Vaccine Update

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Here is a miscellaneous collection of web articles on vaccination and health.

PREVNAR VACCINE

The first web page discusses doubts being expressed about a best selling

vaccine that is widely prescribed for children in the USA, despite negative

reports being received from the public and some doctors:

<http://www.mercola.com/2001/mar/3/prevnar.htm>

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VACCINES IN GENERAL

This web page provides many links to othere article on the use and abuse of

vaccines:

<http://www.mercola.com/article/vaccines/links.htm>

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ATHRAX VACCINE

The following site gives a large amount of well documented research into the

nature of athrax as a biochemical weapon and the risks created by the

military in compelling soldiers to receive anthrax vaccination despite

reported non-trivial side-effects.

<http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/>

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ATHRAX VACCINE & THE MILITARY

The following web page discussed the widespread use of atthrax vaccine by the

US Military during the Gulf war:

<http://www.mercola.com/2000/oct/29/anthrax.htm>

Here is a small extract from that page:

<... Although the Defense Department and Veteran’s Administration have spent

over 150 million dollars sponsoring over 120 studies of Gulf War Illness,

not a single one of these studies in the United States has examined the

relationship between anthrax vaccine and Gulf War Illness, although sixteen

other Gulf War exposures have been studied. Instead the Defense Department

has used a different strategy. A number of expert scientific panels were

convened between 1994 and 1996. They were asked to comment on whether anthrax

and botulinum toxoid vaccines could perhaps contribute to Gulf War Illness.

None of the panels presented here, with the exception of the Presidential

Advisory Committee, cited any references.

In the absence of data they drew the following conclusions: The NIH

Technology Assessment Workshop said, “no long term adverse effects have been

documentedâ€. The VA said “both vaccines, anthrax and botulinum toxoid have

been used for many years without adverse effects. All three review panels,

The Institute of Medicine, Presidential Advisory Committee and the Defense

Science Board Review panels all stated that no long-term adverse effects have

been documented or would be expected. Further study of the potential adverse

effects of vaccines in this population is not recommended by any of the three

panels nor is it endorsed in this plan. "

The Presidential Advisory Committee produced a series of final reports as

further information about Gulf War exposures continued to come to light. In

1996 they said, “The Committee concludes it is unlikely that health effects

reported by Gulf War Veterans today are the result of exposure to the

botulinum toxoid or anthrax vaccines, used alone or in combinationâ€. They

cited five references for this claim, all of which were to Defense Department

briefers. The Institute of Medicine said, “The Committee knows of no evidence

of any chronic effect.†The Defense Department attempted to sidestep any

actual study of anthrax vaccine and Gulf War veterans’ illnesses. They said

it was impossible to do a study because the Gulf War vaccination records have

all been lost.

However, the document cited here indicates that the Gulf War vaccine records

had actually been classified rather than lost. It says “All original records

and documents used in identifying units and personnel immunized during

Operation Desert Storm are still considered classified information.†But Dr.

Philip Pittman at Fort Detrick studied the effect of booster doses of

anthrax and botulinum toxoid vaccines several years after the Gulf War. To do

this, he was able to identify 400 service members at Fort Bragg who had

received anthrax and botulinum vaccinations during the Gulf War. Somehow, the

names of vaccine recipients, the dates of vaccination and the numbers of

doses for all 400 participants at Fort Bragg were found.

The results of his study were interesting. They showed that systemic

reactions occurred in 44% of the recipients of vaccine. However, subjects

received botulinum vaccine in one arm and anthrax in the other, so it is

uncertain how many of these reactions are due to the anthrax vaccine alone.

This study also showed that after 30 days, 3% of the subjects continued to

have adverse systemic reactions. Whether their problems resolved is unknown.

This appears to be an unprecedented rate of long term reactions, but it was

ignored..... >

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VACCINES AND AUTISM

The following web page discusses the issue of possible links between autism

in children and MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccination:

<http://www.mercola.com/2001/mar/17/autism.htm>

<Dr Viera Scheibner and Bronwyn Hancock BSc wrote this article, which began

thus.

<There has been a fair degree of publicity recently, more in some parts of

the world than others, in relation to the research that has linked the MMR

vaccine to autism.

What is the most publicized is that UK researcher DR Wakefield and his

group of researchers studied children who developed Crohn's disease and

autism and linked them to the MMR vaccine that they had been administered

(Lancet 1998).

It is good that this is being brought to light, but since parents have been

repeatedly reassured by many doctors that the vaccine is safe, which they now

can see is not true, it is important for them to logically reason that they

cannot trust ANYTHING they are told by doctors, particularly about

vaccination, and see that they need to research the whole vaccination issue.

Sadly, when this is done, it is realized that this MMR/autism link is only

the tip of iceberg. ..... >

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Dr Mel C Siff

Denver, USA

Supertraining/