By Dr. James Howenstine, MD.
December 7, 2003
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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."
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. 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.
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 unvaccinated[1] person."
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.
Do Vaccines Actually Prevent Disease?
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[2] even though far fewer children are receiving pertussis
vaccine.
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.
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[3] in the
Netherlands where for more than 20 years 96% of children have received 3
pertussis shots by age 12 months.
After institution of diptheria vaccination in England and Wales in 1894 the
number of deaths from diptheria rose by 20% in the subsequent 15 years. Germany
had compulsory vaccination in 1939. The rate of diptheria spiraled to 150,000
cases that year whereas, Norway which did not have compulsory vaccination, had
only 50 cases of diptheria the same year.
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.
Why Do Vaccines Fail To Protect Against Diseases?
Walene James, author of Immunization: the Reality Behind The Myth, states that
the full[4] 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.
Vaccines and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome SIDS
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.
Dr. W. Torch was able to document 12 deaths in infants which appeared within 3˝
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[5] 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.
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.
Are Vaccines Sterile?
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[6] 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.
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.
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.
In 1954 Dr. Bernice Eddy (bacteriologist) discovered live monkey viruses in
supposedly sterile inactivated polio vaccine[7] 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[8] 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[9] , 36 % of brain
tumors[10] , 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[11] 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.
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.
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[12] clearly showed in 1972. The Bureau of
Biologics decided not to pursue the matter so production of infected polio
vaccine continued.
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.
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.
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[13] , 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.
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?
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.
Other Dangers From Vaccines
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).
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).
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.
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.
In 1999, the rotavirus vaccine was recommended by the Center for Disease Control
for all infants. When this vaccine program was instituted several infants died
and many had life endangering bowel obstructions. Obviously, there was no
evidence that this vaccine would cause such serious problems before the vaccine
was released for usage. Children's vaccines are not studied for toxicity
possibly because such study might eliminate them from being used.
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.
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.
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.
Vaccine Induced Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
Dr. John Classen has published 29 articles on vaccine-induced[14] 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.
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.
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.
Toxic Substances Are Needed To Make Vaccines.
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.[15]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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[16] of hepatitis B vaccination
far outweigh the benefits. Once a vaccine is mandated the vaccine manufacturer
is no longer liable for adverse reactions.
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[17] 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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Footnotes:
1 Mullins Eustace Murder by Injection pg 132 The National Council for Medical
research, P. O. Box 1105, Staunton, Virginia 24401
2 Gary Null Interview with Dr. Dean Black April 7, 1995
3 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
4 Gary Null Interview with Walene James, April 6, 1995
5 Torch WS Diptheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) immunizations: a potential cause of
the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) Neurology 1982; 32-4 A169 abstract.
6 Collin Jonathan The Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients 1988 abstracted
in Horowitz L. Emerging Viruses Aids & Ebola pg 1-5
7 Harris RJ et al Contaminant viruses in two live vaccines produced in chick
cells.J Hyg (London) 1966 Mar:64(1) : 1-7
8 Horowitz Leonard G. Emerging Viruses AIDS & Ebola pg 484
9 Vilchez RA et al Association between simian virus 40 and non-Hodgekin lymphoma
Lancet 2002 Mar 9;359(9309):817-823
10 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
11 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
12 Horowitz Leonard Emerging Viruses: Aids and Ebola pg 492
13 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
14 Classen, JB et al. Association between type 1 diabetes and Hib vaccine BMJ
1999; 319:1133
15 Brain 9/01
16 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
17 Rowen Robert Your first consultation with Dr. Rowen pg 20
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