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> Emerging Scandal in Vaccine Mandates
>
> July 28, 1999 by: Phyllis Schlafly
>
> A scandal in mandatory mass vaccinations of infants is beginning to
> surface. Vaccine-caused injuries have just forced the Clinton
> bureaucrats to make four sensational announcements that bugle
> temporary retreat from their plans to force all American children to
> submit to government-dictated medical treatment.
>
> On July 15, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the
> American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) halted the use of the oral
> rotavirus vaccine, which is given to infants to prevent one of the major
> causes of diarrhea, after reports that the vaccine caused a bowel
> obstruction in some infants that required surgery to repair.
>
> The bowel obstruction, called intussusception, results when one
> portion of the bowel slides inward, like a telescope, into another part
> of the bowel and causes blockage. A previously healthy infant
> suddenly screams in paroxysms of pain.
>
> In its initial trial, the rotavirus vaccine appeared to cause
> intussusception at 30 times the average rate, but the government
> pretended that those injuries were insignificant. Instead of testing
> further, the CDC and the vaccine manufacturer subjected babies to
> more than a million doses of this unnecessary, expensive, and
> inadequately tested vaccine.
>
> While the risk of intussusception may have been mentioned on the
> package insert, it was not on the vaccine information statement given
> to parents. The arbitrariness of government vaccine mandates is
> shown by the fact that, for the previous year, CDC was demanding
> that the vaccine be given to all infants, and now suddenly a CDC
> spokesman is saying, "No one should now be giving rotavirus vaccine
> to anyone."
>
> The second sensational vaccine announcement came on July 9,
> when the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) and the AAP issued a
> joint statement cancelling their previous recommendation to inject all
> newborns while they are still in the hospital with the hepatitis B
> vaccine. PHS and AAP now recommend that vaccination of newborns
> be limited to those who are at risk of getting hepatitis B from their
> infected mothers.
>
> Their remarkable backtracking from the universal mandate for
> newborns must have resulted from the widespread publicity given to
> the many cases of vaccine damage causing lifetime injury or death
> reported on ABC's 20/20 and at the May 18 hearing conducted by the
> U.S. House Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and
> Human Resources. PHS and AAP continue to recommend the
> hepatitis B vaccine for infants at 2 to 6 months of age, even though
> few of them are at risk.
>
> Meanwhile, 42 states require the hepatitis B vaccine for
> schoolchildren, although teachers and health care workers are not
> required to receive it. The legislator who sponsored the hepatitis B
> mandate in Ohio admitted that he did so at the request of a vaccine
> manufacturer lobbyist, while Governor Christine Whitman is trying to
> impose a New Jersey requirement administratively without legislation.
>
> In another announcement the same day, PHS-AAP issued a joint
> statement that revealed the risk to children of vaccines containing
> mercury and called on the FDA to "assess the risk of all
> mercury-containing food and drugs." A mercury product called
> thimerosal is used as a preservative in many vaccines, even though
> the FDA last year banned its use in over-the-counter products for
> safety reasons.
>
> Under the current CDC schedule, most infants receive a total of 15
> doses of mercury-containing vaccines by the time they are six
> months old, many given simultaneously. The fact that the FDA has
> prohibited the use of thimerosal for most products, but continues to
> allow its use for vaccines, sounds like political corruption in the
> vaccine approval process.
>
> The National Vaccine Information Center has been criticizing the use
> of mercury in vaccines for many years. Contact lens solution bottles
> routinely advertise that they contain "no thimerosal," yet any damage
> to adults from contact lens solutions must be minuscule compared to
> the same product ingested or injected into infants.
>
> The fourth announcement came on June 17, when government
> officials voted to withdraw their recommendation for the use of the live
> poliovirus vaccine, and to recommend the "exclusive" use of the
> inactivated poliovirus vaccine. Since 1979, the only polio cases in the
> United States have been caused by the live vaccine because, taken
> by mouth, it travels through the child's body and can cause polio in a
> parent changing the diaper.
>
> The unjustified delay in converting to the safer polio vaccine is due to
> mandatory vaccination laws that require the public to use a certain
> product. The government still demands that babies be given four
> doses of polio vaccine, even though, according to Surgeon General
> David Satcher, M.D., "The Western Hemisphere was certified by the
> World Health Organization (WHO) as polio free in 1994, and no case
> of polio has been reported in this region since 1991."
>
> We are long overdue for a Congressional investigation into the validity
> of research and licensing standards for vaccines, the results of
> clinical trials (if any), the motivations of the vaccine policymakers,
> and the lobbying activities of the cash-rich pharmaceutical
> corporations whose profits depend on universal mandates rather than
> on sales to those at risk for various diseases.
>
> Phyllis Schlafly column 7-28-99

bb

Could you state where this column appeared?

Bridget
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> From: ASoren@...
>
> > Emerging Scandal in Vaccine Mandates
> >
> > July 28, 1999 by: Phyllis Schlafly
>

Maura Seger

>From: "bb" <happihome@...>
>
>Could you state where this column appeared?
>
>Bridget


I don't know where the column came from but you can read substantially the
same information at http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/archives.htm. The sad
reality is that there have been some really serious screw-ups re:
vaccinations.

Maura

mrstar

<<<Could you state where this column appeared?>>>

Read this column on-line at:
http://eagleforum.org/column/1999/july99/99-07-28.html

This was one of the articles I had, following is the other.

Mary in Idaho

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Hepatitis B Vaccine: School Nurse Perspective By Patti White, RN
<rpwhitey@...>
{Patti says that this statement has been sent to every member of the
Government Reform Committee who will oversee the hepatitis B vaccine
hearings. The statement is also supported by the Missouri Central
District School Nurse Association.}
On behalf of the Missouri Central District School Nurse Association
(CDSNA) I ask you to consider the following school nurse perspective
regarding the safety of the hepatitis B vaccine that is being mandated
for all newborns and school age children in America. We ask you to
please consider the following information and submit it into the
congressional testimony.
As school nurses we are continually seeing more and more damaged
children entering our schools and we are very concerned that a
significant portion of that damage may be due to the hepatitis B vaccine
assault on the newborn neurological and immune system.
I am a registered professional nurse and the district health services
coordinator for a multi-school district. I am writing on behalf of all
the school nurses in our district. We have very grave concerns about the
hepatitis B vaccine. For the past three or four years our school
districts have noted a significant increase in the number of children
entering school with developmental disorders, learning disabilities,
attention deficit disorders and/or serious chronic illness such as
diabetes, asthma and seizure disorders. Each of the past four years has
been worse than the year before. There is only one common thread we can
identify in these children: they are the children who received the first
trial hepatitis B injections as newborns in the early 1990s. As the
hepatitis B compliance rate in newborns has gone up in our community, so
has the percentage of damaged children. This is very alarming.
Because of having so many damaged children we have tried to find the
long term clinical trials that ruled this vaccine "safe and effective".
We discovered through an exhaustive Medline search that the FDA based
its decision to approve hepatitis B vaccine for administration in the
first hours of a newborn baby's life upon clinical trials and upon
post-marketing
surveillance studies in which patients and their doctors were asked to
report any adverse effects they noticed within 4-5 days after each
injection [4 days for SmithKline and 5 days for Merck]. The problems
being reported in increasing numbers as occurring after hepatitis B
vaccination appear to be autoimmune and neurological in origin. Such
problems take weeks to months to produce noticeable symptoms, and cannot
be spotted in a 4-5 day observation period. These are the only clinical
studies that have been done by Merck or SmithKline. There is not one
long-term study that we could find. The CDC and FDA have only these 4
and 5 day studies to base their statement of hepatitis B vaccine safety
on. It is amazing to us that they would be willing to risk our
children's future lives and health on these 4-5 day studies. It seems
only prudent to do long term consequence studies on the developing
neurological and immune systems of the newborns and infants injected
with this vaccine. It appears the only concern is protecting the vaccine
and denying the connection between these damaged children and the
hepatitis B shot they received within a few hours of birth. The CDC even
admits the lack of clinical study and states they do not even know how
long the vaccine will be effective. We found this amazing since the
vaccine was developed for a population at risk for hepatitis B: IV drug
users, high risk medical professionals and those who are involved in
high risk sexual practices.
In 1950 (before mass immunizations began), the USA had the third lowest
infant mortality rate in the world. By 1986, the USA dropped to 17th
place. In 1995 the USA dropped to 23rd and now the USA has dropped to
the appalling position of 24th in the health of its children (but the
USA is now first in vaccine compliance through government mandates).
Does this make you nervous too?
The elementary grades are overwhelmed with children who have symptoms of
neurological and/or immune system damage: epilepsy, seizure disorders,
various kinds of palsies, autism, mental retardation, learning
disabilities, juvenile-onset diabetes, asthma, vision / hearing loss,
and a multitude of new conduct/behavior disorders. We have come to
believe the hepatitis B vaccine is an assault on a newborns developing
neurological and immune system. Vaccines are supposed to be making us
healthier, however, in twenty five years of nursing I have never seen so
many damaged, sick kids. Something very, very wrong is happening to our
children. The census of ill children seen in our health rooms each day
has increased by 300% in only four years. It had remained relatively
constant in all the years before.
In our last regional school nurse meeting we discussed whether the
combination of so many viruses at one time (hepatitis B vaccine at the
same time of the DPT, OPV and MMR) is causing the infants immune system
to be overwhelmed and unable to mount a sufficient defense response. We
are advocating clinical studies to determine: Is the combination of all
these viruses at one time an assault on an infant's immune and
neurological system that increases the chances for adverse reaction AND
what are the long-term neurological and immune system responses to these
vaccines. We are all continuing to research this issue and will be happy
to share the many resources we have found with you. I hope you will do
the same as you open up this issue.
We (nurses, principals and teachers) have talked many times about the
possible cause(s) of the continuing increase in pervasive developmental
disorders (PDD), such as autism. From the literature we have found, we
should expect a rate for PDD of about 2-5 in 10,000. In our community
the rate in Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade is more like 1 in 150. The
teaching staff is overwhelmed.
As school nurses, we have had many parents calling and asking how they
can exempt their children from the hepatitis B vaccination (HPB). Many
of them have spent long hours in study and research perplexed over this
issue. For the past six months we have been studying documents, books
and research articles published by internationally respected doctors and
scientists that cause us grave concern. You must understand that we
began this study to reassure our parents and show them the truth about
how safe vaccines are. Unfortunately, our sincere, honest, dedicated
study has caused a complete reversal of our once strongly held beliefs.
Instead of being able to reassure the parents, we have found ourselves
being drawn deeper and deeper into this unbelievable controversy over
vaccines that is raging among physicians, scientists, researchers,
parents, and the government. We pray you will have the courage to shine
the light on this controversy through these hepatitis B hearings.
My daughters own experience with the hepatitis B vaccine made me much
more open-minded to the information we have been receiving from parents,
teachers and other nurses in our community. I personally have had to
research this on my own to determine if I have been enforcing a policy
that is actually harming more children than it will ever help. I have
spent countless hours reading books, vaccine-hearing testimony, research
papers, medical journal articles and Internet web-sites from around the
world. I did not come to my decision easily or lightly, I assure you.
Twenty-five years of total belief in something does not shake that
easily. I have repeated the well-rehearsed refrain "Be Wise, Immunize"
thousands of times during those years and reassured countless parents
that they were doing the right thing by vaccinating their precious
children . . . even the ones who came to me with serious doubts and
reservations. I will now have to live with that.
We are all now faced with a moral dilemma: will we protect the "sacred
cow of conventional vaccine philosophy" or will we stand up and speak
out for the "health and well being of innocent children"? We choose
children. We wonder, which will our government choose?
Because the hepatitis B vaccine was developed for those at risk of
disease, including IV drug users and sexually promiscuous individuals,
efforts to require administration of the vaccine to most, if not all of
the U.S. population is very controversial. The increasing number of
adverse reaction reports connected with this vaccine exacerbates the
controversy. The controversy stems to a great extent from our lack of
understanding of the mechanisms of the immune response to the hepatitis
B surface antigen and lack of long term follow-up of individuals who
have received the vaccine. In a January 27, 1999 press release, the
National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) released figures which show
that the number of hepatitis B vaccine-associated serious adverse event
and death reports in American children under the age of 14 outnumber the
reported cases of hepatitis B disease.
During our research we discovered a copy of the grant proposal submitted
recently to the National Institute of Health by Dr. B. S. Dunbar, who
has worked in autoimmunity and vaccine development for over twenty years
and was honored two years ago by the National Institute of Health. Dr.
Dunbar is working with a team of veteran vaccine researchers from all
over the world. Their grant is requested for the purpose of studying the
hypothesis that: hepatitis B recombinant vaccine does cause adverse
autoimmune reactions in genetically susceptible individuals. This study
will also provide new insights into the predictability of determining
adverse side effects of the hepatitis B vaccine in individuals at risk
as related to their histocompatability subtypes. Their study of
auto-immune diseases/symptoms caused by the hepatitis B vaccine include:
lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, vascular disorders, Guillain
Barre syndrome, demyelinating disorders such as optic neuritis
(blindness), Bells palsy, demyelinating neuropathy (multiple
developmental disorders), multiple sclerosis, diabetes mellitus and
chronic fatigue syndrome to mention the most common.
This group of internationally respected vaccine researchers headed up by
Dr. Dunbar also point out that, "The studies (for the approval of HPB)
were not designed to assess serious, rare adverse events; the total
number of recipients were too small; and the follow-up was too short to
detect rare or delayed, serious, adverse reactions." Finally they point
out that "overall the number of examples of adverse neurologic outcomes
following receipt of hepatitis B vaccine are of concern, particularly
those resulting in demyelinating neurologic disease."
They continue, "In view of these observations. . . it is medically
crucial to evaluate the nature of the autoimmune reactions (i.e. risks)
associated with the hepatitis B vaccine and to determine if individuals
who will have these adverse reactions can be identified in advance of
receiving the vaccine". There are critical questions that must be
addressed to establish
the risk/benefit of the current hepatitis B vaccines in the United
States. These questions are particularly important in view of recent
mandates to vaccinate all children including newborn infants."
You may read this grant proposal at
http://webpages.netlink.co.nz/~ias/dunbar.htm
Many groups have called for a moratorium on hepatitis B vaccination
until some of these questions can be answered adequately. The NVIC
reported "Newborn babies are dying shortly after their shots and their
deaths are being written off as sudden infant death syndrome. Parents
should have the right to give their informed consent to vaccination and
Congress should give emergency, priority funding to independent
scientists, who can take an unbiased look at this vaccine, instead of
leaving the search for truth in the hands of government officials who
have already decided to force every child to get the vaccine". We agree
completely. The NVIC can be contacted at http://www.909shot.com for
further information.
In Dr. Coulters book, "Vaccination, Social Violence, and Criminality"
the thesis is developed that the "sociopathic personality" which has
emerged on a mass scale in recent decades, and which is responsible for
a disproportionate amount of crime and violence, is causally linked to
the childhood vaccination program. Vaccination frequently causes
encephalitis and neuropathy that in turn leads to these
post-encephalitic states and conditions. In his book, Dr. Coulter
presents a time line of increase in developmental disability related to
vaccine introduction that is indeed frightening. Dr. Coulter believes
about 20% of our children are suffering from this neurological vaccine
damage. We believe some of these vaccine experts should be on the
President's Youth Violence task force.
Our own school district's confidential health statistics show at least
20% of our children (K-3) have significant neurological damage and/or
chronic illness. The last three years have shown an acceleration in the
numbers of children who are entering our schools with these
"developmental disorders". (Could these be the same infants who received
the first trial doses of hepatitis B as only a few hour-old newborns?)
As school nurses, working with these damaged children on a daily basis,
we pray this is not true. If it is, the ramification to this generation
of children is unthinkable!
Should we not pause, call for a moratorium on these poorly tested,
rapidly approved vaccines, and allow independent American physicians and
researchers to study them before blindly injecting an experimental
vaccine into an entire generation? (We have found the only ones
declaring the vaccines safety are the ones who are making millions of
dollars from its sales, whose employment depends on it or the ones being
funded by the drug companies vast number of grants and fundings. The
independent researchers seem to be coming up with an entirely different
report.) Vaccine producers have nothing to lose since our U.S. Congress
has made them immune from responsibility or liability for injuries
caused from their vaccines. The push is on for them to create more and
more vaccines. There are huge amounts of money being made by these
people who no longer worry about the consequences of their inadequate
clinical trials. The United States government has had to pay out nearly
a billion dollars in damages to families who can prove their children
have been damaged or killed by vaccines, and there are thousands more
cases pending. I just read that there are so many vaccine damage claims
that Secretary Shalala changed the rules to try to limit adverse
reaction claims. Could this be true? If so, shame on our government.
We believe, as medical professionals, that we are doing a great
disservice to our country by forcing government mandated vaccines on all
children. Please research this and we pray you have the courage to speak
out and tell the nation what you find.
Sincerely,
Patti White, RN
School Health Services Coordinator
Warrensburg R-VI School District
Warrensburg Mo 64093 and
Missouri Central District School Nurse Association rpwhitey@...
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Joel Hawthorne

Once again I am in complete agreement with someone with whom I am almost
always in complete disagreement!

> > Emerging Scandal in Vaccine Mandates
> >
> > July 28, 1999 by: Phyllis Schlafly
> >
> > A scandal in mandatory mass vaccinations of infants is beginning to
> > surface......snip ..... cash-rich pharmaceutical
> > corporations whose profits depend on universal mandates rather than
> > on sales to those at risk for various diseases.
> >
> > Phyllis Schlafly column 7-28-99

best wishes
Joel

All children behave as well as they are treated. The Natural Child
Project http://naturalchild.com/home/

Work together to reinvent justice using methods that are fair; which conserve,
restore and even create harmony, equity and good will in society i.e.
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Sandi Chelan

Some vaccine info links:
http://www.909shot.com/autismincrease.htm

ADVOCACY GROUPS CALL FOR RESEARCH TO INVESTIGATE LINK BETWEEN AUTISM
INCREASE AND VACCINATION

Responding to a new report released yesterday by the California Health and
Human Services Agency revealing a 273 percent increase in California
children diagnosed with autism during the past decade, the National Vaccine
Information Center and three other advocacy organizations representing
parents of autistic children are calling for independent scientific research
into whether increased vaccination in early childhood is a contributing
co-factor to the development of autism...
*************
Here are some sources of information about vaccines:

CDC, National Immunization Program. www.cdc.gov/nip/
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. www.hrsa.dhhs.gov/bhpr/vicp/
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, VAERS www.fda.gov/cber/vaers.html
National Vaccine Information Center, NVIC, Vienna, VA. www.909shot.com
Vaccine Information and Awareness, VIA San Diego, CA www.access1.net/via/

Sandi



-----Original Message-----
From: mrstar <mrstar@...>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, August 13, 1999 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: vaccinations was Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Sociatal standards


>From: "mrstar" <mrstar@...>
>
><<<Could you state where this column appeared?>>>
>
>Read this column on-line at:
>http://eagleforum.org/column/1999/july99/99-07-28.html
>
>This was one of the articles I had, following is the other.
>
>Mary in Idaho
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>Hepatitis B Vaccine: School Nurse Perspective By Patti White, RN
><rpwhitey@...>
>{Patti says that this statement has been sent to every member of the
>Government Reform Committee who will oversee the hepatitis B vaccine
>hearings. The statement is also supported by the Missouri Central
>District School Nurse Association.}
>On behalf of the Missouri Central District School Nurse Association
>(CDSNA) I ask you to consider the following school nurse perspective
>regarding the safety of the hepatitis B vaccine that is being mandated
>for all newborns and school age children in America. We ask you to
>please consider the following information and submit it into the
>congressional testimony.
>As school nurses we are continually seeing more and more damaged
>children entering our schools and we are very concerned that a
>significant portion of that damage may be due to the hepatitis B vaccine
>assault on the newborn neurological and immune system.
>I am a registered professional nurse and the district health services
>coordinator for a multi-school district. I am writing on behalf of all
>the school nurses in our district. We have very grave concerns about the
>hepatitis B vaccine. For the past three or four years our school
>districts have noted a significant increase in the number of children
>entering school with developmental disorders, learning disabilities,
>attention deficit disorders and/or serious chronic illness such as
>diabetes, asthma and seizure disorders. Each of the past four years has
>been worse than the year before. There is only one common thread we can
>identify in these children: they are the children who received the first
>trial hepatitis B injections as newborns in the early 1990s. As the
>hepatitis B compliance rate in newborns has gone up in our community, so
>has the percentage of damaged children. This is very alarming.
>Because of having so many damaged children we have tried to find the
>long term clinical trials that ruled this vaccine "safe and effective".
>We discovered through an exhaustive Medline search that the FDA based
>its decision to approve hepatitis B vaccine for administration in the
>first hours of a newborn baby's life upon clinical trials and upon
>post-marketing
>surveillance studies in which patients and their doctors were asked to
>report any adverse effects they noticed within 4-5 days after each
>injection [4 days for SmithKline and 5 days for Merck]. The problems
>being reported in increasing numbers as occurring after hepatitis B
>vaccination appear to be autoimmune and neurological in origin. Such
>problems take weeks to months to produce noticeable symptoms, and cannot
>be spotted in a 4-5 day observation period. These are the only clinical
>studies that have been done by Merck or SmithKline. There is not one
>long-term study that we could find. The CDC and FDA have only these 4
>and 5 day studies to base their statement of hepatitis B vaccine safety
>on. It is amazing to us that they would be willing to risk our
>children's future lives and health on these 4-5 day studies. It seems
>only prudent to do long term consequence studies on the developing
>neurological and immune systems of the newborns and infants injected
>with this vaccine. It appears the only concern is protecting the vaccine
>and denying the connection between these damaged children and the
>hepatitis B shot they received within a few hours of birth. The CDC even
>admits the lack of clinical study and states they do not even know how
>long the vaccine will be effective. We found this amazing since the
>vaccine was developed for a population at risk for hepatitis B: IV drug
>users, high risk medical professionals and those who are involved in
>high risk sexual practices.
>In 1950 (before mass immunizations began), the USA had the third lowest
>infant mortality rate in the world. By 1986, the USA dropped to 17th
>place. In 1995 the USA dropped to 23rd and now the USA has dropped to
>the appalling position of 24th in the health of its children (but the
>USA is now first in vaccine compliance through government mandates).
>Does this make you nervous too?
>The elementary grades are overwhelmed with children who have symptoms of
>neurological and/or immune system damage: epilepsy, seizure disorders,
>various kinds of palsies, autism, mental retardation, learning
>disabilities, juvenile-onset diabetes, asthma, vision / hearing loss,
>and a multitude of new conduct/behavior disorders. We have come to
>believe the hepatitis B vaccine is an assault on a newborns developing
>neurological and immune system. Vaccines are supposed to be making us
>healthier, however, in twenty five years of nursing I have never seen so
>many damaged, sick kids. Something very, very wrong is happening to our
>children. The census of ill children seen in our health rooms each day
>has increased by 300% in only four years. It had remained relatively
>constant in all the years before.
>In our last regional school nurse meeting we discussed whether the
>combination of so many viruses at one time (hepatitis B vaccine at the
>same time of the DPT, OPV and MMR) is causing the infants immune system
>to be overwhelmed and unable to mount a sufficient defense response. We
>are advocating clinical studies to determine: Is the combination of all
>these viruses at one time an assault on an infant's immune and
>neurological system that increases the chances for adverse reaction AND
>what are the long-term neurological and immune system responses to these
>vaccines. We are all continuing to research this issue and will be happy
>to share the many resources we have found with you. I hope you will do
>the same as you open up this issue.
>We (nurses, principals and teachers) have talked many times about the
>possible cause(s) of the continuing increase in pervasive developmental
>disorders (PDD), such as autism. From the literature we have found, we
>should expect a rate for PDD of about 2-5 in 10,000. In our community
>the rate in Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade is more like 1 in 150. The
>teaching staff is overwhelmed.
>As school nurses, we have had many parents calling and asking how they
>can exempt their children from the hepatitis B vaccination (HPB). Many
>of them have spent long hours in study and research perplexed over this
>issue. For the past six months we have been studying documents, books
>and research articles published by internationally respected doctors and
>scientists that cause us grave concern. You must understand that we
>began this study to reassure our parents and show them the truth about
>how safe vaccines are. Unfortunately, our sincere, honest, dedicated
>study has caused a complete reversal of our once strongly held beliefs.
>Instead of being able to reassure the parents, we have found ourselves
>being drawn deeper and deeper into this unbelievable controversy over
>vaccines that is raging among physicians, scientists, researchers,
>parents, and the government. We pray you will have the courage to shine
>the light on this controversy through these hepatitis B hearings.
>My daughters own experience with the hepatitis B vaccine made me much
>more open-minded to the information we have been receiving from parents,
>teachers and other nurses in our community. I personally have had to
>research this on my own to determine if I have been enforcing a policy
>that is actually harming more children than it will ever help. I have
>spent countless hours reading books, vaccine-hearing testimony, research
>papers, medical journal articles and Internet web-sites from around the
>world. I did not come to my decision easily or lightly, I assure you.
>Twenty-five years of total belief in something does not shake that
>easily. I have repeated the well-rehearsed refrain "Be Wise, Immunize"
>thousands of times during those years and reassured countless parents
>that they were doing the right thing by vaccinating their precious
>children . . . even the ones who came to me with serious doubts and
>reservations. I will now have to live with that.
>We are all now faced with a moral dilemma: will we protect the "sacred
>cow of conventional vaccine philosophy" or will we stand up and speak
>out for the "health and well being of innocent children"? We choose
>children. We wonder, which will our government choose?
>Because the hepatitis B vaccine was developed for those at risk of
>disease, including IV drug users and sexually promiscuous individuals,
>efforts to require administration of the vaccine to most, if not all of
>the U.S. population is very controversial. The increasing number of
>adverse reaction reports connected with this vaccine exacerbates the
>controversy. The controversy stems to a great extent from our lack of
>understanding of the mechanisms of the immune response to the hepatitis
>B surface antigen and lack of long term follow-up of individuals who
>have received the vaccine. In a January 27, 1999 press release, the
>National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) released figures which show
>that the number of hepatitis B vaccine-associated serious adverse event
>and death reports in American children under the age of 14 outnumber the
>reported cases of hepatitis B disease.
>During our research we discovered a copy of the grant proposal submitted
>recently to the National Institute of Health by Dr. B. S. Dunbar, who
>has worked in autoimmunity and vaccine development for over twenty years
>and was honored two years ago by the National Institute of Health. Dr.
>Dunbar is working with a team of veteran vaccine researchers from all
>over the world. Their grant is requested for the purpose of studying the
>hypothesis that: hepatitis B recombinant vaccine does cause adverse
>autoimmune reactions in genetically susceptible individuals. This study
>will also provide new insights into the predictability of determining
>adverse side effects of the hepatitis B vaccine in individuals at risk
>as related to their histocompatability subtypes. Their study of
>auto-immune diseases/symptoms caused by the hepatitis B vaccine include:
>lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, vascular disorders, Guillain
>Barre syndrome, demyelinating disorders such as optic neuritis
>(blindness), Bells palsy, demyelinating neuropathy (multiple
>developmental disorders), multiple sclerosis, diabetes mellitus and
>chronic fatigue syndrome to mention the most common.
>This group of internationally respected vaccine researchers headed up by
>Dr. Dunbar also point out that, "The studies (for the approval of HPB)
>were not designed to assess serious, rare adverse events; the total
>number of recipients were too small; and the follow-up was too short to
>detect rare or delayed, serious, adverse reactions." Finally they point
>out that "overall the number of examples of adverse neurologic outcomes
>following receipt of hepatitis B vaccine are of concern, particularly
>those resulting in demyelinating neurologic disease."
>They continue, "In view of these observations. . . it is medically
>crucial to evaluate the nature of the autoimmune reactions (i.e. risks)
>associated with the hepatitis B vaccine and to determine if individuals
>who will have these adverse reactions can be identified in advance of
>receiving the vaccine". There are critical questions that must be
>addressed to establish
>the risk/benefit of the current hepatitis B vaccines in the United
>States. These questions are particularly important in view of recent
>mandates to vaccinate all children including newborn infants."
>You may read this grant proposal at
>http://webpages.netlink.co.nz/~ias/dunbar.htm
>Many groups have called for a moratorium on hepatitis B vaccination
>until some of these questions can be answered adequately. The NVIC
>reported "Newborn babies are dying shortly after their shots and their
>deaths are being written off as sudden infant death syndrome. Parents
>should have the right to give their informed consent to vaccination and
>Congress should give emergency, priority funding to independent
>scientists, who can take an unbiased look at this vaccine, instead of
>leaving the search for truth in the hands of government officials who
>have already decided to force every child to get the vaccine". We agree
>completely. The NVIC can be contacted at http://www.909shot.com for
>further information.
>In Dr. Coulters book, "Vaccination, Social Violence, and Criminality"
>the thesis is developed that the "sociopathic personality" which has
>emerged on a mass scale in recent decades, and which is responsible for
>a disproportionate amount of crime and violence, is causally linked to
>the childhood vaccination program. Vaccination frequently causes
>encephalitis and neuropathy that in turn leads to these
>post-encephalitic states and conditions. In his book, Dr. Coulter
>presents a time line of increase in developmental disability related to
>vaccine introduction that is indeed frightening. Dr. Coulter believes
>about 20% of our children are suffering from this neurological vaccine
>damage. We believe some of these vaccine experts should be on the
>President's Youth Violence task force.
>Our own school district's confidential health statistics show at least
>20% of our children (K-3) have significant neurological damage and/or
>chronic illness. The last three years have shown an acceleration in the
>numbers of children who are entering our schools with these
>"developmental disorders". (Could these be the same infants who received
>the first trial doses of hepatitis B as only a few hour-old newborns?)
>As school nurses, working with these damaged children on a daily basis,
>we pray this is not true. If it is, the ramification to this generation
>of children is unthinkable!
>Should we not pause, call for a moratorium on these poorly tested,
>rapidly approved vaccines, and allow independent American physicians and
>researchers to study them before blindly injecting an experimental
>vaccine into an entire generation? (We have found the only ones
>declaring the vaccines safety are the ones who are making millions of
>dollars from its sales, whose employment depends on it or the ones being
>funded by the drug companies vast number of grants and fundings. The
>independent researchers seem to be coming up with an entirely different
>report.) Vaccine producers have nothing to lose since our U.S. Congress
>has made them immune from responsibility or liability for injuries
>caused from their vaccines. The push is on for them to create more and
>more vaccines. There are huge amounts of money being made by these
>people who no longer worry about the consequences of their inadequate
>clinical trials. The United States government has had to pay out nearly
>a billion dollars in damages to families who can prove their children
>have been damaged or killed by vaccines, and there are thousands more
>cases pending. I just read that there are so many vaccine damage claims
>that Secretary Shalala changed the rules to try to limit adverse
>reaction claims. Could this be true? If so, shame on our government.
>We believe, as medical professionals, that we are doing a great
>disservice to our country by forcing government mandated vaccines on all
>children. Please research this and we pray you have the courage to speak
>out and tell the nation what you find.
>Sincerely,
>Patti White, RN
>School Health Services Coordinator
>Warrensburg R-VI School District
>Warrensburg Mo 64093 and
>Missouri Central District School Nurse Association rpwhitey@...
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and the Government's position:
http://www.cdc.gov/nip/vacsafe/vaccinesafety/hottopics/vaccinesafety-test.ht
m
"Protecting our society from debilitating and deadly diseases that can be
prevented through the administration of vaccines is a cornerstone for
ensuring the health and well-being of our citizens. Vaccines are highly
effective in preventing death and disability, and save billions of dollars
in health costs annually. We are working diligently to ensure that vaccines
licensed in the United States are as safe and effective as they can be. We
have a stringent regulatory process for licensing vaccines that serves as a
model for all countries."...


-----Original Message-----
From: Sandi Chelan <S-Chelan@...>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, August 13, 1999 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: vaccinations was Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Sociatal standards


>From: "Sandi Chelan" <S-Chelan@...>
>
>Some vaccine info links:
>http://www.909shot.com/autismincrease.htm
>
>ADVOCACY GROUPS CALL FOR RESEARCH TO INVESTIGATE LINK BETWEEN AUTISM
>INCREASE AND VACCINATION
>
>Responding to a new report released yesterday by the California Health and
>Human Services Agency revealing a 273 percent increase in California
>children diagnosed with autism during the past decade, the National Vaccine
>Information Center and three other advocacy organizations representing
>parents of autistic children are calling for independent scientific
research
>into whether increased vaccination in early childhood is a contributing
>co-factor to the development of autism...
>*************
>Here are some sources of information about vaccines:
>
>CDC, National Immunization Program. www.cdc.gov/nip/
>National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. www.hrsa.dhhs.gov/bhpr/vicp/
>Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, VAERS www.fda.gov/cber/vaers.html
>National Vaccine Information Center, NVIC, Vienna, VA. www.909shot.com
>Vaccine Information and Awareness, VIA San Diego, CA www.access1.net/via/
>
>Sandi
>

mrstar

You can also call NVIC at 1-800-909-shot

Mary in Idaho (who has learned so much more about this topic due to the
questions of others)