Get H1N1 Shot..or Get Fired! Government HealthCare?

[amicus]

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/...its-workers-1.1481242?localLinksEnabled=false

Despite a planned rally in Albany Tuesday to protest a state regulation requiring health care workers be vaccinated against influenza — both seasonal and swine flu — New York’s top public health official predicts dissenters will ultimately extinguish their anger and roll up their sleeves.
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The regulation, which was approved in August, comes with a stinging addendum: Get vaccinated or get fired.

But some nurses and many other health care providers say the regulation violates their personal freedom and leaves them vulnerable to vaccine injury. And they cite deaths associated with the last federal government swine-flu vaccination program in 1976.

http://cbs3.com/health/Health.Alert.Stephanie.2.1201603.html

Back in 1976, scientists feared a deadly swine flu strain was spreading. President Ford gave the go ahead for mass vaccinations.

"The government was really it up. It's coming, you've got to protect yourselves, and the only way to protect yourself was to get the swine flu vaccine," said Maggie.

But the outbreak never materialized and after 43 million Americans got shots, over a 10 week period, a problem was discovered. 500 people suffered severe side effects. Sam was among 25 who died.

Maggie was among a handful of families to receive government payments for deaths related to the vaccine. They received a check for $900,000.

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This is a recurring situation when government has mandated immunizations. There is a risk factor, even for infants that must have certain immunizations or they cannot attend public schools.

A spokesperson for the current protest stated:

“Statistics indicate that a person who contracts H1N1, suffers mild symptoms and that anti-bodies are created without any vaccinations…”

http://www.tuberose.com/Vaccinations.html

Laws have been passed to protect vaccine manufactures from liability while at the same time, state laws require parents to inject their children with up to 100 vaccination antigens prior to entering school. If a vaccine injury – or death – occurs after a vaccine, parents cannot sue the doctor, the drug company or the government; they required to petition the Vaccine Court for damages, which can take years and is often denied.

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Admittedly this is a controversial issue; you can do your own search to determine, statistically, how many infants and children die each year from mandated immunizations.

I returned, just a few minutes ago from an appointment at the Lab for Blood to be taken and a total of 13 different vials for different tests. Seems a recent EKG indicated I suffered a mild heart attack...news to me...I never knew when it happened.

I include that bit of personal input because I spoke with both doctors and nurses concerning national health care, government health care, and what the implications were for the medical community. The Lab technician that drew blood said they were also forced to get flu shots each year, but could opt out by submitting a form. The technicians opinion concerning H1N1 felt it should not be mandatory as miniumum testing has been done and side effects have not been determined.

All of my children received the required immunizations shortly after birth and the required 'booster' shots as time passed, but I begin to wonder if it was a wise decision, especially with the alleged connection between those shots and Autism in children.

I refused an influenza vaccination while serving in the military; I was threatened with a Courts Martial if I did not comply. I did, and contracted the worst case of flu I had ever had and have not taken a flu shot since.

I know many Gulf Veterans who were forced to take Anthrax shots before going to Iraq, the side effects were horrendous and the military is reluctant to comment of the after effects.

I consider the right to choose what medications one is administered should be between patient and doctor and not State and Federal Laws or socialized medicine.

You, after all, have that choice, although our European and Canadian members may have forgotten those individual rights that place important decisions in a persons life in their own hands.

Amicus

Oh, just on the news, The Senate Finance Committee has voted down two Amendments to the healthcare bill that would have forced a 'Public Option' to be included in the giant healthcare Bill being considered in Congress. The votes were 13-10 with some Senate Democrats voting against the Amendments.

Go figure...

 

[penandpaper]

I believe the AMA and CDC both just came out with a long researched report by doctors both, in and out of the field, stating that there was no link to booster shots and autism. I think the skyrocketing rates of autism is attributable to many factors - but I'm not sure that's one of them.

You are right, there should be an opt out for these workers. It seems outrageous to threaten them with loss of job, insurance, family stability just to "have it your way."

Don't get me wrong, I think the vaccine probably has a lot more benefits than cons, but to force the issue. It's like forcing motorcycle helmets. Let the risk takers have it their way too.

 

[amicus]

I wore something while touring Europe on my Honda, but it was mainly to keep from eating bugs...dunno...

Mandatory immunizations have been in effect since 1903 and I can understand the choice to relax a personal, individual freedom, when overwhelming evidence led to the eradication of many childhood diseases.

I want to emphasize or shed some light on the billion dollar industry of Pharma's that create, maufacture and distribute the vaccine, all at Government demand and merely warn that if this H1N1 is a similar flop as was the 1976 threat, then we need to be aware of it.

You may place full trust in the FDA, CDC, but I do not and encourage a healthy scepticism of any and all Government agencies who always have, 'our best interests' in mind.

They have made tragic mistakes before and will again and perhaps already have with this strain of influenza.

The always underlying philosophy in every thing I post or comment on, is to place continued importance on the individuals right to make choices concerning their lives insofar as no other lives at placed at risk.

Amicus

 

[Bianca_Sommerland]

I wore something while touring Europe on my Honda, but it was mainly to keep from eating bugs...dunno...

Mandatory immunizations have been in effect since 1903 and I can understand the choice to relax a personal, individual freedom, when overwhelming evidence led to the eradication of many childhood diseases.

I want to emphasize or shed some light on the billion dollar industry of Pharma's that create, maufacture and distribute the vaccine, all at Government demand and merely warn that if this H1N1 is a similar flop as was the 1976 threat, then we need to be aware of it.

You may place full trust in the FDA, CDC, but I do not and encourage a healthy scepticism of any and all Government agencies who always have, 'our best interests' in mind.

They have made tragic mistakes before and will again and perhaps already have with this strain of influenza.

The always underlying philosophy in every thing I post or comment on, is to place continued importance on the individuals right to make choices concerning their lives insofar as no other lives at placed at risk.

Amicus

I got my kids all their shots...because I wanted to send them to public school. Would I have if it wasn't mandatory? I don't know.

Our bodies build immunities naturally. I like the idea of letting nature take it's course. When you don't you could be asking for trouble and I try not to do that. I don't bring my kids to the doctor for every sniffle. Why? Because the virus' get immune to drugs and what's left when you really need them?

What I found funny was a doctor asking once if my 'religion' opposed bringing my kids for flu shots. If I said yes I knew he would have dropped it. Sad really, when your views as a parent aren't enough.

 

[SeaCat]

Because I am an adult with some knowledge I pick and choose what vacinations I get. Because of my varied hobbies and interests I make sure to keep my Tetanus vacination up to date. I have not received the Flu Vacine for more than a few years even though my wife gets it every year.

On the other hand I have paid for this. Because I don't get the Flu Vacine in work I have to sign a piece of paper saying I refused it. Because of this piece of paper my Health Insurance has decided to punish me by raising my premiums. I pay nearly twice what my wife pays.

I do not trust the F.D.A. nor the Big Pharm. The Big Pharm. are in the market for one thing and one thing only, which is to make money. The F.D.A. is in their pockets. (As is much of the Government.)

As for the C.D.C., I trust them only as far as I can get confirmation of their findings through the U.S.A.M.R.I.I.D.

Cat

 

[amicus]

Bianca:

What I found funny was a doctor asking once if my 'religion' opposed bringing my kids for flu shots. If I said yes I knew he would have dropped it. Sad really, when your views as a parent aren't enough.

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I agree with you and I understand the humor in the above...if you had claimed, 'religion', you would have been written off as a 'kook', but to offer a rational reason, as you did in your piece, then you challenge the status quo and accepted procedures.

Thank you

ami

 

[amicus]

Because I am an adult with some knowledge I pick and choose what vacinations I get. Because of my varied hobbies and interests I make sure to keep my Tetanus vacination up to date. I have not received the Flu Vacine for more than a few years even though my wife gets it every year.

On the other hand I have paid for this. Because I don't get the Flu Vacine in work I have to sign a piece of paper saying I refused it. Because of this piece of paper my Health Insurance has decided to punish me by raising my premiums. I pay nearly twice what my wife pays.

I do not trust the F.D.A. nor the Big Pharm. The Big Pharm. are in the market for one thing and one thing only, which is to make money. The F.D.A. is in their pockets. (As is much of the Government.)

As for the C.D.C., I trust them only as far as I can get confirmation of their findings through the U.S.A.M.R.I.I.D.
Cat

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Hello SeaCat and thank you.

I considered sending you a private message when I was writing the post because of your knowledge and experience in the health field.

There are many things about Insurance companies I am skeptical of and do not trust, yet I want no part of government involvement, any more than they already are, in healthcare at any level.

Your comments reassure me, as did those of the Doctor's and Nurses I am acquainted with.

Although I am a free market purist, I see so much interconnection between government and corporate America, including Insurance companies, that I doubt it can be resolved any time soon.

Something like seatbelts and helmets for motorcycles and now bicycles for kids, all are good safety measures that a prudent person would choose, but being forced to comply...what ever happened to freedom of choice?

Thank you again, I appreciate your opinions...

Amicus

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I got my kids all their shots...because I wanted to send them to public school. Would I have if it wasn't mandatory? I don't know.

So you're willing to risk your children's lives with diphtheria, rubella, whooping cough, tuberculosis, etc? Because these are the vaccines most schools mandate. They don't mandate flu vaccines.

There's maybe a 1 in 10,000,000 chance your kid will have a bad reaction to a vaccine. There's something like a 20% chance that if he gets diphtheria he'll die. Which odds would a good parent choose?

But it gets worse. People who don't get vaccinated become disease vectors. They carry and spread live and malignant bacteria and viruses to other people who haven't been vaccinated or have had their immune systems compromised, like infants, the sick and the elderly, or unvaccinated playmates, say. Every one of them is a little walking Typhoid Mary. And allowing these bugs to become established in their body while their own immune system gets its act together provides ample mutation time for the beasties, providing new, more virulent and antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. Unvaccinated kids are little walking petri dishes of bacterial warfare.

And you want to send your kids to school with my kids? You want them to play together? I don't think so.

We're fat and happy now because antibiotics and vaccines have been so successful. We've forgotten the absolute horror of a rubella epidemic, or small pox, or whooping cough, or the Spanish Influenza that killed more people than died during WWI.

You want to bring these diseases back? Don't vaccinate your kids. It's as simple as that.

And BTW: the reason health workers have to get immunized is not so they won't get sick themselves, but so they won't spread the infection to the sick people they already deal with. You don't want a surgeon operating on you with dirty hands. Well you don't want an unvaccinated nurse helping out in the operating room either. They're an immediate hazard to the public health and it's entirely within government's right to insist they get immunized.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Back in 1962 I got immunized for mumps and immediately caught mumps. My balls were the size of oranges.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Back in 1962 I got immunized for mumps and immediately caught mumps. My balls were the size of oranges.

Yeah, well bear in mind vaccines aren't cures and they can take up to weeks to become effective. You were probably infected and had a swarm of mump-bugs in you when you got the shot.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

A typical bureaucrat cop-out.

WE'RE SORRY MIZZZ MABEUSE BUT ELLIOTT WAS ALREADY INFECTED WITH SERIAL KILLER GERMS WHEN HE CAME FOR THERAPY 5 YEARS AGO. WHO KNEW!

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Manditory innoculations against Rubella, Polio, Typhoid, Typhus and other like deseases has been going on for over a century. That's a good thing. Those deseases do not mutate. Over the course of time those deseases have been wiped out in the United States with the number of "domestic cases" at essentially zero.

Influenza is a different cat altogether. It not caused by a bacterial, but a virus. It mutates freely and quickly. And it will not be wiped out. The vaccine is nice, but there is also much to be said about the body's own natural immunity. The difference being, the immunization will keep you for contracting the desease. You natural immunity will make you stronger and more able to fight off nthe next mutated version.

You chose.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

The difference being, the immunization will keep you for contracting the desease. You natural immunity will make you stronger and more able to fight off nthe next mutated version.

You chose.

Unless you're very young or very old, in which case you might not survive the flu at all.

The Spanish Flu was a strain of H1N1 too, you know.

From wiki (my bolds):

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The 1918 flu pandemic (commonly referred to as the Spanish Flu) was an influenza pandemic that spread to nearly every part of the world. It was caused by an unusually virulent and deadly influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1. Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify the geographic origin of the virus.[1] Most of its victims were healthy young adults, in contrast to most influenza outbreaks which predominantly affect juvenile, elderly, or otherwise weakened patients. The flu pandemic has also been implicated in the sudden outbreak of encephalitis lethargica in the 1920s.[2]

The pandemic lasted from March 1918 to June 1920,[3] spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands. It is estimated that anywhere from 50 to 100 million people were killed worldwide.[4][5][6][7][8] An estimated 500 million people, one third of the world's population (approximately 1.6 billion at the time), became infected.[5]

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The more people who get inoculated against swine flu, the fewer people there are to act as host to the virus while it mutates into another Spanish Flu

 

[freshface]

So you're willing to risk your children's lives with diphtheria, rubella, whooping cough, tuberculosis, etc? Because these are the vaccines most schools mandate. They don't mandate flu vaccines.

There's maybe a 1 in 10,000,000 chance your kid will have a bad reaction to a vaccine. There's something like a 20% chance that if he gets diphtheria he'll die. Which odds would a good parent choose?

But it gets worse. People who don't get vaccinated become disease vectors. They carry and spread live and malignant bacteria and viruses to other people who haven't been vaccinated or have had their immune systems compromised, like infants, the sick and the elderly, or unvaccinated playmates, say. Every one of them is a little walking Typhoid Mary. And allowing these bugs to become established in their body while their own immune system gets its act together provides ample mutation time for the beasties, providing new, more virulent and antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. Unvaccinated kids are little walking petri dishes of bacterial warfare.

And you want to send your kids to school with my kids? You want them to play together? I don't think so.

We're fat and happy now because antibiotics and vaccines have been so successful. We've forgotten the absolute horror of a rubella epidemic, or small pox, or whooping cough, or the Spanish Influenza that killed more people than died during WWI.

You want to bring these diseases back? Don't vaccinate your kids. It's as simple as that.

And BTW: the reason health workers have to get immunized is not so they won't get sick themselves, but so they won't spread the infection to the sick people they already deal with. You don't want a surgeon operating on you with dirty hands. Well you don't want an unvaccinated nurse helping out in the operating room either. They're an immediate hazard to the public health and it's entirely within government's right to insist they get immunized.

Yep. For those of you who think that the diseases aren't so bad, or they aren't a problem anymore, do a quick Google search for UK measles. Back in 1998, parents in the UK decided that there was a risk for autism (since thoroughly discredited) and stopped vaccinating their kids. Cases climbed from almost none in 2001 to 1,348 in 2008, with over 600 cases in London. In developed countries, 10% of measles cases require hospitalization for such things as pneumonia and encephalitis. One in 200 will have seizures. Cases can have corneal scarring (blindness), deafness, and/or permanent brain damage. The disease is highly contagious, and transmission starts two days before the rash or other signs of illness.

I'm with Doc. Back when we let nature take its course we had hundreds of thousands of children dying or suffering life long disabilities each year. My family's cemetery is littered with the graves of little children who died of diseases that we can prevent with vaccines.

 

[freshface]

Manditory innoculations against Rubella, Polio, Typhoid, Typhus and other like deseases has been going on for over a century. That's a good thing. Those deseases do not mutate. Over the course of time those deseases have been wiped out in the United States with the number of "domestic cases" at essentially zero.

Influenza is a different cat altogether. It not caused by a bacterial, but a virus. It mutates freely and quickly. And it will not be wiped out. The vaccine is nice, but there is also much to be said about the body's own natural immunity. The difference being, the immunization will keep you for contracting the desease. You natural immunity will make you stronger and more able to fight off nthe next mutated version.

You chose.

Actually, several of the diseases you list are also viruses, they just don't mutate like influenza does.

Natural immunity is not any stronger or better than vaccine acquired immunity. The difference is that with the vaccine, your immune system learns how to fight off the virus without you suffering from the disease. Catching the disease doesn't make your body any more capable of fighting off the next mutated version.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Unless you're very young or very old, in which case you might not survive the flu at all.

The Spanish Flu was a strain of H1N1 too, you know.

True, Dr M, Age does make a difference. The very young have not yet developed a mature immune system and the very old die, not of the flu, but of respiratory and circulartory failure brought on by Pneumonia as a side affect of the flu.

And yes, I understand the the Spanish Flu was an H1N1 virus which originated with birds. Actually nearly all flu strains originate with birds.

 

[amicus]

Mabeuse and others would have you believe that you are insane and anti social if you question the immunization procedures that have been in effect for a very long time....peruse just this one source and then do your own search to confirm if you choose:

Vaccine risks:

"Probably 20% of American children—one youngster in five--- suffers from "development disability". This is a stupefying figure…...... the primary cause of encephalitis...... is the childhood vaccination program. To be specific, a large proportion of the millions of US children and adults suffering from autism, seizures, mental retardation, hyperactivity, dyslexia, and other shoots or branches of the hydraheaded entity called "development disabilities", owe their disorders to one or another of the vaccines against childhood diseases."—Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D.

MMR vaccine:
Autism (287), Crohn’s disease and other serious chronic stomach problems (136), Epilepsy (132), Other forms of brain damage (induding meningitis, cerebral palsy, encephalopathy, encephalitis etc.) (77), Hearing and vision problems (81), Arthritis (50), Behavioural and learning problems (in older children) (110), Chronic fatigue syndrome (41), Diabetes (15), Guillain-Barre syndrome (9), Idiopathic thrombocytopaenic purpura (and other purpuras) (6), Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE) (3), Wegener’s Granulamatosis (2), Leukaemia (1), Multiple sclerosis (1), Death (18). (Dawbarns fact sheet.)

DPT vaccine:
"We concluded that the DPT shot causes a minimum of 12,000 cases of severe neurological damage every year, in addition to the 6000 deaths diagnosed as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The neurological damage includes juvenile-onset diabetes, so-called "congenital" blindness, deafness, mental retardation, autism, epilepsy, seizures, various kinds of paralyses and palsies, and other neurological disorders."--Harris Coulter Ph.D.

Otitis media:
"At least half of all U.S children have had otitis media by their first birthday. ......Just imagine what it means if this is all, or mostly all, caused by the pertussis vaccine. This particular "glue ear" type of otitis was not known in American medical practice before the late 1940's or early 1950's -- in other words, the time when the pertussis vaccine was being introduced. "--Harris Coulter Ph.D.

You should perhaps read this also, Mab, you might even learn something although I highly doubt it...you are so entrenched...

Instead of accepting and promoting current opinion as the 'Holy Grail', use you own, independent mind for a change.

Amicus

 

[Austin8]

my Dad's old he gets a flu shot every year, he's been in and out of the hospital with pneumonia, I have a strong healthy immune system I choose not to have the shots. I also choose to not put any artificial man made chemicals in my body at all.

Good post JJ

 

[Saucy_Sage]

The always underlying philosophy in every thing I post or comment on, is to place continued importance on the individuals right to make choices concerning their lives insofar as no other lives at placed at risk.

Amicus

I completely agree. The reason that "the government" is requiring vaccinations here, though, has to do with exactly that: placing other lives at risk. They are mandating vaccinations in this case of health care workers, individuals whose profession allows them to expose others while they are at the most vulnerable. I think we can argue whether or not vaccinations accomplish this (i.e., whether the government is correct); arguing whether or not the government should have the authority to mandate them, however, once it has made that determination, is a wholly different question.

 

[amicus]

When I asked, the Lab Technician that drew blood said: "I always get a flu shot and would probably get the new one too, but, being forced to, or lose my job? I'm putting two kids through college, I wouldn't want to lose my job...that's kind of 'socialistic', isn't it? Being forced to? I don't do much politics, my husband sure does, but it sounds that way to me..."

Paraphrased, as best I can remember...I did not tape the conversation.

Amicus

 

[glynndah]

Dr. Coulter is not a medical doctor.

 

[amicus]

So? Shoot the messenger?

gads...

 

[freshface]

So? Shoot the messenger?

gads...

No, question the messenger's credentials. Harris Coulter has a PhD in Education. No experience in medicine, no training in medical research. He's certainly entitled to his opinion, but it is just that - his opinion and not backed by any reproduceable facts. Since this is the same person who wrote a book claiming that HIV/AIDS is really syphilis, and treatable with a typhoid vaccine and penicillin, then I have to question both his agenda and his qualifications.

Dawbarns is a London law firm representing people who thought that vaccines had injured their children. They may have been a wee bit biased.

So here's a doctor with MD after his name with an opposing view.

A number of epidemiologic studies have now been performed which look into the possible relationship of SIDS and DTP immunizations. The majority of studies, and the better studies, do not show a relationship. SIDS is most common between 2-4 months of age. Immunizations are routinely given at 2 and 4 months of age. Thus, by chance alone, one in eight SIDS babies will have died within a week of their baby shot. However, the larger studies do not show any greater frequency of SIDS near immunizations. The NIH collaborative study actually showed that fewwer SIDS victims had baby shots than controls.

A number of years ago, our group took a different approach. We recorded the breathing pattern and heart rate of babies overnight the night before and after their DTP immunizations. We had three groups of infants: controls, SIDS siblings, and apnea of infancy (ALTE). There was no difference in the recordings the night after vs the night before the baby shot. In fact, there was a slight trend for breathing to be more regular after the baby shot.

These two pieces of information indicate that SIDS and/or apnea are not due to DTP immunizations.

A number of years ago, a rather vocal group persuaded many British mothers not to immunize their babies. The rate of pertussis (whooping cough) skyrocketed, and total deaths increased. Many more babies died from pertussis than would have died from the very infrequent reactions to the vaccines (less than 1 in 1,000,000). Pertussis is still widespread. Babies who are not immunized can catch it. We see several cases per year in Los Angeles. Pertussis can cause death in babies.

Thomas G. Keens, M.D.
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

 

[amicus]

Here's a doctor with an MD after his name with an opposing view:

http://www.whale.to/vaccines/mendelsohn.html

It is a rather long piece, I did not finish it but read enough...

I started this thread concerning mandatory H1N1 immunizations for medical personnel. I don't mind that it has widened in innoculations in general although this is not the first time I have been down this road.

I have no dog in this hunt aside from the individuals right to choose in opposition to the use of government force and social pressure. If normal, accepted immunizations for children carry a risk factor needlessly, I suggest that need be known.

Amicus

 

[amicus]

As Freshface questioned the authenticity of an earlier informative link, I thought to add to the available data:

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5515a1.htm

Benefits and risks are associated with using all immunobiologics (i.e., an antigenic substance or antibody-containing preparation). No vaccine is completely safe or effective. Benefits of vaccination include partial or complete protection against infection for the vaccinated person and overall benefits to society as a whole. Benefits include protection from symptomatic illness, improved quality of life and productivity, and prevention of death. Societal benefits include creation and maintenance of herd immunity against communicable diseases, prevention of disease outbreaks, and reduction in health-care--related costs. Vaccination risks range from common, minor, and local adverse effects to rare, severe, and life-threatening conditions. Therefore, recommendations for vaccination practices balance scientific evidence of benefits for each person and to society against the potential costs and risks for vaccination for the individual and programs.

The relative balance of benefits and risks can change as diseases are controlled or eradicated. For example, because wild poliovirus transmission has been interrupted in the United States since 1979, the only indigenous cases of paralytic poliomyelitis reported since that time have been caused by live oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) (3). In 1999, to eliminate the risk for vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP), exclusive use of inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) was recommended for routine vaccination in the United States. However, because of superior ability to induce intestinal immunity and to prevent spread among close contacts, OPV remains the vaccine of choice for areas where wild poliovirus is still present (4). Until worldwide eradication of poliovirus is accomplished, continued vaccination of the U.S. population against poliovirus will be necessary.

Contraindications and precautions to vaccination dictate circumstances when vaccines should not be administered. The majority of precautions are temporary, and the vaccination can be administered later. A contraindication is a condition in a recipient that increases the risk for a serious adverse reaction. A vaccine should not be administered when a contraindication is present. For example, administering influenza vaccine to a person with an anaphylactic allergy to egg protein could cause serious illness in or death of the recipient.[/

B]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller15.html

The schedule states, "Your child can safely receive all vaccines recommended for a particular age during one visit." Public health officials, however, have not proven that it is indeed safe to inject this many vaccines into infants. What's more, they cannot explain why, concurrent with an increasing number of vaccinations, there has been an explosion of neurologic and immune system disorders in our nation’s children.

Fifty years ago, when the immunization schedule contained only four vaccines (for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and smallpox), autism was virtually unknown. First discovered in 1943, this most devastating malady in what is now a spectrum of pervasive developmental disorders afflicted less than 1 in 10,000 children. Today, one in every 68 American families has an autistic child. Other, less severe developmental disorders, rarely seen before the vaccine era, have also reached epidemic proportions. Four million American children have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. One in six American children are now classified as "Learning Disabled."

Our children are also experiencing an epidemic of autoimmune disorders – Type I diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, and bowel disorders. There has been a 17-fold increase in Type I diabetes, from 1 in 7,100 children in the 1950s to 1 in 400 now. Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis afflicts 300,000 American children. Twenty-five years ago this disease was so rare that public health officials did not keep any statistics on it. There has been a 4-fold increase in asthma, and bowel disorders in children are much more common now than they were 50 years ago.

Health officials consider a vaccine to be safe if no bad reactions – like seizures, intestinal obstruction, or anaphylaxis – occur acutely. The CDC has not done any studies to assess the long-term effects of its immunization schedule. To do that one must conduct a randomized controlled trial, the lynchpin of evidenced-based medicine, where one group of children is vaccinated on the CDC’s schedule and a control group is not vaccinated. Investigators then follow the two groups for a number of years (not just three to four weeks, as has been done in vaccine safety studies). Concerns that vaccinations in infants cause chronic neurologic and immune system disorders would be put to rest, and their safety certified, if the number of children who develop these diseases is the same in both groups. No such studies have been done, so vaccine proponents cannot say that vaccines are indeed as safe as they think they are. (One proponent, interviewed by Dan Rather on 60 Minutes, who has financial ties to the vaccine industry that he did not disclose, claims that vaccines "have a better safety record than vitamins." He neglected to mention that the U.S. government has paid out more than $1.5 billion in its Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to families of children who have been injured or killed by vaccines.)

There is a growing body of evidence that implicates vaccines as a causative factor in the deteriorating health of children. The hypothesis that vaccines cause neurologic and immune system disorders is a legitimate one – vaccines given in multiple doses, close together, to very young children following the CDC’s Immunization Schedule. This hypothesis should be tested by a large-scale, long-term randomized controlled trial.

Rather than obediently following the government’s schedule, there is now sufficient evidence, grounded in good science, to justify adopting a more user-friendly vaccination schedule, one which is in the best interests of the individual as opposed to what planners judge best for society as a whole.
New knowledge in neuroimmunology (the study of how the brain’s immune system works) raises serious questions about the wisdom of injecting vaccines in children less than two years of age.

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Oservations from valid resources that give reason to reconsider accepted practices for yourself and your children.

Amicus