Category: Vaccines

The truth about vaccines risks and failures.

  • Mandatory obedience: Hospitals are threatening the jobs of healthcare workers who refuse the flu vaccine

    Mandatory obedience: Hospitals are threatening the jobs of healthcare workers who refuse the flu vaccine

    Yet another assault on health freedom is reportedly occurring in the state of Georgia in the form of mandatory vaccinations for healthcare professionals.

    In a YouTube video, Georgia hospital worker Lauren Atkinson claims that the federal government is forcing healthcare employers in the Peach State to vaccinate all or most of their employees with the influenza, or flu, vaccine. Non-compliant employees apparently face termination if they don’t submit to the flu injection by a certain date, but most workers are going along with it, according to Atkinson, who intends to refuse the flu shot.

    Natural News has previously maintained that there really is no good reason to get a flu shot. No legitimate evidence exists proving that they even work at all. But they do contain a variety of toxic additives that can cause severe side effects. In addition to conventional treatment, however, a variety of natural remedies are also worth considering to help ward off the flu bug, although that is a personal decision.

    “Citing Obamacare as the primary driver of an initiative to vaccinate 90% of all hospital healthcare workers for the flu, Atkinson explains how nurses en masse are complying with this rule, even though they may disagree with the idea of injecting potentially risky and useless chemicals into their bodies, out of fear of being fired. They are afraid to lose their jobs. She points out that of all the vaccines available today, the flu vaccine is the least effective because the flu is a virus that is constantly mutating and changing, therefore, a vaccine for any particular strain is highly unlikely to protect you from the latest mutation,” Waking Times explained.

    Read the rest of the article at: http://www.naturalnews.com/2016-12-20-mandatory-vaccines-hospitals-are-threatening-the-jobs-of-healthcare-workers-who-refuse-the-flu-vaccine.html.

  • Medical Science OR Medical Marketing?

    Medical Science OR Medical Marketing?

    Do you still believe that “medical science” is independent of the industry it reports on?!! Leading vaccine-maker MERCK admits paying for the creation of a new medical journal in Australia to promote it’s products while appearing to be an independent journal. 

    Current Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious medical journal The Lancet commented on this last year by saying: “Much of scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue…Science has taken a turn towards darkness.” — Dr Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of leading medical journal The Lancet.”

    But news of a Merck-sponsored publication for doctors in Australia, that has come to light in a personal injury lawsuit there over Vioxx, has raised eyebrows in international medical publishing.

    From 2002 through 2005, the Australian affiliate of Merck paid the Australian office of Elsevier, an academic publisher, to publish eight compilations of scientific articles under the title Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, a spokesman for Elsevier said. The Merck marketing compilation was unusual in that it looked like an independent peer-reviewed medical journal. It even called itself a “journal,” without indicating in any of the issues that Merck had paid for it.

    Elsevier is not the only publishing house which has been accused of sometimes blurring the line between advertising and science. This problem is particularly pronounced in medicine, where there is much money to be made from sales of drugs and medical devices. Drug companies push to publish positive results, saysGiustini, who runs a popular wiki for health librarians, because it is an effective means of getting the attention of doctors, who prescribe drugs and recommend medical devices. So it shouldn’t come as a complete surprise, he says, that a drug company (Merck, in the case of the fake Australian journal) funded a marketing publication in a form that looked like a journal. “It’s troubling and shocking but not completely new.”

    The effects of polluting medical literature with poor or suspect science are significant, says Giustini. Doctors are too busy to carefully assess every article about a new drug or device, he says, yet must now take that time because they are wary of accepting in good faith the authors’ conclusions.

    “I believe that many doctors reviewing the journal would likely believe it to be a peer-reviewed medical journal, and rely upon the contents as they would upon other journals they read,” said Robert J. Donovan, an expert witness for the plaintiff, according to a deposition statement.

    Its not just Australia the British Medical Journal is also guilty.

    The British Medical Journal published several scathing editorials against Dr. Andrew Wakefield whose research figures pointed to a possible connection of gut damage in children and the administration of MMR vaccine in the 90’s. Hardly an independent view as the BMJ admits it receives funding from both Merck and GSK, the makers of the MMR vaccines. 

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734229/

  • Mercury, Vaccines and the CDC’s Worst Nightmare

    Mercury, Vaccines and the CDC’s Worst Nightmare

    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is known for his fierce and relentless brand of environmental activism and his advocacy for transparent government and rigorous science. He is now applying his tenacious energies and sophisticated strategies to exposing the fraud and corruption within the CDC and the pharmaceutical industry.

    Around 2005, parents of vaccine-injured children started encountering Mr. Kennedy’s speeches and writings about the toxic mercury-based preservative thimerosal. They embraced new hope that this environmental champion would finally expose the truth about vaccine injury and win justice for injured children.  Kennedy is known for his fierce and relentless brand of environmental activism and his advocacy for transparent government and rigorous science. He is now applying his tenacious energies and sophisticated strategies to exposing the fraud and corruption within the CDC and the pharmaceutical industry. Last month, he launched his new non-profit, the World Mercury Project, with vaccine safety advocates Lyn Redwood and Laura Bono, legends themselves among parents of vaccine-injured children.

    Autism File executive editor Rita Shreffler spoke with Mr. Kennedy about CDC corruption, pharmaceutical industry greed, media malpractice, and his vision for the World Mercury Project.

    Read the full article at …
    http://en.calameo.com/read/00438548539c8349d8274?page=20

  • If only half of America is properly vaccinated, where are the epidemics?

    If only half of America is properly vaccinated, where are the epidemics?

    If only half of America is properly vaccinated, where are the epidemics?
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    In 2014, an outbreak of whooping cough (pertussis) broke out in the San Diego area. Of the 621 individuals who were infected, nearly all of them were completely up to date on all preventive vaccinations. If vaccines are given to protect from disease, how could this happen?

    San Diego public health official Dr. Wilma Wooten argued that the cause was related to a decrease in the protection offered by vaccines after the first year. This answer is most revealing, in that it speaks to the actual efficacy of vaccines. It also shows that the concept of herd immunity is largely myth—and completely misunderstood.

    The theory of herd immunity states that when a critical mass of the population (usually stipulated at 95%) is vaccinated against a disease, the possibility of outbreaks is eliminated. This is the main argument that is used to shame parents who wish to refuse certain vaccinations for their children: by not vaccinating, they put the health of the “herd” at risk.

    However, if vaccines start losing effectiveness after the first year, as Dr. Wooten says, then constant re-vaccination would be required, since the immunity offered is only temporary for most vaccines. Achieving the required rate of protection is virtually impossible under this paradigm.

    Of course, if we look back over the decades and note the lack of rampant epidemics in our nation, while remembering that vaccine protection is in perpetual decline, the myth of herd immunity quickly unravels. Our society has never achieved this level of herd immunity, yet not a single major outbreak of disease has occurred.

    Noted author and neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, MD, offers this analysis:

    It was not until relatively recently that it was discovered that most of these vaccines lost their effectiveness 2 to 10 years after being given. What this means is that at least half the population, that is the baby boomers, have had no vaccine-induced immunity against any of these diseases for which they had been vaccinated very early in life. In essence, at least 50% or more of the population was unprotected for decades.

    After a 2015 outbreak of measles at Disneyland, the state legislature in California took the extraordinary measure of rescinding religious and philosophical exemptions for vaccinations, even for children at higher risk of vaccine injury. State Sen. Richard Pan, who led the fight, argued that it was imperative to public health to maintain herd immunity among the general population, and that to ensure 95% compliance, vaccination had to be mandatory. The law he authored, which risks the health of many vulnerable children, accomplishes nothing—because herd immunity is a myth.

    The argument for herd immunity was actually developed out of observations of natural immunity, not vaccination. Statisticians observed that populations were protected when sufficient members contracted the wild form of a disease, and subsequently acquired lifelong immunity. With vaccines, however, evidence shows that unvaccinated children may catch infectious diseases from vaccinated children. What is true of natural immunity is not true of vaccination.

    The herd immunity argument has always been inconsistent. On the one hand, the theory goes, people who cannot receive vaccines for whatever reason are protected from the disease through a high level of vaccination in the rest of society. On the other hand, the theory continues, parents who don’t vaccinate their children put the health of wider society at risk. How can a handful of people not getting vaccinated be protected from getting sick, while at the same time being so disease-ridden that they make others sick? This doesn’t make sense.

    While herd immunity may not exist, herd mentality most definitely does. Health authorities, media commentators, and schools and their parent–teacher associations waste no opportunity in perpetuating this myth. Proponents have done such a thorough job of convincing the public that a parent who questions it is treated like someone who thinks the earth is flat or believes climate change is a conspiracy. On the contrary: an unprejudiced view of the science about vaccines, and an examination of history, clearly show that the herd immunity theory is—and always has been—flawed. 

    Vaccines may have a place in our medical arsenal, but they are not the silver bullet they’re portrayed to be. Year after year the pharmaceutical industry, looking for lucrative new profit centers, churns out new vaccines. They use pseudo-science to convince the public that these products are safe and effective, and they use public shaming to convince the citizenry that non-compliance is a public health threat. This entire racket completely falls apart with a close examination of the herd immunity myth. Until we are honest in our assessment of both the safety and efficacy of vaccines, kids will continue to be hurt, rights will continue to be trampled, and mythology will continue to trump science.

    Gretchen DuBeau is Executive Director of Alliance for Natural Health USA.

    This article originally appeared at: http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/295562-if-only-half-of-america-is-properly-vaccinated-where-are-the#.WFVMWv8VM_A.facebook.
  • MMR Controversy Reignites

    MMR Controversy Reignites

    Is there a connection between vaccines and autism?
    Recently, fraud at the CDC was uncovered. They knew of a 340% risk of autism and still recommended the MMR vaccine.  

    CDC senior scientist confesses “omitted data” on MMR vaccine safety, while whistleblower virologists accuse vaccine manufacturer of fraud, will the truth out at last? 

    Important developments have come to light in the long-running measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine controversy, but practically no mainstream media are covering the story; and if they do, they tell a very partial tale.
    William Thompson, a senior scientist with the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released a statement via a law firm saying [1]: “I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journalPediatrics.  The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism.”

    Meantime, pharmaceutical Merck is facing at least two federal court cases over the MMR vaccine, and may well also have to defend itself in US Congress [2]. Representative Bill Posey (a longtime critic of the CDC) and his staff are now reviewing a thousand documents that William Thompson has turned over to Congress.

    The controversy was ignited by UK pediatrician Andrew Wakefield in the late 1990s (see [3] The MMR vaccine Controversy*, SiS 13/14). As a result, Wakefield not only lost his job, the paper he coauthored with 12 other researchers reporting a potential link between MMR vaccine, autism, and gastrointestinal inflammation was unilaterally retracted by the Lancet and “discredited”, and he was struck off by UK’s General Medical Council for serious professional misconduct [4]. Since then, Wakefield has been subject to almost universal vilification by the medical/scientific establishment and the mainstream media. He is still blamed for “measles epidemics”, including the one that appeared to have started in California’s  Disneyland, but has actually been traced to the Philippines [5]. Wakefield is consistently wrongly accused of being ‘anti-vaccine’ [6]. He had only advised against the MMR triple vaccine, recommending instead the single vaccines including the one for measles, which governments have since withdrawn.
    Merck, the sole manufacturer of MMR vaccine had stopped making the single vaccines since 2008 [7].

  • Vaccine Culture War in America. Are You Ready?

    Vaccine Culture War in America. Are You Ready?

    How did a handful of measles cases at Disneyland turn into a full-scale assault on civil and human rights in America?

    CALIFORNIA: MEASLES OUTBREAK ENDS.  ZERO DEATHS. 
    There was NO transmission in schools or day cares.
    And yet, the California legislator pushed into law TWO bills that will permanently affect schools and day cares. 
    The daycare and school children will be forced vaccinated and their preschool teachers and daycare providers will as well. 

    Thousands of families voiced opposition to a vaccine mandate that keeps children out of schools and demands that preschool teachers and daycare owners be vaccinated on a state mandated schedule. Legislators ignored them. Pockets lined with pharma contributions and being directed by lobbiest, California’s legislature closed its doors to health freedom.

    Could something like this happen in Idaho? 

    Unfortunately, no state is exempt from the temptation of big pharma’s money. Recently one of American’s strongest vaccine promoters Paul Offit came to educate the Health and Welfare department. He also joined a campaign to generate legislation that would remove a parents authority over the health and well being of their child. Eyes are on Idaho to begin to chip away our freedoms and push us away from the freedom to choice the healthcare options best suited for our individual children. 

    You have seen it in the news just this week. “Doctors are Afraid” What are they afraid of? 

    Well according to articles by KVIP and KTVB those doctors are afraid of the 271 six-year-olds in the state that aren’t up-to-date on their two shots of measles vaccines before kindergarten. The fear-mongering is very strong. The propaganda piece ‘study’ written by vaccine patent holder manipulated numbers to try generate ‘fear’ of vaccine exemptions throughout the state. 

    Here’s some of those figures: 

    Looking for detailed information about the ‘study’? J.B. Handley has put together a great article : Deconstructing the “Hot Spots” hoax from Pharma shill 

    It is as Barbara Lowe Fischer says, a vaccine culture war. And they are using FEAR to take away our freedom.
    Look at these facts about California’s vaccine mandates.


    1. Measles cases 133 out of a population of 320,090,857.
     (US Census Bureau) 
    WHY is 133 cases considered LARGE this year when it was over 600 cases last year and it wasn’t even mentioned in the media? 

    2. When did the definition of ‘majority’ become less than half of the total number?  CDC: “The majority of people who got measles were un-vaccinated.” <source>
    California Department of Public Health reports that of the 133 confirmed CALIFORNIA residents only 57 were un-vaccinated. <source>

    3. If the vaccination rates have remained fairly constant why has there been a fluctuation of reported cases? 
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    Learn more about the strain of measles discovered in this ‘outbreak’


    4.  Looking at this data <chart 3> shows that abolishing personal belief exemption would not significantly reduce the number of measles cases in California in the future. 
    1) 132 out of 134 California measles cases since December have occurred in counties where the percentage of personal belief exemptions is already significantly below 5%. 
    2) Most notable is LA County (with over a quarter of all measles cases state-wide) which has 1.62% of kindergarten entrants with PBE and 12.28% conditional entrants.
    3) Conditional entrants have nearly triple the impact on state-wide vaccination rates of kindergarten entrants as compared to kindergarten entrants with personal belief exemptions, and 7.5 times the impact on Los Angeles county vaccination rates in particular.
    4) Approximately 20% of CA measles cases since Dec. 2014 have occurred in counties with OVER 95% of kindergarten entrants fully vaccinated against measles.
    5) Only 45% of measles cases have occurred in individuals under age 20. – researched by     Kim Swensrud Loutzenhiser

    MEASLES is a self limiting sickness. It has caused NO DEATHS in the US in the past decade. This ‘outbreak’ has run its course and there are no new reported cases in the past 10 days. 
    – March 23, 2015

    Chart 1: CDC’s OWN STATISTICS PROVE VACCINATIONS
    HAVE NO IMPACT ON THE NUMBER MEASLES CASES

    Over a 15 year period, the measles vaccine has NO EFFECT / NO IMPACT on the outbreak of the disease. The vaccination rates remain constant and the outbreak rates fluctuate drastically. 
    Chart 2: Measles cases and related deaths were at a constant decline PRIOR to the introduction of vaccines.

    Deaths due to measles was on a decline PRIOR to the introduction of Measles Vaccine


    Chart 3: Herd Immunity is ‘achieved at 95% vaccination rates’. 132 out of 134 cases occurred in counties where the percentage of personal beliefs exemptions is significantly below 5%


    Additional Concerns include…

    CDC: financial conflicts of interest:
     http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/health/policy/18cdc.html…

    Vaccines are pharmaceutical products that cause injury and death for some.  The United States Government has paid out more than $3 billion dollars to vaccine victims. Many more people have adverse reactions. Nobody can predict who will be harmed from vaccines.

    Merck, the maker of the MMR II vaccine, acts unethically in the interest of public health:

    – See more at: http://vaccineimpact.com/2015/vaccine-war-in-america-attempts-to-legislate-mandatory-vaccines-all-across-the-u-s/#sthash.Brq8sCDY.dpuf

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/business/14vioxxside.html…
    http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/business/14merck.html…

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-270B-613
    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/business/21merck.html?_r=0 
    http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE9B811S20131209…

    Religious Grounds for opposing vaccines: aborted fetal cells use to create vaccines
    http://www.cogforlife.org/prove-it/

    The science of vaccine failure in highly immunized populations is acknowledged:
     http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905323/
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1646939/
    http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000359.htm…
    http://news.sciencemag.org/…/measles-outbreak-traced-fully-…

    The science of toxicity of vaccine ingredients is acknowledged:
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22235057
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/16866298/…
    http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-us-rep-bill-posey-looking-at-immunizationautism-20140909-post.html
    http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f3037

  • Why Won’t CDC Do the Study?

    Why Won’t CDC Do the Study?

    There are NO officials US government – sponsored studies comparing the health of vaccinated to unvaccinated children. 

    Watch VACCINE BEAT #3: Why Won’t CDC Do the Study?

    There are several independently funded studies have been done in the US and overseas. The majority of these studies have been conducted abroad, but many involve American children.
    What do these studies show? The research demonstrates conclusively that unvaccinated children enjoy far superior health when compared to those vaccinated. Unvaccinated children experience almost no incidence of autism, autoimmune disorders, asthma, allergies, diabetes and other common childhood diseases which have reached epidemic proportions in recent years.

    The Research Studies

    One of the most comprehensive studies is an ongoing comparative survey by German homeopathic physician Andreas Bachmair. Bachmair is conducting an independent study comparing the health of vaccinated to unvaccinated children with 17,461 participants.

    This research has found a significant increase in the following diseases in those vaccinated: asthma, allergies, bronchitis, otitis media (ear infections), hay fever, herpes, neurodermatitis, hyperactivity, scoliosis, epilepsy, autoimmune disorders, thyroid disease, autism and diabetes. Furthermore, Bachmair discovered three other studies which substantiated his findings. To see the chart with the comparison in diseases, visit this link provided by the Vermont Coalition for Vaccine Choice.

    For comprehensive survey results for this published study, see this link.

    The majority of those who participated were Americans, with 25 percent of participants comprised of Germans. Ninety-nine percent of those who chose not to vaccinate their children reported to be happy with their decision. Because this study is ongoing, study numbers will vary depending on the report viewed. [1]

    Bachmair’s reports further demonstrated that the unvaccinated children very rarely suffered from the following heath conditions: dyslexia, speech delays, bed wetting, celiac disease, gluten sensitivity, GERDs. [2]

    more research findings located at https://vactruth.com/2016/06/03/vaccinated-vs-unvaccinated/

    Research On Autism And Neurological Disorders

    In the Amish community of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, one in 4,875 children were diagnosed with autism. Of the four total Amish children diagnosed, one had been exposed to high levels of mercury from a power plant and three others, including one adopted outside of the community, had been vaccinated. This rate is extremely low to non-existent compared to those vaccinated. Similarly, the Amish of Ohio show that one out of 10,000 children are diagnosed with autism.  In the general US population, one in 45 children is now being diagnosed with autism. [4, 5]

    In a Homefirst Health Services survey in which 90 percent of children have had no vaccinations, none of the 35,000 children had an autism diagnosis. Furthermore, these children had extremely low asthma rates.

    Conclusion

    While government groups maintain that no studies have been done to compare the health of vaccinated to unvaccinated, the reality is that several comparative studies have been completed by independent researchers in the US and in other countries.

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refuses to conduct such studies, claiming they would be unethical to perform. In reality, these studies could easily be performed, since many educated parents choose to not vaccinate their children.

    The evidence is overwhelming. Studies completed in New Zealand, Germany, Africa, Great Britain and the United States have come to the same conclusion. Unvaccinated children enjoy far superior health on all measures of disease entities.

    References:

    1. http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/survey-results…
    2. http://vactruth.com/2014/02/26/unvaccinated-children-health
    3. http://www.vaxchoicevt.com/science/studies-comparing…
    4. http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/quick-compare-2/
    5. http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2015/12/cdc-1-in-45-children…
    6. http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/quick-compare-2/
    7. McKeever and TM. American Journal of Public Health. June 2004. V 94.
    8. Kemp, T. et al. Epidemiology. November 1997. 678-80.
    9. Fallon, Sally, Cowan, Thomas, MD. The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby and Childcare. New Trends Publishing, 2013. 112, 317.

  • Vaccine Damage Causes Autism

    Vaccine Damage Causes Autism

    HFI note: This is so worth sharing, again. Marcella wrote this over six years ago and its still relevant. The reports now reveal ONE in 36 children will be diagnosed with autism. Keep in mind, Autism cannot be confirmed by laboratory analysis. It’s strictly a behavioral diagnosis. Vaccines cause damage. This damage is inflammation that affects children to such a degree it is diagnosed as Autism. Semantics cannot change the fact that children’s suffering results in a diagnosis of autism. There have been numerous studies to show that the injection of toxins, Human DNA do in fact cause abnormal brain function that ultimately leads to the diagnosis of autism. We have provided information on 30 such studies.

    Okay. I give up.
    Vaccines do not cause autism.

    Autism is a behavioral diagnosis. To receive the diagnosis of “Autism” a child must exhibit a certain number of behaviors over a certain time frame. If he or she does not do so, the diagnosis of “autism” is not warranted.

    There is no blood test for “autism.”

    “Autism” can’t be confirmed or “ruled-out” by laboratory analysis. It’s strictly a behavioral diagnosis.

    Therefore, anything that causes physiological damage cannot directly “cause” autism.

    Ergo… vaccines cannot “cause” “autism.”

    …Vaccines cause the physiological damage to our children.

    These cause the underlying physical conditions that result in the pain, neurological damage, immune system disorders, gastrointestinal damage, and yeast overgrowth – all of which combine to produce the behavioral symptoms that lead to the “autism” diagnosis.

    Gastrointestinal damage is the most apparent result of vaccine damage.

    When a previously healthy child suddenly starts having multiple episodes of watery and extremely stinky diarrhea every day, and this happens shortly after receiving vaccinations, it is notable as a “vaccine injury.” What is not so obvious is that when the child’s gut is permanently damaged, he or she is no longer able to absorb nutrients necessary to produce neurotransmitters essential for proper brain function. So when the child develops mood swings, sleep difficulties, and learning disabilities several months later, these issues are not recognized as being related to vaccine injury because the initial damage occurred many months earlier.

    Please re-read the previous paragraph.

    This is why Dr. Andrew Wakefield is such a threat to the pharmaceutical industry.

    Dr. Wakefield NEVER said vaccines cause autism.
    Dr. Wakefield is a gastroenterologist. He saw a number of children with gastrointestinal problems who also happened to be diagnosed with autism. Dr. Wakefield reported his observations. He never claimed that the MMR “caused” autism. He merely reported that a number of children he had seen had BOTH gastrointestinal problems AND autism, and according to parental report, these issues developed within a short time of when the children received the MMR vaccine.

    Again… Why is Dr. Wakefield such a threat to the pharmaceutical industry?

    Hint: Not because vaccines cause autism – they don’t. Vaccines cause gastrointestinal damage.

    Gastrointestinal damage causes malabsorption of nutrients necessary for proper brain function.
    Mal-absorption of essential nutrients causes immune system disorders, seizures, encephalopathy, etc… and THAT’s what leads to the ultimate diagnosis of “autism.”

    If Dr. Wakefield’s observations are correct, SOMEONE SOMEWHERE will eventually draw the connection between vaccines and the domino-effect that leads to the “autism” diagnosis. From the perspective of the pharmaceutical industry, better to “nip it in the bud” now, which means discrediting Dr. Wakefield to the extent that no one will look further into the science.  By: Marcella Piper-Terry, M.S., Founder of VaxTruth.Org http://vaxtruth.org/2011/08/vaccines-do-not-cause-autism/

    Health Freedom Idaho would like to add, now more than half a decade later that there are more than 30 solid scientific peer-reviewed studies that back up the claims that autism is a direct result from receiving a vaccination. The question now is..to you believe the marketing or do you think the science backed up by the 1000’s of parental testimony and the statistics that our children are becoming irreversibly damaged by ‘preventative medicine.’

    The Studies

    The first research paper presented was the first one ever written on the subject, from 1943. Child Psychiatrist Leo Kanner discovered 11 children throughout several years who displayed a novel set of neurological symptoms that had never been described in the medical literature, where children were withdrawn, uncommunicative and exhibited similar odd behaviors. This disorder would become known as “autism.” In the paper, Dr. Kanner noted that the onset of the disorder began following the administration of a smallpox vaccine. This paper was published in 1943, and evidence that vaccination causes an ever-increasing rate of neurological and immunological regressions, including autism, has been mounting from that time until now.

    Patients MUST be able to make their own informed vaccine decisions because often, they know more about potential vaccine risks that even top public health officials do.

    1. Hepatitis B Vaccination of Male Neonates and Autism
    Annals of Epidemiology, September 2009
    CM Gallagher, MS Goodman, Stony Brook University Medical Center

    Boys vaccinated as neonates had threefold greater odds for autism diagnosis compared to boys never vaccinated or vaccinated after the first month of life.

    2. Porphyrinuria in childhood autistic disorder: Implications for environmental toxicity
    Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 2006
    Robert Natafa, et al, Laboratoire Philippe Auguste, Paris, France

    These data implicate environmental toxicity in childhood autistic disorder.

    3. Theoretical aspects of autism: Causes—A review
    Journal of Immunotoxicology, January-March 2011
    Helen V. Ratajczak, PhD

    Autism could result from more than one cause, with different manifestations in different individuals that share common symptoms. Documented causes of autism include genetic mutations and/or deletions, viral infections, and encephalitis following vaccination.

    4. Uncoupling of ATP-mediated Calcium Signaling and Dysregulated IL-6 Secretion in Dendritic Cells by Nanomolar Thimerosal
    Environmental Health Perspectives, July 2006.
    Samuel R. Goth, Ruth A. Chu Jeffrey P. Gregg

    This study demonstrates that very low-levels of Thimerosal can contribute to immune system disregulation.

    5. Gender-selective toxicity of thimerosal
    Exp Toxicol Pathol. 2009 Mar;61(2):133-6. Epub 2008 Sep 3. 
    Branch DR, Departments of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto

    A recent report shows a correlation of the historical use of thimerosal in therapeutic immunizations with the subsequent development of autism; however, this association remains controversial. Autism occurs approximately four times more frequently in males compared to females; thus, studies of thimerosal toxicity should take into consideration gender-selective effects. The present study was originally undertaken to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of thimersosal in male and female CD1 mice. However, during the limited MTD studies, it became apparent that thimerosal has a differential MTD that depends on whether the mouse is male or female.

    6. Comparison of Blood and Brain Mercury Levels in Infant monkeys exposed to Vaccines Containing Thimerosal
    Environmental Health Perspectives, Aug 2005. 
    Thomas Burbacher, PhD, University of Washington

    This study demonstrates clearly and unequivocally that ethyl mercury, the kind of mercury found in vaccines, not only ends up in the brain, but leaves double the amount of inorganic mercury as methyl mercury, the kind of mercury found in fish. This work is groundbreaking because little is known about ethyl mercury, and many health authorities have asserted that the mercury found in vaccines is the “safe kind.” This study also delivers a strong rebuke of the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation in 2004 to no longer pursue the mercury-autism connection.

    7. Increases in the number of reactive glia in the visual cortex of Macaca fascicularis following subclinical long-term methyl mercury exposure
    Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 1994 
    Charleston JS et al, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Washington

    The identities of the reactive glial cells and the implications for the long-term function and survivability of the neurons due to changes in the glial population following subclinical long-term exposure to mercury are discussed.

    8. Neuroglial Activation and Neuroinflammation in the Brain of Patients with Autism 
    Annals of Neurology, Feb 2005.
    Diana L. Vargas, MD [Johns Hopkins University]

    This study, performed independently and using a different methodology than Dr. Herbert (see above) reached the same conclusion: the brains of autistic children are suffering from inflammation.

    9. Autism: A Brain Disorder, or a Disorder That Affects the Brain? 
    Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 2005 
    Martha R. Herbert M.D., Ph.D., Harvard University

    Autism is defined behaviorally, as a syndrome of abnormalities involving language, social reciprocity and hyperfocus or reduced behavioral flexibility. It is clearly heterogeneous, and it can be accompanied by unusual talents as well as by impairments, but its underlying biological and genetic basis in unknown. Autism has been modeled as a brain-based, strongly genetic disorder, but emerging findings and hypotheses support a broader model of the condition as a genetically influenced and systemic.

    10. Activation of Methionine Synthase by Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 and Dopamine: a Target for Neurodevelopmental Toxins and Thimerosal
    Molecular Psychiatry, July 2004. 
    Richard C. Deth, PhD [Northeastern University]

    This study demonstrates how Thimerosal inhibits methylation, a central driver of cellular communication and development.

    11. Validation of the Phenomenon of Autistic Regression Using Home Videotapes
    Archives of General Psychiatry, 2005 
    Emily Werner, PhD; Geraldine Dawson, PhD, University of Washington

    Conclusion This study validates the existence of early autistic regression.

    12. Blood Levels of Mercury Are Related to Diagnosis of Autism: A Reanalysis of an Important Data Set
    Journal of Child Neurology, 2007 
    M. Catherine DeSoto, PhD, Robert T. Hitlan, PhD -Department of Psychology, University of Northern Iowa

    Excerpt: “We have reanalyzed the data set originally reported by Ip et al. in 2004 and have found that the original p value was in error and that a significant relation does exist between the blood levels of mercury and diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder. Moreover, the hair sample analysis results offer some support for the idea that persons with autism may be less efficient and more variable at eliminating mercury from the blood.”

    13. Developmental Regression and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in a Child With Autism
    Journal of Child Neurology, February 2006 
    Jon S. Poling, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital

    Excerpt: “Children who have (mitochondrial-related) dysfunctional cellular energy metabolism might be more prone to undergo autistic regression between 18 and 30 months of age if they also have infections or immunizations at the same time.”

    14. Oxidative Stress in Autism: Elevated Cerebellar 3-nitrotyrosine Levels
    American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2008 
    Elizabeth M. Sajdel-Sulkowska, – Dept of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

    Excerpt: The preliminary data suggest a need for more extensive studies of oxidative stress, its relationship to the environmental factors and its possible attenuation by antioxidants in autism.”

    15. Large Brains in Autism: The Challenge of Pervasive Abnormality
    The Neuroscientist, 2005. 
    Martha Herbert, MD, PhD, Harvard University

    This study helps refute the notion that the brains of autistic children are simply wired differently and notes, “neuroinflammation appears to be present in autistic brain tissue from childhood through adulthood.” Dr. Herbert suggests that chronic disease or an external environmental source (like heavy metals) may be causing the inflammation.

    16. Evidence of Toxicity, Oxidative Stress, and Neuronal Insult in Autism
    Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Nov-Dec 2006. 
    Janet Kern, Anne Jones, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

    “This article discusses the evidence for the case that some children with autism may become autistic from neuronal cell death or brain damage sometime after birth as result of insult; and addresses the hypotheses that toxicity and oxidative stress may be a cause of neuronal insult in autism… the article discusses what may be happening over the course of development and the multiple factors that may interplay and make these children more vulnerable to toxicity, oxidative stress, and neuronal insult.”

    17. Oxidative Stress in Autism
    Pathophysiology, 2006. 
    Abha Chauhan, Ved Chauhan

    This study provides a helpful overview of the growing evidence supporting the link between oxidative stress and autism.

    18. Thimerosal Neurotoxicity is Associated with Glutathione Depletion: Protection with Glutathione Precursors
    Neurotoxicology, Jan 2005. 
    S. Jill James, PhD, University of Arkansas

    This recent study demonstrates that Thimerosal lowers or inhibits the body’s ability to produce Glutathione, an antioxidant and the body’s primary cellular-level defense against mercury.

    19. Aluminum adjuvant linked to gulf war illness induces motor neuron death in mice
    Neuromolecular Medicine, 2007 
    Christopher Shaw, Ph.D., Department of Ophthalmology and Program in Neuroscience, University of British Columbia

    This study demonstrates the extreme toxicity of the aluminum adjuvant used as a preservative in vaccines.

    20. Environmental mercury release, special education rates, and autism disorder: an ecological study of Texas
    Health & Place, 2006 
    Raymond F. Palmer, University of Texas Health Science Center

    This study demonstrated the correlation between environmental mercury and autism rates in Texas.

    21. Autism Spectrum Disorders in Relation to Distribution of Hazardous Air Pollutants in the SF Bay Area
    Environmental Health Perspectives, September, 2006 
    Gayle Windham, Div. of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control, California Department of Health Services

    Excerpt: “Our results suggest a potential association between autism and estimated metal concentrations, and possibly solvents, in ambient air around the birth residence.”

    22. A Case Series of Children with Apparent Mercury Toxic Encephalopathies Manifesting with Clinical Symptoms of Regressive Autistic Disorder
    Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, 2007 
    David A. Geier, Mark R. Geier

    This study reviewed the case histories and medical profiles of nine autistic children and concluded that eight of the nine children were mercury toxic and this toxicity manifested itself in a manner consistent with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

    23. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and blood mercury level: a case-control study in chinese children
    Neuropediatrics, August 2006 – P.R. Kong

    Excerpt: “There was significant difference in blood mercury levels between cases and controls, which persists after adjustment for age, gender and parental occupational status. The geometric mean blood mercury level was also significantly higher in children with inattentive and combined subtypes of ADHD. High blood mercury level was associated with ADHD. Whether the relationship is causal requires further studies.”

    24. The Changing Prevalence of Autism In California
    Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, April 2003 
    Mark F. Blaxill, David S. Baskin, and Walter O. Spitzer

    This study helps to refute the supposition made by some researchers that autism’s epidemic may only be due to “diagnostic substitution”.

    25. Mitochondrial Energy-Deficient Endophenotype in Autism
    American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology 2008 
    J. Jay Gargus and Faiqa Imtiaz, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine,

    While evidence points to a multigenic etiology of most autism, the pathophysiology of the disorder has yet to be defined and the underlying genes and biochemical pathways they sub serve remain unknown.

    26. Bridging from Cells to Cognition in Autism Pathophysiology: Biological Pathways to Defective Brain Function and Plasticity
    American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology 2008 
    Matthew P. Anderson, Brian S. Hooker and Martha R. Herbert, Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    We review evidence to support a model where the disease process underlying autism may begin when an in utero or early postnatal environmental, infectious, seizure, or autoimmune insult triggers an immune response that increases reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in the brain that leads to DNA damage (nuclear and mitochondrial) and metabolic enzyme blockade and that these inflammatory and oxidative stressors persist beyond early development (with potential further exacerbation), producing ongoing functional consequences.

    27. Heavy-Metal Toxicity—With Emphasis on Mercury

    John Neustadt, ND, and Steve Pieczenik, MD, PhD

    Conclusion: Metals are ubiquitous in our environment, and exposure to them is inevitable. However, not all people accumulate toxic levels of metals or exhibit symptoms of metal toxicity, suggesting that genetics play a role in their potential to damage health.

    28. Evidence of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Autism and Implications for Treatment
    American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Daniel A. Rossignol, J. Jeffrey Bradstreet

    MtD and oxidative stress may also explain the high male to female ratio found in autism due to increased male vulnerability to these dysfunctions.

    29. Proximity to point sources of environmental mercury release as a predictor of autism prevalence
    Health & Place, 2008 
    Raymond F. Palmer et al, University of Texas Health Science Center

    This study should be viewed as hypothesis-generating – a first step in examining the potential role of environmental mercury and childhood developmental disorders. Nothing is known about specific exposure routes, dosage, timing, and individual susceptibility. We suspect that persistent low-dose exposures to various environmental toxicants, including mercury, that occur during critical windows of neural development among genetically susceptible children (with a diminished capacity for metabolizing accumulated toxicants) may increase the risk for developmental disorders such as autism.

    30. Epidemiology of autism spectrum disorder in Portugal: prevalence, clinical characterization, and medical conditions
    Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2007 
    Guiomar Oliveira MD PhD et al, Centro de Desenvolvimento da Criança, Hospital Pediátrico de Coimbra; Assunção Ataíde BSc, Direcção Regional de Educação do Centro Coimbra;

    The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) and identify its clinical characterization, and medical conditions in a pediatric population in Portugal.

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  • Vaccine Promoter Offit Eyes Idaho

    Vaccine Promoter Offit Eyes Idaho

    Dr. Paul Offit holds a Merck-funded 1.5 million dollar research chair at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, has stated that children can safely receive 10,000 vaccines in one sitting, and is the co-inventor of a massively profitable rotavirus vaccine called RotaTeq 1  which has caused serious suffering in the form of hospitalization, surgery,  and death to more than 1,000 U.S. infants 2.

    Therefore, it is ironic that he (a non Idaho resident) has joined a Protect Idaho Kids campaign entitled “Let Them Live”3 which targets the current Faith Healing Exemption law in our state. Many citizens fear the removal of this exemption to be a slippery slope to the inevitable and insidiously motivated, the end goal to further the removal of other parental rights concerning the medical treatment of our children.

    Offit stated in his December 15, 2015 video blog, that parents questioning vaccine safety hold “ill-founded beliefs.”

    Certainly the parents of the children that were dosed with Offit’s vaccine and hospitalized by this “preventive medicine” once held a firm belief in medical science. That is, until it killed or severely injured their previously healthy infants.

    His books, lectures and television commercials assert his belief that any public outcry advocating Informed Consent is “a threat to public safety” and is “undermining modern medicine.” Clearly, he (and his massive financial incentive) is threatened by individuals doing independent research about the safety, efficacy, and necessity of modern, allopathic medicine.

    In this video, he states that parents that choose not vaccinate their children in accordance with the entire CDC recommended vaccine schedule (which includes HIS vaccine among others) should be forced to relinquish their children to the State.  4 

    A doctor, financially profiting from “preventative” medicines which carry the potential risk of permanent injury or death to our infants, wants to convince the public that he acts in the “best interest of our children” more than we do!

    EACH AND EVERY PARENT should find this disconcerting.

    Dr. Paul Offit has joined a Statewide campaign calling for changes in our state laws. It begs the question from Health Freedom Advocates, “Is Dr. Offit sincerely interested in protecting Idaho’s children or just self-interested?”

    MORE RESEARCH RESOURCES: 

    RotaTeq Virus ADVERSE REACTIONS

    2 Reports on VAERS (June 15, 2016) for the Offit/Merck Rotateq vaccine introduced in 2006 list 1,135 cases of intussusception with 10 accompanying deaths  (1 in 107) while Rotarix (introduced in 2008) has 583 cases of intussusception  and 11 deaths  (a very disturbing rate of 1 in 50).

    RotaTeq Virus CONTAMINATION

    On May 7, 2010, the FDA announced that RotaTeq vaccine was contaminated with DNA from two porcine circoviruses: PCV1 and PCV2.  To date, the vaccine manufacturer, Merck, has not given any information regarding if, or when, PCV1 and PCV2 will be removed from this vaccine.  Although PCV1 has not been associated with clinical disease in pigs, PCV2 is a lethal pig virus that causes immune suppression and a serious wasting disease in baby pigs that damages lungs, kidneys, the reproductive system, brain and ultimately causes death.  The FDA recommended temporary suspension of the use of Rotarix vaccine on March 22nd after DNA from PCV1 was identified in Rotarix, but did not call for suspension of the use of RotaTeq vaccine after PCV2 was found in RotaTeq. On June 1st, NVIC called on Merck to voluntarily withdraw RotaTeq from the market until PCV2, especially, is removed from the vaccine.
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    Millions of Children Infected with “Vaccine Safety Expert’s” Rotateq Vaccine: Dr. Paul Offit.
    Paul Offit says you can safely administer 10,000 vaccines to infants at once. But he also profits from the patent he holds for the Rotateq vaccine. What’s wrong with this picture?
    By: Sayer Ji, Founder of GreenMedInfo.com
    A 2010 study published in Journal of Virology revealed that his multi-million dollar-grossing patent on the Rotateq vaccine contains a live Simian Retrovirus (with a 96% match of certainty) that has likely infected millions of children over the past few years causing great harm.  Retrovirus infections are permanent, and can carry on indefinitely into future generations. In other words, once they are inserted into the human genome they cannot be removed.
    View the entire PDF here. Read complete article HERE.

  • Polio Vaccines Now The #1 Cause of Polio Paralysis

    Polio Vaccines Now The #1 Cause of Polio Paralysis

    The Polio Global Eradication Initiative (PGEI), founded in 1988 by the World Health Organization, Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, holds up India as a prime example of its success at eradicating polio, stating on its website (Jan. 11 2012) that “India has made unprecedented progress against polio in the last two years and on 13 January, 2012, India will reach a major milestone – a 12-month period without any case of polio being recorded.”

    This report, however, is highly misleading, as an estimated 100-180 Indian children are diagnosed with vaccine-associated polio paralysis (VAPP) each year. In fact, the clinical presentation of the disease, including paralysis, caused by VAPP is indistinguishable from that caused by wild polioviruses, making the PGEI’s pronouncements all the more suspect.1

    According to the Polio Global Eradication Initiative’s own statistics, there were 42 cases of wild-type polio (WPV) reported in India in 2010, indicating that vaccine-induced cases of polio paralysis (100-180 annually) outnumber wild-type cases by a factor of 3-4. Even if we put aside the important question of whether or not the PGEI is accurately differentiating between wild and vaccine-associated polio cases in their statistics, we still must ask ourselves: should not the real-world effects of immunization, both good and bad, be included in PGEI’s measurement of success?