Why You Should Avoid Taking Vaccines
> Why You Should Avoid Taking Vaccines
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> Dr. James Howenstine, MD.
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> Dr. James R. Shannon, former director of the National institute of health
declared, "the only safe vaccine is one that is never used."
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> Cowpox vaccine was believed able to immunize people against smallpox. At
the time this vaccine was introduced, there was already a decline in the
number of cases of smallpox. Japan introduced compulsory vaccination in
1872. In 1892 there were 165,774 cases of smallpox with 29,979 deaths
despite the vaccination program. A stringent compulsory smallpox vaccine
program, which prosecuted those refusing the vaccine, was instituted in
England in 1867. Within 4 years 97.5 % of persons between 2 and 50 had been
vaccinated. The following year England experienced the worst smallpox
epidemic[1] in its history with 44,840 deaths. Between 1871 and 1880 the
incidence of smallpox escalated from 28 to 46 per 100,000. The smallpox
vaccine does not work.
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> Much of the success attributed to vaccination programs may actually have
been due to improvement in public health related to water quality and
sanitation, less crowded living conditions, better nutrition, and higher
standards of living. Typically the incidence of a disease was clearly
declining before the vaccine for that disease was introduced. In England the
incidence of polio had decreased by 82 % before the polio vaccine was
introduced in 1956.
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> In the early 1900s an astute Indiana physician, Dr. W.B. Clarke, stated
"Cancer was practically unknown until compulsory vaccination with cowpox
vaccine began to be introduced. I have had to deal with two hundred cases of
cancer, and I never saw a case of cancer in an un-vaccinated [2] person."
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> There is a widely held belief that vaccines should not be criticized
because the public might refuse to take them. This is valid only if the
benefits exceed the known risks of the vaccines.
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> Do Vaccines Actually Prevent Disease?
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> This important question does not appear to have ever been adequately
studied. Vaccines are enormously profitable for drug companies and recent
legislation in the U.S. has exempted lawsuits against pharmaceutical firms
in the event of adverse reactions to vaccines which are very common. In 1975
Germany stopped requiring pertussis (whooping cough) vaccination. Today less
than 10 % of German children are vaccinated against pertussis. The number of
cases of pertussis has steadily decreased[3] even though far fewer children
are receiving pertussis vaccine.
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> Measles outbreaks have occurred in schools with vaccination rates over 98
% in all parts of the U.S. including areas that had reported no cases of
measles for years. As measles immunization rates rise to high levels measles
becomes a disease seen only in vaccinated persons. An outbreak of measles
occurred in a school where 100 % of the children had been vaccinated.
Measles mortality rates had declined by 97 % in England before measles
vaccination was instituted.
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> In 1986 there were 1300 cases of pertussis in Kansas and 90 % of these
cases occurred in children who had been adequately vaccinated. Similar
vaccine failures have been reported from Nova Scotia where pertussis
continues to be occurring despite universal vaccination. Pertussis remains
endemic[4] in the Netherlands where for more than 20 years 96 % of children
have received 3 pertussis shots by age 12 months.
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> After institution of diphtheria vaccination in England and Wales in 1894
the number of deaths from diphtheria rose by 20 % in the subsequent 15
years. Germany had compulsory vaccination in 1939. The rate of diphtheria
spiraled to 150,000 cases that year whereas, Norway which did not have
compulsory vaccination, had only 50 cases of diphtheria the same year.
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> The continued presence of these infectious diseases in children who have
received vaccines proves that life long immunity which follows natural
infection does not occur in persons receiving vaccines. The injection
process places the viral particles into the blood without providing any
clear way to eliminate these foreign substances.
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> Why Do Vaccines Fail To Protect Against Diseases?
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> Walene James, author of Immunization: the Reality Behind The Myth, states
that the full[5] inflammatory response is necessary to create real immunity.
Prior to the introduction of measles and mumps vaccines children got measles
and mumps and in the great majority of cases these diseases were benign.
Vaccines "trick" the body so it does not mount a complete inflammatory
response to the injected virus.
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> Vaccines and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome SIDS
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> The incidence of Sudden Infant Death syndrome SIDS has grown from .55 per
1000 live births in 1953 to 12.8 per 1000 in 1992 in Olmstead County,
Minnesota. The peak incidence for SIDS is age 2 to 4 months the exact time
most vaccines are being given to children. 85 % of cases of SIDS occur in
the first 6 months of infancy. The increase in SIDS as a percentage of total
infant deaths has risen from 2.5 per 1000 in 1953 to 17.9 per 1000 in 1992.
This rise in SIDS deaths has occurred during a period when nearly every
childhood disease was declining due to improved sanitation and medical
progress except SIDS. These deaths from SIDS did increase during a period
when the number of vaccines given a child was steadily rising to 36 per
child.
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> Dr. W. Torch was able to document 12 deaths in infants which appeared
within 3½ and 19 hours of a DPT immunization. He later reported 11 new cases
of SIDS death and one near miss which had occurred within 24 hours of a DPT
injection. When he studied 70 cases of SIDS two thirds of these victims[6]
had been vaccinated from one half day to 3 weeks prior to their deaths. None
of these deaths was attributed to vaccines. Vaccines are a sacred cow and
nothing against them appears in the mass media because they are so
profitable to pharmaceutical firms.
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> There is valid reason to think that not only are vaccines worthless in
preventing disease they are counterproductive because they injure the immune
system permitting cancer, auto-immune diseases and SIDS to cause much
disability and death.
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> Are Vaccines Sterile?
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> Dr. Robert Strecker claimed that the department of defense DOD was given
$10,000,000 in 1969 to create the AIDS virus to be used as a
population-reducing[7] weapon against blacks. By use of the Freedom of
Information Act Dr. Strecker was able to learn that the DOD secured funds
from Congress to perform studies on immune destroying agents for germ
warfare.
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> Once produced, the vaccine was given in two locations. Smallpox vaccine
containing HIV was given to 100,000,000 Africans in 1977. Over 2000 young
white homosexual males in New York City were given Hepatitis B vaccine that
contained HIV virus in 1978. This vaccine was given at New York City Blood
Center. The Hepatitis B vaccine containing the HIV virus was also
administered to homosexual males in San Francisco, Los Angeles, St.Louis,
Houston and Chicago in 1978 and 1979. U.S. Public Health epidemiology
studies have disclosed that these same 6 cities had the highest incidence of
AIDS, Aids related Complex (ARC) and deaths rates from HIV, when compared to
other U.S. cities.
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> When a new virus is introduced into a community. It takes 20 years for the
number of cases to double. If the fabricated story that green monkey bites
of pygmies led to the HIV epidemic, the alleged monkey bites in the 1940s
should have produced a peak in the incidence of HIV in the 1960s at which
time HIV was non existent in Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO)
began a African smallpox vaccination campaign in 1977 that targeted urban
population centers and avoided pygmies. If the green monkey bites of pygmies
truly caused the HIV epidemic the incidence of HIV in pygmies should have
been higher than in urban citizens. However, the opposite was true.
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> In 1954 Dr. Bernice Eddy (bacteriologist) discovered live monkey viruses
in supposedly sterile inactivated polio vaccine[8] developed by Dr. Jonas
Salk. This discovery was not well received at the NIH and Dr. Eddy was
demoted.. Later Dr. Eddy, working with Sarah Stewart, discovered SE polyoma
virus. This virus was quite important because it caused cancer in every
animal receiving it. Yellow fever vaccine had previously been found to
contain avian (bird) leukemia virus. Later Dr. Hilleman isolated SV 40 virus
from both the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines. There were 40 different
viruses[9] in these polio vaccines they were trying to eradicate. They were
never able to get rid of these viruses ontaminating the polio vaccines. The
SV 40 virus causes malignancies. It has now been identified in 43 % of cases
of non-Hodgekin lymphoma[10] , 36 % of brain tumors[11] , 18 % of healthy
blood samples, and 22 % of healthy semen samples, mesothiolomas and other
malignancies. By the time of this discovery SV 40 had already been injected
into 10,000,000 people in Salk vaccine. Gastric digestion inactivtes some of
SV 40 in Sabin vaccine. However, the isolation of strains of Sabin polio
vaccine from all 38 cases of Guillan Barre Syndrome[12] GBS in Brazil
suggests that significant numbers of persons are able to be infected from
this vaccine. All 38 of these patients had received Sabin polio vaccine
months to years before the onset of GBS. The incidence of non-Hodgekin
lymphoma has"mysteriouly" doubled since the 1970s.
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> Dr. John Martin, Professor of Pathology at the Univ. of Southern
California, was employed by the Viral Oncology Branch of the Bureau of
Biologics (FDA) from 1976 to 1980. While employed there he identified
foreign DNA in the live polio vaccine Orimune Lederle that suggested serious
vaccine contamination. He warned his supervisors about this problem and was
told to discontinue his work as it was outside the scope of testing required
for polio vaccine.
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> Later Dr. Martin learned that all eleven of the African green monkeys used
to grow the Lederle polio virus Orimune had grown simian cytomegalovirus
from kidney cell cultures. Lederle was aware of this viral contamination as
their Cytomegaloviral Contamination Plan[13] clearly showed in 1972. The
Bureau of Biologics decided not to pursue the matter so production of
infected polio vaccine continued.
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> In 1955 Dr. Martin identified unique cell destroying viruses termed
stealth viruses in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. These viruses
lacked genes that would enable the immune system to recognize them. Thus
they were protected by the body's failure to develop antiviral antibodies.
In March of 1995, Dr. Martin learned that some of these stealth viruses had
originated from African green monkey simian cytomegalovirus of a type known
to infect man.
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> The Lederle vaccine experience suggests that the higher-ups are not
concerned about sloppy and dangerous preparation of vaccines. Animal cross
infection is a huge unsolved current problem for all vaccine manufacturing.
If this vaccine production sounds like an unbelievable mess to you, you are
right..
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> The influential Club of Rome has a position paper in which they state that
the world population is too large and needs to be reduced by 90 %. This
means that 6 billion people must be reduced to 500 to 600 million.
Obviously, creating famines and genocidal wars such as wrecked havoc in
Africa, and loosing new laboratory-created diseases (HIV, Ebola, Marburg[14]
, and probably West Nile virus and SARS) can help reduce the population.
Other elitist groups (Trilaterals, Bildenbergers) have expressed similar
concerns about excess people on planet Earth.
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> The company that was projected to produce the new smallpox vaccine in the
U..S. was in serious trouble in England because of unsatisfactory quality of
operations before setting up their facility in the U.S. Why would their
performance here be any better than it was in England?
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> If there are important powerful groups of people that are determined to
reduce the world population, what could be a more diabolically clever way to
eliminate people than to inject them with a cancer-causing vaccine? The
person receiving the injection would never suspect that the vaccine taken 10
to 15 years earlier had caused the cancer to appear.
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> Other Dangers From Vaccines
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> In the March 4, 1977 issue of Science Jonas and Darrell Salk warn, "Live
virus vaccines against influenza or poliomyelitis may in each instance
produce the disease it intended to prevent. The live virus against measles
and mumps may produce such side effects as encephalitis (brain damage).
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> The swine flu vaccine was administered to the American public even though
there had never been a case of swine flu identified in a human. Farmers
refused to use the vaccine because it killed too many animals. Within a few
months of use in humans this vaccine caused many cases of serious nerve
injury (Guillan Barre syndrome).
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> An article in the Washington Post on Jan. 26, 1988 mentioned that all
cases of polio since 1979 had been caused by the polio vaccine with no known
cases of polio from a wild strain since 1979. This might have created a
perfect situation to discontinue the vaccine, but the vaccine is still
given. Vaccines are a wonderful source of profits with no risks to the drug
companies since vaccine injuries are now recompensed by the government.
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> The steady escalation in the number of vaccines administered has been
followed by an identical rise in the incidence of auto-immune diseases
(rheumatoid arthritis, subacute lupus erythematosus, psoriasis, multiple
sclerosis, asthma) seen in children. While there is a genetic transmission
of some of these diseases many are probably due to the injury from foreign
protein particles, mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde and other toxic agents
injected in vaccines.
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> In 1999, the rotavirus vaccine was recommended by the Center for Disease C
ontrol for all infants. When this vaccine program was instituted several
infants died and many had life endangering bowel obstructions. Prelicensure
trials[15] of the rotavirus vaccine had demonstrated an increased incidence
of intussusception 30 times greater than normal but the vaccine was released
anyway without special warnings to practitioners to be on the lookout for
bowel problems. Children's vaccines are often not studied for toxicity
possibly because such study might eliminate them from being used.
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> A large study from Australia showed that the risk of developing
encephalitis from the pertussis vaccine was 5 times greater than the risk of
developing encephalitis by contacting pertussis by natural methods.
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> Naturally acquired immunity by illness evolves by spread of a virus from
the respiratory tract to the liver, thymus, spleen, and bone marrow. When
symptoms begin, the entire immune response has been mobilized to repel the
invading virus. This complex immune system response creates antibodies that
confer life long immunity against that invading virus and prepares the child
to respond promptly to an infection by the same virus in the future.
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> Vaccination, in contrast, results in the persisting of live virus or other
foreign antigens within the cells of the body, a situation that may provoke
auto-immune reactions as the body attempts to destroy its own infected
cells. There is no surprise that the incidence of auto-immune diseases
(rheumatoid arthritis, subacute lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis,
asthma, psoriasis) has risen sharply in this era of multiple vaccine
immunization.
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> Vaccine Induced Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
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> Dr. John Classen has published 29 articles on vaccine-induced[16]
diabetes. At least 8 of 10 children with Type 1 (insulin needing) diabetes
have this disease as a result of vaccination. These children may have
avoided measles, mumps, and whooping cough but they have received something
far worse: an illness that shortens life expectancy by 10 to 15 years and
results in a life requiring constant medical care.
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> Dr. Classen has shown in Finland, the introduction of hemophilus type b
vaccine caused three times as many cases of type 1 diabetes as the number of
deaths and brain damage from hemophilus influenza type b it might have
prevented.
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> In New Zealand, the incidence of Type 1 diabetes in children rose by 61 %
after an aggressive vaccine program against hepatitis B.. This same program
has been started in the U.S.A. so we can now look forward to many cases of
Type 1 diabetes in children. Similar rises in Type 1 diabetes have been seen
in England, Italy, Sweden, and Denmark after immunization programs against
Hepatitis B.
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> Toxic Substances Are Needed To Make Vaccines.
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> Vaccines contain many toxic substances that are needed to prevent the
vaccines from becoming infected or to improve the performance of the
vaccine. Among these substances are mercury, formaldehyde and aluminum.[17]
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> In the past 10 years, the number of autistic children has risen from
between 200 and 500 percent in every state in the U.S. This sharp rise in
autism followed the introduction of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in
1975.
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> Representative Dan Burton's healthy grandson was given injections for 9
diseases in one day. These injections were instantly followed by autism.
These injections contain a preservative of mercury called thimerosal. The
boy received 41 times the amount of mercury which is capable of harm to the
body. Mercury is a neurotoxin that can injure the brain and nervous system.
And tragically, it did.
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> In the United States the number of compulsory vaccine injections has
increased from 10 to 36 in the last 25 years. During this period, there has
been a simultaneous increase in the number of children suffering learning
disabilities and attention deficit disorder. Some of these childhood
disabilities are related to intrauterine cerebral damage from maternal
cocaine use, but probably vaccines cause many of the others.
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> Many vaccines contain aluminum. A new disease called macrophagic
myofasciitis causes pain in muscles, bones and joints. All persons with this
disease have received aluminum containing vaccines. Deposits of aluminum are
able to remain as an irritant in tissues and disturb the immune and nervous
system for a lifetime.
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> Nearly all vaccines contain aluminum and mercury. These metals appear to
play an important role in the etiology of Alzheimer's Disease. An expert at
the 1997 International Vaccine Conference related that a person who takes 5
or more annual flu vaccine shots has increased the likelihood of developing
Alzheimer's Disease by a factor of 10 over the person who has had 2 or fewer
flu shots.
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> When we take vaccines we are playing a modern version of Russian Roulette.
We not only get exposed to aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde and foreign cell
proteins but we may get simian virus 40 and other dangerous viruses which
can cause cancer, leukemia and other severe health problems because the
vaccine pool is contaminated due to careless animal isolation techniques.
Congress has protected the manufacturers from lawsuits, so dangerous
vaccines simply increase profits at no risk to the drug companies.
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> U.S. children aged 2 months began receiving hepatitis B vaccine in
December 2000.No peer-reviewed studies of the safety of hepatitis B in this
age bracket had been done. Over 36,000 adverse reactions with 440 deaths
were soon reported but the true incidence is much higher as reporting is
voluntary so only approximately 10 % of adverse reactions get reported. This
means that about 5000 infants are dying annually from the hepatitis B
vaccine. The CDC's Chief of Epidemiology admits that the frequency of
serious reactions to hepatitis B vaccine is 10 times higher than other
vaccines. Hepatitis B is transmitted sexually and by contaminated blood, so
the incidence of this disease must be near zero in this age bracket. A
vaccine expert, Dr. Philip Incao, states that "the conclusion is obvious
that the risks[18] of hepatitis B vaccination far outweigh the benefits.
Once a vaccine is mandated the vaccine manufacturer is no longer liable for
adverse reactions.
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> Dr. W.B. Clarke's important observation that cancer was not found in
unvaccinated individuals demands an explanation and one now appears
forthcoming. All vaccines given over a short period of time to an immature
immune system deplete the thymus gland (the primary gland involved in immune
reactions) of irreplaceable immature immune cells. Each of these cells could
have multiplied and developed into an army of valuable cells to combat
infection and growth of abnormal cells. When these immune cells have been
used up, permanent immunity may not appear. The Arthur Research Foundation
in Tucson, Arizona estimates that up to 60 % of our immune system may be
exhausted[19] by multiple mass vaccines (36 are now required for children).
Only 10 % of immune cells are permanently lost when a child is permitted to
develop natural immunity from disease. There needs to be grave concern about
these immune system injuring vaccinations! Could the persons who approve
these mass vaccinations know that they are impairing the health of these
children, many of whom are being doomed to requiring much medical care in
the future?
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> Compelling evidence is available that the development of the immune system
after contracting the usual childhood diseases matures and renders it
capable to fight infection and malignant cells in the future.
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> The use of multiple vaccines, which prevents natural immunity, promotes
the development of allergies and asthma. A New Zealand study disclosed that
23 % of vaccinated children develop asthma , as compared to zero in
unvaccinated children.
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> Cancer was a very rare illness in the 1890's. This evidence about immune
system injury from vaccinating affords a plausible explanation for Dr.
Clarke's finding that only vaccinated individuals got cancer. Some radical
adverse change in health occurred in the early 1900s to permit cancer to
explode and vaccinating appears to be the reason.
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> Vaccines are an unnatural phenomena. My guess is that if enough persons
said no to immunizations there would be a striking improvement in general
health with nature back in the immunizing business instead of man. Having a
child vaccinated should be a choice not a requirement. Medical and religious
exemptions are permitted by most states.
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> When governmental policies require vaccinations before children enter
schools coercion has overruled the lack of evidence of vaccine efficacy and
safety. There is no proof that vaccines work and they are never studied for
safety before release. My opinion is that there is overwhelming evidence
that vaccines are dangerous and the only reason for their existence is to
increase profits of pharmaceutical firms.
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> If you are forced to immunize your children so they can enter school,
obtain a notarized statement from the director of the facility that they
will accept full financial responsibility for any adverse reaction from the
vaccine. Since there is at least a 2 percent risk of a serious adverse
reaction they may be smart enough to permit your child to escape a dangerous
procedure. Recent legislation passed by Congress gives the government the
power to imprison persons refusing to take vaccines (smallpox, anthrax,
etc). This would be troublesome to enforce if large numbers of citizens
declined to be vaccinated at the same time.
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> Footnotes:
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> 1 Null Gary Vaccination: An Analysis of the Health Risks- Part Townsend
Letter for Doctors & Patients Dec. 2003 pg 78
> 2 Mullins Eustace Murder by Injection pg 132 The National Council for
Medical Research, P. O. Box 1105, Staunton, Virginia 24401
> 3 Gary Null Interview with Dr. Dean Black April 7, 1995
> 4 de Melker HE, et al Pertussis in the Netherlands: an outbreak despite
high levels of immunization with whole-cell vaccine Emerging Infectious
Diseases 1997; 3(2): 175-8 Centers for Disease Control
> 5 Gary Null Interview with Walene James, April 6, 1995
> 6 Torch WS Diptheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) immunizations: a potential
cause of the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) Neurology 1982; 32-4 A169
abstract.
> 7 Collin Jonathan The Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients 1988
abstracted in Horowitz L. Emerging Viruses Aids & Ebola pg 1-5
> 8 Harris RJ et al Contaminant viruses in two live vaccines produced in
chick cells.J Hyg (London) 1966 Mar:64(1) : 1-7
> 9 Horowitz Leonard G. Emerging Viruses AIDS & Ebola pg 484
> 10 Vilchez RA et al Association between simian virus 40 and non-Hodgekin
lymphoma Lancet 2002 Mar 9;359(9309):817-823
> 11 Bu X A study of simian virus 40 infection and its origin in human brain
tumors Zhonghu Liu Xing Bing Xue Zhi 2000 Feb;21 (1):19-21
> 12 Friedrich F. et al temporal association between the isolation of
Sabin-related poliovirus vaccine strains and the Guillan-Barre syndrome Rev
Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 1996 Jan-Feb; 38(1):55-8
> 13 Horowitz Leonard Emerging Viruses: Aids and Ebola pg 492
> 14 Horowitz Leonard G Emerging Viruses: Aids & Ebola pg 378-88 Tetrahedron
Inc. Suite 147, 206 North 4th Ave. Sandpoint, Idaho 83864 1-888-508-4787
tetra@tetrahedron.org> 15 Null, Gary Vaccination: An Anatysis of the health risks-Part 3 Townsend
letter for doctors & patients Dec. 2003 pg 78
> 16 Classen, JB et al. Association between type 1 diabetes and Hib vaccine
BMJ 1999; 319:1133
> 17 Brain 9/01
> 18 Incao, philip M.D. Letter to representative Dale Van Vyven, Ohio House
of Representatives March 1, 1999 provided to
www.garynull.com by The Natural
Immunity Information Network
> 19 Rowen Robert Your first consultation with Dr. Rowen pg 20
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> (c) 2003 Dr. James Howenstine - All Rights Reserved
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> Dr. James A. Howenstine is a board certified specialist in internal
medicine who spent 34 years caring for office and hospital patients.
Curiosity sparked a 4 year study of natural health products when 5 of his
patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis were able to discontinue the use
of methotrexate (chemotherapy agent) after trying an extract of New Zealand
mussels for the therapy of severe rheumatoid arthritis.
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> Dr. Howenstine is convinced that natural products are safer, more
effective and less expensive than pharmaceutical drugs. This research led to
the publication of his book 'A Physicians Guide To Natural Health Products
That Work'. This book and the recommended health products are available from
www.naturalhealthteam.com>
> Richard M. Ask
> Certified Herb Specialist
> The Natural Apothecary
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