Coercive and Mandatory Immunisation: how ethical is this policy?

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australia - In 2006 the NSW government, without public consultation,

implemented mandatory immunization policies for Health Professionals

(10). The government should be required to demonstrate a serious risk to

the community without these vaccinations before we lose the right to

decide what we inject into our bodies.

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Coercive and Mandatory Immunisation:

how ethical is this policy?Vaccination is a medical

procedure for healthy individuals and not sick individuals. It is a

procedure that injects weakened pathogens and chemical substances into

the tissues of healthy individuals to produce an antibody

response.

Chronic illness in children has risen dramatically in the last two

decades. In 2004 41% of 0-14 year olds had a chronic illness (1).

Statistics in Australia indicate there has been a five-fold increase in

life-threatening food allergies in children in the decade from 1994-2005

(1). Autism, asthma, learning and behavioral difficulties and autoimmune

diseases have all increased significantly during this time (1). This

coincides with the government’s push to increase vaccination rates in

Australia to 95% with the implementation of the Immunize Australia

Program in 1993 (2).

Thiomersal, a mercury compound and neurotoxin was present in most infant

vaccines prior to 2000 (3). Scientists have known since 1966 that the

adjuvant used in vaccines – aluminium hydroxide/phosphate – and

antibiotics (in vaccines) cause hypersensitivity reactions in humans (4).

Yet we are injecting antibiotics, adjuvant, thiomersal and other

compounds into the tissues of infants at the most vulnerable time of

their development.

Many adverse reactions to vaccines occur which vary in severity amongst

individuals due to genetic factors (5). It is now known that an

individual can be pre-disposed to a disease by having the gene for that

disease but expression of the gene can depend upon an environmental

factor (6). Factors thought to be responsible for activating genes

include heavy metals, chemicals, viruses, bacteria, nutrition and

emotional states and stress (6). Many of these triggers are found in

vaccines.

Veterinary scientists have correlated the increase in autoimmune diseases

and sarcomas in dogs and cats to increased vaccine use (7).

Long-term health studies showing the effects of multiple vaccines in

infants have not been done in humans or animals (2). Greater emphasis is

being placed on short-term epidemiological studies (statistical) with

selective parameters investigating one vaccine at a time than the science

that includes biological, clinical and ecological evidence that is

showing a possible link with chronic illness in children (5) (8). In

addition, twentieth century public health officials did not claim

vaccines controlled infectious diseases (9).

The underlying ethical principle of health practitioners is to first do

no harm. If it is biologically plausible that using multiple vaccines in

infants and adults could cause significant harm to a proportion of the

population as a result of genetic predisposition and epigenetics, then

the onus is on policy makers to provide conclusive evidence to the

contrary before coercive vaccination policies are implemented.

In 2006 the NSW government, without public consultation, implemented

mandatory immunization policies for Health Professionals (10). The

government should be required to demonstrate a serious risk to the

community without these vaccinations before we lose the right to decide

what we inject into our bodies.

Precautionary Principle: The burden of proof of harmlessness of any new

technology/chemical is on the proponent NOT the general public.

References:

1) Australian Government, Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS),

iv) 4829.0.55.001 Health of children in Australia: A Snapshot,

2004-05

2) Australian Government, Department of Health and Ageing, Immunise

Australia Program 2004.

3) Kirby, D., 2005, Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism

Epidemic: A Medical Controversy, St. ’s Press, New York.

4) Greville, RW. , 1966, Recent and Future Development in Immunising

Vaccines, The Medical Journal of Australia, May 21, p. 908.

5) Commonwealth Department of Health, National Health and Medical

Research Council (NHMRC), 1954 – 1986, Report of the Session, No. 338 –

101.

6) Ravel G, Christ M, Horand F, Descotes J, 2004, Autoimmunity,

environmental exposure and vaccination: is there a link? , Toxicology,

196(3) : 211-6, Mar 15.

7) La , W.R., 2002, The Hayward Foundation Study on Vaccines; a

possible etiology of autoimmune diseases.

8) Commonwealth of Australia, 1991, National Health and Medical Research

Council (NHMRC), Immunisation Procedures (fourth edition), Australian

Government Publishing Service, Canberra.

9) Burnet, M.,1952, The Pattern of Disease in Childhood, Australasian

ls of Medicine, Vol.1, No. 2: p. 93.

10) NSW Department of Health, Occupational Assessment, Screening and

Vaccination Against Specified Infectious Diseases, Policy Directive No.

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