As a follow-up to the last posting on vaccines, and the fear mongering effort behind the H1N1 scare of 2009, I wanted to re-link an older but must-read article below on infant and child vaccination schedules by Donald W. Miller, Jr, MD.
And again to the fierce defenders of the medical establishment, this is not to say that all vaccinations are bad, but rather to repeatedly expose the blatant suppression of data that suggests the risks are much greater than advertised, when the benefits in many cases are questionable at best. The collusion between BigPharma and government agencies at the Simpsonwood Conference in 2000 is a case in point.
The medical, political and legal doctrines are structured such that the burden of proof to demonstrate without a reasonable doubt that vaccinations are harmful falls on an ill-equipped public, rather than requiring the vaccination establishment to prove that they are not. Once again, the situation is symptomatic of a corporatist system that trumps the rights of individuals to act on informed decisions.
Vaccination is a controversial subject, and many parents worry about subjecting their children to them. Readers of my article "Mercury on the Mind," about vaccines and dental amalgams, have asked what vaccines I would recommend their children receive. This article addresses that question.
In the Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule put out by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), 12 vaccines are given to children before they reach the age of two. Providers inject them against hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus (lockjaw), pertussis (whooping cough), polio, pneumococcal infections, Hemophilus influenzae type b infections, measles, mumps, rubella (German measles), chickenpox, and influenza (the flu).
Infectious disease was the leading cause of death in children 100 years ago, with diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, and pertussis accounting for most them. Today the leading causes of death in children less than five years of age are accidents, genetic abnormalities, developmental disorders, sudden infant death syndrome, and cancer. A basic tenet of modern medicine is that vaccines are the reason. There is growing evidence that this is so, but perhaps not quite in the way conventional medical wisdom would have it. (Read Full Article)
Also, Mercola just published an excellent summary on risks of the Hepatitis B vaccine.
Hepatitis B vaccination has been recommended by federal health officials since 1991 for all infants and children.
There are now hepatitis B vaccine mandates for children to attend daycare or school in 47 states, despite strong evidence that the health risks of doing this outweighs the benefit for your child.
Three hepatitis B shots are part of the standard government-recommended childhood vaccination schedule, with the first dose given at 12 hours of age in the newborn nursery of most hospitals.
But hepatitis B is a primarily blood-transmitted disease associated with risky lifestyle choices such as unprotected sex with multiple partners and intravenous drug use involving sharing needles—it is NOT primarily a "children's disease."
As Dr. Jane Orient of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) so eloquently testified to Congress:
"With hepatitis B vaccine, the case for mandatory immunization with few exemptions is far less persuasive than with smallpox or polio vaccines, which protected against highly lethal or disabling, relatively common, and easily transmissible diseases...
"For most children, the risk of a serious vaccine reaction may be 100 times greater than the risk of hepatitis B."
There are more reports of serious adverse reactions in children than there are cases of childhood hepatitis B reported in America and, despite what you may hear in the media, reactions can be serious. (Read Full Article)
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