SIDS AND VACCINES: CAUSAL EFFECT

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The Causal Connection proven:

COT DEATHS LINKED TO VACCINATIONS

by Dr Viera Scheibner, Ph.D. & Leif Karlsson.

Although vaccination is undoubtedly the single biggest and most

preventable cause of cot-death, it is not the only one. If we write too

much about vaccination, we would inevitably create an impression that we

think vaccines are the only cause of cot death. The key words in cot

death are Non-Specific Stress Syndrome. This is the underlying

mechanism of all cot deaths and it explains all pathological and

clinical observations.

Cot Death is the single biggest cause of death in infants from about

four weeks to six months of age, with another peak at about 9 months in

industrially developed countries. It gets a lot of media exposure and

people are successfully asked to dip into their pockets and contribute

to cot death research. This has been going on for some twenty years now

and yet cot death remains a " mystery which may never be resolved " .

Perhaps the time has come for the doctors and the public to start asking

some relevant questions, such as why, with so much money poured into

research, cot death is still officially presented as that famous

'mystery' and more and more money is 'needed' to resolve it in 'years to

come'.

COTWATCH: THE FIRST TRUE INFANT BREATHING MONITOR

Some 4.5 years ago, my husband Leif Karlsson, a biomedical engineer

specialising in patient monitoring Systems, and myself, a retired

Principal Research Scientist, were looking for a paediatrician willing

to undertake proper research with our Cotwatch Breathing Monitor. The

emphasis with this equipment is on 'breathing' because most, if not all

of the machines used to monitor babies' breathing in their homes are not

breathing monitors - they are " motion monitors " where any movement is

taken as breathing. After one particular meeting, where our

demonstration of marked differences between the level of alarms in near

miss and new born babies fell on the deaf ears of cot death

'researchers', we looked at each other and said with one breath: " Let's

do a damn good job of this research ourselves " .

Leif spent one and a half years developing a microprocessor-based

Cotwatch. With this equipment you don't have to rely on records of

alarms; you get computer printouts of the longitudinal record of a

baby's breathing. You can't have more objective information than that.

STRESS INDUCED BREATHING PATTERNS DISCOVERED BY COTWATCH

Our records confirmed the existence of a Stress-Induced Breathing

Pattern, which is a low-volume breathing (5-10% of the volume of normal

unstressed breathing), occurring in clusters (3-6 shorter episodes

within 10-15 minutes) when a child is incubating illness or teething or

following " insults " , such as exposure to cigarette smoke, fatigue, over

handling by visitors, or vaccination needles. Numerous causes, but the

same reaction. Many years ago, a Canadian medical doctor, Dr Hans

Selye, became particularly interested in the well-known fact that for a

number of days before patients develop symptoms of specific illness,

which can be diagnosed, they always show signs of a non-specific nature

which are common to many or possibly all diseases. When he in-injected

extracts of tissues, or a great variety of noxious substances into rats,

he observed the following signs of organ damage: spot-like bleeding into

lungs and thymus, shrunken thymus and all lymphatic structures, enlarged

adrenal cortex, ulceration of the gastro-intestinal tract, derangements

in body creased or control, viscosity of the blood, disappearance of

eosinophils (white blood cells) from blood, etc.

He concluded that he was looking at a universal reaction of organisms to

any noxious substance. He also connected the results of his experiments

with his earlier observations of patients with non-specific symptoms of

the initial stages of any illness. Seyle also concluded that the

Non-Specific Stress (or General Adaptation) Syndrome has three stages:

the alarm stage when the body is under acute attack and mobilises all

its defences; the stage of adaptation or resistance, when it seems to

relax and seemingly accepts the intruding noxious substance; and the

stage of exhaustion, when the body again tries to rid itself of the

intruder. Death may occur in any of the three stages.

FOREWARNING OF COT DEATH OVERLOOKED

What does all this have to do with cot death and breathing? Similarly

to what Dr Selye found with noxious substances, there are many

interesting and consistent tell-tale signs that forewarn of impending

cot death. The definition of Cot Death is: " The sudden death of any

infant or a young child, which is unexpected by history, and in which a

thorough port-mortem examination fails to demonstrate an adequate cause

of death " . (Byard, 1991) Cot death is a very well-defined pathological

entity and all babies who

succumb to it have the same postmortem findings. These are: petechiated

lungs, thymus and sometimes also pericardium (spot like haemorrhaging on

surface); shrunken thymus and lymphatic structures; signs of increased

adreno-cortical activity; signs of ulceration of the gastro-intestinal

tract (reflux); many babies have low viscosity blood; up to 90% of

babies who succumb to cot death have a number of non-specific symptoms

for up to three weeks before death, such as runny nose, coated tongue,

sticky eyes, otitis media, enlarged tonsils, spleen and liver, rash, a

variety of upper respiratory tract infections, and loss of body weight

to rnention just a few.

These are all symptoms of the Non-Specific Stress Syndrome as defined by

Dr Selye.. Those people involved in Cot Death management all over the

world know about these symptoms, but they usually play them down as

unimportant and insufficient to cause death in an infant. None of them

has connected these well-known symptoms associated with cot death, with

the Non-Specific Stress syndrome. Perhaps for their sake this is just

as well, because they would have been unable to prove the validity of

this connection in the absence of adequate means to demonstrate it in

the infant's breathing pattern.

So where does vaccination come into the problem of Cot Death?

VACCINATION - A MAJOR STRESS

Initially we did not know about the controversy surrounding

vaccination. We merely observed that vaccination was the single

greatest cause of stress in small babies, as indicated by the standard

Cotwatch equipment, and also the single greatest factor preceding cot

death in a large number of cases. We concluded that the timing of 80% of

the cot deaths occurring between the second and sixth months is due to

the cumulative

effect of infections, timing of immunisations and some inherent

specifics in the baby's early development. We started yet another

search for more information. Soon we discovered a wealth of it in

medical journals like The Lancet concerning not only the

ineffectiveness of vaccines in preventing children from contracting

infectious diseases, but also on adverse effects of various vaccines,

including death. Regarding the former aspect, we found numerous reports

that vaccinated and non-vaccinated children contract the relevant

infectious disease at approximately the same rate, or that vaccinated

children are even more susceptible to the infectious diseases.

Inevitably, we began recording breathing patterns of babies after

vaccination. The results of these recordings were presented to the 2nd

Immunisation Conference, held in Canberra, 27~29th May 1991. We

demonstrated that microprocessor records of babies' breathing after DPT

(Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus) injections reveal a pattern of

flare-ups of Stress-Induced Breathing closely following the dynamics of

adreno-cortical activity in an individual under stress and as observed

by Dr Selye.

We also demonstrated that flare-ups of Stress-Induced Breathing in

babies after administration of the DPT vaccine occur characteristically

on certain days even though the amplitude of the flare-ups varies from

child to child. For seventy babies who succumbed to cot death,

although babies could die on any day after DPT injection, there were

significantly more deaths on the days which closely correlated with

flare-ups of Stress-Induced Breathing after DPT injections. The data

on the time interval between the DPT injection and cot death in most of

the seventy babies was taken from the published reports which concluded

that there was no connection between DPT and cot death. The authors of

these papers had little idea what they were looking at or what to look

for. Most researchers arbitrarily accept that only deaths within 24

hours of administration of the vaccine can be attributed to the effect

of the vaccine. Yet, babies may and do die for up to 25 or more days

after vaccination, and still as a direct consequence of the toxic

effects of the vaccines. How do we know this? Because of the observed

repetition of the pattern of flare-ups of Stress-Induced Breathing in a

number of babies over a long period of time.

HARMFUL VACCINE INGREDIENTS

What are the vaccines composed of? Vaccines contain live or

'attenuated' (weakened) viruses and bacteria or parts of them

(representing foreign genetic material), animal tissue, formaldehyde

and/or aluminium phosphate or hydroxide. The toxicity of vaccines varies

widely and unpredictably, a DPT vaccine containing from 1 to 26.9

micrograms of endotoxin per millilitre. Geraghty and others in

California tried unsuccessfully to make sure that the toxicity and

composition of the vaccines is properly disclosed on the ampules.

Injecting any of these substances into the blood stream of another

animal species, including humans, is absolutely biologically

unacceptable. H.L. Coulter in his book, Vaccination, Social Violence and

Criminality: the Medical Assault on the American Brain, mentions that

repeated injections of sterile extracts of rabbit brain tissue into

monkeys cause an 'experimental allergic encephalomyclitis' in the

monkeys. Regardless of the validity or otherwise of animal experiments

for humans, Coulter points out that it is an observed fact that vaccine

injections often cause the same syndrome in human babies. It has been

confirmed that a great number of babies, if not all, suffer a clinical

or subclinical encephalitis shortly after being injected with a variety

of vaccines. Coulter talks about a postencephalitic syndrome.

The great increase in a large array of brain-related conditions in the

United States closely followed chronologically mandatory administration

of vaccines en masse in that country. These conditions include autism,

learning difficulties, cerebral palsy, dyslexia, hyperactivity, deafness

and blindness, left-handedness (according to latest statistics,

left-handed people live 9 years less than right-handed people) and

permanent brain damage with serious and often life-long consequences.

Vaccines by virtue of their composition act as noxious substances and

elicit a response equivalent to the Non-Specific Stress Syndrome.

Recently, we recorded the breathing of an infant injected with only DT

(the P component was omitted because the baby had experienced a violent

reaction to the two previous DPT injection). The reaction, as reflected

in its breathing, closely resembled the record of its breathing after

DPT vaccination. This is not meant to justify the inclusion of the

Pertussis (Whooping Cough) component, but to demonstrate that all

vaccines are potentially harmful.

MANY DOCTORS DO NOT VACCINATE THEIR OWN.CHILDREN!

It should worry all of us that a large number of medical doctors are

forcefully (by psychological pressure and publicity campaigns) without

producing any evidence whatsoever of the benefits of vaccination and

against all the evidence of the ineffectiveness and dangers of vaccines,

injecting vaccines into our children. There are even noises indicating

that soon the same forceful and unreasonable attitudes will be adopted

towards adults. This is especially bad since it is a public secret

that many medical doctors do not vaccinate their own children. This

extraordinary fact is reported in DPT-A Shot in The Dark, by H.C.

Coulter & B.L. Fisher. These authors also report that most

gynaecologists in the USA refused to be injected with Rubella vaccine.

Were they afraid of the side-effects, whilst routinely recommending the

procedure for women of childbearing age? Our conclusion is that if

vaccination were to be suspended, the cot death rate would be halved!

What are the remainder of cot deaths attributed to?

SUCCESSION OF HARMFUL MEDICAL PROCEDURES

The Non-Specific Stress Syndrome is the key to cot deaths. It is the

consistent, general reaction of mammals, including humans, to any damage

or injury or to substances perceived as noxious by the recipient's body.

There are a great many injuries or substances perceived as noxious which

affect babies and produce the same response.

The indiscriminate and routine administration of pain killers during

birth, and the substances used for inductions expose our babies to

potent allopathic chemicals shortly before they are born. To say that

these substances do not affect the babies is not only highly

unscientific, it is against commonsense. Before babies have a chance to

fully recover from these potent chemicals, they may be given nasal drops

and cough mixtures and, and worse still, antibiotics for those first

common colds.

Most of these substances are immuno-suppressive and are not helping the

child's immune system to be primed and challenged in a natural and

beneficial way by the common cold.

Again, before a baby has a chance to fully recover from the effects of

these potent chemicals, there is the first DPT injection. So the

immature immune system of a baby is further suppressed, allowing

micro-organisms to become especially virulent and life-threatening. This

leads to further drug administration, a vicious circle, unfortunately

too often resulting in cot death. The official figure of 2 cot deaths

per 1,000 babies is twenty years old, and obsolete. The rate is more

like 7-10 per 1,000, otherwise we would not even hear about cot death.

Our records demonstrate that there is a direct causal relationship

between injections of DPT and cot deaths. The time has come to call for

suspension of all vaccination programmes. This article appeared in

Nexus, Oct-Nov 1991. Reproduced with permission of Dr Scheibner.

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