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VaccinationsVaccinations are one of the most controversial issues in children's health. On one side, you have the Centers for Disease Control who advocates a schedule for vaccinations that starts within minutes of the baby's birth with the administration of the hepatitis B vaccine and follows through childhood with a recommended schedule of 29 vaccinations by the age of 12 months, and 55 vaccinations by the age of 18 years. [1]On the other side, you have a growing number of parents and homeopathic physicians like me who feel many of these vaccines do more harm than good. And you might say there is a third side to this picture: history. It suggests that polio, diphtheria and other infectious diseases had pretty much run their course before vaccinations started. The defeat of infectious disease, according to many historians, was due much more to the rise of modern sanitation. In June 2007, a study financed by Generation Rescue, shows a clear connection between neurological disorders and vaccinations. The study found that more than twice the number of vaccinated children had autism than those who had not been vaccinated. When you look beyond autism to other neurological disorders, the rates of children damaged by vaccinations are even higher. The study can be found at http://www.generationrescue.org/survey.html
The evidence is building, although the verdict is not in. Is it the neurotoxins like aluminum and mercury in the vaccines? Is it the other additives like MSG? It is the timing of the vaccines? Is it that the vaccinations are given at too early an age, before the immune system can deal with them? Something else? All of the above? Mercury is a cheap preservative; bacteria and molds will not grow in it. The thimerosal rich vials allow needles to be inserted repeatedly and the vaccine drawn out. The re-usable vials are cheaper than packaging doses of vaccine separately, without thimerosal. For more than 60 years the medical community simply trusted the Eli Lilly Company's assertion that thimerosal/merthiolate had a low potential toxicity if injected into humans. Based on unscientific and unethical studies done in the late nineteen twenties, several generations of public health care officials, doctors and medical educators were duped into injecting the most toxic and lethal chemical known to man into infants. Documents from the archives of Eli Lilly & Company, the original manufacturer of thimerosal, clearly demonstrate that the mercury-based vaccine preservative, implicated in a number of recent law suits as causing neurological injury to infants, was known as early as April 1930 to be dangerous. [2] Though mercury, in the form of thimerosal, has been in use for over sixty years in vaccines, the big problem with this pharmaceutical practice only became obvious through decisions implemented in 1990 and 1991, when the medical establishment more than doubled the amount of mercury injected into children during the first year of life. With the addition of Hib and then a year later the Hepatitis B vaccine, medical authorities passed federal guidelines for safe mercury levels. [3] In the years between 1970 and the late '90s, the autism rates in America rose from 1 in 10,000 children to 1 in 166. Why was this problem never heard of in our grandparents' day? That generation likely received just one vaccination in their life; today's children receive many vaccines and "booster" shots. Number of Vaccines and Possible Number of Injections
Over the Past 100 Years [4]
* In 1900, children received the smallpox vaccine.
It was finally recognized in 1999 that the long half-life of ethlymercury could theoretically result in accumulation and toxicity during chronic applications and as such, joint statements by the American Academy of Pediatricians and the United States Public Health Services recommended removal of thimerosal from all vaccines. [5]  When you and your child are in the doctor's office for a wellness visit, the kind of information contained in the charts above usually is not offered in advance of the decision to vaccinate. In fact, often it is not even a decision parents are told what to do and do it without question because their doctor recommended it. Or because they think the school requires it. But with increasing numbers of parents grieving for their "lost" children, it is only prudent to consider the evidence and decide for yourself. We've included several excellent articles for you to read and decide what makes sense to you. One is by Lynne Born, writing for the Weston A. Price Foundation. Her article includes a timeline for polio, smallpox, and diphtheria relative to how those infectious diseases peaked, versus when vaccinations started.  Another article is actually a three-part series that ran in the Townsend Letter in 2007. It is rich in detail about each vaccine. And it prompts us to look beyond mercury, to the surprisingly long list of ingredients in vaccines including "dog kidney tissue, monkey kidney tissue, pig or horse blood, cowpox pus, formaldehyde and aluminum phosphate." Another comes from David Kirby, author of "Evidence of Harm - Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy." He reflects on the landmark Hannah Poling case, the first case in which the U.S. government acknowledged that vaccines contributed to autism. The Germ Theory: A Cross Roads in MedicineThere is an historical element that we want to touch on though before you move on to these articles. It is an element little discussed these days, but with huge significance for this debate. There was a fundamental crossroads in medicine during the 1800s. It came into play via three Frenchmen - Louis Pasteur, Antoine Béchamp, and Claude Bernard.Pasteur is credited with having confirmed the germ theory of disease. He also invented the method of pasteurization heating milk and wine to kill bacteria. He is the best known of the three scientists. Pasteur discovered that weakened forms of a microbe could be used as an immunization against more virulent forms of the microbe. In this way, he created the first vaccine for rabies. He is remembered for promoting vaccinations.  Béchamp had a different idea. He believed in the pleomorphic theory, that bacteria change form and are the result of disease. He said bacteria change into organisms that are increasingly detrimental to the body. The waste products of their metabolism are harmful to local body fluids, causing pain and inflammation. It is not the germs, viruses, and bacteria that make you sick, it is the waste products of the metabolism of those organisms that make you sick. Claude Bernard and Béchamp were of similar mind. Bernard's famous statement was, "The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing," and then downed a glass of water filled with cholera to make his point. Germs seek their natural habitat diseased tissue. During the Civil War, maggots were brought into hospitals to feed on the diseased tissue of the wounded because the bugs were better at cleaning it up than potions or anticeptics. Think of mosquitoes. They seek stagnant water, but do not cause the pool to become stagnant. So when the terrain is weakened and sickly, all manner of bugs want to set up house. But they come after the disease has begun; they come because the terrain is inviting. Bernard held that the immune system was merely a backup system that took over when the terrain failed. Our immune system's first job is to clean up the dead cells we slough off. Bernard is responsible for our theories today on pH and how the nature of microorganisms change as the body moves from an alkaline pH to an acidic pH. Pasteur, on his deathbed in1895 admitted he was wrong, that Bernard had gotten it right: "The pathogen is nothing.
The terrain is everything." - Louis Pasteur But in the century that has passed since these three men lived, conventional medicine is still more aligned with Pasteur than with Bernard and Béchamp. One could point to two primary reasons: 1. Blood is alive. It is a mobile tissue - Béchamp was the first to describe blood this way. The things in our blood are alive. We know today, from the use of darkfield microscopes, that microorganisms are pleomorphic, that they can change and often do. A virus can become a bacterium which can mutate into a yeast or fungus. Standard medical tests, however, take your blood and fix it with a dye. The blood is frozen and thus the germs therein are frozen in time. This is not life in motion. But it is how blood is most often looked at today in medicine. 2. As history in the 1900s unfolded, medical schools became funded by pharmaceutical companies and other corporations which created a business model for disease management. Promotion of robust health and the inner terrain fell by the wayside. Discussion of an alkaline body was pretty much relegated to a few books, and eventually, the internet. Alert Parents Call for Change The internet however, is also fueling a revolution about vaccinations. Many parents share stories of how "the lights seemed to just go out in my child a few days after he was vaccinated
" The painful experiences of raising a child with neurological disorders prompt increasing numbers of parents to warn others that something seems to be very wrong with the vaccination process. We are also seeing pressure for change come from the arena of litigation. Michael A. Chernoff of Texas, the father of an autistic child, warns, "Make no mistake, an army is amassing and it's heading straight towards Congress and Courtrooms all across this country." At stake are not only vast sums of money but reputations and careers. Vaccine makers face a potential litigation nightmare. In February 2008 for example, the news headlines read:
The central nervous system of a newborn infant is particularly susceptible to toxic influences. This is one of the reasons why the hepatitis B vaccine is such a problem. If it were given later in life, as is done in many other countries, it might not be as problematic. Delaying the DPT vaccination may be the difference whether or not your child develops asthma. According to a Canadian study, childhood asthma is reduced by half when the first dose of diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus (DPT) is delayed by more than two months beyond the recommended schedule.* Early childhood immunizations may promote asthma development by stimulating a T(H)2-type immune response or decreasing microbial pressure, which shifts the balance between T(H)1 and T(H)2 immunity.[6] RecommendationsWhen parents ask me for a conservative vaccination schedule, they often want what amounts to a risk assessment. I offer this advice:
"Vaccinations: Parents' Informed Choice" By Lynne Born "Vaccination: An Updated Analysis of the Health Risk" (3-Part Series) by Gary Null, PhD and Martin Feldman, MD "Give Us Answers on Vaccines" by David Kirby
[1] http://www.immunize.org/cdc/child-schedule.pdf
[2] "Holding Eli Lilly Responsible," Chapter from New Paradigms in Diabetic Care, International Medical Verities Association, January 15, 2007, accessed March 15, 2008 at http://www.imva.info/med_holding_responsible.shtml Robert F. Kennedy, "Deadly Immunity," originally published on Salon.com, June 16, 2005 Lynne Born, "Vaccinations: Parents' Informed Choice," Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly magazine of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Summer 2005. [3] Egan, W. M. Thimerosal in Vaccines. Presentation to the FDA, September 14,1999 [4] Offit, Paul A., - Addressing Parents' Concerns: Do Multiple Vaccines Overwhelm or Weaken the Infant's Immune System - (Pediatrics 109:124-129, 2002) [5] Joint Statement of the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) and the United States Public Health Services (PHS) Pediatrics 1999 104: 568-569 [6] KL McDonald, SL Huq, et al; Delay in diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus vaccination is associated with a reduced risk of childhood asthma, Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, 2008; 121(3):626-31 (ISSN: 1097-6825) [7] Global Polio Eradication Initiative, http://www.polioeradication.org/casecount.asp [8] http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf
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