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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, because questions were being raised
about the possible disease/toxic effects of a relatively new hepatitis-B
vaccine, and its possible connection to AIDS.
My
ensuing research led me into all sorts of surprising areas. These days,
many people are seeing that the official position on vaccines is not
the true story. So I thought I would reprint that section from AIDS INC.
here.
Since
the period of 1987-8, MUCH more has come to light about vaccine safety
and efficacy. I’ve made no attempt to update my findings in a systematic
way. They stand on their own, and reveal that, in the historical
record, much has been lost, forgotten, and misplaced.
~~~
For
years, critics on the fringes of medicine have pointed to problems with
vaccines. It is generally acknowledged that, given to people whose
immune systems are compromised, they can be immunosuppressive.
And
from time to time, stories have surfaced about vaccines which have been
dangerously contaminated, as a result of the manufacturing process.
We
are taught to believe that untoward reactions to vaccines are rare, and
that there has never been a question about the overwhelming success of
all vaccines at all times, wherever they have been used.
The
recent history of vaccines, though, shows a much more spotty record
than one might think. In fact, it raises very disturbing questions about
what vaccines do and don't do to the human body. Here is simply a
series of excerpts from several authors on the subject. It is a quite
different slant on vaccines.
"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
"The
principal evidence that... vaccines are effective actually dates from
the more recent period, during which time the dreaded polio epidemics of
the 1940s and 1950s have never reappeared in the developed countries;
and measles, mumps and rubella, which even a generation ago were among
the commonest diseases of childhood, have become far less prevalent, at
least in their classic acute forms, since the triple MMR vaccine was
introduced into common use.
“Yet
how the vaccines actually accomplish these changes is not nearly as
well understood as most people like to think it is. The disturbing
possibility that they act in some other way than by producing a genuine
immunity is suggested by the fact that the diseases in question have
continued to break out even in highly immunized populations, and that in
such cases the observed differences in incidence and severity between
immunized and unimmunized persons have tended to be far less dramatic
than expected, and in some cases, not measurably significant at all.
“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.
"Finally,
although the overall incidence of typical acute measles in the U.S. has
dropped sharply from about 400,000 cases annually in the early 1960s to
about 30,000 cases by 1974-76, the death rate remained exactly the
same; and, with the peak incidence now occurring in adolescents and
young adults, the risk of pneumonia and demonstrable liver abnormalities
has actually increased substantially, according to one recent study, to
well over 3% and 2%, respectively." 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." 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.
In
the spring of 1955, Cutter Labs started selling their standard polio
vaccine. The vaccine was infective, and 200 cases of polio resulted
among vaccinees. Of these, there were eleven deaths. About 100 cases of
paralysis resulted. JR
"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 Publish ers, 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 (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. 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
apparently 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?
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.
---end of 1987-8 chapter---
These
days, my comments on the destructive effects of vaccines and their
completely needless use are much more aggressive, owing to further
research, and discoveries about so-called “viruses,” the great fairy
tales that rank with the green cheese of the moon.
~~~
(The link to this article posted on my blog is here.)
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