Vaccines - What's Going on in Suffok County?

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From: " Suzanne " <suzanne.nelson@...>

Sheri,

The other day Gilmore posted something about what's going on in

Suffolk County, NY, regarding mercury in shots. I decided to do a little

original reporting and I called the health dept. and talked to the Dr. in

charge of the vaccine program. I posted her response on Honest Human.

Here are the two posts:

<http://www.honesthuman.com/?p=318>http://www.honesthuman.com/?p=318

What's Going on in Suffok County?

I posted the other day about how the health department in Suffolk County,

NY, is pushing for a new law that would allow them to

<http://www.honesthuman.com/?p=302>inject mercury into infants and

expectant mothers. This was the first county in the U.S. to outlaw the use

of Thimerosal in vaccines for these most vulnerable segments of the

population.

I promised to follow up with the county health department, and this is what

I've learned. Dr. Shaheda Iftikhar, who runs the county's vaccine program,

told me the reason they are asking the county legislature to allow them to

use vaccines with <http://www.honesthuman.com/?p=8>mercury is that one of

their combo vaccines is unavailable in a Thimerosal-free formula.

The combo vaccine that she referred to was the DTaP-HepB-IPV. (Diphtheria,

tetanus, acellular pertussis, Hepatitis B, and inactivated polio.) Just

mentioning giving a two-month-old even one of those vaccines, let alone a

five-in-one together, makes me shudder. All have known and many unknown

negative and life-threatening consequences in and of themselves without the

mercury-preservative thrown in.

Dr. Iftikhar said it would be impractical to use the single vaccines (which

are all available in mercury-free formulas) to create the same cocktail

because that would increase the number of shots infants were getting on

these visits from three to five. (They get two additional shots besides

this five-way on the same visit. Keep in mind that these vaccines have

never, repeat, never been tested for safety when given combined at 8, 9 or

10 antigens at a time. The meager safety tests that are done are only

conducted for a period of a couple of weeks, and since many vaccine

reactions take months to manifest, it's another case of not looking for

what you don't want to find.) The other option, of course, would be to

stretch out the shots to more than one visit, but that Iftikhar said, would

be " irresponsible " because " immunization rates " would go down. Never mind

that it may give those precious little bodies more time to recover between

assaults to their immune system.

So, once again, the holy grail of the pediatric medical profession seems to

be vaccine rates. Nothing else matters, even if we have to inject a

neurotoxin in order to do so. Let's just keep those babies " current " on

their shots.

The whole vaccine issue is rather complex and it's difficult to even skim

the surface in this post, but I'll just focus on Hepatitis B. Keep in mind

that Hep B is an adult, " lifestyle " disease. The highest rates are among

sumo wrestlers, because there is so much blood exchanged in that sport. The

other group comprising the bulk of the cases of Hep B are intravenous drug

users. The virus is exchanged primarily through blood contact. It is a

sexually transmitted disease. How many infants do you know who fit into

those categories? Yet we administer this vaccine within hours of birth.

Why? Because that's when parents are a captive audience. Seriously. There

is no other reason.

The Hep B vaccine has one of the highest rates of serious adverse events of

any vaccine ever, and any protective immunity it does confer will likely be

worn off by the time children are anywhere near the age of sexual activity

or drug use, even in the worst-case scenarios. The Hep B vaccine is on the

childhood vaccine schedule because every vaccine produced is put there, the

reasoning (in this case that daycares are spreading Hep B like wildfire,

which is flatly untrue) is conjured up later. Start your Hep B vaccine

research <http://www.nccn.net/%7Ewwithin/hepatitisB.htm>here.

The following figures are not particularly new, but they are still

illustrative. They are tallied from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting

System, a voluntary federal database that is supposed to record vaccine

reactions. Conservative estimates of underreporting start at 10 percent,

meaning that at most, 1 in 10 vaccine adverse events (including deaths)

that are likely attributable to the shots are even reported. The figure is

likely far, far lower, somewhere around 1 in 100, and that's according to

the former Commissioner of the FDA, Dr. Kessler, who said in 1993:

" Only about one percent of serious events are reported. " So multiply every

one of these figures by ten, and then again by a hundred, and you'll get a

range a little closer to reality. (Italics are from originals, bolding is

mine.)

" The total 24,775 VAERS hepatitis B reports from July 1990 to October 31,

1998 show 439 deaths and 9673 serious reactions involving emergency room

visits, hospitalization, disablement or death. " (source:

<http://www.whale.to/vaccines/belkin1.html> Belkin — this is a

fabulous link, btw)

" Since July 1990, 17,497 cases of hospitalizations, injuries and deaths in

America following hepatitis B vaccination have been reported to the Vaccine

Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) of the U.S. government. This figure

includes 146 deaths in individuals after receiving only hepatitis B vaccine

without any other vaccines, including 73 deaths in children under 14 years

old. In 1996 alone there were 872 serious adverse events in children under

14 years old reported to VAERS. 658 of those injuries were following

hepatitis B vaccination in combination with other vaccinations and 214 of

these injuries were after hepatitis B vaccination alone. In these children

under 14 years old, there were 35 deaths after hepatitis B vaccination in

combination and 13 deaths after hepatitis B vaccination alone, for a total

of 48 deaths . Compare these statistics with the total number of hepatitis

B cases nationwide reported that same year (1996) in children under 14,

just 279, and the conclusion is obvious that the risks of hepatitis B

vaccination far outweigh its benefits. " (source:

<http://www.whale.to/m/incao.html> Philip Incao's Hepatitis B vaccination

testimony to Congress, March 1999)

It's not really any wonder why the U.S. has one of the highest infant

mortality rates in the so-called developed world.

<http://www.honesthuman.com/?p=302>http://www.honesthuman.com/?p=302

Why " Public Health " Makes Me Shudder

This is just one example of why the whole concept of " public health "

officials telling me what's best for my health makes me run in the other

direction.

Earlier this year Suffolk County, NY, passed a

<http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S02707>law that requires health

clinics run by the county to only use mercury-free vaccines to children

under three and pregnant women. Now the county health department is trying

to gut it by seeking a new law that would make mercury-free shots available

only to those parents who request them.

These are county officials, whose salaries are paid for by tax dollars,

doing something — injecting children and pregnant women with a known and

potent neurotoxin — that the tiniest amount of common sense reveals to be

antithetical to public health. I just put a call into the county health

department to see if I could get a comment as to what their rationale could

possibly be, although I have a <http://www.honesthuman.com/?p=8>pretty good

idea. I'll post again if they return the call.

A hearing on the subject was held yesterday. If you live in Suffolk County,

please call Stevy Levy, the county executive, and your representative in

the county legislature and ask them to deny the health department's

efforts. Mr. Levy can be reached at 631.853.4000 or

<mailto:county.executive%40suffolkcountyny.gov>county.executive@suffolkcount

yny.gov. The county board of elections can help you find your local

representative by calling 631.852.4500.

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Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK

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First Half

Second Half

These are two links to view the Hearing in Suffolk County. Unfortunatley, they

are edited. I asked Heeren (Videographer and Coordintor of the annual

Autism Awareness Fair and Conference) for the unedited version and will send

when it is received. Dr. Graham clearly doesn't understand the purpose of

thimerisol or is just making up excuses as he goes along. He states that the

recipient of a thimerisol-free flu vaccine would need to return for multiple

shots to complete the vaccine vs one flu shot with the thimerisol version. As

always, it's all about the money. Something to the tune of $900,000.00.....Anita

Suffolk pols keep mercury vaccine ban

> BY CHAU LAM

> Newsday Staff Writer

>

> December 16, 2006

>

> Suffolk lawmakers have rejected an effort by County Executive Steve

> Levy to allow the administering of mercury-bearing vaccines to

> children and pregnant women, a practice that was banned earlier this year.

>

> Patients or their advocates would have had to request the mercury-free

> version under Levy's proposal, officials said.

>

> Levy and his acting health commissioner, Graham, said the move

> to modify the current county law was made out of concern for public health.

>

> Lawmakers, however, slammed it as a cost-saving move that would

> unnecessarily expose children and the unborn to thimerosal, a

> preservative used in some vaccines. Thimerosal contains 49 percent

> ethyl mercury, according to the Centers for Disease Control and

> Prevention. Shaheda Iftikhar, Suffolk's director of infectious

> diseases, said the county has been getting some mercury-bearing

> vaccines free from New York state but would have had to pay for the

> mercury-free versions, although she didn't know the cost.

>

> " This sounds like it's about the mighty dollar, " said Legis. M.

> Kennedy (R-Nesconset), who along with his Democratic colleagues in

> the Health and Human Services Committee killed Levy's bill Thursday 5-0.

>

> Levy and Graham said mercury-free vaccines would require pregnant

> women and children to make extra visits to the county health centers.

> They expressed concern that this would deter them from getting all of

> their immunizations, an assertion an advocate disputed as " nonsense " .

>

> " We have no idea where Dr. Graham came up with that, " said

> Gilmore of Long Beach, a board member of Advocates for Children's

> Health Affected by Mercury Poisoning. " The schedule for non-mercury

is the same as mercury-bearing vaccine. There is no difference. "

>

> Harmful effects of mercury in a developing fetus include brain damage

> and mental retardation. In children, it could damage kidneys and the

> nervous system, according to the CDC's Web site.

>

> In 1999, the Public Health Service agencies and the American Academy

> of Pediatrics recommended thimerosal should be reduced or eliminated

> in vaccines as a precautionary measure.

>

> Nassau has a proposal on the table to ban county health facilities

> from giving mercury-bearing vaccines.

>

> While Suffolk lawmakers set aside $300,000 in the 2007 budget to pay

> for mercury-free vaccines, a representative of the county health

> department estimated the cost at $900,000.

>

> Legis. H. Stern (D-Dix Hills), the main sponsor of the bill

> that banned county-run health centers from using mercury-bearing

> vaccine, said he has no idea whether the $900,000 estimate is

accurate because it was difficult to " get straight answers " from the

> administration.

>

> A vaccine that does not contain mercury costs, on average $2 to $4

> more per shot, Stern said. Regardless whether it's $300,000 or

> $900,000, the county should pay for it.

>

> " What was so dramatic about the argument is that seems to be a fiscal

> analysis, " Stern said. " It just seem heartless and my colleagues felt

> the same way. "

> Copyright 2006 Newsday Inc.

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Sheri Nakken <vaccineinfo@...> wrote:

Thanks Suzanne!

From: " Suzanne "

Sheri,

The other day Gilmore posted something about what's going on in

Suffolk County, NY, regarding mercury in shots. I decided to do a little

original reporting and I called the health dept. and talked to the Dr. in

charge of the vaccine program. I posted her response on Honest Human.

Here are the two posts:

http://www.honesthuman.com/?p=318

What's Going on in Suffok County?

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