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By Jeffry John Aufderheide
When I was a newcomer to parenthood almost ten years ago, I was overwhelmed with the many choices concerning the health of my newborn child. One choice I took for granted is to have my son vaccinated at his well baby check-ups. I trusted the pediatrician’s judgment in protecting my son from childhood illnesses. After all, vaccines make us all healthier; at least that is what my pediatrician told me.
Dr. Todd Elsner’s book, “What The Pharmaceutical Companies Don’t Want You To Know About VACCINES…” is an exposé of insider information many parents, like myself, are not readily familiar with. The initial expectation reading Dr. Todd Elsner’s book was to enhance my background knowledge on vaccines. The book was loaded with facts and figures from official government sources which provided reference for future research. More importantly, I learned how information concerning vaccine reactions and adverse outcomes are deliberately suppressed from parents.
Polio is often cited as a major triumph in vaccine technology. Perhaps you have heard a statement such as, “You are too young to remember polio, but it has been eradicated by vaccines…if your child does not get the vaccine, they will die.” According to Dr. Todd Elsner in his book,using the CDC’s own numbers and statements, parents are not told the entire story.
By example, does the average parent know there are four different types of polio? Accordingly, only one of the four types causes what we know as classical ‘polio paralysis’. The other three types of polio present symptoms indistinguishable from the common cold, according to the Center for Disease Control.
Of particular interest, Dr. Todd Elsner’s book goes on to explain that only .1% – .5% of the cases of polio actually end in flaccid paralysis. To put this in perspective as a parent, you have a 99.5% – 99.9% relative risk your child will not contract paralytic polio!
Appropriate relevant detail is used to explain how the polio vaccines actually caused a marked increase in polio cases throughout the country in the mid 1950’s. So obvious was the fact, that on July 1st, 1955, the Health Director for the State of Idaho halted the polio vaccine program. Even more boldly, the Health Director even held the Salk vaccine and its manufactures responsible. Dr. Todd Elsner also shows compelling evidence to support the argument that polio never went away; it was merely renamed to aseptic meningitis.
Common arguments in the vaccine debate cover questionable ingredients such as aluminum, thimerasol, and aborted fetal cells. The contention from vaccine supporters is the vaccine ingredients are in such infinitesimal amounts, that it is insignificant to argue they cause harm. Dr. Todd Elsner’s book only covers briefly the biological aspect of this debate.
All things considered, Dr. Todd Elsner leaves no wiggle room for the vaccine industry to deny that dangerous chemicals and questionable ingredients are indeed present in the vaccines. A thorough review of each ingredient and the effects it may have are given for the individual vaccines.
Dr. Todd Elsner’s book, “What The Pharmaceutical Companies Don’t Want You To Know About VACCINES…”,is a must have for any truth-seeking parent who wants answers to difficult and politically charged questions.
As a father of a vaccine-injured child, the risks of vaccinating my son were never explained. I did not know the pharmaceutical companies cannot be held liable for what happened to my son. The book Doctor Todd Elsner wrote equips parents to make a well-educated and informed decision to vaccinate or not vaccinate their child. If only I were to have known about the risks Dr. Todd Elsner wrote about 10 years ago, I can tell you with confidence my son would not have been vaccinated.


