Scientists fear MMR link to autism

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By SALLY BECK, Mail on Sunday

New American research shows that there could be a link between the controversial MMR triple vaccine and autism and bowel disease in children.

The study appears to confirm the findings of British doctor Andrew Wakefield, who caused a storm in 1998 by suggesting a possible link.

Now a team from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina are examining 275 children with regressive autism and bowel disease - and of the 82 tested so far, 70 prove positive for the measles virus.

Last night the team's leader, Dr Stephen Walker, said: 'Of the handful of results we have in so far, all are vaccine strain and none are wild measles.

'This research proves that in the gastrointestinal tract of a number of children who have been diagnosed with regressive autism, there is evidence of measles virus.

'What it means is that the study done earlier by Dr Wakefield and published in 1998 is correct. That study didn’t draw any conclusions about specifically what it means to find measles virus in the gut, but the implication is it may be coming from the MMR vaccine. If that’s the case, and this live virus is residing in the gastrointestinal tract of some children, and then they have GI inflammation and other problems, it may be related to the MMR.'

The 1998 study by Dr Wakefield, then a reader in gastroenterology at the Royal Free Hospital in North London, and 12 other doctors claimed to have found a new bowel disease, autism enterocolitis.

At the time, Dr Wakefield said that although they had not proved a link between MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) and autism, there was cause for concern and the Government should offer the option single vaccines - instead of only MMRs - until more research had been done.

The paper - and the confused interpretation of its findings - caused uproar and led to many parents withdrawing their co-operation for the triple jab. Ten of the paper's authors also signed retractions on the interpretation but stood by the science.

This is the second independent study to back up Dr Wakefield. In 2001 John O'Leary, Professor of Pathology at St James's Hospital and Trinity College, Dublin, replicated his findings.

Last night Dr Wakefield said: 'This new study confirms what we found in British children and again with Professor O'Leary. The only exposure these children have had to measles is through the MMR vaccine.

'They were developing normally until they regressed. They now suffer autism and bowel disease.

'The Department of Health and some of the media wanted to dismiss our research as insignificant. The excuse was that no one else had the same findings as us. What they didn't say is that no one else had looked.'

A spokesman for the Department of Health said they had not read the American report, but added: 'MMR remains the best form of protection against measles, mumps and rubella.'

Gadrasil, Deadly Killer

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Abortion Stillbirth Events from Gardasil Far Exceed All Other Vaccines
Consumer beware! What your doctor isn’t telling you is that Gardasil leads all other vaccines in abortion stillbirth events. Does anyone actually review the VAERS data to protect the public? View the graph and decide for yourself.

Jan 24, 2011 – According to a National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC – http://nvic.org) MedAlerts blog entry written in November 2010, the incidents of abortion and still birth events from the HPV4 vaccine, Gardasil supersedes the same event from all other vaccinations.

Vaccines: Get the Full Story

Doctors, Nurses and Scientists on Protecting Your Child and Yourself

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Here's some of what you'll find in this eye-opening report from the International Medical Council on Vaccination (www.VaccinationCouncil.org)

Nicola Antonucci, MD Todd M. Elsner, DC Alexander Kotok, MD, PhD Máximo Sandín, PhD, David Ayoub, MD Jorge Esteves, MD Eneko andaburu, MD Len Saputo, MD, Nancy Turner Banks, MD Edward "Ted" Fogarty, MD Luc Lemaire, DC Michael Schachter, MD Timur Baruti, MD Jack Forbush, DO Janet Levatin, MD Viera Scheibner, PhD Danny Beard, DC Milani Gabriele, CRNA, RN Thomas Levy, MD, JD Penelope Shar, MD Françoise Berthoud, MD Sheila Gibson, MD, BSc Stephen L'Hommedieu, DC Bruce Shelton, MD, MD(H) Russell Blaylock, MD Mike Godfrey, MBBS Paul Maher, MD, MPH Debbi Silverman, MD Fred Bloem, MD Isaac Golden, ND Andrew Maniotis, PhD Kenneth “KP” Stoller, MD Laura Bridgman, FNP, ND Gary Goldman, PhD Steve Marini, PhD, DC Terri Su, MD Kelly Brogan, MD Garry Gordon, MD, DO, MD(H) Juan Manuel Martínez Méndez, MD Didier Tarte, MD Sarah Buckley, MD Doug Graham, DC Sue McIntosh, MD Leigh Ann Tatnall, RN Rashid Buttar, DO Boyd Haley, PhD Richard Moskowitz, MD Adiel Tel‐Oren, MD, DC Harold Buttram, MD Gayl Hamilton, MD Sheri Nakken, RN, MA Sherri Tenpenny, DO Lisa Cantrell, RN Linda Hegstrand, MD, PhD Christiane Northrup, MD Renee Tocco, DC Lua Català Ferrer, MD James Howenstine, MD Amber Passini, MD Demetra Vagias, MD, ND Jennifer Craig, PhD, BSN, MA Suzanne Humphries, MD Ronald Peters, MD, MPH Franco Verzella, MD Robert Davidson, MD, PhD Belén Igual Diaz, MD Jean Pilette, MD Julian Whitaker, MD Ana de Leo, MD Philip Incao, MD Pat Rattigan, ND Ronald Whitmont, MD Carlos de Quero Kops, MD Joyce Johnson, ND Zoltan Rona, MD, MSc Betty Wood, MD Carolyn Dean, MD, ND A. Majid Katme, MBBCh, DPM Chaim Rosenthal, MD Eduardo Ángel Yahbes, MD Mayer Eisenstein, MD, JD, MPH Tedd Koren, DC Robert Rowen, MD

The above signatories represent a spectrum that includes pediatricians, family physicians, brain surgeons, and professors of pathology, chemistry, biology and immunology. All have independently researched the real science and have come to the conclusions you will read about in this document. MD, DO, MB, MBBCh all indicate a doctor of medicine. ND indicates a medically trained and licensed doctor in some areas. FNP indicates a family nursepractitioner.

Ever wonder why doctors can’t find the cause for many diseases? It’s because they are conditioned to ignore the relationship between illness and vaccines. These are some of the diseases that have documented associations with vaccines:

• Allergies and eczema

• Arthritis

• Asthma

• Autism

• Acid reflux requiring an infant to take proton pump inhibitors, which have many side effects

• Cancer

• Diabetes (infant and childhood)

• Kidney disease

• Miscarriages

• Long list of neurological and autoimmune diseases

• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

• And many, many more

These are some known vaccine side effects, documented in medical literature and/or in package inserts:

• Arthritis, bleeding disorders, blood clots, heart attacks, sepsis

• Ear infections

• Fainting (with reports of broken bones)

• Kidney failure requiring dialysis

• Seizures/epilepsy

• Severe allergic reactions, such as hives and anaphylaxis

• Sudden death

• Many common diagnoses given for hospital admissions.

• The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, (NVICP) has awarded more than $1.2 billion in damages to children and adults injured by vaccines.

Autism is associated with vaccines.

• Autism was rare until the mass vaccination programs were accelerated in 1991, with the introduction of the hepatitis B vaccine and the HiB (meningitis) vaccine. Tens of thousands of parents will attest that autism appeared in their children very soon after they were given these, and other, vaccines.

• Study the information on the website www.fourteenstudies.org. You will find the studies denying the association between autism and vaccines to be highly questionable.

Drug companies, insurance companies and the medical system get rich when you get sick.

• Vaccines do not give life‐long immunity, which means booster shots are recommended.

• Each booster shot increases the risk of more side effects.

• Vaccine side effects can make you sick for the rest of your life. Conveniently, there are many drugs to treat the side effects caused by vaccines.

• In the U.S., neither drug companies nor doctors can be sued when something bad happens from a vaccination. Both are protected by the 1986 National Child Vaccine Injury Act. This law, signed into effect by then‐president Ronald Reagan decreed: “No vaccine manufacturer shall be liable in a civil action for damages arising from a vaccine‐related injury or death.” (Public Law 99‐660)

Many doctors and health‐care practitioners do not get vaccinated and do not vaccinate their children. Why not?

• They know vaccines are not proven to be safe or effective.

• They know vaccines contain dangerous substances.

• They know vaccines cause serious health problems.

• They have treated patients with serious side effects from vaccines.

The only people who benefit from being healthy are you and those you care about.

• Drug companies have infiltrated and seized control over the entire healthcare system, including medical schools, medical journals, hospitals, clinics and the local pharmacy. A doctor’s very livelihood thus depends on blind faith, without questioning any aspect of any vaccination. Even when obvious evidence of vaccine damage occurs right before a doctor’s eyes, s/he is usually unwilling to consider a vaccine as the cause. Though uncorrupt science and medicine support rejection of vaccines, doing so can be considered professional career suicide. The signatories to this document boldly risk this end for the safety of you and your child.

• Hospitals benefit financially from hospitalizations and tests.

• Drug companies make billions of dollars from vaccines.

• Drug companies make tens of billions of dollars from drugs given to treat side effects and life‐time illnesses caused by vaccines.

• Vaccines are the backbone of the medical system. Without vaccines, healthcare costs would go down because we would have a healthier overall society. We have exchanged chicken pox for autism, flu for asthma, ear infections for diabetes. The list goes on and on. In the zeal to eliminate a short list of relatively benign microbes, we have traded temporary illnesses for pervasive, life‐long diseases, disorders, dysfunctions and disabilities.

How many vaccines are there?

• If U.S. children receive all doses of all vaccines, they are injected with up to 35 shots that contain 113 different kinds of disease particles, 59 different chemicals, four types of animal cells/DNA, human DNA from aborted fetal tissue and human albumin.

• If you think you don’t have to worry about vaccines because your children are older, think again. There are at least 20 more vaccines currently in the development pipeline for release in the next few years, mostly targeting adolescents and adults.

Some Vaccine Ingredients: How is it possible that vaccines will not be harmful to your health?

• Stray viruses and bacteria from the animal cell cultures that vaccines are made in.

• Mercury, a well‐documented neurotoxin, is still in the multi‐dose flu vaccines throughout the world. Trace amounts remain in several other vaccines.

• Aluminum, a poison that can cause bone, bone marrow and brain degeneration.

• Animal cells from monkeys, dog kidneys, chickens, cows, and humans.

• Formaldehyde (embalming fluid), a known carcinogen.

• Polysorbate 80, known to cause infertility in female mice and testicular atrophy in male mice.

• Gelatin, from pigs and cows, known to cause anaphylactic reactions, is found in large quantities in the MMR, chickenpox and shingles vaccines.

• Monosodium glutamate (MSG) in inhaled flu vaccines, is known to cause metabolic disturbances (e.g. diabetes), seizures and other neurologic disorders.

Conflicts of Interest

• The same people who make rules and recommendations about vaccination profit from vaccine sales. For example, Dr. Julie Gerberding, who was in charge of the CDC for eight years, is now the President of Merck Vaccines. Dr. Paul Offit, a member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice(ACIP), developed and patented his own vaccine.

• According to the CDC, the average U.S. 10‐doctor pediatric group has over $100,000 of vaccine inventory in their office to sell. These doctors make money from office visits and from giving your children vaccines, and also from follow up office visits for assessing reactions.

• U.S. pediatricians reportedly make quarterly bonuses from the HMOs they work for by maintaining high vaccination rates in their practices and have reportedly been reprimanded by insurance companies if their vaccination rates fall.

Is there any research that shows the difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated children?

The Cal‐Oregon project sponsored by Generation Rescue surveyed parents of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated U.S. children. Of the 17,674 children included in the survey, the results showed:

• Vaccinated children had 120% more asthma.

• Vaccinated boys had 317% more ADHD.

• Vaccinated boys had 185% more neurologic disorders.

• Vaccinated boys had 146% more autism.

Girls represented only 20% of the total number of children in the survey. To read the full study for yourself, go to www.generationrescue.org/pdf/survey.pdf. To read a report on the low incidence of autism among unvaccinated Amish children go tohttp://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/quick‐compare‐2. More studies on autism are found here http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/japvaxautism/ and here http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/britvaxautism/

Vaccine Exemptions in the U.S.

• You do have the right to refuse. Use it.

• Your child does not have to be vaccinated to attend public school.

• Every state has exemptions giving you the right to refuse unwanted vaccines. http://exemptmychild.com/10752

• Find a healthcare provider who agrees with your choice to not vaccinate and will respect you at www.vaccinationcouncil.org/providers.pdf

Many choose health and safety by saying no to vaccines.

• Groups that generally do not vaccinate include holistic practitioners, chiropractors, parents who home school, and those who belong to certain religions.

• Thousands of testimonies written by parents of non‐vaccinated children about the state of their children’s robust health are available many places online.

• Vaccination decisions are between you and your spouse/partner. No one else needs to know. It is not the business of your family members, your neighbors, or your in‐laws.

To have vibrant health, you will need to take the initiative to learn some new things.

• The safe choice is to say no to vaccines. You have control over health choices you make for yourself and your children. You have no control over the outcome of a vaccination.

• You do not need a pediatrician to simply weigh and measure your child and give shots. Consider a naturopathic doctor, a pediatric chiropractor, a doctor of oriental medicine, or a homeopathic doctor. You may find that family doctors of osteopathic medicine are more open‐minded about vaccine‐free choices.

• Babies are born with powerful, natural defenses. If this were not so, all would die shortly after birth. Enormous cascades of complex immune processes start with the first cry. This needs to occur naturally, without the interruption caused by the injections of toxic substances.

• Learn about the “vaccine preventable” diseases. Your children will never come in contact with most of them and if they do, nearly all healthy and unvaccinated children recover uneventfully, with long term immunity. Health cannot come through a needle.

• Learn about the importance of fever, how to take care of it at home and when it is time to call the doctor. Most fevers resolve on their own, with care and support, in just a few hours.

www.drtenpenny.com/fever.aspx

• Understand that your child can be vaccinated and still contract the illness you are wishing to prevent. Vaccines may not provide the protection that people assume they do. Health cannot come through a needle.

• Learn that the primary keys to health are good nutrition, pure water, adequate sleep, routine exercise and happiness.

• Learn some simple information about vitamins, especially the critically important information about vitamin D3. Learn how to use basic herbs and basic homeopathy for health and for addressing minor illnesses.

• Learn more than your doctor about vaccines. Your medical doctor has probably never read anything about vaccines except drug‐company and CDC‐sponsored publications that support their use.

• Know that healthcare is something you pay for; sick care is covered by insurance. Your insurance will pay for drugs and vaccines.

• Budget accordingly to stay healthy. Your life depends on it.

Web resources for more information and help

• International Medical Council on Vaccination (free webinars) www.vaccinationcouncil.org

• Example IMCV regional sites www.imcv‐wi.org, www.imcv‐me.org

• Dr. Sherri Tenpenny www.drtenpenny.com, Facebook www.facebook.com/vaccineinfo

• ThinkTwice Global Vaccine Institute www.thinktwice.com

• Vaccination Liberation www.vaclib.org

• U.S. doctors who don’t vaccinate www.novaxdoctors.webs.com

• Holistic Moms www.holisticmoms.org

• Moms Like Me www.momslikeme.com

Books for more information and a place to start

• Saying No To Vaccines – Sherri Tenpenny, DO

• Make an Informed Vaccine Decision For the Health of Your Child – Mayer Eisenstein, MD, JD, MPH

• Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective? – Neil Miller

• Child Health Guide – Randall Neustaedter

• Childhood Vaccinations: Questions All Parents Should Ask – Tedd Koren, DC

• How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor – Robert Mendelsohn, MD

• Jabs, Jenner and Juggernauts – Jennifer Craig, PhD, BSN, MA, Dhom

• Natural Alternatives to Vaccination – Zoltan Rona, MD

• The Crime of Vaccination – Tenison Deane, MD

• The Sanctity of Human Blood: Vaccination is Not Immunization – Tim O’Shea, DC

• Vaccination – Gerhard Buchwald, MD

• Vaccination: 100 Years of Orthodox Research – Viera Scheibner, PhD

Medical doctors(MD,DO, 4yr ND), Doctors of Chiropractic, health care workers who work in a conventional setting, and holistic practitioners wishing to participate in future versions of this document or who would like to join our group, please send an e‐mail tosayno@vaccinationcouncil.org

International Medical Council on Vaccination

www.vaccinationcouncil.org www.facebook.com/vaccinationcouncil

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Risky New Vaccine Pushed on Babies

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William C. Douglass Jr, MD

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The needle nuts are at it again — and this time, they’re pushing a dangerous vaccine on babies for a disease you shouldn’t worry about in the first place.

The feds have signed off on a plan to give Menactra, a vaccine that’s supposed to prevent invasive meningococcal disease, to babies as young as nine months old.

“The highest rate of meningococcal disease occurs in children under one year of age,” said Dr. Karen Midthun, director of FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.

Sounds scary, right?

But here’s what she didn’t say: The overall odds of dying of meningococcal disease are so low you’re more likely to be hit by lightning TWICE!

The condition strikes just 2,500 Americans a year, killing 300 — putting the risk of death at literally one in a million.

Now, I’m not heartless — any death at all is tragic. If there was a safe and effective way to save 300 lives out of 300 million people, I’d sign up for it in an instant.

But this ain’t it.

Take a look at this warning right on the front page of the vaccine’s Web site, just past all the usual promises of pain, redness, swelling, headache and fatigue: “There is a potential for an increased chance of getting Guillain-Barré syndrome following vaccination. Vaccination with Menactra vaccine may not protect all individuals.”

Talk about a double whammy — an increased risk of a crippling and potentially deadly nervous system disorder AND the vaccine may not even work!

Health officials claim the Guillain-Barré risk is small… but get this: The World Health Organization says the odds of getting the syndrome following a Menactra vaccination are 1.25 in a million.

In other words, the risk of getting Guillain-Barré syndrome from the vaccine is actually slightly greater than the overall risk of dying of the disease the shot is supposed to (but might not) prevent.

You just can’t make this stuff up!

Don’t Let Your Child Be the Next Victim of This Deadly Vaccine

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Joseph Mercola, DO [medical doctor]

April 5, 2011

Dr. Joseph Mercola

This video was created as a plea to Merck, the FDA and the CDC to stop all Gardasil vaccination. The evidence of harm caused by the Gardasil vaccine is overwhelming and not worth the very questionable benefit.

The Greater Good looks behind the fear, hype and politics that have polarized the vaccine debate in America today. The film re-frames the emotionally charged issue and features many different perspectives, including the voices of families whose lives have been touched by vaccine reactions, so there is an opportunity for a compassionate, rational and scientific discussion about vaccination.

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) has issued an alert to Washington state residents about a bill that recently passed the state legislature and is headed for the Governor’s desk. The legislation threatens your fundamental right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. It requires doctors and nurses to personally sign all religious or personal belief exemptions to vaccination filed with the state.

According to NVIC:

If this bill becomes law, it will put doctors, nurses and other medical personnel in the legal position of acting as inquisitors of religious beliefs held by fellow citizens, which is an invasion of privacy and a de facto violation of First Amendment rights.

Sources:

Examiner February 14, 2011

NVIC February 13, 2011

The Greater Good Movie

Optus Zoo March 20, 2011

It’s tragic that millions of women in the U.S. have been scared by Merck’s powerful ad campaign into getting vaccinated with Gardasil. Sadly, an increasing number of formerly healthy girls are experiencing serious adverse reactions, as Barbara Loe Fisher explains in this video commentary.

In 2008 alone, the FDA documented 6,723 adverse events related to this supposed cancer-preventing vaccine, touted to be the world’s answer to cervical cancer. Two years later, there have been a total of 20,727 Gardasil-related adverse events reported to the government, including 90 deaths and 8,600 emergency room visits and 2,000 hospitalizations after Gardasil vaccinations. And it is known that less than 10 percent of all adverse events following prescription drug or vaccine reactions are ever reported so this is only the tip of the iceberg.

But Gardasil has also been a relative financial FLOP for Merck, compared to expectations.

So what happened?

The Word is Out about Gardasil’s Dangers

People like you have been getting educated and are deciding this vaccine is a BAD idea. They’ve looked at the science and weighed the risks versus supposed benefits, and have made a choice to “just say no.”

A classic illustration to demonstrate you can make a difference!!

The word is out, and Merck should be hearing the phrase, “We’re on to you” echoing down their hallways.

Gardasil was only studied for about five years before it was licensed and nobody knows how potentially ineffective this poorly studied vaccine will turn out to be – especially if the four HPV strains in the vaccine are replaced by one or two of the many HPV strains that are NOT contained in the vaccine. Gardasil is also potentially very dangerous and a major waste of money. The science speaks for itself—it makes no sense to use a vaccine to prevent an infection that most people will clear from their bodies naturally. And Gardasil is NOT a cancer vaccine, despite what they would have you believe.

Gardasil does not protect against all types of HPV (human papilloma virus), and you can still get cervical cancer even if you’ve been vaccinated. Even the National Cancer Institute says:

It is important to note that the great majority of high-risk HPV infections go away on their own and do not cause cancer.

But Gardasil isn’t the only vaccine harming thousands of children each year.

Flu Vaccines Continue Having Devastating Effects on Children

Flu vaccines continue to compromise children’s fragile developing immune systems, as little Saba Button experienced firsthand.

Last year, Saba Button was a thriving Australian 11-month-old. She’d just taken her first steps, and spoken her first words. Then her parents gave little Saba the flu vaccine, believing they were doing something good to protect their little girl’s health.

The toddler had her shot at lunchtime, and by dinnertime, had a raging fever. After two days in the ICU, her family was told she probably wouldn’t make it—yet she survived. Unfortunately, prolonged seizures caused permanent brain damage, so Saba is no longer able to walk or talk, or eat by mouth.

Optus Zoo reports:

What makes this story so desperately sad is her parents believe the injury to their daughter could have been prevented. In the days leading up to Saba’s flu jab, 111 other Perth children had suffered adverse reactions. The Health Department must have known about these terrible outcomes, but didn’t issue a warning to parents.

Saba’s case was far from isolated. In fact, there were so many children suffering vaccine casualties last year in Australia that Australia banned the seasonal flu vaccine for children under the age of five.

How many children and families have to suffer before regulators get it?

Vaccines’ Unsavory Assortment of Toxins

Mercury continues to be a major health concern, since it is still being used in a number of different vaccines, without sufficient safety testing. The science is increasingly clear about the dangers of mercury for children.

The latest studies confirm that mercury can damage children’s brains and immune systems. Most childhood vaccines are finally mercury-free, but thimerosal continues to be used in multi-dose vials of DTwP, DT and most flu shots.

Besides mercury, vaccines also contain other dangerous ingredients conveniently disregarded by the pharmaceutical industry, including:

• Formaldehyde, a known cancer-causing agent
• Phenol (carbolic acid)
• Aluminum (flu vaccines do not contain aluminum adjuvants, however)
• Resin and gelatin, known to cause allergic reactions
• Polysorbate 80 (Tween80™), which can cause anaphylactic reactions, and may cause miscarriage and infertility (see the next section for details)
• Triton X100 (detergent)

Increasing numbers of concerned parents are opting out of vaccines for their children after concluding that the risks far outweigh the benefits. But if you live in Washington State, your right to file this kind of exemption is in jeopardy.

A bill that jeopardizes the freedom for Washington state residents to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination was fast tracked and rammed through the state legislature by special interest lobbyists promoting forced vaccination. The legislators ignored the pleas of more than 100 parents and holistic health professionals, who showed up in Olympia to testify against the bill that would require parents to get a signature from a doctor or medical worker if they wanted to file a religious or philosophical belief exemption to vaccination.

The health committee chairpersons in the state House and Senate blocked the oral testimony of all but a handful of parents and then went on to ignore the thousands of phone calls by Washington state voters protesting the assault on their informed consent rights by the medical and pharmaceutical lobby.

Legislation Threatens Washingtonians’ Rights to Choose Which Vaccines Their Children Receive

Despite the public protest, the legislation passed the legislature on March 26 and is headed for Governor Christine Gregoire’s desk for her signature after final touches are put on the legislation in the House and Senate.

The proposed new law discriminates against parents by failing to give them equal protection under the Federal Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (PL 99-660).

According to the National Vaccine Information Center, if the Governor of Washington signs this legislation into law, it will give doctors and other vaccine providers the power to sit “in judgment of,” or interfere with, the free exercise of religious, spiritual or conscientious beliefs of their patients. It will also make it easier for physicians to deny children medical care as a way to punish parents for making selective vaccine choices, which is, unfortunately, the official policy of many American pediatricians.

Informed consent is especially important when it comes to vaccination, because there is no way for you or your physician to predict if your child will be one of the children who has a devastating vaccine reaction, such as brain inflammation, immune dysregulation, or even death.

If you are a resident of Washington State and you want to let Governor Gregoire know how you feel about this unjust law that takes away your informed consent rights, you should take action immediately. As in TODAY.

Dr Sherri Tenpenny Truthsquad Interview on Vaccines, Big Pharma & Autism

Vaccines may have increased swine flu risk

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There is renewed controversy surrounding influenza vaccines, with some studies showing people immunised against the seasonal flu might have been at greater risk during the swine flu outbreak.

Infectious diseases expert Professor Peter Collignon has called for a review of Australia's flu vaccine policy in light of the new research, but the Federal Government has defended its vaccination program.

Immunisation can be a sensitive issue, particularly when it comes to adverse effects in children.

Professor Collignon from the Australian National University (ANU) says the new research will only heighten sensitivities.

"What was a bit surprising when we looked at some of the data from Canada and Hong Kong in the last year is that people who have been vaccinated in 2008 with the seasonal or ordinary vaccine seemed to have twice the risk of getting swine flu compared to the people who hadn't received that vaccine," he said.

ANU microbiologists say it is the opposite of what vaccines should do.

Professor Collignon says the findings of the study also highlight the benefits for healthy people who are exposed to some illnesses.

"Some interesting data has become available which suggests that if you get immunised with the seasonal vaccine, you get less broad protection than if you get a natural infection," he said.

"It is particularly relevant for children because it is a condition they call original antigenic sin, which basically means if you get infected with a natural virus, that gives you not only protection against that virus but similar viruses or even in fact quite different flu viruses in the next year.

"We may be perversely setting ourselves up that if something really new and nasty comes along, that people who have been vaccinated may in fact be more susceptible compared to getting this natural infection."

The Government's National Immunisation Program (NIP) targets those most likely to have a poor outcome from flu, with the seasonal flu vaccine recommended for anyone over six months old.

Professor Collignon says that in light of the study, the Australian Government and health policy makers need to look at whether vaccines actually do more harm than good, particularly in people who otherwise have not got risk factors.

But the Federal Government's chief health officer, Professor Jim Bishop, says the evidence is patchy.

"There's a study from Canada which might suggest in that direction but there are other studies which contradict it as well, so I don't think that the evidence is clear about the effect of prior vaccine," he said.

Professor Bishop says the Commonwealth's flu vaccination program has been effective and beneficial.

He said IUC admissions were cut from 700 during the first outbreak of swine flu down to about 60 admissions last winter as a result of the vaccination program.

"Secondly, the number of admissions were about one-tenth of what they were the previous year, so that was in the face of a new strain, a new type of virus," he said.

While Mr Bishop says there is no evidence having the flu vaccine is a bad thing, Professor Collignon blames influential drug companies and frightened politicians for what he says is the overuse of flu vaccines in healthy people.

The World Today requested an interview with Health Minister Nicola Roxon, but she was unavailable.

Sixth study in recent months links mercury in flu shots to brain damage, autism

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(NaturalNews) The toxic effects of the mercury, also known in vaccines as Thimerosal, have once again been confirmed, this time by researchers from the University of Brazil. Marking the sixth major study in recent months to condemn the use of mercury in medicine, the new study reveals that mercury causes serious brain damage, and is linked to autism and other developmental diseases in children and Alzheimer's disease in adults.

Dr. Jose Dorea and his colleagues conducted an extensive, peer-reviewed analysis of various studies and available information in major databases that address the effects of low-dose Thimerosal, or ethylmercury, on neural tissue and behavior. They found conclusively that Thimerosal accumulates in brain tissue, negatively affects brain development, and harms brain cells.

"Mercury is known to cause serious harm, especially to fetuses and children because of their smaller size," said Lisa Sykes, president of the Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs (CoMeD), a non-profit group dedicated to removing mercury from medicine. "Why remove Thimerosal from pediatric vaccines only to inject it into pregnant women and children with recommended flu shots? They removed Thimerosal from other vaccines, so it should also be removed from flu shots."

Several other recent studies confirm the numerous dangers posed by mercury, including one recently published in theFolia Neuropathologicathat links the toxin directly to autism (http://www.naturalnews.com/031678_m...). Mercury is also known to disrupt proper immune function, damage DNA, inhibit healthy embryonic development, and cause cancer.

The vast majority of the flu shots administered in the US still contain Thimerosal, as they come from multi-dose vials that require a preservative in order to prevent contamination. However, CoMeD says there is no reason to continue using Thimerosal since safer alternative preservatives already exist and are currently in use in many pediatric vaccines that used to contain Thimerosal.

GPs must return flu vaccine over narcolepsy fears

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By JEROME REILLY

Sunday April 03 2011

The Heath Service Executive (HSE) will remove all stocks of the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix from GPs' surgeries, the Sunday Independent has learned.

The vaccine has been linked to the disabling sleep disorder, narcolepsy.

Last week, this newspaper revealed that eight people who received the swine flu vaccine inIreland have developed the devastating disorder, with most of the cases involving teenagers and young adults.

Now, the HSE has taken the decision to visit GP surgeries around the country and collect the vaccine made by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline.

All GPs who received consignments of Pandemrix have been contacted in a letter from Dr Kevin Kelleher, the agency's assistant national director of Population Health and Health Protection.

In the directive, Dr Kelleher states: "I am sure you are aware of reports from Finland and more recently from Sweden regarding a possible association between the use of Pandemrix and the onset of narcolepsy in young people.

"In early January, I advised you that Pandemrix was only recommended if you had a shortage of seasonal flu vaccine.

"As additional stocks of seasonal flu vaccine were delivered to all sites that requested them from the end of January, there has been no requirement to use Pandemrix in any age group.

"Arrangements will be made over the coming weeks to collect stocks of Pandemrix from all general practice sites."

Last week, a new Swedish study found an increased risk of developing narcolepsy among children vaccinated with Pandemrix.

Sweden's Medical Products Agency concluded that those under 20 vaccinated with Pandemrix may be four times as likely to develop narcolepsy than those who did not get the shot.

The Swedish findings by the Lakemedelsverket agency broadly reflect a recent study in Finland, though that investigation found that the risk of children suffering from narcolepsy was nine times higher among those vaccinated with Pandemrix.

Since August 2010, at least 12 countries have reported cases of narcolepsy, particularly among young people.

Last week, the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) said: "The IMB has received a large number of suspected adverse-reaction reports and queries in association with the pandemic influenza vaccines since October 2009, the vast majority of which were consistent with the expected pattern of adverse events for the vaccines.

"Eight reports of narcolepsy-type sleep disorders have been notified in relation to Pandemrix, most of which have been very recently received and are currently being followed up for additional information."

The vaccination of children and adolescents in Finland with Pandemrix was suspended last year until a link to narcolepsy had either been ruled out or detected.

A spokeswoman for the IMB told the Sunday Independent that it was supportive of the latest move by the HSE to remove stocks of Pandemrix from GPs.

In additional information supplied to family doctors, the HSE describes narcolepsy as "a disabling chronic neurological disorder characterised by recurrent episodes of excessive daytime sleepiness."

However, it also noted that narcolepsy is often accompanied by a range of other frightening symptoms including cataplexy -- a sudden loss of muscle tone that is often confused withepilepsy and sometimes leads to a total collapse of the patient.

Other symptoms that can develop gradually include sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucinations -- extremely vivid hallucinations that occur at the boundary between sleeping and waking.

GPs are told in the HSE directive that while there has been an increase in narcolepsy in Finland and Sweden, it has not been noted in all countries using Pandemrix.

"No increase has been seen in the United Kingdom, which also used Pandemrix," the briefing document noted.

The European Centre for Disease Control is undertaking a study in nine European countries, with the results expected by July this year.

"The European Medicines Agency has stated that no definitive conclusions can be drawn until further studies are completed and has therefore not recommended any changes to the marketing authorisation for Pandemrix," it said.

Here, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre will now work with the IMB to examine data available on narcolepsy in Ireland.

"In summary, there has been conflicting data emerging in relation to narcolepsy and the situation is as yet unclear," the HSE told Irish doctors.

- JEROME REILLY