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Mandatory Vaccination has a long history which is not generally known, but deserves to be understood.
Crunchy Mama wrote the following excellent article posted on Exploring Vaccines. It provides a good overview of the process by which States have come to the point where they are now requiring as many as 78 vaccines by the time a child reaches 15 years of age, starting at birth. The same Hepatitis B vaccine, by the way, that infants are given within 12 hours of birth is literally under indictment in France where the manufacturer has been charged with homicide because of the number of infants who have died following this injection. No such reservations seem to deter the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) from advising this same, and other highly questionable vaccinations.
Once the ACIP makes its recommendations, States frequently adopt these recommendation and make the requirements mandatory for school entry.
In New Jersey, the issue has been pressed further with a new law now making its way through the legislature which would require home schooled children to meet the same mandatory vaccination schedule approved by the superintendent of schools, not the child’s parents or physician in order to be permitted to continue as a home schooled child.
This unconstitutional and irrational move, from a State with a significant number of vaccine manufacturer headquarters is, we believe, a portent of things to come unless the people of the US make a concerted outcry against this imposition of pharmaceutical profits on personal and religious rights.
The religious exemption is being made more difficult to attain
It is important to note that currently the trend to accept ALL recommendations made by the ACIP is gaining momentum and only vigorous activity by each of us can stop this trend which is damaging our health AND our freedom.
Did you know, by the way, that children are not immunized until they reach the age of 2 years in the UK? Or that vaccinations are widely spaced in Japan? In neither country are children dying of the diseases that supposedly are prevented by vaccination? Perhaps that should suggest that it is hygeine, not vaccination, which prevents these diseases. Perhaps it should also suggest that the Pharmaceutical Industry has a (literally speaking) death grip on US society. Properly used drugs are the leading cause of death in the US, according to the esteemed Journal of the American Medical Association and other journals of equal statue. But we continue to allow, encourage and often require their use. Vaccines, of course, are a particularly contentious and, to my mind, dangerous class of drugs sold into the market place not only through propaganda, but through legislative compulsion.
It is no news that all vaccines are contaminated by dangerous heavy metals including mercury and aluminum as well as fluoride and neurotoxins like formaldehyde, MSG, aspartame, viral particles, including stealth viruses, and cancer causing viruses and stray particles. It is no secret that human (including fetal tissue) materials like DNA are contaminants of viruses, along with dangerous chemicals like Polysorbate 80, linked to infertility.
It is less well know that the adjuvants, which are basically immune irritants, put into vaccines to increase the amount of antibody formation produced by vaccines which, without the adjuvants would not produce enough antibody response to be justified, are themselves serious dangers to health. For example, squalene is more or less harmless if breathed, applied to the skin or swallowed. But as the disastrous Vaccine A experimenets on our troops in the Gulf War have tragically demonstrated, once injected, squalene is the source of immense immune overload and finally, immune collapse in a devastating set of problems lumped together under the term “Gulf War Syndrome”. Most modern vaccines include adjuvants, many of which are secret ingredients, but often include squalene.
Further concern centers around secret ingredients which are not even trade secrets: they are depopulation agents. The World Health Organization (WHO) was recently convicted by the Supreme Court of the Philippines of sterilizing at least 3 million women through the use of a vaccine intentionally contaminated with a human hormone which is necessary for reproduction in women. By including it in vaccines, this hormone causes the body to produce antibodies to it which renders the woman unable to carry a baby although her ability to conceive is not impaired.
According to WHO records, this same depopulation strategy was used in vaccines given to African women starting in 1985 to “eliminate 150 million EXCESS sub Saharan Africans [Emphasis added by me to a quote from WHO documents – REL]. It has been used via a “special” tetanus vaccine series of 5 shots generously given to poor women in South and Central America, Thailand, Africa and elsewhere. The WHO maintains that for the planet to achieve “sustainability” it must have 80-90% fewer people on it than it does today. Its vaccine fertility control task forces for the control of male and female fertility have been operating since 1974, the same year that then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger prepared Memorandum 200 for then-President Nixon stating that depopulation had to be the US first priority in Foreign Policy, beginning with [note, beginning with- REL] the third world.
As an interesting side note, it is important to consider that a vaccine rendering young women sterile, supposedly for 1 year, is being sold in the US as a birth control option. No one knows if the results are, in fact, induced sterility for one year or not. Life-long sterility could be the result. Time will tell.
This same contamination of vaccines with Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG), the female hormone necessary to carry a baby to term, is intentionally included in the vaccine everypregnant Thai tribal woman is forced to take. Without it, she is told, her baby cannot receive the important identity card. Once she receives the shot from the Department of Health worker, she will inevitably miscarry, no matter how far along the pregnancy is.
Evidence which I find compelling suggests strongly that material designed to drive the immune system, specifically the CD-4 cells, to collapse, opening the way for a host of opportunistic diseases (this induced condition is known by the collective term HIV/AIDS).
The manufacturer of the Hepatitis B vaccine, the same ones given to our children and health care providers, is currently on trial for homicide in France because of the number of deaths caused in infants and others because of known contaminants. Due to the ever-corporate friendly protective nature of the relationship of the US Congress and the FDA, vaccine-injured people in the US cannot hold doctors or manufacturers accountable and cannot sue them for the damages incurred. On a positive note, that wall of non-protection has been breeched in a Georgia case in which a Federal judge has ruled that parents may sue a vaccine manufacturer for damage to their child.
This landmark case may open a door which regulation and legislation has shut for Americans, as the consent by the CDC in the Vaccine Injury Special Court system that a 9 year old autistic girl was vaccine injured because of a supposedly rare mitochondrial disorder and is thus entitled to compensation for her care may open a small doorway for vaccine injured children.
The bigger door, however, is to make sure that no one IS vaccine injured or, if they chose to run the risk of such injuries, that they will be free to do so in the full knowledge of the risks incurred by submitting to vaccination.
Currently, the US has announced its determination to vaccinate very man, woman and child in the US with an Avian Flu vaccine made in China by Sanofi-Pasteur and loaded into individual dose syringes in Pennsylvania. This vaccine was approved by the FDA in the complete absence of any formal clinical trials (although apparently informal ones have been conducted in Poland where the impact of the vaccine on the over 300 vagrants vaccinated include 11 immediate deaths and hundreds of reactions so severe that the 2 physicians and 4 nurses involved in the “trial” are now accused of homicide. The Minister of Health of Poland has said that none of the accused should ever be permitted to practice medicine or nursing again. This same vaccine is, according to our information, the stuff waiting for the compliant arms of “every man, woman and child in the United States”.
Further information suggests that not only the Avian Flu virus itself, but the very vaccines designed to “protect” us against it (although the science behind ANY vaccine protecting us from anything is worse than questionable) has also been weaponized.
Two biochemistry/microbiology researchers were brutally tortured and murdered on June 29,208 in London, England. Their computer was stolen shortly before their murder. These researchers were, according to information released recently, murdered by a British-Mossad assassination team now in custody in the UK. The researchers had uncovered information leading to the conclusion that not only was the Avian Flu virus itself weaponized with genetic material from the 1918 pandemic “Spanish Flu” (which was not Spanish at all, but created in the US as the first, and most successful Bio Weapon of all time on orders of then-President Teddy Roosevelt and injected into US Soldiers in Kansas before they were sent to Spain for “training” and exposure to mutation-inducing poison gases)but the vaccines supposedly being created to protect the population from the approaching pandemic Avian Flu had also been weaponized to produce a deadly disease upon injection.
Their horrific murders and the subsequent apprehension of their professional killers was covered by the European press, but totally ignored by all US media. The story of their discoveries was also totally neglected by the US media.
The Natural Solutions Foundation’s press release was censored by the media outlet we attempted to use to bring this attention to the light of day and request substantiation of this vitally important information by the media outlet which published it in September, 2008.
Mandatory vaccination for mumps was imposed on college students in Maine last December 11, 2007. Students who were not vaccinated or chose to refuse vaccination were locked out of their dormitories, dining halls, libraries, student unions and classrooms when their key cards were inactivated. This happened on the same day that Health Canada withdrew approval for the same vaccine for use in children and adults because of its dangers. Students, whose tuition, room and board were already paid for, were denied access to instruction and shelter, food and resources in the winter time without notice.
Mandatory vaccination is now being recommended for college students, especially those in dorm, even though, as the article making this recommendation states, last year’s flu vaccine did not “cover” one of two viruses causing the flu. This year’s flu vaccine will supposedly contain 4 viruses in an attempt to avoid last year’s embarrassing failure by the CCDC and World Health Organization (WHO) to “guess” right in the spring before the flu season hit. Each year, these organizations decide what the offending virus is likely to be in the next flu season and authorize vaccines against those viruses which are then recommended (or mandated)as the “flu shot”. Last year, as often happens, the guess was wrong and the CDC announced that the vaccine was ineffective from 40-60% of the time.
Given that 94% of the flu vaccine available contained thimerisol (50% mercury by weight)as well as the usual toxins, and whatever else the vials might be hiding, and that both children and adults are susceptible to the toxic impact of these biological and chemical components, this tetravalent vaccination does not suggest any more safety than the previous ones, including the disastrous and deadly Swine Flu vaccine) offer.
New Jersey made headlines last November by announcing that it would require mandatory flu vaccination for all children in the state from age 6 months (2 shots in the first year) to age 18 plus meningococcus and Hepatitis B shots for all children in the state at various times in their school career.
Now this state, home to so many major pharmaceutical companies, has taken the mandatory vaccination thrust a step farther: all children, whether enrolled in school or home schooled, MUST receive the vaccines approved by the Superintendent of Schools for the child’s home district or be refused permission to stay in a home schooled environment.
Despite the total global absence of a pandemic strain of Avian Flu and despite excellent evidence that non toxic strategies like nanosilver ingestion and hygiene measures are sufficient to kill any Avian Flu virus yet identified, the thrust is toward untested, potentially very dangerous, and scientifically absurd vaccinations. These vaccines, however, carry a hefty price tag: the Sanofi-Pasteur vaccine, approved by the FDA on an “emergency basis” for a disease that does not exist, and slated for use in every person in the US, and approved in the absence of any formal trials, was purchased by the US Government for the hefty price of $15 per dose, or $1.5 billion dollars for 100 million doses. This vaccine shipment, the first of several if all Americans will receive at least one dose, gives the US government a tight exclusive on the vaccine preventing price cutting or competition: in its approval documentation, the fact that the vaccine cannot be sold to any agency or customer other than the US Government is stipulated.
This stipulation means that the ingredients are not listed, do not have to be listed, may not be listed on the package insert or elsewhere.
Americans were notified on July 23, 2008 by the FDA and on July 24, 2008 by the Department of Homeland Security, that the intention of the US Government is to vaccinate every person in the US with this vaccine “starting with those who want it”. Americans are well aware that Patriot Act I and II, BioShield I and II and BARDA all make mandatory vaccination a requirement to avoid involuntary internment and quarantine.
They are also well aware that hundreds of thousands of plastic coffins have been purchased by the US Government and are sitting in depots, including the one famously photographed in Georgia.
American know that every state in the country has passed a version of the Emergency Medical Powers Act which makes refusing treatment, especially vaccination, once a “Pandemic” has been declared by the governor of the state, a felony which, as such, can be punished by incarceration or internment.
They are well informed about the fact that the US Government is reported to have purchased at least one large tract of land in upstate New York for a mass burial site and that the UK has announced mass burial plans as well since cremation would, according to the estimates of the British Parliament, run up to 17 weeks behind deaths despite increased crematoria capacity building recently undertaken.
All this for a disease that does not yet exist.
Americans are also aware that US troops have been moved into place to control civil disruption, subdue unruly persons relocate persons as necessary in a permanent domestic duty deployment which began October 1, 2008. The 1st Battle Group of the 3rd Infantry has been placed under the permanent command of NorthCom, the Northern Command of the US Army. NorthCom signed a much hearalded agreement with the Canadian Military to allow Canadian troops access to US territory for the same reasons and US troops have been operating in Canada performing domestic duties since April, 2007.
This, of course, follows the integration of the US FDA, Canadian HealthCanada and Mexican Department of Health under the Trilateral Cooperation Charter in 2003, erasing further the sovereign powers and status of the United States.
So Americans are well aware of the vaccine threats lurking. They remember well the November, 2007 atrocity in which Prince George’s County imposed vaccination under the amused and watchful eye of a judge (who remarked that the crying children were “kind of cute”) on threat of imprisonment and fines for parents of unvaccinated children and re vaccinated 1100 children whose records it admitted it had lost but who were fully vaccinated. They also remember the interviews granted by State’s Attorney Glen Ivey, father of young children, who admitted that he would not allow his own children to receive the vaccines which were being administered under police and attack dog guard in the Court House that tragic November Saturday. Maryland is among the states which allow parents to file an exemption if they do not want their children to receive the vaccines offered. These parents, mostly poor, black (like Attorney Ivey) and uneducated, from the one of the poorest school districts in the nation, were not told of their option to refuse these vaccinations.
The Natural Solutions Foundation asks you to take effective and vigorous action by notifying your state and federal legislators that these compulsory vaccination precedents are not acceptable to you. Please take a moment to sign the Tiburon Declaration, which takes issue with compulsory drugging, including vaccination, and which will be presented to all US legislators when we have amassed enough signatures. Then please take another moment to take each of the action steps listed above if you have not already done so, to raise the voice of the net roots loud and clear so that legislators understand that they are playing with your health freedom and that you do not like that and will not allow that to continue.
Let’s stop this right now!
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
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How School Vaccine Mandates Came About
In 1809, the first state law mandating vaccination was enacted in Massachusetts. By 1855, Massachusetts became the first state to enact a school vaccination requirement for Smallpox. By the twentieth century, roughly half of the states had enacted vaccine mandates for children before they could enter school; however, they were not strictly enforced. The Diphtheria vaccine was introduced in the 1920’s, but only a few states made the Diphtheria vaccine compulsory for two decades. By the early 1950’s, with the licensure of the Diphtheria and Tetanus vaccines, state and local health departments began more aggressive vaccination programs. When the Salk Polio vaccine was licensed in 1955, only a few states passed laws that mandated it for school entry. The polio vaccine also led to federal funding of state and local vaccine programs. In 1962, the Vaccination Assistance Act established a federally coordinated program that would supply funds for the purchase and administration of childhood vaccines. By 1963, several vaccines were mandated, but there was no enforcement by all states. The New York City health commissioner opposed making the Polio vaccine mandatory in 1965.
Compulsory vaccination made some radical changes by the late 1960’s and 1970’s. In 1970 a nationwide rubella vaccine campaign was launched. It was recommended by the Department of Health for all 11-13 year old girls. Then the CDC moved on and began leading a nationwide effort to eradicate Measles. In 1968, only a half the states required one or more vaccines for school entry. By the early 1970’s, the Measles Initiative program was started. By 1976-77, health officials strictly enforced the vaccine mandate for Measles under the Childhood immunization Initiative. Its purpose was to raise vaccination coverage in children to 90% by 1979. The largest component of this initiative was to enact and enforce school vaccination mandates.
By 1981, all fifty states mandated Measles vaccine along with all others for school entry. Nearly all states had school vaccination mandates covering Kindergarten through 12th grade levels, and mandates for licensed preschools. State mandated vaccine laws specified which vaccines would be required and the number of doses. Some states authorized the public health boards to designate which vaccines and doses would be required. States were not uniform in what vaccines they require, or how many doses. This still holds true today. In 1980, the state of Wisconsin passed the No-immunization-No School law and was enforced by March 1981. Other states soon followed.
In 1998–1999, all but four states (Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina, and West Virginia) enacted mandates which covered Kindergarten through 12th grade. In 48 states, with the exception of Iowa and West Virginia, daycare mandates and Head Start program mandates were enacted. Thirty states mandated some requirements for college entrance. School vaccine mandates included:
All 50 states required: Diphtheria toxoid, Polio, Measles and Rubella vaccines
49 states required: Tetanus toxoid
46 states required: Mumps
44 states required: Pertussis
28 states required: Hepatitis B
During the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, state vaccine laws were tightened to make religious and philosophical exemptions harder to obtain. By the end of the 1990’s, the trend was reversed. Religious and Philosophical exemptions were made less restrictive through rewriting exemption clauses.
The Task Force on Community Preventive Services is an independent body carrying out evidence-based reviews of the literature to assess the claims that preventive interventions directed to populations are effective. One of the 17 interventions reviewed for vaccine-preventable diseases was mandatory vaccination requirements. The Task Force found that sufficient evidence existed to demonstrate the effectiveness of these requirements in increasing vaccine coverage, thereby reducing disease incidence, and so recommended their use.
U.S. Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act in 1986 and the Vaccine Compensation Amendments in 1987 and 1995. The NCVIA establishes a compensation system for people who may be injured by routine vaccinations. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, Public Law 99-660, was signed by President Reagan in November 1986, however, it did not contain a funding mechanism to enable the compensation system to operate. In 1987, Congress passed amendments to the law and developed a plan to fund the system, which comes from a surcharge on each mandatory vaccine. The main purpose of the law was to create safety provisions for the administration of vaccines to help prevent future vaccine injuries, to promote the improvement of existing vaccines and develop safer vaccines. Another element was to create a no-fault compensation system alternative to suing vaccine manufacturers and physicians on behalf of injured or deceased people from reactions to mandated vaccines. Children and/or adults injured or killed from these vaccines are divided into two categories; those who were damaged or killed before October 1, 1988 and those who were damaged or killed after that date. In 1990, the FDA and the CDC developed the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which allows public and private physicians to use one standard reporting form to report reactions.
http://explorevaccines.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/vaccine-state-mandates/#comment-41
This article is written from the point of view of a parent who does not want her children vaccianted and reports on her efforts to protect them.
She mentions many good resources and a host of useful information but left out the Natural Solutions Foundation Vaccine Exemption eBook (http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=699) which offers much more in-depth information than generally available without expensive and intensive legal consultation.
Written by two attorneys specializing in health rights and options, this is a remarkable document which should be on your computer (print it out if you want it on your shelf) when you are considering how to protect yourself and your children from the specter of vaccination.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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Vaccinations: Parents’ Informed Choice
By Destiny Dawn | September 2, 2008
To my friends and family that know how I feel about vaccinations you will be happy to hear I have finally learned how to deal with the school district about this matter in time for enrollment.
After many hours of research I found an article that is very well written on the subject that I decided to share. Below is a intro for the article, to continue reading click the “more†link after the excerpt.
Vaccinations: Parents’ Informed Choice
By Lynne Born
Because the misinformation surrounding vaccination is so extensive, many parents don’t even question whether or not they should vaccinate their child, overlooking one of the most important decisions a parent can make. Since medical authorities say vaccination is safe, most parents simply go ahead with vaccination, completely unaware of the potential dangers and unable to recognize a serious reaction when it does occur.
And since government health departments and school authorities give the impression that vaccination is mandated for every child in the United States, most parents believe they are legally required to vaccinate their child. But in all 50 states, you are free to decline vaccination entirely, or adopt a partial vaccination schedule, an important decision about the health and welfare of your child.
However, parents face tremendous pressure from doctors, the media, schools and even other parents, to follow the standard vaccination schedule and subject their child to an ever-escalating protocol of multiple injections at various stages of their young lives, even including injections with several vaccines in the same shot.
Misinformation
Because vaccines are used predominately on our precious children, most people assume that the many vaccines have been subjected to thorough trials and rigorous studies proving that vaccines are safe and effective. Parents have been told that mass vaccination campaigns ended multiple epidemics around the world, that vaccines are effective at preventing the illnesses they are targeted against, that side effects are rare and generally consist of sore arms or mild fevers that pass quickly, and that the few serious negative reactions are carefully tracked and monitored, keeping adverse reactions to a minimum.
However, parents who take the time to dig deeper and pierce this veil of misinformation find that these assertions lack solid scientific backing. Not only has there never been a single long-term study comparing the health and welfare of vaccinated to unvaccinated children, multiple examples can easily be found of vaccinated children acquiring the very illness they have been vaccinated against. Furthermore, there is overwhelming evidence that vaccines can be extremely harmful, permanently disabling and even deadly to our children. And the current system for tracking and reporting adverse reactions to the FDA is sloppy, poorly executed and voluntary rather than mandatory, even when a child has been permanently disabled or killed by a vaccine.
Vaccination Prevents Natural Immunity
When a baby becomes infected with a communicable disease, his immune system responds through a sophisticated web of interlocking reactions that can produce immunity for life to naturally acquired childhood diseases. These miraculous defenses exist, in part, to keep invading microbes and viruses from taking hold in the deeper systems and organs of the body.
But vaccines, which contain both live and dead viruses, killed bacteria, genetically engineered DNA and chemical preservatives, are injected directly into the bloodstream, bypassing the natural immune response. This deprives the body of the ability to naturally develop life-long immunity in all its multifaceted complexity to normal childhood diseases like measles, mumps and chicken pox. Mass vaccination is a manmade attempt to remove the natural infection response from human development and replace it with a series of artificially imposed infections and immune responses determined by the doctor’s vaccination schedule.
So Many Shots
Thirty years ago, children received a total of four vaccines, but today a fully vaccinated child receives a whopping 37-50 vaccines during the early, formative years of life, when his developing immune system is most vulnerable. Even an adult immune system would be challenged by so many vaccines given during such a short period of time. While unvaccinated children will never develop every disease for which children are given a vaccine, their bodies are forced by the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) vaccination schedule to respond to them all. Furthermore, the DPT vaccine forces an immune response to diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis on the same day, an event that would never happen in real life. Plus, there are virtually no studies or scientific research on the effects of multiple viral and bacterial vaccines given in combination or in close succession, and how they affect the human body.
Evidence of Vaccine Harm
The medical profession is extremely reluctant to acknowledge adverse reactions to vaccination, even when the reaction is instantaneous or occurs within a few hours, and even with adults who can clearly verbalize their negative reactions, which infants are unable to do. And since no studies have ever tracked negative effects that occur over the long term, reactions that occur days, weeks or years later are almost never attributed to the vaccine.
It is a little-known fact that not a single study exists to prove that vaccines are safe over the long term. “It would be such an easy study to organize. Use three groups of children–the first group fully vaccinated, the second group partially vaccinated, and the third group no vaccinations. Then follow them for up to 10 years and we would be able to see the kinds of problems that are manifesting from these vaccines,†says Barbara Loe Fisher, President of the National Vaccine Information Center.1 However, evidence of vaccine harm is not really a secret– hundreds of published medical studies have documented both vaccine failure and vaccine harm, even though most pediatricians continue to vaccinate and most parents remain completely unaware of these studies.2
One well known example of a long term negative vaccine reaction occurred with the polio vaccine used in the late 1950s into the early 1960s. This vaccine was later found to be contaminated with a monkey virus, SV40, which had tainted the vaccine during production. And even though the virus was discovered in 1960, the contaminated vaccine continued to be given to American children for three more years with the full knowledge of government health authorities, until it was withdrawn in 1963. Thirty years later, SV40 has been isolated in bone, brain and lung cancers of disabled and deceased adults. The SV40 vaccine debacle proves a direct connection between a vaccine and a slow-growing cancer which developed decades after the vaccine.3 Unfortunately, authorities made no effort to find and track adult recipients of the vaccine, study and catalog their health status, or note their rate of cancer, even though a clear opportunity exists to study long term effects of a vaccine in a very direct and concise way.
Delayed negative reactions have also been confirmed by the work of Dr. Viera Scheibner, who developed a baby monitor in an effort to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Her monitor sounds an alarm if the baby stops breathing or shows patterns of stress breathing during sleep. In designing the monitor, she had no preconceived intention of specifically tracking vaccination reactions, as she had never conceived of the fact that vaccinations were in any way problematic or harmful.
In due course of tracking infant breathing at night, she recorded the breathing patterns of babies following the DPT injection. She found that the vaccine caused babies a great deal of stress and that this stress showed a remarkable uniformity, with stress flare-ups immediately following the vaccine on day 2 or 5, or delayed reactions on the 15-16th or 20-25th day in babies who recovered and those who subsequently died from SIDS. Scheibner’s monitor proved that death from the vaccine sometimes occurs weeks after the injection, in correlation with the stress patterns it identified. However, the longer time frame gives doctors and health authorities every excuse not to attribute it to the DPT shot.
Adverse Events Not Reported Or Tracked
One of the great dangers of the current pro-vaccine mentality is the fact that negative vaccine reactions are very rarely reported to the adverse event reporting system, a system rife with problems. When a vaccine is released onto the market, post-marketing surveillance is supposed to track any negative reactions from the millions of people taking the newly released vaccine. However, not only is the adverse reporting system entirely voluntary, 90 to 99 percent of all adverse reactions are never reported, according to David Kessler, head of the FDA for most of the 1990s.4 And no oversight of any kind ensures that reports made directly to the pharmaceutical companies are then forwarded to the FDA–the process is run entirely by the “honor system.â€
A very clear example of the poor adverse event documentation occurred during President Bush’s recent Smallpox Vaccination Program of 2003. Before the program, the public was repeatedly told to expect death rates from the vaccine of one to two per million. In fact, there were three deaths (that we know of) among the approximately 36,000 civilians and few hundred embedded reporters who were vaccinated.5 This makes the actual death rate 80 times higher than that which the CDC told the public to expect. Serious adverse reactions such as brain swelling, heart inflammation, heart attacks, uncontrolled ulceration of the skin, among others, were one in 583, seven times higher than the CDC’s original guesstimate of one in four thousand. And yet medical authorities and mainstream news continue to use the old, inaccurate numbers rather than update the risk estimate as they should.
Even worse, these numbers were probably vastly under-reported since, just as with childhood vaccination reactions, reporting adverse reactions during the smallpox vaccine was not mandatory and was also limited to an arbitrary and ill-defined time frame of 2-4 weeks. What was the rate of death and injury from the vaccine over the next few months and years? All of these important risks should have been studied and tracked for an honest assessment of the true risk of this vaccine, but researchers missed this valuable opportunity due to the usual shoddy and incomplete tracking system that reflects the poor science behind vaccine development.
Hepatitis B Vaccine At Birth
Let’s look at the hepatitis B vaccine as a way to examine problems with the development and introduction of any new vaccine.
Hepatitis B is primarily an adult disease transmitted through blood and body fluids. High risk populations include drug users, heterosexuals and homosexuals with many sexual partners, health care workers exposed to blood, and babies born to infected mothers. In 1996, 270 children under the age of 14 were infected with hepatitis B, with only 54 cases reported in the 0-1 age group.
In spite of the low risk for children in general, and in spite of the ability to target at-risk children by specifically testing their mothers before birth, the CDC added the hepatitis B vaccine to the recommended vaccination schedule in 1991, with the first of three doses to be administered on the very day of birth before leaving the hospital.
In 1986, Merck & Co. began marketing the first genetically engineered hepatitis B vaccine. A flagrant example of the poor science behind vaccination development, the FDA approved the vaccine for use after only 1636 doses of Recombivax HB were administered to only 653 children who were subsequently monitored for only 5 days after each dose.6 Since the vaccine is recommended for the first day of life, Merck was asked for safety data on newborns. They replied, “We have none. Our studies were done on 5- and 10-year-olds.â€7 Further, Merck admitted in 1996 that no data is “available for the simultaneous administration of Recombivax HB with other vaccines†even though children are routinely given other vaccines along with Recombivax HB vaccine.
Since the introduction of this vaccine, there have been hundreds of reports in the medical literature (mostly published in international medical journals outside of the United States) citing central nervous system diseases, multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, arthritis, severe rashes, fever, chronic fatigue, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) as a direct result of the vaccine. Parents have filed tens of thousands of adverse event reports with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, including emergency room visits, hospitalization and deaths. A study in New Zealand reported a 60 percent increase in juvenile diabetes after a massive campaign to vaccinate babies from 1988 to 1991 with the hepatitis B vaccine.8 Even Merck itself admits to systemic complaints such as fever, joint pain, fatigue and weakness in up to 17 percent of all hepatitis B injections. And perhaps most telling of all, over 50 percent of the doctors surveyed in the UK refused to take the hepatitis B vaccine themselves, citing the known dangers from the vaccine, even though as medical professionals working in hospitals, they belong to a high risk group exposed to blood products and needles in the daily course of their work.
But most disturbing is the fundamental question of why this vaccine was recommended for infants in the first place. In 1996, there were 1,080 reports of adverse reactions among 0-1 year olds from the vaccine, including 47 deaths. If only 10 percent of the true deaths and injuries are being reported–an extremely conservative estimate–this means that there were actually over 10,800 adverse reactions and 470 deaths from the vaccine. Yet in that same year, there were only 54 cases of the disease reported in the 0-1 year old group. This frightful equation reveals that for every child that acquires hepatitis B, the vaccine kills 9 babies and injures 200.
Why subject tens of millions of infants to the known dangers of this vaccine when the few babies actually at risk for the disease can be identified by simply screening the mother?9 And finally, even if parents opt to include this vaccine in their child’s vaccine schedule, why is the vaccine given on the day of birth? Parents need time to get to know their child first, so they can compare the baby’s health status before and after vaccination, so any harm can be noticed, tracked and treated.
In addition to problems with genetically engineered vaccines, many vaccines–notably the MMR, chickenpox and Sabin polio vaccines–inject live viruses into the body. Various stabilizers and preservatives are added including formaldehyde, lead, aluminum and MSG. Unknown amounts of RNA and DNA from animal and human cell tissue culture have been found as well. And even though concerned parent groups have fought for the removal of the mercury-based preservative thimerisol from childhood vaccines, the pharmaceutical industry still uses mercury in flu vaccines, a new addition to the recommended yearly vaccination schedule for children starting at age 6 months. Additionally, the medical industry has continued to use old lots of thimerisol-containing vaccines until supplies are exhausted, rather than pull them from the market immediately, as they should.
Families “Compensated†For Loss Of Their Child
Because of the dramatic increase in the number of injuries from childhood vaccines over the past decades, Congress enacted the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, setting up a fund to compensate parents for injured or dead children (as if a parent could ever be “compensated†for the loss of their child due to vaccination). Application to this fund is the first step parents must take when their child has been harmed; thus, the fund serves to shield the pharmaceutical company from all initial liability. To date, the fund has paid out over $1.2 billion to parents with over 12,000 reports made every year. This is a staggering number considering how many reactions occur that medical authorities refuse to attribute to the vaccine. And if David Kessler is correct and 90-99 percent of all injuries are not even reported, the true number of children injured or killed by vaccines would be 1.2 million or more per year.
The many excellent organizations10 that work to inform doctors and parents of the risks of vaccines describe the anguished phone calls they receive, recounting the devastation, guilt, confusion and distress that follow.11 Parents describe babies who within hours or days of their vaccination, run fevers, become restless or listless, fall into deep sleeps interspersed with piercing screams, arch their backs strangely while they cry, fall into comas or repetitive seizures, twitch, jerk, or stare into space blankly. Or, parents describe a general decline in overall health with constant ear infections, sudden sensitivities to foods and food allergies, sleep disturbances, asthma, unexplained rashes, and loss of developmental milestones replaced instead with repetitive head banging or body rocking.
Many parents and doctors believe the staggering increase in chronic childhood illness is a reaction to the dozens of vaccines that are now part of the standard vaccination schedule. Fifty years ago, autism affected less than 1 in 10,000 families, but now 1 in every 68 families have an autistic child. The rate of schoolchildren with autism has increased 1700 percent nationally from 1992 to 2002, creating a huge drain on families, school resources and social services that can never be remedied if the root cause turns out to be vaccination as many suspect, and the true solution is never addressed. Childhood asthma, diabetes, attention deficit disorder, and obesity have skyrocketed as well. As the SV40 polio debacle proved what can happen, “We may be trading mumps and measles during childhood, for cancer and leukemia in adults,â€says Barbara Loe Fisher.
Do Vaccines Even Work?
Even if parents find out about the risks of vaccines on their own, their doctors usually assure them that the risk is worth the almost certain benefit of freedom from infectious disease that their child receives. However, time and again, vaccines have simply not worked against the disease they are targeted to prevent. A 1978 survey of 30 states showed that more than half of all children who contracted measles had been fully vaccinated. Sweden abandoned its whooping cough vaccine after it examined 5,140 cases of whooping cough in 1978 and found that 84 percent had been vaccinated three times. A 1990 Journal of American Medicine Association article stated that “Although more than 95 percent of school-aged children in the US are vaccinated against measles, large measles outbreaks continue to occur in schools and most cases. . . occur among previously vaccinated children.†The medical literature is filled with example after example of the failure of vaccination to furnish protection against common childhood diseases.
But rather than accept the premise that the entire system of vaccination is fundamentally flawed, the medical industry calls for “booster†shots and re-vaccination, without any solid, long-term studies to see whether immunity is actually achieved and, if so, for how long.
Vaccination Did Not End Epidemics
While we have all been taught that vaccination ended the world’s many deadly epidemics, an honest and careful review of original historical medical sources, publications and statistics from the past two hundred years reveals that infectious diseases declined 90 percent before mass vaccination was ever introduced.
Experts attribute the cessation of epidemic diseases not to mass vaccination, but to a major sanitation reform movement that swept Europe during the 1800s. These reforms included moving human waste out of streets via plumbing systems; regularly cleaning streets and stables of horse manure and human waste; improving roads so that meats, vegetables and raw milk could be distributed in cities while still fresh; and upgrading water distribution systems to prevent bacterial contamination.12
All the old terror diseases of plague, black death and cholera responded to these reforms, and epidemics declined throughout the 1800s, long before the advent of vaccination. Even the CDC reported in 1999 that infectious diseases declined in the past century due to improvements in sanitation, water and hygiene. Vaccination against whooping cough, diphtheria, measles and polio all occurred only at the very end of the life cycle of each epidemic, exposing the fallacy of the claim that vaccination ended epidemics.13
The only exception to this decline in epidemic disease is smallpox, which, contrary to all we have been taught, actually increased with the advent of mandatory vaccination and decreased only after an organized uprising by parents and doctors forced European governments to end their mandatory vaccination programs.14 Even though the World Health Organization claims credit for the eradication of smallpox worldwide through vaccination, the fact is that smallpox declined in countries around the world whether the population had been vaccinated or not. As Dr. Glen Dittman said in 1986, “It is pathetic and ludicrous to say we vanquished smallpox with vaccines, when only 10 percent of the population were ever vaccinated.â€
Big Business Creates Pressure to Vaccinate
The children of the United States represent the most highly vaccinated population in the world. Millions of dollars are provided by the multi-national pharmaceuticals to create front organizations like “All Kids Count†and “Immunization Action Coalition,†groups with friendly, neutral names that disguise the pharmaceutical funding behind their mandate to promote vaccination. Vaccines produce billions of dollars a year for the drug companies, in part because the federal government funds massive vaccination drives by buying vaccines with our tax dollars and then giving state health departments millions of dollars with the goal of achieving 100 percent vaccine compliance. If they fail, the money can be withdrawn from the state. The result of all of this money available to state health authorities is enormous pressure applied to the schools, which in turn pressure parents by requiring proof of vaccination for entry into school at every level of a child’s development.
Resistance
Yet resistance to the mandatory vaccination schedule is growing and millions of parents are questioning both the underlying science of vaccination and expressing concerns about side effects. A 2003 study found that 93 percent of pediatricians and 60 percent of family physicians reported at least one family that had refused a vaccine for their child.
When a parent chooses to limit or opt out of the vaccination schedule, a wide variety of official responses have been reported ranging from no difficulties at all, to the opposite extreme, official threats of medical child neglect charges. It is an unfortunate fact that parents who decline vaccination have been thrown out of their doctors’ offices and children have been refused entry into school. In extreme cases, officials have charged parents with medical child neglect and forced them to go to court to retain the right to raise their child.15 Parents receiving benefits such as welfare, food aid and medical care risk the loss of such aid when they wish to opt out of vaccination.
Yet it is also true that many parents experience no resistance from authorities with their right of vaccination refusal unchallenged, as long as they follow the various state laws for exemption.
Polio, smallpox and diphtheria were in decline before the introduction of vaccinations. Mandatory smallpox vaccination in England and Wales resulted in a huge increase in the disease. Typhoid fever died out with no vaccination program.
How To Opt Out
Since this short article cannot examine every vaccine, if you have questions about a specific vaccine, please see the footnotes and recommended reading list at the end of this article to help you decide which, if any, vaccines you feel are safe for your child. While vaccines may be “mandated†by the CDC, they are not “legally required.†No one has the legal authority to vaccinate your child against your wishes.
If the birth will take place in a hospital, you can amend the medical treatment forms or your birth plan, and clearly state that you do not want any vaccines for your baby while in the hospital. You should also communicate your request verbally with the staff on all shifts, either yourself or by having your spouse or advocate communicate your wishes clearly and directly.
Once your child is born, the pressure to vaccinate comes from two sources–medical authorities and school authorities. Medically, you are free to make any decision at any time you feel is best regarding your child’s vaccination schedule. However, if you opt out of vaccination, many doctors may lie about vaccines being mandatory or frighten you with exaggerated statistics about the dangers of not vaccinating and refuse to treat your child. Unfortunately, the “bread and butter†of pediatric practice are the many “well baby†visits that include vaccination throughout your child’s development.16
However, it is the entry into day care or school that triggers the need for legal exemptions. There are three types of exemptions–philosophical, medical and religious. There are medical exemptions in all 50 states, religious exemptions in all but two states (West Virginia and Mississippi), and philosophical exemptions in 16 states. You can check the laws for your particular state at www.thinktwice.com or www.909shot.com/state-site/legal-exemptions.htm
Private schools have their own rules and may reject children that have not been vaccinated. Public schools, however, are required by law to accept your exemption, when properly prepared according to the laws of your state. Home schooling sidesteps the issue entirely.
Once you check the laws for your particular state, you can choose the exemption type that is best for your situation. It is very important to submit the appropriate paperwork to the school so that your refusal to vaccinate cannot be interpreted as parental neglect. A philosophical exemption generally requires a short letter simply stating that you object to vaccination. The religious exemption also requires a letter, but some states stipulate that you actually belong to, and are a practicing member of, a religion that specifically objects to vaccination. The medical exemption is usually the most difficult to obtain because doctors are subject to review and censure by state medical authorities when they grant exemptions. In some cases medical exemptions may be obtained from the school nurse–and are often easier to obtain than from a physician.
Happily, simply signing and submitting the exemption is generally all that is needed. Some exemption letters must be notarized or drafted as a signed affidavit. And some School Immunization Records have an exemption section on the form itself, that you simply fill out. Here is an example for California: www.dhs.ca.gov/publications/forms/pdf/pm286b.pdf. For examples of exemption letters for all possible scenarios and all states see www.vaclib.org/pdf/exemption.htm
When discussing your decision to opt out, it is best to remain calm, courteous and diplomatic, even in the face of ignorance or resistance from authorities. Do not enter into arguments with authorities and draw attention to your decision. There is no need to attach documents to your exemption proving evidence of the problems with vaccination or explaining your reasons for opting out–you simply want an exemption for your child. If you encounter belligerent or arrogant authorities who intimidate you with threats of sending you to jail or taking your child away, try to sidestep their resistance in a non-confrontational manner and leave the situation as soon as possible. If you run into this kind of resistance, you should put your wishes in writing, escalate your exemption request to someone above that official, and demand a written response. You’ll be surprised how quickly resistance from authorities can fade once they must put their illegal statements and intimidations in writing.17
Above all, remember that no authority has the legal right to vaccinate your child without your permission. Should they do so, they open themselves up to legal liability and you have all the resources of the law behind you. While you may experience resistance, they are breaking the law, not you. Do not be coerced or intimidated into vaccinating your child–it is your choice and your right to do what you feel is best.
Naturally Derived Immunity
Those of us involved in the Weston A. Price organization have an intimate understanding of the lies and distortions that various government and corporate forces use to control our food choices. The grassroots Campaign for Real Milk started with research into the facts of the situation, analyzed how the media and agribusiness distorted the true history of raw and pasteurized milk, the organized a drive for freedom of choice, and supported the farmers committed to producing raw milk.
It is these same kinds of distortions and propaganda regarding drugs and vaccines that are sometimes overlooked in the natural food community. The doctor who tells parents that raw milk will give their child TB is the same doctor who assures parents that vaccines are safe, effective and nothing to be concerned about.
We know that children of the many cultures that Weston Price studied needed no vaccination–they grew up vibrant, healthy and strong, able to fight off infectious disease as long as they maintained their original, native diets. Should a child be in any danger from an infectious disease, we have many powerful tools available to us–nutrient-dense healing foods along with homeopathy, acupuncture, herbalism and naturopathy, all systems of earth-based healing that take into account the full well being of the whole person to restore and maintain true health.
The recent avalanche of drug scandals exposing death and injury from drugs fully approved by the FDA demonstrates harm far greater than specific problems with individual drugs. Western medicine operates under the assumption that synthetic, genetically engineered drugs and vaccines heal the sick and protect the young from disease, an assumption that parents are expected to accept without question. But when it comes to your child, you are the expert most qualified to decide what is best for your child, using your intelligence and common sense in the same way we fight for our right for real food.
About the Author
Lynne Born has been an alternative health care activist, writer and independent medical researcher for over 20 years. She is a longtime member of the Weston A. Price Foundation and enjoys a diet based on homemade full-fat foods, bone broth, raw milk and fermented foods.
ENDNOTES
1. Barbara Loe Fisher, National Vaccination Information Center, http://www.909shot.com. Nevada County, California, has the highest percentage of unvaccinated children in the state of California, providing a perfect setting for this simple study. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/25/CM171959.DTL.
2. For their excellent collection of hundreds of peer reviewed, published articles on the dangers, side effects, and inefficacy of vaccination, see Vaccination: 100 Years of Orthodox Research shows that Vaccines Represent a Medical Assault on the Immune System, by Viera Scheibner, Ph.D., 1997. Available from New Atlantean Press, 505-983-1856. See also any of the excellent books by Neil Z. Miller, including Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective?, 2002. Check his website for additional books, http://www.thinktwice.com.
3. Even Dr. Jonas Salk who developed the first polio vaccine admitted under oath that most cases of polio in the USA since 1961 were actually caused by the vaccine.
4. David Kessler, †Introducing MedWatch: A new approach to reporting medication and device adverse effect and product problems,†Journal of American Medical Association, July 2, 1993, 269(21): 2765–68.
5. As the deaths followed one after another in March and April 2003, headlines read “First death: Nurse dies after smallpox vaccinationâ€; “Second worker dies of heart attack after smallpox vaccinationâ€; and “Coroner rules [smallpox] vaccinations contributed to reservist’s death.†(An internet search easily reveals these articles.) Yet, by June 2003, mainstream media articles were not only ignoring the earlier deaths, they continued to use the old, inaccurate figures of one or two deaths per million rather than the newly updated, more truthful numbers that had become apparent during this vaccination program.
6. Merck & Co. 1993 product insert for Recombivax HB.
7. 1997 Illinois Board of Health hearing, The Congressional Quarterly, August 25, 2000, pg. 647.
8. Barthelo Classen, M.D., CEO of Classen Immunotherapies Inc. Epidemiologic study in the New Zealand Medical Journal, 1996.
9. See http://www.909shot.com/History/Newsletters/hepbnlr.htm for more detailed information about the dangers and risks of the Hepatitis B vaccine.
10. National Vaccination Information Center, http://www.909shot.com; Think Twice Global Vaccine Institute, http://www.thinktwice.com.
11. See http://www.thinktwice.com/stories.htm, http://www.mothering.com/articles/growing_child/vaccines/wake.html.
12. The concept that epidemic diseases were ended by sanitation reforms is reinforced when natural disasters destroy sanitation systems and roads, bringing epidemic diseases with the collapse of the infrastructure. Vaccination does not end these epidemics – only the restoration of basic services restores health.
13. See charts showing the decline of epidemics in my article “Smallpox Vaccine has the Poxâ€, http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Aug2003/born0803.html, July/August 2003.
14. For an in-depth study of the unscientific and fraudulent development of the smallpox vaccine, see my article referenced in footnote 13.
15. See Immunization, The Reality Behind the Myth, by Walene James, 1995, Chapter 10 “Appointment with Tyranny†for a story of a court battle over the right to not vaccinate in 1981.
16. See How To Raise a Healthy Child In Spite of Your Doctors, by Robert Mendelsohn, M.D. for an excellent resource on parenting without vaccination.
17. Dr. Joseph Mercola has written an excellent article that details how to handle resistance in your state: How to Legally Avoid Unwanted Immunizations of All Kinds, http://www.mercola.com/fcgi/pf/article/vaccines/legally_avoid_shots.htm.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS AND WEBSITES
Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective? by Neil Z. Miller, 2002. Check his website for additional books, www.thinktwice.com.
National Vaccination Information Center, www.909shot.com. Check www.908shot.com/ResourceCenter/ResourceCenter.htm for recommended reading.
Immunization, The Reality Behind the Myth, by Walene James, 1995.
Vaccination: 100 Years of Orthodox Research Shows that Vaccines Represent a medical Assault on the Immune System, by Viera Scheibner, PhD., 1007, New Atlantean Press, (505) 983-1856.
How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctors, by Robert Mendelsohn, MD.
MERCURY IN VACCINES AND AUTISM
The mercury-autism connection has surfaced to the public’s attention with the publication of “Deadly Immunity,†by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in the July issue of Rolling Stone magazine, simultaneous with publication in Salon. Kennedy describes a Center for Disease Control and Prevention meeting held June 2000 at which CDC epidemiologist Tom Verstraeten presented evidence to industry and government officials that thimerosal, the mercury-based preservative in vaccines, was responsible for the epidemic of autism in America’s children. Instead of taking immediate steps to alert the public and rid the vaccine supply of thimerosal, the attendees spent the rest of the meeting discussing ways to cover up the damaging data.
Subsequently, powerful friends in Congress have tried to protect vaccine manufacturers with legislation to shield them from more than 4000 pending lawsuits. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has received $837,000 in contributions from the pharmaceutical industry, quietly slipped a rider known as the “Eli Lilly Protection Act†into the homeland security bill. The measure was repealed by Congress in 2003 but earlier this year, Frist slipped another provision into an anti-terrorism bill that would deny compensation to children suffering from vaccine-related brain disorders. “The lawsuits are of such magnitude that they could put vaccine producers out of business and limit our capacity to deal with a biological attack by terrorists,†says Andy Olsen, a legislative assistant to Frist.
More than 500,000 children suffer from autism, with 40,000 new cases diagnosed every year. The disease was unknown until 1943, when it was identified and diagnosed among eleven children born after thimerosal was first added to baby vaccines in 1931.
The CDC counters parental anger and negative publicity by citing studies that vindicate thimerosal, studies opponents claim are doctored and highly suspect. “You couldn’t even construct a study that shows thimerosal is safe,†says Dr. Boyd Haley, one of the world’s authorities on mercury toxicity and head of the chemistry department at the University of Kentucky. “It’s just too darn toxic. If you inject thimerosal into an animal, its brain will sicken. If you apply it to living tissue, the cells die. If you put it in a petri dish, the culture dies. Knowing these things, it would be shocking if one could inject it into an infant without causing damage.â€
Internal documents reveal that Eli Lilly, which first developed thimerosal, knew from the start that its product could cause damage. Yet the lure of profits proved greater than the company’s concern for the public. Thimerosal enables the pharmaceutical industry to package vaccines in vials that contain multiple doses. The larger vials cost half as much to produce as smaller, single-dose vials, and are needed to make in mass vaccination programs cost effective.
The introduction of thimerosal into vaccines coincided with an increase in the number of vaccines given to children. Infants who receive all their vaccines, plus boosters, by the age of six months are exposed to levels of ethylmercury, injected directly into the bloodstream, 187 times greater than the EPAs limit for daily exposure to methylmercury, a related neurotoxin.
Kennedy describes a burgeoning scandal that has the potential to bring down the pharmaceutical industry. To read his article, see www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7395411.
IF YOU MUST VACCINATE
* Wait until the child is at least 2 years old.
* Do not give more than one vaccination at a time.
* Never vaccinate when the child is sick.
* Be sure that the vaccines are thimerosal-free.
* Supplement the child with extra cod liver oil, vitamin C and B12 before each shot.
* Obtain a medical exemption if the child has had a bad reaction to a vaccination before or if there is a personal or family history of vaccine reactions, convulsions or neurological disorders, severe allergies and/or immune system disorders.
This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts,
the quarterly magazine of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Summer 2005.