Vaccination Awareness
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Thursday, September 27, 2007
Today’s blog is written by a guest blogger,
Joanna Karpasea-Jones.
She is a neuro-psychological immunologist and the author of Breast Milk ~ a
natural immunization.
This is specifically for those readers who don’t read her columns in The
Mother magazine and want answers to an earlier blog of mine on vaccination.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, a lot of people lived in poverty without
proper food, housing or sanitation. This meant that larger numbers of people
died at those times from infectious diseases. The same is true in war times.
We no longer die in such great numbers because of the marvellous invention of
the indoor flushing toilet, adequate food for everyone (for the first time in
history), heating, decent housing and contraception. Contraception has ensured
that most women only have 2 or 3 children, as opposed to 15 or 20, and so she is
more able to bear a healthy child if she can take care of herself and her child,
and not subject herself to numerous pregnancies. Alcohol abuse is also a
causative factor in diphtheria, as is underlying disease.
It stated in ‘Medical World’, 1931, p.627, that ‘"…shows an interesting and
conclusive fashion the definitive effect of school buildings, their construction
and sanitation, on the spread of diphtheria. The highest incidence was observed
in those schools where sanitation is most deficient and ventilation and lighting
the least satisfactory. The brightest and airiest school showed the lowest
incidence, and the incidence throughout all the schools placed them in exact
order of sanitary virtue. Moreover, the incidence indicated the schools where
malnutrition in the children is most conspicuous."
As we can see from the above, over-crowding and malnutrition played a key role.
By the time vaccinations were introduced, most of these killer infectious
diseases had become more benign.
The vaccine is also known not to be effective in many cases, and may actually
cause the spread of the disease.
According to Minutes of the 15th Session (November 20-21, 1975) of the Panel of
Review of Bacterial Vaccines and Toxoids with Standards and Potency (data
presented by the US Bureau of Biologics, and the FDA):‘For several reasons,
diphtheria toxoid, fluid or absorbed, is not as effective an immunizing agent as
might be anticipated. Clinical (symptomatic) diphtheria may occur . . . in
immunized individuals--even those whose immunization is reported as complete by
recommended regimes . . . the permanence of immunity induced by the toxoid . . .
is open to question.’Medics have always known this vaccine doesn’t work and have
been writing about it since it was invented. For instance, in the
‘Practitioner’, April 1896, it was written ‘that the serum did not, to any
appreciable degree, prevent the extension of the disease to the larynx; all the
severe cases died, and the good result in the lighter ones was attributable to
the mild type of the epidemic." The doctor also states that, at the Hospital of
Bligdam, Copenhagen, "the mortality from diphtheria remains the same after, as
it was before.’Dr. Joseph Winters published a book, ‘Clinical Observations upon
the Use of Anti-Toxin in Diphtheria’, in which he stated: ‘percentage of
mortality is not only misleading, but is absolutely worthless unless accompanied
by the actual number of cases reported and the actual number of deaths." He also
declares that "the serum has an injurious effect, and will certainly be
abandoned."Also, the famous Dr. Hadwen wrote in his booklet, ‘The Anti-Toxin
Treatment of Diphtheria: In Theory and Practice’, that in 1895 in Berlin the
mortality rate from diphtheria was 15.7% (before any vaccination). By 1900
(after vaccination) this figure had risen to 17.2%. According to Metropolitan
Asylums Board Annual Reports, 1895-1910, the death rate from Diphtheria in 1910
was 9.80% in those who had received anti-toxin and only 2.99% in those who had
not received it. In more recent years there have also been numerous studies of
‘failure’ of DPT vaccine to ‘immunize’ against the diseases it was designed to
prevent. As an example, here are some studies:Journal of Infectious Diseases,
vol. 179, April 1999; 915-923. "Temporal trends in the population structure of
bordetella pertussis during 1949-1996 in a highly vaccinated population "Despite
the introduction of large-scale pertussis vaccination in 1953 and high
vaccination coverage, pertussis is still an endemic disease in The Netherlands,
with epidemic outbreaks occurring every 3-5 years." One factor that might
contribute to this is the ability of pertussis strains to adapt to
vaccine-induced immunity, causing new strains of pertussis to re-emerge in this
well-vaccinated population.Vaccination against whooping-cough. Efficacy versus
risks (The Lancet, vol. 1, January 29, 1977, pp. 234-7): Calculations based on
the mortality of whooping-cough before 1957 predict accurately the subsequent
decline and the present low mortality… Incidence [is] unaffected either by
small-scale vaccination beginning about 1948 or by nationwide vaccination
beginning in 1957… No protection is demonstrable in infants."
The Lancet Volume 353, Number 9150 30 January 1999 Risk of diphtheria among
schoolchildren in the Russian Federation in relation to time since last
vaccination Quote:In 1993, the Russian Federation reported 15229 cases of
diphtheria, a 25-fold increase over the 603 cases reported in 1989.1 The
incidence rate among children 7-10 years of age (15·7 per 100000) was twice that
of adults aged 18 years or over (7·9 per 100000).
81% of the affected children aged 7-10 years had been vaccinated with at least a
primary series of diphtheria toxoid, and most had received the first booster
recommended to be given 12 months after completion of the primary series.
Shimoni, Zvi; Dobrousin, Anatoly; Cohen, Jonathan; et al. "Tetanus in an
Immunised Patient" British Medical Journal Online (10/16/99) Vol. 319, No. 7216,
P. 1049;Israeli researchers present the case of a 34-year-old construction
worker who was hospitalized after having a reported epileptic fit and
experiencing flu-like symptoms. The patient had a low-grade fever, but was alert
and coherent. Any attempts to speak or get up on the second day resulted in
attacks of risus sardonicus, opisthotonus, and trismus. The patient was
diagnosed with tetanus and given 2000 U of human tetanus immunoglobulin. Further
treatment was provided, and after 15 days, the patient had stopped taking
diazepam and ventilatory support was withdrawn. The man had been fully immunized
against tetanus, and had received booster shots five and two years before being
hospitalized.
Another reason for the fall in infectious disease rates is that diseases are
classified according to vaccine status. For instance, tonsillitis and mild
Diphtheria have identical symptoms: severe sore throat, swollen glands in the
neck, bright red tonsils and a green/yellowish or grey discharge at the back of
the throat.
With severe Diphtheria, this discoloured film is impossible to remove and it may
block off the airway and cause respiratory problems. Essentially, in milder
cases there is no difference between tonsillitis and Diphtheria and vaccinated
patients would simply be recorded as tonsillitis. Also, doctors do not test for
Diphtheria anymore so they wouldn’t know whether it was present or not, and most
doctors do not know what symptoms to look for to diagnose it, so all of this
would skew statistics.
TUBERCULOSIS
This is also a sanitation disease and can be caused by vaccination polluting the
internal system.The vaccine doesn’t work and never has and the world’s only ever
double-blind controlled trial on vaccination (BCG) in the early 1970s which
proved it didn’t work. However, it took almost 30 years of administering useless
vaccine to people before they stopped its use.The study stated: ‘The efficacy of
the TB vaccine is 0%’ (Bulletin of the WHO, Tuberculosis Prevention Trial, 57
(5); 819-827, 1979).
Here are some other studies showing that TB vaccine causes the disease:Foster
DR. Miliary tuberculosis following intravesical BCG treatment. Br J Radiol.
1997 Apr;70(832):429. No abstract available. PMID: 9166085 [PubMed - indexed for
MEDLINE]Foster
DR. Miliary tuberculosis: a complication of intravesical BCG treatment.
Australas Radiol. 1998 May;42(2):167-8. No abstract available. PMID: 9599839 [PubMed
- indexed for MEDLINE]Marrak
H, et al.[A case of tuberculous lupus complicating BCG vaccination]. Tunis
Med. 1991 Nov;69(11):651-4. French. No abstract available.PMID: 1808776; UI:
92230052.Magnon
R, et al.
[See Related Articles] Disseminated cutaneous granulomas from BCG therapy.
Arch Dermatol. 1980 Mar;116(3):355. No abstract available.PMID: 7369757; UI:
80174030.Vittori
F, et al. [Tuberculosis lupus after BCG vaccination. A rare complication of
the vaccination].
Arch Pediatr. 1996 May;3(5):457-9. French. PMID: 8763716; UI: 96297887.According
to Dr. Surinder Bakhshi, Consultant in Communicable Diseases:‘BCG, the most used
vaccine in the world since it was introduced more than 50 years ago, has made no
difference to TB in countries which rely solely on it to halt its spread. It has
never been claimed to prevent TB, but even the evidence of its protectiveness is
patchy and historical. And there have been no studies of its effectiveness in
the past three decades.It may leave an ugly scar and, indeed, do more harm than
good. Further, as TB, with rare exceptions, is largely a disease of the elderly
in the Western world, vaccinating children doesn’t make sense.
TB in Britain is a legacy of its empire. As long as people from third world
countries come and settle here, there cannot be a let-up in its spread.People
who come from high prevalence countries will continue to harbour TB germs in
their bodies until they die.
The World Health Organisation has set its face against vaccination and routine
screening. It advocates effective disease management — early diagnosis and
supervised treatment — to contain it and avoid its spread to the host community.
Vaccination wastes resources, gives false hope and distracts attention from what
needs to be done.’(Letter, the Sunday Times, 15 April 2001).
Isolation worked in the old days and its still one of the most effective means
of preventing disease.
Other diseases like Scarlet Fever and Typhus disappeared to
virtually zero without vaccination.
Measles is a disease which is mild in most cases. The figures the DOH use are
from the third world, not of Western children. They also include children who
have pre-existing conditions, those who are malnourished and those whose measles
was treated with anti-pyretics (which is known to cause measles side-effects.
In 1967, Christine Miller from the National Institute for Medical Research,
London, published a paper on measles, stating: ‘Measles is now the commonest
infectious disease of childhood in the UK. It occurs in epidemics in which the
total number of cases usually exceeds half a million...there is no doubt that
most cases in England today are mild, only last for a short period, are not
followed by complications and are rarely fatal.’
Also in the Practitioner, November 1967: ‘some physicians consider that measles
is so mild a complaint that a major effort at prevention is not justified.’
After the measles vaccine was introduced in 1968, followed by the MMR in 1988,
the disease suddenly became more serious. According to the BMA Complete Family
Medical Encyclopaedia, 1995: ‘measles is a potentially dangerous viral
illness...prevention of measles is important because it can have rare but
serious complications...it is sometimes fatal in children with impaired
immunity.’
Clearly, you can see vaccine marketing techniques at play here.
According to the DOH, in their book ‘Immunisation Against Infectious
Diseases’,‘Before 1988 (when the MMR was introduced) more than half the acute
measles deaths occurred in previously healthy children who had not been
immunised.’ They quote the study
C L MILLER. Deaths
from measles in England and Wales, 1970-83. British Medical Journal, Vol 290, 9
February 1985, but if you actually read this study (which they are relying
on parents not doing), you will find it actually says:
‘No attempt was made to establish further clinical details, vaccination history,
or social class.’ - i.e. they didn’t know the vaccine status of the individuals.
And: ‘90% of deaths in those previously normal occurred in those over the age of
15 months, when the vaccines are usually given’. These children were probably
vaccinated prior to dying of measles as they were of vaccination age.
Nearly half the children who died were ‘grossly physically or mentally abnormal
or both. The pre-existing conditions in the 126 previously abnormal individuals
included cerebral palsy (24), mental retardation (20), Down's syndrome (19) and
various congenital abnormalities (22). There were nine children with immune
deficiency or immunosuppression, and 19 aged 2-8 with lymphatic leukaemia, a
number of them in remission.’
In normal healthy children whose measles has not been treated with anti-pyretics,
and whom are well nourished, I would say measles is a good thing.
Diseases of childhood are there for a reason. They release toxins from the body,
they mature the child’s developing immune system, which is why they occur in
childhood.
According to Jayne Donegan, a medical GP, “our immune system had matured and
developed purely because of catching the diseases we are trying to eradicate.
In my opinion, normal childhood diseases are basically good for us. They teach
our immune system what is "us" and what is foreign.
All our childhood diseases were killers when they first came along. They wiped
out thousands because we had no natural immunity against them. Diseases infect
us and, in turn, strengthen our immune system.
I vaccinated both my children with the MMR jab, but this was before I started my
research into the problems associated with it.”
Often, when a child has had a childhood disease such as Chickenpox or Measles,
they will pass more developmental milestones such as suddenly beginning to read,
or learning new words, and any existing problems seem to reverse after a bout of
measles (for instance, asthmatics suddenly recover).
My own daughter had measles as a toddler and was not ill again for more than a
year afterwards, not even with a cold. I believe this was because measles was a
strengthening milestone for her.
In the case of tetanus, unlike other childhood diseases, it isn’t possible to
gain natural immunity to tetanus. If you’ve had it once, you can have it again.
The body does not produce antibodies to Clostridium Tetani. Vaccination is the
act of injecting a viral or bacterial substance into the body to make it produce
antibodies to that disease. However, since no natural antibodies can be made,
then there is no possible way that artificial antibodies could be made either.
If the disease cannot give you protection, then how can a vaccine? It is likely
that any raised antibody level seen after vaccination is the result of adjuvants
(toxic heavy metals which are added to increase the body’s antibody response).
In the case of tetanus vaccine, this substance is aluminium.
Antibodies themselves are not an indication of immunity – this is just one
function, which is vastly different from whole body immunity.
According to Vieira et al: ‘This minimal protective antibody level is an
arbitrary one and is not a guarantee of security for the individual patient.’
(Vieira, B.l.; Dunne, J.W.; Summers, Q.; Cephalic tetanus in an immunized
patient. Med J Austr. 1986; 145: 156-7).
Herd Immunity Theory
The herd immunity theory was originally coined in 1933 by a
researcher called Hedrich. He had been studying measles patterns in the US
between 1900-1931 (years before any vaccine was ever invented for measles) and
he observed that epidemics of the illness only occurred when less than 68% of
children had developed a natural immunity to it. This was based upon the
principle that children build their own immunity after suffering with or being
exposed to the disease. So the herd immunity theory was, in fact, about natural
disease processes and nothing to do with vaccination. If 68% of the population
were allowed to build their own natural defences, there would be no raging
epidemic.
Later on, vaccinologists adopted the phrase and increased the figure from 68% to
95% with no scientific justification as to why, and then stated that there had
to be 95% vaccine coverage to achieve immunity. Essentially, they took Hedrich’s
study and manipulated it to promote their vaccination programmes.
If vaccination really immunises, then your vaccinated child will be immunised
and therefore protected against any disease an unvaccinated child gets. If he
isn’t, his shots didn’t work.
It is widely known that even those antibodies caused by tetanus vaccine
adjuvants will wane or disappear completely within 5 to 10 years. That is why
children have a pre-school ‘booster’ at 4 years old, despite being vaccinated 3
or more times as a baby, and why it is repeated again at 15, and in some
countries, at 12. It is estimated that over 50% of the adult population is not
up to date on their tetanus vaccination and therefore, unvaccinated. If it was
truly vaccination that was keeping tetanus rates low, then why are there not
dozens more cases of tetanus with all these adults running around? It certainly
isn’t in line with their herd immunity theory, where they assert 95% of people
have to be ‘immunised’ or it won’t work.
Here are a number of studies of disease occurring in the vaccinated:
Bentsi-Enchill AD, et al. Estimates of the effectiveness of a whole-cell
pertussis vaccine from an outbreak in an immunized population. Vaccine. 1997
Feb;15(3):301-6. PMID: 9139490; UI: 97227584.
D. C. Christie, et al., "The 1993 Epidemic of Pertussis in Cincinnati:
Resurgence of Disease in a Highly Immunized Population of Children," New England
Journal of Medicine (July 7, 1994), pp. 16-20.MMWR November 05, 1993 /
42(43);840-841,847 Diphtheria Outbreak -- Russian Federation, 1990-1993 Despite
high levels of vaccination coverage against diphtheria, an ongoing outbreak of
diphtheria has affected parts of the Russian Federation since 1990 (1); as of
August 31, 1993, 12,865 cases had been reported. This report summarizes
epidemiologic information about this outbreak for January 1990- August 1993, and
is based on reports from public health officials in the Russian Federation.
Shimoni, Zvi; Dobrousin, Anatoly; Cohen, Jonathan; et al. "Tetanus in an
Immunised Patient" British Medical Journal Online (10/16/99) Vol. 319, No. 7216,
P. 1049;
Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop., vol. 28, no. 4, Oct-Dec 1995, pp. 339-43 "Clinical
and epidemiological findings during a measles outbreak occurring in a population
with a high vaccination coverage" : "The history of previous vaccination [in
very early childhood] did not diminish the number of complications of the cases
studied. The results of this work show changes in age distribution of measles
leading to sizeable outbreaks among teenagers and young adults."Clin. Invest.
Med., vol. 11, no. 4, August 1988, pp. 304-9: "Measles serodiagnosis during an
outbreak in a vaccinated community" ( from a group of 30 measles-sufferers
displaying IgM antibodies during the acute phase of illness, 17 had been
vaccinated for measles. All 17 experienced measles again, showing IgM antibodies
indicating acute infection. "A history of prior vaccination is not always
associated with immunity nor with the presence of specific antibodies."Aaby P,
et al. (1990) Measles incidence, vaccine efficacy, and mortality in two urban
African areas with high vaccination coverage. J Infect Dis. 1990
Nov;162(5):1043-8. PMID: 2230232; UI: 91037153.
Boulianne N, et al.(1991) [Major measles epidemic in the region of Quebec
despite a 99% vaccine coverage]. Can J Public Health. 1991 May-Jun;82(3):189-90.
French. PMID: 1884314; UI: 91356447.
All vaccination does is alter the expression of diseases and weaken our immune
systems because we don’t have as much opportunity to experience the wild
disease. Whilst we have less infectious (self-limiting) illness, we have more
chronic (long-term) illness.
1 in 3 people now have cancer. This figure is INSANE. Back in the 18th century,
cancer was virtually unheard of. Meningitis was extremely rare, now many more
children get it. So many people are puffing on ventolin inhalers, with allergies
to nuts and strawberries and everything else. Many people have weird skin
conditions, and there are dozens more auto-immune diseases than there were
before vaccination, like HIV, Lupus, MS.
According to Oxford University, 1 in 58 children is autistic and there are more
with ADHD. These are poisoning and brain damage conditions. This amounts to 2%
of the population that are now brain damaged by this!
Vaccination has turned us into a nation of weaklings that cannot cope with
anything. That is why scientists are trying to invent a ‘dirt’ vaccine to
strengthen children’s immune systems.
With regard to the tribes people dying of diseases, they were white man diseases
and we went in, invaded their home and their way of life (that they had been
living for hundreds of years quite happily) and exposed them to our diseases,
which obviously they had not encountered before.
With continued exposure, the disease would become less severe and the tribes
people would not die in great numbers, as is the course of all disease if we are
allowed to develop natural immunity. Personally I also feel that we in western
society had no right to interfere in the way of life of the tribes people and we
ought to be ashamed of this aspect of our history.
My website is www.novelbookshop.com and I am in the process of making a new
website for Vaccination Awareness Network UK. I can take requests for subjects
that people wish me to write about on my site as it has a selection of free to
view vaccination articles.