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CIVITAS LETTER TO GULF NEWS February  2000
No one can dispute that "Prevention is better than cure" (recent article
promoting vaccines) but there is a strong difference of opinion on whether vaccines provide effective prevention.  When one looks at records of the diseases they are supposed to have overcome, it turns out that those diseases (specifically, polio, typhoid, smallpox, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough) had already declined significantly before the vaccines were introduced. Following the introduction of the vaccines, there was usually a sharp increase in disease incidence--a dramatic tripling in the case of smallpox.

In the U.S. measles epidemic in 1989, mentioned in the article, it was found that over 80 percent of vicitims of the disease had been "appropriately vaccinated" according to William Campbell Douglas, M.D., author of "AIDS-the End of Civilization".  The Journal of the American Medical Association" (21 November 1990) confirmed that the vast majority of measles outbreaks were in those previously vaccinated against the disease. 

When vaccinations were stepped up, the incidence of measles in the first half of 1989 rose to 7,335 cases compared to 1,529 cases during the same period in 1988--a five-fold increase. In the U.K. at least 300 children suffered permanent brain damage after the 1994 measles vaccine program to combat a forecast eidemic. Also, according to "The Lancet" (6 April 1996), rubella cases hit a 13-year high in Scotland following this vaccination program.

It is incorrect to call the links of vaccines to SIDS (sudden infant death
syndrome) "unsubstantiated rumors". "VACCINATION, the Medical Assault on the Immune System" by Viera Scheibner, PHD, an Australian head researcher, makes an extremely strong correlation between vaccinations and SIDS.  It makes a difference whether studies are funded by vaccine manufacturers or are conducted by independent researchers.

NO PREVENTIVE MEASURE  Gulf News 5 February 2000
Letter to the Editor by Pat Rattigan, DN,   Chesterfield UK

I was intrigued by the article "Prevention is better than cure" (Gulf
News, Tabloid, January 16). The worldwide multi-billion dollar
vaccine enterprise is based on the English smallpox experience.

The graph produced by Professor Thomas McKeown shows that
Jenner's vaccine caused tens of thousands of deaths and delayed the
disappearance of smallpox by around 50 years. What should have
seen the banning of all vaccines was offered as proof of the value of
vaccinations.

The only large-scale scientifically-valid trial of any vaccine was in
southern India involving 260,000 people using the BCG
"anti-tubercular" jab. They ended up with more TB in the vaccinated
group than in the controls.

Since then they have had the very good sense to rely on the "nod and
a wink" method of vaccine evaluation. Vaccines create
"immunogenicity" (raised antibody levels) this is not immunisation,
which is a whole-body phenomenon created by raising and
maintaining standards of health.

As the degree of vaccine saturation increased in Britain and America
the incidence of childhood illness - physical, mental and emotional -
has run parallel: asthma, autism, epilepsy, MS, ME, deafness,
arthritis, anti-social and criminal behaviour. Infantile diabetes is
increasing at the rate of 10 per cent per annum. This rise started when
MMR vaccine was introduced.

Vaccines contain a mixture of animal-derived proteins and viruses,
formaldehyde, aluminium, carbolic acid, mercury, etc. Not for my
child's bloodstream, thank you.

A father's report by Michael Belkin  Email posted September 20, 1999
In my experience, encephalitis from vaccination isn't reported, it is covered up.  They found a swollen brain in my daughter Lyla's autopsy, told our pediatrician and us the day of the autopsy (It is in Dr Zullo's records and our notes) - and then refused to even mention it in the au-topsy report.  When I asked why the swollen brain and hep B vaccine shot were not mentioned in the autopsy report, Dr Persechino of the New York Medical Examiner's office said, "I changed my mind. . .vaccinations do a lot of good things for people, Mr Belkin."

There's apparently two kinds of encephalitis--one kind that can be blamed on mosquito-disease or shaken baby syndrome (the bad kind) and post-vaccinal encephalomyelitis--which is OK because vaccines are our "greatest medical and scientific achievement."

So don't expect to find anything in the statistics about encephalitis related to vaccination.  - Michael Belkin is working to save other children from fate of his daughter Lyla.

CDC suspends use of diarrhea vaccine  - July 16, 1999
After 20 infants suffered bowel obstructions after being vaccinated with Rotashield vaccine the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommended suspending until November all use of the vaccine, even for children who had started the series of three shots.  The Rotavirus is usually active only in winter and spring typically infecting 3 million children, hospitalizing 50,000 and killing 20.

The intestinal blockage occurs when "one part of the bowel becomes enfolded in another" and causes pain, vomiting, and bloody stools. It often requires surgery.            The Arizona Republic  July 16, 1999
 
Hepatitis B vaccine no longer required for newborns 7/11/99 "Under pressure from Congress, vaccine safety advocates, parents of dead and injured children, and increasing numbers of dissenting doctors,"  US federal health authorities no longer advocate that newborns receive hepatitits B vaccine.  Unless they are born to infected mothers, infants have virtually no chance of contracting the disease.

- Mesa Tribune July 11, 1999

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