whooping cough that has been used in Japan since 1981 has finally been approved by the FDA. It is supposed to be safer and cause fewer side-effects than the one most often used here. Imported from Japan by Connaught Laboratories, it will be called Tripedia. (Mesa Tribune, August 1, 1996)

American doctors have been using this vaccine on their own children for some time, perhaps illegally in some cases.

Infant guinea pigs
Babies as young as two months have been given an experimental vaccine against Group B and Group C meningococcal meningitis, but British health officials warned that the vaccine would probably not be available for general use for "several years". (Daily Mail, 21 October 1996)

Officials have to wait and see what harmful long-term medical effects might occur before exposing still more children to this treatment. As always, they don't know until they have tested it on the ultimate human guinea pig.

125 million Indian children vaccinated
Indian children, 125 million of them, under 5 have been given Pulse Polio Immunization courtesy of Rotary International, World Health Organization (WH0), UNICEF, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the Indian government. They are to be given a second shot.

Some of these children are malnourished. Some have suppressed immune systems. The outcome remains to be seen.

Polio vaccines contaminated with simian immunodeficiency virus have been blamed for causing AIDS in Africa. Dr. Eva Snead has blamed the "unprecedented rise in childhood leukemia" on contamination of polio vaccines prepared in minced monkey kidneys carrying the SV40 virus. A scientist hired by the WHO to evaluate the results of its smallpox vaccination campaign in Africa blamed it for triggering the AIDS epidemic there. (The Civil Abolitionist Vol. 4 No. 2 Spring 1992)

Vaccination, why not?
Excerpts from an article of that name by Daniel Baden, ND DipHom, on the "myths, dangers and alternatives to infant vaccination" in The Guardian Newsletter (Australia), Spring 1996:

British scientist Michael Nightingale found that vaccines not only don't work as promised but may be more likely to cause the illness they are supposed to prevent. In studying world smallpox, he discovered that areas with the highest rate of disease were also those with the highest rate of vaccination.

Vitamin A as an alternative to measles vaccine
It was 66% effective in preventing measles-oriented fatalities at a cost of $95 per life saved compared to $850 for vaccination plus the cost of treating its ill effects.

The common underlying factor in the 199% increase in Haemophilus influenza Type B (Hib) is the corresponding increase in vaccinations. "Hib is only a threat to a compromised immune system." Vaccination does just that. Even the most favorable studies have shown this vaccine to be ineffective in children under 18 months old among whom 74% of cases occur.

Government health departments and practising physicians (89% of GPs in a recent study) rely heavily upon pharmaceutical companies for their information on vaccines and drugs.

Drawn from VACCINATION the medical assault on the immune system by Viera Scheibner, PhD, 264 pages, $28. Order from CIVITAS, Box 26, Swain NY 14884..

Another good book: VACCINES are they really safe and effective? by Neil Z. Miller 78 pages $8. from CIVITAS, Box 26, Swain NY 14884


POLIO VACCINE LINKED TO GULF WAR SYNDROME
The most recent government announcements on Gulf War syndrome (which many officials claim does not exist) acknowledge that some service personnel were probably exposed to chemical warfare agents when enemy storage depots were destroyed.

There is also evidence that overuse of insecticides containing Deet may have been a contributing factor, but not much is said about the possible role of "as many as 17 different live viral and killed bacterial vaccines" (some of them experimental) that were administered to all service people before they were sent overseas.

These included polio, cholera, hepatitis B, adenovirus, influenza, measles, mumps, rubella, meningococcus, plague, rabies, tetanus, diphtheria, typhoid, yellow fever, anthrax, and an experimental botulinium toxoid. They were also given the experimental nerve-protection agent, pyridostigmine bromine.

Dr. Howard Urnovitz, PhD, a California microbiologists, testified before the House Subcommittee on Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations chaired by Congressman Christopher Shay (R-CT) presenting evidence that, compared to the civilian population, Gulf War veterans failed to generate a normal antibody response to polio serotypes 2 and 3. This lack of response has also been observed in people suffering from post-viral syndrome.

"The question that must be answered immediately," according to NVIC* Co-founder and President Barbara Loe Fisher, "is whether a significant minority of Gulf War veterans responded with immune suppression to the potpourri of live viral and killed bacterial vaccines given to them and were subsequently vulnerable to further immune and neurological damage when they were given drugs and came into contact with environmental toxins in the Gulf.

"Official government recommendations for use of the live polio vaccine include a warning that persons with an immune system deficiency or those exposed to drugs or treatments which suppress the immune system should not receive the live polio vaccine. There is legitimate cause for concern that children who receive live polio vaccine in conjunction with other vaccines and/or drugs may be vulnerable to environmental toxins such as pesticides or other chemicals immediately after being vaccinated and their parents should be properly warned to protect them from possible exposure."

* National Vaccine Information Center 512 West Maple Avenue # 206
Vienna VA 22180 Tel. 703-938-5768
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