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"Beginning in the mid- 1980's", researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Centers for Disease Control injected "thousands" of four-month-old third world" babies and 1,500 six-month-old black and Hispanic Los Angeles inner-city babies with high potency (10 to 500 times the standard dose) Edmonston Zagreb measles vaccine in order to see if their maternal antibodies could be replaced with vaccine antibodies.  The Los Angeles inoculations , which took place between June 1990 and October 1991, were halted after reports from Africa indicated an abnormally high death rate among vaccinated girl babies.

The measles vaccine doesn't "take" in babies under a year old because of resistance from maternal antibodies.  This was frustrating for those scientists who think it possible to eliminate all disease through vaccination.

This assault, funded by the World Health (sic) Organization and the US Agency for International development, succeeded only in suppressing the infants' immune systems.  The full effects won't be realized until vaccinated girls, who lack antibodies to pass on to their babies, give birth.  During the  1989-91 measles epidemic, the biggest increase in new cases was among children under a year old.  The solution offered for this problem is to ply children with more vaccine (and make more money for the companies producing it).

Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) and the Washington Office of Hitie (WHO) have requested information under the Freedom of Information Act. Ms. Fisher, president and founder of NVIC, believes human rights were violated under the Nuremburg Code, the Declaration of Helsinki and US laws.

"What is really frightening about this experiment," according to Worth Cooley Prost, biomedical research consultant and director of WHO, "is that WHO was ready to buy 250 million doses for Third World Babies.  Millions would have died but nobody would have realized the vaccine was to blame because six months to three years passed before the babies died….We came close to a huge hidden disaster."

From The Civil Abolitionist Winter 1996-97 
SOURCE: The Vaccine Reaction, June 1996, publication of NVIC
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OTHER VACCINE NEWS from Winter 96-97 CivAb
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Archbishop okays rubella vaccine
Roman Catholic Archbishop Adam Exner decreed it was okay for Catholic children to receive measles and rubella vaccine even though the rubella part was originally cultured from the cells of two abourted fetuses. He made a distiction between using parts from people who were already dead as opposed to killing people to obtain parts.  British Columbia spent $4.5 million vaccinating children against these diseases between April and June 1996.  -The Vancouver Sun, June 3,1996
On February 6, the Canadian Broadcasting Company's CBC News reported a measles outbreak in Vancouver.

Hepatitis B vaccine linked to increase in diabetes
American researchers led by Dr J Bartholomew Classen, reported in New Zealand Medical Journal that the incidence of diabetes in children jumped from 11.2 to 18.2 cases per 100,000 per year following the hepatitis B inoculation program in 1988.  As usual, the rate of the hepatitis B was already falling before the vaccinations began.
       The vaccine, HB-Vac II is a product of Merck, Sharpe and Dohme (NZ) Ltd.  Dr Classen expects to see a further increase in diabetes following the Haemophilus influenxa B (Hib) shots started in 1993-94.  American and British studies have concluded that Hib vaccine has not been effective in preventing the disease.  A.V. News December 1996

Whooping cough increases in B.C.
Officials have no specific explanation for the "steady increase" inwhooping cough incidence in British Columbia.  The disease declined during the 1980's but rose from 240 cases in 1992 to 400 in 1995 and 700 through November 1996.  Children are vaccinated at 2, 4, 6, and 18 months and again before entering school.  The vaccine is only between 50% and 80% effective.  -The Vancouver Sun, November 28, 1996

Dr Mark Peppler, a University of Alberta microbiologist, suggested that outbreaks of whooping cough may have been caused by a new strain of bordetella pertussis (the whooping cough bacterium) and predicted the occurrences of further outbreaks.


Pertussis shots recommended for adults
Monroe County, New York had 216 cases of exported whooping cough between 1989 and 1994.  Direct and indirect costs of this illness were estimated to be $381,000. Because 21 cases were in teenagers and adults, the study concluded that shots given to infants and chilren only lasted 2 to 10 years.  Now that the acellular pertussis vaccin (made from pars rather than the entire disease organism and therefore less likely to destroy the recipient's life or have troublesome side effects), has finally been approved for use in the US, the sudy recommends that everyone should get a booster shot every 10 years.  - The Lancet 8 February 1997

No word on who funded this study, but it represents a quite a windfall for vaccine manufacturers if this advice is acted upon.

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