Childhood Vaccines
Much of what you have been led to believe about immunizations simply isn't true… I would urge you to reject all inoculations for your child. – Robert Mendelsohn, MD
Today more parents are questioning and refusing vaccinations for their children. Some of the reasons given are:
- They consider the vaccines more dangerous than the diseases
- They prefer natural rather than artificial immunity
- They have religious or philosophical objections to vaccination
- They have a vaccine-injured child (a growing number)
45 Vaccines At 6 Months!
The current US vaccine schedule requires 45 vaccines at 6 months of age; 64 at 18 months and at least 74 at 4-6 years!! There is no proof that a child's immature immune system can handle this chemical assault.
Are Vaccinated Children Healthier?
In one study children vaccinated with MMR or DPT+Polio were found to have 14 times more asthma and 9.4 times more eczema than non-vaccinated children. In another study 23.1% of vaccinated children had asthma and 30%had allergies while none of the non-vaccinated children had asthma or allergies.
Medical historian Harris Coulter, PhD states: Between 15 and 20%of American school children are considered learning disabled with minimal brain dysfunction directly caused by vaccine damage… A large proportion of the millions of US children and adults suffering from autism, seizures, mental retardation, hyperactivity, dyslexia, and other… 'developmental disabilities,' owe their disorders to one another of the vaccines against childhood diseases…
SIDS or Crib Death
Vaccinations have long been linked to crib death. This observation was underlined when, in 1975, after the Japanese government raised the minimum vaccinations age from two months to two years, crib death and infantile seizures virtually disappeared. Crib death was rare before childhood vaccination.
Do The Benefits Outweigh The Risks?
MDs rarely report adverse reactions or injuries. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) states that only one in ten vaccine injuries is ever reported; however other studies put that number as one in 50.
As of 2004 the US government had paid nearly $1.5 billion to the families of vaccine-damaged children as part of the vaccine compensation program. That number, however, represents only a fraction of those children hurt and killed.
Apart from the risks, the effectiveness of vaccination to "prevent" illness is in question: outbreaks have occurred in 100% vaccinated populations. An outbreak of 137 cases of measles occurred when 98.7% of the students were vaccinated.
How can we agree to a procedure if we do not know if the risks outweigh the "benefits?"
Have vaccines Eradicated Disease?
Infectious diseases, e.g., smallpox, diphtheria, whooping cough, scarlet fever, etc., began to disappear long before the immunizations ever came on the scene. As Ivan Illitch, PhD observed: The combined death rate from scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, and measles among children up to fifteen shows that nearly 90% of the total decline in mortality between 1860 and 1965 occurred before the introduction of antibiotics and widespread immunization.
Polio
As Robert Mendelsohn, MD stated: It is commonly believed that the Salk vaccine was responsible for halting the polio epidemics that plagued American children in the 1940s and 1950s. If so, why did the epidemics also end in Europe, where polio vaccine was not so extensively used?
Benefits of Childhood Diseases
Lost in vaccination discussion is the fact that acute infectious diseases, when properly managed, are good for overall health. As Harris Coulter PhD states: Contracting and overcoming [childhood] diseases is part of a developmental process that actually helps develop a healthy, robust, adult immune system able to meet the challenges that inevitable encounters with viruses and bacteria will present later on.
Viera Scheibner, PhD writes: Infectious diseases of childhood are very beneficial for children to catch… The general inflammatory process is important in the dynamics of maturation of the immune response to diseases.
In one study it was found that those who had febrile infectious childhood diseases had less cancer in their lives.
Vaccines Cause Autism
Scientists believe they have found a direct link between childhood vaccinations and autism, asthma and ADHD!
These shocking results come from a groundbreaking study released in June 2007by Generation Rescue. The research, privately funded without ties to the pharmaceutical industry or the medical community, included an extensive interview of 17,674 vaccinated and unvaccinated children.
When compared to non-vaccinated boys in the same age group, researchers found the following statistics:
--Vaccinated boys age 4-17 are 155 percent more likely to have neurological disorders, 224 percent more likely to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and 61 percent more likely to have autism.
--Older boys, in the age range of 11 to 17, who were vaccinated, were found to be even more susceptible to autism. They are 158 percent more likely to have a neurological disorder, 317 percent more likely to have ADHD, and 112 percent more likely to have autism.
--Vaccinated boys were 224 percent more likely to develop ADHD.
--Vaccinated boys and girls were 120 percent more likely to develop asthma.
Younger boys that have been vaccinated show less symptoms of autism, however researchers believe that there lower numbers will rise over time as professionals are more able to accurately diagnose the early symptoms of autism in younger children.
Scientists who conducted the study now believe that the mercury found in routine childhood immunizations plays a major role in the ten-fold increase in autism cases over the past two decades.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in every 150 children will develop autism.
