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DO VACCINE DISCRIMINATE AGAINST WOMEN
Subject: DO VACCINE DISCRIMINATE AGAINST WOMEN
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 23:56:45 -0700
From: karin schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: Andy Schlafly <aschlafly@yahoo.com>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
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Andy Schlafly wrote:
In a recent article in Vaccine Weekly, Dr. Chen of the CDC casually
admitted that there is "a striking female predominance” of highly severe
adverse effects from vaccines. "The female predominance among disabled
vaccinees irrespective of vaccine, also observed in many autoimmune
disorders, bears further exploration," Chen et al. observed. See
Hepatitis B Vaccine Adverse Events: Reporting Artifact?, Vaccine Weekly,
April 12, 1999, Author DeNoon, Daniel J.
I looked a bit further and found an article about hair loss after
vaccines. The article was published in the AMA-controlled JAMA, and
therefore downplays the significance of this minor adverse effect. But
the data itself revealed that "the majority of our cases
(34 of 39 adults) were women whose hair loss followed immunizations."
Hair loss after routine immunizations, JAMA, The Journal of the American
Medical Association, Oct 8, 1997 v278 nl4 pll76(3), Authors Wise, Robert
P.; Kiminyo, Kitonga P.; Salive, Marcel E. In addition to adults, the
article also cites specific examples of infants suffering hair loss, and
each example was a female.
If females are more likely to be injured by vaccines than males, then
this is enormously helpful to both political and legal efforts to stop
the mandatory vaccine laws. Any information on this issue would be
useful to all of us. Has the CDC been hiding this
discriminatory effect?
Michael Belkin Wrote:
With regard to female vaccine question:
Hepatitis B vaccine adverse events
VAERS data 1990-October 1999
23,000 reports with data on sex.
14,969 female (65%)
8031 male
(35%)
Andy Schlafly wrote:
Michael's data shows that females are nearly twice as likely to be hurt
by the Hepatitis B vaccine as males. I think this is a bombshell
revelation. Legally, laws that have a discriminatory impact on females
are subjected to closer scrutiny by the courts. Courts often presume
that a law must be invalid if it has a discriminatory impact on females.
Politically, legislators are terrified to support anything that has a
discriminatory impact on women, particularly women's health. How could
a legislator justify imposing a law that hurts females twice as much as
males?
Scientifically, the discriminatory impact is alarming. It suggests that
the vaccines have a harmful effect that scientists do not yet
understand. Yet I cannot find a single research article discussing the
discriminatory impact of vaccines on females. The
CDC and drug manufacturers must know about this discriminatory impact,
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DO VACCINE DISCRIMINATE AGAINST WOMEN
and must be covering it up for the above reasons. If possible, it might
be worth trying to get a vaccine perpetrator to answer questions about
this issue under oath at a hearing. The quote from Chen and Michael's
VAERS data could be used as backup when the vaccine
perpetrator attempts to dodge the question.
Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via@accessl.net (email)
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5/17/99 3:44 PM
Re: MD SPEAKS ABOUT HEP B VACCINE
Subject: Re: MD SPEAKS ABOUT HEP B VACCINE
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:12:00 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: Andrea Valeri <avaleri@arcanet.it>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
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Andrea Valeri, MD wrote:
I'm an italian medical doctor . I want to reply to Dr Jenni Levy, MD. I
apologize for my strange english.
1) the basic point is that hepatitis B vaccine is NOT well studied. The
basic studies for every drug (also for vaccines) are double blind
randomized controlled trials against placebo. To assess adverse
reaction, it's necessary that you have 2 groups: the first one take the
drug, the second a placebo . Dr. Jenny Levy says: " The vaccine had
been studied for five years prior to FDA approval" but there is no
bibliografic quotation in his words. I report a quotation: what says
smithkline beecham (one of the companies that produce the vaccine)
” ADVERSE REACTIONS ....
ten double blind studies involving 2.252 subjects showed no significant
(differences in the frequency or severity of adverse experiences between
Engerix-B and plasma-derived vaccines " (from physician's desk
reference 1998, pag. 2821).
As you can see, the control group DID NOT TAKE placebo; it took plasma
derived vaccines. So, the basic studies proved only that recombinant
vaccine does not produce more adverse effects than plasma-derived
vaccine, but we don't know if produce adverse effects more than
placebo!!! This way, we don't know the adverse effects of vaccine on
previously
healthy people: we know only a comparison between two different
vaccinations. In short, we don't know the complete adverse effects.
So, we have 2 possibilities
a- we accept that placebo controlled trials are no more useful: this
way, one of the foundation of modern farmacology is destroyed. This way,
we must also accept all unconventional therapies that, until now, have
few or no placebo controlled trials
b- we admit that is higly unethical to use in the general popolation
(not in selected risk-groups!!) drugs (in this case a vaccine) if we
(don't have complete adverse effects data, expecially if there is no
epidemic of higly dangerous disease (i don't think that anyone can
seriously define hepatis B as higly dangeorus disease : if so, which
is the definition for example of ebola virus epidemic?).
I think any MD must choose the b- answer. Shortly, for this reason, i
think we must sospend mass vaccination against Hepatis B
Andrea Valeri, MD
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5/17/99 12:40 PM
MEDICAL COMMUNITY BLASTS THE INTERNET
Subject: MEDICAL COMMUNITY BLASTS THE INTERNET
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:03:56 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: Carolyn <ppva@velocity.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
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WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS ARE ANY OF US IN THERE?????
Carolyn wrote:
The subject heading I've included on this message was the ACTUAL title
on the news item introduction! I think these doc's ought to do some
soul searching and they might see that the same is true of Public
Health!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND MORE SO! Notice at the bottom of the article
they advertise how much the Book cost's!!!!! ARE THEY MAD? I can't
believe this ran this way! They're the ones selling something here.
Now granted, there are those who would sell you the "silver bullet" to
health , there's good and bad in everything, but C'MON! What are THEY
doing?
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’Medical Experts Publish
Guide to Web's Medical Sites
10.34 a.m. ET (1434 GMT) May 11, 1999 By David Morgan
PHILADELPHIA - Two medical researchers, fed up with a hodgepodge of
useless and misleading health information on the Internet, have
published what they believe is the first consumer guide to medical sites
on the World Wide Web. The 400-page book, The Doctor's Always In,
features 1,100 medical sites which the authors judge to be the best the
Web has to offer on subjects ranging from AIDS and allergies to cancer
and sports medicine.
Co-author Jay Schneider, a neurology professor at Thomas Jefferson
University in Philadelphia, said the aim was to provide people with
medical knowledge they can use in discussions with their doctors.
"There have been other guidebooks, but they're mainly for medical
professionals. This is aimed specifically at the consumer," Schneider
said Monday. He and co-author Theodore Lidsky, a neuroscientist at the
Institute for Basic Research on Developmental Disorders in Staten
Island, N.Y., came up with the idea of a guidebook after trying to help
Schneider's neighbor find information on his daughter's brain tumor.
Bi conventional Internet search on the girl's condition quickly produced
an information wilderness consisting of tens of thousands of Web sites,
many of them useless and some downright misleading. "Some of the health
information on the World Wide Web is posted by
electronic-age snake-oil salesmen," Schneider said. "This is really a
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overwhelming for mu. You c-n spend hours wasting your time." Last, month,
a U.S. government panel of doctors, health insurers and public health
officials and others also warned of questionable medical information
posted on the Internet. The group recommended that Internet’ newcomers
begin
with the government's own Web site.
Schneider and Lidsky, neither of whom is a medical doctor, decided to
produce a book rather than an online consumer guide, believing that the
computer novices they hope to reach are likely to feel less intimidated
by the familiar printed page. They also have found that books are faster
than computers when it comes to locating Web site addresses. "As strange
as that sounds, I think it's true," Schneider said. The Doctor's Always
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In is published by the Cherry Hill, N.J.-based NeuroInformatics
Publishing and retails at $24.95.
Pennsylvania Parents for Vaccine Awareness
P.O. Box 173
Mill Village, Pa. 16427
Email: ppva@velocity.net
Web Page: http://www.erie.net/~noshotz
> The information contained in this message
> should not be construed with medical or legal
> advice. The vaccination decision is yours
> alone to make.
Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information S Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
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NEW THEORY ON THE IATROGENIC ORIGIN OF AIDS
Subject: NEW THEORY ON THE IATROGENIC ORIGIN OF AIDS
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 08:48:38 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl ,net>
Reply-To: maggi@olypen.com
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
Margaret Ann wrote:
A NEW THEORY ON THE IATROGENIC ORIGIN OF AIDS
by Leonard G Horowitz, DMD; Walter Kyle, JD; and Alan R Cantwell, Jr.,
MD
We propose a new theory regarding the origin of human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV-1). The simian immunodeficiency virus from the chimpanzee
(SIVcpz) is generally considered the closest nonhuman primate virus
related to HIV-1. We believe this virus, or a closely related simian
virus, most likely contaminated the experimental hepatitis B vaccines
that were administered to gay men in New York City and to blacks in
Central Africa during the 1970s. The introduction of a monkey virus into
the human species via contaminated vaccine programs could have given
rise to a new and unprecedented human immunodeficiency disease, now
^commonly known as AIDS.
Robert Gallo, the foremost authority on AIDS, has theorized that HIV-1
evolved from a virus in African green monkeys that "jumped species" to
infect the black African population. Based on our extensive review of
the scientific literature, we conclude that HIV-1 most likely evolved
and jumped species due to iatrogenic (i.e. man-made) causes.
In the late 1970s the simultaneous emergence of the earliest cases of
AIDS in Central Africa and in New York City closely followed a period of
major scientific advances in molecular recombinant biology and
retrovirology. By the early 1970s researchers had already isolated
RNA-dependent DNA polymerase. Synthetic RNA and cat leukemia retrovirus
templates were added to human type-C viruses associated with lymphatic
cancer.
Experimental infection with these genetically engineered hybrid viruses
were reported to cause leukemia, lymphoma and sarcoma. By the mid 1970s
the role of T-lymphocytes in immunosuppression was clarified. Specific
enzymes and other biochemical processes needed to induce immune system
collapse were also identified. In 1971 Fujioka and Gallo designed
experiments in which tumor specific cell tRNA was added directly to
"normal" human white blood cells. To achieve this, simian monkey virus
k0 (SV—40) and mouse parotid tumor (polyoma) virus were routinely
Employed to deliver foreign cancer-causing tRNA into these "normal"
human white blood cells, in other experiments the DNA in SV-40
was commonly replaced with RNA from various animals, including RNA
associated with cat leukemia and chicken sarcoma. Gallo and other
researchers commonly modified monkey viruses enabling these viruses to
induce AIDS-like immunosuppression, cancer, and wasting and death in
primates and lower animals.
It is widely believed that HIV-2 (which purportedly preceded the
evolution of HIV-1) and HIV-1 both share a common viral ancestor, the
so-called simian immunodeficiency virus from the African green monkey
(SIVagm). In addition, SlVmac, a macaque monkey virus laboratory
contaminant, has also been found to be identical to HIV-2. Because HIV-2
has never been found in macaques in the wild, humans who are now
infected with HIV-2 were most likely infected via contaminated
vaccines. The experimental hepatitis B vaccines and polio vaccines have
been implicated by some investigators as possible sources of HIV virus
contamination and intercontinental transmission. Although one report
exonerated the experimental hepatitis B vaccine used in gay men in 1980
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m Denyer and San Francisco, no analysis was performed on possibly
contaminated hepatitis B vaccines that were administered in New York
City and in Africa, as early as 1972.
HIV and its progenitors more likely evolved from simian (i.e. monkey)
viruses altered by the deliberate or inadvertant insertion of
cancer-causing viral particles from other animal species. We
hypothesize these man-made mutants crossed over to infect the human
population via contaminated vaccine experiments and vaccine programs.
Such experiments and outcomes were commonplace in cancer virus research
laboratories during the 1970s, at a time when collaborative vaccine
developmental programs were ongoing, and before the initial outbreak of
AIDS.
The transmission of hybrid viruses from contaminated animals and
laboratories involved in vaccine production might also best explain the
simultaneous outbreak of the first cases of AIDS in Africa and in New
York in the late 1970s, as well as the peculiar epidemiology of AIDS
which initially affected white homosexual men in the U.S. and black
heterosexual Africans. Additional confirmatory studies are required to
provide the scientific and health professional communities, as well as
the general public, with all the facts.
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MD SPEAKS ON HEP B VACCINE
Subject: MD SPEAKS ON HEP B VACCINE
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:02:13 -0700
From: karin schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: shaunsharp <shaundo@clear.net.nz>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
shaunsharp wrote:
> Dr Jenni Levy, MD - AN AMERICAN DOCTOR:
> Hepatitis B is the most common form of infectious hepatitis in the
> world. It is far more easily transmitted than HIV through the same
> routes - mother-to-child during birth, injection drug use, blood
> transfusion and occupational injury in health care. Occupationally
> acquired Hepatitis B kills more health care workers in the US every year
> than HIV has ever killed.
>
> Hepatitis B has a 5% immediate mortality rate, and a 30% incidence of
> conversion to chronic disease. Of those who develop chronic infection,
40% will go on to cirrhosis and liver failure and death, and about 15%
> will develop liver cancer.
> Since 1986, the only Hep B vaccine used in the US has been the
> recombinant vaccine. The way recombinant vaccines work is that they
> make a piece of the viral genetic material that codes for a protein on
> the surface of the virus; it is that protein which your immune system
> thinks is the virus and which causes antibodies to be produced. There
> is no actual viral material in the vaccine. Yes, your immune system is
> activated, but not in any way that could be harmful to you.
The
> vaccine had been studied for five years prior to FDA approval, and has
> been used in millions of people over the past eleven years.
> The precautions listed on the package inserts are dictated by lawyers
> working for the drug companies who are trying to predict and prevent
> lawsuits. Adverse event reports are not reliable indicators of adverse
> events (I know it seems as if they should be but they're not.
> Individual physicians are under no compulsion to report, and there's no
> verification done to ensure that events are really linked to medications
> or procedures.)
>
> You will find those adverse event categories listed for every vaccine
> licensed by the FDA, and you will notice they are also the common
> symptoms of most viral illnesses, including colds and influenza.
•
> >From the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention:
> »Pain at the injection site (3%-29%) and a temperature greater than
> 31.1 C (l%-6%) have been among the most frequently reported side effects
> among adults and children receiving vaccine. In placebo-controlled
> studies, these side effects were reported no more frequently among
> vaccines than among persons receiving a placebo Among children receiving
> both hepatitis B vaccine and DTP, these mild side effects have been
> observed no more frequently than among children receiving only DTP. The
> recommendation to begin hepatitis B vaccination soon after birth has
> raised the concern that a substantial number of infants will require an
> extensive medical evaluation for elevated temperatures secondary to
> hepatitis B vaccination. Several population-based studies to evaluate
> this possibility are in progress.
> Adverse Events In the United States: surveillance of adverse reactions
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indicated a possible association between GBS and receipt of the first
dose of plasma-derived hepatitis B vaccine (CDC, unpublished data; ).
{NOTE: THIS IS THE OLDER VACCINE, NO LONGER IN USE) However, an
estimated 2.5 million adults received one or more doses of recombinant
hepatitis B vaccine during 1986-1990, and available data concerning
these vaccines do not indicate an association between receipt of
recombinant vaccine and GBS (CDC, unpublished data).
Based on reports to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS),
the estimated incidence rate of anaphylaxis among vaccine recipients is
low (i.e., approximately one event per 600,000 vaccine doses
distributed). Two of these adverse events occurred in children (CDC,
unpublished data). In addition, only one case of anaphylaxis occurred
among 100,763 children ages 10-11 years who had been vaccinated with
recombinant vaccine in British Columbia (D. Scheifele, unpublished data),
and no adverse events were reported among 166,757 children who had been
vaccinated with plasma-derived vaccine in New Zealand. Although none of
the persons who developed anaphylaxis died, this adverse event can be
fatal; in addition, hepatitis B vaccine can-in rare instances-cause a
life-threatening hypersensitivity reaction in some persons . Therefore,
subsequent vaccination with hepatitis B vaccine is contraindicated for
persons who have previously had an anaphylactic response to a dose of
this vaccine.«
There is no legal or customary requirement for informed consent prior to
vaccination in the US, although most practitioners provide an
information sheet and all should be willing to answer questions.
Hepatitis B is a devastating, fatal disease with an increasing incidence
worldwide, and it is completely preventable.
HILARY BUTLER RESEARCHER FOR IMMUNISATION AWARENESS SOCIETY, NEW ZEALAND;
REPLIES
>From Hilary Butler To Doctor Jenni Levy MD (72320,275@compuserve.com)
who quoted from CDC Disease control and Prevention.
You have obviously been into the FDA inter net site. You have quoted
that no adverse events were reported among 166.757 children who were
vaccinated with Hepatitis B Vaccine in New Zealand.
The CDC quotes from a book called ADVERSE EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH
CHILDHOOD VACCINES, (editor Katherine Stratton) pg 229. I will specify
this quote:
"Anaphylaxis was not observed in the 166,757 children vaccinated with a
plasma-derived vaccine in New Zealand (Morris and Butler, 1992)"
My name is Hilary Butler, and I am co-author of that report. The
original submission sent to NIH included the complete Health Department
Report in which were detailed 2 cases of anaphylaxis. We also included
several Health Department memorandum detailing many cases of
anaphylactoid reactions.
On 30 September 1996, after viewing the FDA web site I sent Katherine
Stratton the following E-mail:
»Dear Dr Stratton, As you may (or may not) remember, I wrote you a detailed
six page letter, of 7 January 1994 regarding a major error on pg 229 in
your book on Adverse Events associated with childhood vaccines... you
refused, or chose not to reply to it again.
MD SPEAKS ON HEP B VACCINE
> Now I see that the FDA has put your error onto the Inter net.
> As I said to you at the time: "This misrepresenta'tion does a serious
> disservice to those who might believe that your book reports accurate
> data submitted to the Vaccine Safety Committee. If you disagree with
> this assessment, I will welcome your reasons for disagreement. However,
> if you agree that there is misrepresentation, I will welcome information
> on your planned corrective action."
> You did neither, and as a result of your inaction, a lie has been
> perpetrated.
> For the third time: What do you intend to do to correct an error brought
> to your notice two and a half years ago??? It would be nice to think that
> this time you might have the courtesy to reply, since the fault is yours,
> not mine."»
> Dr Katherine Stratton's reply was as follows:
> »"I have just now reread material you and Dr Morris sent in 1992. I assume
> that the cases were not counted as positive indications of vaccine-caused
> anaphylaxis because the material presented was not specific enough to
> meet the criteria for anaphylaxis as laid out in the report. The report
is final, and there is no action that can be taken to address your recent
> fax. "«
> The health Department report was very specific. Those two cases of
> anaphylaxis were accepted as vaccine related, and were listed as such in
> the table.
> So, as the author of a very specific report sent to the NIH, with clear
> documentation of two clear-cut cases of anaphylaxis, which were dismissed
> because they did not fit the NIH criteria, I would like to ask some
> questions:
> 1)
What right have the NIH to dismiss two cases of reported
> anaphylaxis, accepted by the NZ health Department medical assessor?
> 2)
What right have the NIH to specifically change clear-cut
> information presented by myself to say something I did not say?
> I have no confidence in the NIH so-called "gold-standard" book on vaccine
> safety, because my report was deliberately grossly misrepresented. I
> consider therefore, that the scientific accuracy of everything else
published by the NIH to be similarly tainted. I do not have the luxury
of studying everyone else's factual reports to know whether similar
> statistical sculpturing has been achieved. But I do have the "luxury" of
> being able to put my submission and the book together, and knowing that
> NIH totally stuffed it up.
> Knowing that the FDA continues this myth, and that on the 16 September,
> so did you, gives me even less confidence in the truthfulness of the rest
> of your information.
> You also quote nice little statistics about the mortality rate (5%) and
> incidence of conversion to chronic disease (30%). I have had Hepatitis B
> twice, lived to tell the tale, and am not a chronic carrier. I would
> suggest that anyone reading this site obtain a book called FOLLIES AND
> FALLACIES IN MEDICINE, by Petra Skrabanek and James McCormick, both
> reputed medical people, and on pg 40, they talk about the difference
> between absolute and relative risks. If you still believe in such
> statistics at the end of the book, there is not hope for you.
> And remember this: On pg 41 these doctors quote:
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> "Since life itself is a universally fatal sexually transmitted disease,
> living it to the full demands a balance between reasonable and
> unreasonable risk. Since balance is a matter of judgment, dogmatism has
> little place."
> FORWARDED WITH PERMISSION FROM HILARY BUTLER
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> THE DOCTOR RETURNS:
> I know of no reasonable pathophysiologic explanation for anaphylaxis to a
> recombinant vaccine.
> The information I posted came from the CDC site, not the FDA site, and is
> relevant to adverse events from the vaccine currently in use in the US,
> which is recombinant. Older vaccines, no longer used here, were made
> from pooled plasma and had a very different side effect profile.
> Flippant statements about life being 100% fatal do little justice to a
> serious problem. Hep B kills more health care workers in the US every
> year than have ever contracted HIV from occupational exposure. It is one
> of the primary causes of liver cancer and, worldwide, the most common
}> cause of cirrhosis and liver failure, and it is completely preventable.
> All vaccines carry some risks, but this one is the least risky of all the
> ones we use and may well be the most beneficial to adults.
> I stand by my statements and my recommendation that all sexually active
> adults and certainly all health care workers should be vaccinated.
> MORE FROM HILARY:
> 1)
You have missed the point. In quoting something from whatever
> source (CDC info used to be on FDA site), you quoted a lie. Why use that
> information in the first place if you are now maintaining that it has no
> relationship with recombinant vaccines? Your use of the information and
> response are fallacious.
> 2)
Your conclusions are also incorrect, the recombinant Hepatitis B
> vaccine has even more side effects than the blood based vaccine. What's
b> more, I have a letter from Dr Katherine Stratton, stating that the IOM
> committee has found "the strongest level of causality" between Hepatitis
> B vaccine, and anaphylaxis and that "no stronger level of association can
> be assigned." Further, the book deals with both blood based AND
> recombinant vaccines and states:
>
"The possibility of a causal relation between hepatitis B
> vaccination and anaphylaxis is supported by biologic plausibility, by the
> temporal sequence of observed events following vaccination, and by the
> observation of a spectrum of host responses to the Hepatitis B vaccine
> that follow a logical biologic gradient from true anaphylaxis to milder
> hypersensitivity reactions... a possible explanation for the occurrence
> of anaphylaxis after the first vaccine injection is that the patients
> were sensitised to thiomersal or yeast protein, both of which are
> components of recombinant vaccines."
> Regardless of how I feel about the accuracy of scientific information, I
> know this: that to ADMIT something such as this, is takes huge numbers
> of reports, and research to drag people like IOM kicking and screaming
5/17/99 12:15 PM
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> into the real world. For them to actually ADMIT the highest possible
> linkage, shows that the problems are more than real. In the few
> instances where IOM admits something. I'd rather take the word of six
> specially chosen, supposedly highly qualified vaccine/immunology experts,
> than one MD who purports to know the A - Z's of the issue.
> Life is 100% fatal - that is not a flippant statement. My point was that
> it is not for you, or any other doctor (who does not realise that they
> are not omnipotent), to put forward their own dogmatism - which has
> little place in the light of an individual deciding what is, or is not a
> reasonable risk for them to take.
> The recombinant Hep B vaccine is causing high numbers of demyelinating
> conditions, as well as other permanently crippling conditions, and is
> presently the subject of huge discontent world-wide, especially France,
> Australia and Great Britain, but you will find little information in the
> so-called "good" medical journals, who are primarily funded by companies
> who make vaccines. Because of the large numbers of medical people
> becoming permanently maimed (and winning cases in court) as a result of
> this vaccine, it would be wise for your comments to be a little more
> circumspect.
> I recommend to any readers of this site, that for your own safety and
protection, research the issue for yourself. Dr Horton, Editor of the
> Lancet in his book review of FOLLIES AND FALLACIES IN MEDICINE finished
> his review stating:
>
"And that's Skrabanek and McCormick's message: always be skeptical,
> especially about what your television, newspaper, or doctor tells you."
>
> And this is not a flippant statement either - for me, and others it is
> deadly serious.
> The first case of GBS from Recombinant Hep B vaccine in New Zealand was
> well known to me. Three weeks after the jab, the child was first
> diagnosed as having the flu, then Epstein Barr. The mother was quite
> distraught, and I persuaded her that her child had Guillaine Barre, (I
> can just hear someone say - "and what would she know?" - some of us do
> have brains...) and to take her child to the hospital. I also talked to
> the grandmother, and asked her to go with her, because I knew there would
> be a fight. She did, and there was. Well away from the child, the
> family and staff argued for over two hours, then the mother,
> unfortunately, got hysterical because the hospital staff wanted her to
> take her daughter home, and it got to the point where the staff were on
the verge of attempting to get her committed.
> Fortunately for the child and mother, right at that end moment in a
> separate room, the daughter dramatically deteriorated, and was on life
> support within five minutes. the next problem was to get the staff to
> say what it was, and it was only when the grandmother confronted the head
> paediatrician with medical literature on GBS that he admitted that that
> was what the granddaughter had. The relationship was established,
> admitted, and eventually, through family pressure, the case was reported
> in the New Zealand Medical Journal.
> But my point here is'that had the family not taken the stand they did,
> that girl would have died, and this is what it takes to get something
> reported.
> I know of many cases of hospitalised serious reactions to vaccines, some
> THIS YEAR, where similar scenarios were played out.
> All the staff concerned sincerely believe (note that word - belief does
> not equate to fact) that vaccines cause no damage. They all say "ALL
5/17/99 12:17 PM
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> vaccines have some risk", but "never in my back yard".
> An item in Lancet, neariy 60 years ago, bears repeating:
>
"Those who have had to take detailed notice of the immunisation
> accidents of the past few years know that to get the truth of what really
> went wrong generally calls for the resources of something like a secret
> service. "
>
Lancet, January 1, 1938, pg 48.
> Now, with so many different vaccines on offer, I believe I'd have more
> chance looking inside the head of a nuclear bomb, than finding out the
> real truth.
> While it's time for the medical profession to wake up, and get real, few
> are prepared to be honest enough.
> POSTED WITH PERMISSION BY HILARY BUTLER
Karin Schumacher
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5/17/99 12:18 PM
amaq position statement which supports compulsory vaccination
Subject: AMAQ POSITION STATEMENT WHICH SUPPORTS COMPULSORY
VACCINATION
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 23:49:49 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: meiy4@avn.org.au
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
Meryl Dorey wrote:
> Hi,
> Trevor Wilson, an AVN member extraordinaire who has written a 38 page
> document entitles "A Profile of the Vaccination Awareness Movement in
> Australia" compiled on the results of the AVN Members survey and the Survey
> in Practical Parenting, has sent this paper out to many government and
> medical departments. The replies he has been receiving are insulting > that's the most charitable way I can put it! His well thought out and well
> researched paper has been getting replies that indicate that the person
> responding has not even read the paper - it's just the same old party line.
> We support vaccination (and funny thing is - all of the letters seem to
> refer to fluoridation of water as well - comparing the two) but thanks for
> sending us this stuff anyway.
> The AMA Queensland (AMAQ) has sent them their Position Statement which has
> blown my mind completely! (I know - what mind? ;-)
> It reads as follows
> Childhood and lifelong immunisation is a community health care priority.
> General practitioners are the most appropriate providers of vaccination
> services in the community.
> AMAQ supports the collaborative association between the AMAQ, Divisions of
> General Practice and public health services towards achieving NHMRC
> immunisation targets.
> Measures which aim to increase immunisation participation rates are
> encouraged and supported.
> The concept of compulsory childhood immunisation (in accordance with NHMRC
> recommended schedules) as a prerequesite for entry to child care facilities
> and schools is supported, with exemptions permitted on the basis of
> conscientious or religious objection or genuine medical contraindications.
> The AMAQ supports the development of a protocol that addresses:
>2- the supply, distribution and administration of quality vaccines (an
> oxymoron if I ever heard one!)
> 20 the provision, of an effective and efficient recall reminder system that
> is monitored and evaluated appropriately to ensure that NJMRC schedules are
> being achieved; and
> 3- the provision of a system of local follow-up for "non-responders" to the
> recall reminder system (can you spell b-i-g- b-r-o-t-h-e-r- boys and girls?)
5/17/99 3:35 PM
AMAQ POSITION STATEMENT WHICH SUPPORTS COMPULSORY VACCINATION
> AMAQ supports the concept of legislation to access information on births and
> deaths from the Registrar General and hospital birth data to establish and
> maintain an effective and accurate database.
> That's it - notice that the AMAQ does NOT support the reporting of vaccine
> reactions, compensation paid to those who are killed or injured by vaccines,
> or the rights of parents to make free and informed choices in regards to
> vaccines. Funny that...
> Take care,
> Meryl
> Meryl W. Dorey,
> President
> The Australian Vaccination Network, Inc.
> PO Box 177
02 6687 1699 Phone
> Bangalow NSW 2479
02 6687 2032 FAX
> van@mypostbox.com
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~shotinfo
> "All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is
> violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
> (Schopenhauer)
> Any information obtained here is not to be construed as medical OR legal
> advice. The decision to vaccinate and how you implement that decision is
> yours and yours alone.
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619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
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5/17/99 3:37 PM
VACCINE ASSOCIATED POLIO TEST
Subject: VACCINE ASSOCIATED POLIO TEST
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:04:55 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: Carol <carol.roper@cableinet.co.uk>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
Carol wrote:
Does anyone know if there are any tests that can be carried out to
determine whether a child or individual suffered from poliomyelitis
years later. Much of the records of symptoms I described to gps and
doctors at the time are going to either mysteriously disappear and be
treated as anecdotal - that seems to be the way the system works...
Although, my child did have NMR scans which are safely sitting in a
German hospital.
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San Diego, CA 92129
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via@accessl.net (email)
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http://www.accessl.net/via (VIA website)
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5/17/99 3:21 PM
A hXxY
IS PATIENT SAFETY
Subject: FDA EXPLORES PATIENT SAFETY
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:57:12 -0700
From: karin schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: "Deakin, Brad R5800" <brad.deakin@maxxumfund.com>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
"Deakin, Brad R5800" wrote:
FDA Explores Patient Safety
May 11, 1999 01:35 PM PDT
WASHINGTON, May 11 (AP) Faced with growing concern over drug safety, the
FDA announced plans Monday to help patients use powerful medicines more
safely * but said much depends on getting doctors, other health workers
and patients themselves to help. "Safe doesn't mean no risk," stressed
FDA Commissioner Jane Henney, saying doctors and patients both must
understand that every drug has side effects and that there are ways to
minimize risk. An estimated 2 million Americans are hospitalized
annually from drug side effects, and 100,000 die. Some problems are
largely unavoidable, like the fact that cancer chemotherapy can leave
patients vulnerable to dangerous infections.
(^^ers are a surprise. New drugs are tested on only a few hundred to a
few thousand patients before they're sold to millions, meaning rare side
effects that didn't show up in small clinical trials can wind up hurting
hundreds of people. But doctors aren't required to report side effects
to the FDA, which has only about 80 employees to monitor the more than
3,000 prescription drugs sold. In addition, critics say the FDA's
approval process isn't strict enough. The agency has had to ban five
drugs since September 1997; in the previous decade, it banned just six
others. Still, experts say most side effect-caused deaths are
preventable.
Doctors may prescribe the wrong drug * sometimes confusing drugs with
similar names * or wrong dose. The medicine may interact dangerously
with another drug the patient takes but forgot to mention. Doctors may
not monitor how the patient's liver or kidneys process the drug closely
enough to avert a brewing problem, or patients may never be told to
report early symptoms. Doctors may not even know all the side effects.
Time-strapped physicians may not fully read FDA-approved prescription
labels, and it's hard to remember warnings for so many drugs. The FDA
c^klonday defended its approval process, saying the percentage of drugs
banned has not increased even though the agency is approving dozens more
medicines in recent years than it once did.
But Henney said the agency is planning new ways to improve patient
safety, including a meeting this fall with doctors' and patients' groups
to address ways they, too, can improve. Many of FDA's plans are
evolving, but they include: ’Seeking $15.3 million from Congress this
year to improve drug monitoring, including an upgraded computer network
to speed reports of side effects.
‘Designing a new drug label to help doctors find safety information
quickly, instead of fumbling through pages of fine print.
‘Exploring how to limit early sales of certain drugs, so that fewer
people risk unexpected side effects.
I
5/17799 2:52 PM
EXPLORES PATIENT SAFETY
training.
Doctors already are moving to improve patient safety, particularly with
computer programs that automatically flag medication errors, said
American Medical Association president Dr. Nancy Dickey. But FDA's
plans fail to acknowledge some of its own failures, said critic Dr.
Sidney Wolfe of the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen. For example,
the FDA didn't require liver testing for patients taking the new
diabetes
drug Rezulin until after some patients were injured, even though studies
signaled that liver toxicity might arise, he said. At least 28 Rezulin
patients have died of liver failure.
Also, FDA approves drugs that work no better than older competitors but
wind up being more dangerous, Wolfe said. For example, doctors already
had 58 blood pressure drugs when FDA approved Posicor, which it then had
to ban for causing killer drug interactions.
T^^AMA's new National Patient Safety Foundation is conducting its own
study of drug safety, including whether FDA's process needs
improvement. The idea isn't to point fingers when deadly side effects
erupt, but "to say, 'what went wrong in the process so we can fix it so
these things don't happen again,"' Dickey explained.
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SM STATS FROM US DEPT OF EDUCATION: NATIONWIDE
Subject: AUTISM STATS FROM US DEPT OF EDUCATION: NATIONWIDE
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:58:37 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: truegrit@gti.net
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
RAYMOND GALLUP wrote:
>From the U.S. Dept, of Education
Comparison of the 16th and 20th Annual Report to Congress on the
Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Number and Change in Number of Children Ages 6-21 Served Under IDEA,
Pa
B
>
-AUTISM-
>
>
>
>
State
> Alabama
> Alaska
> Arizona
> Arkansas
> California
> Colorado
> Connecticut
> Delaware
> District of Columbia
> Florida
> Georgia
> Hawaii
> Idaho
> ^f.inois
> ttdiana
> Iowa
> Kansas
> Kentucky
> Louisiana
> Maine
> Maryland
> Massachusetts
> Michigan
> Minnesota
Mississippi
> Missouri
> Montana
> Nebraska
> Nevada
> New Hampshire
> New Jersey
> New Mexico
> New York
> North Carolina
> North Dakota
> Ohio
> Oklahoma
> Oregon
> Pennsylvania
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
Number Served
1992-93 1996-91
68
352
8
10
199
431
30
281
1605
3913
134
14
164
431
15
160
0
62
1682
582
262
614
52
101
141
39
1101
5
273
1098
386
61
232
14
38
309
111
409
31
168
111
28
568
493
2051
288
810
296
218
0
336
693
20
90
140
4
5
115
0
99
446
1100
16
124
1648
2969
186
1464
52
9
292
22
266
31
1351
31
1455
346
351
266
105
19
Percentage
Change In
Change In
Number Served Number Served
1992-1991
1992-1991
284
411. 65
62
115.00
238
119.60
251
856.61
2308
143.80
120
851.14
313 .
221.44
145
966. 61
62
100.00
1100
189.00
412
151.25
49
94.23
102
261.54
1096
21920.00
825
302.20
319
416.12
158
213.51
211
113.16
302
13.84
131
354.05
683
2439.29
15
15.21
1163
612.15
514
193. 92
218
100. 00
351
106.25
10
350.00
136
3400.00
110
2200.00
99
100.00
654
146. 64
108
615.00
1321
80.16
618
86.26
43
411. 18
210
1221.21
235
158. 06
1314
3551.35
1109
320.52
91
34.21
86
452.63 ,
5/17/99 2:56 PM
M STAYS FROM US DEPT OF EDUCATION: NATIONWIDE
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
American Samoa
Guam
Northern Marianas
Palau
Virgin Islands
Bur. of Indian Affairs
141
36
304
1444
105
6
539
476
101
18
15
0
0
1
0
5
10
314
81
507
2933
222
66
1005
444
151
669
45
0
3
1
0
6
9
173
45
203
1489
117
60
466
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50
651
30
0
3
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200.00
0.00
100.00
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US AND OUTLYING AREAS
^States, DC & PR
12,238
34,101
21,863
178. 65
12,222
34,082
21,860
178.86
This is just the tip of the Iceberg . More news coming out in a week or
so regarding U.S. autism statistics
The following is a letter attached that was given to some of the NJ
media and NJ Legislators.
Increase in Autism Across the U.S. We Can No Longer Ignore the Numbers.
> Autism is increasing in the United .States. To ignore the numbers is to
> do so at our own peril. On April 15 1999, the state of California
> issued an Autism Report that showed that autism had increased 273% over
> the last ten years. Recently, in Brick, NJ, 40 cases of autism was
> reported in a township of 6,000 children.
> Attached are figures from the 16th and 20th Annual Report to Congress on
> t^A Implementation of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
> i^Kfparing the years 1992-93 to 1996-97. This is from the U.S. Department
> of Education showing the number and change in number of children ages
> 6-21 served under IDEA, Part B for autism.
> These figures show that there has been an increase in autism nationwide.
> To write this off as better diagnosis is to do so at our own peril and
> to write off thousands of autistic children. Make no mistake about it;
> we have a problem, a medical health problem and that is a growing
> epidemic of autism. The immune insult that is causing these increasing
> numbers has to be investigated. I have been in contact with numerous
> parents including parents who are professionals in the medical field
> including MD's and RN's.
> To do nothing or to deny, will doom our generation and future
> generations to more human suffering, strains on our medical system and
> higher economic costs. More children and grandchild will be affected!
> Raymond Gallup, President
> Autism Autoimmunity Project
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)M BETHELL’S AMERICAN SPECTATOR'S ARTICLE RESPONSE
Subject: TOM BETHELL'S AMERICAN SPECTATOR'S ARTICLE RESPONSE
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:17:44 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: Gary L Krasner <gk-cfic@juno.com>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
Gary L Krasner wrote:
> Tom Bethell informed me that his article on Hep-B received the most
> response than any previous column he has written for TAS--which was one
> per month for 20 years!
> Thanks to those who wrote in!
> (He also said that he'll attend the Congressional Hearing on Hep-B next
> Tue.)
> Coalition For Informed Choice. Gary Krasner, Director
> PO Box 230426, Hollis, NY 11423
j^ax/phone: 718-479-2939, email: gk-cfic@juno.com
^^"Protect your rights! Become an advocate and inform others"
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5/17/99 2:48 PM
HEP B VACCINE QUESTIONS
Subject: HEP B VACCINE QUESTIONS
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 23:46:47 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: Jonathan Saturen <jsat@trib.com>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
Jonathan Saturen wrote:
> >Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 12:32:06 -0700
> >From:jsatQtrib.com (Jonathan Saturen)
> >Norm> >Here are some ideas for questions for your televised interview with Dr. Green;
> >1) Why is the Hep B vaccine mandatory for extreme low risk children &
> >infants, when it isn't mandatory for high risk health care workers?
> >2) Do you have a risk/benefit analysis for the Hep. B vaccine?
> >3) How can you justify the mandatory HBV for 85 million infants & children
> >when there has been no risk/benefit analysis?
> >4) What is the sense of a mandatory HBV for school kids when it is not
> >mandatory for teachers or other school workers?
> >5) Why is Hep B considered an epidemic when the numbers have been
> >declining for over a decade down to 8,749 total U.S. cases in 1997> >according to Dr. Eric Mast of the CDC?
> >6) Why have so many people been denied their valid religious and medical
> >exemptions by the Wyoming Pub. Health Dept, causing boycotts and lawsuits?
> >7) If HBV is so safe and reactions so rare, why have 15,000 lawsuits been
> >filed against it in France causing the vaccination it to be halted in that
> >country?
> >8) If HBV is so safe and reactions so rare, why is it ccurrently under
> >investigation by the U.S. House, as on May 18th?
> >9) The NVIC- Nat'l Vaccine Info Center- has reported that there were 3
> >times as many cases of adverse reactions to HBV than reported cases of the
> >DISEASE in the 0- 14 age group....How can you justify the continuation of
> >the vaccine in young children?
> >10) Why are Wyoming infants and school children given this shot which has
> >been shown to wear off in 7 years, when the average age in Wyoming of
> >those who actually get the disease is 37?
> >11) Vaccines are designed to give us immunity from disease, how do you
> >explain the need for the pharmicutical industry's immunity from
> >prosecution/liability related to vaccine side effects since 1986 given
> >from Congress?
> >12) Do you think the recent N.Y. Times front page story about the
> >pharmacutical companies' 5.3 billion dollar marketing budget changes the
> >traditional Hippocratic Oath for physicians to work for the well being of
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5/17/99 3:33 PM
BACTERIAL: LETTER TO US NEWS
Subject: KILLER BACTERIAL: LETTER TO US NEWS
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 00:01:31 -0700
From: karin schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: janclarke <janclarke@clear.net.nz>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
janclarke wrote:
Dear US News:
It is astonishing that you can publish a seven page layout about the
overuse of antibiotics and never get to the underlying problem. Worse
yet, you cite the underlying problem as a possible solution:
"New...vaccines may ease the crisis somewhat".
WhatJ^as led to the overuse of antibiotics? Why are children chronically
ill wR:h ear and respiratory infections? This is a direct result of
vaccination. All vaccination lowers white count and T lymph cells for
up to two weeks post vaccination leaving the infant susceptible to
disease. Try to find one study that compares the rate of antibiotic
usage and incidence of illness among vaccinated versus unvaccinated
children.
There are none. The glaring reality is this; unvaccinated children use
far fewer antibiotics and have far fewer illnesses than vaccinated
children. Due to vaccination, organisms such as pertussis are
mutating. All living things attempt to adapt to survive, whether it is
to survive a disease, antibiotic or vaccine. However, bacteria and
viruses are winning the race due to our own intervention. Blame
ourselves? I blame the medical establishment. The medial industrial
complex has been very successful at creating self perpetuating
products. Create a cure that leads to another disease which needs
another cure, etc.
Sincerely,
Dawn^fclnkler
Vice-President
Concerned Parents for Vaccine Safety
Spokane, WA
(509)456-8767
dwinkler@sisna.com
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LOUISIANA: UNLOCKING AUTISM BILL
Subject: LOUISIANA: UNLOCKING AUTISM BILL
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 06:21:54 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: truegrit@gti.net
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
RAYMOND GALLUP sent:
PSALMS444@aol.com wrote:
I am Jeana, the Secretary for www.littleangels.org Unlocking Autism. I
am the mommy of Identical twins, one is autistic because of a vaccine
reaction. Today we presented a bill before legislation that would
require the M, M, and R to be given in 12 month intervals. Before
legislation started we were outvoted 0-9. We were not expecting it to
pass, and it would not have had Aidan and Shelley Reynolds not been
there to give their testimony and many statistics. It passed with a
vote of 7-2. It now needs to go to the House and Senate. Immediately
after this happened DHH was in the hall screaming in anger. Within
hours MERCK (the company that manufactures the MMR) was in contact with
al-1 of the senators and representatives. It was on our local news and
completely in our favor. If you are interested, I can send you a copy
of the tape.
Please send us all the info you have regarding the MMR and reactions.
Also, we want to have as many personal stories that we can get. Give
our e-mail address to anyone that may have a story. We have all of your
weblinks, so do not need that, just MMR statistics and personal stories.
Any help you can give us to fight this fight will be greatly
appreciated. Need to do it soon. Thank you...JEANA
Karin Schumacher
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hib linked to diabetes
Subject: HIB LINKED TO DIABETES
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 06:22:33 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: truegrit@gti.net, via <via@accessl.net>
RAYMOND GALLUP wrote:
Hemophilus Meningitis Vaccine Linked to Diabetes Increase
http://www.pslqroup.com/dg/fc486.htm
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HTB VACCINE LINKED TO DIABETES
Subject: BIB VACCINE LINKED TO DIABETES
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 19:29:33 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
> Bart Classen wrote:
> > For Immediate Release
> > Classen Immunotherapies, Inc.
> >
6517 Montrose Avenue
> >
Tel: (410) 377-4549
> >
Classen@vaccines.net
Baltimore, MD 21212
Fax: (410) 377-8526
http://vaccines.net
U.S.A.
> > Hemophilus meningitis vaccine linked to diabetes increase. Many diabetics
> > may be eligible for compensation.
> >
> >
Baltimore, May 7, 1999: The British Medical Journal (eBMJ;
> > http://www.bmj .com/cgi/eletters/318/7192/1169) published data by Dr. J.
> > Bart Classen, an immunologist at Classen Immunotherapies, supporting a
> > causal relationship between the hemophilus vaccine and the development of
> > insulin dependent diabetes. The data is particularly disturbing because it
> > indicates the potential risks of the vaccine exceeds the potential benefit.
> > The findings are expected to allow many diabetics to receive compensation
> > for their injuries and lead to safer immunization.
> >
The data pertains to a study initiated and funded by Classen
> > Immunotherapies which was performed using medical records of Finnish
> > children. The study looked at the rate of diabetes in children receiving 4
>> or 1 dose of a weak, early generation, hemophilus vaccine and compared to
> > the rate in children who received no vaccine. The children were followed
> > for 10 years. In the group receiving 4 doses of vaccine the rate of
> > diabetes was elevated by 26% after 7 years compared to children receiving 0
> > doses. There were an extra 58 cases of diabetes per 100,000 children
> > immunized in the group receiving 4 doses of vaccine compared to children
> > receiving 0 doses. This is equivalent to 2,300 cases of diabetes a year in
> > the US which has an annual birth rate of about 4 million children. However,
> > even more cases of diabetes are expected with newer hemophilus vaccines
> > which are in use today. By contrast immunization against hemophilus is
> > expected to prevent 7 deaths and 7 to 26 cases of severe disability per
> > 100,000 children immunized in Finland.
> >
The data shatters the prevailing myth that the benefits of vaccines far
> > exceed the risks. The data is expected to allow many diabetic children to
> > receive compensation for their illness. Each case of insulin dependent
> > diabetes is estimated to cost on average over $1 million in medical costs
> > and lost productivity. "Many children with diabetes may be eligible to
> > receive compensation for their illness, the data is expected to relieve
> > the tremendous financial burden to their families" says Classen. If the
> > results hold up with other vaccines, as preliminary data suggests, a large
> > proportion of insulin dependent diabetics may be eligible for compensation.
> >
"Unfortunately many public health officials and researchers funded by
> > groups threatened by the findings continue to try to deny the association.
> > This may prolong the financial burden of diabetics deserving compensation"
> > adds Classen. In a letter published by the British Medical Journal (eBMJ),
> > Classen describes analytical methods used by public health officials which
> > may give readers the perception that the effect is smaller than it really is.
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RUBELLA and arthritis
Subject: RUBELLA AND ARTHRITIS
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:54:14 -0700
From: karin schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: janclarke <karaka.j@clear.net ,nz>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
janclarke wrote:
RUBELLA IN BABIES AND PREGNANT WOMEN WAVES Vol. 11 No. 4
Hilary Butler
p. 11 By
In 1973 at the age of 19, tny then boss told me to go and have a rubella
vaccine, because my records showed I hadn't, and rubella was going
around. He didn't want me off work, since we dairy-herd testers worked
24 days on, rest of the month off. Anyone who got sick was a pain in
the neck.
Being a conforming dutiful employee, I trotted off, had the jab and
carried on working. Within three weeks I had carpal tunnel syndrome and
very sore joints which, I was told, was the price you pay for doing
something as stupid as full-on gymnastics in earlier years. The carpal
tunnel was operated on, and the joints settled down into a pattern of
progressively worsening and learning to live with it each winter and
freedom in the summer.
In August 1980, having got married, my then doctor (an American), on
hearing of the prospect of pregnancy, made me have a blood test.
Happily, he told us that since I had beautifully high levels of Rubella
antibodies, I could go ahead and get pregnant, so I did. At about 8
weeks pregnant I got as sick as a dog, and couldn't figure it out, so
went to the doctor who took a blood test. I didn't think of rubella,
because I had immunity, but did discuss viral infections with a friend
of mine who was a midwife. She explained several things, the most
important of which at that time was that ALL VIRUSES CAN CAUSE DEFECTS.
The medical people use an acronym called TORCH to define these defects.
This acronym stands for:
T = Toxoplasma gondii
0 = Other viruses (HIV, herpes simplex, chicken pox, human parvovirus,
Treponema
pallidum, measles, mumps)
R = rubella
C = Cytomegalovirus
H = Herpes simplex.
In order of severity of the first 5:
1 = HIV,
2 = Cytomegalovirus,
3 = Toxoplasma gondii,
4 = Rubella,
5 = Chicken pox, etc 8.
My friend explained that the reason all these different nasties could
cause almost identical defects was that viruses pull vitamin A out of
the system. If you feed a pregnant dog a diet deficient in Vitamin A
(but no viruses) you will get TORCH defects in the puppies. If children
in Africa who are malnourished get measles, they can go blind, and
develop other TORCH-related problems, which are reversible when treated
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quickly. One of the nutritional keys to proper cell division is vitamin
A, and if a mother contracts any virus, the body uses that Vitamin A to
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building block.
The problem with this Vitamin A information is that the studies done on
animals are old, and have not been recently corroborated, nor have any
studies been done on pregnant women. I don't suppose they thought it
worthy of study. According to the medical literature, if a pregnant
woman gets rubella in the first 4 weeks of gestation, 30 fl 50% of babies
run the risk of congenital malformations. Infection between the fifth
and eighth week, gives a risk of 25%; and during the ninth to twelfth
weeks it is 8%, giving an overall risk in the first trimester of 20%l.
The logical thought, to me, is not, that is high, have the jab, but, how
is it that 80% of babies come through rubella in utero, in the first
trimester, WAVES Vol. 11 No. 4 p. 12 with no problems? What went wrong
in the babies who had deformities?! I believe that diet and Vitamin A
in the mother is the answer. But this line of thought was not there in
my first pregnancy because I had not even considered that the
vaccine-produced antibodies might not work. I was sick, and all I knew
then was that if any virus could cause defects, something had to be
done. So, at 8 weeks, really sick, funny rash, glands up on back of
neck and behind ears, the shot-gun approach was used vitamin A, B, C, D,
E, F, G, H,The lot.
Another blood test was taken at the next ante natal visit, but I felt
fine, and nothing further was said during the pregnancy. Neither did we
think to ask. I enjoyed the winter during that pregnancy. No joint-pain
fl what a way to go. And Ian was born with no signs of any torch
problems. But what a rotten winter the following one was! However, by
the next winter No 2 was on the way. Another pain-free fantastic
winter, bouncing around like a spring donkey, which is pretty hard to do
when you carry like an elephant with twins!
The winter after David's birth was so bad that a lot of time was spent
in tears (won't use painkillers), and the two following it were not that
much better. In desperation, when David was four, I went to my GP with
a whole load of questions like:
Why does this arthritis only come in the winter?
Why did it start after the rubella jab?
Why does it stop in the summer?
What is the solution?
His only reply was to question 4.
get pregnant every year.i
I lost my rag and stormed out of his rooms taking my file. In the car,
I decided to have a read, and staring up at me were the blood tests done
when I was pregnant with Ian. I had had rubella. I went back in and
asked the doctor why he hadn't told me. His response ensured I never
went back. So I found another more sympathetic (I thought) GP. (My
second thought was to query how was it that someone who, a few weeks
before the pregnancy, could have immunity then get rubella when
pregnant?)
The new GP had no idea where to start with my arthritis, so ticked
everything in the immunology boxes on the basis that if something came
up abnormal, we'd look at that and figure from there. I went to the
medical library and ran a Med-line search on every relevant word for
Rubella, only to find lots of cases of carpal tunnel syndrome and
arthritis following the use of the rubella vaccine. I also found
documented cases of women with laboratory proof of immunity who caught
rubella while pregnant, and some of their babies had congenital
rubella2,3,4,5,6,7.
I knew that this was common with cytomegalovirus but not with rubella.
My GP's response was that this was so rare (1 in a million!) that no one
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he knew of had come across this. Later, when I went to teach gymnastics,
and the subject came up during one of the Health Departments scariness
campaigns, I found that three of us within the gym club had had the same
experience. I hadn't realised that 3 million women lived in Franklin
District!
In the meantime the GP decided that the tests showed an immunodeficiency
so maybe the vaccine was not the culprit. (Usual tactic fl blame the
patient). So my file and all my tests were sent to the Rubella expert
in America. He sent a nice letter back saying that since I was in New
Zealand, and not the States and so couldn't sue anyone, he could easily
confirm that my arthritis was actually rubella vaccine-induced, but I
should take heart, because had I got it naturally it would have been
much worse. Do something about it? No fl just learn to live with it.
Ian and David both got rubella in their second year fl diagnosed not by
the doctor, who couldn't tell, but by the Plunket nurse on the basis of
low fever, swollen glands behind the ears, and a rash that did not leave
a stain. The question of whether or not they could pass it on to other
pregnant women never came up, for several reasons. The first was that
it was my policy never to take my babies anywhere if they were
lethargic, or grizzly, or I knew they were sick. Secondly, in an area
where most women were tested, immune or vaccinated, why should the issue
even arise? The conventional wisdom is immunity means you won't get it
and at that time it was never questioned.
During the last Measles vaccination campaign I started to look for data
of how much rubella was around now, but could find very little
information on this. The experts aren't studying it. After all, why
should they with a vaccine to stop it all? In the past, all they
studied was the levels of 15-year-olds who had natural immunity. That
has not been done now for nearly 20 years. WAVES Vol. 11 No. 4 p. 13
So, last year, this parent got caught out, to my embarrassment. I
really should have known better, but didn't. After all, I had just
written an article on Rubella and knew it all.
Ian got sick. Very strange, I thought. Definitely a virus, with him
not liking the light (in goes the Vitamin A and Vitamin C), bit of a
mild headache, didn't want to eat, mild sore throat. Just a low
temperature and sleeping a lot. Sort of nothing much, but not right.
Then he said, What's this rash, Mum?i I took one look, and straight
away felt around the neck and behind the ears, and there were the
telltale glands. And no, the rash did not leave a stain.
Rubella. I had just written about it, and missed the obvious! Why?
Because it never occurred to me that the children would get it twice.
And where did he get it from? I never found out. Could have been
anywhere, anyone fl even a casual contact with a recently vaccinated
child in Woolworth's. I rang the doctors surgery, detailed the symptoms,
progression etc, and they agreed it was most likely rubella. I really
wanted some blood tests done this time, because I wanted proof, but was
laughed off the phone. Waste of resources, he's not going to die, etc fl
same excuses as when David had measles the second time fl so I haven't
the proof I'd really have liked.
So, in answer to the issues raised in the letter in Wavelets: Every
pregnant woman should make it her business to find out her immune status
for Rubella, even if previously vaccinated. Even so, this does not
guarantee immunity. Every pregnant woman should know that every virus
could cause TORCH. It is her responsibility to ensure that her diet is
such that she can fight off any virus without depleting nutrients needed
to build a baby. Damage done at this stage is irreversible. No one
knows how much rubella is around at any one time. You can't tell when a
child might get something. Or, for that matter, an adult. My husband
taught in schools with mumpy children for years but didn't catch mumps
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until the age of 63.
Every parent who decides not to immunise their children should, out of
fairness to veryone else, keep a close watch on their child. If they
are not all-go as normal, don't take them out, or risk exposing visitors
to them. When discussing risks, ask your parents how you fared with
rubella as a child. Amongst my children, and my friends, rubella has
proven to be nuisance value only. Subclinical infections with no
symptoms, but which give immunity are estimated at 25%1.
The risks to normal children from Rubella are remote. Complications
from rubella are rare, with the following observed in large epidemics
where virus load is heavy:
Arthralgia/arthritis fl Rates vary from epidemic to epidemic fl London,
1962; 33% in 40 female adults, 6% in 34 males; Bermuda, 1971; 24% under
11 yrs, 52% in 11 yrs and over.
Encephalitis fl usually cited at 1 in 6,000 casesl.
Purpura (reduction in platelet count) complicates rubella in rare
instances. Most patients become symptom-free in 2 weeks and platelet
count returns to normal values. May last from weeks to monthsl.
Prognosis: the prognosis is almost uniformly excellent. Rubella is one
of the most benign of all infectious diseases in children. However, the
rare complications of encephalitis and thrombocytopenic purpura may
alter the prognosis. Many reported deaths attributed to rubella
infection reflect errors in diagnosis.1
The likelihood of a baby becoming congenitally deformed is
mother-dependant, in that her diet (Vitamin A, folic acid) and how many
weeks pregnant she is are the important factors. After all, 80% of
pregnant women who catch rubella in the first trimester do not have
babies with congenital deformities.
This leads to another problem not mentioned in the letter. What happens
if a mother finds out at the beginning of her pregnancy that she is not
immune?
This is becoming more common, as children who were vaccinated as babies,
and again when they were 11, often lose their immunity. The standard
line from the Health Department is that the two shots result in immunity
for life. This is not true. A problem also exists where some doctors,
if a young mother has a history of vaccination, do not test for
immunity. They should, regardless. WAVES Vol. 11 No. 4 p. 14
If you are told that despite being vaccinated, you are no longer immune,
you will be offered a vaccination immediately after your baby is born.
In my opinion there are some very good reasons why you should not do
this. In mothers vaccinated 2 fi 4 days after birth, significant amounts
infectious rubella virus is shed from nasopharyngeal secretions and in
the breast milk for two to three weeks after vaccination, although a
period of 34 days has been noted in the literature. Infectious virus
was recovered from 56% of babies, none of whom showed any clinical
evidence of rubella. 25% developed transient antibodies to rubella
virus which became undetectable after 18 fi 20 weeks9.
So breast fed babies can mount a response to virus from their mothers,
but the response is not sustained. Natural, long-term immunity is not
acquired. Possible reasons for babies not developing permanent immunity
are that babies are selectively competent to mount immune responses.
That competence is age dependent, with certain immune components only
reaching adult levels at about 8 yrs of age. Research using the measles
virus shows very clearly that babies immune systems are quite different
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to adults, and that there are some viruses and bacteria which a baby
might fend off, but will not develop immunity to, in the early months.
If a mother vaccinated with the Rubella vaccine can excrete significant
quantities of rubella virus, can vaccinated infants also excrete virus?
I think so. Usually parents with babies have pregnant friends, but
never have I heard anyone query whether their vaccinated 15-month-old
could pass the rubella virus on to a pregnant friend or her children.
This possibility also needs considering since, to be consistent, parents
who vaccinate their children should make sure they are quarantined from
all pregnant women or her children for at least 21 days. In reality,
this is never going to happen, because mothers who vaccinate assume
their child is clean.
So where did Ian get Rubella? Who knows fl but Ian got sick just over
three weeks after the local area had had their Form 1 MMR shots.
Co-incidental or causal? With an excretion time of up to 3 weeks after
vaccination, and an incubation time of around 14 days, I'd say the
timing was impeccable.
References:
Krugman's infectious Diseases of Children 1998, 10th Edition, pg.
403-413.
British Medical Journal, 16 May 1987, pg. 1277-78
Medical Journal of Australia June 12, 1982 pg. 514-515
New England Medical Journal, 1988:319, pg. 1415-1416
Communicable Diseases Report, 1991:1 (R5), pg. 7-9
Paediatric Infectious Diseases Journal, 1994:13, pg. 812-815
Paediatric Infectious Diseases Journal, 1997:16, pg. 249-251.
Medicine International, No 51, March 1988, pg. 2107-2110.
Journal of Infectious Disease 1982: 145:5, pg. 655-666.
Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
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NIP AND PL 104-191
Subject: NIP AND PL 104-191
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:32:54 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <xia@accessl.net>
Reply-To: Carolyn <ppva@velocity.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
> Carolyn wrote:
> Interests of the National Immunization Program in the
> Implementation of P.L. 104-191
> http://www.cdc.gov/nip/registry/kkresponse .html
> Within the National Immunization Program (NIP), activities that promote the development and
> aggregate immunization levels for a provider's entire client base or for any specific geogr
> 1. Standards for Electronic Health Information Transactions
> Within 18 months of enactment (by 2/21/98), the Secretary of DHHS must adopt standards from
> NIP's position
> Our experience to date indicates that establishment of immunization registries is a complex
> whatever standard is used needs to provide the richness of clinical detail that will allow
> We understand the focus of the legislation on administrative simplification and its emphasi
> purposes should support the ability of health care workers and public health officials to a
> 2. Unique Health Identifier
>
> Within 18 months, the Secretary must adopt standards providing for a standard unique health
> NIP'S position
> One of the most costly and difficult problems currently impeding progress on immunization r
> temporary ID number that would ultimately link to the definitive identifier would be needed
> 3. Code Sets
> Within 18 months, the Secretary must select code sets for appropriate data elements for the
> NIP'S position
> We support this activity as a way to promote the development and standardization of the com,
> 4. Privacy of Health Information
> Within 12 months, the Secretary of HHS must recommend privacy standards for individually id
> NIP's position
> We fully agree that individuals need the appropriate protections for their records. We supp
> release of nonsensitive information such as immunization status. In fact, the National Vacc
> 5. Other
> Within 4 years, after a study of the Issues, the National committee on Vital and Health Sta
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> NIP's position
> We support the development of national and international standards for the representation o
> Pennsylvania Parents for Vaccine Awareness
> P.O. Box 173
> Mill Village, Pa. 16427
> Email: ppva@velocity.net
> Web Page: http://www.erie.net/~noshotz
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POLIO DECLINE AND REPORTING PRACTICE
Subject: POLIO DECLINE AND REPORTING PRACTICE
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:14:07 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: maggi@olypen.com
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
Margaret Ann wrote:
A full discussion of both these issues can be found in the Polio section
of my book: The Vaccine Guide. The criteria for diagnosing polio did
change when the vaccine was introduced in the 1950s and this change in
diagnosis apparently reduced the statistic for the number of polio cases
dramatically. Monkey kidney cells are used to produce the oral vaccine
and controversy rages about the contamination of OPV with monkey
viruses. For a complete review of these issues, see the book.
Here is one quote from the book. Dr. Bernard Greenberg, a biostatistics
expert, was chairman of the Committee on Evaluation and Standards of the
American Public Health Association during the 1950s. He testified at a
panel discussion that was used as evidence for the congressional
hearings on polio vaccine in 1962. During these hearings
he elaborated on the problems associated with polio statistics and
disputed claims for the vaccine's effectiveness. He attributed the
dramatic decline in polio cases to a change in reporting practices by
physicians. Less cases were identified as polio after the vaccination
for very specific reasons. "Prior to 1954 any physician who reported
paralytic poliomyelitis was doing his patient a service by way of
subsidizing the cost of hospitalization and was being community-minded
in reporting a communicable disease.
The criterion of diagnosis at that time in most health departments
followed WHO definition: "Spinal paralytic poliomyelitis: signs and
symptoms of nonparalytic poliomyelitis with the addition of partial or
complete paralysis of one or more muscle groups, detected on two
examinations at least 24 hours apart." Note that "two examinations at
least 24 hours apart" was all that was required. Laboratory confirmation
and presence of residual paralysis was not required. In 1955 the
criteria were
changed to conform more closely to the definition used in the 1954 field
trials: residual paralysis was determined 10 to 20 days after onset of
illness and again 50 to 70 days after onset. This change in definition
meant that in 1955 we started reporting a new disease, namely, paralytic
(poliomyelitis with a longer-lasting paralysis.
Furthermore, diagnostic procedures have continued to be refined.
Coxsackie virus infections and aseptic meningitis have been
distinguished from paralytic poliomyelitis. Prior to 1954 large numbers
of these cases undoubtedly were mislabeled as paralytic poliomyelitis.
Thus, simply by changes in diagnostic criteria, the number of paralytic
cases was predetermined to decrease in 1955-1957, whether or not any
vaccine was used.
Karin Schumacher
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5/17/99 12:45 PM
OREGON: RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS
Subject: OREGON: RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:18:00 -0700
From: karin schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: Todd Gastaldo <gastaldo@teleport.com>, via <via@accessl.net>
Todd Gastaldo wrote:
For Oregon's "religious" vaccination game, scroll to
Sent to Congressman John L. Mica via Sharon.Pinkerton@mail.house.gov ...
(Posted to the Usenet - sci.med; misc.kids.pregnancy;
misc.health.alternative. )
The Honorable John L. Mica
Chairman
Committee on Government Reform
Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, & Human Resources
U.S. House of Representatives
•
Congressman Mica,
There is something screwy about WHO, CDC and hepatitis B. . .
Sharon Pinkerton's post to Michael Belkin (forwarded below) indicates
that on May 18 you will be asking (in an hepatitis B vaccination
hearing), "What process does the Center for Disease Control (CDC) employ
to make a vaccine recommendation?" My experience is that CDC (and WHO)
DISHONESTLY recommend hepatitis B vaccination. I say this because when
the French government ’stopped* recommending hep B vaccination for
adolescents (for fear that it was causing multiple sclerosis), CDC
joined the World Health Organization in claiming there was no cause for
the French action - claiming that hepatitis B vaccination has
"demonstrated important benefits including the prevention of cirrhosis
and cancer..."
http://www.who.int/gpv—safety/hottop/hepb.htm
Hepatitis B vaccination has NOT been demonstrated to prevent cancer.
See my post to WHO below - which includes my original post to CDC. (I
have received no response from either organization yet.) Congressman
Mica, the problem really boils down to government mandating vaccination.
In this regard, I note that the announcement of your hearing contained
the following statement:
^^"...35 states have mandated Hepatitis B vaccines as a condition of
attending school."
***«»***«»*»*OregOn ♦may* be one of the 35 Hep B "mandated" states to
which you refer...
"New [Oregon] administrative RULES require that kindergartners receive
> vaccines for Hepatitis B..." (Emphasis added.)
> http://www.ohd.hr.state.or.us/news/1999/0208imm.htm
> "The Health Division shall adopt RULES pertaining to the implementation of
> ORS 433.235 to 433.284." [ORS 433.273 "Rules of division." Emphasis added.]
> Even if hep B vaccination is "mandated" - in Oregon (and other "mandatory"
> states) - vaccination is NOT mandated as a condition of attending school.
> Why don't parents in these "mandatory" states know that vaccination is NOT
> mandated?
> Why don't all Oregon parents know (most don't) that they may EASILY exempt
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> their children from vaccination prior to entering school just by signing in
> the "religious" exemption block - Section C - of the Certificate of
> Immunization [sic] Status (CIS)?
> In February 1999, parents of 21,162 Oregon children were "informed" that
> they would be excluded from school unless their children got vaccinated; yet
> there was NO evidence (in the OHD report of this annual event) that these
> parents of 21,162 children were properly informed of the option of foregoing
> vaccination and simply signing Section C of the CIS...
> http://www.ohd.hr.state.or.us/news/1999/0208imm.htm
> Though the State of Oregon dishonestly implies otherwise - neither
> "religion" nor permission from a "religious" figure is necessary to claim
> this "religious" exemption - because the Oregon Health Division construes
> religion to mean "any system of beliefs, practices or ethical values." [OAR
> 333-19-021 (23) ]
> http://www.ohd.hr. state.or.us/ccfh/imm/or-rules.htm#anchor4
> The Oregon Health Division's broad interpretation of the word "religion"
> does not appear anywhere in the Oregon Revised Statutes; but ORS 433.273
> does state, in essence, that the Health Division has the authority to make
> such an interpretation. ("The Health Division shall adopt rules pertaining
> to the implementation of ORS 433.235 to 433.284." [ORS 433.273 "Rules of
> division. "])
> It is interesting to note that, under the heading DISEASE CONTROL IN
> SCHOOLS, the Legislative Assembly Oregon fails to mention Oregon's
> "religious" exemption - as it blindly promotes vaccination as an
> "obligation" - an UNREMOVABLE "parental liability under compulsory
> attendance laws":
> "[T]he Legislative Assembly recognizes the obligation of parents to have
> their children properly immunized...[n]ot withstanding ORS 339.030
> [alternatives to public schools - TDG], nothing [in these statutes] operates
> to remove parental liability under compulsory attendance laws." [ORS
> 433.240]
> Again, there is NO mention of the "religious" exemption in this Oregon
> statute that refers to vaccination as an UNREMOVABLE parental liability!
> This unremovable parental liability is removable with a parent's signature!
> Back to the Oregon Health Division's "Certificate of Immunization [sic]
> Status"....
The title statement at the top of the Health Division's Certificate of
> Immunization [sic] Status (CIS) states that a "properly documented religious
> or medical exemption" is required - the implication being that, just as a
> medical authority must "properly document" a medical exemption, a religious
> authority must "properly document" a religious exemption.
> This is poppycock.
> Again, ail that is required for a "religious" exemption is a parent's
> signature in Section C. . .
> ADVICE FOR THE OREGON HEALTH DIVISION
> To assist Oregon parents in making the vaccination decision - and to help
> the Division (and Oregon MDs) start obtaining truly informed consent from
> parents - the Oregon Health Division should state prominently on its web
> page - and on its CIS form - that "religious" exemptions are READILY
> available - and that the Health Division in effect defines "religion" as a
> parent's signature in Section C of the CIS.
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> education and deprives their parents of work. As noted above, logically,
> healthy children not protected by their vaccination should also be sent
> home, but currently they are not.
> Nurse Roberta said she could do nothing about the existing system and
> recommended that I take the matter to the state legislature. I thanked her
> and we ended our conversation cordially.
> Congressman Mica, the Oregon Certificate of Immunization Status (CIS)
> prominently states risks of failure to vaccinate, but fails entirely to
> inform parents that there are risks to vaccination.
> I mention this because vaccines can "hurt, cripple and kill" - just like
> natural disease; and contrary to popular belief there is no good evidence
> that vaccination has fewer short and long term adverse effect than natural
> disease.
> One of the saddest commentaries on organized medicine's attitude regarding
> establishing vaccine safety is pediatrician Martin Smith's essay about the
:■ ;
1/ ch i idhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act,"
> published in the jcurn-l of the American Academy of Pediatrics. [Pediatrics
> 1988;82 (2) :264-9]
In his essay, Smith [1988] wrote that "members should be informed of the
> necessity that led to the inclusion of some of the provisions in the act as
> they now exist."
> Specifically, Smith [1988] noted that "many [vaccine] administrators have
> not heretofore practiced" reporting adverse events; but that "these
> requirements *had to be accepted* in the process of negotiations through the
> years - because "Congress had *demanded* the inclusion of the reaction
> reporting requirement as a condition to the legislation." (Emphasis added.)
> In noting that Congress's adverse reaction reporting requirement will give
> "a better epidemiologic store of information," Smith [1988] admitted a key
> point: No one knows "the real facts" about vaccine reactions/vaccine
> safety! [Smith M. National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act.
> Pediatrics 1988;82 (2) :264-9]
> According to the subsequent National Academy of Sciences vaccine safety
> report mandated by the Act, "many gaps and limitations of knowledge
> bear...directly and indirectly on the safety of
> vaccines...[including] ...limited capacity of existing surveillance systems
> of vaccine injury. .." [Howson CP, Howe CJ, Fineberg HV. Adverse effects of
)> pertussis and rubella vaccines. National Academy Press 1991]
> How bad are existing physician surveillance systems of vaccine injury?
> Hopefully they are better than they were in 1993 when former FDA
> commissioner David Kessler, M.D. reported evidence that physicians fail to
> report up to 99% of serious adverse events.
> [Kessler DA. Introducing MEDWatch: a new approach to reporting medication
> and device adverse effects and product problems. JAMA
> (Jun2) 1993;269 (21) :2765-68]
> Kessler [1993] said that in spite of the fact that reports from health
> professionals are "essential" to ensure safety of medicines, physicians "do
> not think to report adverse events."
> Also according to Kessler [1993], physician reporting of serious adverse
> events "is not in the culture of US medicine" because, as of 1985, only 14%
> of US medical schools had required courses in "therapeutic decision making."
> Unfortunately, I do not have the CDC Vaccine Information Sheet for Hep
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> ATTENTION WHO addressees: At the Deja News URL cited above I've asked WFC
> and WCA - both of them WHO NGOs - to officially alert WHO about the dangers
> of chair-dwelling and the ostensibly related Western medical practice of
> fetal skull squashing spinal manipulation. Will you ask WFC and WCA when
> they will send their official letters? Please copy me when you do at: Todd
> D. Gastaldo, DC, 8948 SW Barbur Blvd. #6, Portland, OR 97219.
> Here now is my post to CDC and WHO regarding the false hep B
> vaccination-prevents-cancer statement made by CDC and WHO...
>------- Original Message------> From: Todd Gastaldo <gastaldo@teleport .com>
> To: info@who.ch <info@who.ch>; regafro@whoafr.org <regafro@whoafr.org>;
> brennanb@paho.org <brennanb@paho.org>; salahia@who.sci.eg
> <salahia@who.sci.eg>; fap@who.dk <fap@who.dk>; PANDEYH@whosea.org
> <PANDEYH@whosea.org>; milanl@who.org.ph <milanl@who.org.ph>
> Cc: Chiro List <chiro-list@silcom.com>
> Date: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 6:30 PM
> Subject: WHO's fraudulent hep B vaccination claim - please correct it.
Or World Health Organization:
> CDC is spreading WHO's fraudulent claim that cancer prevention is a
> "demonstrated benefit" of hepatitis B vaccination.
> CDC Vaccination Czar Walter Orenstein, MD may be reached at waol@cdc.gov
> WHO, please correct your information - and please ask Dr. Orenstein to make
> a note on the CDC web page that the WHO information has been corrected.
> Thank you.
> Todd D. Gastaldo, D.C.
> (Copied to the e-mail addresses at the end of this post. I found them via
> Ron Slaughter's National Association for Chiropractic Medicine link to Julie
> Powell, DC, DABCN's web page (pediatrics)....)
>------- Original Message-------From: Todd Gastaldo <gastaldo@gte.net>
To: Orenstein, Walt <waol@cdc.gov>
> Cc: Donald M. Petersen, Jr. <Don@DCMedia.com>; Dr. Terry Rondberg
> <worldall@ix. netcom. com>; ncehinfo@cdc.gov <ncehinfo@cdc. gov>;
> martine.aubry.ttt@wanadoo.fr <martine.aubry.ttt@wanadoo.fr>; Chiro List
> <chiro-list@silcom.com>; webmaster@sante.gouv.fr <webmaster@sante.gouv.fr>;
> schlafly@cruzio.com <schlafly@cruzio.com>; tetra@tetrahedron.org
> <tetra@tetrahedron.org>
> Date: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 11:15 PM
> Subject: Hep B vaccine might cause MS? English translation please...
B
> >Walter Orenstein, MD
> >Director
> >National Immunization Program
> >Centers for Disease Control
> >Dr. Orenstein,
> >This is a request for an English translation of the French government's
> >October 1998 decision to suspend routine Hepatitis B vaccination of
> >adolescents due to the possibility that Hepatitis B vaccine causes Multiple
> >Sclerosis...
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■> ^Guiding individual decisions: a randomized controlled trial of decision
> >analysis. Am J Med, 1988;84(2):283-8]
> >
> >Even stranger than doctors not taking their own hepatitis B vaccine is the
> -’'fact that Hepatitis B vaccine researchers discovered early on that nearly
> >all the African children on whom they were experimenting, were testing
> >positive for hepatitis B virus [The Lancet, Mayl2, 1989, p. 1057-60] - but
> >were almost never expressing symptoms of the disease called hepatitis.
> >[Cancer Res, 1987;47:5782-87]
> >And now a 1998 press release reports, in effect, that these same Hepatitis
> B
> >vaccine researchers are indicating that unvaccinated infants WERE suffering
> >from acute hepatitis - from infancy up to the age of ten years:
> >"The Gambia Hepatitis Intervention Study has clearly demonstrated that
> protection against persistent hepatitis B infection by infant vaccination
> >continues up to the age of ten years. The study of this protection
> >against...against acute hepatitis... should be continued into the adolescent
> pears when new modes of exposure to the virus will occur."
> >http://www.iarc.fr/preleases/121e.htm
> >Whatever the case with acute hepatitis, the 1998 press release to which I
> am
> >referring was titled, "Recommendations for the control of hepatitis
> >B-related CANCER" [emphasis added] - but upon reading the press release,
> one
> >finds that the Gambian study is being conducted because researchers DON'T
> >KNOW whether Hep B vaccine prevents cancer. . .
> >
> >A.ccording to the press release:
> >"GHIS should ensure that cancer registration in The Gambia and linkage of
> >individuals with liver cancer to vaccine records is made as effective as
> >possible, in order for the study to fulfill its ^ORIGINAL AIM* of measuring
> >vaccine efficacy against liver cancer. " [emphasis added]
> >http://www. iarc. fr/preleases/121e.htm
> >
> >Dr. Orenstein, most of the world public is unaware that millions
> (billions?)
> >are being spent to innoculate children to MAYBE prevent the adult cancer
> >called hepatocellular carcinoma - as 50% of African children in some areas
> >starve to death. [50% mortality rate is from Sachs MY and Martin AS (Eds.):
> >Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, Volume 2: Africa, 7th ed., 1988, New
> >York: Worldmark Press, Ltd., John Wiley i Sons, Inc.]
> >
> interesting side note: I am truly surprised that the 1998 press release
> >about The Gambian experiment (see above) did not explicitly mention the
> >woodchuck studies and the epidemiologic studies being used to claim that
> Hep
> >B vaccine prevents cancer. Also interesting is Duesberg and Schwartz's
>1992
> >claim that "there is no convincing evidence that hepatitis B viral DNA is
> >functionally relevant for the initiation and maintenance of hepatomas."
> >[Duesberg PH and Schwartz JR: Latent viruses and mutated oncogenes: no
> >evidence for pathogenicity. Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular
> >Biology, 1992;43:135-204]
> >Back to the matter at hand...
> >Dr. Orenstein, your CDC web site contains ENGLISH-language press releases
> >and articles that in effect pejorize the recent French action as
> >unscientific and unnecessary.
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>------ Original Message------> From: Pinkerton, Sharon <Sharon.Pinkerton@mail.house. gov>
> To: Michael Belkin <Belkin@ibm.net>
> Date: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 9:21 AM
> Subject: May 18 Hearing on Hepatitis B Vaccine
>
> >U.S. House of Representatives
> >Committee on Government Reform
> Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, & Human Resources
> >John L. Mica, Chairman
> >News Advisory
> >For immediate release
> >Contact: Sharon L. Pinkerton
> >(202) 225-2577
> >May 11, 1999
> >Hepatitis B Vaccine:
Helping or Hurting Public Health?
> > The purpose of this hearing is to examine both individual cases and
> >more comprehensive evidence that indicates that many people, especially
> >babies, are experiencing severe reactions to the Hepatitis B vaccine.
> > Based on Federal guidelines issued by the Center for Disease Control
> >in 1991, 35 states have mandated Hepatitis B vaccines as a condition of
> >attending school. In the US, the Hepatitis B disease mainly infects
> >intravenous drug users, prostitutes and promiscuous heterosexuals and
> >homosexuals.
> > The hearing will focus on:
> > *What studies are being done on the data from the
> >FDA's Vaccine Adverse Event Report?
> > *What are the risks and benefits for administering
> >this vaccine to infants?
> > *What process does the Center for Disease Control
> >employ to make a vaccine recommendation?
> >
> > *What disclosure is required before the vaccine is
> administered? Is it adequate?
> >HHAT: Hearing on Hepatitis B Vaccine
> >HHERE: 2247 Rayburn House Office Building
> >HHEN: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 at 10:00 am
> >WITNESS LIST: To Be Announced
> >
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> > Panel l l,
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> >Admin.
> > Panel III, Experts
MOO*********************************************************
Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
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R|JBELLA VACCINES & SPECIFIC IMMUNE RESPONSES
Subject: RUBELLA VACCINES & SPECIFIC IMMUNE RESPONSES
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:32:11 -0700
From: karin schumacher <via@accessl.nePReply-To: janclarke <karaka.j@clear.net.nz>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.neP
janclarke wrote:
> Some mistakes in document conversion. . . but main message fairly clear
>
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> THE RUBELLA VACCINE:
>
Karin Rothville THE RUBELLA VACCINE: By Hilary Butler
Vaccine researchers and boffins were baffled in 1994 when Father Chamberlain of Ampleforth
> They were caught in a dilemma, because while they believed that human diploid tissue, as th
> Rather than put the cat amongst the pigeons by openly discussing the issues, they firstly d
> But the Catholics and Moslems went to the media, and from then onwards the Health Departmen
> Previous issues of HAVES have discussed tetanus and diphtheria.
The focus of this issue is
> As far back as 1964, concern was expressed regarding biological contaminants in the culture
> 1...enzyme inhibitors and other activators, or other biocatalysts (protease!) of tissue cul
> If you had received the early oral polio vaccine , the vaccine manufacturers insert might h
> is a mixture of three types of attenuated polio viruses which have been propagated in Cercot
> This is the very vaccine which 2.2 million out of 2.5 million New Zealanders were given and
> By 1968, all sorts of viruses (adenoviruses, papovaviruses, herpes viruses, pox viruses, pi
> this group represents agents which have been studied to sufficient degree to permit at leas
> Another monograph written about the same time details all the contaminants known from all t
> But it was within this framework that the idea of aborted fetal tissue was conceived (no pu
> If you lived in America in 1971, your rubella vaccine may well have been cultured in:
> canine kidney or duck embryo tissue.6
> Or, if you lived in Japan in 1990:
> the measles and mumps components were produced in chick embryo culture and the rubella com
>
> Diphtheria toxins are prepared in:
> very complex media of meat extracts and peptone.8
> The media have a problem with:
>
the secretion of many non-toxic (accessory) antigens during prolonged incubation(which) ma
> Note the words accessory antigens.
lof5
Accessory is a sanitised word for unwanted or contamina
5/17/99 1:16 PM
Rubella vaccines & specific immune responses
But the fact is that if you really want to get depressed about vaccine contaminants, the me
Some companies are now making polio, rubella, measles, adenovirus and, more recently, rabie
thp major reasnns for the initial resistance to change to diploid cells were:
J-“'- t,''-—Ibilii.y they contained a hypothetical human cancer virus or some other latent virus
The possibility that they would spontaneously transform (change from normal to cancerous).
When compared to commonly used primary monkey kidney cells known to contain many latent vir
Vaccines are licensed, not cell substrates.!
(Dept. Health 4 Human Services, Abstract 2).
Interestingly, as you read all this information on human diploid cells and other cell lines
> It would seem reasonable to say that any rodent virus which is recorded in the literature a
> Monoclonal antibodies are made by fusing an antibody with a cancer cell from bone marrow, a
> of producing a continuous supply of identical antibodies.
> Monoclonal antibodies produced in rats and mice were injected into cancer patients for tumo
> So, where does this leave us today?
The fact is that when they take the trouble to look fo
> the problem of pestiviruses in cell cultures and in foetal bovine serum has long been a rec
> detection of pestivirus contamination in viral vaccine has been hampered because most (99%)
> Vaccine manufacturers assumed that if cells stayed normal, there were no viral contaminants
> The real issue here is that pestiviruses (which have caused problems in veterinary vaccines
> In 1963 a 60-page monograph was published detailing all the then known contaminants of huma
> The Moslems and Roman Catholics took their stand as a moral issue.
Aside from this very va
> Do I want this stuff injected into any member of my family?
>
GLOSSARY
> Antigen:
a soluble substance that causes the body to produce an immune response.
> Non-cytopathic: does not damage or cause changes in cells.
> Peptone:
a secondary protein formed by the action of enzymes on protein.
> Pestivirus:
a mucosal disease virus from the family of Togaviridae.
> Protease:
an enzyme that breaks down the peptide bonds that form amino acids into pro
> Rota virus:
> and diarrhoea.
a virus having a wheel-like appearance that causes gastro-enteritis
> Sorbitol:
a sugar substitute used by diabetics and also used in drip feeding.
> WAVES Vol. 11 NO. 3 p. 25
> REFERENCES
> Acta Paediatric. 1983. Vol. 91194. P. 162.
> Archival Journal of Diseases of Childhood. Vol. 144 August 1990. P. 905.
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website for hep b vaccine injured
Subject: WEBSITE FOR HEP B VACCINE INJURED
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:08:17 -0700
From: karin schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: Michael Belkin <Belkin@ibmjiet>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
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TW O GOOD BOOKS ON VACCINES, ADVERSE REACTIONS AND AUTISM
Subject: TWO GOOD BOOKS ON VACCINES, ADVERSE REACTIONS AND AUTISM
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:30:53 -0700
From: karin schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: truegrit@gti.net
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
RAYMOND GALLUP wrote:
> Parents:
>
> There are two good books from a parent's perspective on autism, adverse
> reactions to vaccines and the intravenous gamma globulin (IVIG).
> One is Eric's Story: Autism and the Autoimmune Connection by myself, Ray
> Gallup. Information for getting it are on:
> http: //www.gti.net/truegrit/
> The other book is called , I Don't Want to Be Ty by Robin Goffe.
> the book is $ 10.00 plus $3.00 for shipping and handling
> To order:
> I Don't Want To Be Ty (IDWTBT)
> 6337 Highland Drive, Suite 135
> Salt Lake City, UT 84121
> Fax Info 801 273-0209
> Email: goffe5@micron.net
> Both these books give personal histories and good references from two
> different families regarding autism and the immune insult that is
> affecting lots of autistic children.
> Ray Gallup, President
> Autism Autoimmunity Project
Karin Schumacher
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congress to hold hearings on hepatitis b vaccine
Subject: CONGRESS TO HOLD HEARINGS ON HEPATITIS B VACCINE
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:02:59 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: Kathi Williams <kwiUiams9@mindspring.com>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
Kathi Williams wrote:
CONGRESS TO HOLD HEARINGS ON HEPATITIS B VACCINE
ON TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1999
NVIC WILL ALSO HOLD NATIONAL PRESS CONFERENCE
TO: Families whose loved ones have had hepatitis B vaccine reactions
And NVIC members
FROM: Barbara Loe Fisher, President NVIC
RE:
U.S. Congressional Hearing on Hepatitis B Vaccine And NVIC Press
Conference on Tuesday, May 18, 1999
^ATE: May 10, 1999
Today, it was confirmed that the Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human
Resources subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Reform will
hold a hearing on Hepatitis B Vaccine on Tuesday, May 18, 1999 at 10
a.m. in room 2247RHOB (Rayburn House Office Building), S. Capitol St. S
Independence Avenue, S.E., in Washington, D.C..
Congressman John Mica (R-FL), Chairman of the subcommittee, has called
the hearing to investigate the reports of adults, children and babies
suffering immune and neurological injuries and death following receipt
of hepatitis B vaccine. The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)
is working with the subcommittee to provide hepatitis B vaccine victims
with a forum. Currently one adult and two parents of children who were
injured or died after hepatitis B vaccination are scheduled to speak on
the first panel. There will be several other panels, which will include
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
officials, physician organization spokespersons, and expert
physician/scientist witnesses (both those medical experts critical of
the vaccine, such as Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D., and those promoting the
vaccine).
^VIC hopes to persuade Congress to (1) conduct a full investigation into
the recombinant hepatitis B vaccine, how it was licensed by the FDA and
how it was recommended by the CDC for universal use, particularly in
children and newborn infants; (2) obtain special funds from Congress
earmarked for independent researchers (non-industry, non-government
agency) to investigate the biological mechanisms involved in hepatitis B
vaccine injury and death with the goal of identifying predisposing
biological markers which could be used as pre-screening techniques as
well as point the way to development of therapies to repair the immune
and neurological damage; (3) call for national informed consent
protections within vaccination laws.
NVIC will also hold a national press conference on the same day;
Tuesday, May 18 after the hearing is over. The press conference will
take place either in front of the Capitol Building or in a room in the
Capitol. We need as many hepatitis B vaccine victims to come to the
hearing and press conference as possible to show Congress and the nation
that this is a big problem. We expect to have national coverage of this
hearing and our press conference. You can tell your story of what
happened to you or your child at the press conference, as only three
people will be allowed to tell their stories at the hearing itself.
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I know it is very difficult for many of you to come because you or your
children are very sick but if you can make it, please come. If you can't
be here, please write testimony to be included in the congressional
record of this hearing. Write a letter addressed to the committee
describing what happened to you and what you would like to see done.
Send your testimony to Kathi Williams, NVIC, 512 W. Maple Ave., Suite
206, Vienna, VA 22180 and we will hand deliver it to the committee. Mark
the outside of the envelope Hepatitis B Vaccine Testimony.
If you have an e-mail address, please forward it to NVIC as soon as
possible so we can communicate with you one-on-one in the quickest way
possible. Send your e-mail to spsweeney@mindspring.com
If you decide to come to Washington, D.C. next week and decide to fly
in, it is less expensive and convenient to fly into Baltimore-Washington
Airport, take the commuter train (Am-Trak) from BWI to Union Station on
Capitol Hill and then take a taxi to the Rayburn House Office Building
(about 10 blocks away). Flying into National Airport is the easiest
way, because that airport is only 10 minutes from Capitol Hill by taxi
or
metrorail (subway). If you would like us to book you into a hotel or
help you with travel arrangements, please call Kathi Williams at
703-938-3783.
We are sorry this is such short notice, but the hearing was just
confirmed today as taking place. Please call us at 703-938-3783 and let
us know if you are coming to the hearing. Our telephone lines are
overwhelmed, so if you get a voicemail it is because we are using all
six of our lines. Leave a message and we get back in touch with you.
We are very pleased that Congress is beginning to take notice. There are
many people suffering from the effects of the hepatitis B vaccine. This
is a first step toward finding the answers we need.
TO NVIC MEMBERS: Even if you or a family member has not suffered from
the Hep B vaccine we still need you at the hearing and the press
conference to show your support for this committee’s action. We need to
demonstrate that a lot of parents are concerned about the problems with
the mass vaccination system and hepatitis B vaccine in particular.
Please e-mail or call if you can attend.
Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information s Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via@accessl.net (email)
http://www.909shot.com (NVIC website)
http://www.accessl.net/via (VIA website)
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ANOTHER VACCINE VICTIME
Subject: ANOTHER VACCINE VICTIME
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 09:49:23 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: shaunsharp <shaundo@clear.net.nz>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
shaunsharp wrote:
ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT WRITES
It's a struggle for victims to fight back because the main symptom is
extreme fatigue. One victim, Lucia Morgan, was recently tested by Dr.
Hyde, Chairman of the Nightingale Foundation, in Ottawa. After a brain
scan she was asked if she had ever had electroshock treatment. Tests
showed she had suffered brain damage. Lucia Morgan, who has a Masters
degree in Social Work, estimates that her mental capacity has dropped
from a university Masters level to a grade 9 high school level. She
can't read for more than 5 minutes, and often forgets the first sentence
she has read by the time she reaches the second sentence. She often has
trouble cooking for herself or taking a shower. She once
had a very intellectually and physically active life style. The extreme
fatigue is caused by the fact the part of the brain that is responsible
for motor functions is damaged. Other parts of the brain, that are not
designed to do this job, take over the function. This causes a greater
consumption of energy which of course causes extreme
fatigue.
How can this happen? In Lucia Morgan’s case she obtained a position at
the Parkdale Community Health Centre. She was told she would be working
in the needle exchange centre one day a week and therefore needed to be
inoculated against Hepatitis-B. This normally is a series of three
shots, but when she became extremely ill after the second shot she did
not continue with the program. This happened in October of 1994. By
April 1995 she was suffering from extreme fatigue and was misdiagnosed
as suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. After over two years of
researching her symptoms and asking many questions she was tested by Dr.
Byron Hyde and found out the truth. She had brain damage and would never
recover. An interview with Lucia Morgan can be arranged by contacting
her brother, Nick Leach at 416-239-7792 or email at niknakonsys.com
Her inoculations were administered by The Works, a social agency.
(Director Ms. Shawn Hoppkins 416-392-0521) Lucia will be getting some
answers from this organisation. They are currently searching their
records to find out the make, the manufacturer and the lot number of the
serum she was administered. This problem is caused if you don't build up
resistance or "sero-convert." Though there is a test to see if you
can build up resistance or sero-convert before being inoculated, it is
not administered because it
is expensive. If information got out about the dangers of the
inoculations it could cause panic. Parents might refuse to inoculate
their children. This may be bad for the health of the general
population. This subject may, therefore be considered taboo amongst
health care officials. The Nightingale Foundation has struggled to get
the Ontario government to recognise this problem. Dr. Byron Hyde,
(1-613-722-5555 Ottawa), has treated over 200 victims. Out of 32 cases
he has testified at he has helped 30 people win cases against insurance
companies. At the last case he testified at he helped the victim win a 2
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million dollar settlement. The best time to call Dr. Hyde is Monday or
Tuesday morning.
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Contacts:
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Dr. Byron Hyde, 1-613-722-5555 (Ottawa)V/
Nick Leach, 416-239-7792 or <niknakonsys.com>
V.R.A.N., Vaccination Risk Awareness Network 416-280-6035
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another vaccine victime
million dollar settlement. The best time to call Dr. Hyde is Monday or
Tuesday morning.
Contacts:
Dr. Byron Hyde, 1-613-722-5555 (Ottawa)
Nick Leach, 416-239-7792 or <niknakonsys.com>
V.R.A.N., Vaccination Risk Awareness Network 416-280-6035
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>
> Classen, J.B., (1996) Childhood immunisation and diabetes mellitus, New
> Zealand Medical Journal, 195.
>
Herroelen, L., DeKeyser, J., Ebinger, G, (9/11/91), Central-nervous
> system demyelination after immunisation w/recombinant hepatitis B
> vaccine; The Lancet, Vol. 338, 1174,1175.
> Tudela, P, Salvador, M, Bonal, J, (1992), Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
> and Vaccination against Hepatitis B, Nephron, 62;236.
> Nadler, J.P., (1993), Multiple Sclerosis and Hepatitis B Vaccination,
> Clinical Infectious Diseases, 17:928-929.
> Peiro, E.F.; Yanez, J.L.; Carraminana, I.; Rullan, J.V.; Castell, J. A
> Study of an Outbreak of Hysteria after Hepatitis B, Vaccination.
> Medicina Clinica, June 1, 1996;107(1):l-3.
> M. Rotily, F. Baudier, P. Cavailler and J.P. Moatti, Attitudes and
> Practices of French Physicians Regarding, Hepatitis B Immunisation,
> (1996) Hepatitis Weekly,
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Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via@accessl.net (email)
http://www.909shot.com (NVIC website)
http://www.accessl.net/via (VIA website)
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Subject: ANOTHER VACCINE VICTIME
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 09:49:23 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: shaunsharp <shaundo@clear.net.nz>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl _net>
shaunsharp wrote:
ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT WRITES
It's a struggle for victims to fight back because the main symptom is
extreme fatigue. One victim, Lucia Morgan, was recently tested by Dr.
Hyde, Chairman of the Nightingale Foundation, in Ottawa. After a brain
scan she was asked if she had ever had electroshock treatment. Tests
showed she had suffered bhain damage. Lucia Morgan, who has a Masters
degree in Social Work, estimates, that her mental capacity has dropped
from a university Mastgrs-<fe^lLto a grade 9 high school level. She
can't read for more than 5 minutes, and often forgets the first sentence
she has read by the time she reaches the second sentence. She often has
trouble cooking for herself or taking a shower. She once
had a very intellectually and physically active life style. The extreme
fatigue is caused by the fact the part of the brain that is responsible
Re. GERMS HELP THE IMMUNE SYSTEM (not so fasti)
Subject: Re: GERMS HELP THE IMMUNE SYSTEM (not so fast!)
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 23:13:18 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: "bronwyn@vaccination.inoz.com" <faonwyn@vaccination.inoz.com>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
Bronwyn Hancock wrote:
> Gary,
> I must make some comment here. First of all, the article has nothing to do
> with herd immunity. Herd immunity is the principle that an outbreak of a
> childhood disease will wane once a certain percentage of the community that
> are exposed are immune. This percentage was estimated originally (before
> vaccination), and quite likely correctly, at about 67%.
> The vaccinators have actually taken the term "herd immunity" and
> bastardized it (as you'd expect from bastards!), by firstly assuming that
> vaccines bring immunity, and secondly continually raising the percentage
> (as a result of vaccines not working!), so the percentage they are now up
> to is 95%. Of course even with this their theory is already shown to be up
> the creek because you still get outbreaks in 100% vaccinated communities!
> They haven't worked out how to adapt to this, so until they do they are
> still sitting on the 95% theory !
> Anyway, the article below, to which you and Michael refer, is not about
> this, so there seems to be some confusion here.
> Secondly, I'm afraid I have to express some disagreement with you. Whilst
> you are not exactly overwhelmingly praising the article, I myself cannot
> even go so far as to say that it is a good article, because whilst it
> indicates that vaccines are counterproductive, the main reason it gives for
> this is TOTALLY incorrect. This fellow Prof Rook even talks hopefully about
> a future vaccine for asthma!
> The reason that vaccines are counterproductive in relation to assisting the
> immune system is NOT (as you yourself know of course, Gary) due to the
> prevention of infections, because they don't HAVE any protective effect.
> The reason that they are counterproductive is because they have the well
> documented effect of.sensitisation, and of course allergy, of which asthma
> is one manifestation, is a state of sensitisation. Professor Rook does
> mention this, but seems not to understand the significance. He does not
> realise that this sensitisation effect applies also in relation to the very
> germ that the vaccine is targeting, in other words vaccination does the
> OPPOSITE of bringing about resistance.
> I wrote an article about asthma recently for a girl doing an assignment on
> it. I will post it in a subsequent email, but the main principle is that
> the fact that vaccines cause allergy and asthma is very well documented
> already in the medical literature.
> Further, allergy, including asthma and hay fever, is a new condition. It
> was not around before vaccination - the word allergy was not even coined
> until 1906. Yet many kinds of different highly toxic AND very clean
> non-toxic conditions, an abundance of apparent infections, and a
> non-abundance of apparent infections, have been around in previous
> centuries. Medical research though shows sensitisation occurring also as a
> result of antibiotics, and other injections of toxic material. I'm not sure
> at this stage whether the toxic material needs to be injected, and in high
> levels in order to cause allergy to develop - I'm still trying to work tout
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> specifically what's so different about this century (apart from vaccines),
> but still vaccines do stand out as the prominent culprit.
> Apart from all the suggested reasons for younger children in families toeing
> less prone to asthma than their older siblings, it may also be due to the
> fact that the unfortunate first born children tend to be more Vaccina tdd,
> because new mothers are frightened, inexperienced, do what they'te told,
> and haven't yet seen the vaccine reactions they're about to be in for.
> It is also very incorrect for Professor Rook to believe that childhood
> infections pose a greater threat than asthma (apart from the
> inappropriateness of the comparison due to vaccines not working anyway) . If
> you look at the death rates for these infections, before vaccines were
> introduced, they pale into comparison with the death rate from asthma
> alone. 750 - 780 people die in Australia EACH year from asthma, and we only
> have about 250,000 biiths per year, so that's a rate of almost 1 in 300. It
> would not be dramatically different in the U.S. or the U.K.
> Bronwyn
>------- Original Message------> From:
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> Sent:
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> ppva@velocity.net; via@accessl.net
> Cc:
Doctor2t@aol.qgm; g.beattie@uq.net.au;''sue@wlir.com;
> healthdynamics@tsn.cc; bronwyn@vaccination.inoz.com; swancrk@erols.com
> Subject:
Re: GERMS HELP THE IMMUNE SYSTEM (not so fast!)
> Mike,
> Good article. If you check back over the years, you'll find quite a few
> articles buried in the journals that question the theory of herd immunity.
> But I have a couple of comments about the article. I don't think the
> determining factor is as cut and dry as "exposure to germs”.
> There is an important distinction between antisepsis and asepsis that we
> often forget about. It is one thing (a good thing) to keep our environment
> clean of waste matter (and the germs that acconpany it). Sanitary measures
> have benefited societies that employed it. But it is quite another thing
> to put preservatives (low-level poisons) in our foods, germicides in our
> soap, mouth wash, air freshioners, detergents, and floor cleaners, chlorine
> and fluoride in our drinking water, and to fill your neighbor's ground
> water with off-the-shelf weed killers. I could go on, but you get the
> point. The primary purpose of poisoning is intended to kill micro organises
> (both the beneficial and the and harmful ones). The removal of waste is
> secondary, and often not even performed. One example that comes to mind is
> pasteurization of milk. Killing some of the bacteria (some beneficial) in
> milk has allowed factory farms to be less attendent to cleanliness.
> Pasteurization has also extended the shelf life of the milk, even though
> the milk still putrifies. We just can't detect it anymore by smelling it,
> thanks to pasteurization.
> So I would say that the results that this article is looking at are
> clouded. We don't know if the immune system problems are the result of
> waste i germ removal (traditional hygiene), or the result of leaving
> poisons (germicides) in the environment with less attention to waste
> removal (modern-day "hygiene") . I say it's caused by the latter.
> I would also dispute the following quote from an historical context:
> "The logic is that for thousands of years humans lived in filthy
> conditions, and evolved an exquisitely sensitive immune system to defend us
> from the dirt and its attendant germs."
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However, not every society in the past lived in filth. I recently saw an
A&E documentary commenting on the incredibly pure water supply in the
aquaducts of the Roman Empire (and Greece too) . They also had pure air and
they built roads that brought fresh crops and produce to markets quickly.
In short, a clean environment without the use of poisons. And guess what:
no disease epidemics either. Of course, there are other examples too.
My other comment pertains to this quote from the article:
"There is as yet no direct proof that fighting infections makes a person
less allergy-prone, but there is plenty of circumstantial evidence, younger
siblings from large families have lower rates of allergic diseases than
older siblings or children from small families, perhaps because they ^re
exposed early in life to natural infections brought in by older siblings.
And children who recover from natural infection by measles have half the
rate of allergic reactions to house dust mites compared with those
vaccinated. "
However, Henry Bieler, MD observed that the first-born are indeed more
prone to immune system disorders than later sibblings, but for reasons
having nothing to do with exposure to germs. He theorized that the first
born child absorbs more toxins from the mother than subsequent births
because the mother has more stored-up toxins prior to the first birth. The
u^^us becomes a site of vicarious elimination of waste during
menstruation. Concomitant with the first birth is the largest release of
toxins by the woman. And menopause, not surprisingly, brings a host of
other symptoms and ailments resulting from poisons that used to be
eliminated though menstrual channels.
On the basis of toxemia and vicarious elimination--not germs—we can also
surmise that children that experience this house-cleaning effect (so-called
"natural" measles) have less of a toxic load and therefore suffer less from
immune disorders than vaccinated children that don't "get" (experience)
measles.
Also, the excessive use of germ killers, as opposed to traditional germ
removal (removal of waste matter) may be a factor here as well. The large
molecules in antibiotics, for example, readily form antigens with proteins.
When this happens, antibodies are formed in the body. If that person is
exposed to other germicides in the environment, it may come in contact with
the antibodies within the cells. Allergic reactions as mild as skin rashes,
or as serious as anaphylactic shock, may follow.
While I like the article for suggesting vaccination is counterproductive, I
d^lt think we necessarily have to accept the notion that early exposure to
a wide spectrum of microbes provides a training ground to give our bodies
the ability to properly react later on. Let's be mindful of alternate
explanations, and remove ALL justification for doctors to micromanage our
body chemistry, or for the drug companies to bottle and sell to us things
that our bodies are already capable of at birth. No other philosophy except
Natural Hygiene does that.
gary
Coalition For Informed choice. Gary Krasner, Director
PO BOX 230426, Hollis, NY 11423
fax/phone: 718-479-2939, email: gk-cfic@juno.com
"Protect your rights! Become an advocate and inform others"
On Mon, 03 May 1999 22:03:54 -0700 karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
writes:
Michael Belkin wrote:
!<e: GERMS HELP THE IMMUNE SYSTEM (not so fast!)
> This excellent FT article calls into question the whole concept of "herd
> immunity" on which US vaccination policy is based. The US vaccine
> establishment is operating on a primitive and flawed theory of ininunology.
> The CDC is trying to eliminate every germ from the face of the earth
> through universal vaccination. According to this article, that's tM way to
> a weaker immune system and more auto-immune diseases.
> Notice this research comes from the UK, where scientists are not as
> controlled by Merck and SmithKline as are the medical prostitutes in the
> US. Dr. Severyn in Ohio has just released an intercepted memo from the
> American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) thanking the Chairmen of Merck for a
> $100,000 donation. Wonder is that has anything to do with the AAP's
> recommendation to administer hepatitis B vaccine to every baby thdt comes
> through pediatrician's front door? Merck's Recombivax HBV has about half
> the market.
>
Michael Belkin
>
>
Financial Times
Science April 29 1999
>
IMMUNOLOGY: A little dirt may do you good
> Exposure to germs may help reduce the risk of allergies and infectious
> diseases, says Kate Bendall
> The control of smallpox, cholera, leprosy and infectious diseases, through
> improved hygiene, widespread vaccination programmes and antibiotics, is one
> of the triumphs of modern medicine.
> But how far should we go to protect ourselves from germs? Some people are
> so concerned about infection they avoid touching handrails in railway
> stations, in the belief that the less their exposure to germs, the better
> their chances of staying healthy.
> However, trying to avoid germs in a world teeming with microbes may not be
> a route to perfect health. Immunologists Graham Rook and John Stanford from
> University College London suggest that drastically reduced contact with
> micro-organisms may make us more prone to allergies such as asthma and hay
> fever, and even increase the likelihood of developing a serious autoimmune
> disease such as diabetes or rheumatoid arthritis.
> Rates of allergic diseases have soared in industrialised nations over the
> past decades, and autoimmune diseases are also becoming more common. There
> are probably several contributing factors, including worsening atmospheric
> pollution. However, Profs Rook and Stanford believe that highly hygienic
> lifestyles may be at least partly to blame.
> The logic is that for thousands of years humans lived in filthy
> conditions, and evolved an exquisitely sensitive immune system to defend us
> from the dirt and its attendant germs. The basic components of the immune
> system are present in a newborn baby but humans require frequent exposure
> to micro-organisms in the environment (the majority of which do not cause
> disease) for the immune cells to develop full reactivity. The kinds of
> infectious agents to which a person gets exposed influence the way in which
> the immune system develops.
> Central to Profs Rook and Stanford's hypothesis is the activation of
> immune cells, known as T helper (Th) cells, which are essential in almost
> all immune responses. Th cells come in two main categories. Activated Thl
> cells stimulate other "effector" cells to defend us in various ways, for
> example by drilling holes in any of our cells which have been infected by
> bacteria
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> or viruses, or by swellowing up micro-organisms. Th2 cells stimulate
> different kinds of effector cells -including cells that release an antibody
> called IgE. IgE triggers a chain of events that makes it easier for other
> immune cells to penetrate sites of inflammation.
> Unfortunately, though, an over-production of IgE antibodies provokes
> allergic reactions. Prof Rook explains that in the past, the multitude of
> microbes in soil and untreated water to which humans would have been
> exposed from birth onwards would
> have acted as "sparring partners" for the development of immune cells,
> particularly Thl cells. However, in today's sanitised conditions our Thl
> cells are deprived of much of the stimulation they "expect" to receive.
> Another change is that nearly all childhood vaccines tend to provoke Th2
> responses, while in contrast, natural recovery from infections stimulates
> Thl responses. This may augment the effect of enthusiastic hygiene in
> making us more allergy-prone.
> However, Prof Rook says the enormous benefits of vaccination easily
> outweigh the possible drawback of increasing susceptibility to allergies.
> Serious infections remain a far greater threat to human health than asthma
> and hay fever.
> Meanwhile, scientists are working to redesign some vaccines to stimulate
> Thl rather than Th2 cells. As well as protecting against specific diseases,
> these would probably provide a better education for the immune system.
> There is as yet no direct proof that fighting infections makes a person
> less allergy-prone, but there is plenty of circumstantial evidence. Younger
> siblings from large families have lower rates of allergic diseases than
> older siblings or children from small families, perhaps because they are
> exposed early in life to natural infections brought in by older siblings.
> And children who
> recover from natural infection by measles have half the rate of allergic
> reactions to house dust mites compared with those vaccinated.
> Other evidence suggests less exposure to bacteria might also be responsible
> for the recent higher rates of some autoimmune disorders in industrial
> nations. In one study, children with insulin-dependent diabetes were less
> likely to have had an infection in their first year of life than children
> without the disease. Another investigation found that rats are more likely
> to develop arthritis when raised in germ-free conditions.
> One explanation is that a healthy person produces millions of immune
> cells, including some capable of attacking their own body. Somehow the
> immune system learns to ignore the body's own proteins, while attacking
> foreign ones. Exactly how it does this is not understood, but the control
> mechanisms that keep autoreactive cells in check might be stimulated by
> exposure to bacteria.
> Another challenge is to uncover exactly what it is that provides a good
> stimulus for the immune system. "We hope it's simple - if it is, we can put
> it in a bottle," Prof Rook says. A vaccination of harmless germs to protect
> against asthma and hayfever may be available in the future. In the
> meantime, we need good hygiene to control infectious diseases: but some
> exposure to germs
> might be good for us.
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Vaccine Information S Awareness (VIA)
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Subject: GLOBAL IMMUNIZATION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 23:45:51 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: Carolyn <ppva@velocity.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
Carolyn wrote:
> "Global Immunization for the 21st Century"
> Science (04/23/99) Vol. 284, No. 5414, P. 587; Nossal, Gustav J.V.
> Some 15 years after the Bellagio Conference, where a $100 million
> annual initiative to vaccinate 80 percent of children globally
> with six of the most common infant vaccines was initiated, the
> Italian study center Villa Serbilloni in Bellagio recently once
> again became the site of a historic meeting. In mid-March,
> United Nations representatives convened with leaders from the
> vaccine industry, aid agencies, foundations, and some academic
> institutions to discuss a new partnership aimed at saving 40
> million lives during the next decade. The project could cost as
> much as $3 billion annually. In an editorial, Gustav J. V.
> Nossal, professor emeritus in the Department of Pathology at the
> University of Melbourne and chair of the meeting, discounts
> rumors that the meeting failed. Nossal notes that the World
> Health Organization added staff and boosted resources for its
> restructured immunization programs, and UNICEF renewed its pledge
> to pour 56 percent of its discretionary health fund into
> immunization. Representatives from drug companies said they
> would increase production of new vaccines and supply these
> products to poorer nations at discounted prices. World Bank
> representatives also agreed to gather and head a working party on
> financing that would look at, among other things, a Global
> Vaccine Fund.
> Pennsylvania Parents for Vaccine Awareness
> P.O. Box 173
> Mill Village, Pa. 16427
> Email: ppva@velocity.net
> Web Page: http://www.erie.net/~noshotz
> The information contained in this message
> should not be construed with medical or legal
> advice. The vaccination decision is yours
> alone to make.
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Subject: [Fwd: SIDSj
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 15:37:52 -0700
From: karin schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: "sochara@blr.vsnl.net.in" <sochara@blr.vsnl.net.in>
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Subject: SIDS
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 96 06:38:00 +0000
From: karin schumacher <mandee@worldnet.att.net>
To: Vaccine Information & Awareness <via@eden.com>
Dear Parent:
I am so sorry for you loss. I am sending this letter in hopes of providing
a possible answer.
It is not intended to evoke guilt or remorse but
perhaps to provide information. If you would like to discuss this, please
feel free to email me. I would certainly not want to cause you any more
pain than you have already experienced. I write this letter to you not to
create more pain over the recent loss of your child but to perhaps provide
information as to why your child died suddenly and was a victim of Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome, SIDS.
I run an organization called Vaccine Information and Awareness, VIA. This
group is dedicated to empower parents to question, challenge, investigate,
research and become more informed and aware about the risks and dangers that
exist with vaccines. The major philosophy of this group, however, is to
ensure that Freedom of Choice is not taken away from each parent. The
decision to vaccinate is one that should and must be made by the parent
alone.
As you may or may not know, there are many cases where there has
been a vaccine death that has been misattributed co SIDS. In fact, since
the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program inception in 1986, there
have been 227 deaths that were mislabeled as SIDS but were determined to be
vaccine induced.
Many parents are never told that high-pitched screaming, listlessness,
paleness, sweating or vomiting are reactions to the DPT vaccine and can lead
to death. In fact most vaccine related deaths are misdiagnosed as Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome, SIDS. If your child had a vaccine within a few days
of his death and experienced a vaccine reaction you might want to consider
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looking into it. While no amount of money can compensate you for your loss,
there is evidence that a sibling of a child that has reacted is at higher
risk of reacting and sustaining permanent brain damage or death.
No one believes that every SIDS death can be blamed on vaccines, yet there
are some that are vaccine related.
I can only imagine the pain and grief
you must be experiencing but if you could answer some questions such as when
your infant received any vaccine and when she died, you may be eligible for
compensation for the death of your child. I know this would not bring your
child back but this fund was set up to in some way compensate the parents
for the damage the vaccine may have caused.
Please understand the intent in which this letter is written. If you would
be interested in contacting me, please feel free and I will give you more
information on who co contact and how they can help.
Again, I am terribly
sorry for your loss.
Sincerely yours,
Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness, VIA
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Subject: SIDS REFERRAL
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 21:16:52 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl ,net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: crossbow@QNET.COM
Most of the doctors who review cases work on behalf of lawfirms and do
not work directly with the families. However, I would refer you to Dr.
Mark Geier in Maryland and see if he would be able to help you. One of
the problems is that there is no autopsy protocol to identify a fatal
reaction. Usually the few autopsy reports that identify the vaccine as a
culprit hinge on the report of the parents to the coroner reflecting the
health of the child from the time of the shot until the time of death.
Most of the deaths are misclassified as SIDS. Dr. Geier can be reached
at 301-989-0548.
Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via@accessl.net (email)
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Subject: SIDS REFERRAL
Date: Tue. 08 Jun 1999 16:53:37 -0700
From: karin sehumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
Kathi Williams wrote:
> Most of the doctors who review cases work on behalf of lawfirms and do not
> work directly with the families. However, I would refer you to Dr. Mark
> Geier in Maryland and see if he would be able to help you. One of the
> problems is that there is no autopsy protocol to identify a fatal reaction.
> Usually the few autopsy reports that identify the vaccine as a culprit hinge
> on the report of the parents to the coroner reflecting the health of the
> child from the time of the shot until the time of death. Most of the deaths
> are misclassified as SIDS. Dr. Geier can be reached at 301-989-0548. I am so
> sorry to learn of you son's death.
>------- Original Message------> From:
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> Sent:
Friday, March 05, 1999 7:24 PM
> To:
kathi williams
> Subject:
KATHI—I THINK YOU ARE BETTER EQUIPPED FOR THIS ONE.Re: Information
> Requested
> The Taylor's <m.k. taylor@erols.com> wrote:
>> I am an NVIC Member
> > Mark K Taylor
> > 328 Linden Rd
> > Churchville, PA 18966
> > 215-942-4584
>> I have the autopsy report for my son Alex who supposedly died of SIDS last
> > July 98. The coroners office was extremely slow to get the report to me
> and
> > I did not recieve this till the end of Jan 99. I am extremely
> disappionted
>> by the level of detail in the report. It appears as if this report was
> > written for a first grade education. I have contacted the coroners office
>> to request more specific information about why Alex may have died but they
> > have not responded to my requests. Alex died 4 days after getting his 2nd
> > DTaP shot. Alex's sleeping pattern, eating pattern and unconsolable
> crying
> > those 4 days was totally out of character. After knowing what I know now
> > and not what I knew then, before he got his shot; I believe that he was
> > having a severe vaccine reaction.
>> Is there someone you can refer me to that I can send the coroners report
> to?
> > I want someone that I can trust to review the findings and request more
> > specific information from the county coroners office. Please help or
> point
> > me in the right direction.
> > Regards,
> > Mark K Taylor
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Subject: SV40 AND THE POLIO VACCINE
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 00:19:05 +0600
From: Karin Schumacher <via@ihot.com>
To: Karin Schumacher <via@ihot.com>
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
Associated Press Writer
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Scientists are dusting off a 40-year-old medical
mystery: Does a monkey virus that contaminated a polio vaccine millions
of Americans took during the 1950s increase the risk of certain rare
cancers'?
Government data suggest such fears are unwarranted, because
the types of cancer involved do not appear to be increasing among people
old enough to have gotten the tainted vaccine. And the polio vaccine
sold today is tested to ensure it is free of this monkey virus, called
SV40.
But scientists recently found genetic pieces of the SV40 lurking inside
tumors removed from cancer victims, and injecting the virus into
laboratory animals gives them cancer.
That's far from proof that SV40 actually harmed a person. But
international scientists who spent two days furiously debating the issue
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‘-ere contend this virus might predispose some people — perhaps those
with damaged immune systems — to certain cancers of the brain, bone and
And some question whether continuing to use monkey tissue to make
yaccmes might allow viruses that people don't yet know exist to sneak
in. ''Make it in anything but animals,'’ said Barbara Loe Fisher of the
National Vaccine Information Center, which criticizes vaccine safety.
We have the technology to make vaccines in human cell lines that are
clean,' ' said Dr. Michele Carbone of Loyola University Medical Center,
one of the first to discover SV40 inside human tumors.
Carbone doesn't want Americans to fear vaccines; he recently had his own
child immunized against polio. But government officials worry that even
debating the issue will frighten some parents. ''We do a grave
disservice to the public if we were now to question the safety of the
current polio vaccines on the basis of SV40,’' warned Dr. Arthur Levine
of the National Institutes of Health.
Making polio vaccines using
human cells — the kind sold in Canada but not here — isn't risk free
either, Levine added, because they must be tested for human infections.
Mass vaccination with the then-new polio vaccine began in 1955. But in
1960, doctors discovered SV40 in monkeys and in the vaccine. When they
injected this virus into hamsters, it caused cancer, so the Food and
Drug Administration ordered companies to manufacture virus-free
versions.
But by the time they reached the market in 1963, as many as
98 million people may have been exposed to SV40.
Whether that early
contamination posed any harm was debated during the 1960s and 1970s, but
then faded away until 1992 — when Carbone found SV40's genetic
fingerprint inside human cancer.
Carbone tested preserved samples of rare child brain tumors called
ependymomas, bone tumors and a particularly deadly lung cancer called
mesothelioma that mostly strikes people exposed to asbestos.
He found
pieces of SV40's genetic material inside 60 percent of the brain and
lung cancers he tested, and a third of the bone cancers he tested.
Other scientists got mixed results. British researchers, for example,
spotted
SV40 signs in 44 percent of the mesotheliomas they tested, and a Baylor
University researcher even culled the actual virus from a tumor. Some of
the tumors were from people exposed to the tainted vaccine, but not all
— and some researchers found SV40 in noncancerous tissue, suggesting
the virus either had spread or was in humans before tainted vaccine.
But other scientists couldn't find the virus in human tissue at all, and
questioned whether laboratory contamination was fooling their
colleagues.
Carbone and other researchers now have preliminary evidence that SV40
may do damage by tying up proteins vital to keeping cells from turning
cancerous.
Also, SV40 appears related to two human viruses that
harmlessly infect nearly all Americans, but which cause rare cancers in
people with severely damaged immune systems, such as AIDS patients. That
suggests SV40 could similarly be a risk only to immune-suppressed
patients.
But NIH's Dr. Howard Strickler studied cancer rates and
found no evidence of
a jump among people old enough to have gotten the tainted vaccine.
Neither did researchers in Sweden, who compared 700,000 people who got
tainted U.S. vaccine against the general population that received
virus-free vaccine.
Those studies wouldn't detect small rises in these very rare tumors,
Strickler acknowledged.
But while he called the data ''intriguing,'1
Strickler joined Food and Drug Administration officials Tuesday to
emphasize that it does not ''point us in a clear direction of whether
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— and some researchers found SV40 in noncancerous tissue, suggesting
the virus either had spread or was in humans before tainted vaccine.
But other scientists couldn’t find the virus in human tissue at ail, and
Questioned whether laboratory contamination was fooling their
colleagues.
Carbone and other researchers now have preliminary evidence that SV40
may do damage by tying up proteins vital to keeping cells from turning
cancerous.
Also, SV40 appears related to two human viruses that
harmlessly infect nearly all Americans, but which cause rare cancers in
people with severely damaged immune systems, such as AIDS patients. That
suggests SV40 could similarly be a risk only to immune-suppressed
patients.
But NIH's Dr. Howard Strickler studied cancer rates and
found no evidence of
a jump among people old enough to have gotten the tainted vaccine.
Neither did researchers in Sweden, who compared 700,000 people who got
tainted U.S. vaccine against the general population that received
virus-free vaccine.
Those studies wouldn't detect small rises in these very rare tumors,
Strickler acknowledged.
But while he called the data ''intriguing,''
Strickler joined Food and Drug Administration officials Tuesday to
emphasize that it does not ''point us in a clear direction of whether
this virus is a cause of cancer.’’
The government called for more
research, although it wouldn't commit to federal funding, and Strickler
is preparing archives of tumor tissue for scientists-to test.
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Subject: THE POLITICS OF VACCINATION
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 11:51:19 -0700
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To: Karin Schumacher <via@ihot.com>
'.■.'orthC8P@aol.com wrote:
From:
rgosser@westol.com (Dr. Rich Gosser)
Vaccination extracts from Medical Mafia by Guylaine Lanctct, M.D. ISBN
0964412608
Why this lethal relentlessness?
What is the objective of the world authorities in destroying people's
health, both in industrialized countries and in the Third World? It is
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always difficult to presume the intentions of others, particularly when
one is not close to them. And this is true in this instance. But there
are certainly advantages for someone, somewhere, to so doggedly keep-up
the campaign for vaccinations, by any and all means possible. They must
profit someone, somewhere. One thing is certain. It is not to our
advantage. In order to determine what these advantages are, and for
whom, let us stop and look at the CONSEQUENCES of these massive
vaccination programs and draw our own conclusions.
I. Vaccination is expensive and represents a cost of one billion
dollars annually. It therefore benefits the industry; most notably, the
multinational manufacturers. One sells the vaccines. The other then
provides the arsenal of medications to respond to the numerous
complications that follow. Their profits increase while our expenses go
through the roof. To the point where we have simply had it up to here
and are ready to accept the unacceptable, such as socialized medicine in
the United States, for example.
http://www.pnc■com.au/~cafmr/coulter/sids■html
http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/coulter/vacc-deb.html
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2. Vaccination stimulates the immune system, the body's defense
mechanism. Repeated, vaccination exhausts the immune system. It gives a
false sense of security and, in doing so, it opens the door wide to all
kinds of illnesses. Notably, to those related to AIDS, which can only
develop on ripe ground, where the immune system has been disturbed. It
causes AIDS to explode. It ensures that the illness flourishes
oeroetuallv.
http://alt.medmarket.com/members/reiddds/herbplus/info/immune.html
3.
Vaccination leads to social violence and crime. What better way
to destabi-lize a country than to disarm its inhabitants, and reinforce
police and military control? The authorities subtly create situations of
panic and fear among the population which, in turn, necessitate the
reinforcement of protection measures", including forbidding citizens
from owning weapons. The authorities then come across as saviors and
strengthen their control. It is certain that, in order to impose a
single world army, one must first disarm the citizens of every country
One muse therefore create violence, if they are to achieve this
disarmament, particularly in the United States where the right to bear
arms is guaranteed by the Constitution.
4.
Vaccination encourages medical dependence and reinforces belief
in the inefficiency of the body. It creates people who need permanent
assistance. It replaces the confidence one has in oneself with a blind
confidence in others, outside ourselves. It leads to loss of personal
dignity, in addition to making us financially dependent. It draws us
into the vicious circle of sickness (fear - poverty - submission) and,
in this way, ensures the submission of the herd so as to better dominate
and exploit it. And then lead them to the abattoir. To slaughter.
Vaccination also encourages the moral and financial dependence of Third
World countries. It perpetuates the social and economic control of
Western countries over them.
5.
Vaccination camouflages the real socio-political problems of
poverty of some due to exploitation by others, and results in
techno-scientific pseudo-solutions that are so complicated and
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sophisticated that oatients cannot understand them. In addition,
vaccination diverts funds which should be used to help improve living
conditions, and channels them into the banks of the multinationals. It
widens the gap between the dominant rich and the exploited poor.
5.
Vaccination decimates populations. Drastically in ihird horld
countries. Chronically in industrialized countries. In this regard, the
former President of the World Bank, former Secretary of State in the
United States, who ordered massive bombing of Vietnam, and member of the
Expanded Program on Immunization, Robert McNamara, made some very
interesting remarks. As reported by a French publication, j''ai tout
compris", he was quoted as stating: "One must take draconian measures of
demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the
birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must
therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and
sickness." (Translation)
7. Vaccination enables the selection of populations to be decimated. It
facilitates targeted genocide. It permits one to kill people of a
certain race, a certain group, a certain country. And to leave others
untouched. In the name of health and well-being, of course.
http://www. tetrahedron.org/research.htm
http://www.new-atlantean■com/global/birthcon.html
Take .Africa, for example. We have witnessed the almost total
disappearance of certain groups. Some 50% dead, estimate the most
optimistic. Some 70% dead, according to the less optimistic. As if by
chance, many were in the same region, such as Zaire, Uganda, the extreme
south of the Sudan. In 1967, at Marburg in Germany, seven researchers,
working with green African monkeys, died of an unknown hemorrhagic
fever, in 1969, also by chance, the same sick-ness killed one thousand
people in Uganda. In 1976, a new unknown hemor-rhagic fever killed in
the south of Sudan. Then in Zaire. It is noteworthy that sincel968,
virologists (virus specialists) have installed their sophisticated
equipment in certain hospitals in Zaire.
At a CIA hearing, Dr.
Gotlieb, a cancerologist, admitted having dispersed, in 1960, a large
quantity of viruses in the Congo River (in Zaire) to pollute it and
contaminate all the people who used the river
as their source of water. Dr. Gotlieb was named to head up the National
Cancer Institute!
A couple of years ago, Reuters reported: 'An illness similar to .AIDS has
killed 60,000 in the south of Sudan. They call the illness, the killer.
Families, whole villages, have disappeared This illness, the Kalaazar,
takes the form of a fever and toss of weight. The symptoms are the same
as those of AIDS The immune system is deficient and one dies of other
infections.” It is obvious that Africa, particularly those countries iri
the center and to the south, contain fabulous resources that have always
incited westerners to crush their inhabitants to take over their riches.
And beware anyone who stands in their way. The colonies have
disappeared. But not colonialism.
8. Vaccination serves as a form of experimentation, to test new
products on a great sampling of a population. Under the guise of health
and the well-being of the population, people are vaccinated against a
pseudo-epidemic with products that one wants to studv. The vaccine of
hepatitis B seems to be the choice of authorities to accomplish this
goal. Yet, this vaccine is manufactured by a process of genetic
manipulation. And it is much more dangerous than the traditional vaccine
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because it inoculates into the body cells that are foreign to its
genetic code. Moreover; this vaccine is produced from virus cultivated
on the ovaries of Chinese hamsters. One can only imagine what future
generations will look like! But there is more. It is also reported to
cause cancer of the liver. Despite all that, it enjoys great popularity
among the authorities, who impose it first on all those who work in the
health field, and then on the rest of the population.
http:/ ,/www.new-atlantean■com/global/ith gulf.html
In 1986, the medical authorities administered the vaccine against
hepatitris B to Native Indian children in Alaska, without any explanation
or the consent of their parents. Many children fell ill. And several
died. It seems there was a virus called RSV (Rous Sarcoma Virus) in the
vaccine.
American Indian tribes have been subjected to many
vaccinations. Let us be aware that they are difficult to beat into
submission, and they own vast tracts of land which the authorities would
like to have for their own benefit.
Recently when I met a group of Native women to chat about health with
them, the subject of vaccinations cropped up. I was giving them some
information on the topic when, suddenly, the group's nurse confided in
me that the federal government had given her complete freedom in the
management of their health, but on one strict condition. That every
vaccination had to be scrupulously applied to all. The silence was
deafening. We all understood.
In 1988, the Ambassador of Senegal gave a radio interview reporting on
the ravages of AIDS in his country where entire villages were being
decimated. A few years earlier, scientific and medical teams had come to
vaccinate their inhabitants against hepatitis B.
In 1978, a new
vaccine was tested on homosexuals in New York. And in 1980, on those in
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, and St Louis. Officially,
this "new vaccine" was against hepatitis B and, as we now know, it
caused many of them to die from AIDS. It sounded the "official"
begin-ning of the AIDS epidemic in 1981.
The vaccination program of
homosexuals against hepatitis B was led by Saint W.H.O. and the National
Institute of Health.
There are reports of collaboration between these
two organizations in 1970 to study the consequences of certain viruses
and bacteria introduced to children during vaccination campaigns. In
1972, they transformed this study to focus on the viruses which provoked
a drop in the immune mechanism.
Wolf Szmuness directed the anti-hepatitis B experiments undertaken in
New York. He had very close links with the Blood Centre where he had his
laboratory, the National Institute of Health, the National Cancer
Institute, the FDA., the W.H.O., and the Schools of Public Health of
Cornell, Yale, and Harvard.
In 1994 a vast vaccination campaign
against hepatitis B was undertaken in Canada. It is both useless,
dangerous and costly. And what for? Is there a hidden agenda? I note
that the Province of Quebec is a
particular target, over the course of three years.
1992: vaccination against meningitis
1993: re-vaccination against meningitis
1994: vaccination against hepatitis B.
I was there in 1993. It troubled me to see that it was aimed at a whole
generation (1 to 20 years), in only one province. Since when do viruses
respect borders, and specially provincial ones at that? The facts
are:
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There was no epidemic, nor risk of one. Epidemiologists confirmed
it.
Three different vaccines were administered, each in a designated area.
Certain nurses were selected and trained to administer a special
vaccine.
All children were entered into a computerized data bank.
The pressure to vaccinate the children was enormous.
Schools were turned into clinics. Those who did not want to be
vaccinated were
pointed out and treated as social outcasts.
Nurses chased down parents at home who did not want their children
vaccinated.
I had a direct account of one of these kids. The mother did not want her
child vaccinated The nurse who came to the house made her believe that
it was compulsory. The mother gave in... The child is now handicapped:
physically and mentally (paralyzed spastic).
The vaccination cost $30 million.
Why was there such a murderous will.
like Native peoples, the people of Quebec are also a "bother".
They
believe in their cultural identity and in sovereignty. What is more,
Quebec with its Native territories, encompasses huge reservoirs of water
which many a multinational have their eyes on. As an acquaintance of
mine who sits on the California water management board said, "Water
today is gold." Could one think of a more appropriate biological weapon
to possibly remove any impediments to accessing that resource?
9.
Vaccinations permit epidemiological studies of populations to
collect data on the resistance of different ethnic groups to different
illnesses. It permits one to study the reactions of the immune systems
of large numbers of the population to an antigen (virus, microbe)
injected by vaccination. Should it be within the framework of the fight
against an existing illness, or one that has been provoked. In 1987,
certain American laboratories and the Department of Biotechnology of
India signed an agreement authorizing the testing of genetically
manufactured vaccines on the people of India. This agreement was met
with fierce opposition because it gave access to epidemiological and
immunity profiles of a population. This data is extremely important from
a military standpoint. It is even more valuable because India has never
experienced yellow fever. And, at time of writing this book, it had
known only a handful case of AIDS. Over and
above all that, the private American laboratories proposed to test
products on the Indian population for which they had no right to test in
the United States! And the Indian authorities acquiesced!
10.
Vaccination is a biological weapon at the service of biological
warfare. It permits the targeting of people of a certain race, and
leaves the others who are close by more or less untouched. It makes it
possible to intervene in the hereditary lineage of anyone selected. A
new speciality is born. Genetic engineering. It is flourishing, enjoys
much prestige, and is receiving substantial research hinds. The
challenge is staggering. To find a vaccine which gives an illness
against which we already have the vaccine! In this way, we would be able
to send in troops who have already been vaccinated against the killer
vaccine, which they would then spread among the enemy. It is absolutely
crazy and insane!
Meanwhile, industrial theft is in full swing. Captain and biologist of
the US Navy at Fort Detrick, Neil Levitt, reported the disappearance of
2.35 liters or an experimental vaccine. A dose sufficient to contaminate
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the entire world. Fort Detrick is a research laboratory which
manufactures vaccines. It is located quite close to Washington, in
Maryland, and it is attached to the National Cancer Institute at
Bethesda, a suburb of the capital.
It is hardly astonishing that, in
every major vaccination campaign, one
finds the same tangled web. Government, the military, Saint W.H.O.,
financiers, researchers, laboratories, universities, the CIA, and the
World Bank.
Let us not lose sight of the fact that:
In the name of the defense of our countries, we manufacture the most
murderous of weapons. War; whether it be biological or not, is war. And
weapons kill. Biological warfare is a giant business, largely financed
BY OUR FUNDS, through the medium of the military, research, and our
donations. It is also financed, and without our knowledge, BY OUR LIVES.
Those of our children and of millions of innocents who have been
sacrificed. It is we, those who live in the Western world, who are
responsible for all the illnesses and acts of genocide in the world. By
our acceptance of vaccinations, both at home and abroad.
http://www.pnc■com.au/~cafmr/online/vaccine/index,html
http://www.unc■edu/~aphi11ip/www/vaccine/informed ■hem
http://www.new-atlantean■com/global/vaccine.html
http://www.909shot.com/
http://www.gn■ape.orq/inquirer/rubella2■html
http://www.unc-edu/~aphillip/www/vaccine/informed.htm
http://www.ozemail■com.au/~shotinfo/
Richard A. Gosser
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Subject: VACCINATION INFORMATION
Date: Thu. 12 Mar 1998 00:40:26 -0800
From: via@accessl.net (via)
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>. johnli <harrej@sirius.com>
You might wish to check out the Vaccine Information and Awareness (VIA)
website:<http:/ /www.access1.net/via>■ You’ll find links to both "pro"
and "con" sites there. The "cons" can be broken down into a few
categories:
(1) adverse reactions—by this I mean especially the truly severe
reactions, including death (i.e., those compensable under PL99-660, the
National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986--VIA has links to info
about the compensation program);
(2) efficacy—no vaccine induces immunity in all recipients; estimates
on efficacy range from <50% for some vaccines to around 95% (max.)
...the fact that vaccine-conferred immunity "wears off" (perhaps in 10
years, on average, necessitating "booster" shots which, btw, aren't
very effective with some vaccines) shouldn't be overlooked, either;
(3) necessity--are certain vaccines really necessary at all?
Many of the diseases vaccines are designed to prevent are fairly
innocuous, and permanent sequelae are relatively rare thanks to
continuing advances in post-infection treatment.
(This, of course,
assumes that parents/caregivers are competent to monitor an ill child.)
In addition, many believe that contracting various "childhood" diseases
in ’childhood’ (many—measles, mumps, and rubella, for example— are
occurring more
frequently in ’adults’) "primes" the body's immune system and prepares
it for assaults later in life; an article in Science (Jan. '97?)
questioned whether the dramatic increase in the incidence of asthma
might be attributable to kids ’not* acquiring/overcoming childhood
illnesses;
(4) long-range/term effects (i.e., those that don't manifest themselves
immediately) such as ADD, autism, various cancers (there's a lot of info
re the contamination of polio vaccine used in the late '50s and early
60s with a simian virus, SV-40, and the discovery of SV-40 in a variety
of ciopsied tumors), and autoimmune disorders (e.g., multiple sclerosis,
lupus, arthritis) ...while no links have been conclusively proven,
researchers are studying the possibility that vaccines play a role; and
(5) "political" considerations, an umbrella term for such issues as
whether various governments should have the right (yes, they do have the
authority) to mandate and enforce the use of products with acknowledged
risks, whether vaccine administrators should be required to ’fully*
disclose the risks associated with vaccines/vaccinations (i.e., obtain
’genuine* informed consent prior to vaccinating an individual), and
whether vaccination policy should be made by persons (members of the
CDC's Immunization Practices Advisory Committee—the ACIP--and the AAP's
"Red Book" committee) who have
received hundreds of thousands of dollars from vaccine manufacturers.
Scrry this is so long; even at that, I'm sure I've left out many of the
factors that have led a lot of parents to at least question, if not
forgo, vaccinations for their children (and themselves!)
Good luck
with your research--it's a tough decision.
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Subject: VACCINE EXEMPTIONS
Date: Sun. 18 May 1997 12:54:37 -0700
From: via@ihot.com
To: "L. Starling" <lstar@strato.net>
Q: Do you know how 'strict' the religious exemption is in X State? Can
you sign a waiver and simply state it is against your personal religous
belief (similiar to the philosophical exemption)? Or do you need a
letter from your pastor? Thank you.
A: There are 50 states that offer a medical exemption
There are 48 states that offer a religious exemption
There are 17 +/- states that offer a philosophical (available
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You can either order the state statute for your state through the NVIC
website at http://www.909shot.com
OR:
1.
You can contact the Local public health department.
2. You can contact your local representative who should be able to get
the information for you.
3. The Statute might be available via the net (use the search engines
available on the VIA website (http:www/ihot.com/~via)
The _aws vary greatly by state to state, change constantly so it is
difficult to give you the most current information. There are some
religious exemptions that may be less restrictive to others, and could
be construed as philosophical beliefs. But it is very state specific.
Good luck.
LEGAL EXEMPTIONS TO VACCINATION
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Religious, medical and philosophical exemptions are worded differently
in each state. To use an exemption for your child, you must know
specifically what the law says in your state. To obtain a copy of your
law, ask your local reference librarian to help you. Ask for the public
health codes, education and welfare laws pertaining to vaccination
requirements for school entry.
Philosophical Exemotion: The following 17 states allow exemption to
vaccination based on philosophical beliefs: Arizona, California,
Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico,
North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont,
Washington and Wisconsin.
In many of these states, individuals must object to all vaccines, not
just a particular vaccine in order to use the philosophical objection or
personal conviction exemption. Many state legislators are being urged by
federal health officials and medical organizations, to revoke this
exemption to vaccination. If you are objecting to vaccination based on
philosophical or personal conviction, keep an eye on your state
legislature as public health officials seek to amend state laws to
eliminate this exemption.
Religious Exemption: All states allow a religious exemption to
vaccination except Mississippi and West Virginia.
The religious exemption is intended for people who possess a sincere
religious belief against vaccination to the extent that if the state
forced vaccination, it would be an infringement on their right to
exercise their religious beliefs. Some state laws define religious
exemptions broadly to include personal religious beliefs, similar to
personal philosophical beliefs. Other states require an individual who
claims a religious exemption to be a member of The First Church of
Christ, Scientist (Christian Science) or another bonafide religion whose
written tenets include prohibition of invasive medical procedures such
as vaccination.
Some laws require a signed affidavit from the pastor of the church while
others allow the parent to sign a notarized waiver. Prior to registering
your child for school, you must check your state law to verify what your
health department requires to prove your religious beliefs. The
religious exemption is granted based on the First Amendment of the
Constitution, which is the right to freely exercise your religion.
Because citizens are protected under the First Amendment of the United
States, a state must have a "compelling State interest" before this
right can be taken away. One "compelling State interest" is the spread
of communicable diseases. In state court cases which have set precedent
on this issue the freedom to act according to your own religious belief
is
subject to reasonable regulation with the justification that it must not
threaten the welfare of society as a whole.
Medical Exemptions: Al'l 50 states allot; medical exemption to
vaccination. Proof of medical exemption must take the form of a signed
statement by a Medical Doctor (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) that
the administering of one or more vaccines would be detrimental to the
health of an individual.
Most doctors follow the AAP and CDC guidelinesMost states do not allot;
Doctors of Chiropractic (D.C.) to write medical exemptions to
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vaccination.
Some states will accept a private physician's written exemption without
question. Other states allow the state health department to review tne
doctor’s exemption and revoke it if health department officials don't
think the exemption is justified.
Proof of Immunity: Most states will allow exemptions to vaccination for
certain diseases if proof of immunity can be shown to exist. Immunity
can be proven if vou or your child have had the natural disease or have
been vaccinated. You have to check your state laws to determine which
vaccines in your state can be exempted if proof of immunity is
demonstrated.
Private medical laboratories can take blood ( a titer test) and analyze
it to measure the level of antibodies, for example, to measles or
pertussis that are present
in the blood. If the antibody level is high enough, according to
accepted standards, you have obtained proof of immunity and may be able
to use this for an exemption to vaccination.
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Subject: VACCINE INFO
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:05:55 -0800
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: q5@earth.sunlink.net, via <via@accessl.net>
This is an example of the information you receive by being a member of
the National Vaccine Information Center and subscribing to The Vaccine
Reaction Newsletter for only $37.00/year. check us out on:
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DOVER. AFB AND ANTHRAX VACCINE: MORE INFO
Subject: DOVER AFB AND ANTHRAX VACCINE: MORE INFO
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 09:58:46 -0700
From: karinschumacher<via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: Sheri Nakken <snakken@nccn.net>
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A QUESTION OF TRUST
Dover Air Force Base has become the pivotal point in the heated
discussion of the anthrax vaccine program. Looking behind this issue,
one can see a myriad of distrust and confusion that has surfaced with
possible consequences that directly affect the readiness posture of the
armed forces of the United States at a real world critical time. The
incidents that have transpired in the last several weeks can testify to
this alarming fact.
Events that have lead up to this can be characterized in well known past
deceptions involving the United States military such as Gulf War
Syndrome, Agent Orange in Viet Nam, and human exposure to nuclear
weapons testing. Objectively speaking, one can see how this has created
fertile grounds for distrust for a program that is accompanied with
denials, evasiveness, character assassinations and conflicting questions
that have not been answered.
On Wednesday, 05 May 99, an open meeting was held at Dover Air Force
Base to address concerns over the anthrax vaccination program with light
on increased illnesses suspected!'/ linked to certain lots of the anthrax
vaccine. The wing commander of Dover Air Force Base called a safety "
time out " to evaluate valid questions that were not answered or
addressed to the satisfaction of the majority of the service members
present at the meeting.
This coming Tuesday, 11 May 99, Dover Air Force Base will be host to a
question and answer session with top U.S.A.F. brass including very high
ranking medical and scientific military staff to try and quell rumors
and dispell fears surrounding the anthrax vaccination program. Of
interesting' note pertaining to this important event is the common
feeling among military personal that there is a cover up and lack of
honest answers to the question of the safety of the vaccine.
The question of trust around this issue are links of the anthrax vaccine
and Gulf War Syndrome and some current symptomology with a possible
connection to this current vaccine. With active duty as well as reserve
military members at Dover Air Force Base and other installations
reporting similiar symptoms suspect in connection with the vaccine,
these questions must be answered honestly as soon as possible. Some
reported symptoms of ill military members with possible links to the
current anthrax vaccine
include blackouts, rashes, loss of balance, loss of memory, and
autoimmune diseases. The real and possible ramifications of current
are, with our scaled down military force, the problems occurring of
retention of trained military members, recruitment of the future, and
the most obvious : the health and combat readiness of our fighting
forces in time of need.
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Subject: THE HUMAN ELEMENT OF ADVERSE EVENTS
Date: Fri. 07 May 1999 20:09:06 -0700
From: kariii Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
Editorial
The human element of adverse events
Is a certain level of error inevitable in healthcare?
MJA 1299; 170: 404-405
The Quality in Australian Health Care Study (QAHCS),1 together with the
Harvard study on which it was based, 2 were groundbreaking studies that
for the first time systematically revealed the nature and scale of
iatrogenic injury in healthcare. Morbidity due to healthcare appears to
be a major public health problem, and it is very unlikely that this
problem is confined to Australia and the United States. The QAHCS
revealed particularly high levels of adverse events (AEs), in part
because it took a broader, quality-of-care approach rather than one
focused on negligence and compensation.
In this issue of the Journal, review and content analysis of textual
summaries of the AEs by Wilson et al, the QAHCS team, have now yielded a
deeper understanding of these events.3 The major categories of human
error, accounting for over 70% of AEs, were:
Failures in technical performance;
Failure to decide and/or act on available information;
Failure to investigate or consult; and
A lack of care or failure to attend.
Do the failures identified by the QAHCS team imply carelessness and/or
incompetence on the part of healthcare staff? On occasions this may be
so, but research on human error paints a more complex picture.4 Tempting
though it may be to simply blame the doctors and nurses, identifying a
failure in the process of care is usually just the first step in
understanding the causes of AEs. This is especially so when the failure
occurs not in some routine procedure, but in complex diagnostic or
technical tasks, in which
the term "error" may be a misleading oversimplification. 5 Should vie
therefore accept that a certain level of error is inevitable in
healthcare? We certainly should not accept such high levels of
iatrogenic injury, much of which is preventable. In one sense, though,
it is necessary to accept error. Before there can be any serious hope of
reducing AEs there must first be a recognition of the frequency of error
and of imperfect decision-making in healthcare, as is the case in other
human activities.6
The next step, as the QAHCS team argues, is to look beyond the immediate
failures to their deeper causes.3
Analyses of accidents in medicine and elsewhere have led to a much
broader understanding of the causes of AEs, with less focus on
individuals and more on pre-existing organisational factors. The
conditions which give rise to failures in the process of care can be
considered in a broad framework of individual, task, team, work
environment and organisational factors.7 A failure to consult, for
instance, may be due to overconfidence in a junior member of staff,
inexperience, inadequate knowledge, delay in obtaining test results, or
the unavailability of senior members of staff. Each of these
problems may be specific to that occasion or may reflect more general
problems: the attitudes of individual members of staff, the training
policies or the hospital, poor supervisory practices, inadequate and
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haphazard systems of communication or interpersonal problems within a
team.
The National Taskforce on Quality in Australian Health Care produced a
comprehensive, multifaceted plan of action to reduce healthcare injuries
and deaths.3 The Taskforce was surely correct to see both the problem
and Che solution as multidimensional, as the systems approach implies.
Safety programs in industries, involving sociotechnical systems with
many similarities to medicine, target the tasks, teams and conditions of
work, as well as ensuring that staff are highly skilled.4 Safety needs
to be addressed both at the level of the particular clinical process and
at the interpersonal and organisational levels. Where tasks can be
clearly specified, then greater standardisation, clear guidelines and
less reliance on the vagaries of human memory and vigilance are
essential. Team and communication failures have been strongly implicaced
in many accident analyses and remedial measures can be straightforward.
Systems have also been developed in industry to monitor the conditions
of work, as well as the associated organisational factors and decisions
that give rise to these conditions.
The Taskforce recommendations have been widely supported9 and a number
of working groups have been established by Australian health
departments. In 1997, a National Expert Advisory Group on Safety and
Quality in .Australian Health Care was established, and their
recommendations will be considered by the Health Ministers later this
year. In the 1998 Australian Health Care Agreements, $658 million was
allocated for quality improvements within the public health system over
five years, and a further $253 million for, among other objectives,
improving the integration of public hospital and community
services.
Welcome though these initiatives are, the pace of change nevertheless
seems slow given the stark message of the original QAHCS study four
years ago. The findings from QAHCS suggested that each year 50 000
Australians suffer permanent disability and 18 000 die at least in part
as a result of their healthcare. Further evidence emerged in 1997 with
the publication of AE rates in Victorian hospitals.10 Since then,
thousands more Australians have presumably been injured or died through
deficiencies in the healthcare
system. Furthermore, the QAHCS found that AEs lost Australia over three
million bed-days per annum. In its interim report, the National Expert
Advisory Group pointed out that the extrapolated potential saving from
preventable AEs in 1995-96 would be $4.17 billion.il AEs also lead to
increased disability benefits and time lost off work, which all impact
on the Australian economy.
Achieving change on the required scale will require a specific
commitment from all healthcare providers, administrators and consumers,
as well as unequivocal, sustained government support. It is hoped that
1999 will see the necessary consensus for urgent action from all the
parties involved and the implementation of specific, carefully evaluated
safety initiatives. It would be tragic if the "lack of care and failure
to attend" and "failure to decide and act", revealed as causes of AEs,
ultimately also applied to chose professional and government bodies
responsible for programs of prevention.
Charles A Vincent
Reader in Psychology, Clinical Risk Unit, Department of Psychology
University College London, UK
Wilson RM, Runciman WB, Gibberd RW, et al. The Quality in Australian
Health
Care Study. Med J .Aust 1995; 163: 458-471.
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Brennan TA, Leaps LL, Laird NM, et al. Incidence of adverse events and
negligence in hospitalized patients. N Engl J Med 1991; 324: 370-376.
Wilson RMcL, Harrison BT, Gibberd RW, Hamilton JD. An analysis of the
causes of adverse events from the Quality in Australian Health Care
Study. Med J Aust 1999; 170: 411-415.
Reason JT. Understanding adverse events: human factors. In: Vincent CA,
editor. Clinical risk management. London: BMJ Publications, 1995.
Cook RI, Woods DD, Miller C. Tale of 2 stories: contrasting views of
patient safety. Report of National Patient Safety Foundation.
Chicago:American Medical Association, 1993.
Leape LL. Error in medicine. JAMA 1994; 272: 851-857.
Vincent CA, Taylor-Adams S, Stanhope N. A framework for the analysis of
risk and safety in medicine. BMJ 1998; 316: 1154-1157.
Final Report of the Taskforce on Quality in Australian Health Care.
Canberra: AGPS,6/96.
Wilson RM, Harrison BT. Are we committed to improving the safety of
^alth care. Med J Aust 1997; 166: 452-453.
O'Hara D, Carson NJ. Reporting of adverse events in hospitals in
Victoria 1994-1995. Med J Aust 1997; 166: 460-463.
National Expert Advisory Group on Safety and Quality in Australian
Health Care. Interim report - Commitment to quality enhancement. July
1998. http://www.health.gov■au/about/cmo/neag.htm>
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Subject: [Fwd: PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY ON THE HEPATITIS B VACCINE]
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 15:30:07 -0700
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Organization: vaccine information and awareness
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Subject: PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY ON THE HEPATITIS B VACCINE
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:24:36 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
Alison Mullins <gamullins@earthlink.net> wrote:
Phyllis Schlafly column 10-21-98
http://www.eagleforum.org/column/1998/oct98/98-10-21 .html
Compulsory Medical Treatment Is Un-American
October 21, 1998
Why are American infants and schoolchildren being forced to submit to
hepatitis B vaccinations even though the French Health Ministry has
stopped giving them because of
evidence they can cause neurological disorders and multiple sclerosis?
Has America become a nation where bureaucrats can force controversial
medical procedures on children without informed choice by parent or
child?
If you think such things only happen in Communist China, think again.
Big Brother is on the march and his weapon is a hypodermic needle
carrying the vaccine for hepatitis B. "Force'' is not too strong a word.
Across the country, newborn babies are being injected
with hepatitis B vaccine only hours after birth (even when their mothers
test negative for hepatitis B), and children are told they must present
proof of having received three
hepatitis B shots before they can be admitted to daycare, kindergarten,
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fifth grade, high school, or college.
I First became interested in the hepatitis B vaccine when, in connection
with the birth of two new grandchildren, I learned that hospitals are
routinely injecting newborns with the vaccine during their first 24
hours of life. A series of inquiries produced no convincing medical
reason or scientific evidence for this procedure. My new grandchildren
were not at risk for hepatitis B, which is primarily an adult disease
transmitted through bodily fluids. Those most at risk are the highly
promiscuous
(heterosexual or homosexual), needle-sharing drug addicts, health care
and custodial
workers exposed to blood, and babies born to already-infected mother.
According to a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report, there were only
10,637 cases of
hepatitis B in the United States in 1996, including only 279 cases in
children under the
age of 14. Hepatitis B is not fatal for most who contract it, is no
epidemic except among those high-risk groups, and bears no relation to
hepatitis A (the disease sometimes picked up in restaurants when
food-handlers don't wash their hands).
For the problem of 279 children who have hepatitis B, millions of U.S.
children are being forced to submit to vaccination consisting of three
hepatitis B shots! Where does such an intrusive and expensive rule
originate, and how can it be enforced nationally since immunizations are
a state, not a federal, matter? The federal medical police have figured
out how to override state authority (and even pediatricians who might
otherwise act in the interest of their patients), and develop an
intricate system outside of the spotlight of public scrutiny and without
accountability. CDC endorses a given vaccine, the state legislatures
delegate the decision-making power to state public health departments,
the unaccountable bureaucrats make regulations that conform to CDC
instructions and have the impact of law, and the drug manufacturers
spend millions to advertise their products.
The CDC uses carrot and stick to force states to obey federal mandates.
The CDC has
doled out hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to reward state
health departments for promoting mass vaccinations, and has the power to
withhold money grants if state health officials don't show proof of
designated vaccination rates. The 1993 Comprehensive Childhood
Immunization Act, signed by President Clinton, gave the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) $400 million to award to states
to set up state vaccine registries to tag and track children so that Big
Brother can hunt them down and compel vaccinations. States receive
either $50, $75 or $100 per child
who is fully vaccinated with all federally recommended vaccines,
including hepatitis B.
When I entered public school, the only vaccination required was for
smallpox, and that's
the only immunization I ever had. Most states now require children to be
injected with
about 33 doses of 9 or 10 different viral and bacterial vaccines in
order to enter public school, including three doses of hepatitis B
vaccine. In 1995, HHS Secretary Donna Shalala gave the states the power
to appropriate newborn babies' social security numbers in order to set
up vaccine tracking registries. The CDC plans to network all the state
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vaccine tracking registries in order to create a de facto centralized
electronic database containing every child's, and ultimately every
American's, medical records.
More than 22,000 reports of hospitalizations and injuries, including 300
deaths, following hepatitis B vaccination have been reported since 1990
to the U.S. government's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. There
have been no controlled studies to evaluate these reports, there is no
adequate proof of the vaccine's long-term safety, little is known about
its effect on a newborn baby's immune system, and the disclaimers that
the drug manufacturers put on the hepatitis B vaccine package are
downright disturbing.
The hepatitis B vaccine may give only a temporary immunity, and it is
not clear when
booster shots will be required. Some of those who receive the hepatitis
B vaccine may
thereafter test positive for hepatitis B because many routine blood
tests are not
sophisticated enough to differentiate between prior vaccination and the
disease.
Freedom in America should include allowing parents to make their own
informed choice
about injecting their babies with a potentially dangerous vaccine. More
information is
available from the National Vaccine Information Center (1-800-909-SHOT
and www.909shot.com).
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Subject: POLIO CONTAMINATION PACKET
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 10:30:42 -0700
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THE POLIO VACCINE CONTAMINATION INFORMATION PACKET: SI6
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This SC-page information packet on the contamination of polio vaccines
with simian (monkey) viruses gives an eye-opening look at what went
wrong with the mass vaccination campaigns in the 1950's and early
1960's, when more than 98 million Americans were exposed to monkey
viruses contaminating many lots of poliovirus vaccines. Learn why
scientists are now culturing out SV-40 (the 40th simian virus known to
have contaminated the vaccines) from the tumors of adults and children
suffering from bone, brain and lung cancers and why other researchers
are linking contaminated vaccines with immune and neurological
dysfunction. Find out what NVIC is doing about it. Contains a map of
states which received the most contaminated vaccines. Published 1997.
Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
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San Jose, CA 95117
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Subject: POLIO VACCINE AND SV40
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 96 07:17:20 +0000
From: mandee@worldnet.att.net
To: "via@eden.com" <via@eden.com>
THE POLIO VACCINE AND SIMIAN VIRUS 40
After Thirty Years, Prominent Polio Vaccine Researcher
Confiritis Suspicions About Monkey-Virus Contamination
By T. J. Moriarty
(OLNews@aol. com)
> Over the past fifteen or more years, the immune system has been
> increasingly more challenged. Indefensible disorders such as AIDS and
> HIV as well as conditions like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and
> Persian Gulf War-Related Illnesses are the new epidemics of the
> Silicon Age. By comparison, the days of polio and small pox epidemics
> seem crudely forgiving when we consider that today's viral mutants
> repeatedly outsmart gains made in vaccine development.
> However, it seems the days of polio are still with us - not in the
> form of acute viral outbreaks of fever and paralysis - but in the
> "uncharted" data on the long-term effects from the simian (monkey)
> viral contaminated polio vaccines given to countless children and
> adults three decades ago. Even more, what other "undetectable" monkey
> viruses have been transmitted in the vaccine batches of late? These
> unanswered questions continue to resurface in today's research and
> still riddle retired scientist Ben Sweet. "No one really knows if
> there are any dangers, but no scientist can definitively say there
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> aren't any, that is what's scary," says Sweet.
> As a senior research scientist for a major pharmaceutical company from
> 1959 to 1964, Dr. Sweet was one of those responsible for the research,
> development and field testing of the killed respiratory virus vaccine.
> Contaminated Polio Vaccines
> Scientific literature states that some polio vaccines given between
> 1955 and 1961 may have contained low-levels of live monkey viruses. As
> many as 26 of the simian contaminants were readily detected but still
> other viruses, like SV40 slipped past rigorous quality control testing
> procedures available at that time. The simian viruses were
> inadvertently introduced into the vaccine pool because the polio virus
> was grown in monkey (Rhesus, Patas, or Cynomolgus) kidney cells. '
> In his 1960 paper, "The Vacuolating Virus : SV40" Sweet and co-author
> M.R. Hilleman write, "This new virus represents the detection for the
> first time of a hitherto "non-detectable" simian virus of monkey renal
> cultures and raises the important question of the existence of other
> such viruses. All three types of Sabin's live polio virus vaccine were
> contaminated."
> Dr. Sweet told Chronic Illnet about the alarm that circulated around
> the discovery of the SV40 virus in 1960, "It was a frightening
> discovery because, back then, it was not possible to detect the virus
> with the testing procedures we had. It only showed up in the cells of
> the African Green monkeys — the species being used exclusively by our
> company. He had no idea of what this virus would do thirty years ago."
> Sweet says there were two things that the research team had
> determined: "First, we knew that SV40 had oncogenic properties
> (cancer-causing) in hamsters which was bad news. Secondly, we found
> out that it hybridized with certain DNA viruses - like adeno virus > such that the adeno virus would then have SV40 genes attached to it.
> He couldn't clean up the adeno virus vaccine seed stocks grown in
> monkey kidney cells only". The seed stocks apparently were always
> contaminated but the vaccines were still administered.
> Confusion Surrounding the "Killed" Vaccine
> Possibly the most unsettling part of his research that he carries with
> him thirty years later, is knowing that an untold number of people
> (possibly in the 10's of millions) were exposed with this virus
> whether they were given the "live" or "killed" polio vaccine.
> "Even the people who received a killed polio virus vaccine could have
> been infected. Those papers we wrote were incorrect at the time,
> stating that formalin killed vaccines were free of simian SV40 virus.
> But the new information regarding the- killed ones was never
> published," he added. By then it was too late. These findings came
> after the mass inoculations with the polio vaccine.
> The distinction between "live" and "killed" vaccines is a critical
> one. The scientific community and the American public was told that
> "killed" vaccines were undoubtedly safe because formalin was used to
> destroy any contaminating simian virus. The thirty-nine or so simian
> viruses prior to SV40, were probably inactivated with formalin, but
> not SV40. The virus eluded the virus-killing
> behavior of formalin. This now meant even the "killed" vaccines
> unintentionally contained small
> amounts of active virus. "So it's a likely possibility that a some of
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> those individuals injected with supposedly inactivated adeno virus
> vaccines that had the SV40 contaminant or SV40/adeno hybrid could also
> be producing antibodies to it."
> Due to the molecular "kinetics" of virus inactivation, Sweet and other
> researchers believe other viruses -- similar to SV40 -- could also
> have been present in the vaccines if they too could circumvent
> formalin inactivation.
> There were specific laboratory difficulties associated with adeno
> virus -- now carrying an attached form of SV40. Sweet describes, "When
> we started growing the vaccines, we just couldn't get rid of the
> SV40-contaminated virus. We tried to neutralize it, but couldn't.
> Either adeno or SV40 would come out down the line."
> Chronic Illnet: What were you thinking at the time when you realized
> people were being exposed to SV40 about the long-term effects,
> considering we're still in the dark?
> Sweet: "We really didn't think about it until we found out it was
> oncogenic and now, with the theoretical links to HIV and cancer, it
> just blows my mind."
> Chronic Illnet: Was there any temptation to just scrap the whole
> project, make an announcement and move on?"
> Sweet: "Sabin and, more specifically, Salk vaccines were already
> widely in use by then. We were, of course, always worried about
> possible vaccine contaminants present because we didn't know what
> these monkey cell cultures were carrying. We were always worried about
> encountering a new, undescribed virus. Always. When we found out there
> were viruses present in the Rhesus -cynomolgus monkey systems, and the
> possibility that each monkey assay system was different from another,
> the temptation was there to transfer the studies to another system.
> But it was too late to switch gears and start using raccoon or chicken
> systems, because then you could be dealing with another whole set of
> viruses. "
> Chronic Illnet: Nhat was the political climate?
> Sweet: "You had to be careful, very careful. When the virus appeared
> oncogenic in hamsters, we wanted to do tests to determine if it caused
> malignant transformation of normal cells in culture. In reality, we
> did not although an outside agency confirmed the findings."
> Sweet also described another inherent problem in vaccine development
> -- the controversy and competition between the Salk (killed) and Sabin
> (live) formulas. Despite common knowledge, both Salk and Sabin were
> definitely contaminated. The Salk vaccine had already garnered
> prestigious appeal as a "safe vaccine".
> Long-term Studies Encouraged Three Decades Ago
> In his 1960 paper, Sweet, et al. stressed the need for studies on the
> long-term effects on humans to determine the pathogenicity of these
> agents for man. "When the 'contaminated’ vaccines were released, we
> really felt confident patients needed a substantially higher level of
> infectious SV40 and/or they had to receive multiple shots to elevate
> the body's viral count high enough to cause the harm." To some, the
> term "contaminated" carries with it an intent of malice, but Dr. Sweet
> says this
> is clearly not the case. Sweet noted that persons fed live SV40
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> conrazninated polio virus vaccine orally, or inactivated Salk-type
> vaccine intramuscularly, showed strong evidence of antibody
> production to polio viruses. In additon, the vaccine recipients were
> not showing significant harmful effects or antibody production, in the
> short term, to SV40 - which was encouraging. "Less concerning
> long-terras effects could be noted," he says.
> At the time of the discovery of the human exposure to SV40, there was
> no evidence that the virus was present or active in vaccine
> recipients. In recent years, however, SV40 has been isolated in human
> tissue, two from the brains of patients with PML (progressive
> multifocal leukoencephalopathy) and another from a metastatic melanoma
> patient. Results of this study appeared in the paper "Human Exposure
> to SV40 : Review and Comment" by Shah and Nathanson in the Journal of
> Epidemiology in January of 1976. Important from that report is the
> only definitive origin of where human exposure came from, "With the
> exception of viral vaccines, no pharmaceutical product intended for
> human use requires the use of simian cultures." Based on their
> interpretations, the authors estimate somewhere between 10-30 million
> people of the 98 million injected were exposed to at least SV40.
> Today's Polio Vaccine Research - Long-Term Effects
> To date, the polio vaccine has been administered to an estimated
> ninety-seven percent of children in the United States.
> Although there are no "proven" scientific facts about the possible
> perils of contaminated or even "purified" polio vaccines, there are a
> handful of credible researchers with theories too intriguing and
> carefully outlined to disregard. Their theories, if proven, may offer
> a new link in conquering the immunodeficiency diseases of this
> century.
> Microbiologist Howard Urnovitz is one member of a team who believes
> many of today's "new" syndromes like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Gulf
> War-Related Illnesses and even HIV have, "some association with the
> possible contaminants in the vaccine." He says we may be paying the
> price for "prevention" years later, as the uncertainty about the
> effects on our immune system from the vaccine continues to unfold.
> Was SIV Also Present? Is There an Evolution of HIV from the Vaccines ?
> There is also a concern whether another virus of primate origin —
> Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) -- could also have been present in
> the original vaccines. That possibility cannot be ruled out. But only
> testing of the original polio vaccine samples and seed stocks would
> give a reliable or closely definitive answer. Sweet stressed the need
> for studies on the original simian isolates and the antisera prepared
> against them and their possible relationship to SIV. At this point,
> future studies may be lost due to the impossibility of retrieving such
> samples.
> At the Sth Annual Houston Conference on AIDS, Urnovitz suggests that
> HIV-1 may have also originated from the contaminated polio vaccines
> through the recombination with normal human genes. "It is very likely
> that HIV-1 may have been a result, and that it may in fact be a
> monkey-human hybrid. His theory states that the contaminating viruses
> have "archived" themselves in the body's nerve tissue. These virus
> fragments then resurface at a later date when the immune system
> becomes challenged. An opportunistic infection or exposure to toxins
> could be the "trigger" that stimulates the reappearance of these virus
> fragments.
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> "This virus 'archiving' could be igniting the symptoms of central
> nervous system disorders, chronic fatigue and joint pain that have
> been linked to more than a dozen unexplained epidemics," he added.
> Dr. R. Stricker's paper entitled "The Polio Vaccine and the Origin of
> AIDS" that appeared in the January 1994 edition of Medical Hypothesis
> is yet another theory highlighting a potential link. Stricker states,
> "The transfer of monkey viruses to man via vaccines is particularly
> relevant to AIDS since the causative agent HIV, is thought to be
> derived from a simian precursor virus." He says the evolution of HIV
> remains to be proven but is nonetheless startling, "Is it only a
> coincidence that HIV infection manifested itself at the same time as
> the introduction of vaccines that are now known to have been
> contaminated with simian viruses?"
> The collection of theories on the origins, pathways and the sheer
> number of potential "victims" from the contaminated vaccines is
> certainly unsettling. Although each theory has its own individual
> elements, a cohesion exists: The cross-species cultivation of vaccines
> is clearly laden with risks -- risks that may be irreversible,
> carrying consequences too great to endure. But to what extent, if any,
> irreparable damage has been inflicted upon humanity is still blurry.
> For consumer activist Barbara Loe Fisher, co-Founder i president of
> the National Vaccine Information Web Site, the fact that the original
> vaccines were contaminated and current polio vaccines are still grown
> on African Green monkey tissues, is just one more indication that
> government vaccine officials have created dangerous public health
> policies without making sure they have the solid science to back them
> up.
> "Who is minding the public health when the FDA. allows drug companies
> to produce vaccines grown on animal tissue cultures and they don't
> even know if this practice is facilitating cross species transfer of
> animal viruses into man?" says Fisher.
> Highlighting the fact that American parents are legally required to
> vaccinate their babies with 10 different viral and bacterial vaccines,
> Fisher warns, "No one really knows the latent, long term effects on
> the human immune and neurological systems. With 200 vaccines in the
> research pipeline, more than 100 in clinical trials and scores on the
> brink of being licensed, vaccine research had better get back to the
> basic science before another AIDS epidemic is created in a vaccine
> lab."
> For more information on this topic, refer to the highlighted phrases
> for hyperlinked information and additional sources.
> source:
http://www.calypte.com/online/bensweet.html#anchor714274
Subject: POSSIBLE MEDICAL EXEMPTIONS
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 07:49:35 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via@accessl.net
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Dr. Wootan can be reached at 800-635-2126. Last time i spoke with him
■.1995) he was more chan willing to sign a medical waiver for a fee and a
letter explaining why you would like the medical exemption. As he
practices in upstate New York, he will not write exemptions for anyone
living in New York..
another md, karl robinson in houston, texas has also stated he would
write exemption letters, his number is: 800-637-5275
Hope chis helps.
***************************************************************
Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via@accessl.net (email)
http://www,909shot.com (NVIC website)
http: /m.v.accessl, net/via (VIA website)
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We Must Have The Freedom To Choose £ Respect Everyone's Choice
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Any information obtained here is not to be construed as medical
OR legal advice. The decision to vaccinate and how you
implement that decision is yours and yours alone.
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Subject: PRODUCTION AND CONSTITUTION OF MMR VACCINE
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 17:58:23 -0800
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: truegrit@gti.net
SOURCE:
VACCINES, 1994. PLOTKIN AND MORTIMER
preparation methods for the Merck Sharp & Dohme vaccine provide
generally applicable information regarding the production and
constitution of measles vaccines. although minor differences exist in
dose, antibiotic content, and other details among manufacturers
significant differences in side effects or vaccine efficacy have not
been reported.
the vaccine virus is cultured in primary chick embryo cells. After an
initial cell growth phase, the cultures are inoculated with the further
attenuated moraten strain of measles virus. following several days
incubation at 32C (89.6F), the cells are washed to remove fetal bovine
serum, and the medium is replaced with one containing 50 ug/ml of
neomycin, sucrose, buffered salts, amino acids, and human albumin.
flids that contain the virus can be removed from the cultures ofver a
period of time as the cellas re inaintaind at the same temperature.
these fluids are frozen until determinatinos of the virus titer have
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been performed on retained aliquots, harvested virus fluids that have
sufficient virus potency and have passed the tes satisfactorily are
thawed, pooled, sampled for safety testing, clarified, dispensed, and
refrozen.
when bulk vaccine has passed all quality control tess, portions of the
vaccine are thawed, dispensed into vials and lyophilized. Ac the time
of use, the vaccine is reconstituted with fluid (steriole distilled
water) provided by the manufacturer. the use of a reconstitution fluid
that contains preservatives in not recommended for general use b/c it
may inactivate the vaccine. each doese contains approximately 25 ug of
neomycin, sorbitol and hydrolyzed gelatin are added as stabilizers.
the vaccine when reconstituted with the provided diluent is clear and
yellow in color.
RAYMOND GALLUP wrote:
> Karin,
> If I said aluminum, mercury and formaldehyde along with animal
> retroviruses that include chickens.... would I be correct and would there
> be anything else (I'm sure I missed).
> Thanks.
> Ray
> Wutsername@aol.com wrote:
> > Dear P.ay,
> > I was wondering if you might have a list of all the ingredients included in
> > vaccines that people do not know about. I figured if anyone would have this
> > information, it would be you! I am mainly interested in Measles, Mumps and
> > Rubella. Thanks for your help.
> > Blessings,
> > Ricci
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Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via@accessl.net (email)
http://www.909shot.com (NVIC website)
http://www.accessl.net/via (VIA website)
***************************************************************
We Must Have The Freedom To Choose & Respect Everyone's Choice
********X**********X**********XX*X*****************************
Any information obtained here is not to be construed as medical
OR legal advice. The decision to vaccinate and how you
implement that decision is yours and yours alone.
****************xx*******xx****x*******x*x**************xx*****
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Subject: RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION LETTER
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 97 14:57:49 +0000
From: mandee@att.worldnet.net
To: Karin Schumacher <via@ihot.com>
How to Write a Letter for a "Personal" Religious Exemption from
Irnunizations
A Section of the Informed Parents Vaccination Home Page
http: //www.unc . edu/~aphillip/www/vaccine/informed. htm
Disclaimer: This page is for educational purposes only. It is not
intended to serve as legal advice, nor is it intended to take the place
of appropriate legal counsel. As with any legal matter, you should
consult a qualified lawyer for your specific needs.
Religious exemptions are acceptable in most U.S. states, but specific
vaccination laws from state to state. Be sure to check with the state
dept, of epidemiology, vaccinations, immunizations, or whatever it is
called in your state, to find out the laws for your state. Some require
that you file for an exemption certificate, others require only a
properly written letter. In any case, the following may help you with
this process.
This is a copy of a letter from a lawyer to an immunization nurse,
regarding a religious exemption from vaccinations for his North Carolina
clients' children. This letter was accepted by health officials for a
religious exemption in two different North Carolina counties. In one
instance, the parents modified this letter to be from themselves instead
of from the lawyer--you may not need to have the letter come from a
lawyer if you cannot find or afford one, (though having a lawyer write
or review your letter may be the only way to guarantee that your letter
conforms to state legal requirements).
Notice that the letter refers to previous "personal" religious exemption
court cases; i.e. it may not be necessary to belong to a religion that
specifically states opposition to vaccination in its official doctrine
to have an acceptable religious exemption from
immunizations.
Important: You may adapt this letter to reflect your true, personal
religious beliefs, and make other changes where appropriate. You should
probably have your Religious Exemption for Vaccination Letter notarized
before submitting it to the appropriate
healthcare authorities, and you may also wish to send it registered mail
to get confirmation of its arrival and receipt by the appropriate
official.
[June 1996]
County Health Dept, [address]
Attention: [Immunization nurse's name]
RE: [first child's name, date of birth]
birth]...
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Dear Nurse [name]:
This office has been retained as counsel to represent [parent's names],
individually, on behalf of their children, [children's names], with
regard to my clients' rights for an exemption from immunizations as
provided by North Carolina Statutes 130A-157.
The present situation stems from my client's refusal to have their
children, [children's names], submit to immunizations and innoculations
as perscribed by North Carolina Statutes 130A-152. My clients have the
right to refuse to have their children receive these injections pursuant
to North Carolina Statutes 130A-137, since they have sincere religious
beliefs which prohibit them from having their children receive
immunizations and innoculations.
Recent court decisions have upheld the rights of individuals seeking
exemptions from immunizations based upon "personal" religious beliefs.
(Sherr and Levy vs. Northport East-Northport Union Free School District,
672 F. Supp. 81, (E.D.N.Y., 1987); (Allanson vs. Clinton Central School
District, U.S. District Court, Northern District Court, Northern
District of New York (84 CV 174), 1984; Campain vs. Marlboro Central
School District, Supreme Court Ulster County Special Term, November 15,
1985; Brown vs. City School District, 429 NYS2d 355; Maier vs. Besser,
73 Wise.2d 241).
My clients' religious beliefs include the following:
[editor's note: amend the beliefs below as needed to have them apply to
you; what you put here is up to you. Should your exemption be
challenged, it will be up to the challenger to prove that what you state
here is not your bona fide religious belief, a
generally difficult thing to prove.]
"We believe in God, and that God has created us in his image. In being
created in God's image, we are given his perfect immune system. We are
bestowed with His gift, the immune system. We believe it is sacrilegious
and a violation of our sacred religious beliefs to violate what God has
given us by showing a lack of faith in God. Immunizations are a lack of
faith in God and His way, the immune system."
[editor's note: this
last sentence is the crux of this religious exemption argument.]
We believe m Jesus many promises of protection ror us, and the He
loves us, and will take care of us if we place our trust in Him. I
believe that immunizations show no faith in God's promises of protection
for us, saving to God that you trust man more than His holy words of
protection for us."
"God desires us to love Him and our neighbors
first and foremost. This is His first command. By loving Him, we are to
fully trust on Him for all things. He is our Lord Father. He is our
P.ock, our fortress and our Savior."
"Our faith is in God and in the Holy Word, being the Holy Bible which is
authored by God. This is the instruction book for living that He has
left us and in it He tells us He is our protector and we stand firm on
His promise. Our faith is in Him!"
My clients' religious beliefs are
also based upon the understanding of what God requires of them as
provided for in the Bible.
[editor's note: add/delete quotes as suits
your personal beliefs]
"Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in
you, which ye have of God and ye are not your own?" (1st COR 6:19)
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"That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power
of God." (1st COR 2:5)
"You must know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is
within the spirit you have received from God. You are not your own."
(1st COR 6:19)
"As a consequence, your faith rests not on the wisdom of men but on the
power of God."
(1st COR 2:5)
"I know with certainly on the authority of Lord Jesus that nothing is
unclean in itself: it is only when a man thinks something unclean that
it becomes so for him." (Romans 14:14)
"If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For the temple
of God is holy, and you are that temple." (1st COR: 3:17)
"For to his angels he has given command about you, that they guard you
in all your ways." (Psalms 91:11)
"Follow God your Lord, remain in awe of him, keep His commandments, obey
and serve Him and vou will then be able to cling to Him." (Leviticus,
19:1,2)
I anticipate a prompt response from you or the appropriate official.
Very truly yours,
[1awye r's n ame]
cc: [parents' names]
Special thanks to the parents whose time and money were spent obtaining
this letter, and who endured weeks of emotional harassment from health
authorities before ending their battles with the above letter format. It
is posted here with their permission, in the hopes that it will help
others to avoid what they went through.
Please send any additional Biblical passages, quotes from other
religious texts, or other related information to obtaining a religious
exemption from vaccinations to aphillip@email.unc.edu , and I’ll add them
to the sample template.
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Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via@ihot.com (email)
http: //www. 909shot ■ com (NVIC website)
http://www.ihot.com/~via (VIA website)
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We Must Have The Freedom To Choose &
Respect Everyone's Choice
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medical OR legal advice. The decision to vaccinate and how
you implement that decision is yours and yours alone.
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Subject: [Fwd: NVIC FOREIGN SHIPPING CHARGES AND BILLING PROCEDURE]
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 15:29:45 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: "sochara@blr.vsnl.net.in" <sochara@blr.vsnl.net.in>
******X***************X************************* ***************
Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
viagaccessl.net (email)
http://hww.909shot.com (NVIC website)
http:Z/www.accessl.net/via (VIA website)
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We Must Have The Freedom To Choose & Respect Everyone's Choice
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Any information obtained here is noc to be construed as medical
OR legal advice. The decision to vaccinate and how you
implement that decision is yours and yours alone.
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Subject: NVIC FOREIGN SHIPPING CHARGES AND BILLING PROCEDURE
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 07:22:10 -0800
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
> Usually we ask for an extra $5 but for Hong Kong I'll have to weigh the autism
> packet and see because it costs $3 to mail in the US. We also ask for the
> check to be drawn on a bank with the imprint, from the bank, saying US FUNDS,
> or we take Visa and Mastercard.
Subject: NVIC PUBLICATIONS
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 10:31:09 -0700
From: via@iliot.com
Organization: Vaccine Information & Awareness
To: Karin Schumacher <via@ihot.com>
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>
>
Make an informed decision about vaccination.
Determine the benefits and risks for yourself.
>
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>
Fax (703) 938-5768
>
512 W. Maple Avenue, Suite 206, Vienna, VA 22180
>
> Maine:__________________________ _ ______
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> Mailing Address:
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> Ci ty/Sta te/Zip:
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> Phone:
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>
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> Credit Card: Exp (09/99):
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>
State Law (If available) $4
>
The Compensation System and How It Works $5
>
Law Finn Directory $5 - Directory of attorneys handling vaccine
> compensation claims.
>
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THE CONSUMER'S GUIDE TO CHILDHOOD VACCINES: $9 + $4.50 S/H
> This comprehensive but condensed 90-page guidebook with a bibliography
> and glossary of medical terms gives you information about childhood
> diseases and vaccines that doctors rarely discuss with parents.
> Written by Barbara Loe Fisher, co-author of DPT: A Shot in the Dark
> and co-founder and president of NVIC, The Consumer's Guide to
> Childhood Vaccines provides health care consumers with a
> well-documented look at officially recommended vaccination policies as
> well as alternative views of what may be best for an individual child.
> Contains detailed descriptions of 9 diseases, vaccines, symptoms and
> complications. Published 1997
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WHOOPING COUGH, THE DPT VACCINE i REDUCING REACTIONS: $8
This parent information packet describes serious reactions and which
children are at risk of reacting to the"P" portion of the DPT vaccine.
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THE VACCINE REACTION (1995): $18
All six issues of the first year of this new national (and
controversial) newsletter that gives you the inside story on the
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> Selections of back Issues that include the history of NVIC/DPT,
> compensation/safety legislation, medical research and lawsuits. Parent
> members share their stories and report on the vaccine safety issue at
> the state level.
>
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> THEY HAD NO VOICE
THEY HAD NO CHOICE. Brief stories and pictures
> of children who have been adversely affected by vaccines, and explains
> the goals of NVIC.
English
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>
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> Follow the vaccine safety issue through the eyes of the media. Topics
> include conflict of interest among vaccine policy-makers and
> researchers and failure of DHHS to publish vaccine information for
> consumers as required by law.
>
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> A listing of over 1400 vaccine lot numbers from July 1990 to present
> reported to the Food and Drug Administration and obtained through
> Freedom of Information. (Featured on a 1994, "NBC NON Show") Contains
> over 13,000 reports of events following DPT vaccination. Check the lot
> number your child might receive prior to vaccinating. The $8 DPT
> vaccine packet from above is included.
>
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> A compilation of articles and information on the immune system,
> vaccination and autism featuring the story of a child who became
> autistic after the MMR vaccine and the therapies used to help repair
> his immune and neurological dysfunction.
>
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THE POLIO VACCINE CONTAMINATION INFORMATION PACKET: $16
> This 80-page information packet on the contamination of polio vaccines
> with simian (monkey) viruses gives an eye-opening look at what went
> wrong with the mass vaccination campaigns in the 1950's and early
> 1960's, when more than 98 million Americans were exposed to monkey
> viruses contaminating many lots of poliovirus vaccines. Learn why
> scientists are now culturing out SV-40 (the 40th simian virus known to
> have contaminated the vaccines) from the tumors of adults and children
> suffering from bone, brain and lung cancers and why other researchers
> are linking contaminated vaccines with immune and neurological
> dysfunction. Find out what NVIC is doing about it. Contains a map of
> states which received the most contaminated vaccines. Published 1997.
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This historic book, first published in 1985, was the first to tell the
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> [Imaae]
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> (New Atlantean Press) by Neil Miller questions the safety, efficacy
> and long-term effects of childhood vaccines. (78 PAGES)
>
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> diseases with a philosophical discussion of the pros and cons for
> parents. (213 PAGES)
>
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> by Randall Neustaedter,OMD, LAc describes the risks of not getting
> vaccinated as well as the risks of getting vaccinated. The
> controversies surrounding vaccines have not been adequately
> publicized. This information about vaccines has been suppressed and
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792 Pineview Drive
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408-448-6658 (phone/fax)
408-397-4192 (voice roail/pager)
via@ihot.com (email)
http:/,/www.909shot.com (NVIC website)
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Subject: NVIC REACTION REPORT CAPABILITY
Date: Wei 05 Feb 1997 13:44:44 +0600
From: Karin Schumacher <via@ihot.com>
To: Karin Schumacher <via@ihot.com>
KWNVIC@aol.com wrote:
> NVIC has developed an entensive questionnaire for individuals to report a
> health problem following vaccination. We are currently looking for funding
> (or volunteers) to create a program to enter the data and analyze it into a
> useable form. We want old and new inlcuding chronic and autoimmune problems.
> The form on the Internet is not the questionnaire but a blank form for
> someone to describe in detail or a quick overview the problems experienced.
> Thanks for passing it along. We have also updated the website, our current
> issue of THE VACCINE REACTION is available. Check it out.
> http: //www. 909sb.ot. com
> Kathi Williams
> In a message dated 97-02-04 15:54:37 EST, you write:
> « Subj:
Re: NVIC REACTION REPORT CAPABILITY
> Date: 97-02-04 15:54:37 EST
> From: via@ihot.com (Karin Schumacher)
> To:
ARmldwife2@aol.com
> CC:
kwnvic@aol.com (kathiwilliams)
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>
APjtidwife2@aol.com wrote:
>
>
> Does this have to be a current reaction or a reaction in the past?
> deb
>
>
>
>
> Forwarded message:
> From:
mandee@worldnet.att.net (Karin Schumacher)
> To:
ARmidwife2@aol.com
> Date: 97-02-04 01:24:41 EST
>
>
>
>
>
>
> just a note to the group. if anyone has or has a child whose child has
> suffered a reaction to the vaccine or thinks they may have a
> vaccine-related illness can now report this reaction directly to NVIC at
> http://www.909shot.com/reaction.html
my daughter had a reaction in 1991 and i sent it in. i think we are
looking for quantity. just make sure you put the date on the form.
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Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
792 Pineview Drive
San Jose, CA 95117
408-448-6658 (phone/fax)
408-397-4192 (voice mail/pager)
via@ihot.com (email)
http://www.909shot.com (NVIC website)
http://www.ihot■com/~via (VIA website)
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We Must Have The Freedom To Choose &
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Subject: PARENTAL REFERRAL
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 19:53:29 -0800
From: Karin Schumacher <via@ihot.com>
To: Karin Schumacher <via@ihot.com>
Dear Parent:
Thanks for your note and your offer to help. I understand your fear because I too am
afraid. My kids also not fully vaccinated. I refuse to answer personal questions about
my children's vaccination status as I say it is an individual decision and it is
personal. Perhaps you would like to work with some other parents in your area who
contact us. If you like we can refer them to you. Let me know if you want to do this
as I will send you a form to fill out so our offfice staff can make a parental referal
to you. I'll send you our general information too. There is a support list for
non-vaccinators on the internet. You can write to Deb Phillips at ARMidwife@ aol.com
I hope you will consider joining NVIC and subscribing to our newsletter, THE VACCINE
REACTION so you can stay up to date. If you are a member and subscribe to the
newsletter you will also be able to join the Vaccine Information & Awareness mailing
list that sends out 10-15 posts/week that inform you about the dangers and risks of
vaccines and the diseases.
Thanks in advance for your support.
Kathi Williams, Director NVIC
KWNVIC@aol.com
Subject: PERSONAL VACCINE DECISION
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 00:49:08 -0800
From: via@accessl.nct (via)
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: harrej@sirius.com, via<via@accessl.net>
Karin Schumacher wrote:
MY DECISION TO HALT IMMUNIZATIONS/VACCINES/INNOCULATIONS
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After everything I have learned and researched about diseases and
vaccines generally and observed in my daughter specifically, I am quite
confident and adamantly opposed to vaccines. In addition, the power of
the media and medical industries, the danger and risk of the "Vaccine
Preventable Diseases is really overblown. Even if my daughter does get
the diseases as I will delineate below this is my risk assessment for me
and my daughter.
POLIO—Arianna was vaccinated for all but her 18 month booster and she
was in Bangladesh as a 2.5year old(an endemic polio country, in the
village no less). In addition, what the powers that be don't normally
inform the public is that only 10% of all polio cases are in fact
paralytic polio and of those paralytic (don't quote me on the statistic)
many, many fully recover. This in no way demeans or discredits those
afflicted with polio but based on these facts, I am more comfortable
with the minuscule risk of the disease.
DPT-Again Arianna had the entire first year's rounds of required
immunizations so she had .3 full hits of this vaccine, to which she
reacted severely to her 2nd set. I informed the doctor and was
pedantically told this was normal and expected. In addition, she is
well over the danger age of pertussis (whooping cough, most dangerous in
the under 1 year olds.) Diphtheria is treatable with antibiotics and
tetanus is clearly not a concern with city slickers.
MMR—Arianna's final shot was the MMR at 2 weeks shy of her first
birthday. I don't remember a reaction but am thankful she nursed for 3
years which I feel has had a tremendous positive influence on her immune
system. I absolutely fear none of these diseases for my daughter. In
fact I would rather she acquire natural immunity because now her
daughter will suffer as no longer will she have the antibodies to pass
onto her children, female in particular. In addition, before the MMR
vaccine became widely used, medical textbooks called them benign,
self-limiting diseases. Also the better medical access available to her
is factored in. Many, many of those who suffer badly from these
diseases as with all other "vaccine preventable" diseases have
nutritional, medical, socio-economic and other strikes against them.
Arianna has none of these disadvantages.
HIB-The danger of Meningitis for Arianna has also been significantly
diminished due to her age, breastfed benefits, good nutrition benefits.
Although she also had her 3 sets of the HIB vaccines before she was 1.
HEPATITIS B-She was not required to take this as this has only become
recently mandated in many states. Just for a little background on this
one. This is an R&D nightmare. They couldn't justify all the R&D
capital outlay without a long term profit in sight. So they have slowly
(remember the story of the frog in boiling water vs. the frog in cold
water that slowly gets warmed up) made it mandatory for everyone and
anyone. There is no risk and someone very eloquently put it on a recent
post. "If my daughter is promiscuous and needle injecting in pre-teen
and teen years, I have a hell of a lot more to worry about than the hep
E vaccine.
CHICKENPOX—This is another logistical, marketing strategy that is
financially motivated by those who don't want the hassle of having to
care for a child who is home sick for a week. This was another (before
the advent of the vaccine) self-limiting, benign disease.
I am neither omniscient nor arrogant enough to claim I have all the
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answers or to say I have never questioned my decision, but since my
daughter's care and health is primarily up to me and I have done more
research than many pediatric and infectious disease physicians out
there, I am confident of my decision I have made.
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Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via8accessl.net (email)
http://www.909shot.com (NVIC website)
http: ,//www. accessl .net/via (VIA website)
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Date: Fri; 07 May 1999 15:29:30 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: "sochara@blr.vsnl.net.in" <sochara@blr.vsnl.net.in>
**XX*X***X**X******X*********X*****X***************************
Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information s Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA. 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via@accessl.net (email)
http://www.909shot■com (NVIC website)
http://www.accessl .net/via (VIA website)
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We Must Have The Freedom To Choose & Respect Everyone's Choice
Any information obtained here is not to be construed as medical
OR legal advice. The decision to vaccinate and how you
implement that decision is yours and yours alone.
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Subject: HOW TO START GRASS ROOTS ORGANIZATION
From: karin Schumacher <mandee@worldnet.att.net>
To: VIA
How To Start A. Grass Roots Organization
Karin Schumacher
How does one start a grass roots organization?
I first became interested and involved aft
I think the most motivating factor in this campaign, has been to follow through with the c
Be prepared to spend money out of pocket and to expect that people think you are on an uni
Radio
Call and press them to do a calk show on vaccinations.
Get them to bring on experts on va
Legislature
If you need a philosophical exemption in your state, lobby at the state level, by contact!
pursue my agenda without the knowledge of what or what won't work.
Television
Contact reporters at local TV stations and ask them to investigate claims made by experts
vaccine pieces. If there is enough interest, they may do a another piece on the subject.
Public Health Department
Ask to be a source for people who have questions about vaccinations.
I had a social worke
Cable Television
The local Cable stations have public forum opportunities for the general public to do show
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Newsletter
Start a monthly, bi monthly, quarterly newsletter to send to interested parties, Chiroprac
Press/Media
Write articles for the local news, write Letters to the Editor, write pieces for Public Fo
opinion. I called the publisher after a very biased piece on pro-immunization came out in
article would be more objective and that I would be contacted for information. Also cons
Magazines
Write articles or letters for Mothering, McCall's, Ladies Home Journal, Newsweek, Time, US
ACLU
Get the local and national ACLU on your bandwagon.
I joined and spoke at one of their mon
Speeches
Speak at Parent's Groups, La Leche League, PTA (now that is courageous!!), homeschoolers,
is more open.
.Advertising
While more expensive, paid advertising may reach a wider audience.
This again can be nati
Flyers
These are a good source to get the word out about meetings, issues and gatherings of your
Meeting Room
The public library should have a free meeting room that can be booked a year in advance, u
people remember it and it doesn't change.
Letters
In addition to the press you can write to celebrities that you know or have heard might be
Prime Time
Write letters encouraging vaccination pieces and experts who would speak on these issues.
in your area.
Day Time
Write letters encouraging vaccination pieces and experts who would speak on these issues.
Other Groups/People
It has been said politics make strange bedfellows.
This holds true where vaccinations are
Subject MATERNAL MMR
Date Sat, 30 Jan 1999 10:08:37 -0800
From karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization vaccine information and awareness
To via@accessl .net, AuntMares@aol.com
yes, others have had problems with the vaccine given to the mom which
mav trigger a response and then the toddler is set over the edge once
he/'she gets his mmr shot. you can obtain at the following addresses:
an autism packet
http://www.909shot■com/autismto.htm
info on autism
http: //www.access1 .net/via/Disease/autism-htm
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report a reaction (NVIC)
report a reaction (VAERS)
http://wvw.909shot.com/reaction.htm
http://wvw.fda.gov/cber/vaers.html
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Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via@accessl.net (email)
http://www.909shot.com (NVIC website)
http://www.accessl.net/via (VIA website)
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Any information obtained here is not to be construed as medical
OR legal advice. The decision to vaccinate and how you
implement that decision is yours and yours alone.
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Subject: LIVE VACCINES
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:06:05 -0800
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: Libby Simmons <simmons@si-net.com>. via <via@accessl.net>
according to the book:
"vaccines" by plotkin and mortimer, 1994
live vaccines originated when jenner invented the small pox vaccine in
the 1700's
sabin live polio vaccine began in 1958
mmr vaccine was licensed for use in 1971
chickenpox vaccine was licensed for use in 1995
> Libby Simmons wrote:
> Could you tell me when they started to give children the "live
> viruses" Vaccines...I am particularly interested in the MMR but I
> would like a list of all vaccines if that is possible. Dates and years
> would be very much appreciated. Thank you for you time.
> Libby (Mom of Kelsey 7)
> A mom on a mission
> In Indiana mail to:simmonsQsi-net.com
> To see a picture of Kelsey visit my website at
> http://members.tripod.com/~cluless 2/index.html
> The best Homeschooling Autism website anywhere
> http://paulbunyan.net/users/shannon/autism.htm
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Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via@accessl.net (email)
http: / /www. 909shot. com (NVIC website)
http: //www. access! . net/via (VIA website)
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Subject: LIVE VACCINE RISK TO UNVACCINATED CHILD
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 12:37:26 -0800
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: SequoiaMin@aol.com, via <via@accessl.net>
there are nearly 4 millicn/year doses of the oral polio vaccine given
and approximately 8-10 cases of vaccine induced polio mostly to those
whose immune system is compromised, theoretically, any live vaccine can
be shed and then infect an unvaccinated child. the same could happen
with mmr and chickenpox but with less debilitating reactions, however,
that is the risk assessment you must make.
hope this helps.
p.s. THE LIVE VACCINES ARE
MMR (MUMPS/MEASLES/RUBELLA)
VARICELLA (CHICKENPOX)
OPV (ORAL POLIO VACCINE)
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Subject: IMMUNIZATION TRACKING SYSTEM 5/13/98 TESTIMONY
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:21:41 -0800
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via@accessl.net
Testimony Barbara Loe Fisher gave to Congress on May 13, 1998
access the nvic website
go to the IMMUNIZATION REGISTRY: AN URGENT MESSAGE
ACCESS BARBARA LOE FISHER'S TESTIMONY:
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Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via@accessl.net (email)
http: //www. 909shot ■ com (NVIC website)
http://www.accessl.net/via (VIA website)
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We Must Have The Freedom To Choose & P.espect Everyone's Choice
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Any information obtained here is not to be construed as medical
OR legal advice. The decision to vaccinate and how you
implement that decision is yours and yours alone.
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Subject: [Fwd: AUTISM]
Date: Fri. 07 May 1999 15:28:57 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: "sochara@blr.vsnl.net.in" <sochara@blr.vsnl.net.in>
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Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via@accessl.net (email)
http://www.909shot.com (NVIC website)
http://www.access1■net/via (VIA website)
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Any information obtained here is not to be construed as medical
OR legal advice. The decision to vaccinate and how you
implement that decision is yours and yours alone.
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Subject: AUTISM
Date: Fri.. 20 Dec 1996 09:47:21 -0800
From: Karin Schumacher <mandee@worldner.ati.net>
To: Karin Schumacher <via@ihot.com>
Dear Parent,
Thank you for contacting the National Vaccine Information Center(NVIC), a national
non-profit educational organization dedicated to preventing vaccine injuries and deaths
through public education. We are sorry to learn of the problems your child is
experiencing and hope that the information we have available may help you learn whether
or not the problems are related to a vaccine reaction.
Cindy Goldenberg, who recently appeared on television describing her son's recovery from
autism, has worked with NVIC to develop a packet of materials to help you learn more
about the steps she took to help her child. This packet is available for a $15 donation
to the NVIC.
There are several ways to order the packet. It is available at our web site at
http://www.909shot ■com or you can call 1-800-909SHOT to order with a Visa or Mastercard.
If you do not have a credit card or wish to pay by check, you may write to us at NVIC,
512 W. Maple Avenue, #206, Vienna, VA. 22180. Our fax number is (703) 938-5768.
The National Vaccine Information Center is a small non-profit and Mrs. Goldenberg
volunteers to help. Due to the increased level of interest in this topic, we do not
have the staff or volunteers to speak to each family individually. For this we
apologize, but feel that rhe packet is comprehensive and will help provide ths
information you need.
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Thank you for your interest.
Kathi Williams
Co-Founder & Director
National Vaccine Information Center
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Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
792 Pineview Drive
San Jose, CA 95117
408-397-4192 (voice mail/pager)
408-554-9053 (phone/fax)
via@ihot.com (email)
http://v<w. ihot. com/~via (website)
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Subject: DPT AND AUTISM
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:25:03 -0800
From: karin schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via <via@accessl.net>
Many children in the US who have reacted to vaccines and continue to
suffer with autism spectrum disorder. We are working with several
doctors regarding autism and vaccination. We have recently started
working with a biochemist, Dr. Patricia Kane of New Jersey. She
analyzes blood from the child through a complete blood count (CBC) and
makes nutritional recommendations. It is fascinating and she is having
great success.
She also works on the long chain fats through supplements. Her
information is included in a packet we have assembled on autism and
vaccination. The packet can be ordered from our web site or by calling
or writing to us. The charge is $15 US.
> Kathi Williams, director
> National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)
> 512 w. Maple Ave. 4206
> Vienna, VA 22180
> (703) 938-0342
> ht tp://www. 909shot. com
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Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemaii)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via@accessl.net (email)
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http: //www. 909shot’. com (NVIC website)
http://www.access 1.net/via (VIA website)
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Any information obtained here is not to be construed as medical
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Subject HEP B VACCINE INJURED SUPPORT GROUP FORMING
Date Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:25:34 -0700
From karin schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To Vaccine Injured Health Care Professionals <HepBInjured@earthlink.nel>
Organization vaccine information and awareness
To via <via@accessl.net>
Vaccine Injured Health Care Professionals wrote:
> Dear
fellow Vaccine Victim,
> The purpose of this letter is to inform you of an online support group
> founded specifically for health care professionals and other adults who
> believe they have sustained an injury by the Hepatitis B Vaccine.
> Over the past year I have become aware of the need for support in our
> community. I've been contacted by many who have seen my posts in Health
> Care Forums - folks reaching out, wanting answers to their questions,
> both medical and legal. There are online support groups for parents of
> injured children but I don't know of any for OUR specific needs.
There
> is a real need for wider resources available as people contact us and a
> central place for us who have met to connect and disseminate
> information. Some of us have just started this journey - both medical
> and legal and are looking for answers, while still others have been
> symptomatic for years, have been in the legal system (either Worker's
> Compensation, Government Claim or suits against the vaccine
> manufacturers) or are currently initiating legal action.
> If you are interested in joining this group, simply reply to this email
> with the subject heading "SUBSCRIBE".
In the body of the letter,
> please send your full name, address and telephone number along with a
> synopsis of why you are interested in this group and any other
> information you feel comfortable providing, such as onset and type of
> symptoms and any legal action taken.
> I will be keeping this list of members' names and personal information
> and will not give this out unless personally approved by the member. I
> believe we need this safeguard to our privacy and to ensure that those
> joining are, indeed, who they say they are.
I won't ask anyone to join
> until I feel comfortable with him or her or if they are a valid referral
> from a current member.
> I'm hoping to hear from you soon. I know your input will be a valuable
> asset to this group and together we can help one another and others.
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> Sincerely,
> Mona Porter
> HepBlnjuredQearthlink.net
> http://home,earthlink.net/~hepbinjured/
> Or write to:
> Vaccine Injured Health Care Professionals
> P.O. Box 403
> Verdugo City, CA 91046-0403
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Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via8accessl.net (email)
http: //www. 909shot. com (NVIC website)
http://www.accessl.net/via (VIA website)
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Any information obtained here is not to be construed as medical
OR legal advice. The decision to vaccinate and how you
implement that decision is yours and yours alone.
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Subject IIEP B VACCINE LINKED TO AUTOIMMUNE RHEUMATOID DISEASES
Date Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:01:47 -0800
From karin schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization vaccine information and awareness
To via <via@accessl.net>
Classen Immunotherapies: Hepatitis B Vaccine Linked to Autoimmune
Rheumatoid Diseases
The following release was issued today from Classen Immunotherapies:
Data from France released at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American
College of Rheumatology, held November 8-12, 1998, in San Diego,
California links immunization against hepatitis B to the development of
autoimmune rheumatoid diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
The rise of autoimmunity following hepatitis B immunization in school
children and adults has become a major public health concern. In
October, the Ministry of Health in France suspended routine hepatitis B
immunization of school children while continuing hepatitis B
immunization at birth. The reason for this decision was reportedly the
increased risk of autoimmune diseases chat has been associated with the
vaccine when it is given starting at school age or later.
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The data from France links hepatitis B immunization to both the
development of newly diagnosed cases of autoimmune rheumatoid diseases
as -well as the exacerbation of previously diagnosed cases that were in
remission. This finding is supported by data from Canada published in
September which linked immunization against hepatitis B to the
development of autoimmune rheumatoid diseases in firefighters.
John B. Classen, M.D. an immunologist at Classen Immunotherapies
published papers linking the immunization against hepatitis B and other
diseases to the development of insulin dependent diabetes, an autoimmune
disease. Dr. Classen's work found that immunization starting after 2
months of life was associated with an increased risk of autoimmunity
compared to starting at birth. Data from a small study published by the
US government appears to support his data and showed that when hepatitis
B immunization was given starting after 2 months of life it was
associated with an almost doubling of the risk of diabetes.
"The data from humans and animals is very clear, when you stimulate the
immune system with vaccines you increase the risk of autoimmunity and
exacerbate smoldering inflammatory conditions. Vaccine induced
autoimmunity is a major public health problem because of the number of
vaccine doses given and the large percentage of people with undiagnosed
inflammatory conditions. We need to develop ways of giving vaccines
without increasing the risk of autoimmune diseases" states Classen.
"The French decision to continue hepatitis B immunization at birth while
discontinuing immunization starting at school age suggests the French
Ministry of Health may believe that they can decrease vaccine induced
autoimmunity by giving vaccines starting in the first month of life.
They appear to be accepting our findings" adds Classen.
Dr. Classen's research has been published in numerous journals and
featured in national news reports. For the latest information on the
effects of vaccines on insulin dependent diabetes and other autoimmune
diseases visit the Vaccine Safety Website (http://vaccines.net ).
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Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via@accessl.net (email)
http://www.909shot■com (NVIC website)
http://www.accessl.net/via (VIA website)
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We Must Have The Freedom To Choose s Respect Everyone's Choice
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Any information obtained here is not to be construed as medical
OR legal advice. The decision to vaccinate and how you
implement tnat decision is yours and yours alone.
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Subject: HEPATITIS B RESPONSE TO 20/20 SHOW
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 22:59:46 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
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> > Thank you for your interest in the Hepatitis B Vaccine. Because of the
> > tremendous response to the 20/20 show on Hepatitis B, the following
> > email will hopefully answer the main concerns of those who wrote and
> > provide more information in a timely fashion. Please understand that
> > all your specific questions may not be answered but hopefully most of
> > them will be.
> > ABC HEP B 20/20 PIECE AND FEEDBACK ADDRESS
> > http://abc.news.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/hepb2020 .html
> > http://abcnews.go. com/onair/email.html
> > NEWBORN IMMUNIZATION
> > There is no national mandate for a 1 day old infant to be immunized for
> > the hepatitis B vaccine, however, it is usually hospital policy. if you
> > don't want your child immunized in the hospital, you must state those
> > wishes preferably in writing before the child is born and you must stay
> > on top of them in the hospital. Otherwise they may take the newborn and
> > immunize him/her regardless of your wishes. it is unfortunate but true
> > that because they believe they are doing the right thing, they don't
> > question that some might not want their child immunized as a newborn.
> > this is why you must be a watchdog to ensure that your wishes are
> > respected.
> > STOPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF HEPATITIS B SERIES
>> If your child has not had the full series of the hep b vaccine, there is
>> a theorectical risk (according to the medical community) that he/she may
> > not be fully protected.
However, the assessment you must make for you
> > and your child is if he/she is in the 5% at risk population. Moreover,
> > of those 5% who contract Hepatitis B, fully 95% recover. The following
> > website address provides more indepth information.
> > http://www. 909shot.com/hepatitisb.htm (NVIC PAGE ON HEPATITIS B)
> > http://www.909shot.com/reaction.htm (NVIC PAGE IF YOU OR YOUR CHILD HAD
>> A REACTION)
> > http://www. access! . net/via/DISEASE/hepatiti.htm (VIA PAGE ON HEP B
> > LINKS)
> > http://wwwattorneyaccess. net (HEPATITIS B INFORMATION)
> > STATE IMMUNIZATION REQUIREMENTS
> > The immunization requirements differ from state to state so it depends
> > upon which state you live in. All 50 states have a medical exemption,
>> 48 states have a religious exemption and 17 states have a philosophical
> > exemption. Unfortunately while 36 states have mandated this vaccine,
> > most have failed to inform people of the exemptions . The following
> > website address will provide more information. Bear in mind however
> > this project is a work in progress and not all states may be posted
> > yet. If you state does not have the immunization requirements posted,
> > contact your public health department for the state law on hepatitis b
> > requirements along with the exemption information or you can contact
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> > your local legislative representative for the law and tell them how you
> > feel about the hepatitis b vaccine mandate.
> > h t tp: //www. access1. net/via/STATES/al ista tes. h tm (VIA PAGE ON STATE
> > INFORMATION)
> > http://lawlib.wuacc.edu/washlaw/uslaw/ statelaw.html (WEBSITE TO FIND
> > STATE VACCINE LAWS)
> > QUESTION AND RESEARCH
> > Also please research both sides of the controversy and take no one's
> > complete word, you must do the research on what is out there and ask the
> > tough questions of the experts. The main question regarding the public
> > health policy that is attempting to blow out a candle with a cannon. Why
>> if there is such a small risk is the entire childhood population being
> > targeted? See if any mention of the at risk population target was
> > unsuccessful and that is why they decided to target the kids since there
> > is the school leverage. Write and ask Merck for the vaccine package
> > insert. Smith Kline Beecham has the package insert on their website.
> > http://www2.hepb. org/hepb/ (HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION)
> > http://www. immunize, org/ (IMMUNIZATION ACTION COALITION)
> > h t tp: //www. merck. com (MERCK: HEP B VACCINE MANUFACTURER)
> > h t tp: //www. sb. com/ (SMITH-KLINE BEECHAM: HEP B VACCINE MANUFACTURER)
> > http://www.cdc.gov/nip/vacsafe/fs/qhepb.htm (CDC ANSWERS HEP B QUESTIONS)
> > http://www. cdc.gov/nip/publications/VIS/default.htm (HEP B VACCINE INFO SHEET)
> > BECOME A MEMBER OF NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER
> > Please become a member of the National Vaccine Information Center who
> > has been working for the right of a parent to a fully informed vaccine
> > decision since 1982. Becoming a become will help ensure that your
> > rights are better protected.
> > http://www.909shot.com/order.htm (NVIC MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION)
> > Thank you again for your interest and good luck on your search and
> > decision.
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Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via@accessl.net (email)
http://www.909shot.com (NVIC website)
http://www.accessl-net/via (VIA website)
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We Must Have The Freedom To Choose & Respect Everyone's Choice
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Any information obtained here is not to be construed as medical
OR legal advice. The decision to vaccinate and how you
implement that decision is yours and yours alone.
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Subject: HEPATITIS B VACCINE
Date: Mon. 30 Dec 1996 08:17:45 -0800
From: Karin Schumacher <via@ihot.com>
To: rickp@ramlink.net, Karin Schumacher <via@ihot.com>
Bart Classen wrote:
The Baltimore Sun today, Monday December 30th had an article discussing vaccines as a
cause of Gulf War Syndrome. The article mentions an immunologist by the name of Dr. Pam
Asa in Memphis Tennessee who reportedly believes many of the gulf war veterans developed
lupus from the vaccines they received. This would be consistent with my own research on
vaccines and autoimmunity, particularly insulin dependent diabetes. The article was
written by Jonathan Bor at the Baltimore Sun. You can also get information on the
Hepatitis B vaccine by having the package insert sent to you or your doctor by the
manufacturer, Merck or SmithKline Beecham. The same information is contained in the
Physician's desk reference. The package inserts often list a number of autoimmune
diseases associated with the vaccines but the information is almost useless since the
risk is not quantified and is only based on follow up of 30 days or less.
Bart Classen, MD
Rick A. Presley wrote:
I think i have had a reaction to the Engerix B vaccine howevere i can't seem to get an
answer from anyone i've been told my symptoms are due to the shot and then told from
another there not. I don't know which one is right all I know is just after i recieved
this vaccine booster i got sick and have not been the same this has been for a year now
soon to be 2 in may. I was wondering if you have had any information on this vaccine and
if it can cause Lupus type symptoms or Lupus its self.
I'm only looking for comment I
will not hold anyone to their opinion. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Robin-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx9cxxxxxxxxxxAxx9exxx
Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
792 Pineview Drive
San Jose, CA 95117
408-397-4192 (voice mail/pager)
408-554-9053 (phone/fax)
via@ihot.com (email)
http://www.ihot■com/~via (website)
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■ si received your letter
Subject: JUST RECEIVED YOUR LETTER
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 15:28:01 -0700
From: karin schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: sochara@blr.vsnl.net.rn, "saisanji@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in" <saisanji@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in>
i will be happy to send you some information i have on the hep b. you
can also search the via website for info on hep b and many other
vaccines, in addition i will add youto the via mailing list, i will
send information on that also, one other thing, there is a compatriot
who is working diligently on this issue i have put their email on the
return address so hopefully you two can connect.
good luck,
look forward to hearing from you.
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Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via@accessl.net (email)
h c t p : / / www .909shot.com (NVIC website)
http : //www. accessl . net/via (VIA website)
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We Must Have The Freedom To Choose & Respect Everyone's Choice
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Any information obtained here is not to be construed as medical
OR legal advice. The decision to vaccinate and how you
implement that decision is yours and yours alone.
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Subject: [Fwd: HEPATITIS B VACCINE QUESTIONS]
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 15:29:15 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl ,net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: "sochara@blr.vsnl.net.in" <sochara@blr. vsnl.net.in>
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Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information i Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via@accessl.net (email)
http: //www.909shot. com (NVIC website)
http://www.access1.net/via (VIA website)
We Must Have The Freedom To Choose & Respect Everyone’s Choice
Any information obtained here is not to be construed as medical
OR legal advice. The decision to vaccinate and how you
implement that decision is yours and yours alone.
Subject: HEPATITIS B VACCINE QUESTIONS
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:53:09 -0800
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: "kking@rutherford.kl2.nc.us" <kking@nitherford.kl2.nc.us>
you pose an excellent question and one that should definitely be
answered before you consider taking the shot, also there are a number
of websites devoted to both pro and con information on hep b vaccine and
disease available through a net search and/or
http://www.accessl.net/via/DISEASE/hepatiti.htm
i suggest you ask the people who are reconunending/requiring the
vaccine. they are the medical experts and should have any and all
medical contraindications available to give you to make a risk
assessment, also keep in mind that if you are taking shots and already
have somewhat of an immuno-compromised system (due to significant
allergies) that should also be taken into consideration, if the md does
not agree, challenge that assessment, also talk to your own allergist
to find out what he thinks about your system and the hep b vaccine and
the risks associated with the disease itself.
hope this helps.
Kristi King wrote:
> I am a high school teacher in NC and our insurance is providing free
> Hepatitis B vaccinations for us this year. However, we have been warned
> that we are not to take the shots if we are allergic to anything in the
> shot. I am allergic to several things and must get 2 allergy shots every
> week. How do I know what is in the shot so 1 know if I should or should
> not take it?
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> shot. T am allergic to several things and must get 2 allergy shots every
> week. How do I know what is in the shot so I know if I should or should
> not take it?
> Please advise.
> Kristi King
> Hast Rutherford High School
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Karin Schumacher
Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA)
12799 La Tortola
San Diego, CA 92129
619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail)
619-484-1187 (fax)
via8accessl.net (email)
http: //www. 909shot. com (NVIC website)
http://www■accessl.net/via (VIA website)
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Any information obtained here is not to be construed as medical
OR legal advice. The decision to vaccinate and how you
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Subject: HOW TO REPORT A REACTION TO NVIC
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 00:45:56 +0600
From: Karin Schumacher <via@ihot.com>
To: Karin Schumacher <via@ihot.com>
Dear Parent:
If you suspect that you or your child may have reacted to a vaccine or
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Subject HEPATITIS B: THE VACCINE AND THE DISEASE
Date Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:27:59 -0800
From karin schumacher <via@accessl.net>
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Hepatitis B: The Disease and the Vaccine
Overview:
The purpose of this discussion is to share information which is not
usually communicated to the public by the medical profession or
government health agencies. The information presented in this article
is meant to help you interpret the material given to you by physicians
and government, and to better put their material into perspective. The
term hepatitis is simply defined as any inflammation of the liver,
usually caused by a virus.
Depending on many factors hepatitis can be benign (harmless) or deadly.
How does one catch hepatitis B?
Hepatitis B is mainly transmitted by
sexual contact with a hepatitis B virus carrier, or through blood
transfusions. Although health care workers are designated as
"high-risk" for hepatitis B infection, they represent a very small
number of the total cases of hepatitis B. Basically, Hepatitis B is an
adult disease of promiscuous homosexuals, heterosexuals and intravenous
drug abusers.
To illustrate which population groups are at high-risk for hepatitis B
infection, the vaccine's manufacturer, SmithKline Beecham, employed sex
talk show goddess, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, as spokesperson in its
advertising campaign to encourage sexually promiscuous young adults to
receive Hepatitis B vaccine (Hepatitis B Virus'" SmithKline Beecham
Pharmaceuticals, EB 1893, June 1993).
Age incidence of Hepatitis B infections
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
13,361 cases of hepatitis B were reported in the US during 1993, Of
these, 96.4% of the cases occurred in persons 15 years of age or older.
Less than 2% of the total US cases occurred in infants less than 1 year
old. (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWM) vol 42, no. 53,
October 21, 1994, pg. 10.) The CDC estimates a 5% lifetime risk of
hepatitis B infection in the US. (MMWR vol 40, no. RR-13, November 22,
1994, p. 11) This means that 95% of the US population is not at risk
for hepatitis B infection. If hepatitis B is basically an adult
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November 1991, the CDC officially recommended vaccination of all newborn
infants with hepatitis B vaccine (MMWR vol 40, No. RR-13, November 22,
1991). Since then it is standard procedure to vaccinate all newborns
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within twelve hours of birth, and in some cases, immediately after
birth.
Babies are being targeted for hepatitis B vaccination because, according
to the CDC, "efforts to vaccinate persons in the major risk groups have
had limited success." Since babies are "available" for vaccination, the
government feels they are the key to eventual eradication of hepatitis
B. Instead of advising lifestyle changes, the CDC states, "Immunization
with hepatitis B vaccine is the most effective means of preventing HBV
(hepatitis B virus) infection and its consequences."
Babies as Guinea Pigs
Hepatitis B vaccine is not meant to protect babies now, unless the
mother is a hepatitis B carrier (a rare event), but it is intended to
"protect" them if they assume high-risk behaviors as teens or adults.
Unfortunately, no one knows how long hepatitis B vaccine immunity lasts,
hot; many boosters are necessary before adulthood, or if the vaccine is
safe when given with other childhood vaccines, (not from me - the
hepatitis B vaccine currently in use in Australia states in the package
insert that the immunity from the vaccine begins to wane after 3 years
and is insignificant after 5 years. How many 5 year olds do you know
who are sexually promiscuous or have a drug habit?)
The CDC acknowledges "...an estimated 91% of HBV infections in the US
are acquired during adolescence and adulthood and much of the public
health benefit of widespread infant vaccination will not be known until
vaccinated infants become adolescents and adults (MMWR vol 43, no. 33,
August 26, 1994, p. 608)
Problems with vaccine effectiveness
As with all vaccines, hepatitis B vaccine is not 100% effective. Reports
to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) have
indicated a high proportion of "insufficient or negative antibody levels
during testing for anti-HB's." This means that when blood antibody
levels were tested to see if the vaccine was working, the antibody
levels were inadequate or nonexistent.
Case reports of vaccine failure
have also appeared in medical literature (Hepatitis B virus infection in
a successfully immunized patient, 'Vaccine, 9:216, 1991)
Adverse reactions to hepatitis B vaccine
Approximately 12,000 adverse event reports associated with hepatitis B
vaccine were received by the federal government's VAERS between July 1,
1990 and November 7, 1994. Although many of these reports were from
infants who had received other vaccines at the same time, a large
fraction of these reports were from adults who had received only
hepatitis B vaccine.
The VAERS reports includ some serious injuries,
including
hospitalization and/or death.
In addition to this article, an article
in the New Zealand Medical Journal shows that since universal infant Hep
B vaccination began in 1988, the rate of insulin dependent diabetes has
increased by more than 60% and this researcher believes that the
vaccination is the only likely cause for this increase.
Karin Schumacher
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San Diego, CA 92129
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Subject HEPATITIS B VACCINE STUDY WEBSITE
Date Thu, 09 Jul 1998 14:33:23 -0700
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RAYMOND GALLUP (truegrit@gti.net) wrote:
Hepatitis B Vaccine study by Dr. Bonnie Dunbar of Baylor looking into
the MS like symptoms caused by the vaccine.... 34 pages long.
http: / /'webpages ■ net link. co .nz/~.ias/dunbar. htm
The Truth Is Out There
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Subject: HEPATITIS B VACCINE REACTION INFORMATION
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:22:49 -0800
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via@accessl.net
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> you should contact (if you have not already done so) bonnie dunbar who
> is working on adverse reactions to the hep b vaccine in texas. her
> address is "Bonnie S. Dunbar" <bdunbar@bcm. tmc.edu>
> the other things you need to do is contact the following to see about
> reporting your reaction and possibly receiving compensation for the
> vaccine reactions. the address for these are:
> http://WWW. HP.SA. DHHS. GOV/bhpr/vicp/new. HTM (vaccine injury compensation program)
> http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaers.html (vaccine adverse event reporting system)
> http://www.909shot.com/reaction.htm (reporting a vaccine reaction to nvic)
> hope this helps
Karin Schumacher
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San Diego, CA 92129
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Subject: IMMUNIZATION REGISTRIES GAINING STEAM
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 19:53:50 -0700
From: karinschuiuacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: Carolyn <ppva@velocity.fiet>
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Carolyn wrote:
"immunization Registries Gaining Steam"
American Medical News (05/03/99) Vol. 42, No. 17, P. 27; Shelton,
Deborah L.
With doctors retiring and families moving, children's immunization
records often get lost. In addition, children today are required to be
immunized against many more diseases and the shots are often
administered by several different health providers. With roughly 1
million children under age two missing one or more of their recommended
vaccines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has initiated a
program to develop immunization registries. The CDC says it wants to
gather comprehensive and confidential immunization data on all children.
Currently, 3C states and the District of Columbia have registries in one
or more public settings, but the states have not moved far along in
including private care physicians. Proponents say the registries are a
valuable tool in preventing administration of
unnecessary shots; statistics reveal that 15 percent of American
children have been given at least one dose of a vaccine they did not
require. Others point out that the databases can generate reminders of
due daces or notifications regarding missed doses
Pennsylvania Parents for Vaccine Awareness
P.O. Box 173
Mill Village, Pa. 16427
Email: ppva@velocity.net
Web Page: http://www.erie.net/~noshotz
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The news is not all bad for the vaccine field. The findings are expected
>> to lead to changes in immunization practices which will lead to a decline
> > in childhood diabetes. immunization starting in the first month of life has
> > been associated with a decreased risk of diabetes and is one method being
> > considered to make immunization safer.
> >
Dr. Classen's research has been published in numerous journals and
> > featured in national news reports. For the latest information on the
> > effects of vaccines on insulin dependent diabetes and other autoimmune
> > diseases visit the Vaccine Safety Website ( http://vaccines.net ) .
> > At 10:57 AM 5/7/99 -0700, you wrote:
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Subject: HIB VACCINE LINKED TO DIABETES
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 19:29:33 -0700
From: karinschumacher <via@accessl.uet>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
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Classen wrote:
> > cor Immediate Release
> > Classen Immunotherapies, Inc.
> >
6517 Montrose Avenue
> >
Tel: (410) 377-4549
> >
Classen@vaccines.net
> Bart
Baltimore, MD 21212
fax: (410) 377-8526
http://vaccines.net
U.S.A.
> > Hemophilus meningitis vaccine linked to diabetes increase. Many diabetics
> > may be eligible for compensation.
> >
Baltimore, May 7, 1999: The British Medical Journal (eBMJ;
> > http://www.bmj . com/cgi/el otters/318/7192/1169) published data by Dr. J.
> > Bart Classen, an immunologist at Classen Immunotherapies, supporting a
> > causal relationship between the hemophilus vaccine and the development of
> > insulin dependent diabetes. The data is particularly disturbing because it
> > indicates the potential risks of the vaccine exceeds the potential benefit.
> > The findings are expected to allow many diabetics to receive compensation
> > for their injuries and lead to safer immunization.
> >
The data pertains to a study initiated and funded by Classen
> > Immunotherapies which was performed using medical records of Finnish
> > children. The study looked at the rate of diabetes in children receiving 4
> > or 1 dose of a weak, early generation, hemophilus vaccine and compared to
> > the rate in children who received no vaccine. The children were followed
> > for 10 years. In the group receiving 4 doses of vaccine the rate of
> > diabetes was elevated by 26% after 7 years compared to children receiving 0
> > doses. There were an extra 58 cases of diabetes per 100,000 children
> > immunized in the group receiving 4 doses of vaccine compared to children
> > receiving 0 doses. This is equivalent to 2,300 cases of diabetes a year in
> > the US which has an annual birth rate of about 4 million children. However,
> > even more cases of diabetes are expected with newer hemophilus vaccines
> > which are in use today. By contrast immunization against hemophilus is
> > expected to prevent 7 deaths and 7 to 26 cases of severe disability per
> > 100,000 children immunized in Finland.
> >
The data shatters the prevailing myth that the benefits of vaccines far
> > exceed the risks. The data is expected to allow many diabetic children to
> > receive compensation for their illness. Each case of insulin dependent
> > diabetes is estimated to cost on average over $1 million in medical costs
> > and lost productivity. "Many children with diabetes may be eligible to
> > receive compensation for their illness, the data is expected to relieve
> > the tremendous financial burden to their families" says Classen. If the
> > results hold up with other vaccines, as preliminary data suggests, a .large
> > proportion of insulin dependent diabetics may be eligible for compensation.
> >
"Unfortunately many public health officials and researchers funded by
> > groups threatened by the findings continue to try to deny the association.
> > This may prolong the financial burden of diabetics deserving compensation"
> > adds Classen. In a letter published by the British Medical Journal (eBMJ),
> > Classen describes analytical methods used by public health officials which
> > may give readers the perception that the effect is smaller than it really is.
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deadline for filing claims with nvicp
Subject: DEADLINE FOR FILING CLAIMS WITH NVICP
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 17:44:52 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: maglio@sarasotalaw.com
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
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"Altom M. Maglio" wrote:
Dear Karin:
I am an attorney and represent person injured by vaccinations. I would
greatly appreciate if you could inform your members of the below
information. Thank you, Alltom M. Maglio 941.952.5242
Deadline for Filing Hepatitis B, Haemophilus Influenza Type B, and
Chicken Pox
Vaccine Injury Claim is August 6
By Altom M. Maglio, Esq. - For those who have been injured or lost a
child from an adverse reaction to a hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenza
type b, or chicken pox vaccination administered prior to August 6, 1997,
the deadline for filing a claim with the National Vaccine Injury
Compensation Program (NVICP) is fast approaching. Congress enacted the
NVICP in 1986 to compensate individuals and families of individuals
suffering adverse reactions to certain vaccines. Initially these three
vaccines were not included in the Program. However, on August 6, 1997,
the Department of Health and Human Services added the hepatitis B,
Haemophilus influenza type b, and chicken pox vaccines to the list of
vaccines covered by the NVICP.
August 6, 1999, is the deadline for filing a petition for compensation
with the NVICP for injuries resulting from the above vaccines
administered prior to August 6, 1997 and after August 6, 1989. If an
individual or family of an individual injured by one of the three
vaccines fails to file by this deadline, they are likely barred forever
from filing a claim. Any injuries occurring prior to August 6, 1989 are
most likely already forever barred. The petition for compensation must
be filed with the United States Court of Claims in Washington, D.C. and
must include numerous specific documents and records.
If you have been injured by these vaccines or know someone who has, the
time to act is now. Contact an attorney that represents victims of
vaccine injuries or call the NVICP directly at (800)-338-2382.
Altom M. Maglio is an attorney representing victims of vaccine related
injuries. The above information is not legal advice and may not apply
to your situation. Speak with an attorney for information regarding
your specific circumstance. More information on filing a claim with the
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is available from Mr.
Maglio's Web Site at http://www.sarasotalaw.com or by calling his office
at (941) 952-5242.
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WHEN THE STATE USES PEOPLE AS GUINEA PIGS
Subject: WHEN THE STATE USES PEOPLE AS GUINEA PIGS
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:59:10 -0700
From: karin Schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: meryl@avn.org.au
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
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Meryl Dorey wrote:
source:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/0713 99sci-experiments-risk.html
July 13, 1999
A History: When the State Uses People as Guinea Pigs
by PHILIP J. HILTS
Scientific experiments in which human subjects are abused are not new.
Examples are as old as arrogance and cruelty. In the 13th century,
according to historians, a Mongol commander laying siege to a port city
experimented with heaving his diseased, dead soldiers over the walls of
the besieged town. The result was victory for the command and the spread
of black plague to its first seaport. The commander's action may indeed
have been the major event in the great bubonic pandemic.
United States Army
A spherical chamber at Fort Detrick, Md., right, was used to test static
biological aerosols on volunteers. But something different has been
produced in this century, according to John Moreno, director of the
Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia and the
author of "Undue Risk," to be published this fall by W. H. Freeman S
Company. Modern times have seen the growth of systematic,
state-sponsored programs of unethical experimentation, and they have
occurred in nations as diverse as the United States, Nazi Germany,
China, Japan, Iraq and South Africa.
Dr. Moreno's book traces the history of secret, state-sponsored
experiments in the fields of atomic, chemical and biological warfare
studies from World War II to the present, including the possibility that
governments are now experimenting with what he calls "genetic warfare."
Dr. Moreno, who has a Ph.D. in philosophy, was drawn into the subject
when he was telephoned by Dr. Ruth Faden of Johns Hopkins University and
the
leader of the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation
Experiments, and was asked to become a member.
The committee's task was to reconstruct the story of radiation
experiments on humans carried out in the United States from 1944 to
1974. The investigation, believed to be the most thorough historical
search of its kind ever done, took almost two years and plumbed millions
of pages of documents. The advisory committee found thousands of human
experiments had been conducted with radiation and that many were
unethical. About $5 million in compensation was awarded by the Federal
Government to the survivors of a few
of the worst experiments.
But the report was finished, Dr. Moreno found his curiosity had only
been piqued. What, he asked himself, about the other new technologies in
modern warfare and chemical and biological weapons? What experiments had
been done with those? He decided to find out.
What made his and the radiation investigations possible was President
Clinton's decision to declassify the military records of the secret
experiments.
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The book based in part on those records consists of a parade of
horribles, but it reveals many common features in unethical experiments
from nation to nation, experiment to experiment. And while it often
chronicles familiar cases, it also describes a few unfamiliar cases,
ones that may point to the abuses of the future. And it finishes with a
discussion of the positive consequences of unethical experiments: that
ethical standards are being raised. The committee found that from 1944
to 1974, there were thousands of experiments in the United States using
radiation, in projects as diverse as
injecting plutonium into the bodies of unsuspecting patients and
marching soldiers onto the sites of atom bomb tests just after the
blasts.
In Iraq in the 1980's, Dr. Moreno reports, prisoners and captured Kurds
were tied to stakes and bombarded with chemical and bacteriological
weapons to assess the weapons' effects. The number of victims is not
known, but may be in the thousands. Among the less familiar tales is
that of the South African program called Operation Coast, which was
unearthed by that nation's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
Operation Coast consisted of a series of experiments in the 1980's in
which biological and chemical weapons were tested, in one case on troops
from Mozambique, for use against apartheid opponents.
United States Army--A transparent model of the testing chamber.
The commission also found evidence that among the secret medical
experiments was an effort to develop infertility drugs that would affect
blacks but not whites, Dr. Moreno wrote. Dr. Moreno says it was unclear
whether such drugs were actually tried on humans, but the case raises
the possibility of adding a fourth horseman to the atomic, biological
and chemical weapons — "genetic warfare." "Several classes of weapons
could result," Dr. Moreno wrote, "among them microbes genetically
engineered to target certain human populations based on a virus's
ability to 'recognize' the DNA variations in specific subgroups." He
added that the possibility was credible partly because "people from
particular ethnic groups or certain geographic origins have long been
noted to be associated with sensitivities to particular foods and
drugs." For example, he wrote, since ancient Greek times it has been
known that people of African and Middle Eastern origin often get sick
after eating fava beans. Dr. Moreno wrote that the Defense Department
already had begun studies to design defenses against "genetic" attack.
Human experiments of some kind will always be necessary in government
and military programs, Dr. Moreno wrote, but what is necessary for the
future is to guard against abuse of humans. And, he said, one of the
things that surprised him most was that he found the best model for
careful, ethical human experimentation in a US Army chemical and
biological warfare program. He discovered a group of medics called 91
Bravo at Fort Detrick, Md., who are also known as the Medical Research
Volunteers or Mervs whose job as soldiers is simply to serve as subjects
in medical experiments. They give blood, take experimental vaccines and
ingest suspect bacteria, and when they become sick they are treated on
the spot. They receive special training in experimentation, detailed
briefings on each experiment, and have the option of participating in
some trials and not others.
In contrast to civilian research on humans, the experiments on "91
Bravo" must be reviewed by multiple boards and officials before
proceeding. And the medics themselves sometimes join on the review
committees. Unethical experimentation will always be with us, Dr. Moreno
wrote, but if secrecy is limited and good model experimental programs
can be developed, the abuses may be limited.
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VACCINES AND APNEA
Subject: VACCINES AND APNEA
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:53:51 -0700
From: karin schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: Michael Belkin <Belkin@ibm.net>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
To: via<via@accessl.net>
Michael Belkin wrote:
Immunizations Linked To Severe Apnea in Premature Infants
Tuesday, July 13, 1999
(Reuters Health) - Premature infants may be at increased risk of severe
apnea following immunization against DPT and Haemophilus influenza B
(HiB), according to a report in July's Fetal and Neonatal Edition of the
Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Drs. M. H. Slack and D. Schapira of the Royal Hampshire County Hospital,
Winchester, Hampshire, UK, reported on four premature infants who
required resuscitation after receiving a first course of immunizations
against DPT and HiB. None of these children had experienced severe
respiratory symptoms in the period immediately prior to immunization.
One of the cases was severe enough to require reintubation and
ventilation. All four infants received their second and third courses of
immunization without incident.
"It is clear from our experience that some premature infants are at risk
of life threatening apnoea after immunization," the authors conclude.
"We believe that further, larger studies are needed to show the exact
risk to these smaller infants."
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 1999;81:F67-F68.
Karin Schumacher
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VACCINE FIRMS URGED TO ELIMINATE MERCUTY
Subject: VACCINE FIRMS URGED TO ELIMINATE MERCUTY
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:41:47 -0700
From: karin schumacher <via@accessl.net>
Reply-To: Kathi Williams <kwilliams9@mindspring.com>
Organization: vaccine information and awareness
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Kathi Williams wrote:
Vaccine Firms Urged to Eliminate Mercury
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 13, 1999; Page Z07
The US Public Health Service and the AAP have asked the manufacturers of
many childhood vaccines to reduce or eliminate small amounts of an
organic form of mercury that has been used for decades in immunizations
as an antibacterial., p.res_exv_a_txve. Called thimerosal, this mercury can be
found found in more than 30 vaccines, including those against hepatitis
B, whooping cough, diphtheria, tetanus and bacterial meningitis. None is
found in live virus vaccines such as immunizations against measles and
mumps.
Health officials stressed that today's vaccines with thimerosal are
safe, and said that the current action is being taken to avoid a hazard
that theoretically could occur if an infant received many shots of
vaccines with thimerosal. Nonetheless, they have acted quickly to reduce
this potential hazard. It was only two weeks ago that the FDA informed
them that mercury levels in small babies who receive many
thimerosal-containing vaccines during one doctor's visit could exceed
EPA's precautionary limits. At very high levels, mercury can cause
neurological damage in children.
"The news came as a surprise to everybody," said Louis Z. Cooper, a
Columbia University professor of pediatrics and a member of the board of
directors of the AAP. "We pediatricians have been using vaccines with
thimerosal for 50 years and haven't given it a second thought," he said.
"It's important to take these steps now," he continued, adding: "If
there was a problem here regarding harm to infants, we would have picked
it up sooner."
Health officials said thimerosal has been used in vaccines since the
1940s and that there have been no reports of actual cases of mercury
poisoning from vaccines. But infants today receive more immunizations
than was true a generation ago. Some of the current concern is fueled by
that increased number of recommended vaccinations generally six in their
early months and 11 by their second birthdays.
Some companies already make vaccines without thimerosal, and health
officials said they were confident the manufacturers would be able to
reduce or eliminate the mercury soon. In a statement issued last week,
the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which
represents five vaccine producers, said that while there is no clinical
evidence of harm from thimerosal, "there is a general consensus that it
would be preferable to eliminate thimerosal from vaccines whenever
possible. The vaccine industry is working closely with FDA and other
government agencies to meet this objective."
Meanwhile, health officials strongly recommended that parents continue
inoculating their children during the changeover to thimerosal-free
vaccines. They said the dangers from childhood diseases were far greater
than those from very small doses of mercury. "We weighed the very real
and known risks of withholding vaccine with the mercury and the very
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small risk of using it," said Jon Abramson, a Wake Forest University
doctor and chairman of the AAP infectious disease committee. "It wasn't
close. The truth is that every medicine and every vaccine carries a
risk, and our job is to determine when the risk is worth taking. And it
certainly is an appropriate risk here."
At the same time, officials did propose pne modification in infants'
vaccine schedule. They recommended that "most infants be given their
first hepatitis B shot when they are between 2 and 6 months old, rather
than- at bTrth.- That' delay would decrease the mercury intake when Infants
are most vulnerable, they said, and it would also pose little danger of
disease to the babies. That change in particular was welcomed by
Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information
Center, which has been critical of many
national vaccine policies. During congressional hearings in May chaired
by Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.J, numerous parents testified that their
children had been harmed by adverse reactions to the._hepa.ti.tLi. B
vaccine, including the development of arthritis-like symptoms.
She applauded the action taken by the Health Service and the AAP but
said, however, that "there is a real question as to whether current
stocks of childhood vaccines containing mercury should be used and
whether vaccination of babies under 6 months of age with multiple
vaccines containing mercury should be delayed." The mercury problem
comes at a time when public health officials are often on the defensive
when they promote vaccinations. With many childhood diseases now largely
controlled, parents have become less concerned about missing
vaccinations for their children.
With this dynamic in mind, Surgeon General David Satcher issued the
following statement last week: "Terrible childhood diseases like
whooping cough, bacterial meningitis, polio and diphtheria are waiting
for us to let our guard down. The risk of devastating childhood diseases
from failure to vaccinate far outweighs the minimal, if any, risk of
exposure to cumulative levels of mercury in vaccines."
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619-484-1187 (fax)
via@accessl.net (email)
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