UNIVERSAL IMMUNIZATION: Medical Miracle or Masterful Mirage

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This will help you to understand the reality of vaccination in the third

world.

No monitoring, no individualizing, no follow up and then they think they

can pass off articles about measles declining, or the vaccine working.

Many things children die of are vaccine reactions but labeled something

else as we know.

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UNIVERSAL IMMUNIZATION

Medical Miracle or Masterful Mirage

By Dr. Obomsawin

(This book first appeared at the Soil and Health Library, an important

source of books

on holistic agriculture, holistic health, self-sufficient living, and

personal development)

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF: RAYMOND OBOMSAWIN

PREFACE

ABSTRACT

Introduction

The Unresolved Issue of UCI/EPI Effectiveness and Impact

The Unresolved Question of Potential Adverse Effects

The Unresolved Issue of Long-Term Adverse Effects

The Unresolved Issue of Safer and More Effective Alternatives

The Unresolved Question of Ethics

Conclusion

SECTION I: MIRACLE IN THE MAKING: REALITY OR DELUSION?

Introduction

EPI--Field Evaluation Experience

UNICEF's General EPI Strategy and Stated Achievements

Field Observations

Contra-Indications Screening

A Case History

Vaccine Scheduling

Immunization's Impact in the Declension of Infectious Diseases

Incomplete Statistical Reporting

The Developmental Implications of UCL/EPI

Is Immunization Effectiveness a Certainty?

Early Theoretical Foundations Re-Examined

Artificially Induced Immunity--Reality or Delusion?

An Historic Overview of the Bacterial/Viral Theory of Disease Causation

The Bacterial/Viral Versus the Cellular/Ecological Theory of Infectious

Disease

Infectious Disease Tables I--XVIII

Immunization Effectiveness Data

Data on Diphtheria

Data on Measles

Data on Polio

Data on Pertussis (Whooping Cough)

Data on Tetanus Toxoid and Immune Globulin

WHO Smallpox Eradication Success Reconsidered

Vaccine Associated Dangers--General Observations

Of What Do Vaccine Products Consist?

Some Observed and Potential Adverse Effects of Spacific Vaccines and

Toxoids--Diagnosable in the Short Term

Extent and Nature of Observable Vaccine Damage

Long Term (Delayed) Potential Adverse Effects of Immunization

Evidences for Immunization Induced Immune Malfimction

The Ethics of Universal Childhood Immunization

Bane or Boon? Selective Medicine in Primary Health Care

SECTION II: TOWARDS MORE APPROPRIATE PRIORITIES IN

DEVELOPING WORLD PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

Eclipsing the Spirit of Alma Ata

Emerging--A More Practicable Primary Health Care Model

SECTION III: A CONSIDERATION OF ALTERNATIVES TO ENSURING NATURAL IMMUNITY

The Soil as Chief Determinant of Health and The Foundation of Public Health

Policy

Insightful Experiments

Soil Re-Mineralization--A Return To Primeval Conditions

Soil Dietetics and Disease

Key Nutritional Measures in Preventing Infectious Disease

Vitamin A

Vitamin C

I. Viral Infections

II. Bacterial Infections

III. Phagocytotic Activity

IV. Conclusion

A New and Better Strategy

General Conclusion on Appropriate Alternatives

Conclusion

References to sections 1,2 & 3

ANNEX 1: PROBLEMS WITH DEVELOPING WORLD MEDICALIZATION AND THE TRADITIONAL

MEDICINE ALTERNATIVE

The Disturbing Dilemma of Developing World Medicalization

India--An Alarming Case In Point

A Compelling Voice of Protest

The Traditional Medicine Alternative

Critical Conclusions and Directions

References

ANNEX II: AGROCHEMICAL AGRICULTURE--THE NEED FOR A SANER ALTERNATIVE

The Dilemma of Chemical Fertilization

Pesticide Poisons

Biologically Sound Alternatives To Pesticides

The Promise of Clean Organiculture Methods

A Recent International Initiative in Clean Organiculture

References

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF: RAYMOND OBOMSAWIN

Obomsawin was born in the United States on August 16, 1950 and

holds dual US and Canadian citizenship. He married Marie-Louise in August

of 1976, and they have three, vibrant children: Sunrise, Sunbeam and

Sundown. These children--two are still in their teens, and one is

twenty-one--have never received the prescribed regimen of childhood

vaccines, and due to a healthful lifestyle have exhibited total immunity to

the diseases that are common to the childhood years. (Time and again

they've been physically exposed to those ill from some of these very

diseases.)

Dr. Obomsawin holds over two decades of cross-cultural experience--both in

North America and internationally--in the primary disciplines which impact

on human bio-social development. He holds a Baccalaureate Degree in Health

Education and Communications, Masters Degree in Development Education, and

PhD with concentrations in Health Science and Human Ecology.

He is currently serving as President of the Circle of Nations Institute of

Life Sciences & Sustainable Development an international R & D institution

legally established in Hawaii, and has previously served as: Manager of

Overseas Operations for CUSO (Canada's largest International Development

NGO); Evaluation Analyst in the Canadian International Development Agency;

Evaluation Manager with the Department of Indian Affairs & Northern

Development; Executive Director in the California Rural Indian Health Board

system; Director of the Office for National Health Development NIB (Now

Assembly of First Nations); Founding Chairman of the National Commission

Inquiry on Indian Health; and Supervisor of Native Curriculum for the

Government of the Yukon Territory.

Some key highlights of Dr. Obomsawin's professional experiences and

achievements follow:

Chaired and served on regional, national, and international committees

holding development related policy, management, and research mandates.

Advised senior decision-makers--in both public and NGO sectors--providing

critical analyses and recommendations on international development

policies, project, and programming initiatives in health, education,

agriculture, nutrition, agro-forestry, environmental sustainability, and

multi-year country planning.

Spearheaded the first world-wide inter-sectoral review funded by a Western

government on Indigenous Culture Based Knowledge Systems in Development.

The study elicited the involvement of public and NGO sector bio-social

development, technical and research institutions in all world regions; and

entailed exploratory field missions to the Andean and Upper Amazon regions

of South America, as well as East Africa, South and Southeast Asia.

Organized, administered, and executed socio-politically sensitive

evaluation studies on complex bio-social service interventions, as well as

educational and development initiatives internationally, eg, as a team

member evaluated: UNICEF's Integrated Services Project which served over

900 villages in Northeast Thailand; and other development projects at the

Asian Pacific Development Centre, Malaysia; Asian Institute of Management,

and The Woman for Woman Foundation, Philippines; and Institute of Social

and Administrative Studies, University of the South Pacific, Fiji.

Coordinated (in Canada and Norway) the initial development of Terms of

Reference for a comprehensive evaluation of the United Nations World Food

Program--operant in 90 countries under the trilateral sponsorship of

Canada, Norway, and the Netherlands.

Spearheaded the establishment and chaired Canada's National Commission

Inquiry on Indian Health which served as a national--grass-roots

mandated--indigenous health policy development body.

Presented--in plenary session--the paper " From Selective to Indigenous

Medicine: Repossessing the Ancient Wisdom,' at the International

Development Research Centre and National Institutes of Health sponsored

International Workship on Traditional Health Systems and Public Policy.

Presented the keynote address " Re-Discovering Our Roots: The Ancient Wisdom

of Sustainable Societies " at the Community Sustainability Resource

Institute's 3rd Annual Conference, USA.

Experienced multi-cultural exposure including private, voluntary, and or

public sector interchange in over 25 countries on five continents, as well

as Australasia and select Pacific island nations, and

Produced academically and professionally over 75 articles, reports,

proposals and publication documents.

PREFACE

TO THE THIRD EDITION

(MAY 1998)

Dr. Obomsawin, PhD

This extensive report focuses on the current massive international effort

to administer artificial immunization to the children of the world. The

actual launching of the World Health Organizations's Universal or " Expanded

Program on Immunization " (EPI) occurred in the year 1983. Its overriding

purpose was to achieve maximum immunization coverage of the world's

children. Under the influence of the WHO--which is a United Nations created

and sustained multilateral agency--all national political leaders (then

representing 158 nation states) made a commitment to achieve 80%

immunization coverage in their respective countries by the year 1990. In

that year the WHO set a new standard for the governments of the world, ie,

a more intensified goal of achieving 90% immunization coverage by the year

2000. As a review document, this report poses an open challenge to the

scientific, developmental, and humanitarian basis of this global public

policy, in turn urging national governments to establish a far more

rational, effective and harmless inter-sectoral approach in seeking to

ensure that the children and families of our world community enjoy lifelong

natural immunity to infectious diseases.

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