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Flu vaccination ban goes national after fever, convulsions in children

April 23 2010
Chris Thomson

Seasonal flu vaccinations across Australia for children under five have been suspended after 23 children in Western Australia were admitted to hospital with convulsions following their injections.

One child, aged 1, remains in a coma in a Perth hospital.

Robert De Niro Enters the Vaccine Safety Battle
April 26, 2016

Can vaccines trigger autism? This is the topic of the film "Vaxxed", which was originally scheduled to be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival, but was pulled from the lineup on March 26.

The decision has created so much blowback and publicity that whoever was pushing for its removal may have cause to regret it, because it has given the film a much higher public profile than if it had simply been screened as scheduled.

The Tribeca Film Festival was started by Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal in 2001 in an effort to revitalize lower Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks.

Strange as it may seem, according to Rosenthal, it was primarily other filmmakers that were threatening to pull their films out of the prestigious festival unless "Vaxxed" was removed. De Niro says he will look into who lodged the complaints, and why.

De Niro Brings Vaccine Safety Into the Limelight

While De Niro felt pressured to pull the film, he makes it clear it's a film people need to see, noting there are many issues relating to the way the CDC evaluates and monitors the safety of vaccines that are not being spoken about openly — and they should.1

De Niro has an 18-year-old son who is autistic, and he admits he has concerns about vaccines and autism. "There is a link," he says, and draws a parallel between people who have severe, even fatal, reactions to penicillin. De Niro points out that the same might be true for some people who react to vaccines.

He also makes the point that everyone really should have the choice whether or not to vaccinate their children.

Interestingly, while De Niro called for more discussion and more research into the safety of vaccines, Rosenthal appeared openly uncomfortable about the entire topic when she and De Niro were originally interviewed on NBC's "Today Show" on Apr. 132 and even more uncomfortable when she and De Niro appeared in a follow-up interview on the "Today Show" on Apr. 18.3

One of the potential reasons for her discomfort could be related to the fact that her ex-husband, Craig Hatkoff, is a board member of the NYU Child Study Center, which is involved with the research and treatment of child psychiatric disorders. As noted by journalist Jon Rappoport:4

"The NYU Center would never, ever, in a million years imagine that vaccines could cause autism ... A film that claims to show a link between the MMR vaccine and autism would be a hideous affront to the NYU Child Study Center, where Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, sits on the Board."

Rosenthal's sister, Pamela Rollins, Ph.D. is also deeply involved in the field of autism, and is a member of the Texas Council for Autism.5 The conventional view is that whatever autism is caused by, it's NOT caused by a medical intervention like vaccines, and to suggest that it might be related simply isn't permitted.

Organic Consumers Association (OCA) has created a petition to encourage Robert De Niro to continue seeking the truth about vaccines. Click the button below to sign the petition.

Vaccine Shills Coming Out of the Woodwork

A number of industry shills have already written derogatory articles about "Vaxxed." This includes Dr. Paul Offit, whose article6 places the focus squarely on Andrew Wakefield, the director of the film.

Taking aim, Offit makes sure Wakefield's character and qualifications are brought into question in order to try to discredit the information in the film.

No surprises there, as character assassination is part of Offit's modus operandi — regardless of whether he's got his facts straight or not. Offit does not have a good track record for being accurate in his assessment of the facts.

In at least one case, a newspaper was forced to issue a correction, noting that Offit's disparaging statements about CBS News Investigative Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson (who had written a report critical of vaccines) were actually found to be wholly unsubstantiated and/or false.7

The fact of the matter is, anytime you hear or read terms like debunked, discredited, quack, conspiracy theorist, the science is settled, the debate is settled, the scientific consensus agrees, or the poison is in the dose, you can be more or less assured you're reading agenda-driven propaganda.

The same can be said for anyone relying on Offit as the sole voice of what is true and what is not true about vaccine safety.

There are many respectable researchers out there who are well-qualified to speak about vaccine science, and I have interviewed a number of them. And contrary to what Offit proclaims, the science is far from conclusive when it comes to safety.

Science on Vaccines Is Nowhere Near Settled

Science has shown that when you overuse antibiotics, antibiotic resistance develops. So what is the science of mass vaccination with multiple vaccines? The truth is the science is nowhere near "settled" when it comes to the potential long-term risks of mass vaccination.

Moreover, vaccines are clearly not as effective as previously thought. For example, recurring outbreaks of whooping cough (pertussis) have been linked to vaccine failure, not lack of vaccination. Most recently, 56 people contracted whooping cough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and every single one of them was vaccinated.8

If you're like most people, you probably thought vaccines the government recommends have been scientifically proven effective.

But every year we hear about many vaccines besides whooping cough failing, including mumps, measles and chicken pox — with a majority of the outbreaks again being among fully vaccinated people. So if the science isn't settled when it comes to effectiveness, perhaps it isn't so settled when it comes to safety.

Just last year, researchers made the remarkable discovery that the brain is actually directly connected to the immune system via previously unknown vessels.9

According to researchers, the discovery of these new vessels has "enormous implications for every neurological disease with an immune component," and that certainly would include autism.

So just how does vaccination affect this system? Anyone who claims we have the answer is either uninformed or lying, as up until last year we didn't even know the brain and immune system were linked!

Every year we make new discoveries about how the body works, yet we're to believe that everything there is to know about how vaccines affect human biology was discovered decades ago?

Did Mass Vaccination Eradicate Measles in the US?

The day after De Niro's appearance on NBC's Today Show, the network issued a follow-up report to counter some of the statements and questions De Niro had brought up.10 For example, they claim that mass vaccination eradicated measles in the U.S. in 2000. Yet in 2014 it reemerged with 667 documented cases, and in 2015 there were 189 cases. According to the CDC, "the majority of patients were unvaccinated," NBC reports.

Here are some facts they didn't tell you: according to the CDC, no one has died from acute measles in the U.S. since 2003. Meanwhile, the MedAlerts database reveals 98 deaths following MMR or MMRV vaccinations occurred between 2003 and 2015. In addition to that, there were 694 reports of MMR or MMRV vaccinations causing disability in that time frame.

Considering the fact that less than 10 percent of vaccine adverse events are ever reported to VAERS, the actual number of measles vaccine-related deaths and disabilities that have occurred since 2003 could be as many as 980 deaths and 6,940 disabilities.

According to NBC: "While no drug or treatment is 100 percent safe, they say vaccines are far, far safer than the diseases they prevent." Considering these statistics, would you agree with the assertion that the MMR vaccine is "far, far safer" than the measles?

Ironically, it seems NBC did exactly what De Niro objected to in the first place — they downplayed the risks, casually tossing out a few reassuring statements, completely ignoring statistics such as the fact that anywhere from 98 to 980 kids died following measles vaccination compared to none from the actual disease. And that's how you know you're listening to propaganda.

Do Studies 'Conclusively Show' There's No Link Between Vaccines and Autism?
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The NBC also made sure to note that while parents are "looking for answers," studies have "conclusively shown" there's no link between vaccines and autism. That sounds all good and well, but just because a statement is repeated does not make it true. I've interviewed a number of health and vaccine experts and researchers over the years, and the consensus among them is that safety studies are clearly lacking. As noted by board-certified pediatrician Dr. Lawrence Palevsky:

"… [T]hey are not following children long enough to know whether in three months, six months, three years, six years, or 10 years, there could be some autoimmune antibody or some immune challenge that happens to the body that lingers or that just sits there as a genotypic effect.

There's a change in the genetics, there's a change in the DNA, that doesn't necessarily manifest itself until years later because of other stressors, perhaps even from another vaccine that comes years later. None of those studies have been done, so I don't know how you can say that vaccines are safe.

… We're not looking at the micro-molecular levels to see, 'OK, was there an autoimmune antibody produced? Were there other inflammatory markers produced? Where did those markers manifest? Did they stay in the body? Did they manifest into clinical symptoms? How are they relevant?' None of that science is being done. But we're just saying that vaccines are safe because we've been doing it for so long. And anyone with a good scientific mind would say that's not adequate."

There are biological, genetic, and environmental differences among us, and that is why some of us get an MMR shot or experience measles and do not suffer complications while others do suffer complications and are brain injured or die.

Doctors cannot predict ahead of time who will be harmed by a vaccine or an infectious disease, and they cannot guarantee that those who have been vaccinated will not be infected or transmit infection. These are important points that are typically not shared with parents in the decision-making process regarding vaccination.

Even the studies that have been done are not nearly long enough to show what the long-term implications of vaccinations might be.

As mentioned earlier, we now also have brand new information regarding the connection between the brain and the immune system; a connection that may very well change the way we need to study vaccines and their impact on both brain and immune function. Clearly, De Niro is entirely correct when he says it's a complicated matter, and that there are still many questions that need to be answered.

Do Vaccines Deserve Their 'Safety Halo'?

Our genome is comprised of between 5 and 8 percent viral DNA, in what I consider to be a component of synergistic adaption with our environment. Microbial signaling plays a role that we still do not fully understand, yet our federal policies place a halo over all drugs called "vaccines." The assumption is that we understand everything that needs to be understood about them, and that without them we'd be worse off. But where's the proof? As noted by Rappoport:11

"[M]ajor media won't reveal medically-caused death numbers ... So we begin with a few citations ... Journal of the American Medical Association; author, Dr. Barbara Starfield, revered public health expert at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; 'Is US health really the best in the world?' Starfield reported that the US medical system kills 225,000 Americans a year; 106,000 as a result of FDA-approved medical drugs ... Extrapolate the numbers to a decade: that's 2.25 million deaths...

BMJ June 7, 201212... Lenzer refers to a report by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices: 'It calculated that in 2011 prescription drugs were associated with two to four million people in the US experiencing 'serious, disabling, or fatal injuries, including 128,000 deaths.'' The report called this 'one of the most significant perils to humans resulting from human activity.'

...The FDA knows and it isn't saying anything about it, because the FDA certifies, as safe and effective, all the medical drugs that are routinely maiming and killing Americans ..."

If other drugs cause well over 100,000 deaths a year, where's the evidence to show vaccines don't have a similar track record? The reason why the media refuses to discuss these safety issues is because their pharmaceutical advertisers have the ability to punish them financially. But there's also the overarching issue of credibility. If these statistics were widely known and recognized, who would accept any assurance of drug safety anymore? As Rappoport notes, it would sound something like this:

"Well, the system I represent kills 2.25 million people per decade, and maims between 20 and 40 million more people per decade, but I want to assure you this vaccine presents no problems at all. It's incredibly safe' ... Every single pronouncement, on any subject, issued via the medical cartel's Ministry of Truth would fall on disbelieving ears, and only increase general outrage."

The Fight for Improved Vaccine Safety Continues

The fact of the matter is, there's still a lot we do not know when it comes to vaccines and their effects. Our knowledge is still very limited when it comes to the microbial world, as well as our own immune system.

To protect the vaccine program and the fantastic profits generated from it, any and all "cracks in the wall" must therefore be sealed, and the primary way this is done is by way of censoring, ridicule, and character assassination. They want mandatory vaccines from cradle to grave, and in order to implement that, all dissenters must be destroyed.

In the case of De Niro, they may have met their match, as he's not one to be intimidated and dismissed so easily — although a number of industry "bobble heads" have already tried to make it seem as though he's just another confused parent of an autistic child looking for a scapegoat.

They are wrong, of course, and efforts to paint De Niro as a fool just might backfire in the most spectacular way. In the end, as more and more parents see the tragedy of autism unfold in their own life, how long can the charade be maintained?

Protect Your Right to Informed Consent and Defend Vaccine Exemptions

With all the uncertainty surrounding the safety and efficacy of vaccines, it's critical to protect your right to make independent health choices and exercise voluntary informed consent to vaccination. It is urgent that everyone in America stand up and fight to protect and expand vaccine informed consent protections in state public health and employment laws. The best way to do this is to get personally involved with your state legislators and educating the leaders in your community.

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Several years ago in India, 47,500 children were paralyzed, plus some deaths, after receiving the Gates Foundation oral polio vaccine [3] as reported in2013.

Indian Health Experts Question the Universal Immunization Program
Posted on April 27, 2016


By Catherine J Frompovich

The implementation of a pentavalent (5 actives in one vaccine) into the Indian health system has caused great concern, especially since “Every few days one more child dies after receiving the pentavalent vaccine… Yet as these deaths mount, it has been announced that pentavalent vaccine is to be introduced in 3 more states…” [1]

The five-in-one vaccine contains actives for diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis B, and Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib). It seems that the hepatitis B active is questioned as not being protective of infections in babies. How interesting! As a result, parents are refusing to have their children vaccinated, while vaccination rates have fallen off dramatically—25 percent in the last four years.

Ten Indian health experts, Dr Amitav Banerjee, Dr Arun Gupta, Dr BM Hegde, Dr JP Dadhich, Dr Jacob Puliyel, Dr KP Kushwaha, Dr Ritu Priya, Dr SK Mittal, Dr S Srinivasan and Dr Vikas Bajpai, wrote a letter to the Indian PMO (Property Management Officer) [2] wherein they stated that

“The study conducted by the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, and the National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad and two editorials in the journal (Indian Paediatrics) raised several questions regarding the universal immunization programme (UIP) itself. Dr T Jacob John in his editorial noted that the frequency of chronic infection was similar in both the unvaccinated and the vaccinated – about 0.15%. The Hepatitis B vaccine was thus completely useless in this population. Professor Jacob John further observed that the immunological and epidemiological outcomes of rolling out Hib are not being monitored as UIP has no capacity for that function.” [CJF emphasis]

And concluded with:

“In short, expensive vaccines that have little utility are being rolled out without monitoring benefits or harms and which are causing deaths and serious adverse effects. As a result, inspite of official attempts at denial, the public are losing trust in the entire immunization programme.” [CJF emphasis]

Those ten health experts expressed concern and questioned what many other health professionals globally ask about: Transparency within the organization in India that gives the green light for vaccine use in India. India, I offer, is neither unique nor alone regarding the transparency issue. From my research into vaccines and its politics for decades, every country relies upon the U.S. CDC/FDA pseudoscience regarding vaccines and that has to stop, especially when so much scientific fraud regarding vaccines not producing autism or other adverse health effects are trashed, minimized, or withheld deliberately from health agencies and the public. That, in my opinion, is unmitigated FRAUD!

One of the doctors, Jacob Puliyel, raised the issue of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s involvement and conflict of interest! Seems the Gates Foundation is involved in many of the problems in foreign countries’ vaccine programs. I wonder why. Several years ago in India, 47,500 children were paralyzed, plus some deaths, after receiving the Gates Foundation oral polio vaccine [3] as reported in2013. And still, government officials haven’t learned a lesson about vaccines’ ability to harm!

Regarding the hepatitis B vaccine, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) conducted a benefits received study in 2014 and found that after ten years of children receiving the hepatitis B vaccine there were no differences between children who received the vaccine and those who did not! The only difference, I might add, is that those who received the hepatitis B vaccine may find that there may be long-term health effects like:

Autoimmune inflammatory polyneuropathy

Multiple sclerosis

Chronic arthritis

Autism

Bell’s palsy [4]

Anaphylactic shock and death in infants, though, are more immediate reactions, which sometimes prompt doctors to suspect and accuse parents or caregivers of physical abuse or Shaken Baby Syndrome.

It seems Indian health officials question the efficacy of the Hib vaccine and performed several studies including a probe study and found that “The vaccinated kids reported more pneumonia cases, says Dr Puliyel. The same study was repeated in Bangladesh with similar results.” That, I offer, is not unusual, as vaccinated children make up the higher percentage of those contracting diseases for which they have been vaccinated. That’s been proven in various demographics taken in the United States, too.

Here’s what’s sounding alarm bells for everyone in India:

Now the issue was not just of relevance but of risk to children in being given a mixture of five vaccines in a single shot or the pentavalent vaccine. Three deaths were reported in Sri Lanka when the pentavalent vaccine was introduced there. Here, the deaths were probably caused by the vaccine as no other reasons were found, said critics like Dr Puliyel. Experts seemed to have flouted the standard norms of classification of adverse events following vaccinations. This was exposed in a paper published by the critics group in the British Medical Journal.

Hence, when it was introduced in India in 2011 it was restricted only to one state, Kerala. In the first year, at least 12 deaths were reported in vaccinated children, beginning with a death of a healthy child on the first day itself. [1] [CJF emphasis]

Interestingly, Indian health activists cite a German study, the TOKEN study, wherein “they say has shown that the hexavalent vaccine (a six-in-one vaccine) results in sudden unexplained deaths of children within 48 hours of vaccination.”

Furthermore, the TOKEN study also found “that deaths could be explained by other reasons like maternal smoking or over-heating of the environment. It said there was no increased risk of sudden death within one week after hexavalent vaccination.” Question: Weren’t those risks prevalent before the children were vaccinated and they still lived, but coincidentally died within one week after a hexavalent vaccination?

The vaccine problem in India has caused concern for health officials since vaccination rates are going down, something they don’t want, but which parents obviously do. Professor Dr Jacob John points out that

“[T]he immunisation programme in our country is as flawed as the rest of the healthcare programmes. It is divorced from preventive healthcare or public healthcare which would mean monitoring disease, its causes and prevention. The way we immunise children in India leaves much to be desired, as pointed out by Dr Jacob Puliyel. Immunisation is for disease prevention, but in India MoH does not monitor if vaccines are preventing diseases in the community. For that ‘public health surveillance’ has to be practised, but India does not follow that principle.” In India healthcare and immunisation are like a set of rituals with no basis in reason.” [1]

Immunization a ritual with no basis in reason is a good way of describing what many would call the ‘religious belief dogma of vaccinology,’ which states dogmatically that vaccines are safe regardless of the fact that no study ever has been undertaken, either retrospectively or ongoing, on the interaction and/or adverse events of multi-valent vaccine actives in one vaccination and giving as many as nine vaccines at one time to a less than 25 pound infant!
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Dr Puliyel sums vaccine programs not only in India, but for elsewhere, when he claims,

“We do not have a programme for ‘control of childhood communicable diseases’, while we have a robust vaccine delivery platform, giving vaccines as rituals, without accurately measuring the outcome and carefully documenting every case of vaccine failure.”

“The point is that the Indian health ministry leaders are either incredibly stupid or absolutely compassionless. Could be both.” [1]

I second Dr Puliyel’s comments; they apparently can be applied to every country that blindly implements mass vaccination programs by following the U.S. CDC/FDA’s ostensible Big Pharm vested interest influences and federal agency mandates. Some countries, after experiencing the adverse health effects of the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccines, officially do not recommend the HPV vaccines. India and Japan have suspended HPV vaccination recommendations. [5]

It’s time for a real evaluation of the poisoned needles.

References:

[1] http://www.governancenow.com/views/colu ... ns-needles

[2] https://www.ihs.gov/ihm/index.cfm?modul ... _circ_1506

[3] http://nsnbc.me/2013/05/08/bill-gates-p ... sis-death/

[4] http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... ation.aspx

[5] http://csis.org/files/publication/14051 ... on_Web.pdf Pg. 15

http://www.naturalblaze.com/2016/04/ind ... ogram.html

backtoiam » Wed Apr 27, 2016 7:11 pm wrote:

Several years ago in India, 47,500 children were paralyzed, plus some deaths, after receiving the Gates Foundation oral polio vaccine [3] as reported in2013.

Is India actually free of polio?

Why New Delhi must not bask in the WHO’s polio-free certification and, instead, have an ambitious plan to eradicate polio-like flaccid paralysis.

On November 30, the day India introduced an Injectable Polio Vaccine (IPV) in its routine immunisation programme, stating that it “will be an important step in the Polio Endgame Strategy”, a case of Vaccine Derived Polio Virus (VDPV) was reported from New Delhi. This was the second such case to be reported this year.

India has not reported a single case of polio caused by the wild polio virus (WPV) since January 2012. It is important to note that it also received a polio-free certificate from the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2014, after a nervous two-year wait to establish that the country can indeed maintain its polio-free status.

The polio virus causes paralysis — medically known as an acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) — which is characterised by sudden muscle weakness, and fever in one or more limbs. AFP can occur due to many reasons, one of which is vaccine-linked.

If this is the case, then is India still a polio-free nation if vaccine-derived polio cases are still being reported? Yes, because WHO certified ‘freeness’ only from WPV, a condition which India still meets. Other cases of the same condition are called non-polio AFP.

Hollow status

Between January 2014 and March 2015, India reported four cases from four different States, of vaccine-derived polio. This is not all. Until November this year, the country has reported 36,968 cases of non-polio AFP. For those who follow the sector, this is neither news nor surprising. There has been a surge of non-polio AFP since India eradicated polio. The number of cases reported in 2012 was 59,436, in 2013 it was 53,421, and in 2014 it was 53,383.

Three years after India reported its last case of WPV, the country has, in one form or another, been reporting around 50,000 cases of flaccid paralysis that, clinically, is exactly like polio, indicating how hollow the polio-free status is.

According to an article in the American journal Pediatrics, there is an undeniable link between the increase in incidence of NPAFP (non-polio AFP) and the number of OPV doses delivered in any region. Oral polio vaccine (OPV) contains an attenuated (weakened) vaccine-virus. The weak form of the polio virus is used to activate an immune response in the body, which then protects the child when challenged by WPV. But when a child is immunised with OPV, the weakened vaccine-virus replicates in the intestine. During this time, the vaccine-virus is also excreted. In areas of inadequate sanitation, this excreted vaccine-virus can quickly spread in the community and infect children with low immunity. This excreted vaccine undergoes genetic changes as it circulates in the community and causes VDPV.

The cases of VDPV are rare as it has to circulate for a long time in the community of under-immunised populations before it can infect and cause paralysis in someone.

Low vaccination coverage

To be clear, the problem is not with the vaccine itself, but low vaccination coverage. That VDPV is circulating in the community that is under-immunised marks the failure of the Central government — which even in best case scenarios has achieved only 70 per cent immunisation coverage, leaving a massive cohort susceptible to poliovirus, vaccine derived or otherwise.

At present, the government’s only strategy to combat the invisible kinds of polio is the addition of IPV. As per the WHO norms, the best way to cope with cases of NPAFP and VDPV is a synchronised switch from trivalent to bivalent Oral polio vaccine, which India has already done. To further prevent the risk of re-emergence, a booster dose of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) is recommended in routine immunisation, prior to the switch.

A 2005 study in the Indian Journal of Medical Research on NPAFP found that a fifth of cases of NPAFP were reported from Uttar Pradesh. On follow-up after 60 days, researchers realised that 35.2 per cent children had residual paralysis and 8.5 per cent had died (making the total of residual paralysis or death a startling 43.7 per cent. This means that children who had NPAFP are more than twice at risk of dying than those who get infected with WPR.

We may be polio-free but we are reporting the world’s largest number of NPAFP. Realistically speaking, we need an urgent policy intervention to address NPAFP and VDPV with the same urgency and political will with which we addressed the wild polio virus cases.

For now, unfortunately, the government is still basking in the glory of one of its rare public health achievements since Independence, and is patting itself on the back for eradicating polio even while cases of flaccid paralysis have seen a serious resurgence. For a parent whose child has been diagnosed with flaccid paralysis polio or the non-polio kind, nomenclature offers little consolation.

Which begs this question, what is the value of this polio-free certification when nearly 50,000 children fall prey to polio-like flaccid paralysis every year?

vidya.krishnan@thehindu.co.in

82_28 » Tue Apr 26, 2016 10:13 am wrote:Let 'em die.

I have not been sick once in around 30 years. Never had the flu, no nothing. I got mono and after getting it I never got sick again. Somehow some way my immune system killed the mono within 5 days. My dad says I should donate my body to science. Have fun with my lungs and liver.

brekin » Fri Apr 29, 2016 1:59 pm wrote:

82_28 » Tue Apr 26, 2016 10:13 am wrote:Let 'em die.

I have not been sick once in around 30 years. Never had the flu, no nothing. I got mono and after getting it I never got sick again. Somehow some way my immune system killed the mono within 5 days. My dad says I should donate my body to science. Have fun with my lungs and liver.

Yes. Donate it today.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/05/10/mumps-vaccine.aspx

Mumps Being Spread by and Among Vaccinated People

Recently, 41 students at Harvard University came down with mumps and, according to the Public Health department in Cambridge, every single one of those students had been vaccinated.4

Vaccines are a very lucrative business. Pfizer's vaccine Prevnar, which targets 13 strains of pneumococcus bacteria, generated $6.25 billion in revenue last year. And that's just one vaccine.1

Even ineffective vaccines allow vaccine makers to make a mint. One of the most obvious vaccine failures is the mumps vaccine (part of the measles, mumps, rubella, aka MMR).

Again and again, outbreaks among vaccinated populations occur, yet rarely is the truth of the situation addressed, namely the fact that the vaccine is ineffective and doesn't work as advertised.

In 2010, two virologists filed a federal lawsuit against Merck, their former employer, alleging the vaccine maker engaged in improper testing and data falsification to artificially inflate the efficacy rating of their mumps vaccine.

For details on how they allegedly pulled this off, read Dr. Suzanne Humphries' excellent summary,2 which explains in layman's terms how the tests were manipulated.

Just about every media outlet reported the lawsuit, and the hundreds of millions of dollars Merck was said to have defrauded from the U.S. government by selling a vaccine of questionable effectiveness.

As reported by Reuters3 last year, Merck's behavior in and of itself suggests they're trying to cover up fraud:

"Attorneys at Constantine Cannon, who represent the scientists, asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Lynne Sitarski of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to compel Merck to respond to their discovery request, which asks the company to give the efficacy of the vaccine as a percentage.

Instead of answering the question, the letter said, Merck has been consistently evasive, using 'cut-and-paste' answers saying it cannot run a new clinical trial to determine the current efficacy, and providing only data from 50 years ago.

'Merck should not be permitted to raise as one of its principal defenses that its vaccine has a high efficacy, which is accurately represented on the product's label, but then refuse to answer what it claims that efficacy actually is,' the letter said."

So why are people still surprised when mumps outbreaks occur? And why are the unvaccinated still blamed for most disease outbreaks, even when most of the infected are vaccinated?
Vaccinated People Are Spreading the Mumps

Recently, 41 students at Harvard University came down with mumps and, according to the Public Health department in Cambridge, every single one of those students had been vaccinated.4

Four other campuses in Boston are also starting to see cases, as have four universities in Indiana. About 13 cases of mumps have also cropped up in California.

One ridiculous explanation offered by Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious-disease specialist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Center for Health Security, is that the vaccine only works if the exposure to the virus is low; it can't be expected to work if there are high amounts of exposure, such as in dorms:5

"The exposure that they have to mumps is so high in these situations that it overcomes the ability of the vaccine to protect them," Adalja told Live Science. "It may be that, in these special situations, a much higher level of antibodies [against mumps] is needed to keep the virus at bay."

In 2009, more than 1,000 people in New Jersey and New York contracted the disease. At the time, questions arose about the effectiveness of the vaccine because 77 percent of those sickened were vaccinated.

A similar scenario occurred in 2006, when mumps infected more than 6,500 people in the U.S. Most of those cases also occurred among the vaccinated population, primarily among college students who had received two doses of MMR vaccine.

Now, if a vaccine is indeed highly effective, and avoiding the disease in question is worth the risk of the potential side effects from the vaccine, then many people would conclude that the vaccine's benefits outweigh the risks.

However, if the vaccine is ineffective, and/or if the disease doesn't pose a great threat to begin with, then the vaccine may indeed pose an unacceptable risk. This is particularly true if the vaccine has been linked to serious side effects.

Unfortunately, that's the case with the MMR vaccine, which has been linked to at least 98 deaths and 694 disabilities between 2003 and 2015. Considering the fact that only 1 to 10 percent of vaccine reactions are ever reported, those numbers could actually be closer to 980 deaths and 6,940 disabilities.

Meanwhile, death from mumps is "exceedingly rare" according to the CDC,6 and no one has died from mumps during any of the recent outbreaks.

The Myth of Vaccine-Generated Herd Immunity



Vaccine promoters typically stress the importance of compliance with the federally recommended vaccine schedule in order to create and maintain vaccine-induced "herd immunity." This may require multiple doses of certain vaccines, the MMR included, because no vaccine is 100 percent effective.

However, they never quite seem to be able to explain why the majority of outbreaks occur in areas that are thought to HAVE herd immunity status, i.e. where the majority of people are fully vaccinated and "should" therefore not be able to be infected or transmit infection.

The problem stems from a mix-up of terms. While there is such a thing as natural herd immunity, vaccine-induced herd immunity is a total misnomer. Vaccine makers simply assumed that vaccines will work in the same way as natural immunity, but the science clearly shows that this is not the case.

Vaccination and exposure to a given disease produce two qualitatively different types of immune responses. To learn more, I urge you to listen to the video above, in which Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), discusses the concept of herd immunity. As explained by Barbara:

"Vaccines do not confer the same type of immunity that natural exposure to the disease does ... [V]accines only confer temporary protection … In most cases natural exposure to disease would give you a longer lasting, more robust, qualitatively superior immunity because it gives you both cell mediated immunity and humoral immunity.

Humoral is the antibody production. The way you measure vaccine-induced immunity is by how high the antibody titers are. (How many antibodies you have.) The problem is, the cell mediated immunity is very important as well. Most vaccines evade cell mediated immunity and go straight for the antibodies, which is only one part of immunity."

Ineffective Vaccines May Pose an Unacceptable Health Risk

In essence, vaccines are designed to trick your body's immune system into producing the antibodies needed to resist any future infection. However, your body is smarter than that.

The artificial stimulation of your immune system produced by lab-altered killed bacteria or an attenuated live virus is not the same as your body experiencing a natural viral or bacterial infection, which may or may not make you clinically ill but will confer a longer lasting immunity compared to vaccine acquired artificial immunity that is qualitatively inferior and far more temporary.

So the question is, is it well-advised to protect children against a large number of infectious diseases early in life through temporary artificial immunity from vaccines, or might they be better off contracting certain contagious infections in childhood, thereby attaining longer lasting natural immunity that may even last them for the rest of their lives?

And, do vaccine complications ultimately cause more chronic illness and death than infectious diseases do? In the case of the MMR vaccine, this question seems particularly pertinent. While there are 98 reports of death following vaccination between 2003 and 2015, only one child has died from acute measles complications in the decade between 2005 and 2015.7

Democrats Seek Taxpayer Money for Zika Vaccine

While millions suffer from government subsidized diseases caused by obesity and diabetes, and tens of thousands die from prescription opioids and antibiotic-resistant diseases — all of which stem from ill-advised government policies, the White House is now seeking $2 billion of your tax dollars to create yet another vaccine, this time against the Zika virus, just like they did for bird flu, swine flu, SARS, and so many other very profitable false alarms. According to The Daily Caller:8

"Democrats in Congress and the White House say they're convinced the virus could wreak havoc in the U.S. if the nearly 2 billion dollars isn't appropriated right now to keep the virus from spreading ...

The proposal would direct the bulk of the funds to the Department of Health and Human Services, and a much smaller portion to the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Department of State, to fund increased research on the virus, development of a vaccine and an effort to control mosquito populations."

The problem is, while the Zika virus transmitted by mosquitoes was originally blamed for reports of microcephaly among infants born in Brazil, it quickly became apparent that Zika was among the least likely contributors to this birth defect. The Brazilian government also admitted that overly generous parameters resulted in dramatic over-reporting of the condition.

As details started emerging, it became clear that a number of environmental factors could be at play — all of which were far more convincing than the Zika virus. Yet our politicians are still pandering this fear mongering in order to continue lining the chemical and pharmaceutical industries' pockets.

Is Zika Virus Really Responsible for Birth Defects?

For starters, large amounts of banned pesticides are in use in the area where most of the microcephaly cases have occurred in Brazil.9,10,11 This includes heavy regional use of the pesticide Atrazine. According to research12 published in 2011, small head circumference is one potential side effect of prenatal Atrazine exposure.

Lack of sanitation and widespread vitamin A and zinc deficiency are also potential contributing factors to microcephaly increases in Brazil. Vitamin A deficiency has actually been linked to an increased risk of microcephaly specifically,13,14 and zinc is known to play an important role in the structure and function of the brain.15 Even the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lists malnutrition and exposure to toxic chemicals as two of the three known risk factors for microcephaly.

A report16,17 by an Argentine physician's organization called Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Towns also challenges the theory that Zika virus is responsible for the microcephaly cases in Brazil. They point out that a chemical larvicide that causes malformations in mosquitoes (pyriproxyfen) has been applied to the drinking water in the most seriously affected area of Brazil.

Pyroproxyfen, which has been linked to birth defects, is manufactured by Sumitomo Chemical, a Japanese subsidiary of Monsanto, and has been used in a state-controlled program to eradicate mosquitoes.

Imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid, has also been shown to produce skeletal malformation18,19 and, as it turns out, Brazil lifted its ban on aerial spraying of neonicotinoids in October 2012, right around the time the women who gave birth to infants with microcephaly would have become pregnant.20

Addressing these human health issues would mean taking a long hard look at the use of toxic chemicals contaminating the environment, and coming up with more rigorous restrictions on what chemical companies are allowed to pander.

Instead, the government turns a blind eye to the obvious, and comes up with a plan to increase the use of chemicals, both internally and externally, in the form of vaccines and mosquito treatments. In my view, this is a highly irrational decision. It's also a dead giveaway that public health is not their primary focus.
Chinese Parents Question Vaccine Safety

In China, where government mandated mass vaccination programs are a more recent intervention, suspicions about vaccine safety have grown rather quickly, and many parents, whose children have been injured by vaccines, have taken to the streets in ongoing protests. Dong Xiaoxin, whose 4-year-old daughter contracted polio after receiving a polio vaccine, spoke to an NPR reporter, saying:21

"Our daughter has made a great sacrifice for the nation's inoculation program, and we're not afraid to fight for the legal rights she deserves. We had no idea that vaccines could produce this kind of result. We felt that any vaccination given by the state had to be a good thing. We were completely unprepared. The state needs to provide us parents with some sort of safeguard. Only then can parents feel assured and fully trust the government."

In her book "Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History," Humphries addresses the polio vaccine specifically, noting that through her research, she became convinced that the polio vaccine had very little if anything to do with the eradication of polio.

In fact, the successful "eradication" of this disease was accomplished by changing the diagnostic criteria of the disease. What's worse, the initial vaccine actually led to more cases of paralysis than would have developed naturally.

To save the vaccine, they had to make it appear as though it was working, even though it was causing more problems than it solved. The answer they came up with was to change the diagnostic criteria. The original criterion was two examinations within 24 hours. This was changed to two examinations within 60 days. This artificially decreased the polio rate, because within 60 days, most people recover from their bout with poliomyelitis.

They also began using serological testing, and if the polio virus was not found, the patient was not considered to have polio. Since then, virtually every type of polio vaccine has had some kind of issue, including the propagation of mutated strains of the polio virus.

In 1999, when public health officials admitted that the only polio cases in the U.S. were vaccine-induced, there was a switch from the live oral polio vaccine that can cause vaccine strain polio paralysis to the inactivated, injectable polio vaccine that cannot. However, in some developing countries the oral polio vaccine is still used and those vaccinated can become silent carriers of a highly virulent strain of polio that can infect others and cause paralysis.

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