22 October - Vaccinations : Past the Institutional Recommendations

I sometimes go a little nuts trying to get blog posts to resolve. Using a number of accessories in Firefox seems to end up in the 'stranded' lane : and different addresses work better - or worse at different times.
This one got 'stranded' and partly lost itself.
Which is why there's an entry - Vaccines - on the Topical Index page here - at Livejournal. It worked. I just got through editing and expanding the post, which I intended to be a fairly thorough exploration of the warnings I have heard about vaccines for years.


They didn't just 'bounce off' because I read 'Microbe Hunters' as a boy. I didn't take Biology in school - although Encyclopedia surfing gave me the scoop on Evolution long before anyone thought to tell me it was anti-Bible. Funny. I read the 'Voyage of the Beagle' too - and wouldn't go along with that. What I'm getting around to saying is that medical exploration was full of hazards - as Mme. Curie found out the hard way. And vaccines are - shall we say - live 'processed' versions of killers.
So I have noticed little things like 'batching' of vaccinations with some alarm. Vaccines are a dicey sort of medicine and 'taming the beast' works against what it supposed to accomplish : making you 'a little bit sick.' Do you really think doing that with multiple organisms simultaneously is good science...when vaccines were never developed that way ? I do know that at one time you couldn't batch a number of shots when getting them for travel abroad.
Me ? I worked where there was biohazard research. Who knows what I had ? It isn't as if they were saying.
But I've been down this road before. Time for a better-researched view.


Vaccine Awakening
Barbara Loe Fisher

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Forcing Flu Shots on Health Care Workers: Who Is Next?

Doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are ordering all employees to get a flu shot every year or be sent home for two weeks without pay to “think about it.” Anyone, who still refuses to get a flu shot after that, is fired.¹

60 percent of all U.S. health care professionals don’t want to get an annual flu shot,² which matches the number of Americans, who choose not to get a flu shot, even in pandemic years.^3, 4 Surveys reveal that health care providers know that influenza vaccine can cause nasty, unexpected side effects for some people, like paralysis⁵ and convulsions.⁶
Not Just Doctors & Nurses: Everyone
But that has not stopped medical organizations from launching a national crusade to force everyone employed in a “healthcare setting” to get a flu shot every year, whether they have direct contact with patients or not.^7, 8That’s right. Not just doctors and nurses, but every single person who has anything to do with the health care facility, including students, volunteers, and contract workers. An exception could be made if the doctors in charge approve a “medical exemption” to vaccination, which, today, is about as hard to get as a job.
It is not a pretty sight to watch doctors acting more like thugs than healers. When doctors threaten people with financial ruin for refusing to shut up and salute smartly, there is something wrong.
Trust is replaced with fear and anger. People start asking questions. Questions like: Who will be threatened and punished next for refusing a flu shot?
The answer is YOU, me, and every American. We are next in line because when doctors trade in their white coats for military uniforms, going after their own is just the first step on the road to going after the rest of us. If this latest power grab is allowed to set precedent in America, the only question in the future will be: how many vaccines will we be forced to take or lose our jobs, our health insurance, our right to enter a hospital, or receive medical care, or get on a plane, or check into a hotel if we can’t prove we have gotten vaccinated?

1905 U.S. Supreme Court Sets Up Vaccine Pushing & Profit-Making
Crimes Against Humanity & The Informed Consent Ethic
Take Doctors & Scientists Off the Pedestal
Influenza Vaccine: You Have the Right to Weigh the Benefits & Risks
Intimidation & Retaliation to Force Vaccination Is Unethical


Note extensive citations to sources

Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism

 My eye caught the distorted, photo-shopped image of a baby with the word FEAR in bold letters imprinted on the baby’s chest. I paged through Wired magazine² to find out who wrote the article and discovered it was a woman named Amy Wallace, one of the many journalists I had talked with in 2009, who had contacted the National Vaccine Information Center³, a non-profit, educational organization I co-founded in with parents of vaccine injured children in 1982.

As I scanned the article to find out why it was entitled “An Epidemic of Fear: One Man’s Battle Against the Anti-Vaccine Movement,” I quickly realized it was a puff piece for vaccine patent holder, Dr. Paul Offit, who alleges that vaccine injuries and deaths are largely a myth.

Then, I saw my name. And then, I saw the words, “She lies.”

I felt a knot in the pit of my stomach as I read the unsubstantiated, unchallenged slur made by Offit against me. And in those two words “SHE LIES,” I knew that the propaganda tactic of character assassination was being used to attack the credibility of my nearly 30 years⁴ of work as a vaccine safety consumer advocate.

( If you check on Jane Burgermeister's status,. you will find she had been 'voluntarily' confined for 'psychiatric evaluation' ; the alternative being worse, including decertification. More info in the 'Vaccines' post. People are calling for public awareness regardless of consequences. Most have no idea how abused 'Whistleblowers' are...which is why a blog on the topic ended up in my RSS feeds. )

She also did not tell Wired readers what I told her, which is that I have always encouraged everyone to become educated⁶ about the risks of diseases and risks of vaccines and consult one or more trusted health care professionals before making an informed decision - just like every intelligent person should do before using any pharmaceutical product. Instead, Ms. Wallace said she based her description of me on a speech I gave at a conference, a speech that she did not attend.

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A Shot In The Dark

by Harris Coulter and Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder & president of NVIC. The first major book (1985, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) to critique safety flaws in the mass vaccination system and expose the dangers of the DPT vaccine, including the link between vaccine induced brain inflammation and autism. Referenced with scientific studies and more than 100 case histories of vaccine injury & death. There are some things that never change. A classic. Available by making a donation of $50 or more to the NVIC. Click on the image to donate and receive this book.

Vaccines, Autism & Chronic Inflammation: The New Epidemic

by Barbara Loe Fisher. A new book documenting the link between complications of infectious diseases and vaccines which can result in chronic inflammatory diseases and disorders such as autism, learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD, seizure disorders, severe allergies, asthma, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease and other chronic illness. Anchored with more than 200 references. Available by making a donation of $25 or more to the NVIC. Click on the image to donate and receive this book.

 

Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemptions

This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This one appears to have three goals: first, to emphasize pertussis risks while ignoring vaccine risks; second, to place blame for whooping cough cases and deaths on the unvaccinated; and, third, to attack religious and conscientious belief exemptions, which serve as informed consent protections in U.S. vaccine laws.

On July 28, 2010, Dr. Snyderman further alleged that “most people” with religious objections to vaccination are not telling the truth and that the “needs” of the “community as a whole” are “better than the individual” and “more important.” 3

Ordinarily I would not take the time to address specific comments by a prominent doctor, who is careless with the facts when voicing an opinion. But as more doctors use the bully pulpit of the national media – unchallenged - to disseminate incorrect information, promote personal ideological views and advance political agendas, it becomes more important for informed Americans to speak up.

 When disease incidence statistics publicized by state health departments do not match those published by federal health agencies, there is something wrong. It is time for California health officials to fully disclose complete details of the 1500 whooping cough cases they allege have occurred in the state during the past year, including how many cases were lab confirmed as B. pertussis; how many cases were classified as “epidemiologically linked” - which means they were NOT lab confirmed; and the ages and vaccination status of all cases, including whether people with suspected or confirmed cases had been given 1,2,3,4,5,6 or more pertussis shots.

Most doctors know perfectly well that getting 3 to 6 doses of pertussis vaccine or more does not give lifelong immunity to whooping cough, and that other viruses and bacteria, such as parapertussis and RSV - which are not covered by the vaccine - can be misdiagnosed as pertussis if proper lab tests are not done. 7, 8 In addition, public health officials know that B. pertussis bacteria have been evolving and become vaccine resistant, making the pertussis vaccine much less effective. 8

No fear campaign about infectious disease would be complete without bringing up polio. Snyderman says, “We were given our polio vaccine and the idea was that, if you get a vaccination, you will not get ill and you will not die.”

Yes, that was the “idea” but it is not a fact. Every vaccine carries a risk of injury and death that can be greater for some than others. There is no guarantee the vaccine will prevent an infectious disease and, depending upon the vaccine, it could actually give you the vaccine strain of the disease it is supposed to prevent.

In 1999, the U.S. abandoned use of the live virus oral polio vaccine to prevent individuals in America from being paralyzed by vaccine strain polio.  A lot of people don’t know that, if you swallow the live virus polio vaccine, you can get paralyzed and die. On top of that, recently vaccinated persons shed live poliovirus in their body fluids for weeks. People who come in close contact with them can get vaccine strain polio and be paralyzed or die.

Today, a killed polio vaccine is used in America because parents of vaccine injured children lobbied in the 1990’s to get the polio vaccine policy changed.

There are plenty of Americans, like me, who remember lining up for polio shots in the 1950’s and 60’s and were informed 40 years later, in the 1990’s, that a lot of those experimental polio shots were contaminated with a monkey virus, simian virus 40, that causes cancer in lab animals and has been associated with brain, bone and lung cancers in children and adults.

We do remember polio and the iron lung. But we also remember not being told the whole truth about polio vaccine risks.