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BlankAn article by Helen McDade, published in today's Scotsman, is

reproduced below.

 

 

" The Scotsman "

 

 

 

Focus piece Helen McDade

16.11.07

 

 

 

Currently, media articles are full of the apparent need for introducing

chickenpox (varicella) vaccination for all, in the UK. Many of these articles

mention how good it would be if Hepatitis B vaccination was also given to

babies, adding to a growing number of childhood vaccines. This push is no

surprise no self-respecting pharmaceutical company is going to develop a

vaccine and not try to sell it as a universal panacea. Indeed, vaccines are

the

golden goose for pharmaceutical companies. Governments may buy them for

everyone in the country and, once committed to a vaccination programme, they

seem to find it almost impossible to re-assess the programme, regardless. For

instance, it is only in recent years that the UK has stopped using a live

polio vaccine - despite the fact that the vaccine was the only way

susceptible people might acquire polio in this country. Similarly, there were

more

than a hundred cases of vaccine-induced paralytic polio in the US between 1975

and 19841.

 

 

 

Pharmaceutical companies will also note that governments never sue a vaccine

company for causing harm, because the government was the instigator of the

programme. On the contrary, the evidence suggests governments will go to

extraordinary lengths to ignore evidence of harm and to convince parents that

it is their duty to vaccinate their children. We are not yet at the US

situation of not allowing children into school if they are unvaccinated but it

may well only be time.

 

 

 

So, as a Scotsman editorial put it, let*s have a sober assessment. The

medical establishment portrays vaccines as magic bullets which have no effect

on

other immune functions. However, even the manufacturers admit a long list of

possible side-effects of vaccines in their data sheet. The US government

body, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), did one of the most definitive

and largest studies of vaccine safety. They listed thirty-four major

side-effects of the MMR and DPT vaccines (both triple vaccines given to

infants in

Britain). One of the most serious of these is anaphylactic shock, which can

be fatal. Other side-effects included asthma, blood disorders, infectious

diseases, diabetes and neurological disorders, including meningitis, polio

and hearing loss. Both the CDC and the UK*s Public Health Laboratory

Service found that DPT and MMR increased the rate of seizure by up to three

times. In another study, a researcher concluded that vaccines were the major

cause of insulin-dependent diabetes in young children[ii].

Cot deaths are another area of concern. An Australian medical researcher,

Dr. Vera Scheibner, was involved in developing a monitor for children thought

to be at risk of cot death. The monitor identified periods when the baby was

stressed, from breathing patterns. The periods of most stress occurred

within a few days of vaccination. This led Dr Schiebner to further research

vaccination and campaign to make the world aware of her own and others

findings.[iii] There are books of peer-reviewed studies showing known

side-effects of

vaccination. They just aren*t reported. Although the media are often

accused of wallowing in doomsday scenarios, there seems to be a huge reluctance

to

investigate vaccine damage. Is it just too frightening to take the lid off

of this Pandora box?

This is not to suggest that vaccination is the only factor in the increase

in such illnesses. Indeed, the problem with medical establishment thinking

is that it is based on an outdated model, which suggests that only one

factor, such as an infectious agent, is involved in a particular illness

developing. Other factors, such as genetic susceptibility, infections,

nutrition

and toxic exposure, are all likely to be very significant. Indeed, if a

family has auto-immune tendencies, then it is worth taking particular care when

considering vaccination. Many doctors working with chronic immunological

illnesses, such as asthma, life-threatening allergies, diabetes, and

M.E./Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and developmental disorders, such as autism,

believe

that there is a significant auto-immune component. Many families with one

such condition will have others. Anecdotal evidence suggests this genetic

tendency is a risk factor with vaccinations.

Many parents, like myself, are left bitterly investigating these issues.

Thousands of chronically ill children are getting a very raw deal from the

medical establishment. Some, such as those with diabetes or asthma, may be

getting a lot of NHS attention but that doesn*t diminish the fact that they

have a life-long and life-threatening condition. Others, such as those with

autism or M.E./Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (the latter group including my

seventeen year old daughter, who has had M.E. since she was five), are more or

less

ignored and shunned by the NHS and society alike. This leads to us taking

up internet research generally scorned by doctors. However, we are not all

mad or ignorant. Quite the reverse a disproportionate number of

vaccination refuseniks are university educated. Many of the people queuing

for

single vaccines at private clinics are medically trained. Having trained and

worked as a veterinary surgeon myself, I am particularly annoyed with myself

for

believing what I was taught unquestioningly, despite other evidence. I

understand the reaction of doctors when a parent says, He has been really ill

since the vaccine could it be a reaction? What the doctor thinks is,

*Vaccines don*t cause serious reactions, therefore this is (another)

coincidence

I know that is what they think because I*ve thought it. The logic is, " If

vaccines don*t cause side-effects, this isn*t one. Therefore, there is no

need to record this as a side-effect. " QED. There are no records of

side-effects. As one doctor said, " Since they stopped testing for whooping

cough

(because there had been a successful vaccination programme) there have been no

recorded cases in our area.

A key argument given for universal chickenpox vaccine is that six children

died of chickenpox in 13 months. These were tragic events. But each of our

cases is also a tragedy for a family. We deserve to be weighed in the

balance. I pray that we will have that sober assessment. Will I have my

youngest, healthy, totally unvaccinated child vaccinated for any of the new

batch -

chickenpox, hepatitis B, cervical cancer? Over my dead body.

(For the purposes of readability in the type of article this is, I have not

quoted references. However, I have not quoted any anecdotal statistics only

ones from published medical journals. Where something is anecdotal, I*ve

made that clear).

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1 ASM News, 1988; 54 (10); 560-2 =20

JAMA, 1995; 274 (1) 12-13 (both quoted in WDDTY book, p. 147) =20

CDC Seminar 9th Sept 1994, Washington DC (WDDTY book, p 135)

[ii]=20

Dr Bart Classen paper given at American College for Advancement in =

Medicine, Nashville, may 14 2001

=20

Association between DPT and cot death, 2nd Immunization Conference, =

Canberra, May 27th, 1991

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