| Dr. Mercola's Comment:You may remember a
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| | taught, is that the death rate for
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| the article I posted a couple of months
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| | measles declined 97.7 percent during the
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| ago written by Dr. Donald Miller that
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| | first 60 years of the 20th century. The
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| provides a great overview on the toxicity
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| | mortality rate was 133 deaths per million
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| of mercury from various sources. After
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| | people in the U.S. in 1900, and had
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| his piece was posted, Dr. Miller received
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| | dropped to 0.3 deaths per million by
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| responses from parents wanting to know
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| | 1960. Measles caused less than 100 deaths
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| what vaccines, if any, he would recommend
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| | a year in the U.S. before there was a
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| children receive.His response is a new
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| | vaccine for this disease (in 1963).The
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| piece that discusses the mindset behind
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| | same thing happened with diphtheria and
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| the vaccine madness and a different
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| | pertussis. Mortality rates dropped more
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| approach that differs greatly from
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| | than 90 percent in the early 20th century
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| "obediently following the government's
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| | before vaccines for these diseases were
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| schedule."In Dr. Miller's view, and
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| | introduced. This was due to better
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| grounded in good science, parents should
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| | nutrition (with rapid delivery of fresh
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| consider a more "user-friendly"
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| | fruit and vegetables to cities and
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| vaccination schedule, one that takes the
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| | refrigeration), cleaner water and
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| best interests of the individual into
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| | improved sanitation (removing trash from
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| consideration rather than what the
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| | the streets and better sewage systems),
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| government judges best for society.That's
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| | not to vaccines.The World Health
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| a far better approach than the
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| | Organization promotes mass vaccination,
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| "one-size-fits-all" approach foisted on
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| | but knowing these facts states, "The best
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| Americans that pushes the necessity of
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| | vaccine against common infectious
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| yearly flu vaccines although few people
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| | diseases is an adequate diet," fortified,
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| actually die from influenza and an
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| | one might add, with vitamin A.Since the
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| admission by the CDC last year these
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| | measles vaccine came into widespread use
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| vaccines don't work anyway.By Donald W.
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| | in this country, this disease has
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| Miller, Jr., MDVaccination is a
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| | virtually disappeared, and it has
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| controversial subject, and many parents
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| | prevented 100 deaths a year. But now,
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| worry about subjecting their children to
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| | instead, several thousand normally
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| them. Readers of my article, "Mercury on
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| | developing children become autistic after
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| the Mind," about vaccines and dental
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| | receiving their MMR shot. Termed
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| amalgams, have asked what vaccines I
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| | "regressive autism," it accounts for
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| would recommend their children receive.
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| | about 30 percent of the 10,000 to 20,000
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| This article addresses that question.In
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| | children who are diagnosed with autism in
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| the Recommended Childhood Immunization
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| | this country each year.To put to rest
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| Schedule put out by the Centers for
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| | concerns that MMR vaccination might cause
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| Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 12
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| | autism (in a small percentage of
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| vaccines are given to children before
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| | children), NEJM, in 2002, published a
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| they reach the age of two. Providers
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| | population-based study from Denmark,
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| inject them against the following:*
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| | where its authors concluded, "This study
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| Hepatitis B* Diphtheria* Tetanus
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| | provides strong evidence against the
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| (lockjaw)* Pertussis (whooping cough)*
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| | hypothesis that MMR vaccination causes
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| Polio* Pneumococcal infections*
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| | autism."The NEJM did not disclose that
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| Hemophilus influenzae type b infections*
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| | the "Statens Serum Institut," where three
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| Measles* Mumps* Rubella (German measles)*
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| | of the authors work, is a for-profit
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| Chickenpox* Influenza (the flu)Infectious
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| | vaccine manufacturer, Denmark's largest,
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| disease was the leading cause of death in
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| | or that four other authors have financial
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| children 100 years ago, with diphtheria,
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| | ties to this company. Only one of the
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| measles, scarlet fever and pertussis
| |
| | eight authors is not associated with this
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| accounting for most them. Today, the
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| | institute, and the CDC employs him.The
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| leading causes of death in children less
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| | study compares the prevalence of autism
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| than five years of age are accidents,
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| | in 440,000 MMR vaccinated and 97,000
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| genetic abnormalities, developmental
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| | unvaccinated children in Denmark born in
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| disorders, sudden infant death syndrome
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| | the 1990s. A statistical slight-of-hand
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| and cancer. A basic tenet of modern
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| | in age adjustment makes the study show no
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| medicine is that vaccines are the reason.
| |
| | causal effect. But, when unmasked and
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| There is growing evidence that this is
| |
| | reformatted, the data actually shows a
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| so, but perhaps not quite in the way
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| | statistically significant association
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| conventional medical wisdom would have
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| | between MMR vaccine and autism (as Carol
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| it.The Conventional ScheduleA 15-member
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| | Stott and her coauthors make clear in
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| Advisory Committee on Immunization
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| | "MMR and Autism in Perspective: The
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| Practices at the CDC decides which
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| | Denmark Story," in the Fall 2004 Journal
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| vaccines should be on the Childhood
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| | of American Physicians and Surgeons,
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| Immunization Schedule. It calls for one
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| | posted online).Pediatrics and the Journal
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| vaccine, against hepatitis B, to be given
| |
| | of the American Medical Association also
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| on the day of birth; seven vaccines at
| |
| | have published studies like this
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| two months; 6 more (including booster
| |
| | supporting U.S. vaccine policy, written
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| shots) at four months; and as many as
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| | by authors with similar, undisclosed
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| eight vaccines on the six-month well-baby
| |
| | conflicts of interest.Looking elsewhere,
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| visit.Before a child reaches the age of
| |
| | however, one comes across a number of
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| two, he or she will have received 32
| |
| | disquieting facts about vaccines.1.
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| vaccinations on this schedule, including
| |
| | Investigators have found, for example,
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| four doses each of vaccines for
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| | live measles virus in the cerebral spinal
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| Hemophilus influenzae type b infections,
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| | fluid in children who become autistic
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| diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis -- all
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| | after MMR vaccinations.2. Antibodies to
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| of them given during the first 12 months
| |
| | measles virus are elevated in children
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| of life. Seven vaccines injected into a
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| | with autism but not in normal kids,
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| 13-pound, two-month old infant are
| |
| | suggesting that virus-induced
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| equivalent to 70 doses in a 130-pound
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| | autoimmunity may play a causal role.3. A
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| adult.The schedule states, "Your child
| |
| | study published in Neurology this year
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| can safely receive all vaccines
| |
| | implicates hepatitis B vaccine as a
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| recommended for a particular age during
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| | causative factor in multiple
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| one visit." Public health officials,
| |
| | sclerosis.One For AllA communitarian
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| however, have not proven that it is
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| | ethic increasingly governs health care in
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| indeed safe to inject this many vaccines
| |
| | the U.S. It places a greater value on the
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| into infants. What's more, they cannot
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| | health of the community, on society as a
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| explain why, concurrent with an
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| | whole, than on the health of particular
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| increasing number of vaccinations, there
| |
| | individuals. Public health officials have
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| has been an explosion of neurologic and
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| | put together a vaccination schedule
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| immune system disorders in our nation's
| |
| | designed to eliminate infectious diseases
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| children.Fifty years ago, when the
| |
| | to which the population is prey.Officials
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| immunization schedule contained only four
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| | recognize that these vaccines will harm a
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| vaccines (for diphtheria, tetanus,
| |
| | small percentage of (genetically
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| pertussis and smallpox), autism was
| |
| | susceptible) individuals, but it is for
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| virtually unknown. First discovered in
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| | the common good. The communitarian code
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| 1943, this most devastating malady, in
| |
| | posits that it is morally acceptable, if
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| what is now a spectrum of pervasive
| |
| | necessary, to sacrifice a few for the
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| developmental disorders, afflicted less
| |
| | good of the many. Or as one observer more
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| than 1 in 10,000 children.Today, one in
| |
| | bluntly puts it, "Individual sheep can be
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| every 68 American families has an
| |
| | sheared and slaughtered if it is for the
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| autistic child. Other, less severe
| |
| | welfare of their flock."In this
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| developmental disorders, rarely seen
| |
| | framework, health care providers become
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| before the vaccine era, have also reached
| |
| | agents of the state charged with
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| epidemic proportions. Four million
| |
| | injecting vaccines into people that the
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| American children have Attention Deficit
| |
| | central planners deem necessary.
|
| Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). One in six
| |
| | Physicians who remain true to their
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| American children are now classified as
| |
| | Hippocratic Oath and place the interests
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| "Learning Disabled."Our children are also
| |
| | of their patient above that of the herd
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| experiencing an epidemic of autoimmune
| |
| | are considered to be out of step with the
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| disorders: Type I diabetes, rheumatoid
| |
| | times, if not an anachronism.Like central
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| arthritis, asthma and bowel disorders.
| |
| | planners everywhere, the CDC's Advisory
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| There has been a 17-fold increase in Type
| |
| | Committee on Immunization Practices
|
| I diabetes, from 1 in 7,100 children in
| |
| | (ACIP) promulgates a self-serving,
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| the 1950s to 1 in 400 now. Juvenile
| |
| | one-size-fits-all vaccine policy. Members
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| rheumatoid arthritis afflicts 300,000
| |
| | of this committee have ties to vaccine
|
| American children. Twenty-five years ago,
| |
| | makers, such that the CDC must grant them
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| this disease was so rare that public
| |
| | waivers from statutory conflict of
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| health officials did not keep any
| |
| | interest rules. Even so, and with little
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| statistics on it. There has been a
| |
| | evidence to show that it is safe to
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| four-fold increase in asthma, and bowel
| |
| | subject young children to the ACIP's
|
| disorders in children are much more
| |
| | crowded immunization schedule, states
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| common now than they were 50 years
| |
| | nevertheless dutifully make its vaccine
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| ago.The Deteriorating Health of
| |
| | recommendations compulsory.All 50 states
|
| ChildrenHealth officials consider a
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| | require children to be immunized against
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| vaccine to be safe if no bad reactions --
| |
| | measles, diphtheria, Hemophilus
|
| like seizures, intestinal obstruction or
| |
| | influenzae type b, polio, and rubella in
|
| anaphylaxis -- occur acutely. The CDC has
| |
| | order to enroll in day care and/or public
|
| not done any studies to assess the
| |
| | school. Forty-nine states also require
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| long-term effects of its immunization
| |
| | vaccination against tetanus; 47, against
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| schedule. To do that, one must conduct a
| |
| | hepatitis B and mumps; and 43 states now
|
| randomized controlled trial, the lynchpin
| |
| | require vaccination against chickenpox.In
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| of evidenced-based medicine, where one
| |
| | order to shield themselves from any
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| group of children is vaccinated on the
| |
| | liability for making vaccinations
|
| CDC's schedule and a control group is not
| |
| | compulsory, all states provide a medical
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| vaccinated.Investigators then follow the
| |
| | exemption and 47, a religious exemption.
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| two groups for a number of years (not
| |
| | Nineteen states allow a philosophical
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| just three to four weeks, as has been
| |
| | exemption. Some require only a letter
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| done in vaccine safety studies). Concerns
| |
| | from a parent and others, from a
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| that vaccinations in infants cause
| |
| | physician or church leader. (To see the
|
| chronic neurologic and immune system
| |
| | exemptions allowed in your state, their
|
| disorders would be put to rest, and their
| |
| | wording and requirements, [ here.)
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| safety certified, if the number of
| |
| | Parents, of course, can refuse
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| children who develop these diseases is
| |
| | vaccinations, but if they want to enroll
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| the same in both groups.No such studies
| |
| | their child in public school they will
|
| have been done, so vaccine proponents
| |
| | need to obtain one of these
|
| cannot say that vaccines are indeed as
| |
| | exemptions.Doctors who conclude that the
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| safe as they think they are. (One
| |
| | risks of the government's immunization
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| proponent, interviewed by Dan Rather on
| |
| | schedule outweigh its benefits are placed
|
| 60 Minutes, who has financial ties to the
| |
| | in a difficult position. If they counsel
|
| vaccine industry that he did not
| |
| | parents not to have their children follow
|
| disclose, claims that vaccines "have a
| |
| | it, health care plans, which track
|
| better safety record than vitamins." He
| |
| | vaccine compliance as a measure of
|
| neglected to mention that the U.S.
| |
| | "quality," will find them
|
| government has paid out more than $1.5
| |
| | wanting.Weighing The RisksAnd if their
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| billion in its Vaccine Injury
| |
| | patient should contract and develop
|
| Compensation Program to families of
| |
| | complications from the disease the
|
| children who have been injured or killed
| |
| | vaccine would have prevented, they may
|
| by vaccines.)There is a growing body of
| |
| | find themselves confronting a lawsuit. If
|
| evidence that implicates vaccines as a
| |
| | a child becomes autistic following a
|
| causative factor in the deteriorating
| |
| | vaccination, however, the doctor is
|
| health of children. The hypothesis that
| |
| | protected from any liability because the
|
| vaccines cause neurologic and immune
| |
| | government requires it and the child's
|
| system disorders is a legitimate one --
| |
| | parents, if they had chosen to do so,
|
| vaccines given in multiple doses, close
| |
| | could have obtained an exemption.
|
| together, to very young children
| |
| | (Anti-vaccine advocates call developing
|
| following the CDC's Immunization
| |
| | autism, asthma and Type I diabetes after
|
| Schedule. This hypothesis should be
| |
| | vaccinations "vaccination
|
| tested by a large-scale, long-term
| |
| | roulette.")Parents should have the
|
| randomized controlled trial.Rather than
| |
| | freedom to select whatever vaccination
|
| obediently following the government's
| |
| | schedule they want their children to
|
| schedule, there is now sufficient
| |
| | follow, especially since health care
|
| evidence, grounded in good science, to
| |
| | providers and the government (except via
|
| justify adopting a more user-friendly
| |
| | its Vaccine Injury Compensation Program)
|
| vaccination schedule. One which is in the
| |
| | cannot be held accountable for any
|
| best interests of the individual as
| |
| | adverse outcomes that might occur. But if
|
| opposed to what planners judge best for
| |
| | parents elect to not follow the CDC's
|
| society as a whole.New knowledge in
| |
| | immunization schedule, delaying some
|
| neuroimmunology (the study of how the
| |
| | vaccinations, refusing others, or
|
| brain's immune system works) raises
| |
| | avoiding them altogether, then they must
|
| serious questions about the wisdom of
| |
| | accept the risk that their child might
|
| injecting vaccines in children less than
| |
| | contract the disease that the vaccine
|
| 2 years of age.A Child's Best Time
| |
| | against it most likely would have
|
| TableThe brain has its own specialized
| |
| | prevented.One consideration, which
|
| immune system, separate from that of the
| |
| | vaccine proponents do not address, is
|
| rest of the body. When a person is
| |
| | this: Could contracting childhood
|
| vaccinated, its specialized immune cells,
| |
| | diseases like measles, mumps, rubella and
|
| the microglia, become activated (the
| |
| | chickenpox play a constructive role in
|
| blood-brain barrier notwithstanding).
| |
| | the maturation of a person's immune
|
| Multiple vaccinations spaced close
| |
| | system? Or, to put it another way, does
|
| together over-stimulate the microglia,
| |
| | removing natural infection from human
|
| causing them to release a variety of
| |
| | experience have any adverse
|
| toxic elements -- cytokines, chemokines,
| |
| | consequences?Our species' immune system
|
| excitotoxins, proteases, complement, free
| |
| | -- a one-trillion-cell army that patrols
|
| radicals -- that damage brain cells and
| |
| | our (100-trillion-cell) body -- serves
|
| their synaptic connections. Researchers
| |
| | two main purposes:* It destroys foreign
|
| call the damage caused by these toxic
| |
| | invaders -- viruses, bacteria, and other
|
| substances "bystander
| |
| | pathogens.* And it destroys aberrant
|
| injury."(Pediatricians and other
| |
| | cells in the body that run amuck and
|
| professional colleagues who question this
| |
| | cause cancer.Our Natural Defense
|
| should read these two reviews by the
| |
| | SystemBehind the barricades of skin and
|
| neurosurgeon Russell L. Blaylock:
| |
| | mucosa, our innate immune system
|
| "Interaction of Cytokines, Excitotoxins,
| |
| | (composed of phagocytes, natural killer
|
| Reactive Nitrogen and Oxygen Species in
| |
| | cells and the 20-protein complement
|
| Autism Spectrum Disorders," in the
| |
| | system), which all animals have, is the
|
| Journal of the American Nutraceutical
| |
| | body's first line of defense. It reacts
|
| Association [JANA 2003;6(4):21 -- 35],
| |
| | to invaders lightening fast and
|
| with 167 references. And "Chronic
| |
| | indiscriminately, but it is not very good
|
| Microglial Activation and Excitotoxicity
| |
| | at eliminating viruses and cancerous
|
| Secondary to Excessive Immune
| |
| | cells.Vertebrates have evolved a second
|
| Stimulation: Possible Factors in Gulf War
| |
| | line of defense: The adaptive immune
|
| Syndrome and Autism," in the Journal of
| |
| | system. It targets specific viruses and
|
| American Physicians and Surgeons [JAPS
| |
| | bacteria and has better artillery for
|
| 2004;9(2):46 -- 52], posted online, with
| |
| | eliminating cancerous cells. This system
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| 54 references.)In humans, the most rapid
| |
| | matures during childhood, and it has a
|
| period of brain development begins in the
| |
| | cellular (Th1) and humoral (Th2)
|
| third trimester and continues over the
| |
| | component (Th = helper T cell).The
|
| first two years of extra uterine life.
| |
| | viruses that cause measles, mumps and
|
| (By then, brain development is 80 percent
| |
| | chickenpox have infected countless
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| complete.) Until randomized controlled
| |
| | generations of humans, akin to a rite of
|
| trials demonstrate the safety of giving
| |
| | passage for each member of our species.
|
| vaccines during this time of life, it
| |
| | Contracting these diseases strengthens
|
| would be prudent not to give any
| |
| | both parts of the adaptive immune system
|
| vaccinations to children until they are
| |
| | (Th1 and Th2). Mothers who have had
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| 2-years-old.From a risk-benefit
| |
| | measles, mumps and chickenpox transfer
|
| perspective, there is growing evidence
| |
| | antibodies against them to their babies
|
| that the risk of neurologic and
| |
| | in utero, which protect them during the
|
| autoimmune diseases from vaccinations
| |
| | first year of life from contracting these
|
| outweigh the benefits of avoiding the
| |
| | infections.Vaccinations do not have the
|
| childhood infections that they prevent.
| |
| | same effect on the immune system as
|
| An exception is hepatitis B vaccine for
| |
| | naturally acquired diseases do. They
|
| infants whose mothers test positive for
| |
| | stimulate predominantly the Th2 part of
|
| this disease.A user-friendly vaccination
| |
| | this system and not Th1.
|
| schedule prohibits any vaccines that
| |
| | (Over-stimulation of Th2 causes
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| contain thimerosal, which is 50 percent
| |
| | autoimmune diseases.) The cellular Th1
|
| mercury. Flu vaccines contain thimerosal,
| |
| | side thwarts cancer, and if it does not
|
| which is reason enough to avoid them.One
| |
| | become fully developed in childhood, a
|
| should also avoid vaccines that contain
| |
| | person can be more prone to have cancer
|
| live viruses. This includes the combined
| |
| | as an adult.Women who had mumps during
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| measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR)
| |
| | childhood, for example, are found to be
|
| vaccine; chickenpox (varicella) vaccine;
| |
| | less likely to have ovarian cancer than
|
| and the live-virus polio (Sabin) vaccine.
| |
| | women who did not have this infection.
|
| This stricture would not apply to the
| |
| | (This study was published in Cancer.)
|
| smallpox vaccine (also a live-virus one),
| |
| | Could the fact that cancer has become a
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| if a terrorist-instigated outbreak of
| |
| | leading cause of death in children be a
|
| smallpox should occur.Finally, a
| |
| | result of vaccinations? Only a randomized
|
| user-friendly vaccination schedule
| |
| | controlled trial can conclusively answer
|
| requires that vaccinations, after the age
| |
| | this question.With rare exception, a
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| of two, be given no more than once every
| |
| | well-nourished child who contracts
|
| six months, one at a time, in order to
| |
| | measles will recover smoothly from the
|
| allow the immune system sufficient time
| |
| | infection. Fifty years ago, almost all
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| to recover and stabilize between
| |
| | children in the U.S. had measles. And
|
| shots.Which vaccines should be put on
| |
| | after contracting this disease, one has a
|
| this schedule (among those that do not
| |
| | life-long immunity to it.The protection
|
| contain live viruses or thimerosal) is
| |
| | provided by vaccination is temporary.
|
| not entirely clear. The top four would
| |
| | Adults who contract measles (when the
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| be:* Pertussis (acelluar -- aP -- not
| |
| | protective effects of the vaccine wears
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| whole cell) vaccine.* Diphtheria (D)
| |
| | off) are much more likely to have
|
| vaccine.* Tetanus (T) vaccine (the first
| |
| | neurological, testicular and ovarian
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| three on this list are to be given
| |
| | complications. Likewise, rubella is a
|
| separately, not together, as is usually
| |
| | benign disease in children, but if a
|
| the case).* The Salk polio vaccine, with
| |
| | woman acquires it during pregnancy, fetal
|
| an inactivated (dead) virus, one that is
| |
| | malformations may develop.One can argue,
|
| cultured in human cells, not monkey
| |
| | heretical as such an argument may be,
|
| kidney cells.Perhaps, it should only
| |
| | that it would be better to let children
|
| contain these four vaccines. A good case
| |
| | have measles, at an age when the
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| can be made for avoiding the three other
| |
| | infection helps the adaptive immune
|
| newer vaccines on the CDC's schedule: The
| |
| | system mature in a balanced Th1/Th2
|
| hepatitis B, pneumococcal conjugate
| |
| | fashion and complications from this
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| (PCV7) and Hemophilus influenzae type b
| |
| | disease are minimal, rather than
|
| (Hib) vaccines.Your Doctor Won't Like
| |
| | vaccinate them against this disease
|
| ThisYour pediatrician will not like this
| |
| | (especially considering the risks of
|
| schedule. They are taught in medical
| |
| | vaccination).Pertussis and Diphtheria are
|
| school and residency training that
| |
| | a different matter. These diseases are
|
| childhood immunizations are essential to
| |
| | more virulent. Children who contract
|
| public health. As one pediatrician puts
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| | whooping cough (pertussis) can be
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| | vaccines against these diseases.Whatever
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| Journal of Medicine (NEJM) that tell them
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