Vaccine Dangers Intro Info

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Here are some excellent intro articles to show you some

of the risks that you need to examine and research:

http://mercola.com/2000/oct/15/vaccines.htm

Shots in the Dark by Barbara Loe Fisher

http://www.ias.org.nz/fuss.htm

What's all the fuss about?

An introduction to the vaccination controversy

http://www.healthy.net/library/articles/moskowitz/vaccin

ation.htm

Vaccination: A Sacrament of Modern Medicine*

Moskowitz, M.D.

http://www.909shot.com/hepBfacts.htm

Hepatitis B Disease & Vaccine Facts

http://www.909shot.com/hepbnlr.htm

Hepatitis B Vaccine: The Untold Story

And some of the hearings held during the last 18 months

by Congress...

Conflict of Interest Hearings:

http://www.house.gov/reform/hearings/healthcare/00.06.15

Chairman Dan Burton

Committee on Government Reform

“FACA: Conflicts of Interest and Vaccine Development:

Preserving the Integrity of the Process” Thursday, June

15, 2000

Hepatitis B Vaccine Hearings:

Hearings were held before a Congressional committee in

May of 1999 and research is still continuing...

http://www.house.gov/reform/cj/hearings/99.5.18/index.ht

m

Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human

Resources Committee on Government Reform

" Hepatitis B Vaccine: Helping or Hurting Public Health "

The Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and

Human Resources May 18, 1999

Mercury Hearings:

Mercury in Medicine – Are We Taking Unnecessary Risks?

http://www.house.gov/reform/hearings/healthcare/00.07.18

/index.htm

Autism & MMR Vaccine Hearings:

http://www.house.gov/reform/hearings/healthcare/00.06.04

NVIC Press Release on Hepatitis B Vaccine

Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:50:17 -0800

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Subject: NVIC PRESS RELEASE ON HEPATITIS B

For immediate release

January 27,1999

HEPATITIS B VACCINE REACTION REPORTS OUTNUMBER REPORTED

DISEASE CASES IN

CHILDREN ACCORDING TO VACCINE SAFETY GROUP

National Poll Reveals Majority of Americans Want

Informed Consent Rights

Washington, D.C. – The National Vaccine Information

Center (NVIC)released figures this week which show that

the number of hepatitis B vaccine-associated

serious adverse event and death reports in American

children under the age of 14 outnumber the

reported cases of hepatitis B disease in that age group.

NVIC is calling the government-mandated hepatitis B

vaccination of all children a " dangerous

and scientifically unsubstantiated policy. " At the same

time, a national poll reveals that two thirds of all

Americans want the right to make informed, voluntary

decisions about vaccination.

Independent analysis of raw computer data generated by

the government-operated Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting

System (VAERS) confirms that in 1996,

there were 872 serious adverse events reported to VAERS

in children under 14 years of age who had been injected

with hepatitis B vaccine. The children were either

taken to a hospital emergency room, had life threatening

health problems, were hospitalized or were left

disabled following vaccination. 214 of the children had

received hepatitis B vaccine alone and the rest had

received hepatitis B vaccine in combination with

other vaccines. 48 children were reported to have died

after they were injected with hepatitis B vaccine

in 1996 and 13 of them had received hepatitis B vaccine

only before their deaths. By contrast, in 1996 only 279

cases of hepatitis B disease were reported in

children under age 14. (Click here to see graph)

1997 hepatitis B disease statistics from eight states

reinforce the lack of hepatitis B

disease in young children, particularly in children

under 5 years old. For children under 5 years old, New

Hampshire reported 1 case of hepatitis B; Washington

state reported 2 cases; Michigan reported 9

cases; and Texas reported 13 cases. Pennsylvania,

Massachusetts, New Jersey and Illinois reported no

hepatitis B cases in children under 5

years old.(Click here to see graph) By contrast, in 1997

there were a total of 106 VAERS reports of hepatitis B

vaccine-related serious adverse events and

10 deaths in children under age 5 living in the eight

states with 13 of the reported serious adverse

events and 2 deaths occurring in children receiving only

hepatitis B vaccine. (Click here to see graph)

There were 24,775 hepatitis B vaccine-related adverse

events reported to VAERS in all age groups, including

9,673 serious adverse events and 439 deaths

between July 1, 1990 and October 31, 1998. Out of this

total, 17,497 reports were in individuals who

received only hepatitis B vaccine without any other

vaccines. 5,983 of the reports were

for serious events and there were 146 deaths, which

means that 35 percent of reports in

all age groups after receipt of hepatitis B vaccine only

are for serious events. (Click here to see graph)

During the same time period, there was a total of 2,424

adverse event reports, with 1,209 serious events and 73

deaths in children under age 14 who got

hepatitis B vaccine alone without any other vaccines.

This means that 52 percent or 1 out of 2

reports for children under age 14, who only receive

hepatitis B vaccine, are for serious

events.

VAERS depends primarily upon physicians reporting and

causation cannot be conclusively determined without

in-depth follow-up of each serious event

and death report. NVIC maintains that reports made by

doctors to VAERS represent only a small

fraction of the vaccine-related injuries and deaths

which occur in the U.S. every year. A former FDA

Commissioner wrote in JAMA in 1993 that one study showed

" only about 1 percent of serious events " attributable to

drug reactions are reported to the FDA.

A 1994 NVIC survey of 159 doctors’ offices in 7 states

revealed that only 28 out of 159 doctors (18%) said they

make a report to the government when a child

suffers a serious health problem following vaccination.

In New York, only one doctor out of 40 surveyed

reported vaccine adverse events to the government.

In a related development, NVIC also released the results

of a national poll of 1,000

registered voters, taken by The Polling Company on

December 8-11, 1998, which showed that 2 out of 3 (68%)

Americans support a parent’s right to be

informed of the risks of diseases and risks of vaccines

and be able to choose whether or not their

children receive certain vaccines which could

potentially hurt them. A plurality (45%) of Americans

oppose state laws requiring all five-year

olds to get the hepatitis B vaccine before being allowed

to attend kindergarten and, when given information about

risks of hepatitis B vaccination, 59 percent of

respondents were less likely to support such

mandatory vaccination laws.

Only 25 percent of Americans believe that people, after

getting information about risks and benefits of medical

procedures such as the administration of

prescription drugs and vaccines, should then be required

to follow the orders of their doctors

or public health officials. The poll’s margin of error

is +/-3.1% at the 95% confidence

level (i.e. the same survey could be administered to a

similar population and yield comparable results in

roughly 19 of 20 cases).

Hepatitis B is primarily an adult disease most often

transmitted through infected blood. Highest risk

populations are IV drug users and people with multiple

sex partners. In 1991 the CDC recommended that all

infants be injected with the first dose of hepatitis B

vaccine at birth before being discharged from the

hospital newborn nursery, even though

the only newborns at risk for contracting hepatitis B

are those born to hepatitis B infected mothers. By 1998,

only 15 states required mandatory screening of pregnant

women for hepatitis B infection so babies born to

infected mothers could be effectively targeted for

hepatitis B vaccination, and yet 35 states required all

children to get 3 doses of hepatitis B vaccine or be

denied entry to daycare, kindergarten, high

school or college.

The U.S. has historically had one of the lowest rates of

hepatitis B disease in the world even before a hepatitis

B vaccine was in use. In 1990, a year before the CDC

issued the order for all children to get the

vaccine, there were 21,102 cases of hepatitis B reported

in the U.S. out of a total US population of 248 million.

In 1996, there were 10,637 hepatitis B cases reported.

According to the October 31, 1997 Morbidity

and Mortality Weekly Report published by the Centers for

Disease Control, " Hepatitis B continues to decline in

most states, primarily because of a decrease in the

number of cases among injecting drug users

and, to a lesser extent, among both homosexuals and

heterosexuals of both sexes. "

In October 1998, France became the first country to end

hepatitis B vaccination requirements for schoolchildren

after reports of chronic arthritis,

symptoms resembling multiple sclerosis and other serious

health problems following hepatitis B vaccination

became so numerous that the Health Minister of France

suspended the school requirement.

" As more states mandate hepatitis B vaccination, NVIC is

getting more reports of children dying or suffering

rashes, fevers, seizures, arthritis,

diabetes, chronic fatigue and other autoimmune and brain

dysfunction following their hepatitis B shots, " said

NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher.

" Newborn babies are dying shortly after their shots

and their deaths are being written off as sudden infant

death syndrome. Parents should have the right to give

their informed consent to vaccination and Congress

should give emergency, priority funding to

independent scientists, who can take an unbiased look at

this vaccine, instead of leaving the search for the

truth in the hands of government officials who have

already decided to force every child to get the

vaccine, " she said.

Drug companies marketing the genetically engineered

recombinant DNA hepatitis B vaccine in the U.S. used

studies to demonstrate safety which only

monitored children for 4 or 5 days after vaccination.

Professor Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D., a Texas

cell biologist and pioneering vaccine researcher, said

" It takes weeks and sometimes months for

autoimmune disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis, to

develop following vaccination. No basic science research

or controlled, long term studies into the side effects

of this vaccine have been conducted in American babies,

children or adults. " Dr. Dunbar has

joined consumers in calling for informed consent to

hepatitis B vaccination as well as NIH funding for

independent research to determine the biological

mechanism for hepatitis B vaccine reactions, to identify

high risk factors and to develop therapies to

repair vaccine damage.

Founded in 1982, the National Vaccine Information Center

is the oldest and largest vaccine safety and informed

consent rights advocacy organization

representing health care consumers and the vaccine

injured. NVIC was instrumental in the

creation of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of

1986, which has paid out nearly

$1 billion dollars for vaccine injuries and deaths. For

more information or to report a vaccine

reaction, call 1-800-909-SHOT or access

http://www.909shot.com.

Also other information at

http://www.909shot.com

http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm

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Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & UK

530-740-0561 Voicemail in US

http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm

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