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Health & Disease

User-Friendly Vaccination Schedule Cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington, Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD, presents a shorter list of recommended vaccines and  believes vaccinations should be staggered "to allow the immune system sufficient time to recover and stabilize."

Understanding Infection - Not a Battle, but a Housecleaning Dr. Phillip Incao's article and, also, a radio interview.

A Hard Look at Hepatitis B Vaccination A special section on this controversial vaccine -- with congressional testimony by MD's and a statistician who question present vaccination policy.

HealthSentinel.com site (click on charts or links for details) 
Vaccines and Disease
1900-1965 - graphs showing the decline in five infectious diseases from 1900 up until 1965, also indicating the years when various vaccines were introduced.
Graphs showing disease patterns and other information from the 1800s to the present day.
 


An Open Letter in Support of Parents
Wishing to Limit or Avoid Immunizations for their Children

Safety studies on vaccinations are limited to short time periods only: several days to several weeks. There are NO (NONE) long term (months or years) safety studies on any vaccination or immunization. For this reason, there are valid grounds for suspecting that many delayed-type vaccine reactions may be taking place, unrecognized as to their true nature.

Harold E Buttram, MD
Full text of letter

Medical Misdiagnoses and Their Consequences Harold E Buttram, MD: Childhood Autism, Predominantly an Environmental Illness
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons call for a moratorium on vaccine mandates and for physicians to insist upon truly informed consent for the use of vaccines.
Vaccine Scene 1999 These doctors believe that, "Scientific evidence does not support the safety of immunizations."
Informed Consent, Parental Permission, and Assent in Pediatric Practice The American Academy of Pediatrics muses out loud about your elusive rights.
You Can Quote Me Doctors and scientists have their say.
Did Monkey Virus-Contaminated Polio Vaccine Create HIV-1? Howard B. Urnovitz, Ph.D. thinks so.
Dr. William Howard Hay Questioned Vaccination way back in 1937.
Influenza Virus Vaccine package insert makes interesting reading.

CDC Director admits string of errors in the design and methods used in the CDC's landmark 2003 study that found no link between mercury in vaccines and autism, ADHD, speech delay or tics
Generation Rescue survey indicates a strong correlation between rates of neurological disorders, such as ADHD and autism, and childhood vaccinations.

Dispelling Vaccination Myths by Alan Phillips
An introduction to the contradictions between medical science and immunization policy.
18 Things to Consider Before Taking the Chicken Pox Vaccine.
A new chickenpox vaccination bill makes its way (but not publicly) through Albany.

Measles Experience by Jessicca Hall
Problems when an unvaccinated child visits an emergency room.
Another Story by Kestrel
Parents and child escape another emergency room.
Shot-free in India by Julie Jones Ford
Avoiding mosquitoes and candy gifts abroad.

Offsite Articles and Reports
Holistic Pediatric Assn site includes a Doctor Locator
Immunization Studies: Scientific & Medical References (indicative of "adverse reactions")
Responding to Parental Refusals of Immunization of Children report by the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Bioethics
Your pediatrician may ask you to sign this Refusal to Vaccinate form. If the form does not load, go here and search on "Refusal to Vaccinate."

Shots in the Dark by Barbara Loe Fisher (of NVIC)
Attempts at eradicating infectious diseases are putting our children at risk.
Do Vaccines Disable the Immune System?
Randall Neustaedter, O.M.D, says, "We may be setting the stage for the unwitting destruction of our population's health, a result that may continue to remain a hidden cause of widespread immune system failure and autoimmune disease."
May 2002 article: Vaccinating children against chickenpox (varicella) could increase the risk that adults would develop shingles, a painful blistering rash that is potentially dangerous in the elderly. Did NY legislators hold public hearings before mandating chickenpox vaccinations for your child?
The Virus and the Vaccine by Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher
Simian virus SV40 contaminated the polio vaccine administered to 98 million Americans and has been associated with a number of rare human cancers. Federal health officials see little reason for concern. A growing cadre of medical researchers disagree.
Dr. Ed Friedlander critiques and faults "anti-vaccination" articles (including some of the above), yet he plans "to publish the significant findings in the autopsy reports of children of who have died as a result of immunizations."
 

Low Rate of Vaccination Among Doctors

... it is well known that many doctors refuse to vaccinate themselves and their families. In the Feb. 20, 1981, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, an article entitled "Rubella Vaccine in Susceptible Hospital Employees, Poor Physician Participation" reports that the lowest vaccination rate among medical personnel for the German measles vaccine occurred among obstetrician/gynecologists and the next lowest rate occurred among pediatricians. The authors conclude, "The fear of unforeseen vaccination reactions was the main reason for the low uptake rate of physicians to be vaccinated."

Gary Null Vaccines: A Second Opinion

FedBuzz.com database contains Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data reported between January 1, 1998 and November 30, 1999; FedBuzz main Vaccinations section 
Find and rate your NY doctor (listed by Zip code)
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) site
Medical Library on the Internet
has many useful links including Free MEDLINE Search (a researchers dream machine).
Medscape has a search engine to find info about diseases, drugs, and vaccines. Free signup
Journal Of the American Medical Association  Not all articles are available to the public, but some are. Try their search engine.
British Medical Journal also has a search engine.
 

To Not Create Risks for Others?

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) page National Vaccine Program Office - Immunization Laws explains (without apparent irony) -

As with all of our laws, federal and state immunization laws are consistent with a basic tenet of American citizenship: The privileges of democracy, including individual freedoms, must be enjoyed in ways that do not interfere with or create risks for others.

More tangible information on the same page -

Under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, section 2126 of the Public Health Service Act, all health care providers in the U.S. who administer any vaccine containing diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella, or polio vaccine shall, prior to administration of each dose of the vaccine, provide a copy of the relevant vaccine informaiton materials that have been produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

CDC (Centers for Disease Control) site
Search the entire CDC site
State Health Departments Search Select your state health department (or any other) to search
Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule (U.S. 2000) pdf format

NY State Department of Health
Email them your questions or comments
Your link to the New York State Department of Health's Home Page
public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menuf.cgi Check out the laws - compliments of the NYS Legislature.
NY State Public Health Forum

 
 
   
       
   Trading chickenpox for shingles? Research published in the International Journal of Toxicology, suggests that the US government has unwittingly traded chickenpox, a typically mild childhood disease, for a far more serious illness that affects adults. 

A Hard Look at Hepatitis B Vaccination A special section on this controversial vaccine -- with congressional testimony
by MD's and a statistician who question present vaccination policy.

  

     

  
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