THE INFANT SURVIVAL GUIDE: Protecting Your Baby from the Dangers of Crib Death, Vaccines and Other Environmental Hazards

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Vaccinations and Toxic Gases

Below is a note from ph Hattersley,

Co-author of THE INFANT

SURVIVAL GUIDE: Protecting Your Baby from

the Dangers of

Crib Death, Vaccines and Other Environmental

Hazards, in

response to the recent debate that has been

going on about

the cause of SIDS.

Preface

Thank you, Dr. Mercola, for engaging others

in a debate with

Dr.Sprott and me on SIDS and toxic gases.

As repartee I offer Chapter 6 on

Vaccinations and Crib Death

from The Infant Survival Guide by Dr. Lendon

H. , MD,

with ph

Hattersley, MA. There we show that

vaccinations do obviously

cause some crib deaths, and we cite some of

the same

sources as Dawn Winkler.

Might those babies have been saved by

protection from toxic

gases? No way to know. In the chapter we

present Viera

Scheibner's diagrams--unfortunately they do

not show up on

electronic mail--and they do confirm that

crib deaths occurred

on days of breathing crisis as detected by

her accurate

device.

Two sources that we cite in the chapter show

that after

certain vaccinations there are repeated

febrile (with fever)

episodes, and crib death occurred on such

days. Isn't it

plausible to suppose that a day of breathing

crisis would also

be a day of fever? Isn't that possibility

worth exploring?

Would it be too hard for Viera to add a

thermometer to her

breathing monitor? Technically, I recognize

that it would be;

but clever technicians might figure out how

to do it.

The test of this occurs in New Zealand.

Most, but not all of

the 2½ million Pakeha (people of Caucasian

origin) in New

Zealand protect their babies from toxic

gases. They use

either BabeSafe® or proper mattress

wrapping. They get

about the same amount of vaccination as

typical American

babies.

And can there be any doubt that vaccinations

that cause

breathing crises (with fevers) in Viera's

test subjects in

Australia--must also cause the same

breathing crises, with

fevers, in New Zealand? Yet among those

babies protected

against toxic gases in either manner, there

has been not one

reported crib death. And the opposition to

the toxic gas

theory is so strong, if there ever were one

exception, the

media would trumpet it for all to read.

Replying to AAPS, it is not true that only a

small number of

states allow parents to claim exemption from

vaccinations.

They need only visit ph Mercola's web site

www.mercola.com, cited in our Chapter 6, to

learn that all but

two states do allow exemptions. Dr. Mercola

kindly provides

application procedures for each state,

including ways to avoid

the dreaded hepatitis B vaccine in the

delivery room, ahead

of time.

Cordially, ph Hattersley

The Infant Survival Guide

Chapter Six

Vaccinations and Toxic Gases

Some tell us with seeming authority that

" immunizations " are

a good thing. For example, in Parade

Magazine for January 9,

2000, Isadore Rosenfeld, MD, writes " Don't

Worry About

Vaccinations " Yet to discerning eyes, the

picture all around us

is worse than disquieting. Why do

vaccinations cause such

calamitous results?

Some of the ingredients of our current

vaccines [there's space

in this compact book to detail only two] are:

(1) Formaldehyde, used in production of

resins,

plastics, and foam insulation, and as a

preservative, disinfectant, and

antibacterial food

additive. It is a known carcinogen (can

initiate a

new cancer), commonly used to embalm

corpses.

(2) Thimerosal, a mercury derivative.

The heavy

metal mercury is toxic to the central

nervous

system and not easily eliminated from

the body.

" Aluminum, formaldehyde and

mercury " --including

the mercury in " silver " dental fillings

and amalgams

(see Chapter 9)- " have a long history of

documented

hazardous effects including cancer,

neurological

damage " such as multiple sclerosis, Lou

Gehrig's

disease, " and death. "

Studies report, " Thimerosal inhibits

phagocytes, one of the

body's most vital immune defenses in blood. "

Then what

effect will it have on healthy human cells

after it is injected

into the bloodstream? , a concerned

nonprofessional observer asks, " Who would

take chemicals

that are carcinogenic in rats, are used in

the manufacture of

inks, dyes, explosives, wrinkle-proof

fabrics, home insulation,

and embalming fluid--and inject them into

the delicate body

of a baby? "

Among other vaccine ingredients are aluminum

phosphate, aluminum adjuvants, alum, and

acetone; phenol is included in allergy

injections. " Benzoic

acid, a preservative whose injection into

rats causes tremors,

convulsions, and death, is added. And then

vaccine makers

add decomposing animal proteins, such as pig

or horse blood,

cow pox pus, rabbit brain tissue, duck egg

protein, and dog

kidney tissue. "

A glance at further steps in vaccine making

is no less

disturbing. To produce a " live " -virus

vaccine, such as MMR

(measles/mumps/rubella), the virus is passed

through animal

tissue several times to reduce its potency.

Measles virus

is passed through chick embryos, polio virus

through monkey kidney, and the rubella virus is

passed through the dissected organs of an

aborted human fetus.

'Killed' vaccines are 'inactivated' through

heat, radiation, or

chemicals. " " The weakened germ is then

strengthened with

antibody boosters and stabilizers. This is

done by addition of

drugs, antibiotics and toxic disinfectants:

neomycin,

streptomycin, sodium chloride, sodium

hydroxide, aluminum

hydroxide, aluminum hydrochloride, sorbitol,

hydrolyzed

gelatin, formaldehyde [again], and

Thimerosal [again]. "

Injected straight into the child's

bloodstream--bypassing the

cellular immune system, one-half of our

protective immunity

mechanism, those materials destroy stores of

protective

nutrients in the tiny body. So it is not

hard to see why

epidemic vaccines worsen health throughout

life.

Baby and mother are home from the hospital

now. Mom

already knows, from Chapter 2, how to

protect her precious

little one from crib death by toxic gases.

But that is by no

means the end of the story.

Soon baby's pediatrician will probably

suggest vaccinations,

and a lot of them. In fact, inoculations

began right after birth

in the hospital (Hepatitis unless the

parents obtained a

waiver ahead of time. This they can do

before another birth

by following instructions from Dr. ph

Mercola's Internet

web site. See Resources at the end of this

book.

But what of the scores of other vaccines the

pediatrician is

likely to press on the parents? For babies

who are protected

from toxic gases using the techniques

explored in Chapter 2,

vaccinations are only an indirect factor for

delayed SIDS

death. Here we will explore how this new

factor fits into the

SIDS equation.

For babies who are exposed to those toxic

gases, vaccines

are a terribly serious risk. The fevers they

create, promoting

higher toxic gas generation, may recur

immediately or at

known, predictable intervals afterward, or

both. Either way,

risk rises sharply on those days if the

mattress is generating

the gases. (Diagrams from Viera S.

Scheibner, PhD, with her

permission. Scheibner VS. Vaccination: 100

Years of Orthodox

Research Shows that Vaccines Represent a

Medical Assault

on the Immune System. Blackheath, NSW 2785:

Australian

Print Group, 1993.) No one before Viera

Scheibner had ever

examined all the published evidence on

vaccinations. Most

important, no one had studied even a

considerable part of

the record without prejudgment in its favor.

Researchers and physicians, worldwide, who

are unaware of

toxic gases or are not convinced by the

evidence they have

seen, have made a strong case indicting

vaccines as the

primary cause of SIDS. The rate at which

American

babies die in their first year of life has

consistently risen since the 1950s when mass

" immunization " campaigns began. Our infant

mortality ranks twenty-second in the world:

twenty-one

countries, most of whom vaccinate a lot

less, keep their

babies alive through the first year better

than America.

Today, infant mortality rates in some U.S.

cities match those

in developing countries. Also, the general

health of

children has worsened.

Sidebar: In Chapter 2 we showed that

America's crib death

rate surged more than four hundred-fold

after 1950 when

manufacturers began to put fire-retardant

chemicals

into babies' mattresses. There are now

around three

thousand such deaths per year. But the

increase in SIDS

accounts for only a small part of the entire

worsening in

infant mortality.

So are vaccinations the cause of crib death?

In 1979 a DPT vaccination campaign in

Tennessee caused

eight cases of SIDS. The evidence led the

U.S. Surgeon

General to stop the use of the particular

lot of vaccine. DPT is

diphtheria/pertussis (whooping

cough)/tetanus. Of the three,

the pertussis segment appears to be the most

dangerous.

In 1975, when Japanese health authorities

delayed DPT

vaccination from two months to two years of

age, two

important changes were observed.

First, babies' whooping cough mortality

dropped sharply.

The triple-antigen shot was supposed to

prevent the

disease, but had shifted it into their

first year, when it is

life threatening.

Second, SIDS incidence in Japan, which

had always been

low, declined by 85 to 95 percent. As

mentioned in

Chapter 2, infant bedding used in Japan

into the 1970s

did not emit toxic gases. That fact

explained Japan's

previously low crib death rate.

The typical chronology--the story of what

happened--and

pathology of SIDS babies after DPT contrasts

sharply to the

paucity of symptoms in most gas crib death.

" Pathology

findings included petechiae (spot-like

bleeding) of lung,

pleura, pericardium and thymus; vascular

congestion,

pulmonary and brain edema, and pneumonitis. "

Torch, MD, wrote of seizures after DPT,

shock, lethargy,

apathy, coma, decerebrate-decorticate

rigidity, spasticity, and

hypotonia or paralysis, among others. We

need not struggle

to define all those scary sounding terms.

" Death occurred mostly in sleep in healthy

allergy-free infants

after a brief period of irritability,

crying, lethargy, upper

respiratory tract symptoms, and sleep

disturbance. " Hundreds

of American parents confirmed that series of

events; many

also reported long periods of high-pitched

screaming after

DPT.

Of special importance are the second day

after DPT

vaccination and days 5, 6 and 8, 11, 13 to

16, and 18 to 21.

In all groups, each death appeared to have been

precipitated by unanimous, vaccination-caused

breathing crises: apnea and hypopnea. The

statistical correlation was perfect.

Hypopnea is low volume,

typically only 5 percent of unstressed

breathing; apnea is

repeated interruptions in respiration.

The children monitored after DPT were not

together. Yet,

reminiscent of marching soldiers they all

experienced

apnea/hypopnea episodes on the identically

numbered days

starting from day 0 of vaccination.

Fatalities diagnosed as

SIDS after DPT recounted by Marie ,

MD, in New

England Journal of Medicine in 1988 and by

three other

authors also fell on the same identically

numbered days as

those reported by Dr. Scheibner.

Looking back to an earlier time, during the

1970s in the

Northern Territory of Australia, growing

routine

" immunization " programs more than tripled

infant mortality

among mostly aboriginal people, to the

genocidal level of five

hundred per thousand. Of these deaths an

extremely high

proportion were declared to have been SIDS.

Although stated elsewhere in this book, the

role of vitamin

C merits repetition. Scholars attributed these

Australian crib deaths to subclinical scurvy,

deficiency of vitamin C not sufficient to be

detected by

conventional laboratory tests. It had been

suddenly brought

to life-threatening crisis by the

immune-stressing vaccines.

" In American SIDS autopsies, pathologists

typically reported

'no evidence of vitamin C deficiency.' But

under their

microscopes they saw inflammation, clusters

of macrophages

[immune system scavenger cells], excess

secretion of mucus

in larynx, and much more. Deficiency of

vitamin C explains all

these. "

F. Cathcart III, MD, probably the

world's greatest

authority in clinical use of vitamin C,

labeled subclinical

scurvy anascorbemia. So low a level, he

showed, can lead the

heart to simply quit functioning after

vaccines destroy any

trace of ascorbate in the baby's body.

Sudden death from

scurvy has been known for centuries in

adults (Chapter 3).

Present-day practitioners and up-to-date

nutritionists use the

entire vitamin C complex, including a

variety of bioflavonoids

(see Chapter 3 and Resources). Ascorbic acid

is only one

important segment of the complex.

How did giving vitamin C prevent crib death?

Dr.

Jim Sprott explains that the acidity of

babies' urine, dribble,

sweat, vomit, etc. from consumption of

ascorbic acid reverses

the alkalinity, required to enable fungi

such as S. brevicaulis

to generate those neurotoxic gases.

Each vaccination raises the baby's temperature,

multiplying gas generation in the crib if

the baby is not

protected against it, and hence worsening

risk of death by

gas poisoning. A rise in the bedding

temperature close to

baby's body from 98.6oF to 104oF can

increase gas

generation ten-fold or more. In 1972, P.J.

Landrigan, MD, and

J.J. Witte, MD, reported febrile (with

fever) convulsions on

days 3, 7 to 10, 13, 15, 18, and 25 after

measles vaccination

(which is now part of MMR, see below). Other

researchers

reported derangement of body temperature

control after a

variety of vaccines.

For babies protected by BabeSafe® or by a

properly wrapped

mattress, these fevers pass harmlessly with

normal

treatment. But for infants who are not so

protected,

vaccinations increase toxic gas exposure and

SIDS risk directly. They also elevate crib

death risk

indirectly by weakening immunity and

increasing incidence of

fever-generating asthma and other

diseases--as does

pediatricians' overuse of antibiotics

(Chapter 8).

Although Dr. Scheibner measured only

breathing, there can be

little doubt that fevers also rose on the

days of apnea and

hypopnea. If a baby's mattress was

generating toxic gases,

risk of being killed by them was high on

each of those days.

The infection-caused fever incited by a

vaccine would

generate a higher, more dangerous

concentration of toxic

gases. In sum, Dr. Scheibner estimates " this

unscientific,

useless, harmful and invasive procedure "

causes half of crib

deaths, which some have renamed " Sudden

Immunization

Death Syndrome. "

Dr. Sprott reinterprets: " Half of all cot

death babies have

been recently vaccinated--an entirely

different point, as any

epidemiologist would know. " Epidemiologists

study all the

elements contributing to the occurrence or

non-occurrence of

a disease in a population.

Contrary to repetitive claims crediting

vaccinations for

eliminating infectious diseases, such

diseases declined

almost to zero before vaccinations began.

Typically, a

disease was already near the end of its

decline and the rate

of improvement did not then accelerate.

Major infectious

diseases shrank away as nutrition, public

health measures,

and sanitation built up; and they declined

equally in areas

where mass vaccinations were never applied.

Where those

conditions did not improve, vaccination

programs did nothing

to disease incidence.

From the records of the Metropolitan Life

Insurance Company,

from 1911 to 1935 the four leading causes of

death from

infectious diseases in the U.S. were

diphtheria, scarlet fever,

whooping cough and measles. By 1945 the

combined death

rate from these causes had declined by 95

percent-before the

implementation of mass vaccination programs.

The greatest factors in the decline of

diphtheria, scarlet fever

and whooping cough were sanitation through

public health

measures including, notably, clean drinking

water, improved

nutrition, and better housing with less

crowded conditions.

Now for the long-term effects: vaccinations

weaken our

immune systems. Humans have two kinds of

immunity.

(1) The humeral immune system (or Th2

function)

produces antibodies, specialized

defense proteins,

to recognize, neutralize and actually

remember

antigens, i.e. unfriendly foreign

particles in the

body.

(2) The cell-mediated (Th1 function)

immune

system involves white blood cells and

specialized

immune cells known as macrophages ( " big

eaters " ),

which gobble up antigens clearing them

from the

body. These hungry cells function in

the thymus,

tonsils, adenoids, spleen, lymph nodes,

and the

lymph system. (The lymph system

throughout the

body disposes of the body's garbage.)

This causes

skin rashes and discharges of pus and

mucus from

throat and lungs--typical signs of the

beneficial

acute inflammatory illnesses of

childhood.

These two poles of the immune system have a

reciprocal

relationship. When the humeral pole is over

stimulated, as

from vaccines or allergies, the

cell-mediated pole tends to be

relatively inactive. Vaccines do not

stimulate this pole, and

so their contents never get discharged from

the body. The

humeral immune system needs to be tempered

by the

cell-mediated response, and this best

happens during

infectious childhood diseases.

Sidebar: Louis Pasteur was a very great

microbiologist. But

he made one grievous error, and the results

continue to

bedevil us. For one thing, vaccinations are

based on

Pasteur's fallacious germ theory. If only

health

professionals had understood the cellular

terrain theory of

Pasteur's 19th century contemporary, Antoine

Bechamp.

Mosquitoes seek stagnant water, but do not

cause

it. Likewise, disease organisms already lurk

inside the body

or enter the body after exposure, as during

a flu epidemic.

Just as wolves seek sick deer as easy prey

for dinner, disease

organisms become hostile when terrain--cellular

condition--shifts. I.e., when it weakens.

The eminent

analytical chemist E. Hume, in the

foreword to his

book Bechamp or Pasteur? A Lost Chapter in

the History of

Biology , expresses the concept. It explodes

the germ theory

and the basis of vaccination.

In recent Congressional testimony, a retired

medical doctor

who wishes to remain unidentified said,

My final comments are drawn from my 27

years of

experience as a general practitioner of

medicine.

Twenty-three of those years were in a

rural farming

community in upstate New York where as

many as

50 percent of my pediatric patients were

unvaccinated due to their parents'

conscientious

personal choice.

For 23 years, I observed my young

patients grow

from infancy to young adulthood and

appraised their

overall health and vitality. My

unvaccinated

children were healthier, hardier and more

robust than their vaccinated peers.

Allergies, asthma and pallor, and

behavioral and

attention disturbances were clearly

more common

in my young patients who had been

vaccinated.

The growing incidence and severity of asthma

seem to be

related more to the suppression or absence

of respiratory

infections because of vaccinations and

antibiotics, than to

the commonly perceived cause, air pollution.

Highly polluted

European cities where antibiotics and

vaccines are used far

less than in the US have lower asthma rates

than comparable

US cities. And in Tucson, Arizona, with dry

heat and lack of

irritants in the air, the rate of asthma is

the same as

elsewhere in the country.

More than one-third of Americans report

allergies and food

sensitivities. But children who received a

minimum of

antibiotics and a minimum of early childhood

vaccinations

have 40 percent lower than average risk of

developing

allergies/food sensitivities. Explosions in

asthma similar to

America's developed also in Europe,

Australia and Japan. The

cause: lack of acute inflammatory responses

and discharges

in childhood, i.e., lack of childhood

diseases.

Hepatitis B vaccine causes 120 times more

illnesses and

deaths than the disease. " The recommendation

to vaccinate

was not based on any perceived risk of

widespread hepatitis

among children, but because the vaccine

became available. "

Measles vaccine causes adverse neurologic

conditions, mental

retardation and much more. Vaccinations, as

well as

antibiotics, have increased SIDS-risky

otitis media (middle

ear infections), which can lead to autism.

They have

increased cancer and much more.

Now a new shock. At least for genetically

vulnerable children,

the live-cell MMR (measles/mumps/rubella)

vaccine, used

since 1977, not only might promote

encephalitis, diabetes,

and Crohn's disease. It also may cause

autism. Natural

medicine practitioner ph Mercola, DO,

tells of " at least

six children with autism who were 100

percent normal until

they got the MMR vaccine. "

Here is a typical case, from recent

testimony by a father to a

packed hearing room in Washington, DC. This

was the House

of Representatives Committee on the Dangers of

Vaccinations, chaired by Congressman Dan

Burton. The

audience's reaction afterward: dead silence.

began his life a normal,

healthy, robust

child, meeting all his age appropriate

milestones.

At seven months old--within 72 hours after

receiving his third DPT and his first Hib

(Haemophilus influenzae)

vaccinations--

developed a high fever and shrieked

with a high

wailing scream for days.

After these vaccinations, he started

losing eye

contact, smiling less, losing interest

in people,

developed constant croup and was

chronically sick.

At seven months old, 's life had

begun to

change along with the lives of all who

know and

love him. Within days after his first MMR

vaccination at 18 months old,

began his

final journey into the abyss of what my

wife and I

now know as autism--losing most of his

remaining

skills, developing severe sleep

irregularities, chronic

gastrointestinal problems, and

expressing constant

pain by harrowing days of endless

crying. He was

officially diagnosed at two and a half

years old with

autism. "

The six- to eight-fold increase in autism in

the U.S. and

Britain from 1977 to date is not a

coincidence. Before that,

its incidence had been about constant for

thirty years. The

live cell MMR vaccine appears to create the

condition by a

complex web of reactions in the body

including " leaky gut, "

which in turn makes the brain " leaky. " The

so-called blood

brain barrier--which does not even exist in

the fetus--derives

from the same embryonic origin as the gut

epithelium, the

lining. It does not protect the brain nearly

as well as was

long thought, but can be modulated in an

ongoing way to

respond to environmental stimuli.

Sidebar: Intestinal absorption of large

particles. The following

draws heavily on Ray Peat's Newsletter,

January 1998, pages

1-5, by Peat, PhD (chemistry), a

world authority.

Gerhard Volkheimer rediscovered the

principle called

persorption in the 1960s; it had first been

found a century

earlier. " Even the normal intestine is able

to permit passage

of large molecules and particles, in many

cases larger than

the cells that line the intestine.

Scientists demonstrated this,

using particles of plastic; starch

grains--which are sometimes

several times larger than blood cells--and

many other

materials. One of those is carrageenan. "

None of Dr. Pea

t's physiology professors, when he was in

college, were aware

of this phenomenon. We visit potentially

mischievous

carrageen again in Chapter 8.

A seemingly low-grade, long-term immune

reaction--a

homeostasis, i.e. a stable condition--of ill

health precedes

the devastating condition autism.

Wakefield, MD, a

conventional, mainline British

gastroenterologist, drew heavy

medical and public health reprisals by

publishing the

following research. The children brought to

him for study of

digestive system troubles had, like

in his father's

testimony before a Congressional committee,

developed

normally until they were given MMR. One

sixteen-month-old

baby developed autism from the measles

component of MMR,

which is given at 12 to 15 months of age,

possibly not early

enough to promote crib death.

Other studies question the relationship of

MMR vaccinations

to autism. See Appendix at the end of this

book.

Polio and Hib vaccines may be administered

at the same

doctor or nurse contacts where other

vaccines are given.

When viruses are mixed together--DPT is

itself a

mixture--they can cause dangerous hybrid

viruses. Some

combined vaccines, given in months two, four

and six when

SIDS risk is at a peak (that would be

perfect timing if the aim

were to achieve the worst possible SIDS

death rate), can

multiply unpredictable neurotoxic viral

infections.

Sidebar: What is the difference between a

virus and a

bacterium? " The typical virus is a

non-living microbe made of

nucleic acid DNA, or a photocopy of DNA

called RNA within a

protein envelope, and sometimes even a tiny

membrane.

These molecules are all made entirely by

human cells inside a

human body. A virus reproduces by entering a

living cell and

commandeering [taking over] the cell's

resources in order to

make new virus particles, a process that

ends with the

disintegration of the dead cell. "

A bacterium, in contrast, reproduces by

simple cell division.

Some bacteria cause diseases such as

pneumonia and

tuberculosis. Others serve necessary

functions in the body.

Our trillions of " friendly " gut bacteria

strengthen immunity,

generate needed vitamins, and serve other

important

functions; see Chapter 8.

Injected at different times into mice, two

herpes simplex

viruses were harmless. But when both were

given together,

70 percent of the mice died. Their bodies

contained eleven

new viruses, of which eight were neurotoxic.

" Some viruses

use a 'team approach.' One by itself may be

relatively benign

but combination with other viruses 'helps'

the first one cause,

e.g., cancer. " There is no way to predict

what interactions

may develop among the many patent drugs that

elderly

Americans take. " In the same way, no one can

know what

viral combinations result from the many

vaccines injected into

children and what is in the final 'soup.' "

About 98 percent of DNA sequences in mice

and in people are

identical. The little animals' immune

systems, and probably

children's as well, can also react to a

memory; " the immune

system never forgets. " Mice given a sugary

liquid mixed with

poison will later become sick and die if fed

the same liquid

without the toxin.

In a similar manner, babies' liver function

is affected for two

to four weeks after DPT vaccination. If a

new food such as

cow milk or wheat is introduced during this

period, the child's

never-forgetting immune system may later

react to that food

as though it were DPT--that is, with an

allergic or sensitivity

reaction, which can cause SIDS-risky ear

infections or worse.

See also below on risk of potentially

SIDS-promoting

diabetes.

When vaccines are such a disaster, why do we

continue to

use them, and to impose ever more of them?

Today we have a system in which vaccine

production by the pharmaceutical

companies is

largely self-regulated. Naturally these

companies

are interested in profits from their

products, which,

in itself, is not wrong. However,

arbitrary decisions

in the mandating of vaccines are made by

government bureaucracies, which are

highly partisan

to the pharmaceutical companies. With

no recourse

open to parents, we have all the potential

ingredients for a tragedy of historical

proportions.

The current list of scheduled vaccinations

is too long to

include in this compact book. Copies are

available from local

health departments. Children can get as many

as thirty-five

vaccinations before they start first grade.

Two hundred more

vaccines are in the pipeline. Scenarios for

the future even

include consuming vaccines in nose sprays,

in ointments, and

in fruits and vegetables.

Vaccinations are not based on any science at

all. We are

vaccinating children in a vacuum of

scientific knowledge; no

one has ever studied long-term effects. A

test would,

logically, compare the results over a period

of years between

a group of people who got a particular

vaccine and another

group who did not. The FDA requires safety

and efficacy tests

before approving a new drug. Why are there

no long-term

studies to assess illness and deaths related

to vaccination?

And why are there so few studies of what

happens in the

body at a cellular/molecular level afterward?

Eugene , MD, Emeritus Professor of

Medicine from

Stanford Medical School, is a leading

authority on risk/benefit

analysis in medicine. He authored the

definitive book on the

subject, Matters of Life and Death: Risks

vs. Benefits of

Medical Care. In it Dr. states,

" The scientists who

develop vaccines should be given great

credit and respect for

their pioneering work. But it must be

recognized that once a

promising vaccine is available, that should

be the beginning

and not the end of the process. "

" Accurate assessment of the risk/benefit

ratio of the vaccine

by means of a controlled clinical trial

should be obligatory, "

concurs ph Mercola, DO. " An educational

process

involving the public should be mandatory, in

which the risks

and uncertainties are described, as well as

the potential

benefits. "

What you can do to avoid a possible tragic

outcome for your

baby. Many American doctors refuse

inoculations for their own

children. In a California survey reported in

the Journal of the

American Medical Association, more than 90

percent of the

obstetrician/gynecologists refused to let

their children be

vaccinated. " If doctors themselves are

afraid of a vaccine,

why on earth should the law require that you

and other

parents allow them to administer it to your

kids? " , asked

pediatrician and author Mendelsohn, MD.

Sidebar on waivers. In all states but two

(West Virginia and

Mississippi), all parents have the right to

decide, shall ny

and be vaccinated? And if so, when?

They can arrange

for a waiver even when children are told,

" No shots, no

school. " Waiver can be based on medical or

religious grounds;

the method and wording are different in each

state, and you

must know the exact procedure for your state.

Learn the methods of getting your children

excused from

" immunizations, " including hepatitis B

" automatically "

administered in hospital maternity wards at

birth. Obtain this

information, state by state, from Dr. ph

Mercola's

Internet website at www.mercola.com.

Dr. Mercola writes, " To avoid automatic

hepatitis B

vaccination right after birth, all that is

required is to

implement the consent waivers listed on my

web site. " An

excellent alternative, of course is--guided

by a trusted,

skilled midwife--to consider giving birth

outside a hospital.

The arrangement for waivers is for the

protection of the

state. If vaccination were required and your

child died or got

terribly sick, you could sue the state for

damages. With a

waiver available, in defending against a

lawsuit they can

reply that you should not have had the child

vaccinated if you

suspected danger.

If parents do elect to accept vaccines, the

timing of

administration is critical. Typically,

children are lined up for

their " immunizations, " one after another, no

questions asked.

But to vaccinate a child who is even

slightly sick (for

example, sniffling--and so, vitamin

C-devoid), or who reacted

badly when sensitized to the same vaccine

before, courts

disaster. Too many deaths and total losses

of lifetime health

prove that statement. Afterward, America's

vaccine

compensation fund, from which only about one

claim out of

four ever collects a dime, offers cold

comfort.

Dr. Lendon offers his counsel: Wise

parents will

consider forgoing vaccinations, or at least

postponing shots until baby is a year old, when

SIDS risk drops. " The best advice I can give

to parents is

to forgo the shots, but make sure that the

children in your

care have a superior immune system. This

requires a

sugarless diet without processed foods, an

intake of vitamin

C of about 1,000 milligrams per day for each

year of life up to

5,000 mgs at age five. Plenty of fruits and

vegetables are

important, plus powdered dried fruits and

vegetables picked

when ripe and flash frozen. They have the

protective

anti-oxidants. " See Resources.

Homeopathic remedies have been very

successful in keeping

childhood diseases mild. (Again, see

Resources.)

Dr. continues, " If you, as a parent,

are unable to ward

off the pressure from your doctor, at least

give your child

some fortifying nutrients the day before,

the day of, and the

day after the shot: vitamin C, one to two

grams; vitamin B6,

100 mgs; and calcium, 1,000 mgs. You are the

guardian of

your child's health. You have some rights. "

In Chapter 7 we look into infantile heart

attacks as possible

causes of crib death.

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