PLEDGE TAKEN BY Health care workers to oppose smallpox vaccinations

[Guest guest]

WOW!

Trouble, is 'they' will make it appear if 'they' want to.

OF COURSE I don't believe any vaccine is EVER warranted........but its the

fact they are taking a pledge that is important.

FORWARD THIS TO EVERY HEALTH CARE WORKER THAT YOU KNOW! EVERY LIST YOU CAN

FIND

Sheri

From Meryl Nass, MD

One of my colleagues is involved in circulating this pledge by health care

workers to not give or receive smallpox vaccine, unless smallpox recurs.

The pledge specifically mentions the unfair mandatory vaccines for

servicemembers. I hope members will consider signing this if

they are civilian health care workers or circulate to others who may be

interested in signing.

Two major hospitals have refused to comply and Koplan (former CDC

director) has spoken against mass smallpox vaccinations.

Here is the pledge:

The Bush program to vaccinate all health care workers against smallpox is

unscientific, unethical, and most importantlydangerous. The program seems

designed to validate his war agenda rather than to protect the public's

health. Vaccinations are appropriate when the benefits clearly outweigh the

risks of side effects. This is not the case with the smallpox vaccine.

Adverse effects from smallpox vaccine can include painful swelling,

infection, rash, joint pain, malaise and fever. Perhaps a third of those

inoculated may have to stay home one or more days, as with flu-like

illness. Severe rashes, blindness, inflammation of the brain, and even

death are possible though rare. Serious complications were reported at the

rate of 49-900 per million and life threatening ones at 14-52 per million.

Some 50 million people in the U.S. with eczema, HIV/AIDS, cancer, lupus,

other immune disorders, and atopic dermatitis are at higher risk of more

serious reactions. Since it is a live virus vaccine (vaccinia: a cowpox

virus) people who get the vaccination can transmit it unwittingly to others

for 3 weeks after inoculationincluding to family members and high-risk

patients. Smallpox vaccinations have so many adverse side effects that the

drug companies have insisted on legal exemption from civil suits for

illness and death arising from the vaccinations. Bad experiences from

unwarranted mass inoculations could undermine public confidence in all

immunization programs and in the competence of health workers to protect

the public's health.

In the very remote chance that an outbreak was to occur, the former

plans for quarantines and ring vaccinations might be appropriate. But there

has not been a single case of smallpox in the world for over 20 years and

even the Bush administration admits that there has been no evidence of any

danger of an outbreak. Why, then, carry out mass vaccinations?

Generating fear and hysteria over smallpox may be an effort to gain

public support for an unjust and unpopular war against Iraq, for spending

even more billions on the military, and for eroding civil liberties. Let us

remember the anthrax outbreak in 2001 that killed 5 people was initially

blamed on " foreign terrorists. " Federal investigators admitted months later

that the evidence points to a scientist from a U.S. military laboratory.

Expanded research on smallpox and vaccines could increase the number of

individuals handling smallpox virus and thus actually increase the risk of

some terrible accident or crime from a similar source. Clearly the risks of

the smallpox vaccination campaign far outweigh any presumed benefit. We

don't have to go along with it.

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THE HEALTH WORKERS' PLEDGE:

As a health worker, my responsibility is to prevent disease, treat

illness and promote health. My obligation is to help, and above all, do no

harm.

Smallpox vaccination has known and potentially serious side

effects. In the absence of any evidence of exposure or risk of exposure to

smallpox virus, it is unethical and a threat to my health and the health of

the patients and public that I serve to administer unnecessary vaccine.

Military personnel are unfairly being forced to get the vaccine and

this should be stopped. As a health worker I am being given a choice, and I

choose NO!

I will not be pressured to risk my health and the health of

patients. I will not participate in a campaign that is against the best

interests of the public I serve. I hereby pledge that, in the absence of

evidence of exposure, I will not get and will not give smallpox vaccinations.

Send your endorsement to pledge@... Please include your

name, prof. degrees if any, affiliation for identification, your email

address and phone

http://www.healthworkers.org/pledge.htm

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Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK

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