by Ralph Cinque

On March 25, GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix vaccine – used for a diarrhea-causing virus called rotavirus – was recalled because it was found to be contaminated with a supposedly “harmless” pig virus. The virus, called porcine circovirus type 1, is not known to cause disease in humans or animals – unlike porcine circovirus type 2, which causes a wasting syndrome marked by diarrhea in young piglets. As a precaution, the FDA ordered the vaccine destroyed. The company was quick to point out that children are exposed to the virus anyway from eating pork.

“PCV-1 does not multiply in humans and is not known to cause illness in humans. It is found in everyday meat products and is frequently eaten with no resulting disease or illness,” said the company.

However, there is a huge difference between eating something and having it injected directly into your body. By itself, the high acidity of the stomach destroys most viruses – unless you foolishly disable this defense mechanism by taking acid-blocking drugs. And since when do two-month old infants eat pork chops?

This was a tough break for GSK because only this past November, they had to recall some of the swine flu vaccine they sent to Canada because of “serious allergic reactions.” The 170,000 dose batch in question had mostly been already administered – the majority of it.

Rotavirus is a diarrheal illness affecting babies and children that is rampant in the Third World – particularly Africa. Even before the vaccine became available, there were only several dozen reported deaths from rotavirus each year in the USA. Compare that to 36,000 purported deaths in the USA from seasonal flu every year.

“Every child in the world will have at least one rotavirus infection before age five,” according to the CDC and WHO. Therefore, it seems that recovery is quite spontaneous in most children. So, is this vaccine really necessary in countries like the USA and Canada? In the developed world, which has modern sanitation, ample nutrition, etc., how grave is the risk from rotavirus? It’s a fair question because injecting pig material into a child is hardly risk-free.

It goes to show how much faith and trust is involved in taking a vaccine – any vaccine. About one million American children received the tainted rotavirus vaccine. Worldwide, 30 million children received it. They’re saying it was just a harmless pig virus. Of course. No worries. But then again, the air was fit to breathe at Ground Zero after 9-11, according to authorities.

But when was the last time you reviewed the list of government-mandated vaccines for children? If you are anywhere close to my age (60) you may be shocked at how long the list has become. Here it is:

Hepatitis-B vaccine: 3 doses
Hib vaccine: 4 doses
Polio vaccine: 4 doses
DPT (3 vaccines) 6 doses
Pneumococcal vaccine: 4 doses
Rotavirus vaccine: 3 doses
Hepatitis A vaccine: 2 doses
Influenza vaccine: 2 doses, and then annually for life
MMR (3 vaccines): 2 doses
Varicella vaccine: 2 doses
Meningococcal vaccine: 1 dose, age 11
HPV vaccine (girls only): 3 doses, starting age 11

Makes your head spin, doesn’t it? I wonder if they have a vaccine for that.

You’ve probably heard the clamor about the mercury-laced preservative thimerosal, which is still being used in flu vaccine. I won’t go into it here, but the issue of vaccine safety goes far beyond thimerosal. In fact, I can’t possibly discuss all the safety issues involved with vaccines – it would take a book. However, I want to point out that no double-blind, controlled studies of vaccines are ever done. They refuse to do it, claiming it would be “unethical.”

Dr. Amy Tuteur, a Harvard-trained OB/GYN, has the nerve to compare hypothetical controlled studies of vaccines with hypothetical controlled studies of car seats using real babies. But, that’s ridiculous! The risks to the unrestrained child are obvious, self-evident, and dictated by the laws of physics, which are immutable. The effectiveness of the car seat can be determined using dummies, as in crash tests for cars. The only thing you need the baby for is to determine whether he or she can unfasten the restraints, which can be tested in a non-moving vehicle.

With a new vaccine, there are a lot of unknowns. You do not know which group is at greater risk – the vaccinated or the unvaccinated – and to say otherwise is to presume the outcome that you’re testing for. And the risk to the unvaccinated child is simply the risk of being alive, which every child faces. Being exposed to microbes is a “usual” risk in life – it is part and parcel of life. In contrast, the “unusual” risk is being borne entirely by those children getting the new vaccine. To say that denying any child the rotovirus vaccine would be “unethical” is rank hubris. Some countries don’t vaccinate for rotovirus as it is. And what belies their sanctimonious bluster is that they refuse to do any kind of comparative testing of vaccines. Forget the double-blindedness. It’s not as though there is no value in doing an open comparison.

For instance, only 20 percent of Americans chose to take the swine flu vaccine, which means that it would have been very easy to do a large comparative study of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated. It would not have involved denying anyone a swine flu shot who wanted one. Of course, they would have had to “control” for everything else as diligently as possible, but that would be as feasible with vaccines as it with drugs and supplements. The same rules would apply. And to those who say that without placebo controls, it’s meaningless, I say poppycock. If there is a placebo effect at all, it accrues to those getting the vaccine. There’s no placebo effect from doing nothing. So, their dog in the fight would, if anything, be bolstered from it, not hampered. And what if, despite that advantage to the vaccinated, the unvaccinated fared as well or better? I sense that’s what they’re really afraid of. They claim that over 10,000 Americans died from the swine flu, but they never revealed what percentage of them were vaccinated. Don’t you think that is an important piece of data we could all use? Talk about withholding evidence. Vaccination is seeming more and more like another example of “crony science” like Evolution and Global Warming.

Now that national health care is upon us, I fear that it will be harder than ever to get children exempted from scheduled vaccinations. And I am sure that no amount of vaccine failures and fiascos, including the recent swine flu fiasco, in which doctors were ordered to diagnose swine flu automatically to prop up the numbers, will alter the course towards more and more vaccines.

I had only one child, a son, who is now a robust, healthy 36-year-old man, and his mother and I never subjected him to any vaccinations – NADA! – and he never developed any diseases for which others are vaccinated. There were absolutely no bad repercussions from that decision, and I would do it again just that way if given the chance. I realize that readers of this forum probably differ widely in their opinions about vaccinations. But everyone here (unless you are a spy) should be able to agree that the government has no right – under any circumstances – to inject anything into anyone’s body, or their children’s bodies, against their will.

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Causing 250,000 deaths every year.

This article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is the best article I have ever seen written in the published literature documenting the tragedy of the traditional medical paradigm.

This information is a follow up of the Institute of Medicine report which hit the papers in December of last year, but the data was hard to reference as it was not in peer-reviewed journal. Now it is published in JAMA which is the most widely circulated medical periodical in the world.

The author is Dr. Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and she describes how the US health care system may contribute to poor health.

ALL THESE ARE DEATHS PER YEAR:

12,000 — unnecessary surgery

7,000 — medication errors in hospitals

20,000 — other errors in hospitals

80,000 — infections in hospitals

106,000 — non-error, negative effects of drugs

These total to 250,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes!!

What does the word iatrogenic mean? This term is defined as induced in a patient by a physician’s activity, manner, or therapy. Used especially of a complication of treatment.

Dr. Starfield offers several warnings in interpreting these numbers:

First, most of the data are derived from studies in hospitalized patients.

Second, these estimates are for deaths only and do not include negative effects that are associated with disability or discomfort.

Third, the estimates of death due to error are lower than those in the IOM report.

If the higher estimates are used, the deaths due to iatrogenic causes would range from 230,000 to 284,000. In any case, 225,000 deaths per year constitutes the third leading cause of death in the United States, after deaths from heart disease and cancer. Even if these figures are overestimated, there is a wide margin between these numbers of deaths and the next leading cause of death (cerebrovascular disease).

Another analysis concluded that between 4% and 18% of consecutive patients experience negative effects in outpatient settings, with:

116 million extra physician visits

77 million extra prescriptions

17 million emergency department visits

8 million hospitalizations

3 million long-term admissions

199,000 additional deaths

$77 billion in extra costs

The high cost of the health care system is considered to be a deficit, but seems to be tolerated under the assumption that better health results from more expensive care.

However, evidence from a few studies indicates that as many as 20% to 30% of patients receive inappropriate care.

An estimated 44,000 to 98,000 among them die each year as a result of medical errors.

This might be tolerated if it resulted in better health, but does it? Of 13 countries in a recent comparison, the United States ranks an average of 12th (second from the bottom) for 16 available health indicators. More specifically, the ranking of the US on several indicators was:

13th (last) for low-birth-weight percentages

13th for neonatal mortality and infant mortality overall

11th for postneonatal mortality

13th for years of potential life lost (excluding external causes)

11th for life expectancy at 1 year for females, 12th for males

10th for life expectancy at 15 years for females, 12th for males

10th for life expectancy at 40 years for females, 9th for males

7th for life expectancy at 65 years for females, 7th for males

3rd for life expectancy at 80 years for females, 3rd for males

10th for age-adjusted mortality

The poor performance of the US was recently confirmed by a World Health Organization study, which used different data and ranked the United States as 15th among 25 industrialized countries.

There is a perception that the American public “behaves badly” by smoking, drinking, and perpetrating violence.” However the data does not support this assertion.

The proportion of females who smoke ranges from 14% in Japan to 41% in Denmark; in the United States, it is 24% (fifth best). For males, the range is from 26% in Sweden to 61% in Japan; it is 28% in the United States (third best).

The US ranks fifth best for alcoholic beverage consumption.

The US has relatively low consumption of animal fats (fifth lowest in men aged 55-64 years in 20 industrialized countries) and the third lowest mean cholesterol concentrations among men aged 50 to 70 years among 13 industrialized countries.

These estimates of death due to error are lower than those in a recent Institutes of Medicine report, and if the higher estimates are used, the deaths due to iatrogenic causes would range from 230,000 to 284,000.

Even at the lower estimate of 225,000 deaths per year, this constitutes the third leading cause of death in the US, following heart disease and cancer.

Lack of technology is certainly not a contributing factor to the US’s low ranking.

Among 29 countries, the United States is second only to Japan in the availability of magnetic resonance imaging units and computed tomography scanners per million population. 17

Japan, however, ranks highest on health, whereas the US ranks among the lowest.

It is possible that the high use of technology in Japan is limited to diagnostic technology not matched by high rates of treatment, whereas in the US, high use of diagnostic technology may be linked to more treatment.

Supporting this possibility are data showing that the number of employees per bed (full-time equivalents) in the United States is highest among the countries ranked, whereas they are very low in Japan, far lower than can be accounted for by the common practice of having family members rather than hospital staff provide the amenities of hospital care.

Journal American Medical Association July 26, 2000;284(4):483-5

Although she once had dreams of earning an athletic scholarship, she now struggles to hobble around each day with the aid of braces and a walker, First Coast News reports. According to the article, she has been diagnosed with Acute Demyelinating Encephalomyelitis (ADEM), a condition characterized by inflammation of the brain and associated with the vaccination.

Adding insult to injury, people who are injured by the vaccine cannot even sue Merck, the maker of the Gardasil vaccine, because it is part of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund.

Dr. Clark has warned about the “preservatives” found in vaccines. HPV vaccines are not different, in addition to four types of HPV proteins, girls and women who receive this vaccine should know what else is in the shot.

Dr. Mercola has uncovered the following as ingredients:

1. Aluminum adjuvants, which have been linked to neurological damage including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease.
2. Polysorbate 80, which has been linked to infertility in mice.
3. Sodium borate, a main ingredient in roach killer.

(NaturalNews) While the FDA claims adverse reactions to Gardasil are rare, a review of the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) data shows that several thousands of adverse reactions have been reported in the United States alone. And hundreds of Australian girls have experienced side effects like paralysis, dizzy spells and seizures, but Australia‘s Department of Health and Ageing refuses to release any details.

The Financial Times also reported that there have been 11 deaths and a wide array of other adverse reactions, including:

Bells Palsy
Guillan-Barre syndrome
Seizures
Blood clotting and heart problems
Miscarriages and fetal abnormalities amongst pregnant women who received the vaccine
Please educate your relatives during the holidays about vaccines.

Links:

http://www.naturalnews.com/023080.html
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/gardasil-vaccine-bad-medicine.html
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/did-the-gardasil-vaccine-cause-teens-paralysis.html

Are Vaccinations Causing Early Alzheimer’s Disease?
(NaturalNews) The issue of cognitive decline and the more advanced Alzheimer’s disease is predicted to be a public health crisis in America over the next 20 years, as the swell of baby boomers hits the age when problems manifest. This past week the Wall Street Journal ran an article on a man getting Alzheimer’s in his 40s, one of 500,000 Americans with early onset. The notion that this problem is striking ever earlier sent shock waves through the country and left people wondering why this is happening.

Clearly, there are many inflammatory factors in a person’s life and gene-related weaknesses are involved. However, theoretical data on the inflammatory nature of vaccines, especially in the large numbers given to children at an early age while their nerves are developing response patterns for future life, means that they cannot be ruled out as one main factor that primes the Alzheimer’s pump.

Links:

http://www.naturalnews.com/024867.html

Curcumin in curry sauce treats Alzheimer’s disease
Here’s another example of healing foods and spices. This study is about the ability of turmeric (curcumin is the active ingredient) to prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease.

by Doug Kaufman

Simply put, antibiotics are poisons that are used to kill. Only licensed physicians can prescribe them. The drugs are used to kill bacteria. Certainly, many people have benefited from using them. However, if bacteria were the only organisms that antibiotics killed, much of this book would be unnecessary. In fact, I con­tend that poisons that kill small organisms in small doses — organism-specific varieties notwithstanding — can also kill big organisms, when they are taken in big doses. You, my friend, are a big organism.

We’ve talked about the link between fungus and human disease. This chapter addresses the possibility that antibiotics may help fungi to proliferate within the human body.

As an adult human, you have three to four pounds of beneficial bacteria and yeast living within your intestines. These microbes compete for nutrients from the food you eat. Usually, the strength in numbers beneficial bacteria enjoy both keeps the ever-present yeasts in check and causes them to produce nutrients such as the B vitamins.

However, every time you swallow antibiotics, you kill the beneficial bacteria within your intestines. When you do so, you upset the delicate balance of your intestinal terrain. Yeasts grow unchecked into large colonies and take over, in a condition called dysbiosis.

Yeasts are opportunistic organisms. This means that, as the intestinal bacteria die, yeasts thrive, especially when their dietary needs are met. They can use their tendrils, or hyphae, to literally poke holes through the lining of your intestinal wall. This results in a syndrome called leaky gut. Yeasts are not the only possible cause of this syndrome. Some scientists have linked non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) such as naproxen and ibuprofen to the problem. Given their ability to alter intestinal terrain, antibiotics also likely contribute to leaky gut syndrome.

In addition to possibly causing leaky gut syndrome, I believe that parasitic yeasts can also cause you to change what you eat in that they encourage you to binge on carbohydrates including pasta, bread, sugar, potatoes, etc. So, it should come as no surprise that weight gain counts as one of the telltale signs of antibiotic damage and subsequent yeast overgrowth.

By altering the normal terrain of the intestines, antibiotics can also make food allergies more likely. An array of intestinal disorders can ensue, as well. Sadly, most doctors claim ignorance concerning their patients’ intestinal disorders rather than admit that the drugs they themselves prescribed actually caused the disorders to begin with.

Tons of antibiotics are fed to American livestock on a daily basis, purportedly to proof them against bacteria. This practice not only possibly contributes to antibiotic resistance in humans — many experts feel weight gain, and not disease prevention, is the real reason antibiotics are so widely used. Fat cattle sell for more than thin cattle. That’s all very well, but imagine what the antibiotics thereby possibly present in dairy products could be doing to our children’s health…..to read the rest of this article, go to www.mercola.com