What About Vaccinations?

We believe we should all have the right to make educated choices when it comes to our health and that of our family. This is why we provide the following information for you. In the beginning of anything and everything are the seeds of what is to come. And that is also true when it comes to your health and that of your children. Early childhood is the foundation of the rest of your child's life. Keep it natural and safe and avoid artificial and chemical substances as much as possible. Read the labels on the foods and products you buy, and educate yourself about vaccines before you give them to your kids.

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What About Vaccinations?

How Are Vaccines Made?

Vaccine Contraindications - High Risk Individuals

Some Books on Vaccinations

What About Vaccinations?

Most people are unaware of the number of children who have been permanently damaged or killed by vaccines. In fact, most parents would be surprised to learn that the government has a computer database containing several thousand names of disabled and dead babies, children who were healthy and alive just prior to receiving the vaccines. As a result of this, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) was created to inform and educate parents about the risks of vaccinations.

In 1986, Congress finally acknowledged the reality of vaccine-caused injuries and death by creating and passing The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (Public Law 99-660) as well as the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). The safety reform portion of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act requires doctors to provide parents with information about the benefits and risks of childhood vaccines prior to vaccination and to report vaccine reactions to federal health officials.
Doctors are also required by law to report suspected cases of vaccine damage. To simplify and centralize this legal requisite, health officials established the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) —operated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

However, the FDA has acknowledged that 90 percent of doctors do not report vaccine reactions. They choose to subvert this law by claiming that the adverse event was, in their opinion, not related to the shot. Yet every year more than 12,000 reports of adverse reactions to vaccines are made to the FDA (data accessible through the Freedom of Information Act). Government officials claim VAERS was designed to document suspected cases of vaccine damage. Yet no attempt is being made to confirm or deny the reports. Parents are not being interviewed, and the vaccines that preceded the severe reactions are being recalled very slowly or are not being recalled at all.

Who Pays for Compensation? Taxpayers subsidize vaccine manufacturers and the federal government by paying for their vaccine-liability expenses. A portion of the money parents spend on each vaccine when they take their child to be vaccinated goes into a congressional fund to compensate them if their child is hurt or killed by the shot. By the end of August 1997, more than $802 million had already been awarded for hundreds of injuries and deaths caused by mandated vaccines. Thousands of cases are still pending.

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How Are Vaccines Made?

Vaccine production is pretty disgusting. First, the disease germ —a toxic bacterium or a live virus— is acquired. To make a live vaccine, the live virus must be weakened for human use. This is accomplished by serial passages —passing the virus through animal tissue several times to reduce its potency. That is, the measles virus is passed through chick embryos, the polio virus through monkey kidneys, and the rubella virus through human diploid cells (the dissected organs of an aborted fetus!). Killed vaccines are inactivated through heat, chemicals or radiation.

Then the weakened germ gets strengthened with adjuvants (antibody boosters) and stabilizers. This is done by adding drugs, antibiotics and toxic disinfectants: neomycin, streptomycin, sodium chloride, sodium hydroxide, aluminum hydroxide, aluminum hydrochloride, sorbitol, hydrolyzed gelatin, formaldehyde, and thimerosal (a mercury derivative).

Aluminum, formaldehyde, and mercury are extremely toxic substances with a long history of documented effects. Studies confirm again and again that microscopic doses of these substances can lead to cancer, neurological damage and death. And the homeopathic Materia Medica confirms as well their toxicity and the serious conditions they can produce. Yet, each of them may be found in childhood vaccines. There has been an effort to reduce or eliminate the content of thimerosal in vaccines, but parents still need to make sure they are getting the most recent lots and from specific laboratories. The Institute for Vaccine Safety offers information about the content of thimerosal in vaccines from different laboratories.

In addition to these additives, unanticipated matter may contaminate the shots. For example, during serial passage of the virus through animal cells, animal RNA and DNA —foreign genetic material— is transferred from one host to another. Undetected animal viruses may jump the species barrier as well. This is exactly what happened during the 50's and 60's when millions of people were infected with polio vaccines that were contaminated with a virus undetected in the monkey organs used to prepare the vaccines (called SV-40 virus). SV-40 is said to cause a clinical condition similar to AIDS and has been found in brain tumors, leukemia and other human cancers as well. Researchers consider it to be a cancer-causing virus.

So this is the witches’ brew —live viruses, bacteria, toxic substances and diseased animal matter— that is forced into the healthy baby.

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Vaccine Contraindications - High Risk Individuals

Although doctors are required by law to inform parents about vaccine risks, very few do so. Vaccine manufacturers place warnings in vaccine containers indicating who should definitely not receive vaccinations. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) also make recommendations indicating who should not receive vaccinations. This information is included below:

POLIO: Children younger than 6 weeks; people who are ill; people with cancer of the lymph system.
MEASLES: Children younger than 15 months; pregnant women; people who are ill; people allergic to eggs, chicken feathers; people with cancer, blood disease or deficiencies of the immune system.
RUBELLA: Pregnant women; people who are allergic to eggs, chicken, duck or feathers; people who have cancer, blood disease or deficiencies of the immune system.
DPT: Any child past the 7th birthday; any child who has had a severe reaction to a previous dose; any child who has a personal history of convulsions or neurological disease; any child who is acutely sick with a fever or respiratory infection or who is taking medication that may suppress the immune system.
The vaccine policymakers in America do not "officially" consider the following conditions contraindications to the DPT vaccine. However, scientific literature published by vaccine researchers throughout the world for the past 40 years indicates that they may put a child at high risk:

* The child is ill with anything, including a runny nose, cough, ear infection, diarrhea or has recovered from an illness within one month prior to a scheduled DPT shot.
* The child has a family member who had a severe reaction to a DPT shot.
* There is a history of convulsions or neurological disease in the immediate family.
* The child was born prematurely or with low birth weight.
* There is a personal or family history of severe allergies (cow’s milk, asthma, eczema, etc.).

Vaccines may also be contraindicated for certain people with special conditions not listed above. There is plenty of evidence that relates vaccinations to serious conditions such as diabetes and autism. If you suspect that you or your child may be at high risk, contact the National Vaccine Information Center at 1-800-909-SHOT, (703) 938-DPT3, or FAX: 938-5768 and WAIT until you are absolutely sure there is no risk for you or your child!

Please do the necessary research and make an educated choice! You have legal rights to avoid vaccinations, if you so choose. If you decide NOT to vaccinate your kids, there are legal resources and support organizations to help and support you in your decision. If you decide to vaccinate in spite of all the information and legal resources available, at least make sure you get vaccines with no thimerosal (mercury) content. Check thimerosal content in vaccines at the Institute for Vaccine Safety. And, in spite of what your doctor might say, have him or her give the monovalent form of vaccines instead of one or more combination shots (DPT or MMP), allowing enough time in between each shot, to avoid the complications of some virus interactions.

For further information you can refer to the International Vaccine Conferences at the National Vaccine Information Center or purchase Mothering magazine issues on this matter. Their web site: www.mothering.com

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Some Books on Vaccinations

*Vaccines: Are They Safe and Effective? by Neil Z. Miller.
*What About Immunizations? Exposing the Vaccine Philosophy by Cynthia Cournoyer.
*The Vaccine Guide ? Making an Informed Choice by Randall Neustaedter.
*Vaccine-Free Prevention and Treatment with Homeopathy by Jeffrey J. Starre, M.D.
*Homoeopathic Alternatives to Immunisation by Susan Curtis.
*How To Raise A Healthy Child In Spite Of Your Doctor by Robert Mendelsohn, M.D.

You can visit the New Atlantean Press for a complete list of books on vaccination and related issues.

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