CHAPTER SEVEN
The Other Vaccinations
In addition to the "mandatory"
vaccinations, there are several other vaccinations which we should also
consider. You might encounter one of them someday. These vaccines are less
frequently administered: pneumonia, hepatitis B, Hib meningitis, and chicken pox
(varicella).
Also called "hydrophobia," Rabies and the
dangers of the vaccine given to stop it are discussed in more detail in the
section, "How Did Vaccinations Begin?"
"The Indiana State Medical Journal (December
1950) reports the case of a man of 25 who received the Pasteur rabies treatment
and became paralyzed from the waist down and died shortly thereafter. ‘The
authors say that no one knows what causes these paralytic reactions. However, it
has been definitely established, they say, that they are not caused by the
rabies virus. In other words, vaccination, not rabies is the danger here. The
authors go on to quote Sellers, another authority, who believes that ‘not
hydrophobia but rather rabiophobia is what we have to fear most.’ "—Walene
James, Immunizations: The Reality Behind the Myth, 1987, p. 71 (quoting J.I.
Rodale, "Rabies: Fact or Fancy?" Prevention, August 1956, p. 52.
At the worst, a person can receive an especially virulent form of rabies from
a rabies shot. (See the section, "How Did Vaccinations Begin?" for
more on that.) At the best, the rabies shot will accomplish essentially nothing:
"The U.S. Public Health Service Centers for Disease
Control [CDC] recently presented findings that more than justify the warnings
of immune system disorder following vaccine injection. In 1983 a Peace Corps
volunteer died in Africa of serologically confirmed rabies after being bitten
by a rabid dog. Prior to being bitten, but after arriving in Africa, this
young woman had received the human diploid cell rabies vaccine (HDCV).
"Tests done by CDC showed that the vaccine had
stimulated her immune system but only slightly, certainly not enough to
protect her from rabies disease. CDC checked over 700 other Peace Corps
volunteers who had also received HDCV and found that one-half responded in an
immunologically weak way to the vaccine."—The Immunization Trio, H.E.
Buttram, M.D. and J.C. Hoffman, Ph.D., 1991, p. 58.
Smallpox was the disease that got vaccinations started.
Cowpox was a mild disease normally contracted by cows and the milkmaids who
worked with them. Edward Jenner found that he could give inoculations of cowpox
to people, and this appeared to give them immunity to smallpox. Oddly enough,
that which he did was not as dangerous as the later vaccines—which consisted
of dead or weakened germs from the same dangerous disease!
Multiple vaccinations against smallpox were common. James Phipps, the
eight-year-old boy initially vaccinated by Jenner in 1796, was later
revaccinated. He died at the age of 20. Jenner’s own son was also vaccinated,
more than once, and died at 21. A study, published in 1980, overviewed many of
these multiple vaccination cases—and showed that revaccinated children
developed "chromosomal aberrations in their white blood cells" (R.S.
Mendelsohn, M.D., Risks of Immunizations, 1988, p. 90).
As sanitation steadily improved, the incidence of smallpox
kept lessening. Before England’s first compulsory vaccination law of 1853, the
most smallpox for any two successive years was only 2,000. Those were the most
severe epidemics (Boston Globe, June 11, 1991, p. 13). In Jenner’s own
time, he himself admitted that the disease was rare; for, normally, at any one
time there were only a few hundred cases in all England.
But, 17 years later, in 1870-1871, more than 23,000 people
died from smallpox (E. McBean, The Poisoned Needle, 1974, p. 13). During
that same two-year period, over 124,000 died of smallpox in Germany during the
same epidemic. All had been vaccinated (ibid.).
It is an astonishing fact that 90% of all smallpox cases
occur after the individual has been vaccinated (ibid.). In order to avoid
malpractice suits, smallpox deaths that occur too quickly after vaccination are
sometimes given another name: pustular eczema.
"Medical statisticians frequently try to avoid listing
too many instances in which people die of the same disease they were vaccinated
against. Instead, a different name is used. Apparently, this massive vaccine
cover-up has been going on since the beginning of the century!
"During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of
the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council,
and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by
diagnosing all the revaccinated cases [of smallpox] as pustular eczema,
varioloid or what not—except smallpox."—George Bernard Shaw, quoted
in E. McBean, The Poisoned Needle, p. 64.
"In the thirty years ending in 1934, 3,112 people are stated to have
died of "chicken pox," and only 579 of smallpox in England and
Wales. Yet all the authorities are agreed that chicken pox is a nonfatal
disease."—M. Beddow Bayly, Case Against Vaccination, London,
June 1936, p. 5.
We now have a new disease: monkeypox. An official 1979
report of the World Health Organization said this new disease afflicting man is
clinically indistinguishable from smallpox (World Health Organization, Weekly
Epidemiological Record, 1979, 54:12-13).
"Immunization against smallpox is more hazardous than
the disease itself."—Professor Arie Zuckerman, member of the World
Health Organization’s advisory panel on viruses.
"For more than fifty years the populations of Australia
and New Zealand (with the exception of the armed forces in time of war) have
been practically unvaccinated, and they have been more free from smallpox
than any other community.
"The most thoroughly vaccinated countries are Italy, the
Philippine Islands, and Mexico. And all of these have been scourged with
smallpox epidemics."—L. Loat, The Truth About Vaccination and
Immunization, 1951, p. 28.
"Our U.S. Government staged a compulsory vaccination
campaign in the Philippines which brought on the largest smallpox epidemic in
the history of that country with 162,503 cases and 71,453 deaths, all
vaccinated. That was between 1917 and 1919."—Harold Buttram, M.D., The
Dangers of Immunization, 1979, p. 48.
"From West Germany we read of more vaccination casualties. A reader
writing to Organic Consumer Report (June 13, 1968) mentions an
article which appeared in Medical World which stated that about 3,000
children each year suffer varying degrees of brain damage as the result of
smallpox vaccination. This same writer mentions another medical journal in which
Dr. G. Kittel, M.D., reported that in the previous year,
smallpox vaccination damaged the hearing of 3,296 children
in West Germany and 71 became totally deaf."—W. James,
Immunization: Reality Behind the Myth, 1988, p. 18.
Before concluding this section on smallpox, the findings of
Dr. Charles A.R. Campbell should be of interest. Recommended for the Nobel Prize
around the turn of the century, Dr. Campbell carried out significant research
into typhoid, malaria, and smallpox. He made an important discovery which could
help eliminate smallpox. But his discovery was, for the most part, ignored. Dr.
Campbell found that smallpox, like malaria, was carried by a blood-sucking
insect, and that neither was infectious nor contagious. After careful
experimentation, he found that smallpox was caused by the bite of cimex
lectularius, a bedbug. These small creatures infested the straw-padded
mattresses of that time. But more: Dr. Campbell went on to learn that the amount
of pocking (marking) on the skin, from smallpox, was directly related to whether
or not the person was eating fresh greens.
So smallpox is but one of several "filth diseases":
smallpox and typhus, caused by body lice; Bubonic Plague; by lice on rats and
rat manure; typhoid and cholera, and by contaminated water.
Obviously, the solution to smallpox is a cleaner environment
and better nutrition, not vaccinations of weakened germs.
Several pneumococcal vaccines are under investigation. In 1977 a pneumococcal
vaccine was licensed which contained 14 types of S pneumonia. This
was replaced in 1983 by a vaccine of 23 types. These polysaccharide vaccines
have only had limited success; so researchers are now trying to make a conjugate
form, in which the polysaccharide is bonded to a protein carrier. So far, they
have been unsuccessful in producing it. Therefore the 1983 method is still being
used. It is predicted that soon children will begin to be vaccinated for
pneumonia.
A controlled study was made of 1,300 healthy Australian
children. Some were given the pneumonia vaccine; others were not. The
researchers concluded that the vaccine accomplished nothing beneficial:
"[Compared with the control group, vaccine recipients
experienced] no fewer days of respiratory illness, no reduction in antibiotic
consumption, hospitalization, visits to a physician, or incidence of ear
infections."—Journal of Infectious Diseases study, quoted in R.S.
Mendelsohn, M.D., Risks of Immunizations, 1988, p. 75.
Studies have not shown any appreciable effect in reducing ear
infections in children by the vaccine. Instead of preventing the ear infection,
the pneumonia vaccine only altered the types of microbes in the ear.
So little is known about the pneumonia vaccine, that it has
not yet been approved for general administration to children. Only those
"with increased risk of serious pneumococcal infections" are now
receiving it.
"Approximately 50% of vaccines (30% to 40% in
children) develop swelling and pain at the injection site. Fever, muscle pain,
and severe swelling occur in less than one percent of those vaccinated. High
fevers (over 102�) and severe allergic reactions have been reported."—R.
Neustaedter, The Immunization Decision, 1990, pp. 84-85.
Hepatitis B is a serious liver disease which hard drug users
had, until it got into the blood banks—and was given to a wide range of people
who were receiving transfusions.
When a vaccine for hepatitis B was developed in the 1970s, many doctors were
concerned that it might be contaminated with an AIDS virus (J.A. Finkbeiner,
M.D., Medical World News, January 10, 1983).
It is of interest that two-thirds of physicians with
hepatitis B have refused to take the vaccine (R.S. Mendelsohn, M.D.,
"Drive to Immunize Adults Is On," Herald of Health Newsletter,
September-October, 1985). Yet, in 1991, the CDC began work to mandate
inoculation of all infants against hepatitis B! In fact, many doctors are
already routinely giving multiple doses of it to very young infants (Boston
Globe, June 11, 1991).
The scientific name for this disease is haemophilus
influenzae b (Hib), although it has no relationship to influenza. It is a
bacterial disease which causes upper respiratory and ear infections, inflamed
sinuses, pneumonia, swelling of the throat, and meningitis. And what is
meningitis? It is an inflammation of membranes which cover the brain and spinal
cord.
In 1985, a purified polysaccharide form of vaccine for
meningitis was released. It was called PAP. Shortly afterward, a conjugate form
of this vaccine (PRP-D or HbOC) was licensed. The conjugate form is now
recommended and mostly given. In the United States, it is the only kind now
used.
Researchers suspect that meningitis is especially caused by
other vaccinations which have been given. So we have here a new vaccine being
given to eliminate a serious disease frequently caused by other vaccines. It is
known that central nervous system infections occur more frequently as a direct
result of DPT and measles vaccine (H.L. Coulter, M.D., Assault on the
American Child: Vaccination, Sociopathy, and Criminality, 1990).
Fifty percent of Hib meningitis cases occur in children 6 to 7 months of age—after
or about the time they receive the other vaccinations. The attack rate decreases
rapidly with increasing age. Fifty percent of the cases occur in infants under
one year of age. If no vaccines were given to children below 18 months of age, a
large number (as many as 75%) of the meningitis cases might be avoided.
The original polysaccharide form of the vaccine was not very
effective. So the conjugate form is now used. Here is part of what the conjugate
form accomplishes:
"The haemophilus vaccine is associated with
many reactions. Dr. Julie Milstien and colleagues reviewed 152 spontaneous
reports of vaccine reactions submitted to the FDA during the first year of
vaccine availability, 1985-1986 (Milstien, et al., 1987). Serious
reactions included convulsions (with and without fever), anaphylactoid
allergic reactions, serum sickness-like reactions (joint pain, rashes, and
edema), and one death within 4 hours of vaccination. In addition to the
reported reactions, there were 63 reports of proven H influenzae type b
invasive disease that occurred soon after the immunization."—Randall
Neustaedter, O.M.D., The Immunization Decision, 1990, p. 70.
Although the Hib vaccine is often called the "meningitis
vaccine," it really provides little protection against the Hib form of
meningitis—and, aside from Hib, there are also several other causes of
meningitis (pneumococcus, meningococcus germs, and some viruses). In addition,
the Hib germs may also cause upper respiratory infections, ear infections, and
sinusitis; yet the Hib vaccine is no help in resisting those infections.
In summary, it could be said:
"The vaccine for meningitis has too many unclear aspects. Efficacy is
questionable, the frequency of side effects is unknown, and long-term side
effects have not yet been discovered for this vaccine only recently licensed in
1985. Parents need to decide whether they are willing to risk the possible side
effects of a vaccine which is questionably effective, experimental, and not
targeted at the population of children under 18 months who are most at
risk."—Randall Neustaedter, O.M.D., The Immunization Decision, 1990,
pp. 70-71.
Chicken pox is one of the mildest diseases of childhood.
Almost all children are infected, and as a result develop permanent immunity. A
chicken pox vaccine was developed in 1973. To date, it is generally used only
with children with cancer and leukemia.
"It is relatively certain that the chicken pox vaccine
will soon be added to those routinely administered to children. The MMRV
(measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella) vaccine will replace MMR."—Op.
cit., pp. 75-76.
Such an action would result in great profit to the
manufacturers, and would probably result in an increase of adult chicken pox
cases. As with measles and mumps vaccines, chicken pox vaccines—widely given—would
have more likelihood of serious disease and resulting complications. Unusual
cases of varicella zoster illness may also occur, as they now do after measles
and mumps vaccinations. Varicella zoster virus can be stored in nerve cells
after natural chicken pox infection, and erupt in later years as herpes zoster
("shingles"). That is a very painful skin eruption which can last for
several weeks. Plotkin says that varicella vaccine has caused zoster in normal
children (S. Plotkin, New England Journal of Medicine, 1988, Vol. 318, pp.
573-575).
What is the future for us, if chicken pox vaccine becomes
another required inoculation?
"Chicken pox, which is relatively mild in childhood,
[if given in vaccines to children] might increase in frequency during
adulthood when it is much more severe."—P.A. Brunell "Where Are
We?" Pediatrics, 1986, Vol. 78 (supplement), pp. 721-722.
"One would not, however, want to vaccinate against varicella routinely
in childhood if immunity wanes and thereby creates a population of varicella-susceptible
adults."—A.A. Gershon, "Live Attenuated Varicella Vaccine,"
Annual Review of Medicine, 1987, Vol. 38, pp. 41-50.
"Varicella zoster virus may be a cause of cancer. This
association has never been proven, though varicella-zoster infected human
cells have transformed mouse cells to cancerous cells in a laboratory
setting."—R. Neustaedter, Immunization Decision, 1990, p. 78.
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