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>helminger@... wrote:

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>POLIO VACCINE SWITCH HAS LOWERED RATE OF VACCINE-ASSOCIATED PARALYTIC

>DISEASE

>The incidence of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis has

>decreased since the September 1996 recommendation that inactivated

>poliovirus vaccine (IVP) should replace oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV)

>for the first two doses, according to an analysis of data from the

>Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.

>http://id.medscape.com/38064.rhtml?srcmp=id-052501

I wasn't going to read this article because I figured the

blurb didn't have and " new " news so it wouldn't be

worth while. Boy, was I ever wrong! Check these out:

" The investigators noted a somewhat higher rate of death after IPV than

after OPV, 0.83 versus 0.17 per 100,000 doses, most of which were due to

sudden infant death syndrome. "

A five-fold increase in death rate is considered

" somewhat " higher!?!?! Labeling it sudden infant

death syndrome (i.e. death of unknown origin) is

supposed to make it unrelated to the vaccine?

" Nonfatal serious events occurred in 1.6 per 100,000 doses of IPV and 0.9

per 100,000 doses of OPV in 1998. "

So a death rate five times higher and nonfatal

serious events nearly doubling in frequency is considered...

" useful information to support the Advisory Committee on Immunization

Practices' recommendation to shift to an all-IPV schedule, " (as) Dr. Chen's

team concludes.

Pediatrics 2001;107:e83.

I feel like I'm stuck in a Salvador Dali painting!

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MMR: Court In The Act

[Private Eye Magazine.]

www.private-eye.co.uk .

A landmark ruling in the French appeal courts last week against UK

vaccine manufacturer Glaxo Kline passed almost unnoticed by the British

media. Yet potentially it has huge importance for the 3000 UK families now

seeking to sue Kline and another vaccine company over damage they say

was caused to their children by the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jab.

Although the French legal action involved the hepatitis B vaccine

which the appeal judges decided had triggered multiple sclerosis (MS) in two

women, the significance to the UK triple jab case is two-fold.

Crucially, it is the first time a court has decided that while there

are no scientific studies which either prove or disprove a causal link

between the vaccine and illness - often an insurmountable barrier to

litigation - courts can reach a decision based on " serious precise

presumptions and similar evidence " .

That is vital to the UK litigants, who while armed with a growing

dossier of research suggesting links between vaccination and disease, so far

have no study which proves the case one way or the other,

Secondly, a significant number of the UK claimants are alleging the

triple vaccine caused devastating nerve-damaging conditions similar to MS -

like Guillain-Barre syndrome and transverse myelitis. The assertion is that,

as with the cases of autism, the vaccine triggers a peculiar auto-immune

reaction in some susceptible children. In the cases of MS, Guillain-Barre

and myelitis, it is said to cause the body to attack the protective myelin

sheath that covers the nervous system, gradually stripping it away.

As the Eye has already reported, many of the children with rare

regressive autism, which their families allege was triggered by the triple

jab, have curiously been found to have the measles virus in their gut. Also

recent research from the US has found that some of the children with

regressive autism also have myelin sheath damage.

Our government, of course, would have parents believe that research

actually disproved the link (Eyes passim). But last month the American

Immunisation Review Committee said that while evidence " favours rejection of

a causal relationship at a population level " (ie based on epidemiology only)

between the triple jab and autism, it could not " exclude the possibility

that MMR could contribute to autism in a small number of children " .

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A Risk Worth Studying

Burton is Right: Washington Post Letter

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A344-2001May31.html

A May 14 editorial gave the impression that an Institute of Medicine

report found no " credible evidence " that the MMR vaccine can cause serious

adverse reactions in some children. As stated in its report, the committee

" does not exclude the possibility that the MMR vaccine could contribute to

[autism] in a small number of children. "

The editorial criticized Rep. Dan Burton for urging the National

Institutes of Health (NIH) to study this issue further. However, the

committee itself " recommends that this issue receive continued attention "

and then sets forth four areas of research NIH should pursue.

I support childhood immunization. I also believe it is wrong to

consider the children who suffer severe reactions to childhood vaccines the

price of doing business. We have an obligation to study this issue.

Dave Weldon

U.S. Representative (R-Fla.)

Washington

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