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First, let me start of by saying that in the 20 years that I have

lived on the North Coast of NSW, our local paper, the Northern Star,

has never ever given both sides of the vaccination issue. They have

printed the occasional letter from me and have quoted me several times

in articles (usually one sentence at the end of a long feature about

the benefits of vaccines) but have never really reported fairly. This

recent case of a child who died from whooping cough has not brought

out the best in the paper either with lots of name-calling and finger

pointing at the unvaccinated. It was therefore a delight to open up

the paper this morning and to see the full page devoted to letters

from you, AVN members, about this subject. Thank you so very much for

the intelligent and compelling responses to the Northern Star.

Please, if you haven't yet written in, do so now. The email is

opinions@...

.. Below are the letters.

Your Say

A Mother’s Grief and Anguish at Child Vaccination

I wish to extend my sincerest condolences to the parents and family of

little Dana McCaffery.

I can imagine the grief, pain and anger they might currently be going

through as I went through something like this 17 years ago, but for a

slightly different reason.

My son nearly died when he was 12 months old, from a severe reaction

to a vaccine.

To be in the presence of a child in any kind of pain is the most

helpless and distressing feeling a mother, particularly, can feel.

Watching him writhe uncontrollably, inconsolably was hard enough, but

to witness him drop in and out of a coma, and be told by a doctor not

to call back unless it continues for more than a couple of hours was

worse.

And to be told it had nothing to do with the vaccine he’d received

only half-an-hour before, left me scared out of my mind as to what had

to happen for them to consider it worth helping.

No, my son didn’t die. But for the next five years of his life, we had

to attend therapists and all kinds of tests, to find out why he had

suddenly stopped meeting, and had, in some cases, regressed in, the

childhood milestones he had previously been blitzing his way through.

His disabilities caused us endless grief and sadness, even to this day

as he turns 17, and we still see little things that leave us wondering

‘is this a residue of that vaccination reaction’?

It was my son’s reaction, and the denial and dismissiveness of

doctors, that caused me to research the side of vaccination that is

never really publicised and discover myriad possible reactions.

I firmly believe that my decision to turn away from vaccination and

allopathic medicine has helped my son recover to the level he has.

All my children have enjoyed ongoing robust health, without so much as

a cold since the very early days of their lives.

And I can only be left to wonder why it continues that the death of a

child from an infectious disease has so much importance placed on it,

and the many deaths from vaccination get dismissed, ignored or

discounted.

Scapegoating the unvaccinated is an easy blame and can be a coping

tool, but is not necessarily the truth of the matter.

There are two sides to any situation, and it’s probably time we all

admitted that life has no sure-fire cures on anything, without a

consequence; and we just have to live with them.

P e, Mittagong, NSW.

Brave Decision

I would first like to give my deepest condolences to the family of

little Dana. No parents should ever have to suffer the death of a

child, and I cannot even begin to imagine the pain they are feeling.

But I am also in pain; I am the mother of seven children, three of

whom were diagnosed with autism, one with ADHD, one with severe

language disorder, and one luckily only affected by mild food allergies.

My seventh little boy was the only one unvaccinated, and the only one

who developed normally!

I know that vaccines damaged all six of my children, we did all the

genetic testing and there was nothing. Also all signs were there after

they were vaccinated at 12 to 18 months, but because I believed in

immunisation and followed my doctor’s guidelines I did not register

their importance!

It is sad that your newspaper feels the need to label parents such as

myself as ‘dummy mummies’.

Is it because my children did not die but have to live every day with

their disabilities?

Does that make their story any less true or sad?

Because I choose not to immunise my child, knowing full well that it

harms them; does that mean I am committing child abuse?

I would like to remind you about the little girl in the US whose

parents proved to the government that vaccines caused her autism. Her

name is Hannah Poling and now they are paying her compensation. Her

parents are not ‘dummy mummies’; her father is a neurosurgeon resident

and her mother is an attorney and a trained nurse.

So I would like to state that if this is true, then there is a link

between vaccinations and autism. Also from my own experiences I know

this to be true.

I would also like to remind you that the autism rate has gone from 1-

in-10,000 in the 1980s to 1-in-67 in the UK (1-in-45 boys) is it

really such a coincidence that it occurred when the vaccination

schedule was increased dramatically.

Why is it so hard to believe that injecting mercury, aluminium,

formaldehyde as well as viruses into babies could be harmful?

Just look at our rocketing rates of autism, ADHD, allergies, asthma,

eczema, epilepsy and childhood cancers.

If our children are so much healthier because of vaccination, then why

are our children so sick?

I know when I went to school there were hardly any kids with autism,

or severe allergies.

My final point is that mothers like myself are not so stupid as to

read an article on the internet and take it to be gospel; but that we

actually are reading the many books on the subjects, attending

seminars and forums where doctors, scientists, paediatricians, medical

researchers, environmental toxin specialists, gastrologists,

naturopaths, homoeopaths and other experts from all over the world are

giving their views, and this is where we are getting our information

from.

So I really resent the accusation that we are stupid because we have

differing views to the mainstream.

Tasha

Doctor’s View

I am a health practitioner, have been vaccinated for whooping cough

and a few years later got the disease. The same thing happened with my

partner.

I see this in my clinic frequently.

Not only with whooping cough but with other so-called preventable

diseases supposedly ‘eliminated’ by vaccines.

There are many credible websites with scientific proof that vaccines

are not effective and do cause autism, SIDS, ADHD and many unreported

deaths.

The drug companies do their own research and promote the findings that

they want and not the findings that are genuine.

Money is the name of the game, not disease prevention.

I see vaccine damage every day in my clinic, not only in children but

in adults too, especially from Gardasil.

Bev Baker, BM, DHom, DAc, AHA, AROH.