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Formaldehyde in Vaccines: A DNA Adduct?

Catherine J. Frompovich — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:11:11 +0000

Ingredients in vaccines have been shown to harm your DNA

The U.S. National Library of Medicine at NIH in January 2010 published online the “Final Report on Carcinogens Background Document for Formaldehyde.” [1] It’s an interesting document in many respects, especially since it details in vitro and in vivo studies in lab animals, i.e., rats, mice, and hamsters.

Experimental Animals: Formaldehyde has been tested for carcinogenicity in mice, rats, and hamsters. Studies reviewed include chronic and subchronic inhalation studies in mice, rats, and hamsters; chronic and subchronic drinking-water studies in rats, and hamsters; chronic and subchronic drinking-water studies in rats; and one chronic skin-application study in mice. No chronic studies in primates were found, but one subchronic inhalation study and one acute/subacute inhalation study in monkeys was reviewed. [1]

Granted, there was much detail given to inhalation of formaldehyde gas with some studies documenting the effects of adding formaldehyde to the animals drinking water. However, there were no studies performed on injecting formaldehyde into the animals, as often occurs when vaccines containing formaldehyde are injected into infants, toddlers, teens, adults, and senior citizens.

Question: Why no injection studies on formaldehyde? Since formaldehyde or Formalin are excipients used in the manufacture of the following vaccines:

Anthrax (BioThrax), DTaP (all brands), DTaP-Hep B-PPV (Pediarix), DTaP-Hib (TriHIBit), DT (all brands), Td (all brands), Hepatitis A (Havrix, Vaqta), Hepatitis A-Hepatitis B (Twinrix), Hib (ActHIB), Hib-Hepatitis B (Comvax), Influenza (Fluzone, Fluarix, FluLaval), Japanese encephalitis (JE-Vax), Polio-virus inactivated (Ipol), Tdap (Adacel, Boostrix) per the CDC’s PinkBook, Vaccine Excipient & Media Summary, pg. E-2

Probably I’m going to be accused of “cherry picking” data, so up front I admit that, that’s exactly what I’m doing to make a specific point which is, the report stated that

Unmetabolized formaldehyde reacts non-enzymatically with sulfhydryl groups or urea, bind to tetrahydrofolate and enters the single-carbon intermediary metabolic pool, reacts with macromolecules to form DNA and protein adducts, or forms crosslinks primarily between protein and single-stranded DNA (Bolt 1987).

Okay! So what happens when formaldehyde or Formalin in a vaccine suspension interacts with body chemistry in an infant whose immune system and blood brain barrier are not fully developed?

We know that the body metabolizes ‘ingredients’ differently depending upon whether they are ingested and transit the digestive tract, or if they are injected intramuscularly and can become problematic.

The Carcinogens Background Document found the following:

Formaldehyde ingestion results in severe corrosive damage to the gastrointestinal tract followed by CNS depression, myocardial depression, circulatory collapse, metabolic acidosis and multiple organ failure. The toxic effects of formaldehyde in experimental animals include irritation, cytotoxicity, and cell proliferation in the upper respiratory tract, ocular irritation, pulmonary hyperactivity, bronchoconstriction, gastrointestinal irritation, and skin sensitization. Other reported effects include oxidative stress, neurotoxicity, neurobehavioral effects, immunotoxicity, testicular toxicity, and decreased liver, thyroid gland, and testis weights (IARC 2006, Asian et al. 2006, Sarsilmaz et al. 2007, Golalipour et al. 2008, Ozen et al. 2005, Majumder and kumar 1995). [My emphasis added]

Shouldn’t the CDC and FDA be concerned about the use of formaldehyde and Formalin in vaccines in view of the above damage, especially since the report makes this incriminating statement about ingestion? What happens with injection? No one knows!

Numerous agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, CPSC, DOT, EPG, FDA, HUD, the Mine Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, ACGIH, and NIOSH, have developed regulations and guidelines to reduce exposure to formaldehyde.

Now get this: Big Pharma is making and selling—while MDs, nurses, etc. are injecting—formaldehyde-containing vaccines into infants as young as 24 hours old. Unbelievable? No! Factual.

The key to all the above, as I assess it, is this which the formaldehyde document points out:

Genetic and related effects: Formaldehyde is a direct-acting genotoxic compound that affects multiple gene expression pathways, including those involved in DNA synthesis and repair and regulation of cell proliferation. … In vitro studies with mammalian and human cells were positive for DNA adducts, DNA-protein crosslinks, DNA-DNA crosslinks, unscheduled DNA synthesis, single-strand breaks, mutations, and cytogenetic effects (chromosomal aberrations, sister chromatid exchange, and micronucleus induction).

A DNA adduct is, as I pointed out in my 2009 book, Our Chemical Lives And The Hijacking Of Our DNA, (available on Amazon here) a base in the DNA covalently [sharing electrons from one to another] bonded to a (cancer-causing) chemical. This has been shown to be the start of a cancerous cell, or carcinogenesis.

Now, I have one more question to ask, and it is this: Coincidentally childhood cancers have been on the rise precipitously and concomitantly, it seems, with the rise in mandated vaccinations starting as early as birth (Hepatitis B vaccine is administered then). What connection is there between formaldehyde and Formalin in vaccines with childhood cancers? How does that question correlate with this information from the National Cancer Institute FactSheet Childhood Cancers?

Among the 12 major types of childhood cancers, leukemias (blood cell cancers) and cancers of the brain and central nervous system account for more than half of the new cases. About one-third of childhood cancers are leukemias. The most common type of leukemia in children is acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The most common solid tumors are brain tumors (e.g., gliomas and medulloblastomas), with other solid tumors (e.g., neuroblastomas, Wilms tumors, and sarcomas such as rhabdomyosarcoma and osteosarcoma) being less common. [2] [My emphasis]

Now go back and read what the Carcinogens Background Document found and see if there are any dots that can be connected. Shouldn’t some member of Congress be asking questions or investigating vaccines?

Sources:
[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20737003 accessed 2/6/12

[2] http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Sites-Types/childhood accessed 2/6/12

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What, if any, Parallels Are There Between BP’s Gulf Oil Spill and Big Pharma’s Vaccine Research?

Catherine J. Frompovich — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:45:03 +0000

Many similarities exist between the British Petroleum oil spill and vaccine research

It’s taken almost two years, but facts are emerging from inter-corporate emails about what BP really knew could happen—and BP withheld—regarding the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill that tragic day, April 11, 2010.

Radio news reports by Dave Cohen of CBS News New Orleans, plus the AP article “BP emails reveal company veiling spill rate” on WWL.com AM870 and FM105.3 website [1] confirm,

…That if the well was not protected by the blow-out preventer [sic] at the drill site crude oil could burst into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate if [sic] 3.4 millions gallons a day.

If I remember correctly, wasn’t the public told that only a thousand gallons a day were belching out of the rig? Also, didn’t we find out that there was NO blowout preventor? And furthermore, court divulged emails suggest that the Coast Guard and BP were engaged in heated discussions about the potentialities of the oil spill.

The above information was released Friday, January 27, 2012, in federal court litigation.

And yet the media spin at the time of the spill seemed almost reassuring. Was that part of the reason why there was a media and press embargo placed on information gathering at the time with imprisonment and fines up to $10,000 for just trying to take a photograph, if I remember correctly? So what does all this say almost two years later, and why would I think of correlating it with Big Pharma’s vaccine research?

That’s not all. Recently more and more dead dolphins have been washing up on Gulf shores with scientists performing necropsies and taking three tissue samples from each dolphin to determine what’s causing dolphins to die at an alarming rate. In an online article “BP oil commercials cover up environmental distress” (WKMG, Orlando, Florida) there’s a disturbing video about the problem and how scientists apparently are ‘gagged’ from reporting their findings.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/BP-oil-commercials-cover-up-environmental-distress/-/1637132/8565442/-/k7t8krz/-/index.html.

Here’s my answer: Both entities act similarly, probably according to their respective corporate cultures that, apparently and in essence, negatively affect the public safety, health, and welfare.

Even though the oil spill was hidden from view as much as possible along with the corporate emails until the federal court litigation, we may find in hindsight what really transpired after the fact, but the consequences of actions taken, e.g., jillions of gallons of Corexit sprayed and injected into the Gulf to make the oil disperse and hit bottom, along with all the burning of surface oil, and petroleum pollution damage to aquatic life, may never be known.

Now, let me point out parallels in what seems to be going on in the corporate and medical culture of vaccines, which Big Pharma—another corporate megalith—produces with NO apparent safety or efficacy studies that prove vaccines do not cause cancer or other diseases, including neurological anomalies attributed to the neurotoxins in their vaccines.

Healthcare consumers are expected to take Pharma’s word for it that vaccines are safe, while the FDA gives its imprimatur that turns into mandates.

Daily there are tragedies occurring to infants, toddlers, teens, and adults receiving vaccines, which are disregarded as ‘can’t be vaccines; they are safe’ shtick. The CDC’s VAERS system reports all types of adverse reactions, and confirms over 24,000 adverse effects associated with Gardasil® HPV vaccine alone, since it first appeared in June 2006. And yet there can be NO federal court litigation either to investigate or press charges for tort damages because of the rather foolishly enacted, interpreted, and administered National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 (42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-1 to 300aa-34).

Congress ought to revisit and update NCVIA for vaccine damage relief and compensation without input from Big Pharma lobbyists, but with the guidance of legions of constituents and parents whose children have been damaged by vaccines. What good is Congress, if it’s doing only Big Pharma’s bidding? Let’s level the playing field, as they say. Ain’t it about time?

Unlike BP, Big Pharma has stealth-like protection and freedom from legal and financial liabilities from harming anyone with vaccines, all while they keep making more vaccines with more mandates for their use.

Another parallel to the BP issue regards corporate information. In the case with Big Pharma, we hear time and time again how information is withheld from FDA that could prove negative results for acceptance of new drugs and vaccines. And yet those findings are missing from official filings. I’d like to see some member of Congress—or even the U.S. Supreme Court—show some righteous indignation and request Pharma to produce all its information regarding vaccine research, which, if I’m not mistaken, is subsidized by U.S. taxpayers through the National Institutes of Health.

Did you know that NIH sends more than $90 million in taxpayer-funded grants to China. To China, with all its problems with toxic ingredients in products, plus no jobs here in the USA? Shouldn’t we, the taxpayers who pay the bills, know what we’re getting and have our people make it?

Isn’t it about time that Big Pharma is treated the same as other businesses and gets its days in court with as much discovery as it will take to uncover what’s been hidden. No one should be above the law, I contend. If BP oil damage can have its day in court, so can Big Pharma’s vaccine damage.

Source:

[1] http://www.wwl.com/pages/12120885.php?contentType=4&contentId=9866123 accessed Jan. 28, 2012

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Vaccines Are Exploding Kids’ Immune Systems

Christina England — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:33:46 +0000

A few weeks ago I uncovered the appalling story of how parents in India were prevented from speaking out when their baby daughter died following the pentavalent vaccine. (1) Ancy, was just 56 days old, when she died within hours of the vaccine, however, her death was immediately swept under the carpet by the authorities who silenced her parents before claiming that Ancy had died from apnea.

On 25^th January 2012 IBN Live (2) reported that even though the Health Department had denied the possible connection between the administration of the pentavalent vaccine and the death of the baby, the postmortem report had revealed that her death was caused by a hypersensitivity reaction.

This unusual and highly controversial move by the coroner to write that a hypersensitivity reaction was the cause of death in his report appears to confirm the parent’s belief that Ancy died as a result of the vaccine, although IBN Live continued their report by adding that:

“The postmortem certificate leaves a loophole with regard to hypersensitivity, the report being unspecific on hypersensitivity to what source. While in general usage by scientists and doctors, the term hypersensitivity refers to a very unusual allergic reaction to a vaccine. Health Secretary Rajeev Sadanandan said further studies were needed to conclusively prove as to whether it was the vaccine that triggered the allergy.”

I doubt if the coroner could safely be any more specific and given the age of the child it is highly probable that she did die as a result of the vaccination.

The pentavelent vaccine is a 5 in 1 vaccine. This means that the vaccine protects a person from five individual diseases but instead of receiving five separate vaccines the person, in this case a baby, receives only one. In Ancy’s case we know that she received a vaccine containing diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis B, Hib or meningitis.

Vaccines are made up of several different substances. To enable me to explain this in more detail I will begin by quoting Dr Viera Scheibner. (3) Dr Scheibner says that:

Vaccines contain a number of substances which can be divided into the following groups:

1. Micro-organisms, either bacteria or viruses, thought to be causing certain infectious diseases and which the vaccine is supposed to prevent. These are whole-cell proteins or just the broken-cell protein envelopes, and are called antigens.

2. Chemical substances which are supposed to enhance the immune response to the vaccine, called adjuvants.

3. Chemical substances which act as preservatives and tissue fixatives, which are supposed to halt any further chemical reactions and putrefaction (decomposition or multiplication) of the live or attenuated (or killed) biological constituents of the vaccine.

A Parents Basic Guide To Synergistic Toxicity

When a baby receives a vaccine the desired immune response is the production of antibodies. Dr Scheibner says that this is enhanced by adding certain substances to the vaccines. These substances as she explains are called adjuvants. She says:

There are several types of adjuvants. Today the most common adjuvants for human use are aluminium hydroxide, aluminium phosphate and calcium phosphate. However, there are a number of other adjuvants based on oil emulsions, products from bacteria (their synthetic derivatives as well as liposomes) or gram-negative bacteria, endotoxins, cholesterol, fatty acids, aliphatic amines, paraffinic and vegetable oils. Recently, monophosphoryl lipid A, ISCOMs with Quil-A, and Syntex adjuvant formulations (SAFs) containing the threonyl derivative or muramyl dipeptide have been under consideration for use in human vaccines.

Many professionals believe that it is a combination of these aduvants mixed together that are affecting children so adversely. This is known as synergistic toxicity and can worsen when a child receives multiple vaccines.

Think back for a moment to your chemistry lessons at school. Sometimes when you mixed two or more chemicals together in a test tube, depending on which chemicals were added together their reaction could be quite volatile. This same chemical reaction is believed by many to be similar to what can happen to a child when they receive multiple vaccines. When a child receives a vaccination they receive a mixture of micro-organisms, adjuvants and chemical substances acting as preservatives. If they receive a multi vaccination the child receives these substances en mass, these can collect together causing what is known as synergistic toxicity (a volatile chemical reaction).

Many of the ingredients used in vaccines are considered by many to be dangerous; these ingredients include thimerosal, squalene, and aluminum. As we are aware different vaccines contain different ingredients but many of us are unaware that sometimes when these ingredients are combined their effects can multiply making them potentially lethal. Donald W Miller describes this extremely well in his paper- Mercury on the Mind. (4) He says that:

“A small dose of mercury that kills 1 in 100 rats and a dose of aluminum that will kill 1 in 100 rats, when combined have a striking effect: all the rats die. Doses of mercury that have a1 percent mortality will have a 100 percent mortality rate if some aluminum is there. Vaccines contain aluminum.”

Boyd Hayley PhD (5) has also written on the subject and echo’s what Miller says stating that:

“A single vaccine given to a six-pound newborn is the equivalent of giving a 180-pound adult 30 vaccinations on the same day. Include in this the toxic effects of high levels of aluminum and formaldehyde contained in some vaccines, and the synergist toxicity could be increased to unknown levels. Further, it is very well known that infants do not produce significant levels of bile or have adult renal capacity for several months after birth. Bilary transport is the major biochemical route by which mercury is removed from the body, and infants cannot do this very well. They also do not possess the renal (kidney) capacity to remove aluminum. Additionally, mercury is a well-known inhibitor of kidney function.”

By studying what these professionals are saying in more detail it soon becomes easy to understand why children are dying after vaccines, particularly when they are given many separate vaccines or multiple vaccine combinations in one day.

It is my opinion that by using all these different combinations of vaccines from an early age it is resulting in mini explosions in children’s bodies. Chemicals are building up in the body after each vaccine until children’s systems cannot cope any more. This is resulting in multiple deaths and disabilities.

This year I have reported on several possible deaths in India, a death in Vermont and a death in Belgium, all following vaccinations. In fact if you Google adverse reactions to vaccines, there are pages littered with reports of children and adults having suffered the most horrendous side effects after a vaccination or multiple vaccinations. Admittedly not everybody suffers a side effect but no one ever knows if their next vaccination or the next vaccination they give their child will be one too many.

Children are particularly susceptible to synergistic toxicity if they are premature, sick, on medication or weak and malnourished. Parents need to research the contents of the vaccines that they are allowing their children to receive and weigh up whether their child is healthy enough to receive the vaccine and if the diseases that they are vaccinating their child against are as bad as the chemical reaction that the vaccine could cause.

As far as I am concerned the pharmaceutical industries are treating our children as little more than test tubes. They are adding as many potentially lethal chemicals, toxins and poisons as they can to see which ones cause the test tubes to explode. The question I would like to ask is: Are the pharmaceutical industries doing this intentionally? If so then this could be classed as eugenics.

The majority of children are healthy enough to fight off most childhood diseases naturally and do not need to be continually jabbed with vaccines. Their body is equipped to do the job of fighting disease on its own.

Sources:

1. Sweet Baby Girl Dies After Vaccination and Parents Being Gagged http://vactruth.com/2012/01/11/girl-dies-parents-gagged/
2. Child died of hypersensitivity reaction http://ibnlive.in.com/news/child-died-of-hypersensitivity-reaction/224360-60-116.html
3. ADVERSE EFFECTS OF ADJUVANTS IN VACCINES by Viera Scheibner, Ph.D. Ó 2000 http://www.whale.to/vaccine/adjuvants.html
4. Mercury on the Mind – Synergistic toxicity by Donald W Miller MD http://www.whale.to/a/miller1.html
5. Synergistic toxicity http://www.whale.to/vaccine/synergistic_toxicity_q.html

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Christina England

Christina was born and educated in London, U.K. She left school to work in a children’s library, specializing in story telling and book buying. In 1978 Christina changed her career path to dedicate her time to caring for the elderly and was awarded the title of Care Giver of the Year for her work with the elderly in 1980.

After dedicating much of her spare time helping disabled children in a special school, she then worked in a respite unit in a leading teaching hospital.

In 1990 Christina adopted the first of two disabled boys, both with challenging behavior, complex disabilities, and medical needs. In 1999 she was accused of Munchausen by Proxy after many failed attempts to get the boys’ complex needs met. Finally, she was cleared of all accusations after an independent psychologist Lisa Blakemore-Brown gave both boys the diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder and ADHD as part of a complex tapestry of disorders. During the assessments Ms Blakemore-Brown discovered through the foster care diaries that the eldest boy had reacted adversely to the MMR vaccine.

After taking A Level in Psychology and a BTEC in Learning Disabilities Ms. England then spent many years researching vaccines and adverse reactions. She went on to gain an HND in journalism and media and is currently writing for the American Chronicle, the Weekly Blitz, VacTruth and Namaste UK on immunization safety and efficacy.

England’s main areas of expertise are researching false allegations of child abuse and adverse reactions to vaccines. Her work is now read internationally and has been translated into many languages. England has been a guest on Holy Hormones Honey – The Greatest Story Never Told! on KRFC FM 88.9 in, Colorado. She has spoken at seminars worldwide and including Canada in 2011 and recently co authored the book ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome or Vaccine Induced Encephalitis – Are Parents Being Falsely Accused?’ with Dr Harold Buttram.

OSHA’s Interesting ‘Take’ on Vaccinations

Catherine J. Frompovich — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:20:30 +0000

Sanitary practices, like washing your hands, helps prevent the spread of influenza.

OSHA, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a division of the United States Department of Labor, [1] usually is regarded as one of the agencies trying to help Americans, especially the American worker. As such, OSHA puts out press releases and information regarding various health aspects, including, OSHA FactSheet Seasonal Influenza Vaccination – Important Protection for Healthcare Workers http://www.osha.gov/Publications/seasonal-flu-factsheet.pdf wherein it gives the standard spin about how influenza spreads, the reasons for healthcare workers to be vaccinated, dispelling influenza vaccine myths, plus other information, including if you decide not to be vaccinated.

However, what I find amazingly interesting is recently OSHA released a statement [listed below] wherein there seems to be what I would interpret as some backpedaling, especially

“Furthermore, the current influenza vaccine is no magic bullet. …The limits of current influenza vaccine technology are especially problematic in the context of a mandatory influenza vaccination program that results in job loss.”

May I suggest that anyone who is having problems about being vaccinated to keep his or her job, print out this statement by OSHA and present it to either your employer’s Human Resources Department, company nurse, or other proper corporate authority along with the proper vaccination exemption form to be filed, which I recommend be a religious exemption that will pass First Amendment Constitutional muster and be valid just about anywhere in the USA, except Mississippi and West Virginia.

Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, who has medical, legal, and public health degrees (MD, JD, MPH), spoke with Alex Jones about that very subject of exemptions that may help you understand what you ought to do. Please see this five minute most informative video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yt2yJfdT4w&list=FL8AYV0dqrG0j_MFXBlkPrJA&feature=mh_lolz.

But here’s the real kicker and possibly a ‘stroke of brilliance’ on someone’s part at OSHA, I think, that applies everywhere.

“Lastly, reliance on a mandatory influenza vaccination policy may provide healthcare workers, health care facility management and patients with an unwarranted sense of security and result in poor adherence to other infection control practices that prevent all types of infections, not just influenza.”

Brilliant observation, I’d say, and thank you for acknowledging what vaccine safety advocates have been saying for years. Nevertheless, can you go just a little bit further in stretching your minds about vaccinations and conclude that vaccinations just may be the cause of extraneous and other-than-wild strains of diseases that are now manifesting? Clue: Take a real hard, honest look at pertussis (whooping cough). Most of those who contract the whoop have been vaccinated against it. Documented CDC statistics state just that for Ohio in 1993. The same is happening with measles, mumps, and chickenpox [varicella vaccine]. Isn’t that interesting? [2]

Have vaccine antigens and microorganisms become ‘sophisticated’—similar to infectious microorganisms that resist antibiotics, e.g., MRSA, etc.—and now take on new ‘generations’ of diseases from disease DNA tinkering in research laboratories like the current horrendous strain of Super-Influenza Virus that can kill millions developed by a Dutch researcher? [3]

In reading this OSHA statement the folks at National Vaccine Information Center posted on their website [4], one can’t help but come to the conclusion that maybe—just maybe—someone is beginning to listen. Read OSHA’s statement and see what you think.

“While we are supportive of the Healthy People 2020 goal of a 90% vaccination rate, we have seen no evidence that demonstrates that such a high rate is in fact necessary. Furthermore, the current influenza vaccine is no magic bullet. The current state of influenza vaccine technology requires annual reformulation and revaccination and the efficacy is quite variable. Every year there are numerous circulating strains of influenza that are not included in the vaccine. In years where the antigenic match is good, the vaccine only provides protection against the 3 strains in the formulation. In years when the antigenic match is poor, the vaccine may provide no protection at all. The limits of current influenza vaccine technology are especially problematic in the context of a mandatory influenza vaccination program that results in job loss. Lastly, reliance on a mandatory influenza vaccination policy may provide healthcare workers, health care facility management and patients with an unwarranted sense of security and result in poor adherence to other infection control practices that prevent all types of infections, not just influenza. Influenza vaccination has always been just one part of a comprehensive multi-layered infection control program.”

[1] http://www.osha.gov/ accessed Jan. 27, 2012

[2] Vaccines & Vaccinations: The Need for Congressional Investigation, pp.69-70

http://vactruth.com/vaccines-vaccinations-the-need-for-congressional-investigation/

[3] http://www.doctortipster.com/6952-dutch-researcher-created-a-super-influenza-virus-with-the-potential-to-kill-millions.html accessed Jan. 27, 2012

[4] http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/January-2012/NVIC-Defends-Vaccine-Exemptions.aspx#OSHA accessed Jan. 27, 2012

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Repeal HPV Vaccine for Girls—Not a Dream: Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates Passed Such a Bill

Catherine J. Frompovich — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:05:52 +0000

Legislators in Virginia have made the first move to repeal dangerous HPV vaccine.

Finally—and thank God, if I still can say that—some legislators have come to their senses about the obviously dangerous HPV vaccines touted as preventing either the human papillomavirus and/or cervical cancer, Gardasil® and Cervarix®.

Perhaps some Virginia state legislators examined the CDC’s VAERS reports and found what Drs. Gary Null and Nancy Ashley reported in their VacTruth article of January 25, 2012:

VAERS data show that Gardasil has been associated with 24,184 adverse effects since its debut in June of 2006, including seizures, anaphylaxis, paralysis, transverse myelitis, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome (uncontrollable movement of the eyes back and forth and jerking movements of the extremities), brachial neuritis, loss of vision, postural tachycardia syndrome, facial palsy, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, chronic fatigue syndrome, blindness, pancreatitis, speech problems, short term memory loss, miscarriage, multiple sclerosis, autoimmune disorders, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, abnormal Pap smears and even cervical cancer.[24][25][26] Yes, you read that correctly – VAERS reports 41 cases of cervical cancer following vaccination with Gardasil! [1]

Ironic as it may seem, Virginia was the first state in the nation to mandate HPV vaccinations for young girls 11 to 12 years old in 2007, and now it’s the first state that’s shepherding legislation to eliminate that state’s HPV vaccination mandate. Hopefully, other states will curry up the courage and do likewise before an entire generation of young women becomes non-functional, as the VAERS adverse reports seem to be indicating.

Unfortunately, as The Washington Post Local online reported:

Even so, HPV vaccination rates in the state are above the national average. About 54 percent of Virginia girls ages 13 to 17 have had at least one dose of the vaccine, compared with 49 percent nationwide, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [2]

Let’s hope the Virginia State Senate has enough compassionate legislators votes to pass the bill into final law, and take the yoke of oppressive HPV vaccination mandates off young women whose lives often become a living hell once they receive the HPV shots, which consists of a series of three injections.

To understand just how seriously bad life after HPV vaccines can become for young girls, may I suggest accessing www.TruthAboutGardasil.org.

References

[1] http://vactruth.com/2012/01/25/gardasil-killing-us/ accessed Jan. 27, 2012

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/virginia-politics/post/house-passes-bill-to-repeal-hpv-vaccine-for-girls/2012/01/26/gIQA0sbpTQ_blog.html

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The Gloves Are On For Dr. Andrew Wakefield

Laraine C. Abbey — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:03:25 +0000

Dr. Andrew Wakefield isn't taking the allegations against him lightly.

The ‘gloves’ are on with Dr. Andrew Wakefield in one corner, and Brian Deer, the British Medical Journal (BMJ), and Dr. Fiona Godley in the other corner!

Andrew Wakefield, as plaintiff is not about to take the destruction of his reputation lying down.

Quoting from petition to the court in Travis County, Texas we find “charges made by the defendants that Dr. Wakefield fraudulently and intentionally manipulated or falsified data or diagnoses in the Lancet paper are false.” “…Defendants [Deer, BMJ et al] knowingly and with actual malice, misrepresented information, data and diagnoses, for the purpose of creating the false impression that it was Dr. Wakefield who had manipulated or altered data and diagnoses.”

Further, the Petition states, “On a January 5, 2011 the Defendants published their article entitled Secrets of the MMR Scare: How the Case Against the MMR Vaccine was Fixed, authored by Brian Deer (Exhibit A). This article contains numerous false and misleading statements concerning Plaintiff, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, which constitute libel per se and per quod. Examples of the defamatory statements in this article include the following: “ The petition to the court goes on enumerating details of the case.

I have followed this situation from inception and personally am convinced that Dr. Wakefield is a hero embroiled in a current–life David and Goliath story. Dr. Wakefield is up against the most powerful (and I believe, evil) forces of our time in the form of the pharmaceutical/medical industry. I pray for him to prevail. But win or lose, I personally wish to thank him for the gift of light and truth he is bringing forward in service of us all, and especially for the many damaged children of our time that I personally know to be wrought by vaccines.

You can read in the PDF petition in its entirety as follows:

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/01/04/BritMedJ.pdf

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Gardasil: Big Pharma Killing Us Softly

Gary Null PhD and Nancy Ashley VMD — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:14:14 +0000

Gardasil has been a big money maker for Merck Pharmaceuticals

With complete disregard for the welfare and safety of the people who take their products, the pharmaceutical industry has made a habit of putting profits above all else. Despite a track record of bringing us drugs that kill and maim, such as Vioxx, AZT, Fen Phen, and Thalidomide, there is never an apology, never a commitment to improve, never even an acknowledgement that they have done anything wrong. Now, as if we have learned nothing from history, the drama is unfolding yet again, this time with Gardasil.

Gardasil, the human papillomavirus vaccine produced by Merck, was brought to market in 2006 with great fanfare, widely proclaimed as the first ever anti-cancer vaccine. Merck created a market for Gardasil out of thin air with deceptive and dishonest advertising,^[1] and thereby planted fear in the mind of consumers: fear of an enormous, yet unknown health crisis, an invisible time bomb waiting to explode and harm women everywhere. When criticized for their aggressive marketing, Merck countered that they were performing a public service by raising awareness about the human papillomavirus and weren’t selling anything.^[2] Really?

This lie became public as Merck was caught lobbying the 50 states for mandatory Gardasil vaccination before it had even secured FDA approval![^3] The fact is that there was never a need for Gardasil in the first place: regular Pap testing had already lowered the incidence of cervical cancer by 80% in the US to a few thousand cases a year and the vast majority of all HPV infections resolve of their own accord.[^4]

But by lining the coffers of such groups as Women in Government (WIG), and, of course, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Merck was able to influence legislation such that almost immediately after the vaccine was approved, it was part of the vaccine schedule recommended for all girls.^[5] If it hadn’t been for Governor Rick Perry’s blunder of trying to mandate Gardasil for school attendance in Texas in the face of huge conflict of interest and a $50 million contribution to his presidential campaign, Gardasil might have gone even further.^[6]

There is something deeply wrong with a giant pharmaceutical company spending hundreds of millions of dollars to manipulate women and influence legislation in order to generate a revenue stream of billions of dollars a year for themselves at the expense of a gullible public. Because what is wrong with Gardasil isn’t just that it is unnecessary. Gardasil is possibly the most dangerous vaccine on the market with the potential to injure, maim, or even kill the children who receive it.

The program of coercion to vaccinate every 11 to 26 year-old girl with Gardasil is relentless. This vaccine is given not just in doctor’s offices, where doctors have been known to “fire” non-compliant patients, but in schools and colleges, where the pressure on girls and their parents to conform can be extreme. These institutions all have quotas — sometimes including financial rewards — and they are anxious to prove high rates of compliance.^[7]

But there is no informed consent prior to vaccination, so most of these girls and their parents have no idea what they are risking by agreeing to vaccination with Gardasil. While Merck, the FDA, the CDC and the medical establishment all deny that there have been serious, life-altering adverse events associated with Gardasil, the fact is that compared with the mandated vaccines which are given with greater frequency, Gardasil still has the most adverse events reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) of any vaccine. And since reporting of adverse events is not mandatory in the US (although outbreaks of so-called vaccine-preventable illness are), it is likely that only 10% even get reported!^[8]

But what of the victims of Merck’s war on cervical cancer? Alexis Wolf was a normal seventh grader in 2007. She had Type I diabetes, but had successfully learned how to give herself insulin shots and eventually graduated to an insulin pump, which she also mastered easily. Alexis made the honor roll for the first time that year, and was rewarded with a trip to Germany over the summer to visit her grandparents. Her endocrinologist believed that the diabetes was under control and felt that Alexis would be perfectly capable of making the trip on her own and managing her diabetes herself. To make sure everything was in order prior to travel, Alexis’ doctor recommended that she receive her first Gardasil vaccine.

The trip went well, but Alexis seemed different to her mother when she returned, perhaps a bit distant. Alexis received her second Gardasil vaccine after coming home, and shortly thereafter her personality changed entirely. For a relatively shy girl, Alexis immediately became very gregarious, hugging everyone all the time. But she also became agitated, troubled, and started having difficulty keeping food down. It reached the point where she threw up a number of times a day, which is especially dangerous for a diabetic. There began a series of appointments with many, many doctors: the GP, the endocrinologist, the cardiologist, the gastroenterologist, and numerous different diagnostic tests. But nothing they did or recommended seemed to help. Alexis was struggling to get through her days, usually carrying a bucket with her at all times just in case. She had terrible insomnia, was eating excessively, and was falling further and further behind in school.

In January 2008, Alexis received her third Gardasil shot – within 2 weeks she was in the hospital. Her behavior had worsened to the point where she was considered bipolar and she was put on a series of antipsychotic medications. Her mother didn’t believe that this was a psychological problem. She knew that something else had to be wrong, knew that there had to be some medical explanation for what was going on.

After weeks and months in and out of different hospitals with no improvement and her condition growing more desperate, Alexis at long last was seen by a doctor who recognized that she was having seizures – something all the previous doctors had overlooked. This led to more tests – EEGs, MRI imaging, and spinal taps — and finally a conclusion that seemed to make sense: encephalitis, traumatic brain injury, and seizure disorder. But why? Alexis’ mother had an additional conclusion which was so crystal clear in hindsight – her daughter was normal before she received the Gardasil vaccine and had worsened with each one. The Gardasil vaccine had left Alexis with brain damage.

We spoke with Tracy Wolf, Alexis’ mother, about their ordeal. While maintaining a cheerful optimism, Tracy admitted that she could never have foreseen how their lives would change completely. After Alexis’ seizure disorder was identified and she was put on anti-seizure medication, her physical symptoms improved to a certain extent, but she was completely altered. Alexis has deteriorated from being a normal child to one who is only functioning at a fourth grade level. Forced to enter Special Education instead of rejoining her previous class, Alexis became enormously frustrated and school became an ordeal for everyone.

Since Alexis turned 18, Tracy finally gave up and pulled her out of school, realizing that it really could not offer Alexis anything but misery. The stress on their family has been enormous. The pressure caused the Wolf’s marriage to dissolve, and Tracy is now raising both their daughters by herself, with their father living in a different state. Alexis needs almost constant supervision, and Tracy can only leave her alone for short periods of time. They have applied for special services that could possibly be helpful, but the waiting list is long. Alexis doesn’t understand why things are so different, why her little sister is learning to drive but she can’t.^[9]

Unlike with other types of injuries, a vaccine victim cannot simply sue the company responsible for the problem. Since 1986, all cases of vaccine injury must be brought to the Office of Special Master at the US Court of Federal Claims, commonly called the vaccine court. This court was established to create a non-adversarial situation in which children injured by vaccines could receive compensation. But the Department of Health and Human Services has completely distorted the intent of this legislation, and turned it into a highly adversarial proceeding. Injuries listed on a table are supposed to be automatically compensated, but they have removed a lot of injuries from the table over the years, and have listed new vaccines, such as Gardasil, with no specific injuries attributable to the vaccine. So the burden is on the victim to prove causation because there is no presumption of any injury.

In conversation with William Ronan, a lawyer retained by Alexis’ family, he shared that his law firm currently is handling 12 – 15 Gardasil cases that are being evaluated and another 6 cases already filed in the vaccine court. Interestingly, out of all the types of Gardasil-related injuries, the cases Ronan represents all fall into two main categories: autoimmune and neurological. When the injuries are neurological, doctors frequently can’t put their finger on what is wrong, and end up sending the girls to a psychiatrist.

Ronan maintains that it is impossible for all of these girls suddenly to have developed mental problems or simply to be imagining that they have been harmed since receiving the Gardasil vaccine. While not anti-vaccine himself, he has seen too many girls have serious adverse reactions to Gardasil. He runs a two-person law firm in Kansas City, and without advertising, has received at least 20 to 30 calls regarding Gardasil injuries. Ronan believes his experience is just the tip of the iceberg — anyone actually advertising legal services for Gardasil victims would be inundated with a huge number of cases.

The work is slow-going. Evidence of harm caused by vaccines is crucial, but there aren’t a lot of published medical studies about safety to back up this claim. Those that exist are funded by the manufacturer and tend to be overly favorable. Possibly the strongest argument against Merck, according to Ronan, is their failure to warn girls of the risk involved when getting the Gardasil vaccine. Merck clearly knew that this drug could cause neurological dysfunction, yet did not adequately address this in the product insert. Also, it is well known that girls who already have an HPV infection are more likely to be harmed by the vaccine, but the manufacture does not make this clear and does not recommend testing. Ronan summed up his view of vaccinating young girls with Gardasil:

“The real issue is: what is the benefit of this vaccine? Do the benefits outweigh the risks? There is a risk of a seizure disorder or an autoimmune disorder versus the benefit that it might reduce cervical cancer. But Gardasil doesn’t eliminate the need for regular Pap testing, which is already safe, and there isn’t good evidence that it prevents cervical cancer. In evaluating risk and benefit, when all the facts are known it becomes a pretty easy decision – the vaccine is more dangerous than any benefit. Unfortunately, medical professionals tend to read and listen to information provided by the manufacturers, which doesn’t adequately present the risks involved, so they actually aren’t sufficiently informed to advise their patients.”

Ronan’s own daughter had to fight off an aggressive attempt by her doctor to get the Gardasil vaccine, so he understands the pressure that girls are under to just go along instead of asking questions.^[10]

We interviewed Dr. Meryl Nass, board certified internal medicine practitioner and vaccine specialist, who agrees that Gardasil was rushed to market without adequate safety testing. Three years after approval for girls, the company likewise received approval to vaccinate boys age 9 and above with no new studies and very little data to justify this action. Regarding Gardasil’s adverse effects, Dr. Nass said,

“Children don’t usually die suddenly when they are healthy but there are certainly lots of teenage girls who have died relatively suddenly after Gardasil or developed severe neurologic reactions. Therefore, if you are going to try to balance safety and efficacy when you prescribe something like a vaccine, you have to know how effective it’s going to be. Does this really prevent cervical cancer in young women? And does it prevent it in women who have already been exposed to these viruses? … So I don’t know how other doctors prescribe something like Gardasil … Basically, they make an assumption that since the FDA has licensed it … the manufacturer would only market something that’s safe, doctors go ahead and prescribe. And what they may not be aware of is that it is extremely hard to link a side effect to a vaccine, for many reasons. Getting a judgment against a manufacturer is very difficult and it has become more difficult due to some recent litigation that reduced manufacturer liability for vaccines in general.”^[11]

Gardasil’s doctrine is already so entrenched after only six years that it is a formidable task to challenge the official story that this vaccine is safe and effective, because the truth is too unsettling. The remarkable claims of Gardasil’s benefits to women in the war on cancer are full of holes and not supported by the science, even that science funded by Merck itself. It is important to deconstruct the falsehoods and half-truths that masquerade as facts about Gardasil.

THERE IS NO HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS HEALTH CRISIS.

Cervical cancer in the United States has been at record lows for the past two decades. Currently only an estimated 3,600 women die of cervical cancer each year. The spectacular success in lowering the death rate from cervical cancer can be attributed to annual Pap screening – between 1955 and 1992 deaths from cervical cancer declined 74% and continue to decline annually by 4%. [^12] Part of the success of Pap screening lies in the fact that cervical cancer, unlike most other cancers, is very slow growing. With screening, there is ample opportunity to catch and successfully treat cervical cancer before it gets out of hand. It would be unlikely, then, for any further treatment to improve upon this already very low rate of cervical cancer death.

HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION DOES NOT USUALLY LEAD TO CANCER

It is estimated that virtually all women in the US experience a series of human papillomavirus infections throughout their lifetimes. What the makers of Gardasil try to hide is the well-documented fact that 90% of all HPV infections go away of their own accord within two years without causing any disease and with no treatment or intervention of any kind.^[13]

GARDASIL DOES NOT PREVENT CANCER

The end point of all the efficacy studies for Gardasil was not, in fact, prevention of cancer. Researchers couldn’t actually assess the development of cervical cancer following the vaccine because this process normally takes 20 to 40 years and their studies stopped after just five. So instead, Merck’s scientists decided that the presence of atypical cervical cells was a valid “surrogate end point,” or substitute for cancer. They used this hypothesis despite the fact that there is no evidence that the types of cervical lesions they chose as their end point would eventually lead to cancer.^[14]Merck has never acknowledged that their entire premise for the efficacy of Gardasil rests on pure speculation. In fact, many if not most atypical cervical cells resolve on their own without intervention.^[15]

GARDASIL IS NOT 98% EFFECTIVE AT PREVENTING HIGH-GRADE CERVICAL LESIONS.

Results of Merck’s efficacy study published in a 2007 article in the New England Journal of Medicine claim that Gardasil is 98% effective at preventing high-grade cervical lesions. But the article itself reveals that Merck manipulated the data by excluding women and girls who did not follow the exact protocol. When all women in the study were considered, vaccine efficacy dropped to 44%. But even these numbers only actually reflect cervical lesions associated with HPV 16 and 18. When Merck looked at Gardasil’s ability to prevent all cervical lesions, Gardasil was only17% effective!^[16] And again, their definition of “effective” rests solely on the unfounded assumption that certain types of cervical lesions turn into cancer.

More damning is Merck’s own acknowledgement that in their controlled studies, a percentage of girls actually developed serious cervical lesions following Gardasil. The vaccine seemed to cause the most lesions in girls with pre-existing HPV 16 or 18 infections, but also in girls who had no pre-existing HPV infections.[^17] At the very least, screening girls for HPV 16 or 18 infections would give HPV-positive girls the chance to avoid developing cervical lesions by declining the vaccine. Yet not only does Merck not recommend testing for HPV prior to vaccination with Gardasil, they have actually discouraged this practice, presumably so as not to draw attention to the danger.[^18] Anything to maintain the fantasy that this is a safe and effective vaccine.

GARDASIL DOES NOT PREVENT HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS

Gardasil is designed to prevent only 4 HPV strains: 16 and 18, which can cause cervical cancer, and 6 and 11, which can cause genital warts. However, there are 150 other types of HPVs, at least 15 of which can cause cancer, and Gardasil provides no protection against these other strains.^[19][20] Does Merck’s so-called consumer education ever mention any of this? Of course not. Why would you have your daughter vaccinated if you knew the protection was so limited?

VACCINATING PREPUBESCENT GIRLS WITH GARDASIL WILL NOT PROTECT THEM AGAINST HPV OR CERVICAL CANCER.

Despite the sanctimonious advertising which suggests that both mothers and daughters can empower themselves through Gardasil, Merck’s own studies show that the vaccine is only effective for 5 years.^[21] So if your 11 year-old daughter gets the Gardasil vaccine, it will have stopped working by the time she is 16. But since Merck doesn’t give out this information voluntarily, these girls and their mothers will be in the dark.

GARDASIL VACCINATION DOES NOT ELIMINATE THE NEED FOR ANNUAL PAP SCREENING

In portraying Gardasil as a treatment that will prevent 98% of cervical cancer, the strong implication is that vaccinated girls will no longer be at risk of cervical cancer at all. As we have already seen in Finland, this can lead to the false assumption that there is no longer a need for annual Pap testing. When women in Finland stopped getting Pap screens, cervical cancer increased to 4 times the incidence in only 5 years![^22] This complacency about risk, started and fostered by Gardasil advertising, is also likely to lead to an actual increase in cervical cancer in the US as more females receive the vaccine and stop taking actions that have been proven to be protective.

THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT GARDASIL IS EFFECTIVE IN BOYS AT PREVENTING GENITAL WARTS AND ANAL CANCER.

Merck’s study of HPV vaccine efficacy in males published in the New England Journal of Medicine states that Gardasil is 89% effective against genital warts and 75% effective against anal cancer. Given the fact that there are approximately 300 annual deaths from of anal/rectal cancer among men in the United States, one wonders how Merck was able to prove such a huge reduction in such a rare problem. As with the female group, external lesions substituted for actual cancer with no proof that lesions of that type actually lead to cancer at all. Yet, Merck’s statistics regarding their cancer substitute penile/perianal/perineal intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) listed in their appendix to the article show that in men who did not have HPV prior to vaccination, both the vaccinated group and the placebo group had the same number of these types of lesions, making the observed efficacy of Gardasil minus 98%! And for HPV strain 18-related genital lesions, there were actually more lesions in the vaccinated group than the placebo group. So as in the previous study, Merck’s impressive numbers for the efficacy of Gardasil in men can only be attained by excluding one-quarter of the study participants. When everyone is included and all outcomes are assessed, the efficacy drops to zero!^[23]

GARDASIL IS NOT SAFE

Most significantly, Gardasil has been associated with an unacceptable number of serious, life-altering adverse events following vaccination. According to World Health Organization data, the rate of serious adverse reactions reported to the VAERS system is 2.5 times higher than the current age-standardized death rate from cervical cancer. VAERS data show that Gardasil has been associated with 24,184 adverse effects since its debut in June of 2006, including seizures, anaphylaxis, paralysis, transverse myelitis, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome (uncontrollable movement of the eyes back and forth and jerking movements of the extremities), brachial neuritis, loss of vision, postural tachycardia syndrome, facial palsy, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, chronic fatigue syndrome, blindness, pancreatitis, speech problems, short term memory loss, miscarriage, multiple sclerosis, autoimmune disorders, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, abnormal Pap smears and even cervical cancer.^[24][25][26] Yes, you read that correctly – VAERS reports 41 cases of cervical cancer following vaccination with Gardasil!

Also, while Merck has not made pregnancy a contraindication for Gardasil vaccination, recent data released by VAERS reveal that Gardasil is by far the most dangerous vaccine to receive while pregnant, having caused more than 1300 adverse reactions in its five year existence compared to the next most dangerous vaccine frequently given to pregnant women, the flu vaccine, which has caused 200 adverse events over the past 20 years. Gardasil vaccination while pregnant has also been associated both with frequent miscarriage and a high rate of birth defects.[^27] But most tragically, as of November 2011, 4 more deaths have been added to the Gardasil toll, bringing the tally to 108 deaths due to the Gardasil vaccine! ^[28]

A vaccine against human papillomavirus was completely superfluous to women’s health from its inception. As if the unreasonable risk associated with this vaccine weren’t enough, Gardasil is also the most expensive recommended vaccine on the market at $120 – $150 per injection and three required doses. If this vaccine becomes mandated for school attendance, how are poor people and the uninsured to come up with the money? And as funding for government programs dries up, does it make any sense to take limited state health care dollars to vaccinate Medicaid-eligible girls with Gardasil instead of using the money for something that actually might be of benefit?

Since the ACIP arm of the FDA already approved Gardasil in 2007 for inclusion in the Vaccination for Children (VFC) program, which provides free immunizations to about 40-45% of children in the US due to their low income status, Merck’s syphoning off of money from other health concerns is poised to become a reality. Vaccination of every 11 and 12 year old girl in the US with three doses of Gardasil in order to attend school would cost $1.5 billion. To vaccinate these girls for a lifetime, once word gets out that the vaccine is only effective for five years, would cost $7.7 billion.^[29]Will there be any money left over for anything else, like Pap screening for poor women? Does this really seem like a good use of limited resources? Only to Merck and its well-compensated allies.

India banned the HPV vaccine a year ago due to vaccine-related deaths.[^30] France no longer permits advertising for Gardasil or Cervarix.^[31] So why hasn’t the FDA, the CDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics, or Merck itself responded to the VAERS reports that Gardasil is not a safe vaccine? The argument, which is the same defense used by all the drug companies and government agencies against any adverse reaction to any vaccine, is that since the VAERS system uses voluntary, passive reporting, it does not prove that a sudden health problem – or even death — occurring after vaccination was in fact caused by the vaccine.

The only causal relationships acceptable to the powers that be are those that result from scientific studies. But these are often unacceptable to the rest of us since the majority are funded by the pharmaceutical companies themselves. So the fix is in. What can any injured child or concerned parent do in the face of this hard line – should they be required to set up their own scientific study? Obviously, neither Merck nor our own government are willing to spend money to prove that Gardasil is in fact dangerous – it is much simpler and infinitely more lucrative to just ignore the allegations and try to portray the victims as conspiratorial whiners.

Instead we get studies published in peer-reviewed journals such as, “HPV Immunization in Adolescent and Young Adults: a Cohort Study to Illustrate What Events Might be Mistaken for Adverse Reactions,”[^32] from a lead author who received funding from Sanofi Pasteur (which partners with Merck for vaccines outside of the US) and GlaxoSmithKline (makers of the HPV vaccine Cervarix), while the other two authors received support from both Merck and GlaxoSmithKline. Sounds like objective science, right? Remember, Merck is the same company that intentionally kept the cardiac risks associated with Vioxx secret while aggressively advertising the product directly to consumers. The same company that so effectively fabricated a supposedly peer-reviewed journal to support Vioxx that even doctors couldn’t tell it wasn’t real – The Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine.[^33] Merck let 60,000 Americans die from Vioxx-related heart attacks before finally pulling the drug from the market when they could no longer deny the truth, and cold-bloodedly set aside $1.6 billion with the intention of fighting every claim for damages.

The CDC and the FDA maintain that Gardasil is an important cervical cancer prevention tool that could protect the health of millions of women. But the facts show that the opposite is true: in fact, Gardasil vaccination is not justified by the health care benefits – which are highly questionable and largely fraudulent – nor is it even economically feasible. Yet the lure of the money appears irresistible and seems to be clouding the thinking of everyone in a position to say no to the creeping, relentless advance of Gardasil. It is up to us, the victims, the parents, and the concerned friends and neighbors. We have to get the message out to as many people as we can and flood our legislators with notice that this vaccine is dangerous, should not be given to anyone, and at the very least cannot be mandated for school attendance.

Tracy Wolf carries enormous guilt, blaming herself for ever agreeing to let Alexis get the Gardasil vaccine. She believed she was doing the right thing, doing what Alexis’ doctors had recommended. Too late, she realized that the doctors really didn’t know any more about this vaccine than she did. Tracy is now an advocate for informed consent. She tries to share her story with anyone who will listen to prevent this type of injury from happening to anyone else’s daughter. To all parents being asked to vaccinate their daughters – or even sons – with Gardasil, Tracy has this to say: “Please do your homework. Please educate yourself about the risks of this vaccine. The risk of cervical cancer is so low and the success of regular Pap testing has been so great that there really is no need for this vaccine at all. There is no going back once your child has brain damage.”

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Gary Null PhD and Nancy Ashley VMD

Dr. Gary Null is the host of the nation’s longest-running public radio program, The Gary Null Show, and founder of the web-based Progressive Radio Network. A journalist and New York Times best-selling author who has written over 70 books on nutrition, health, and socio-political issues, Gary has received critical acclaim as director and producer of multi award-winning documentaries, most recently Death by Medicine (2011), and Knocking on the Devil’s Door (2011).

Dr. Nancy Ashley is Senior Research Scholar with Gary Null and Associates.

Radical Idea: Paper Suggests Forcing Your Children Into Vaccine Trials

Jeffry John Aufderheide — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:54:34 +0000

Stealth viruses, like SV40, have contaminated vaccines in the past.

Would you like to know a definition of radically insane? How about you or your child being forced to participate in experimental vaccine trials?

Somehow right off the bat the idea of forced participation in experimental vaccine trials reminds me of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment the U.S. government undertook that was profoundly and morally wrong.

“For 40 years, the U.S. Public Health Service has conducted a study in which human guinea pigs, not given proper treatment, have died of syphilis and its side effects,” Associated Press reporter Jean Heller wrote on July 25, 1972. “The study was conducted to determine from autopsies what the disease does to the human body.” http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/jul/tuskegee/

According to a paper published by the American Medical Association’s Virtual Mentor, current enrollment in vaccine trials is extremely low. There is now talk of creating a federal law to force individuals to ‘opt-out’ of vaccine trials for the greater good of society. Read the paper here: http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2012/01/pfor1-1201.html

Authors Susanne Sheehy and Joel Meyer float the idea of creating a system where a law forces an individual to make a “mandated choice” to participate in vaccine trials. This suggested policy not only is dangerously naïve but downright unconstitutional and ought to be regarded as such by every entity whether medical, legal, or taxpayer.

In reality, what is being proposed is complete medical tyranny. Here’s why…

Mandatory Participation Creates a Customer List for Big Pharma

It sounds harmless. Hey, they even suggested we have a ‘mandated choice’, right? In order to see the bigger picture, we need to take this logic a few steps further.

For example, everyone would be required to enroll into a database. This is the case now even if you exempt your child from vaccines! Yes! You’re still in a database. What about HIPAA violations and privacy rules? Don’t they apply?

The ‘volunteer’ information would have to be shared with the Pharmaceutical Companies, which is the full intent, so as to gather trial and field test data Big Pharma can document before introducing a new product to FDA for approval. Of course, Pharma could call upon those who would want to volunteer.

What if they couldn’t get the numbers they needed – then what?

My prediction is they’d either force citizens to participate, or use a helpless population that could be gathered from any segment of society they designate. The Willowbrook Institution ‘studies’ in New York is an example of ‘how they do things’.

Just in case you’re not familiar with the travesty at Willowbrook, Dr. Saul Krugman fed feces to children in order to test the effectiveness of the Hepatitis B vaccine they were researching to produce. Read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbrook_State_School

Truly, can it get any more sinister? I think it can.

Here’s even more proof.

Vaccine Manufacturers Are Protected From Lawsuits if Your Child is Harmed

Please remember this point: If your child is given a vaccine and harmed, vaccine manufacturers are not responsible financially or morally.

The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act passed in 1986 shields vaccine manufacturers from any liability. If vaccines are 99.99% safe, as medical professionals tell us, having such a law doesn’t make much sense.

That law is a travesty of justice and should be rescinded by Congress who put it into place at the apparent behest of Big Pharma and its thousands of lobbyists with deep pockets informing members of Congress how to go about establishing Big Pharma’s corporate governance.

Nevertheless, the next logical question to answer would be, “What happens if your child is harmed?”

I speak from personal experience—my son is vaccine damaged—when I say there is little help waiting for you. Parents of vaccine-injured children are discovering the next-to-impossible task of being compensated by the government vaccine court.

Parents also ought to be aware pharmaceutical companies treat children with callous disregard, especially in vaccine trials. A recent article written by Christina England spells out how pharmaceutical researchers skew adverse reactions to vaccines to make it look like the vaccine is safe, when it is not. Read how premature babies had vaccines tested on them here: http://vactruth.com/2012/01/23/babies-used-as-lab-rats/

But what if vaccine injuries take other forms, like causing cancer?

We should also be mindful of the long-term effects, too, especially recombinant DNA.

Even if viruses causing cancer, among other things, subsequently are discovered in the vaccine—as was the case with the polio vaccine of the 1950s and ‘60s—past experience shows government will keep the vaccines on the shelves. They don’t want to risk eroding confidence in any aspect of the vaccine program.

Their job is to protect Big Pharma’s apparent policy over the health of your child. If you think you or your child will be compensated, expect years of dealing with government bureaucracy and probable rejection, as thousands of families experience to date.

Summary

Parents are told pharmaceutical companies exist for the ‘Greater Good’ of society. Yet, a quick check on the Department of Justice website shows that major Pharma corporations have been convicted of serious criminal offenses with only ‘slaps on the wrists’—monetary fines, unless there have been class action law suits filed in which harmed individuals sometimes receive compensation for pain and suffering.

Give me a break!

Any time a law has to be created mandating participation, you can bet there’s BIG money involved! As I mentioned above, such a law would give Big Pharma a guaranteed customer list plus immunity from injuring the ‘volunteers’. Can pharmaceutical companies get a much sweeter deal? I don’t think so; how about you?

The suggestion of mandating participation in medical trials has no place in a free society. It ought to go where it rightly belongs – in the trash along with their vaccines.

References:

Should Participation in Vaccine Clinical Trials be Mandated? http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2012/01/pdf/pfor1-1201.pdf
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/jul/tuskegee/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Injury_Act
http://vactruth.com/2012/01/23/babies-used-as-lab-rats/
http://vactruth.com/2011/12/30/3-filthy-truths-about-vaccines-cancer/

Photo Credit: Kanijoman

Jeffry John Aufderheide

Jeffry John Aufderheide is the father of a child injured as a result of vaccination. As editor of the website www.vactruth.com he promotes well-educated pediatricians, informed consent, and full disclosure and accountability of adverse reactions to vaccines.

Premature Babies Used As Lab Rats In Manipulated Vaccine Trials

Christina England — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:31:55 +0000

Pharmaceutical companies treat premature babies like lab rats in vaccine trials.

While reading the results of a vaccination trial on premature babies funded by GlaxoSmithKline, I noticed something was not quite right.

The trial, whilst sickening in itself, was testing out the rotavirus vaccine on a group of 988 premature babies ranging between 27 weeks and 36 weeks.

The paper reporting the trial was published on the ‘Pediatric SuperSite’ and was entitled ‘Human rotavirus immunogenic, well-tolerated for preterm infants’ by Felix Omenaca MD. PhD, and colleagues (1) The paper stated the following:

“The researchers grouped preterm infants by ages — infants born at gestational ages 27 to 30 weeks and those born at 30 to 36 weeks. They administered rotavirus vaccine (RIX4414, GlaxoSmithKline) in two doses to 658 preterm infants, and 330 received a placebo along with routine vaccinations, including diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae type B and poliovirus. Infants from France and Spain also received Streptococcus pneumoniae concomitantly; infants from Portugal and Spain also received Neisseria meningitides.

The researchers then asked parents/guardians to report adverse effects, and they noted no statistically significant difference in the reporting of severe adverse reactions in the vaccine or placebo group (5.1% and 6.2%, respectively). Unsolicited adverse effects, which included fever of more than 39.5·C, six or more bouts of diarrhea per day, three or more episodes of vomiting per day, appetite loss and irritability, were reported in 29.3% of preterm infants in the vaccine group and 40.7% in the placebo group. (own emphasis)

The problems I see are as follows:

All the infants were given multiple vaccinations, therefore, there was no control group.
Of a group of 988 children, approx 2/3 were given the vaccine for rotavirus and 1/3 were given the placebo, then the researchers compared the results like for like. This cannot be done because one group is significantly larger than the other.
Because all of the infants received multiple vaccinations it is impossible to tell which vaccine if any caused the side effects.

I decided to examine the exact figures in greater detail.

The total of infants given all the vaccines including the rotavirus vaccine was 658 which equal 66.6% of the total number of babies being tested.

The total of infants given all the vaccines except the rotavirus vaccine was 330 which equal 33.3% of the total number of babies being tested.

Severe Reactions

In the group receiving the rotavirus vaccine 5.1% of the infants had a severe reaction; this was a total of 33 children.

In the group receiving the placebo 6.2% of the infants had a severe reaction; this was a total of 20 children.

Less Severe Reactions

Now let us look at what the researchers call ‘unsolicited adverse effects’.

The researchers say that these effects included fever of more than 39.5·C, six or more bouts of diarrhea per day, three or more episodes of vomiting per day, appetite loss and irritability.

In the group receiving the rotavirus vaccine 29.3% of the infants had an unsolicited adverse effect which is a total of 192 children.

In the group receiving the placebo 40.7% of the infants had an unsolicited adverse effect which is a total of 134 children

Presuming that the children in the severe group were different to the children in the unsolicited group, this means that a total of 225 children of the 688 who received all of the vaccines including the rotavirus vaccine had an adverse reaction.

(Figures checked on Google)

This amounts to a massive number of premature babies suffering from adverse reactions and yet despite this the researchers, reported that ‘because of the higher risk that human rotavirus poses to preterm infants, the study supports this vaccine’s use in those older than 27 weeks who are “medically stable at the time of or after discharge from the neonatal unit’.

These are the vaccination trials that we the public rely on to test our vaccinations before use. Does anyone at the WHO, the FDA or the CDC ever even look at these studies in detail or do they just read the concluding paragraph?

This study was flawed from the beginning due to the number of variables affecting the sample groups being tested. The researchers did disclose the age of the children and the other vaccines that could affect the results, however; they did not disclose any other conflicting variables. These variables may include cultural, social and economical backgrounds, weight and medical histories including any drugs that the babies were already being treated with.

Just by reading this study through anyone with an ounce of sense can see that it is weighted in favor of the researchers.

This was a trial on premature infants for goodness sake!

To use these small vulnerable babies as little more than lab rats is bad enough but to then falsify the results to get the vaccines sanctioned to give to all premature babies is positively criminal.

Not only that, but this was a trial of a GlaxoSmithKline product, funded by GlaxoSmithKline with the majority of the researchers researching the product actually having financial ties to GlaxoSmithKline. Unbelievable!!!!

The disclaimer at the end of the report read.

“Disclosure: A number of researchers reported financial ties to GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, which funded the study”.

A couple of days ago I wrote an article about a prem baby from Belgium (2) who died after receiving a cocktail of vaccines including the rotavirus vaccine. Is it any wonder that this baby lost her life when parents have to rely on studies like this?

Sources:

Human rotavirus immunogenic, well-tolerated for preterm infants’ by Felix Omenaca MD. PhD, and colleagues http://www.pediatricsupersite.com/view.aspx?rid=91652
Baby Dies After 9 Vaccines In One Day http://vactruth.com/2012/01/19/baby-dies-after-first-shots/

Photo Credit: Fox Tongue

Christina England

After dedicating much of her spare time helping disabled children in a special school, she then worked in a respite unit in a leading teaching hospital.

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Summary

Premature Babies Used As Lab Rats In Manipulated Vaccine Trials