country has largely fallen into disuse since
people began to realize how its value was discredited by the great
smallpox epidemic of 1871-2 (which occurred after extensive
vaccination)." W. Scott Webb, A Century of Vaccination, Swan
Sonnenschein, 1898.
"In this incident (Kyoto, Japan, 1948) - the most serious of
its kind - a toxic (vaccine) batch of alum-precipitated toxoid (APT) was
responsible for illness in over 600 infants and for no fewer than 68
deaths.
"On 20 and 22 October, 1948, a large number of babies and
children in the city of Kyoto received their first injection of APT. On
the 4th and 5th of November, 15,561 babies and children aged some months
to 13 years received their second dose. One to two days later, 606 of
those who had been injected fell ill. Of these, 9 died of acute
diphtheritic paralysis in seven to fourteen days, and 59 of late
paralysis mainly in four to seven weeks." Sir Graham Wilson, Hazards of
Immunization, Athone Press, University of London, 1967.
"Accidents may, however, follow the use of this so-called
killed (rabies) vaccine owing to inadequate processing. A very serious
occurrence of this sort occurred at Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, in 1960.
No fewer than 18 out of 66 persons vaccinated with Fermi's carbolized
(rabies) vaccine suffered from encephalomyelitis and every one of the
eighteen died." Sir Graham Wilson, Hazards of Immunization.
"At a press conference in Washington on 24 July, 1942, the
Secretary of War reported that 28,585 cases of jaundice had been
observed in the (American) Army between 1 January and 4 July after
yellow fever vaccination, and of these 62 proved fatal." Sir Graham
Wilson, Hazards of Immunization.
"The world's biggest trial (conducted in south India) to
assess the value of BCG tuberculosis vaccine has made the startling
revelation that the vaccine 'does not give any protection against
bacillary forms of tuberculosis.' The study said to be 'most exhaustive
and meticulous,' was launched in 1968 by the Indian Council of Medical
Research (ICMR) with assistance from the World Health Organization (WHO)
and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia.
"The incidence of new cases among the BCG vaccinated group
was slightly (but statistically insignificantly) higher than in the
control group, a finding that led to the conclusion that BCG's
protective effect 'was zero.'" New Scientist, November 15, 1979, as
quoted by Hans Ruesch in Naked Empress, Civis Publishers, Switzerland,
1982.
"Between 10 December 1929 and 30 April 1930, 251 of 412
infants born in Lubeck received three doses of BCG vaccine by the mouth
during the first ten days of life. Of these 251, 72 died of
tuberculosis, most of them in two to five months and all but one before
the end of the first year. In addition, 135 suffered from clinical
tuberculosis but eventually recovered; and 44 became tuberculin-positive
but remained well. None of the 161 unvaccinated infants born at the
time was affected in this way and none of these died of tuberculosis
within the following three years." Hazards of Immunization, Wilson.
"We conducted a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled
trial to test the efficacy of the 14-valent pneumococcal capsular
polysaccharide vaccine in 2295 high-risk patients... Seventy-one
episodes of proved or probable pneumococcal pneumonia or bronchitis
occurred among 63 of the patients (27 placebo recipients and 36 vaccine
recipients)... We were unable to demonstrate any efficacy of the
pneumococcal vaccine in preventing pneumonia or bronchitis in this
population." New England Journal of Medicine, November 20, 1986, p.
1318, Michael Simberkoff et al.
"But already before Salk developed his vaccine, polio had
been constantly regressing; the 39 cases out of every 100,000
inhabitants registered in 1942 had gradually diminished from year to
year until they were reduced to only 15 cases in 1952... according to M.
Beddow Baylay, the English surgeon and medical historian." Slaughter of
the Innocent, Hans Reusch, Civitas Publishers, Switzerland, and Swain,
New York, 1983.
"Many published stories and reports have stated, implied and
otherwise led professional people and the public to believe that the
sharp reduction of cases (and of deaths) from poliomyelitis in 1955 as
compared to 1954 is attributable to the Salk vaccine... That it is a
misconception follows from these considerations. The number of children
inoculated has been too small to account for the decrease. The sharp
decrease was apparent before the inoculations began or could take effect
and was of the same order as the decrease following the immediate
post-inoculation period." Dr. Herbert Ratner, Child and Family, vol. 20,
no. 1, 1987.
"So far it is hardly possible to gain insight into the extent
of the immunization catastrophe of 1955 in the United States. It may be
considered certain that the officially ascertained 200 cases (of polio)
which were caused directly or indirectly by the (polio) vaccination
constitute minimum figures... It can hardly be estimated how many of the
1359 (polio) cases among vaccinated persons must be regarded as
failures of the vaccine and how many of them were infected by the
vaccine. A careful study of the epidemiologic course of polio in the
United States yields indications of grave significance. In numerous
states of the U.S.A., typical early epidemics developed with the
immunizations in the spring of 1955... The vaccination incidents of the
year 1955 cannot be exclusively traced back to the failure of one
manufacturing firm." Dr. Herbert Ratner, Child and Family, 1980, vol.
19, no. 4, "Story of the Salk Vaccine (Part 2)."
"Suffice it to say that most of the large (polio) epidemics
that have occurred in this country since the introduction of the Salk
vaccine have followed the wide-scale use of the vaccine and have been
characterized by an uncommon early seasonal onset. To name a few, there
is the Massachusetts epidemic of 1955; the Chicago epidemic of 1956; and
the Des Moines epidemic of 1959." Dr. Herbert Ratner, Child and Family,
1980 vol. 19, no. 4.
"The live (Sabin) poliovirus vaccine has been the predominant
cause of domestically arising cases of paralytic poliomyelitis in the
United States since 1972. To avoid the occurrence of such cases, it
would be necessary to discontinue the routine use of live poliovirus
vaccine." Jonas Salk, Science, March 4, 1977, p. 845.
"By the (U.S.) government's own admission, there has been a
41% failure rate in persons who were previously vaccinated against the
(measles) virus." Dr. Anthony Morris, John Chriss, BG Young, "Occurrence
of Measles in Previously Vaccinated Individuals," 1979; presented at a
meeting of the American Society for Microbiology at Fort Detrick,
Maryland, April 27, 1979.
"Prior to the time doctors began giving rubella (German
measles) vaccinations, an estimated 85% of adults were naturally immune
to the disease (for life). Because of immunization, the vast majority of
women never acquire natural immunity (or lifetime protection)." Dr.
Robert Mendelsohn, Let's Live, December 1983, as quoted by Carolyn
Reuben in the LA WEEKLY, June 28, 1985.
"Adminstration of KMV (killed measles vaccine) apparently set
in motion an aberrant immunologic response that not only failed to
protect children against natural measles, but resulted in heightened
susceptibility." JAMA Aug. 22, 1980, vol. 244, p. 804, Vincent Fulginiti
and Ray Helfer. The authors indicate that such falsely protected
children can come down with "an often severe, atypical form of measles.
Atypical measles is characterized by fever, headache... and a diverse
rash (which)... may consist of a mixture of macules, papules, vesicles,
and pustules... "
The above quotes reflect only a mere fraction of an available
literature which shows there is a need for an extensive review of
vaccination. It is certain that undisclosed, unlooked for illness occurs
as a result of vaccines, or as a result of infection after protective
immunity should have been conferred but wasn't. A certain amount of this
sort of illness is immunosuppressive in the widest sense, and some in a
narrower sense (depression of T-cell numbers, etc.). When looking for
unusual illness and immune depression, vaccines are one of those areas
which remain partially hidden from investigation. That is a mistake. It
is not adequate to say, "Vaccines are simple; they stimulate the immune
system and confer immunity against specific germ agents." That is the
glossy presentation. What vaccines often do is something else. They
engage some aspect of the body's immune-response, but to what effect
over the long term? Why, for example, do children who have measles
vaccine develop a susceptibility to another more severe, atypical
measles? Is that virulent form of the disease the result of reactivation
of the virus in the vaccine?
Official reports on vaccine reactions are often at odds with
unofficial estimates because of the method of analysis used. If
vaccine-reaction is defined as a small set of possible effects
experienced within 72 hours of an inoculation, then figures will be
smaller. But doctors like G.T. Stewart, of the University of Glasgow,
have found through meticulous investigation, including visits to
hospitals and interviews with parents of vaccinated children, that
reactions as severe as brain-damage (e.g., from the DPT vaccine) can be
overlooked, go unreported and can be assumed mistakenly to have come
from other causes.
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