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VACCINATION MYTH #4: "Vaccination is based on sound
immunization theory and practice..." ...or is it?
The clinical evidence for vaccinations is their ability to stimulate antibody
production in the recipient, a fact which is not disputed. What is not clear, however, is
whether or not such antibody production constitutes immunity. For example, agamma
globulin-anemic children are incapable of producing antibodies, yet they recover from
infectious diseases almost as quickly as other children.[31] Furthermore, a study
published by the British Medical Council in 1950 during a diphtheria epidemic concluded
that there was no relationship between antibody count and disease incidence; researchers
found resistant people with extremely low antibody counts and sick people with high
counts. [32] Natural immunization is a complex phenomenon involving many organs and
systems; it cannot be fully replicated by the artificial stimulation of antibody
production.
Research also indicates that vaccination commits immune cells to the specific antigens
involved in the vaccine, rendering them incapable of reacting to other infections. Our
immunological reserve may thus actually be reduced, causing a generally lowered
resistance. [33]
Another component of immunization theory is "herd immunity," which states
that when enough people in a community are immunized, all are protected. As Myth #2
revealed, there are many documented instances showing just the opposite--fully vaccinated
populations do contract diseases; with measles, this actually seems to be the direct
result of high vaccination rates.[19] A Minnesota state epidemiologist concluded that the
Hib vaccine increases the risk of illness when a study revealed that vaccinated children
were five times more likely to contract meningitis than unvaccinated children.
Carefully selected epidemiological studies are yet another justification for
vaccination programs. However, many of these may not be legitimate sources from which to
draw conclusions about vaccine effectiveness. For example, if 100 people are vaccinated
and 5 contract the disease, the vaccine is declared to be 95% effective. But if only 10 of
the 100 were actually exposed to the disease, then the vaccine was really only 50%
effective. Since no one is willing to directly expose an entire population to
disease--even a fully vaccinated one--vaccine effectiveness rates may not indicate a
vaccine's true effectiveness.
Yet another surprising concern about immunization practice is its assumption that all
children, regardless of age, are virtually the same. An 8 pound 2 month old receives the
same dosage as a 40 pound five year old. Infants with immature, undeveloped immune systems
may receive five or more times the dosage (relative to body weight) as older children.
Furthermore, the number of "units" within doses has been found upon random
testing to range from 1/2 to 3 times what the label indicates; manufacturing quality
controls appear to tolerate a rather large margin of error. "Hot Lots"--vaccine
lots with disproportionately high death and disability rates--have been identified
repeatedly by the NVIC, but the FDA refuses to intervene to prevent further unnecessary
injury and deaths. In fact, they have never recalled a vaccine lot due to adverse
reactions. Some would call this infanticide.
Finally, vaccination practice assumes that all recipients, regardless of race, culture,
diet, geographic location, or any other circumstances, will respond the same. This was
perhaps never more dramatically disproved than an instance a few years ago in Australia's
Northern Territory, where stepped-up immunization campaigns resulted in an incredible
*50%* infant mortality rate in the native aborigines.[34] Researcher A. Kalokerinos, M.D.
discovered that the aborigine's vitamin C deficient "junk food" diet (imposed on
them by white society) was a critical factor (studies had already shown that vaccination
depletes vitamin C reserves; children in shock or collapse often recovered in a matter of
minutes when given vitamin C injections). He considered it amazing that as many survived
as did. One must wonder about the lives of the survivors, though, for if half died, surely
the other half did not escape unaffected.
Almost as troubling was a very recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine
which revealed that a substantial number of Romanian children were contracting polio from
the vaccine, a less common phenomena in most developed countries. Correlations with
injections of antibiotics were found: a single injection within one month of vaccination
raised the risk of polio 8 times, 2 to 9 injections raised the risk 27-fold, and 10 or
more injections raised the risk 182 times [Washington Post, February 22, 1995].
What other factors not accounted for in vaccination theory will surface unexpectedly to
reveal unforeseen or previously overlooked consequences? We will not begin to fully
comprehend the scope of this danger until researchers begin looking and reporting in
earnest. In the meantime, entire countries' populations are unwitting gamblers in a game
that many might very well choose not to play if they were given all the "rules"
in advance.
VACCINATION TRUTH #4:
"Many of the assumptions upon which immunization theory and practice are based
have been proven false in their application."
INTRODUCTION
MYTH #1: "Vaccines are completely safe..."
MYTH #2: "Vaccines are very effective..."
MYTH #3: "Vaccines are the main reason for low disease rates
in the U.S. today..."
MYTH #5: "Childhood diseases are extremely
dangerous..."
MYTH #6: "Polio was one of the clearly great vaccination
success stories..."
MYTH #7: "My child had no short-term reaction to
vaccination, so there is nothing to worry about..."
MYTH #8: "Vaccines are the only disease prevention option
available..."
MYTH #9: "Vaccinations are legally mandated, and thus
unavoidable..."
MYTH #10: "Public health officials always place health above
all other concerns..."
SUMMARY and About the Author...
(31) See Note 20 p 21.
(32) See Note 20, p 21 (British Medical Council Publication 272, May 1950)
(33) See Note 20, p 21; also Note 23 p 47 (Buttram, MD, Hoffman, Mothering
Magazine, Winter 1985 p 30; Kalokerinos and Dettman, MDs, "The Dangers of
Immunization," Biological Research Inst. [Australia], 1979, p 49).
(34) Archie Kalolerinos, MD, Every Second Child, Keats Publishing, Inc. 1981
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