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"We interrupt the current programming to bring you this important news update. There has been a reported case of smallpox in Washington, D.C. "
What will happen next? Pandemonium.
The press has done its job over the last few months reinforcing the belief that an epidemic is about to occur, potentially causing millions of deaths. Americans thousands of miles from Washington will demand the smallpox vaccine, a vaccine with the highest risk of complications of any vaccine ever manufactured and with a dubious track record for success.
However, because you are informed, you will have a different response. You will not panic. You will turn off the TV. You won’t listen to your hysterical neighbors. And more importantly, you won’t rush to be vaccinated. Here’s why:
On June 20, 2002, I attended the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) meeting of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) and listened to one and a half days of testimony prior to posting the recommendations for smallpox vaccination that are currently being considered by the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS.)
Various physicians and researchers associated with the CDC presented by public participants and many testimonies and comments. Noting that two weeks have past since the June 20th meeting and the media has still not reported on this historic event, I decided it was imperative to report the content and outcome of this meeting to the general public. After reading this report you will gain a new perspective on smallpox and, hopefully, in the event of an outbreak, you will understand that you have nothing to fear.
Generally Accepted Facts
Nearly every article or news headliner regarding smallpox is designed to instill and continually reinforce fear in the minds of the general public. Apparently the goal is to make everyone demand the vaccine as soon as it is available and/or in the event of an outbreak. A very similar media campaign was developed prior to the release of the Salk polio vaccine in 1955. The polio vaccine had been in development for more than a year prior to its release and was an untested "investigational new drug," just as the smallpox vaccine will be.
The difference is that the potential side effects and complications of the smallpox vaccine are already known, and they are extensive.
Generally accepted facts about smallpox include:
Myth 1: Smallpox Is Highly Contagious
"Smallpox has a slow transmission and is not highly contagious," stated Joel Kuritsky, MD, director of the National Immunization Program and Early Smallpox Response and Planning at the CDC. This statement is a direct contradiction to nearly everything we have ever heard or read about smallpox. However, keep in mind that this comes "straight from the horse’s mouth" and should be considered the "real story" regarding how smallpox is spread.
Even if a person is exposed to a known bioterrorist attack with smallpox, it doesn’t mean that he will contract smallpox. The signs and symptoms of the disease will not occur immediately, and there is time to plan.
The infection has an incubation period of 3 to 17 days,[1] and the first symptom will be the development of a high fever (101º F), accompanied by nausea, vomiting, headache, severe abdominal cramping and low back pain. The person will be ill and most likely bed-ridden; not out mixing with the general public.
Even with a fever, it is critically important to realize that at this point the person is still not contagious. In fact, the fever may be caused by something else, such as the flu.
However, if a smallpox infection is developing, the characteristic rash will begin to develop within two to four days after the onset of the fever. The person becomes contagious and has the ability to spread the infection only after the development of the rash. "The characteristic rash of variola major is difficult to misdiagnose," stated Walter A. Orenstein, M.D., Director of the National Immunization Program (NIP) at the CDC. The classic smallpox rash is a round, firm pustule that can spread and become confluent. The lesions are all in the same stage of development over the entire body and appear to be distributed more on the palms, soles and face than on the trunk or extremities.
Action Item:
In the event of an exposure, it is imperative that you do everything you can to improve the functioning of your immune system so that an "exposure" does not have to result in an "outbreak." a. Stop eating all foods that contain refined white sugar products, since sugar inhibits the functioning of your white blood cells, your first line of defense.[2] (There are many other health-conscious dietary considerations to consider, but that is beyond the scope of this article.) b. Start taking large doses of Vitamin C. Vitamin C has been proven in hundreds of studies to be effective in protecting the body from viral infections,[3] including smallpox.[4] For an extensive scientific review on the use of this nutrient and a "dosing recipe", read "Vitamin C, The Master Nutrient, by Sandra Goodman, Ph.D. Article found here. c. If you develop a fever, you still have time to plan. Purchase enough fresh, organic produce and filtered water to last three weeks. Move the kids to grandma’s or the neighbor’s house. d. Remember: you may not get the infection and you are not contagious until you get the rash!
Myth 2: Smallpox Is Easily Spread By Casual Contact With An Infected Person
Smallpox will not rapidly disseminate throughout the community. Even after the development of the rash, the infection is slow to spread. "The infection is spread by droplet contamination and coughing or sneezing are not generally part of the infection. Smallpox will not spread like wildfire," said Orenstein. He stated that the spread of smallpox to casual contacts is the "exception to the rule." Only 8% of cases in Africa were contracted by accidental contact.
Transmission of smallpox occurs only after intense contact, defined as "constant exposure of a person that is within 6-7 feet for a minimum of 6-7 days."[5] Dr. Orenstein reported that in Africa, 92% of all cases came from close associations and in India, all cases came from prolonged personal contact.
Dr. Tom Mack from the University of Southern California stated that in Pakistan, 27% of cases demonstrated no transmission to close associates. Nearly 37% had a transmission of only one generation, meaning that the second person to contract smallpox did not pass it onto the third person. These statistics directly contradict models that predict an exponential spread to millions.
Even without medical care, isolation was the best way to stop the spread of smallpox in Third World, population dense areas. With a slow transmission rate and an informed public, Mack estimated that the total number of smallpox cases in America would be less than 10, a far cry from the millions postulated by the press.
Dr. Kuritsky said at the CDC Public Forum on Smallpox on June 8 in St. Louis, "Given the slow transmission rate and that people need to be in close contact for nearly a week to spread the infection, the scenario in which a terrorist could infect himself with smallpox and contaminate an entire city by walking through the streets touching people is purely fiction."
Point to ponder:
Mass vaccination was halted in Third World countries because it didn’t work. In India, villages with an 88% vaccination rate still had outbreaks. After the World Health Organization began a surveillance and containment campaign, actively seeking cases of smallpox, isolating them in their homes, and vaccinating family members and close contacts, outbreaks were virtually eliminated within 2 years.
The CDC and the WHO organization attribute the eradication of smallpox to the ring vaccination of close contacts. However, since the infection runs its course in 3-6 weeks, perhaps ISOLATION ALONE would have effectively accomplished the same thing.
Myth #3: The Death Rate From Smallpox Is 30%
Nearly every newspaper and journal article quotes this statistic. However, as pointed out in the presentation by Dr. Tom Mack, it appears that the "30% fatality rate" has come from skewed data. Dr. Mack has worked with smallpox extensively and saw more than 120 outbreaks in Pakistan throughout the early 1970s.
Villages would apparently have "an importation" every 5-10 years, regardless of vaccination status, and the outbreak could always be predicated by living conditions and social arrangements. There were many small outbreaks and individual cases that never came to the attention of the local authorities.
Mack stated that even with poor medical care, the case fatality rate in adults was "much lower than is generally advertised" and thought to be 10-15%. He said that the statistics were "loaded with children that had a much higher fatality," making the average death rate reported to be much higher. Amazingly, he revealed his opinion that even without mass vaccination, "smallpox would have died out anyway. It just would have taken longer."
Even so, people died. Why? After all, smallpox is a skin disease and "other organs are seldom involved."[6] I posed this question to the committee on two separate occasions.
Kathi Williams of the National Vaccine Information Center asked this question at the Institute of Medicine meeting on June 15th. On June 20, an answer was finally forthcoming when a member of the ACIP committee said, "That is a good question. Does anyone know the actual cause of death from smallpox?"
At that point, Dr. D.A. Henderson, from the John Hopkins University Department of Epidemiology volunteered a comment. Dr. Henderson directed the World Health Organization’s global smallpox eradication campaign (1966-1977) and helped initiate WHO’s global program of immunization in 1974. He approached the microphone and stated, "Well, it appears that the cause of death of smallpox is a ‘mystery.’" He stated that a medical resident had been asked to do a complete review of the literature and "not much information" was found. It is postulated that the people died from a "generalized toxemia" and that those with the most severe forms of smallpox—the hemorrhagic or confluent malignant types—died of complications of skin sloughing, similar to a burn. However, he concluded by saying, "it’s frustrating, because we don’t really know."
Comment:
I find this to be extremely frightening. If we knew why people died when they contracted smallpox, perhaps current medical technology could treat the complications, making the death rate much lower. Considering that the last known case of smallpox in the U.S. was in Texas in 1949, continuing to report that smallpox has a 30% death rate is similar to saying that all heart attacks are fatal. Based on 1949 technology, that would be accurate reporting. But in 2002, all heart attacks are NOT fatal. Neither would smallpox have a mortality rate of 30%.
Myth #4: There Is No Treatment For Smallpox
A more accurate statement is "there are no pharmaceutical drugs for the treatment for smallpox." But they are working on that too. There are 274 antiviral drug compounds and testing is underway to see if one can be useful in the treatment of smallpox.[7]
One such drug is called hexadecylosypropyl-cidofovir (HDP-CDV). Not yet available for human use, it has been found to be 100 times more potent than its cousin, cidofovir, a drug used to treat retinal infections in HIV patients.
If studies pan out, HDP-CDV will be offered in a pill or capsule form over 5-14 days for the prevention and treatment of people exposed to smallpox.[8] Unfortunately, this drug is being developed in Europe and will most likely be kept out of the US market until long after the general public has been subjected to mass vaccination. It is important to note that there are several different presentations of a smallpox infection. The most common is called "ordinary discrete" smallpox, occurring in more than 40% of the cases. The outbreak is seen as a small scattering of pustules distributed across the body. The person with this type of smallpox needs minimal medical care and the reported death rate is <10%.[9] For mild cases of smallpox, adequate hydration and anti-fever products are essential for comfort and maintaining a temperature below 102ºF. Keeping the skin clean to prevent secondary bacterial infections is also important.
A 1927 Textbook of Medicine recommends applying gauzed soaked in carbolic acid to "decrease itching and prevent extensive scarring."[10] Carbolic acid is used acutely for burns that tend to ulcerate and other skin conditions that cause burning or prickling pain. Homeopathic forms of carbolic acid are also available. For the severe complications of smallpox, modern day treatment options are available. The hemorrhagic type of smallpox, occurring in approximately 3% of cases, presents as hypotensive shock and can be treated accordingly. In another 3% of serious cases, the confluent-type has extensive skin involvement. These patients can be treated the same as a burn patient. All severe cases need to be treated for dehydration and watched for signs of bacterial suprainfection. Research done by Dr. Peter Havens, MS, MD from the Medical College of Wisconsin postulated that death from smallpox was due to multisystem organ failure, a complication of an untreated acute cytokine (inflammatory) response. Massive oxidative stress occurs, leading to free-radical damage in the kidneys and other internal organs. However, Dr. Havens estimates that modern medical technology would indeed decrease the death rate, to possibly as low as 2-3%.
Comment:
The treatment of choice for severe free-radical stress is high dose intravenous Vitamin C. If conventional medicine would recognize the value of this treatment, they would also be forced to realize mass vaccination is simply not necessary.
Treating severely ill patients would require hospitalization and unfortunately, smallpox spreads the most quickly in the hospital setting due to poor isolation techniques. In addition, most patients in hospitals are ill and immunosuppressed by disease or medication, making them more susceptible to infection.
Dr. Mike Lane, former director of the CDC’s smallpox eradication program in the 1970s, said severely ill smallpox patients could be treated in a suburban motel or remote government building. "You can bring care to the patient if you elect to use the Motel 6 on the edge of town" rather than put smallpox victims in a hospital where the disease could spread to patients with weakened immune systems.
Side Bar With Dr. Mike Lane:
Dr. Lane and I had a private conversation during a coffee break. During his presentation, he had been adamant that those within the "first ring" would need to be mandatory vaccinate with 100% compliance. The "first ring" includes those that have had immediate, close contact with patients who had confirmed cases of smallpox. Lane stated that this was the only way that "ring vaccination would work." When I questioned his definition of 100% compliance, he said, "Medical contraindications would not apply. there would be NO exceptions. I would rather vaccinate them and take my chances treating the potential complications. In India, we vaccinated everyone. The only medical contraindication was leprosy, and we sometimes vaccinated them. I’m sure that we killed a few people, but we did the best that we could."
I pressed the issue further by saying, "if the death rate really is 30% (which I doubt), doesn’t that mean the survival rate is 70%? Shouldn’t that person have the right to play the odds with his health if he chose to?" His answer was the same: "If the person is exposed, there will be NO exceptions, medical or otherwise. Those people in the first ring—regardless of health status MUST be vaccinated." That means that all people with medical contraindictions—organ transplants, cancer, HIV, eczema and other skin conditions—would be vaccinated, even it was against their will and with the use of force, if necessary. He was quite the zealot about it; hopefully, in the event of a smallpox exposure, more reasonable minds will prevail. Myth #5: The Vaccine Will Keep Me From Getting The Infection Most people believe that all vaccines work to protect them, meaning that the vaccine will be clinically effective. What most people do not know is that vaccines have never been proven to protect them from getting the infection.
This little known fact is not only true for all vaccines, it is also true for the smallpox vaccine. Here are a few examples:
Chickenpox vaccine: "No data exists regarding post-exposure efficacy of the current vermicelli vaccine." "Vaccinated persons have a less severe out break than unvaccinated" [11]
Pertussis vaccine: "The findings of efficacy studies have not demonstrated a direct correlation between antibody response and protection against pertussis disease."[12]
Smallpox vaccine: "Neutralizing antibodies are reported to reflect levels of protection, although this has not been validated in the field." [13]
Dr. Harold Margolis, Senior Advisor to the Director for Smallpox Planning and Response, stated in Atlanta that "the vaccine decreased the death rate among those vaccinated by ‘modifying the disease’, not by preventing infection."
Take Home Points:
Addendum:
As I was completing this report this morning, I read in the New York Times that the CDC plans to increase the number of "first responders" who receive the vaccination to 500,000 from the agreed-to 15,000.[14] Preparations are also underway for rapid mass vaccination of the general public. The more extensive vaccination plan is possible because supplies are increasing. As I have stated before, the government spent more than $780 million to develop its arsenal. Now that we have it, we will use it.
In addition to medical first responders, a presentation at the June 20th meeting suggested that first responders should also include a class to be defined as "economic first responders," those who would be necessary in keeping the economy moving in the event of a nationwide "lock down" caused by an outbreak.
This group would include pilots, truck drivers, food handlers, etc.
It is the "etc." that is of concern. Where do you draw the line? Obviously, the line will be drawn after Tommy Thompson’s vision of a "vaccine for every man, woman and child" has been fulfilled. One of the major problems is the lack of vaccinia immune globulin (VIG), the "antidote" that is needed for those who experience a severe reaction to the vaccine. The Times article reports that there are only 700 doses currently available. Dr. Tom Mack, among others at the CDC warned that, "in the absence of VIG, extensive vaccination would be extremely dangerous."
With the continued rhetoric about the US plans to go to war with Iraq, we are essentially taunting Saddam into launching a biological weapons attack on our own people.
We are not given an exact knowledge as to Saddam’s capability but are given euphemisms such as "reasonably high" or "quite high." But we don’t know for sure. And if the government knows, it is not telling. And if Saddam does have biological smallpox, what is the chance he has other weapons of biological destruction, those for which we do not have a vaccine? We are developing "grounds" for a war with Iraq in spite of the rest of the world telling us to stay out of there. I encourage all to spend some time on this site: http://www.globalpolicy.org for some eye-opening information on policy that you won’t see in the popular press.
We are setting the stage for a health disaster unlike anything we have seen before in America, and it will be our own doing. World health records (England, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, British India, etc.) document that devastating epidemics followed mass vaccination.
The worst smallpox disaster occurred in the Philippines after a 10 year compulsory US program administered 25 million vaccinations to its population of 10 million resulting in 170,000 cases and more than 75,000 deaths from ‘smallpox’, in a country having only scattered cases in rural villages prior to the onslaught of vaccines.[15] I received an excellent bulletin from Larken Rose ( http://www.Theft-By-Deception.com ) who is an activist regarding taxes. So much of what he said applies to the vaccine movement, that I got his permission to include part of his letter here. It is time to stand against forced vaccination. Stop the hysteria! Information is power. However, after gaining power, you must ACT.
Here is something to inspire you:
More than 200 years ago, the people of this country chose to tell King George, not just that he was unreasonable, not just that they didn’t like him, not just that they had complaints about him, but that they were going to resist by force his tyrannical ways. The Declaration was not a threat to take King George to court; it was not a petition, or a request for fairness, or even a demand. It was a statement—a declaration—that the people of America refused to tolerate the oppression, and were going to openly resist it, and didn’t give a damn what the King thought about it.
Though it may be politically incorrect to describe it this way, the Declaration of Independence was a bunch of people openly stating that they were going to ignore the law (not debate it or litigate it), and overthrow their present government. (King George was not a foreign invader; he was "the government.")
Again, in the words of the Declaration, "when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evidences a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is the people’s right, it is their duty, to throw off such government." Where are the Americans who still have that attitude? There are a few (very few), and most people consider them to be "fringe extremists." Where do YOU draw the line? What injustice would government agents have to commit, before YOU would openly resist? Is there a line for you? Or would you complain and bicker all the way to absolute tyranny?
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong that will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress." - Frederick Douglas This is a very different country today from what it was 226 years ago. We have become a country of sheep. We occasionally "baaa" at government injustice, but we do not ACT. For the most part, our "rebelliousness" now consists of pushing buttons in voting booths, to hopefully elect the less scummy of two lying scumbags (after a debate about which one is scummier).
For most people that is the extent of their resistance to government-imposed injustice. Each of us cowers in a corner for fear that we will be the next one that government makes an "example" of. While self-preservation is no sin, at some point a country of "self-preservers" will "preserve" itself into total submission to tyrants. We are one step away from that now.
Once upon a time, a group of individuals declared to the world that they would fight and risk death, rather than tolerate the oppressions of an abusive government. Now, we are too comfortable for that. We are spoiled. We are cowards. For today’s battle, we need only the smallest fraction of the courage our forefathers demonstrated. We do not need to lie in the mud, squinting in the cold to see the rifle sites, waiting for the glimpse of British Troops that we know are headed our way just over the next ridge. We do not need to run into the open field, in heavy enemy fire, to retrieve our buddy who just had his leg blown off by a cannonball. We do not need to leave our families and friends to fight, and possibly to die. No, today the price for our freedom (at least a huge chunk of it) is a pittance compared to what others have paid, but I have my doubts about whether we are willing to pay even that. What is that price? What do we need to do?
We need to just say NO by affirming the following:
One of the major problems is the lack of vaccinia immune globulin (VIG), the "antidote" that is needed for those who experience a severe reaction to the vaccine. The Times article reports that there are only 700 doses currently available. Dr. Tom Mack, among others at the CDC warned that, "in the absence of VIG, extensive vaccination would be extremely dangerous."
What you should know about Vaccines" October 24, 2002
Dr. Monteith’s Letter July 2002
From a Reader Dear Friend of Radio Liberty:
My last two Radio Liberty letters dealt with the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act and the effort to force people to be vaccinated. The June letter discussed the Tuskegee Study, a public health program designed to prevent 412 black men from obtaining treatment for their syphilis, and the fact that the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released a brand of polio vaccine known to contain live polio virus. His "mistake" resulted in 200 cases of polio, 150 people being paralyzed, and 11 deaths. The letter concluded with the revelation that NIH officials allowed physicians to administer millions of doses of polio vaccine known to contain SV 40, a cancer-producing virus. [4] The tragic story continues this month.
The polio virus used in the production of Salk and Sabin vaccines was grown in Rhesus monkey, kidney-tissue cultures from 1955 to 1962. Dr. Bernice Eddy found SV 40 virus in Rhesus monkey tissue cultures in 1959, and reported her discovery at a scientific meeting in October 1960. Dr. Hilleman confirmed her finding, so the vaccine manufacturers had to find another means of growing polio virus. [5] Since African green monkeys don’t carry SV 40, and polio virus can be grown in their kidney-tissue cultures, the NIH suggested the manufacturers use African green monkeys. The change was made quickly and quietly so the public wouldn’t learn that millions of Americans had been infected with a cancer-producing virus. That’s why no one bothered to evaluate African green monkeys to determine if they carry viruses that can infect human beings. A decade later, in 1972, several vaccine manufacturers asked their scientists to evaluate that possibility. The officials were horrified when they learned their polio vaccine contained monkey viruses. Several scientists thought the viruses would be killed in the intestine; others noted there had been no adverse reactions to Sabin vaccine during the past decade, and the public wouldn’t understand the complex issues covered in the report. The officials decided to suppress the information. [6] Sometime later the manufacturers threatened to discontinue vaccine production unless they were given immunity from law suits. Congress enacted the requested legislation and established a federally managed fund to compensate people who could prove they were injured by immunization. [7]
In October 1995, the CDC announced:
"Children in the U.S. will receive a combination of injectable and oral polio vaccine under new guidelines approved yesterday by a committee of the Centers for Disease Control . . . a CDC panel of public and private sector experts, voted to switch its recommended schedule of polio vaccination from the current four oral doses of weakened but live virus to a combined regimen of two injectable doses of inactivated vaccine followed by two oral doses of the live virus." [8]
Four years later, in January 2000, the CDC announced Sabin vaccine would no longer be used in the United States. Why was that done?
Government officials said:
". . . the oral vaccine each year leads to eight to 10 cases of vaccine-associated polio- myelitis among the eight million children vaccinated and those who come in close contact with them. Since the inactivated injectable vaccine holds no such threat, the CDC opted in favor of eliminating that small occurrence." [9]
Sabin vaccine is almost 100% effective; Salk vaccine is only 40-50% effective. Why did the CDC replace an effective polio vaccine with an ineffective polio vaccine? Dr. John Martin discussed the change during an interview on Radio Liberty. He is a physician, an internationally known virologist, and an expert on viral neurologic diseases. Dr. Martin worked for the Federal Drug Administration from 1975 to 1980. His job was to be certain there were no cancer-producing viruses in polio vaccine. He didn’t find any cancer viruses, but in 1977 he found foreign DNA that might have come from another virus. When Dr. Martin told his supervisor about his findings, the supervisor told him not to worry because "every time you eat an apple you get foreign DNA." Shortly thereafter the supervisor resigned and went to work for American Home Products, one of the companies that manufactured polio vaccine at the time. The supervisor became vice-president of American Home Products. [10]
Dr. Martin accepted an academic appointment at a major university in 1980. There he encountered patients with unexplained, neurologic diseases. When he studied them, he found many of the people were infected with cytomegaloviruses that invaded the central nervous system, destroyed tissue, but didn’t provoke an inflammatory response. He discovered the pathogens were monkey viruses, and published several scientific articles on them. He called the organisms "stealth viruses." Someone sent Dr. Martin a copy of an "internal document" circulated by one of the vaccine manufacturers. It revealed company officials knew about the monkey viruses in their vaccine. [11]
Hundreds of millions of doses of contaminated Sabin vaccine were given before it was discontinued in the United States; the World Health Organization continues using Sabin vaccine in Third World nations. According to Dr. Martin, 10% of U.S. college students tested during a recent blood drive were infected with the African green monkey virus, which is often found in people with unexplained neurologic diseases, and 80% of the Attention Deficit Disorder children tested showed evidence of viral infection. [12] Is that why the CDC stopped using the Sabin vaccine?
I’ve known Dr. Martin for almost a decade, and interviewed him on several occasions. He has been asked to testify before congressional committees and been consulted by government agencies. If his premise is correct, millions of Americans, and hundreds of millions of people throughout the world, are infected with monkey cytomegaloviruses.
Most people believe vaccines have
prolonged human life. Is that true? In 1887 a baby girl could expect to
live forty-four years; boys lived a little longer. Today a baby girl can
expect to live seventy-eight years; boys live seventy-four to seventy-six
years. [13] What part have vaccines played in increasing our longevity?
The public has never been told that the death rate from infectious diseases
fell long before vaccines were introduced. The chart cited below is based
on information found in Tim O’Shea’s book, The Sanctity of Human Blood,
and Michael Alderson’s book, International Mortality Statistics. It shows
yearly U.S. death rates for four common diseases between 1906 and 1975.
The year the vaccine was introduced is underlined. [14]
| Year | Diphtheria | Pertussis | Tetanus | Measles |
| 1901 | 48,839 | 33,094 | 28,065 | 11,956 |
| 1911 | 20,350 | 20,285 | 11,503 | 7,615 |
| 1921 | 12,267 | 14,724 | 7,818 | 4,919 |
| 1931 | 4,388 | 9,850 | 4,709 | 2,957 |
| 1941 | 1,135 | 4,399 | 2,384 | 1,013 |
| 1946 | 467 | 1,460 | 1,697 | 469 |
| 1951 | 125 | 558 | 1,093 | 268 |
| 1956 | 45 | 206 | 788 | 203 |
| 1961 | 22 | 82 | 550 | 162 |
| 1966 | 15 | 32 | 282 | 44 |
| 1971- | 5 | 12 | 122 | 17 |
Clean water, good nutrition, sanitation, warm homes, and antibiotics brought most communicable diseases under control long before vaccines were introduced. Would the death rates have continued to decline without vaccines? The yearly death rate from measles fell to 44 before the measles vaccine was introduced. [15] Dr. Edward Shorter discussed the decline in diphtheria deaths before all children were vaccinated:
". . . as the list of diseases that penicillin would cure . . . became longer and longer. . . . Between 1945 and 1955 in the United States, mortality from influenza and pneumonia fell by 47 percent; deaths from syphilis dropped 78 percent. Deaths from diphtheria - for not all children had been vaccinated - virtually vanished, the mortality from that disease falling by 92 percent." [16] The vaccination programs for smallpox and tetanus were a success. Some vaccine programs have been beneficial, but most programs have produced more problems than benefits. Let me cite several examples.
During the early months of 1941 the National Institutes of Health produced yellow fever vaccine in a laboratory in Montana. When World War II began thousands of Marines and soldiers were given yellow fever shots. Twenty-eight thousand American servicemen contracted hepatitis, one hundred servicemen died, and many others developed chronic hepatic insufficiency because the NIH didn’t bother to test their yellow fever vaccine before it was given to our men. [17]
During the Gulf War, the Pentagon feared Iraq would use biological weapons against our forces, so they vaccinated 150,000 American servicemen with a vaccine that wasn’t approved for use against pulmonary anthrax. What happened? Thousands of Gulf War veterans report:
". . . a host of mysterious symptoms from memory loss to muscle and joint pain." [18]
According to Dr. Garth Nicholson, twenty-eight thousand American Gulf War veterans have died, and tens of thousands are incapacitated. [19] Is Gulf War Illness related to the anthrax shots? No one will ever know:
"Because such poor records had been kept of who received the anthrax and botulinum shots during the war, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to conduct a scientifically valid, long-term study of their effects." [20]
In January 1997 the Defense Department announced it was going to vaccinate everyone in the U.S. military for anthrax. Thousands of servicemen and servicewomen became ill after taking the shots; six of them died. Over four hundred servicemen and officers refused to take the shots. The vaccination program continued until several thousand Air Force Reserve pilots threatened to resign en masse if they were forced to take the vaccine. At that point the Defense Department changed its position; only servicemen who will be overseas for more than two weeks are currently required to take anthrax shots. [21] The Federal Drug Administration has changed the package insert for the vaccine; the new insert warns that 11% of recipients may have adverse reactions. [22]
Public health officials have always feared another influenza epidemic like the epidemic of 1918 when twenty million people died. When the CDC learned there was a virulent form of influenza in the Far East in 1976 caused by a virus similar to a pathogen found in pigs, they announced everyone should be vaccinated. Millions of doses of swine flu vaccine were manufactured, and millions of people took them:
". . . the swine flu fiasco . . . paralyzed 565 infants with Guillain Barre syndrome. Hundreds more suffered major side effects. The government eventually paid more than $400 million in damages to the victims’ families when it was proven that the government had fore-knowledge. . . . Just before the vaccine was released, a top research scientist, J. Anthony Morris, was fired . . . for warning the public that there was really no evidence that a swine flu ‘epidemic’ was coming, and . . . that the vaccine had dangerous side effects." [23]
Rotavirus vaccine was developed to control viral diarrhea in infants in Third World countries. According to the National Vaccine Information Center:
"The CDC estimates that 20 to 40 deaths are associated with rotavirus infection in the U.S. every year, but has not indicated how many . . . deaths could have been prevented with proper medical treatment."
When the vaccine was tested prior to its release, some infants had severe reactions that were reported to The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS):
"The data from VAERS shows persistent reports of vomiting and diarrhea . . . at least one death reported in a premature infant who received rotavirus in combination with other vaccines." The FDA ignored the adverse reactions and licensed the vaccine in August 1998. Pediatricians were told to give infants three shots of the vaccine before six months of age. [24]
"The oral rotavirus vaccine is the first rhesus-human reassortment vaccine and was created by co-cultivating rhesus monkey rotavirus with human rotavirus strains to create a genetic human-monkey hybrid strain of rotavirus. The vaccine’s efficacy rate ranges from 48 to 91 percent." [25]
The program was a disaster. A number of infants developed bowel obstructions within weeks of vaccination; two infants died. The CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics withdrew the vaccine on July 15, 1999. [26]
Thimerosol is a mercury compound that was used as a preservative in some vaccines. When the CDC ordered pediatricians to give hepatitis B shots to every infant at birth, vaccine opponents noted that hepatitis B shots contained mercury. By the time infants received their full quota of vaccinations, the cumulative mercury exposure would exceed EPA standards. The U.S. Public Health Service and the American Academy of Pediatrics were embarrassed by the revelation, so they asked the vaccine manufacturers to stop using Thimerosol in childhood vaccines. [27] The companies removed the compound, but continued producing hepatitis B vaccine. That raises two important questions:
1: If the vaccine manufacturers have scientific proof that Thiomerosol is safe for infants, why don’t they produce their studies and continue using the compound?
2: If Thimerosol isn’t safe for children, why did they use it in childhood vaccines? The next important question is: Should hepatitis B vaccine be given to infants and children? The National Vaccine Information Center reports:
". . . the number of hepatitis B vaccine-associated serious adverse event and death reports in American children under the age of 14 outnumber the reported cases of hepatitis B disease in that age group.
Independent analysis of raw computer data generated by the government-operated Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) confirms that in 1996, there were 872 serious adverse events reported to VAERS in children under 14 years of age who had been injected with hepatitis B vaccine. The children were either taken to a hospital emergency room, had life threatening health problems, were hospitalized or were left disabled following vaccination. 214 of the children had received hepatitis B vaccine alone and the rest had received hepatitis B vaccine in combination with other vaccines. 48 children were reported to have died after they were injected with hepatitis B vaccine in 1996 and 13 of them had received hepatitis B vaccine only before their deaths. By contrast, in 1996 only 279 cases of hepatitis B disease were reported in children under age 14." [28]
Have vaccination programs in other countries been successful? Over 200 million people are infected with hepatitis C; most infections came from vaccination with dirty needles. [29] The Chinese hepatitis B epidemic is much worse. Leslie Chang wrote about it in a recent article in The Wall Street Journal:
"Hepatitis B, barely a blip on the radar screen in the U.S., is the scourge of China, where it spreads primarily from mother to infant, and through the habit in many medical clinics of reusing needles for injections. Some 700 million Chinese, or more than half the nation’s population, have had it; of those, 120 million are long- term carriers who can infect others. . . ." [30]
How is the hepatitis B epidemic spread?
". . . primarily from mother to infant, and through the habit . . . of reusing needles for injections."
Contraceptive vaccines have been used to sterilize millions of women without their knowledge or consent. Dr. Stephen Karanja practices obstetrics in Kenya. When I interviewed him last April, he told me what happened in his country. The World Health Organization offered women of child-bearing age free tetanus shots; the women who took them had repeated miscarriages. When the vaccine was tested, it was found to contain human chorionic gonadotropin, a product used to immunize women against pregnancy. [31] Antonio de los Reyes was chief executive director of the Philippine Commission on Population during the Marcos regime; he told a similar story. WHO officials offered Filipino women free tetanus vaccinations, which led to repeated miscarriages. When physicians had the vaccine tested, they found it contained human chorionic gonadotropin. [32]
On July 12, 2002, Reuters News Service reported:
"Nearly 1000 schoolchildren were rushed to (the) hospital after being vaccinated for encephalitis in northeast China. . . . The students, aged between seven and 16, suffered from fevers, nausea, vomiting and, in a few cases, heart infections soon after being vaccinated. . . . ‘A total of 8,300 students took the vaccine for encephalitis B and now more than 900 are in (the) hospital’. . . . A doctor at a local hospital said some of the students were seriously ill." [33]
Have vaccines improved the health of our children? On July 6, 2002 The San Jose Mercury News reported:
"One of every dozen U.S. children and teenagers - 5.2 million - has a physical or mental disability, according to new figures from the 2000 Census that reflect sharp growth in the nation’s young handicapped population over the past decade. . . . Data . . . have also shown a rapid increase in the number and rate of childhood handicaps." [34]
The incidence of childhood asthma, diabetes, and autoimmune diseases has doubled during the past 20 years; Attention Deficit Disorder has tripled, Autism has increased 600%. [35] What part have vaccines played? High-ranking government officials refuse to investigate the problem because many of them get high-paying jobs with drug companies when they leave government service. That’s why we must resist MEHPA and the program to force every American to be vaccinated.
The government is preparing for civil unrest. The Office of Homeland Security is building civilian "relocation centers." President Bush wants to suspend the posse comitatus law, drivers licenses will soon become "identity cards," and "TIPS," the government spy program, is being organized across America. [36] Why doesn’t the public recognize what’s happening? Because most people are spiritually blinded. Paul wrote about that problem in his second letter to the Corinthians:
14: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in Christ. 15: But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. 16: Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. 17: Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. [37] What can we do? We must cling to the scriptures and the teachings of the past, proclaim righteousness, continue trying to lift the veil that blinds the eyes of others, and remain faithful to our Lord because:
". . . where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
Thank you for your prayers and your support.
Yours in Christ,
Stanley Monteith, M.D.