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TUBERCULOSIS

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In Britain the decline of T.B. was continuous for over 100 years before the introduction of the vaccine.  The Dept of Health has, surprisingly, decided that routine BCG vaccination will be phased out in the 1990s.  As T.B. deaths are now around 400 per year, the Dept may have a problem with claiming that the climb down is due to eradication.

McKeown, T., 1979. The Role of Medicine.

One Hundred Years of T.B. in New Zealand

Factors cited in medical journals as being the root cause of tuberculosis are overcrowding, malnutrition, lack of hygiene and bad social conditions.  This is borne out in an article in N.Z. Herald, September 19 1988, entitled "Tuberculosis Strikes Ten Patients", which reported the investigation by the Department of Health of an outbreak of tuberculosis at Tokanui Psychiatric Hospital.  Dr Harry Nichols, Waikato Hospital chest physician said "he did not know what caused the outbreak" but the (then) Medical Officer of Health Mr Mark MacDonald said "it could be expected from time to time in institutions... but this did not imply overcrowding or bad conditions".(!)

That "overcrowding and bad conditions" were in fact the reason for the outbreak would appear to be obvious from the following:

• "A principal determinant of mortality from tuberculosis is nutrition. Mortality from T.B. increases considerably as one passes from the economically prosperous to the poor districts of any area."
  (Major Greenwood, Epidemic and Crowd Diseases, 1925.)

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• "The prevalence of T.B. in Great Britain has declined dramatically over the last 100 years. It is now largely confined to particularly high-risk groups - such as single homeless."
  (Journal of the Royal College of Physicians, Vol. 22, No. 1, January 1988.)

In November 1979 the New Scientist published the result of a World Health Organisation trial of the BCG "anti-tubercular" vaccine in India thus:

"The world's biggest trial, conducted in Southern India, to assess the value of BCG tuberculosis vaccine has made the startling revelation that - the vaccine does not give any protection against bacilliary forms of tuberculosis."

Further reports of the trial were reported in Lancet, January 12 1980, in an article entitled "BCG, Bad News from India, Result = Negative".

"... in fact slightly more T.B. cases have appeared in vaccinated than in equal-sized placebo control groups."

In 1980, the World Health Organisation made its report:

"For many years, research has been directed almost entirely towards improving the quality of BCG.  The fact that the expected benefit of this research has not been shown by the disappointing results of the trial may mean, of course, that the vaccines used lacked immunogenic potency.  This would imply that all the experimental models by means of which the vaccine strains were selected are invalid."

The author agrees... for the "experimental models" are... laboratory animals, which include guinea-pigs of which Dr Doyan of Paris, France, has this to say -

"The tuberculosis of the guinea-pig is not the tuberculosis of man, anymore than the cancer of the mouse is the cancer of man.  Sacrificing hundreds of guinea-pigs, I also, like so many other scientists, have demonstrated one thing only: that results on animals are not remotely applicable to man."
(Roy Kupsinel, M.D., Vivisection : Science or Sham.)

In Blood Poison (Vaccination Explained) Patrick Rattigan states that though Holland had the lowest death-rate from tuberculosis in Europe due to the fact that it rejected any BCG programme, in France, after a long battle against honest doctors the Government forced by law, BCG vaccination on all French school-children.  (What a bonanza for the Pasteur Institute who produced the serum.)

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