SIDS: LETTER TO EDITOR OF CHILD MAG

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L Krasner wrote:

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> TO

> Letter to the Editor

> CHILD Magazine

> childmag@...

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> FROM

> Krasner, Director

> Coalition For Informed Choice

> PO Box 230426

> Hollis, NY 11423

> 718-479-239

> e-mail: gk-cfic@...

>

> Date - 2/6/98

>

> Dear sir / Madam,

>

> As a former desktop operator at Applied Graphics Technologies where I

> assembled the pages of your magazine, I have been familiar with your

> publication for many years. While I found that your magazine usually

> provided responsible advice on matters of health in the past, It has come

> to my attention that an article in your March 1998 issue was

> irresponsible, in my opinion.

>

> In the section on SIDS, you had a pull-out tip sheet with " 10 ways to

> reduce the risk of SIDS " . Item #9 read, “Make sure your child gets all of

> his shots. If your baby receives all scheduled vaccines, he is less at

> risk for SIDS. "

>

> The efficacy of vaccinations aside, if there has been any one side effect

> of vaccinations--particularly the DPT shot--that has received attention,

> it has been Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). It probably started to

> receive widespread attention after the formation of the parent group DPT

> (Dissatisfied Parents Together) and the publication in 1985 of the book,

> “DPT--A Shot In The Dark”, by its founder, Barbara Loe Fisher.

>

> Pharamaceutical inserts that came with the vaccines in the mid 80's even

> mentioned things like SIDS with the DPT shot. They had been gradually

> dropped because of heavy politicizing on this issue, because advocates

> for vaccinations feared the link between SIDS--which causes 5000 to 7000

> deaths a year in America--to a vaccine. But that link had been

> demonstrated in other places like Japan, which dropped DPT off the

> schedule until age 2. SIDS dropped dramatically right after DPT was taken

> off the early childhood schedule.

>

> The reason for changing the schedule for administrating the Pertussis

> vaccine (the “P” in DPT) was not only because it was suspected of causing

> SIDS, but also implicated in causing infantile encephalitis and bacterial

> infections, such as meningitis. Many years ago Sweden banned the

> Pertussis vaccine because of these dangers. For similar reasons (as

> stated above) Japan delayed the vaccine until after two years of age. In

> North America, it is usually administered at two months of age. Both

> Sweden and Japan are now credited with having the lowest infant mortality

> rates in the world. This fact alone would tend to discredit claims that

> the Pertussis vaccine his necessary to prevent an escalation of infant

> mortality in North America.

>

> If some feel that a causal link between vaccination and SIDS is

> inconclusive, there’s still convincing empirical evidence to warrant

> parents to be cautious:

>

> Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) occurs between 1 and 4 months, with

> the peek incidence at 2 to 3 months. This coincides with the schedule for

> babies to receive their first vaccines, particularly DPT.

>

> In addition to highly antigenic (toxic) proteins and foreign viral

> particles, vaccines contain extremely poisonous additives and extracting

> agents, such as thimerosal (a mercury derivative), benzethonium chloride,

> methyl paraben, phenol red, pyridene, ethyl glycol, ethylene

> chlorophyrin, aluminum hydroxide, aluminum sulfate, carbonic acid, and

> formaldehyde (in the form of formalin) -- all injected directly into the

> bloodstream bypassing our immune system, especially the liver, whose

> purpose it is to filter such poisons.

>

> Also, they’re injected into two to six month old infants whose immune

> systems are not fully developed. Each vaccine has its preservative,

> neutralizer and carrying agent none of which are indigenous to the body.

> According to the Physicians Desk Reference, the triple antigen, DPT,

> contains the following poisons: formaldehyde, mercury, and aluminum

> phosphate. The packet insert accompanying the vaccine lists the following

> poisons: aluminum potassium sulfate, a mercury derivative called

> Thimersol; and sodium phosphate.

>

> The medical literature and toxicology textbooks rank these chemicals as

> highly toxic poisons and potent carcinogens. Many studies, like the

> scathing 1994 Institute of Medicine report, are highly critical of the

> methods by which vaccines are “tested” for safety. According to Money,

> “Out of 59 health problems suspected of being associated with a variety

> of vaccines, the [iOM] committee found that no scientific studies had

> been conducted on 40 of them”

>

> Asking the medical community about the benefits of vaccines is a

> completely moot point, because doctors are not in the business of

> blasting the products that provides them with a regular income. They will

> accept the recommendations that the pharmaceutical companies or the

> federal government have given them.

>

> A special investigation in the December 1996 issue of Money magazine --

> The Lethal Dangers of the Billion-Dollar Vaccine Business -- found that

> doctors and federal health officials tend to downplay vaccine reactions

> hoping the public will remain confident about vaccination and to keep

> vaccination compliance rates high. According to Money: “From 1991 through

> 8/96, 48,743 adverse reactions were reported. Unfortunately, those

> figures represent only a small portion of the dangers. For example, a

> 1995 CDC study found that reporting rates were less than 1% for serious

> reactions such as loss of consciousness after a DPT Shot. A 1994 survey

> of doctors’ offices in seven states conducted by the NVIC, found that

> only 28 of 159 offices said they file a report after a patient has an

> adverse reaction to a vaccine.”

>

> However, clinicians are not unaware of vaccine risks when it pertains to

> their own health: Studies indicate that families of physicians and

> medical professionals generally have lower vaccination compliance rates

> than the rest of the population (JAMA, 2/20/81. Assoc. Press, 4/9/93).

>

> The Money magazine report said, “federal regulatory agencies reveals

> severe violations of public trust” and that, “health officials publicly

> downplay the lethal risks” of vaccination. They also discovered that

> “medical experts with financial ties to vaccine manufacturers heavily

> influence government decisions that have endangered the health of

> immunized kids while enhancing the bottom line of drug companies”. For

> example, the minutes of one “CDC advisory committee meeting in 1995, at

> which members voted to delay recommending use of a safer polio vaccine,

> show that five of the nine members who participated in the discussion had

> financial ties to the manufacturers” of the vaccine.

>

> Controversy surrounding the possibility of serious side effects from the

> pertussis vaccine has led to changes in immunization programs in some

> countries to halt routine vaccination against pertussis. Public health

> officials “retaliated” by notifying clinicians to watch for outbreaks of

> whooping cough, and by adjusting the case definitions that led to the

> over-diagnosis of Pertussis. It wasn’t the first time that public

> rejection of a particular vaccine led to stricter medical surveillance of

> the corresponding disease it purportedly prevented. Nevertheless, such

> tactics made it appear statistically that hundreds of thousands of

> children have suffered the effects of these policy changes by contracting

> pertussis. On that basis, many of the countries in which pertussis

> vaccination programs were halted as a result of anti-vaccination

> campaigns have since reinstated their vaccination programs.

>

> It can’t be stated emphatically enough that it is a conflict of interest

> to allow allopathic physicians and public health personnel -- both

> educated to be strongly biased in favor of vaccination -- to promote and

> administer vaccinations and then expect them to honestly evaluate the

> results and report to the public on it’s safety and effectiveness.

>

> Coalition For Informed Choice seeks to inform the public that there is

> safer course. Succeeding generations of Hygienic practitioners have added

> to our understanding of the natural healing process, which is comparably

> superior to vaccines and drugs.

>

> The prevention of inflammatory diseases, and the ensuing complications

> from drugging or even feeding during the illness, would be better

> achieved through non-toxic, holistic approaches. Childhood “infectious”

> diseases are not “killer” diseases, despite what some doctors may tell

> you. Mortalities from “infectious” diseases are rare, but when they do

> occur, they are the result of pre-existing malnutrition, or treatment

> with antibiotics and other drugs. Even feeding a child during these

> severe eliminative crises may be fatal. Children treated in accord with

> the principles of Natural Hygiene, without drugs, do not die from

> “infectious” diseases.

>

> Children benefit the most when parents receive a balanced view of

> controversial issues. After the advice that you gave parents in your

> March issue, it would fair and responsible to provide the opposing point

> of view.

>

> Sincerely,

> Krasner, CFIC

>

> cc: NBC-News " Dateline "

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