Why You Should Avoid Taking Vaccines
By Dr. James Howenstine, MD, December 7, 2003
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. 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.
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
[2] 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 US 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.
Measles outbreaks have occurred in schools with vaccination rates
over 98 % in all parts of the US 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 [4] in the Netherlands where for more than 20
years 96 % of children have received 3 pertussis shots by age 12 months.
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.
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 [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.
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. Eighty-five percent 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 [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.
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, autoimmune 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
[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.
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. US 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 US 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 an 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 [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
contaminating 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 deactivates 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"mysteriously" 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 [13] 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
[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.
The company that was projected to produce the new smallpox vaccine in
the US was in serious trouble in England because of unsatisfactory quality
of operations before setting up their facility in the US 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 autoimmune 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. 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.
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 autoimmune reactions as the body attempts to destroy its own
infected cells. There is no surprise that the incidence of autoimmune
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 [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.
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 USA 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. [17]
In the past 10 years, the number of autistic children has risen from
between 200 and 500 percent in every state in the US 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.
US 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.
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?
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] 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 Analysis 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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