Vaccinations and Your Children
by Elisabeth Carmack, Ph.D., N.D.; Dipl.Homeo.,
Fellow of the British Institute of Homeopathy

Vaccinations and your children

Vaccinations and your children – p. 1
Forgive us your death – p. 5
The History of Vaccines – p. 10
What are the reactions to vaccines? – p. 20
What is in vaccines? – p. 29
What diseases do they “prevent”? – p. 33
Do vaccines “protect” against disease? – p. 38
Do vaccines cause violence in children? – p.42
Are vaccines mandatory? – p.48
Can one heal oneself from vaccines? – p.51
What is the future of vaccines? – p. 53
Vaccines organizations around the world – p.57
Anecdotal stories – appendix
Graphs of diseases before vaccines - appendix

[The following article is an opinion piece by the author intended for general informational purposes only. Please read the Note at the end of Article. Thank you.]

Most parents take vaccination of their children for granted; the doctor tells them to do it and so they do. Parents may question it and dislike the idea of injecting unknown substances into their healthy children, but they usually have no information to support their feelings and so they rely on the doctor to make the decision for them. Doctors have powerful influence over parents in such matters. Most pediatricians are committed to the universal campaign for vaccinations. The caring parents who may question vaccines rarely question their doctors enough to learn about the terrible risks of harm from vaccinations. Many doctors are equally ignorant.

Some parents, whose instincts tell them that injecting a live virus, full of dangerous chemicals, into a healthy child is not worth the risks, choose not to vaccinate because of such fears. These parents may never fully understand why they do not allow vaccinations. They live with the questions: “ Did I do the right thing for my child? What if he or she gets a serious illness because I did not vaccinate?” The doubt, and guilt, can be tremendous for these parents. Everytime the child is sick they worry needlessly that the illness is diphtheria, pertussis, mumps or any disease that vaccines allegedly prevent. They worry when their unvaccinated children are around other children for fear they are more likely to get a disease. These parents, having made the decision not to vaccinate, have made a good decision but they have not been informed enough to rest easy about their decision.

Then there is another group of parents who do not vaccinate because they fully understand the dangers that can result from vaccines. They know that vaccines are not safe, that they have caused many children to die painful deaths and that the long-term effects are largely unknown. These are the parents who have been fully informed of the facts about vaccines and have made an informed decision not to vaccinate.

Parents are often surprised to learn that they have a choice about vaccinating their children. Typically, doctors do not give parents any information on the risks involved. They just begin all the usual shots, one at birth, a round at two months, then more at four months and so on, and on. Parents make informed decisions about where to have their baby; about whether to nurse or not; etc.; but rarely do they question vaccinations enough to become informed. Why have we become used to a universal policy of more and more vaccines? One after another the shots are injected.

At each visit to the doctor the parents sign a form, not asking any questions and not receiving a nine-page article, as mandated by law, on the ingredients and risks of vaccines. Parents have been left out of the decision-making for decades because they believe the doctor has the child’s best interest at heart and is himself well-informed about vaccines. Unfortunately, the very substantial revenues vaccinations generate are of greater interest to many doctors, who remain culpably ignorant of the risks involved.

Parents have a responsibility to avoid exposing their children to toxic material. Locking up the cabinets can prevent poisoning from common household items. Failure to take such precautions can result in “child abuse or child neglect” charges. Avoiding toxic chemicals in food is a little more difficult, but it can be done. Parents can give their children pure, organic foods and limit the amount of sugar and junk food they eat, to protect them from toxins and unwholesome foods. Most of all, parents need to wake up to the danger of toxins being injected into their children. This can only be done by becoming informed about the dangers of vaccines and by saying “No” to the doctor.

If parents choose not to vaccinate, then they should be prepared for grief from their doctor, family and friends. Once one has made the informed decision not to vaccinate, then be glad of it. Remember that doubts often plague parents who do vaccinate. They wonder too if they did the right thing: “Should we continue the booster shots? Will my baby get a reaction from the shots? Will my five-year-old get sick from her latest round of shots? When will all these shots end? How many is too many?” Good parents always question what is the best course for their children. Once one is informed, and then makes the correct decision, one can stop worrying and relax.

I hope in this paper to be able to reveal enough information to allow parents to make an informed decision. The decision to vaccinate is the parents’ alone, but too often we see parents that make the decision without any information about vaccines. Parents need to be informed about the risks and dangers of vaccines, and the decision has to be left to the parents. Parents, most generally, know what is best for their children and love them more the others , however they must have the facts relevant to their options set forth for them. I hope to be able to do that in this paper on vaccinations.

Forgive us your death

Before we go into the history of vaccines, I want to share a story from real life about a vaccine that took the life of a healthy baby. Perhaps this story will make the reader more open to reading further about vaccines. I have taken the facts from the book, A Shot in the Dark, p. 15-21, Harris L. Coulter and Barbara Loe Fisher (President of the National Vaccine Information Hotline).

“It was January 12, 1983, and I was getting ready to take my two-month-old son, Richie, to the pediatrician for his checkup”, Janet recalled. “My sister–in-law called and asked me if I had watched the Phil Donahue Show on the side affects of vaccines. I told her I hadn’t had time to watch it and that I’d call her later to learn more.”

In two months, Richie’s weight had climbed to eleven pounds, nine ounces from his six pound, six ounce birth weight… “Well, I can’t find anything wrong with this baby”, Janet’s pediatrician said, after checking Richie over. He proceeded to give Richie his first DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus vaccine) shot and oral polio vaccine and told Janet to “give him a half baby aspirin or children’s Tylenol in four hours.”

“I knew the DPT shots produced a lot of discomfort”, Janet admitted, “because my five-year-old son, Ryan, had terrible problems with his DPT shots. After Ryan’s first DPT shot, his leg got hot and red and swollen from his hip to the knee. It was so swollen, I worried about the circulation on his leg. His temperature always zoomed to over 103 degrees and he screamed uncontrollably. Nothing could stop his screaming. He also had diarrhea and vomiting. All this lasted for about forty-eight hours after each shot. When I phoned my pediatrician to report Ryan’s condition and asked what I should do, he always told me it was a normal reaction to the DPT shot and not to worry.”

A licensed practical nurse, Janet works on the orthopedic-neurology floor of a community hospital. While she has received an education in nursing and has practiced for five years, she says she was never informed of the about the adverse reactions or contraindications to vaccines in nursing school. Janet trusted her pediatrician when he said that Ryan’s reaction to the DPT shots were normal. She had no reason to suspect they were not.

Janet remembers taking Richie home; hoping his reaction to the DPT shot would not be as bad as his older brother’s had been. By that evening, however, Richie’s hip started to swell just as Ryan’s had after his shots. However, Richie’s turned from red to dark purple, and later the purple started to spread form the site of the infection in round patches. Richie did not have a fever and drank from his bottle, but he cried if Janet touched his leg.

“He woke up at one-thirty in the night crying”, says Janet, “after a couple of sucks from the bottle he went back to sleep until six that morning. When he woke up, he started screaming off and on. He screamed like a cat in pain. His scream was high and forceful and then he would fall asleep. I put a soft blanket under him because I thought his leg was bothering him. By seven-thirty in the morning, he was crying again.” Janet picked him up and he was limp. His cry was weak now, and he seemed unable to hold up his head. “I fed him a little cereal, and he took a whole bottle of formula and fell back to sleep. I thought it was strange because he usually was awake at this time of the morning. But I put it down to the shot and didn’t worry.”

About eight-thirty Richie started having terrible diarrhea. Janet gave Richie a bath to wash him off. “He was limp and just stared at me with dark eyes as if he was mad at me.”

“I did not call the doctor, because Richie had the exact same symptoms as Ryan---strange crying alternating with unusual amounts of sleeping, diarrhea, and a red, swollen leg. The only difference was that Richie slept more and did not have a fever, and I was thankful for that because I know how a high fever can produce febrile convulsions. In fact, he was on the cool side, and I made sure I kept him dressed warmly after I noticed his hands were cold. The whole day I kept giving Richie his bottle. I just did not realize what was happening to him.”

At four o’clock that afternoon, Richie vomited a little. He had gagged on the nipple of the bottle, and so Janet spoon-fed water to keep fluids in his body. “I tickled his lips with my finger, he didn’t smile at me as he usually did. He just kept staring at me with those dark eyes like he was mad at me.”

At eight o’clock that evening, Richie still did not have a fever and his hands were cold. At ten forty-five, Janet woke her baby up and started to give him a bottle. “He took two sucks. His eyes were open. All of a sudden, he stopped sucking. I shook him his shoulders, and called his name. He did not respond to me. I put my lips to his forehead, and he was icy and clammy. Then he started sighing. With each breath, he made a sighing sound.”

With Richie in her arms, Janet ran and told her husband there was something wrong with their baby. Anthony held Richie while Janet called her doctor’s answering service and explained to the pediatrician on call that he had received his first DPT shot the day before. She told him all the symptoms Richie had shown since.

“He did not sound worried and agreed that it was probably a DPT reaction. While I was talking to him Anthony came and held Richie under the kitchen light, and we noticed Richie’s pupils were not responding to light. I told the doctor that, too. He told that if I wanted to I could take him to the hospital and have him checked out. I said yes, that I wanted to do that and asked him if he was going to meet us there. He said, no, it was not necessary, that someone else could check over Richie and call him back with the results.”

Anthony and Janet decided they had better get Richie to the hospital immediately. Anthony hurriedly got dressed, went to warm up the car while Janet rushed into Ryan’s room, and woke him up. Then she ran into her bedroom and laid Richie on the bed so she could get dressed to go to the hospital. Five-year-old Ryan came into the room and watched his baby brother, who was lying on the bed staring at the ceiling and sighing.

“I picked up Richie, and he stopped breathing. I screamed for Anthony and breathed into Richie’s mouth but there was no response. I ran down to the dining room and started to perform CPR on him while Anthony called an ambulance. I kept doing CPR on him and all of a sudden vomit starting flying out of his mouth. I turned him over and clapped his back to clear his breathing passages. Then I continued to do CPR. The ambulance came and the paramedics continued to do CPR. I knew my baby was gone. I kept screaming he was dead. When he stopped breathing in my arms, all of a sudden the whole day came together like one big nightmare. He had been dying all day and I didn’t even know it.”

Richie died just 33 hours after his first DPT shot.

The History of Vaccines

The idea of using vaccinations to protect people against disease was actually invented and practiced before anyone even knew about germs. It started in the early 1700’s when someone got the idea that mixing the blood of smallpox or plague survivors with that of a healthy person might somehow protect the person from such diseases. Incisions were made in the arms of the survivor and of a healthy person and the wounds of both people then pressed together. This was similar to becoming a “blood brother” to someone. The result was usually that the healthy person got the disease through the contaminated blood.

In 1796, Edward Jenner devised with what we now call vaccinations. He treated for prevention of the dreaded smallpox disease by pricking the patient with a cowpox-tainted instrument. Jenner developed a vaccine theory before people knew anything about viruses or germs, let alone how the immune system works and how the body deals with viruses. Until the invention of the electron microscope in the 1930’s, scientists knew virtually nothing about viruses.

In the book by Ida Honoroff and Eleanor McBean, Vaccination: The Silent Killer, we read the following:

“In 1796, Edward Jenner started his cowpox vaccination craze, which increased the smallpox epidemics to such an extent that the disease became epidemic, and in 1837 to 1839 there was the sweeping epidemic that killed 22,081 people. In spite of this absolute proof of the deadly effects of vaccination, the vaccine promoters managed to get a compensatory vaccination law passed in England in 1853. The Epidemics then increased to such an extent that between 1870 and 1872 there was the worst smallpox epidemic of all time, which killed 44,480 people. The English people fought the vaccination promoters until they were able to abolish compulsory vaccinations England in 1948. They have had no epidemics since then.”

Roger Bacon is credited with the statement, “man can do much more than he knows.” The “cowpox” vaccines against smallpox are a good example of doing without knowing. If the truth be said today, we are still doing a lot more than we know about vaccines. Edward Jenner was doing much more than he knew. He vaccinated himself, and others, against a virus he did not even know existed and at the same time fought to have his vaccine made mandatory by law.

The late Dr. Robert Mendesohn, a strong voice against vaccines, wrote in one of his books, “Did you know that several years after the first smallpox vaccine was introduced into the Philippines (it was first given in 1910) and after 95 percent of the population – 8 million people – had been given 24,500,000 doses of vaccine, the Philippines experienced its worst smallpox epidemic in history.”

The September 28, 1996 issue of the British Medical Journal Lancet shows a picture of a gravestone dating back to 1788. The tombstone read as follows: “In memory of Peleg, son of Thomas and Mary Conklin, who died of the smallpox by inoculation, Jan. 27th, 1788; aged 17 years.” This is interesting to note because it precedes Edward Jenner by eight years. It shows that vaccines may have been tried earlier than when Edward Jenner did.

After the smallpox vaccine came the polio vaccine; its history is deadly and crippling. In his book, Mary, Ferrie and The Monkey Virus, Edward Haslem goes into the frightening history of the polio vaccine. He writes, “Most Americans do not remember what a terrible curse “the polio epidemic” was upon the land. At its crest in the early 1950’s more than 33,000 Americans fell crippled or died slow, terrible deaths from polio each year. Most were children. The word ‘polio’ struck fear into the hearts of parents across America. It was a casually transmitted virus that first infected the lining of the intestines, then the blood stream, and finally the nervous system where it destroyed the victim’s brain stem. The difference between crippled and dead was determined by the extent of the damage to the brain stem. Cavernous hospital wards full of hideous looking machines called ‘iron lungs’ awaited patients who became to weak to breathe for themselves. The search for a vaccine became a national scientific effort, supported by the most prominent political leaders of the land.

Five laboratories began producing the vaccine from a procedure Salk designed; and accumulated a large enough supply for a mass inoculation which was scheduled as a celebration for Franklin Roosevelt’s birthday. The results were of years of research and millions of dollars of investments. In addition, the fate of thousands of crippled children were ready for the most publicized and anticipated event in the history of medicine.

At the 11th hour, a bacteriologist at the NIH was told to safety-test the new polio vaccine. Her name was Bernice Eddy. When she injected the vaccine into her monkeys, they fell paralyzed in their cages. Eddy realized that the virus was not dead as promised, but still alive and ready to multiply. It was time to sound the alarm. She sent pictures of the paralyzed monkeys to NIH’s management and warned them of the upcoming tragedy. A debate erupted in the corridors of power. Was the polio vaccine really ready? Should the mass inoculation take place on schedule?

A handful of prominent doctors across the country stepped into the fray to throw the weight of their reputations on the side of the vaccine. One of these doctors was Mary Sherman’s boss, Dr. Alton Ocshner. To demonstrate that the vaccine was really ready, Dr. Ocshner inoculated his own grandchildren with it. The mass inoculation proceeded on schedule. Within days, children fell sick from polio, some were crippled, and some died. Estimates vary dramatically. Ochner’s grandson died. His granddaughter contracted polio, but survived. An enornormous lawsuit erupted. Heads rolled everywhere. The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (Oveta Hobby) stepped down. The Director of the National Institute of Health (NIH), Dr. William Sebrell, resigned. It was the biggest fiasco in medical history. A second, safer vaccine was developed by Albert Sabin. It used a weakened live virus instead of a dead virus. It worked. Polio was history; or so it seemed.”

Is the history of the polio vaccine even deadlier? Could it be causing the epidemic of cancer we see in America today? Edward Haslam’s well documented work into the “secret monkey labs” discovered the following: “In June 1959, Bernice Eddy, who was still officially assigned to the flu vaccine project, began thinking about the polio virus again. This time she was worried about something deeper than polio. The vaccine manufacturers had grown their polio viruses from the kidneys of monkeys. In addition, when they removed the polio virus from the monkeys’ kidneys, they also removed an unknown number of other monkey viruses. The more they looked, the more they found. The medical science of the day knew little about the behavior or consequences of theses monkey viruses. However, times were changing. Confronted with mounting evidence that some monkey viruses caused cancer, Eddy grew suspicious of the polio vaccine and asked the question: Had they inoculated an entire generation of Americans with cancer–causing viruses? She conducted her research quietly, without alerting her NIH supervisors.

In October, 1960, Eddy gave a talk to the Cancer Society in New York and, without warning NIH in advance, announced she had examined cells from the monkey kidneys in which the polio virus was grown and had found they were infected with cancer-causing viruses. Her inference was clear: There were cancer-causing monkey viruses in the polio vaccine! This was tantamount to forecasting an epidemic of cancer in America. When word got back to her NIH bosses, they exploded in anger. When the cussing stopped, they crushed Brenice Eddy professionally. Any mention of cancer-causing viruses in the polio vaccine was not welcome by NIH. They took away her lab, destroyed her animals, put her under a gag order, prevented her from attending professional meetings and delayed the publication of her scientific papers.

In the spring of 1961, one of Eddy’s co-workers published a medical article which said there was live SV-40 (Simian Virus #40) in the polio vaccine. Eddy herself confirmed that the SV-40 monkey virus was causing cancer in hamsters as well as monkeys, proving that it was capable of crossing the zoonotic species barrier. But she was not allowed to release the information until a year later. NIH notified the U.S. Surgeon General that “Future polio vaccines would be free of SV-40.” On July 26, 1961, the New York Times reported two vaccine manufacturers were withdrawing their polio vaccines “until they can eliminate a monkey virus.” The article ran on page 33 with no mention of cancer. Seven months later, a second article in the Times mentioned the possibility of cancer in the polio vaccine. That article ran on page 27. The story died there, and the specter of an approaching epidemic of cancer silently rose on the horizon.”

Today we see so many friends and family members dying from cancer –the percentage of overall deaths by cancer is skyrocketing. Are we seeing the cancer epidemic foretold by Bernice Eddy, from the polio vaccine? We know that the cancerous viruses did exist in the vaccine, according to many “under-cover” scientists. We know that in the U.S. a person dies every minute from cancer. We have lost the war on cancer. The number of deaths from cancer goes up every year by 10,000. We may never see “proof” of what is causing so much cancer in the world, but we do know that playing around with human life and “testing” viruses on them is not healthy and may be deadly. Human beings are priceless and should never be used as mere “guinea pigs” for scientific experiments.

The history of the DPT shot is also a deadly one, perhaps the most deadly one of all. DPT stands for diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus. The “P” in the DPT may be the most harmful vaccine of all, as we will discover. The first whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine was created in 1912 by two French bacteriologists, Jules Bordet and Octave Gengoum. They made the vaccine from growing the pertussis virus in large pots, killing the virus with heat, mixing it with formaldehyde, and them injecting it into children. The ingredients of this vaccine have not changed much over the years.

In the 1930’s and the early 1940’s scientists and physicians were trying hard to come up with the best way to give the shots. They felt that the vaccine should be administered early, at just a few months of age, and should be given as a combination shot, along with diphtheria and tetanus. The pioneer for the pertussis vaccine wished to make it easier for parents, so he had four shots combined into one: the Quadrigen. This shot was licensed by the National Institute of Health in 1959. However, in 1968 it was withdrawn from the market because it was proving to be ineffective.

The FDA’s vaccine specialist said in 1976, “Pertussis vaccine is one of the more troublesome products to produce and assay. As an example of this, pertussis vaccine has one of the highest failure rates of all products submitted to the Bureau of Biologics for testing and release.”

The need for more testing was brought to life by the efforts of Randolph K. Byers and Frederick C. Moll of the Harvard Medical School. They published an article in 1948 about children who had been damaged after receiving the pertussis vaccine. Their findings shocked the medical world. It provided the first clear evidence of the dangers of the vaccine.

Dr. George Dick, of the Bland-Sutton Institute of Middlesex Hospital, in London, wrote the following in 1967: “It has long been known that increasing the number of B pertussis per dose of vaccine increases the frequency of reactions. It would be surprising if the size of the infants receiving a particular vaccine did not also increase the reactions.” No doctor would think of giving a baby, the same number of units of penicillin as an adult. Yet a two-month-old baby gets the same amount of vaccine as a fifty–pound five-year-old.

In the years between 1946 and 1957, many tests and trials were conducted on the safety of the vaccine. Although eight children in these British trials had their first recorded convulsion forty-eight hours after the pertussis shot, the doctors denied any connections.

Still, damage was being recorded by doctors and parents. In 1974, M. Kulenkampff, J.S. Schwartzman and J. Watson again investigated the controversy surrounding the pertussis vaccine. These researchers looked carefully through the history of thirty-six cases at the Hospital for Sick Children in London, during the years of 1961 and 1972. They reported that out of the thirty-six cases, two children died, four recovered completely, and all the rest were left with either mental retardation or seizure conditions. All the cases were believed to be attributable to the DPT vaccine.

In 1977, Gordon T. Stewart, MD., of the Department of Community Medicine, University of Glasgow in Scotland, published a study analyzing one-hundred-sixty cases of adverse reactions to the DPT shot. He reported that in the cases of sixty-five of the children, the vaccination was “followed by convulsions, hyperactivity and severe mental defect.” He concluded that, “It seems likely that most adverse reactions are unreported and that many are overlooked.”

In 1979, the Food and Drug Administration funded a study representing the first large-scale attempt by the U.S. government to look into the reactions of DPT vaccines. The study, done in California at the University of California, was co-authored by Drs. Cody, Baraff, Cherry, Marcy and FDA pertussis vaccine researcher Charles Manclark, PhD., and published in Pediatrics in 1981.

After observing over 16,00 DPT and DT (only the diphtheria and tetanus combo) vaccines, the study found that the incidence of reactions from the DPT shot was much higher than that of the DT shot. This could only mean that the cause of many reactions was from the pertussis vaccine. It also found that the reports of all DPT reactions were much higher than thought. But despite this study, and more than forty years of warnings about the terrible side effects, those responsible for promoting health for our children: the AMA; CDC and AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) all went full-steam ahead and promoted this dangerous vaccine for children across America.

Throughout the history of vaccines we see how they have cut short the lives of many children. The ones who do survive are often left severely damaged from their ill effects. Those who are fortunate enough to “bypass” the damage of vaccines may have a cancer or other form of vaccine-originated-disease waiting for them years later. We certainly see many new diseases all over the U.S. every year with unknown causes.

What are the reactions to vaccines?

The reactions to vaccines vary greatly from child to child. Some children do not react at all. Some get redness and inflammation at the site of the shot. Some get headaches and fevers. Some get convulsions and brain damage. Some die painful deaths within hours of the shots being given.

Daniel Levett, MD., PhD., an immunologist with the Guthrie Research Institute in Sayre, Pennsyvania, states the following: “We really do not know what the effects are except in a very limited way. Is that frightening? Probably because we are dealing with infants. Is it uncommon? I would say: no. It is common for most vaccines that we use. We really do not know with absolute certainty what many of their effects are upon the system.”

Gordon T. Stewart, MD., from the Department of Community Medicine in Scotland said, “The number of well children who have suffered mental or physical disturbance as a result of vaccination may have to be counted not as hundreds, as in the United Kingdom, or in thousands, as in the rest of the Western world, but in hundreds of thousands all over the world. This is a heavy price to pay for marginal and temporary protection against a disease that seldom, nowadays, threatens the life or health of children.”

Let us now look over some well-documented cases of reactions to the different vaccines:

DEATH

In 1996 the Vaccine Adverse Reporting System reported that, “Forty- eight children were reported to have died after they were injected with Hepatitis B vaccine in 1996 and thirteen of them had received Hepatitis B only (no other vaccine was given) before their deaths.”

Up to 17% of all Hepatitis B vaccinations are followed by reports of fatigue and weakness, headache, arthritis and fever of more than 100 degrees. “The vaccine can cause death,” according to the 1994 Institute of Medicine Report.

Of the total 2,424 adverse reports made between 1990 and 1998, about children under 14 who only received the Hepatitis B vaccine, there were 1,209 serious events and 73 deaths, according to the Vaccine Averse
Reporting Event System.

“My daughter, Lyla Rose Belkin, died on September 16,1998 at the age of five weeks, shortly after receiving a Hepatitis B vaccine booster shot. Lyla Rose was a lively , alert five-week-old baby when I last held her in my arms. Little did I imagine as she gazed intently into my eyes with all the innocence and wonder of a newborn child that she would die that night. She was never ill before she received the Hepatitis B vaccine that afternoon. At her final feeding that night, she was agitated and feisty; then fell asleep and never woke up,” writes Michael Belkin, the little girl’s father. Lyla died just 16 hours after receiving the Hepatitus B vaccine.

AUTISM

According to the California State Department of Developmental Services, in 1998 there were 1,685 new cases of autism. According to these figures, 1 in 312 children in California have autism. There is very strong evidence that vaccines cause autism. “Parents are reporting to our organization in record numbers that their children are becoming autistic after vaccinations. Our experience has been that as vaccination rates have increased, we have seen an increase in reports of vaccines reactions, including immune system dysfunction and autistic behaviors,” reports the DDC. The Director of Autism Autoimmunity Project, wrote, “Approximately one-half of the hundreds of parents that call our office each month say that their healthy child became autistic shortly after vaccination. We cannot wait any longer to find out whether some children are at higher risk than others for developing autism following vaccination.”

SERIOUS SICKNESS

Barbara Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center said, “For fifteen years we have been hearing from parents and reporting to the government that our children are dying and getting sick after being vaccinated. Parents are outraged and they should be.”

The 1988 Lederle Information Report stated: “Local reactions are common after administration of the DPT, occurring in 35-50 % of the recipients. Approximately 50% of DPT recipients will develop temperatures higher than 100.4 degrees after one or more of the doses. Approximately 6% greater than 102.2 degrees, and approximately 0.3 % greater than 105 degrees.”

Many parents report a large, red area after the shots. One mother said, “My son reacted to the first and second shots with a big, red swollen area, which took several days to go away.” The boy suffered seizures a week after his shot, which never went away.

One mother in California remembers her son’s reaction to the shots: “He had a little fever and was cranky, like he was with his first shot. But he also had a very large lump on his leg the size of a baseball. It was red and purple and it took weeks to go away.” This should have been enough contraindication not to receive another shot, but he received his third DPT. After the third one, he became unresponsive, limp and then started to have seizures. Today he has constant seizures and is severely brain-damaged.

Within ten hours of receiving a DPT shot, a mother reported to her doctor that her son had a temperature of 105 degrees. “I called the doctor and he said to give him Tylenol and a bath. As I was putting him the bath his eyes rolled back in his head and he quivered all over.” Today the little boy is hyperactive and mentally and physically handicapped.

One little boy in North Carolina had a bad reaction to his shots. He ran a high fever for days, the site of the injection swelled and he screamed a very high-pitched scream. The mother says, “Overnight he turned from a brave and happy child, into a trembling, fearful child who screamed in terror at the sight of balloons or at the thought of leaving the house. He would not leave the doorstep, he just stood there and screamed and shook until we picked him up.”

In 1961, the description of the DPT reaction was this: “Within half an hour to four hours of receiving a shot, the child would start to scream and continue to scream unceasingly for up to six hours. The child would lay on the cot, flushed and irritable, sometimes with the head moving from side to side. No amount of nursing or lifting of the child would help. One screaming bout would follow close on the heels of the next. The child, finally exhausted, would fall asleep, to awaken in some cases, to further bouts of screaming.”

One mother reported that her son screamed terribly after his DPT shot. “It was a blood-curling scream, like someone was stabbing him. Then he became unresponsive. His arms dropped to the side, and he became flaccid. About an hour later, he stiffened up, then his arms again became flaccid and he let out this terrible scream.”

One little girl’s mother said, “Within fifteen hours of her first DPT shots, she started screaming like she was in terrible pain. Nothing we could do would stop her screaming. She acted like she was falling. She screamed like this off and on for two weeks. Sometimes she would turn blue and black. She kept screaming like someone was dropping her.” The little girl continued to receive her shots and after her third DPT she started having convulsions. Today she is on medication to control a seizure disorder.

There is a six-year-old girl named Katherine, in Skokie, Illinois, unable to lift her head off the pillow or walk. She was not always like this; she was a skater with hopes of going to the Olympics. Her doctor gave her the Hepatitis B shot and she will never able to skate again; the vaccine left her paralyzed.

The public is largely unaware of the dangers of vaccines, but as parents, we need to be aware for the sake of our children. Thousands of children have been damaged, or killed, by vaccines. The Federal Government has a computer database with several thousand names of children who have been killed or damaged shortly after vaccination. These children were all healthy and normal before receiving the shots.

In 1986, Congress officially acknowledged the reality of vaccine-caused injuries and death by passing The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (Public Law 99-660). The safety reform portion of this law requires doctors to provide parents with information about the benefits and risks of vaccines. Doctors are also required by law to report suspected cases of vaccine damage. The FDA reports, however, that 90% of doctors do not report the vaccine reactions. They are choosing to ignore this law and say that the damage was caused by something other than the vaccine.

Despite the lack of reporting by doctors, there are still 12,000 cases of adverse vaccine reactions reported every year. These figures include children who have been killed, brain damaged, etc.. The real damage figure may be as high as 120,000 given the fact that only 10% of doctors report the reactions. With figures this high, it seems very senseless to have children vaccinated against remote possibilities of disease, some of which, in themselves are not life-threatening. The risks of vaccine damage are there and are well-documented. Parents need to become fully informed about vaccines before they decide to take their children in to be vaccinated. Children are far too precious to be harmed needlessly by dangerous vaccines of marginal to negative value. Children must rely on the parents, but parents should not rely on doctors to make such critical decisions for them. It is high time for a restoration of personal responsibility to parents.

The First International Public Conference on Vaccination was held on Sept. 13-15, 1997, in Virginia. Physicians, lawyers, parents, doctors, scientists health officials, journalists and consumer activists from around the world came together to talk about why and how vaccines cause injury, death and chronic illness.

Since 1990, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid $944,000,000 (i.e. almost $1 billion) to parents of children who have been injured or killed by vaccines. This program is funded by a tax of 75 cents on every dose of vaccine. In effect, we pay an insurance premium to compensate us, if we lose our child to a vaccine reaction. The latest statistics are available from the government’s own monthly report.

Professor Bonnie Dunbar, PhD., who has a career of 25 years as a laboratory scientist, wrote concerning her own family: “Three years ago my brother, who is a geologist Ph.D. and an agronomist with four college degrees, came to work with me. He took the Hepatitis B vaccine, within 24 hours he had fever and severe fatigue. He ended up with a whole series of symptoms and 15 doctors have said that the shot caused this to happen.”

Christopher Gray who lives in Harrah, Oklahoma, is nine years old. He cannot walk and he is still in a diaper. He cannot see, talk or swallow; he must be fed through a feeding tube. He was a healthy, normal boy before he had a DPT shot at six weeks old; that sent the family into a long, hard ordeal. The boy was taken away from his parents for six months and his father was accused of violently shaking his baby. Larry Gray was outraged by the accusations made against him, and rightly so. Christopher had the classic symptoms of Shaken Baby Syndrome, but the real cause was the DPT shot. After months of being separated from his family the parents were able to regain custody of their son only when his doctor was finally willing to admit that Christopher’s injuries were from the DPT shot. The father sued and won $2,000,000 in compensation for Christopher’s injuries. Last fall they received the first of the money:$425,000; money they would gladly forego in exchange for a restoration of Christopher's health. This story is heartbreaking, but many parents go through this when the state (and the doctor) gets involved in usurping parental rights and responsibility.

Four hours after 5-month-old Ryan (his last name has been withheld) received his DPT shot he started screaming, “like a cat in pain”, said his father. Ryan rolled his eyes back in his head and went stiff, then limp. The baby’s head swelled up and he had bleeding in his brain. The parents took him to the doctors for help. Ryan’s father was then accused of “felony aggravated assault” of shaking his baby son. The father, a police officer himself, was facing up to ten years in jail along with his wife. The jury found the parents not guilty and concluded that the DPT shot had caused the injury to the baby. The parents were relieved of the charges, but their lives will never the same. The father lost his job as a police officer and now drives a cab. Their son is disabled from the shot. They are two of countless parents whose lives and children have been damaged by vaccines.

In 1993 the American Institute of Medicine Report on vaccines concluded that virtually all the vaccines given to children have been proven to cause damage.

The damage of vaccines is real. Thousands of children around the world have suffered from them and many have died. Hippocrates, the Father of Western Medicine, wrote that ‘A wise man ought to know that health is the most valuable possession.” Vaccines are robbing our children of that most valuable possession.

What is in vaccines?

Vaccines go through many steps before they are ready to use. A germ must be acquired: a toxic bacterium or a live virus. To make the vaccine, the live virus must be weakened for human use. This is done by passing the virus through animal tissue several times to reduce its potency. The measles virus is passed through chick embryos; the polio virus is passed through monkey kidneys; and the rubella virus is passed through human diploid cells, another name for the organs of an aborted baby. Then the vaccines go through heat, radiation and/or chemicals. The weakened germ must then be strengthened with antibiotics, drugs, chemicals, etc.. Aluminum, formaldehyde and mercury are known toxins and extremely dangerous. Yet, they have all been found in vaccines.

Undected animal viruses can cross the species barrier to infect humans. This happened in the 1950’s and 1960’s when millions of people were infected with polio vaccines that were contaminated with the SV-40 virus, which is now considered a powerful immunosupressor and trigger for HIV, the name given to the AIDS virus. Scientists have said it causes a clinical condition similar to AIDS in humans. The virus SV-40 (so named because it was the 40th virus found when researchers began looking), mentioned earlier in the portion about polio vaccines, is also associated with brain tumors, leukemia and other human cancers.

The following list of ingredients found in vaccines is from the Centers for Disease Control. I have commented on the ingredients.

Aluminum is added to vaccines as an adjuvant to promote antibody response. Aluminum adjuvants in themselves cause reactions. Aluminum has been implicated to be the cause of brain damage, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, seizures and comas. Aluminum applied directly to nerve tissue caused epilective symptoms which persisted for years following the initial dose (Kopeloff et al., 1942; Klatzo et al., 1965.) A single injective dose of aluminum causes first a disturbance of learning and memory and then progressive deterioration of motor control, tremors and seizures (Crapper – McLachlan et al., 1991).

Thimerosal (a mercury sodium salt) is used as a disinfectant and is also a perservative. Many people are allergic to thimerosal. Some develop lasting allergies from repeated doses through vaccines. Mercury is a violent poison with many toxic effects. The ingestion of inorganic mercury can be fatal to humans and research animals (Troen et al,. 1951).Lethal doses occur with large amounts of mercury salt (29-50 mg mercury/kg. The neurologic toxicity after exposure (Bakir et al., 1973), may have significance for the suspected long-term neurologic symptoms of learning disabilities and behavior disorders we see so much of today.

Formaldehyde is used to inactivate viruses and detoxify bacterial toxins. Formaldehyde has carcinogenic potential in humans. At least 28 studies have found evidence of cancer in people exposed to formaldehyde. At least nineteen studies have shown an increase of leukemia and cancer of the brain and colon with formaldehyde. In several studies, the risks of nose, sinus, lung, mouth and throat cancer were found to increase in people exposed to formaldehyde (Acheson et al., 1984; Libling et al., 1984; Blair et al., 1990). Formaldehyde exposure following injection, ingestion or inhalation has also caused liver toxicity and liver damage, as shown in several studies (Swenberg et al.; 1980; Albert et al., 1982; Kerns et al., 1983).

Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is used as a stabilizer in vaccines. Many people are allergic to MSG. Some of the adverse reactions include headaches, dizziness, shortness of breath, heart irregularities, asthma and depression. In the book, In Bad Taste, the MSG Syndrome, Dr. John Oley’s study showed that MSG causes brain injuries in rodents resulting in obesity, behavioral problems, endocrine hormone changes, stunted bodies, seizures and infertility.

Antibiotics are added to vaccines to prevent the growth of germs in vaccine cultures. Neomycin is one of the more common antibiotics used for this purpose. Penicillin is not used today because some persons are sensitive to penicillin.

Egg protein is found in vaccines prepared using embryonated chicken eggs. “Persons with a history of anaphylactic allergy to eggs or egg proteins should not receive vaccines”, reports the Center for Disease Control.

Sulfites, such as sodium metabisulfite, are used in vaccines. Sulfites are known for their many allergic reactions. They cause food allergies.

What happens after all these toxins, dangerous chemicals and live viruses are put together? Is this the description of a witches’ brew? Are they ready to be destroyed because of all the harmful ingredients? No, they are ready to be injected into your healthy child.

Double, double toil and trouble;

Act IV. – MacBeth
William Shakespeare

What diseases do they “prevent”?

Children are now required to receive 34 vaccines before they enter kindergarten. The list grows annually. The diseases they “protect” against vary, from rare and severe to common and mild. The following is the latest vaccine schedule from the Center for Disease Control.

Children today are receiving dozens of vaccines for all sorts of different diseases. The toxic chemicals alone in these vaccines cause all kinds of health problems. Added to that is the very real chance of your child getting what he or she has been vaccinated against. What are the diseases that vaccines “protect” against? How common are they? We will look into each one now.

Polio was once a crippling disease and one that many parents feared. Polio has many stages to it; it can lead to paralysis. However, no case of “wild” polio has occurred in the U. S. since 1979. The risk of your child getting polio is zero in the U. S., except from the vaccine itself. Every case of polio in the U.S. since 1979 has been from a person being injected with the polio vaccine. The oral, live polio vaccine does cause polio. Other long-term risks are unknown. Since the risk of getting polio is near zero for your child, unless they receive the vaccine, it seems very unreasonable to let them be injected with this vaccine. In the appendix of this paper I will include a graph of the step decline in polio cases before the polio vaccine was introduced. This decline was largely due to healthier living conditions.

Diphtheria is an acute infectious disease caused by bacterium. Symptoms include sore throat and can, in rare cases, lead to heart problems. Diphtheria is a potentially serious disease but extremely rare in the U.S.. There are less than five cases a year reported. The vaccine has known side effects and the long-term damage is unknown.

Pertussis is also very rare in the U.S.. The disease is known to many as “whooping cough”. It is a very contagious disease. The symptoms include a mild cough in the beginning, followed by a cough that is harder to breathe through. Like many illnesses, it can be very dangerous and even deadly. Modern allopathic medicine can help the child through the disease or parents may wish to use an alternative treatment. This vaccine is one of the most controversial of them all. It has known side effects and severe reactions that include, seizures, brain damage and death. The vaccine also has limited efficacy.

Measles are often mild with few complications. The symptoms include weakness, runny nose, fever, dry or hacking cough, followed by little red spots on some areas of the child’s body. The vaccine is associated with serious side effects and the long-term damage is unknown.

Rubella is a mild childhood disease that usually requires no treatment. The symptoms include a low-grade fever, swollen lymph nodes, runny nose and a slight headache. It lasts about three days. The only serious danger with Rubella is if a pregnant mother gets the illness. Her unborn baby can be born with birth defects. Rubella vaccines are also known for the bad side effects they cause, including arthritis and central nervous system disorders.

Mumps are generally mild also. The main symptom is swollen salivary glands. Fever, headache and excessive saliva often accompany the illness. If a child gets mumps, then he or she is immune for life from the disease. There are complications with mumps, but they are rare. Mumps has been on the rise in teenagers and the elderly since the increased use of the mumps vaccine. The vaccine causes many side effects and the long-term risks are unknown. The vaccine has been associated with meningitis.

Hemophilus influenza b (Hib) is the vaccine for meningitis. Meningitis is a potentially life-threatening disease and long-term problems do occur. Symptoms of meningitis begin mildly, and as the illness progresses the fever gets very high and the neck and back get so stiff that it is hard for the child to touch his or her neck. The symptoms are painful and a rash may develop on the body. A spinal tap is the only sure way of diagnosing the disease. The vaccine in use has not yet been proven to prevent meningitis. The complications are many and the long-term effects unknown.

Varicella (Chicken Pox) is a mild childhood disease. Complications rarely occur in normally healthy children. Long-term efficacy of the vaccine is not known. The side effects could be more serious with this vaccine than with ones like measles or mumps, because the chickenpox virus is associated with cancer and herpes zoster.

Hepatitus B is one of the newer vaccines on the market today. Its history, though short, has already proven deadly and very dangerous for children. The people who are at risk of getting hepatitis (which is only transmitted by coming into direct contact with an infected person’s bodily fluid) are drug users, prostitutes, other sexually promiscuous persons, prisoners and babies that are born to infected mothers. These risks do not fit the risks of a normal newborn baby. Yet routinely now at birth, babies are given the Hepatitis B vaccine. If one gets Hepatitis B, what is it like? The great majority, 90-95% of people, recover completely within 3-4 weeks of getting the illness. However, up to 17% of those who receive the vaccine report fatigue, weakness, arthritis and a fever of more than 100 degrees. “The vaccine can cause death,” reported the Institute of Medicine in 1994. The risks of this vaccine are not worth the side effects and possible death it can cause. If such happens to your child, the pertinent “risks” become 100%.

Do vaccines “protect” against disease?

In study after study we find overwhelming evidence that vaccines not only do not “immunize”, they actually cause the disease they are supposed to protect against. Every case of polio in the U.S. since 1979 has been caused by the polio vaccine. A recent news story on the front page of U.S.A. Today, on June 17,1999, states the following: “Oral vaccine, which has been used since the 1960’s, contains live, weakened virus. It confers immunity, but it has been the sole cause of paralytic polio in the U.S. since 1979—with about 8-10 reported cases a year.”

The vaccine theory is based on the germ theory. If all germs caused disease, as the theory states, and antibodies fight germs, then increasing antibodies would prevent the infection. Vaccines are supposed to stimulate the immune system to produce antibodies against the disease. This is like playing a trick on the body. The natural immune response is very complex: the body, when it is under “assault” from illness calls into play the lymphatic system, plasma cells, mucous membranes, bacterial flora and much more. It all requires a unique effort on the part of the body’s immune system. When vaccines are injected into healthy children they bypass the normal immune response. The antibodies that do respond to the vaccine cannot “work” in other parts of the body. This is one reason why so many children are often sick. Their immune systems are weakened by dealing with the vaccines. Research indicates that the immune system is stimulated and strengthened by responding to natural challenges. When a baby is exposed to natural microorganisms in the environment, normal development of the immune system can occur. When a host of foreign microorganisms is forced directly and deeply into the body by injections, then the needed unified immune response is compromised.

The Center for Disease Control says that vaccines have reduced disease in America. This is simply not true. Almost every disease that vaccines are supposed to have reduced was almost non-existent before vaccines were used to protect against that disease. The reason for this decline in certain diseases is simple: people were becoming aware of what caused disease and illness. People were learning how to live in cleaner environments; they learned that boiling clothes when they were dirty would protect against disease; they cooked their food well; they learned what causes disease and how to avoid it. Most of all, families were learning the connection between healthy eating habits and healthy children. In the appendix of this paper I have reproduced some graphs to let the reader see the decline in deaths from disease before vaccines for the same diseases.

The polio death rate in the U.S. was already very low before vaccines for polio were introduced. The cases of polio increased after the vaccine was introduced.

Cases of diphtheria are rare. The decline in diphtheria came long before the vaccine. In the U.S., from 1900 to 1930, years before the vaccine was introduced, there was a 90% decrease in the cases of diphtheria deaths. Germany began compulsory diphtheria shots in 1939, after the vaccination for diphtheria was introduced the vaccinated cases of diphtheria went to up150,000! In 1943, France had a similar experience with 47,000 cases reported of diphtheria, after giving the vaccine for diphtheria. Meanwhile, in Norway, there were only 50 cases of diphtheria. Why? Norway refused the vaccine. In 1975, in the report on the diphtheria vaccine, the Bureau of Biologists and the FDA concluded, “The diphtheria toxiod is not as affective an immunizing agent as might be expected.” Quite an understatement.

Measles followed the same trend: they were declining rapidly in the first part of this century. In the U.S. and England, from 1918 to 1958, prior to vaccinations for measles, there was a greater than 95% percent decline in measles. Furthermore, 58% of those who do get measles have been fully vaccinated against them.

Research has shown that those who are vaccinated against rubella show no evidence of immunity five years later. In a Casper, Wyoming rubella epidemic, 91 of the 125 cases of rubella were children who had been fully vaccinated against the disease.

In recent studies of the effectiveness of the mumps vaccine, we see the same trend, that the vaccine does not provide lasting immunity against the illness and the side effects are grave. Recent studies report that a number of children who get the vaccine contract mumps.

In a recent article in the Daily Oklahoman on July 16,1999 we read, “Vaccine Questioned: Physicians should temporarily stop using the new rotavirus diarrhea vaccine for infants because preliminary reports indicate the vaccine increases the chance of developing a rare bowel disorder, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised.”

It would be unfair to say that every vaccine given to your child will cause a disease. However, with 57,000 children going in every week to be vaccinated the risks are very high that many will react adversely. Not every vaccine is the same. Some vaccine “batches” are worse than others. Meaning that they are contaminated and not made as “well” as some. With modern medicine and natural medicine helping fight so many diseases in the world today without the dangers of vaccines, if your child should happen to get chicken pox, mumps, etc., then there is medicine to help. It is simply too risky to get vaccinated when we do not know all of the side effects of the vaccines and those we do know are so often toxic, dangerous and/or deadly.

Do vaccines cause violence in children?

In recent months the rise of so many high school shootings and deaths from children killing other children has the nation searching for answers. Is it possible that vaccine damage to a child’s brain can result in such violence? The question is a frightening one and one that a well-known expert on vaccines and criminal behavior will help to answer below.

It is possible that a child’s upbringing and experiences at home can result in violence. However, what about the children and teens that everyone says were truly “normal”, “had loving parents” and “would not harm anything”, much less kill their peers? We have reports of children, unique to our day, as young as five and six killing other children. Is this the result of too much sugar? A parent being too harsh with the child? Of the child not feeling loved? Of the child playing too many video games or watching too much TV? While these can affect how a child behaves, we can agree that it is extremely rare for a child to hate enough, to the point of killing, because of these things. Children, in general, live carefree lives, they love to play and have fun; children do not want to kill, as past generations could attest.

The number of school shootings and deaths among teens is on the rise. We see teens killing themselves and others often in the news and in the paper. Why? Why are children all over the country being diagnosed with so many new terms like ADD and ADHD, etc. The answer may be in understanding the effects of vaccines on the brain, especially on young, developing brains of children.

In the well-researched and well-documented book: Vaccination: Social Violence and Criminality – the Medical Assault on the Brain, by Harris L. Coulter, we read some very interesting facts which may help us to understand what is happening to American children. Let us look into some of these facts.

The first edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s manual, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, put out in 1952, did not mention any childhood disorders or developmental problems. In the 1968 edition it contained three and a half pages on such disorders. In the 1987 edition it had seventy pages devoted to childhood disorders. These disorders were ones like: dyslexia, autism, hyperactivity, reactive attachment disorder in infancy, oppositional disorder, identity disorder, and so on, and on. One in five American children now have some form of “disorder”; this is an alarming number and is increasing, rapidly.

The vaccination program was given a boost in 1965 when Congress passed the Immunization Assistance Act. In the following years more and more states extended their vaccination programs and many made them obligatory. Four to five years later doctors started reported neurological damage in four and five-year-olds. A 1986 National Health Interview Survey found that between 1969 and 1981 the prevalence of “activity-limiting chronic conditions” in persons younger than seventeen increased an “unexplainable” 44%, almost all the increase occurred between 1969 and 1975. Most of these “activity limiting conditions” are associated with post-encephalitic syndrome.

In his book, Harris L. Coulter writes the following, “The primary cause of encephalitis in the U.S. and other industrialized countries is the childhood vaccination program. In other words, a large proportion of the millions of U.S. children and adults who suffer from autism, seizures, mental retardation, hyperactivity, dyslexia and other shoots and branches of the hydraheaded entity called “developmental personality,” owe their disorders to one or more of the childhood vaccines.”

What is encephalitis? It is an inflammation of the brain which is caused by head injury such as a blow or trauma to the head, infectious diseases, mumps, chicken pox, measles and vaccines. The remarkable feature of encephalitis, no matter what the original cause, is the multifarious diversity of its physical, neurological, mental and emotional symptoms. H.H. Merritt, a emeritus professor of neurology at Columbia University wrote in 1942, “Since any portion of the nervous system may be affected, variable clinical syndromes may occur, meningeal, encephalitis, brain-stem, spinal cord and neurotic.”

Of all the vaccines on the market today the most infamous one is probably the pertussis vaccine. On a 1986 package for the pertussis vaccine from Connaught Labortories the following warning was printed: “More severe neuralgic complications, such as a prolonged convulsion or an enphalopathy, occasionally fatal, have been reported.”

One can argue, however, that since so many children receive vaccines every child should be autistic or hyperactive, etc.. The answer to that is simple: children react differently to vaccines. Some will die on the spot from the vaccine; some will not react at all; others will run the gamet of symptoms in between. The children who react badly to a vaccine are the ones most likely to have problems later in life, because of the swelling of the brain or “encephalitis”. The long-term effect of vaccines on the brain is still unknown, however, with so many new disorders we cannot help but suspect the connection between vaccine damage to the brain in early childhood and the rise of child violence and related childhood disorders in the U.S.. The epidemic of violence started in this country in the 1960’s, when the Immunization Assistance Act resulted in a vast increase in obligatory vaccinations. It has continued to increase, rapidly.

The Journal of the American Medical Association wrote in 1988, “Adults with a history of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder appear to be overrepresented in the ranks of felons.” Another common feature of violent criminals is a short-term attention span. Dyslexia and other learning disabilities are found very frequently in all prison surveys.

Autism may cause many children to behave the way they do when they kill. The autistic child with his frequent temper tantrums and rage becomes the sociopathic criminal in whom “control by rage is absolute.”

Many parents have been blamed for the violent behavior of their children. Children are the building blocks of the family, and then of society. The family and society will be harmed and ultimately ruined if children are damaged in increasingly large numbers. When ten to twenty percent of all children are minimally brain-damaged, how can a family work? If ten to twenty percent of high school students cannot read because of “learning disabilities”, who can blame them for watching TV all day? When over two million children are on amphetamines and other drugs to suppress hyperactivity, how can there not be a drug culture?

Autism can account for a lot of this behavior. As mentioned earlier, autism was unheard of before the pertussis vaccine, the vaccine so often associated with brain damage. Autistic children can be very violent and feel no remorse for their actions. They start out in early life by not reacting at all to their parents’ love. As they grow into childhood, they hit and abuse their friends without any remorse. When they are teenagers they can kill without thinking about the horror they are committing.

One mother reported the following about her six-year-old autistic son’s behavior: “Interactions with peers were associated with bizarre stories and play about themes of murder and blood. He became increasingly preoccupied with such verbalizations, aggressive acts, and destructive themes. At school he repeatedly took a plastic knife and was found “sawing on a peer’s neck or arm.” His comment, with delight, was “You could kill someone with this knife.”

One young man who eventually overcame part of his autistic behavior said: “I was very rebellious and sneaky. I would plot to kill my mother and destroy the world. Evil things astonished me, like the atomic bomb.” Caring for autistic children is very hard for the parents; they fear for their child’s safety, as well as for their own at times.

The damage to the brain from vaccines also takes its toll in the schools. We are not only talking now about school shootings, but about the dumbing-down of school children today. The 1986 Census Bureau reports that over ten million Americans cannot read. Thirty-six million cannot read at eighth grade level. Seventy million cannot read at eleventh grade level.

There is strong evidence that vaccines affect the brain enough to alter behavior. Children who have been diagnosed with autism or other disorders cannot heal themselves. Many naturopathic doctors, however, understand this process and can best help heal these disorders, by seeing to the removal of disease-causative-toxins from the brain.

Are vaccines mandatory?

Many parents just assume that they must vaccinate by law. Though many states have strict laws requiring vaccinations, usually exemptions may be obtained from one’s doctor. The exemption can be for medical, religious or personal reasons. However, not every state’s laws are the same. It is best to check the state law where you live in order to see exactly what your rights are as parents. In Oklahoma, the laws are fairly relaxed as far as exemptions are concerned. A parent can even ask a chiropractor to fill out an exemption form. A law passed in 1998 gives chiropractors “full legal right to exempt a child from vaccines”. Likewise, parental objection itself is sufficient.

In other states the laws are not so lenient. Parents have been accused of child abuse in some states for not vaccinating their children. These parents have even faced losing custody of their children if they did not vaccinate them. Court officials, social workers and even foster parents have tried to take the law into their own hands and force vaccinations, often with no legal right to do so. There are laws often protecting from this and that is why every parent who chooses not to vaccinate needs to know the relevant law and, where necessary, obtain an exemption form, properly executed.

The National Vaccine Information Center has reported that thousands of parents have called them over the years and complained that their civil rights have been violated by state officials harassing them, and in some cases forcing their children, to be vaccinated. A few states are very strict, however most of the states are somewhat easier on parents who refuse to allow their children to be vaccinated.

Ironically, many high schools and colleges are now requiring students to be “fully” vaccinated as a prerequisite for admission. The Federal Government has considered denying welfare and nutrition benefits to families who refuse vaccinations. Doctors and school authorities routinely tell parents that the law is that they must vaccinate. All states have an exemption of some kind: religious, parental or medical.

Some parents have lost custody of their children and have been accused of “Shaken Baby Syndrome” after they had their children vaccinated. The symptoms of Shaken Baby Syndrome occur in some children after they are vaccinated.

In October, 1998 France became the first country to end Hepatitis B vaccination requirements for schoolchildren. The Minister of Health in France recognized that the vaccine can lead to many serious health problems like chronic arthritis, symptoms resembling multiple sclerosis and other serious health problems.

Do not let the “authorities” try to force vaccinations on you and your children. If you know your state law and have, or can obtain, an exemption from vaccinations, exercise that right and protect your children, in court if necessary.

Can one heal oneself from vaccine damage?

The answer to that question, in most cases, is quite simply, yes. With the growth of Naturopathy and Homeopathy, around the world, it is increasingly easy to find an alternative physician who can help. Naturopathic doctors treat the “whole person”, they seek to treat the underlying disease that is affecting the person. Naturopathy uses medicines that are safe and effective. The cause of the disease is treated and removed so the person can heal.

Homeopathy is a form of medicine developed by Samuel Hahnamann over 200 years ago. At the heart of the philosophy of Homeopathy is the belief that “likes cure likes”, a medical principle first expounded by Hippocrates 2,500 years ago. This method has proven safe and effective for over 200 years to the millions that have used Homeopathy. Homeopathy can be very helpful in removing toxins and poisons injected by vaccines.

If one is worried about the metals and toxins in children from vaccines, then a Mineral Tissue Analysis can help to evaluate exactly how many toxins and chemicals your child has absorbed. The Naturopathic doctor can then put the child on a diet with supplements that will help remove the dangerous toxins and heavy metals.

Breastfeeding a baby for the first year of its life provides natural immunity from many illnesses. The mother’s milk has antibodies in it to protect the baby naturally from illness. Breastfed babies are known to be healthier than bottle-fed babies. The health benefits of nursing babies are remarkable and too numerous to detail here.

A proper diet and healthy lifestyle prevent illnesses. Children should be fed healthy, organic foods (i.e. free of herbicides, pesticides and other toxic materials) that are full of the nutrition that they need to fight off disease.

A healthy child will not get sick. Living a healthy lifestyle with good foods will build up the child’s natural immunity. When a child is run down and fed poorly, his or her immune system is weakened and he or she will get sick. The body has amazing healing powers of its own. Given proper food and rest, the body will be able properly to “work”. Vaccines weaken children’s immune systems, because their bodies have to fight off diseases artificially introduced into the body. This weakens the body and then makes it susceptible to disease.

What is the future of Vaccines?

Vaccines are far from being labeled “dangerous” by any organization that could do anything significant about them. But some of the anti-vaccine groups are getting the message across to parents: Vaccines can kill. The Center for Disease Control has many more vaccines they are pushing. There is no end to the vaccines they can and will create. They are pushing for vaccines for asthma, diarrhea, cancer, and even AIDS. The new vaccine for infant diarrhea uses monkey virus DNA.

In the October 3, 1997 issue of Science Magazine, put out by the Journal of the American Medical Association, we read the following: “An AIDS advocacy group is stepping up a campaign to test the “attenuated” HIV vaccine in people, but several monkey experiments suggest that achieving protection without causing disease may be hard.”

The report goes on to say, “Just as the campaign is taking off, monkey researchers have quietly been reporting evidence at scientific meetings that will heighten doubts that an “attenuated” HIV vaccine can ever safely be tested on people. The new data, which comes from several labs, reveal that a vaccine made from weakened SIV—HIV’s simian analog can cause full-blown AIDS in adult monkeys. Researchers already had evidence that the vaccine can cause disease in newborn animals, which have immature immune systems. Now, the finding that a similar deadly progression may occur in adults has deeply worried some investigators. “To do these (human studies) really makes me nervous,” says Ruth of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.”

Ronald Derosiers, of the New England Regional Primate Research Center, in Southborough, MA, says, “Is it [the AIDS vaccine] ever going to be absolutely, 100% safe? Forget it. It never will be. If you put it into enough people, there will be problems. That’s true of every, live attenuated vaccine. We are never going to know until we put it into humans, and that is why people have different best guesses.”

In a very recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, June 2, 1999, we read the headline: “Pediatricians alerted to Five New Vaccines” The new vaccines include: varicella, lyme disease, influenza, rotavirus (diarrhea) and group-A streptococcus. Children are already receiving so many vaccines; this latest batch will only cause another ill-fated history of their own.

What should be done about vaccines? The first corrective measure