Dr. Kent Holtorf - Infectious Disease Specialist

Dr. Kent Holtorf, Infectious Disease Specialist, had this to say about the safety of vaccine adjuvants and whether or not he would administer them to his children.

A growing number of medical doctors are becoming more concerned with the danger of vaccinations. Here are just a few more. Research and Educate BEFORE You choose to Vaccinate.

VACCINES: AN ATTORNEY’S VIEWPOINT

You Cannot Generalize Pro or Con About All Vaccines

  James Robert Deal J.D.

The report below was recently sent to every representative and senator in the Washington legislature and to all the newspapers in Washington. Attorney James Deal believes that the personal or philosophical objection will be retained at the state level.


“They have all the money, but we have all the good ideas. If we persevere, we will succeed.”  ~ James Robert Deal, J.D.
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Anti-vaxxers oppose all vaccines. Pro-vaxxers favor all vaccines. No, it is not that simple. Pro-vaxxers admit that certain groups should not receive certain vaccines and that vaccine injury does happen, although it is “rare”.

Most so-called anti-vaxxers actually favor some vaccines but oppose others. Most oppose giving many vaccines all at one time. Most say they are only asking for safer vaccines.
Amid the name calling, there is a reasonable middle ground. Dr. Mark Geier, M.D., Ph.D., associated with Johns Hopkins and the National Institutes of Health, author of over a hundred peer reviewed journal articles, is a moderate we should pay attention to. (Go to YouTube and search for “Dr. Mark Geier Thimerosal”.)

Dr. Geier supports the measles-only vaccine, but he opposes the MMR, measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, because it has caused confirmed adverse reactions and death. Likewise, Dr. Gregory Poland, of the Mayo Clinic holds that the MMR is largely ineffective.

It is lazy language to say that vaccines are “safe and effective”, because that implies that all vaccines are safe and effective for all people. In fact, some vaccines have done great harm. If you doubt this, read the findings of the Vaccine Court, which has paid out around $3.0 billion to children for adverse reactions which admits were caused by vaccines. Go to www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/opinion-search and search for “measles-mumps-rubella” or “influenza”.  And read the package inserts that come with vaccine boxes. You may also read them online at www.immunize.org/packageinserts

 

In Europe only the polio vaccine is mandatory. Dr. Geier supports vaccination against polio. However, he is adamantly opposed to flu vaccines. The flu vaccine given almost universally uses Thimerosal as a preservative. Each dose of Thimerosal contains 25 micrograms of ethyl mercury. Multiplied by Avogadro’s Number, 25 mcg = 75 quadrillion atoms of mercury.

25 x 10^-6 / 200 x 6.02 x 10^-23
10^-6 x 10^-23 = 10^-17
25 / 200 x 6.02 = .7525
.7525 x 10^-17 = 7.5 x 10^-16 = 75 x 10^-15 =
75,000,000,000,000,000 = 75 quadrillion

The only safe amount of mercury is zero, and using mercury as a preservative is reckless, especially since it is given yearly, even to pregnant mothers, even though the package insert admits that the MMR has not been tested for fetal safety in pregnant women. Mercury passes through the placenta and into the fetus. There are flu vaccines which are mercury free.

The flu vaccine is big business, particularly the ones containing mercury. Some 300 million doses are sold, while only 20 million doses of all other vaccines are sold. In 1986 the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Programmade vaccine manufacturers immune from most liability, and in 2011 the Supreme Court twisted the plain language of the Vaccine Act to make vaccine manufacturers, hospitals, and physicians completely immune from absolutely ALL liability, reasoning that vaccines in general – using the language of the Court – are “unavoidably unsafe”.

Dr. Geier points out that all flu vaccines are illegal. All vaccines must pass two double blind tests for safety and effectiveness. Because a new vaccine is developed each year in advance of the flu season, and because each vaccine assumes a prediction of which strains of flue will be present, there is no time to two double blind studies, which would take several years.

Our vaccines can contain aluminum, formaldehyde, MSG, antibiotics, and monkey kidney cells. The effort to develop safe and effective vaccines should continue, however, we must admit that we are still at a primitive stage in the development of vaccines, which is why mandating vaccination makes little sense.

The unvaccinated are blamed for spreading disease, however, every person injected with the MMR and other attenuated live virus vaccines develops a vaccine version of the disease, sheds viruses, and can infect others. It is not only the unvaccinated who are spreading measles, which is another reason why mandating vaccination makes little sense.

Measles is not a trifling malady, however, it is not Ebola. Measles cases and deaths from measles declined sharply before the measles vaccine was introduced in 1963. Relatively few die from measles.

Since 1986, Health & Human Services reports 669 deaths from the DTP, 84 deaths from flu vaccines, 80 deaths from the DTaP, 57 deaths from the MMR, 54 deaths from the Hepatitis B vaccine, and many more non-fatal adverse reactions. The science of vaccination is still in a primitive stage, and it is inappropriate for the state to force injection of a possibly harmful drug on behalf of mega-corporations which are completely immune from all liability for adverse reactions.

Further, one who is vaccinated sheds viruses, and so one can be infected not only by those who contract a wild case of measles but also by those recently vaccinated. Moreover, the MMR is not particularly effective “In an October 2011 outbreak in Canada, over 50% of the 98 individuals had received two doses of measles vaccine”.

The Los Angeles Times and the Everett Herald printed an article entitled “Vaccine ignorance proving deadly and contagious”. It was written not by physicians or scientists but by prominent members of the Council on Foreign Relations. It contains numerous inaccuracies – scientific, historical, and legal.

Thinking people support vaccines which are safe, effective, and necessary. Conversely, thinking people should oppose those vaccines which are not safe, not effective, or not necessary.

Law school taught me to break a question down into its component parts: Which vaccines are safe, effective, and necessary, and for whom? How deadly is the disease to be prevented? How likely are adverse reactions and how bad can they be? The CFR authors are uncritical cheer leaders for the $30 billion per year vaccine business, exhorting us to take all recommended vaccines unquestioningly and by the dozens and dozens.

The authors repeat slanders made against Dr. Andrew Wakefield, which were completely false. A recent NOVA special, “Vaccines – Calling the Shots”, repeats these now-disproven slanders, a case of lazy journalism. Recall that Wakefield wrote in the Lancet in 1998 that colitis and autism spectrum  disorders are linked to the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine then in use.

Wakefield was denounced as a vaccine denier, although he supported and still supports the single dose measles vaccine, as well as other vaccines. He only opposed the MMR. Multiple vaccines given simultaneously can be more harmful than single vaccines. For questioning the safety of one vaccine, Wakefield was “lynched” by GlaxoSmithCline and the medical establishment. Wakefield’s results have been replicated in at least 28 studies done by scientists in other countries. Further, Wakefield has great insight in how to treat children who have had adverse vaccine reactions by treating the gastro-intestinal disease that accompanies adverse reactions.

Wakefield was expelled from the medical profession in Great Britain, however, John Walker-Smith, one of the co-authors of the offending 1998 study, challenged his expulsion and was recently reinstated, an indication that Wakefield could be reinstated if he applied. Wakefield works in Texas as a researcher and is suing Brian Deer, Fiona Godlee and the British Medical Journal for falsely accusing him of fraud.

The CFR authors also seem to be unaware that Wakefield was further vindicated recently when Dr. William Thompson of the CDC “came out”. Thompson was one of the authors of a CDC study which denied any causal link between vaccines and autism. Thompson admitted that in a 2004 article he and other authors had intentionally excluded already collected data, data which would have reversed their published conclusion that there is no vaccine-autism link. The mainstream media has glossed over the story of Wakefield’s vindication and Thomson’s confession.

A mother is not a vaccine denier if she questions the safety of a vaccine containing mercury, aluminum, MSG, antibiotics, eggs, or formaldehyde. Or Beta HCG hormone. Or the urabi virus . She is not a denier if her child is frail or has already had an adverse vaccine reaction and she chooses to opt her child out. She is not a denier if she questions giving children 49 injections of 14 vaccines by age six, including a vaccine at birth for hepatitis B, a disease usually infecting IV drug users. Nor is she a denier if she declines the CDC recommendation that she take the flu vaccine (containing mercury) when she is pregnant, even though the flu vaccine is not tested for safety for pregnant women and fetuses and the FDA advises it be used “only if clearly needed”.

 

Most are not harmed by vaccines, but some are. For proof read the decisions of the Vaccine Court, which has paid out some $3.0 billion and has acknowledged that specific vaccines have caused specific harms. See the disclosure inserts which comes in vaccine boxes. Ask your pharmacist for copies. Multi-dose flu vaccine contains a whopping 25 micrograms of mercury per dose, included as a preservative. That’s 74 quadrillion atoms of mercury. The single dose version contains under 1.0 micrograms, only 3 quadrillion atoms – still too much for me. The mercury in the flu vaccine passes through the placenta and is especially toxic to fetus and infant because their cells are dividing rapidly. Mercury affects cell division. The use of mercury as a preservative should be banned.

Some vaccines are ineffective. Discover Magazine reported that 73 percent of kids aged 7 to 10 who caught pertussis in 2012 in Washington had been fully vaccinated. The same is true for the measles vaccine. A child vaccinated with a live virus vaccine experiences a mild version of the infection and is thus contagious and infects others. Outbreaks of measles and pertussis probably come from the vaccinated, not from the unvaccinated. The artificial immunity conferred by vaccines wears off, and boosters are required, making vaccines a cash machine that generates $30 billion yearly.

A reasonable question to ask is this: If vaccines worked, those who favor indiscriminant vaccination should not object to those who choose not to be vaccinated.

The problem worsened in 1986. Before that date vaccine liability had always been decided according to state law regardless of which court the case was brought in. 1986 Congress federalized all vaccine liability claims. A law was passed requiring that all claims for vaccine harm go to a special “Vaccine Court”, where there was and is no jury and no pre-trial discovery. The statute of limitations is tricky and short, and the burden to prove a specific vaccination harmed a child is arbitrarily difficult. Vaccine makers are shielded against general liability and even for badly designing a vaccine. Claims are paid out of a fund built up with a tax on each vaccine dose sold. This has led vaccine makers to become reckless, to do insufficient testing of vaccines, and to industrialize the vaccine business.

Before 1986, vaccination had been a technology aimed at the most deadly and contagious diseases. Vaccines were to be put into use only after careful testing. Vaccines were and are needed when a potentially fatal disease progresses so fast the body cannot respond before death occurs. Because adverse reactions are inevitable, vaccines should not be used to prevent diseases which are rarely fatal. However, vaccine makers, newly exempt from all liability, turned necessary vaccination against the most deadly diseases into a mass-production money machine targeted against any and every conceivable disease.

Vaccine makers ship vaccines banned in the West to the Third World, such as the urabi strain MMR vaccine, the dangerous partially attenuated oral polio vaccine used in Pakistan, and a tetanus vaccine which causes miscarriages – none of which would inspire one to trust what vaccine makers say.

All drugs and all vaccines involve some risk which the CDC admits in its assurances that serious harm or death is rare. If the risk of taking the vaccine is greater than the risk of enduring the disease, one has the right to refuse to take the vaccine. Adults can refuse vaccination for themselves. They are the guardians of their children. They know their children’s frailties and previous bad experiences with vaccines. They have the right to opt their children out. If vaccinations work, there should be no objection if some choose not to be vaccinated.
Washington has recently made it more difficult for parents to decline vaccination for their children. Unvaccinated children can be sent home if there is an outbreak of a childhood disease in his or her school, which is odd since the CDC admits, in the case of pertussis, it is vaccinated children who are spreading the disease.

Despite all the evidence that some vaccines cause serious harm, many so-called experts exhort us that all vaccines are safe and effective, and most people stubbornly believe them. Why? Mark Twain explained it best “It’s much easier to fool someone than to convince them they have been fooled.

Examine the evidence for yourself and do your own thinking. Administration of vaccine in mass quantities should not be mandatory, and some vaccines should be banned outright.
The connection between the fluoride scam and the vaccine scam is that they are both run by mega corporations without ethical standards.

We should not be afraid to follow the science where ever it logically goes and be outspoken on other contaminations, such as Roundup, which I just learned is sprayed on non-GMO wheat as a dessicant, so most non-organic bread is loaded with Roundup.


SOURCE:  http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=12072


SOTN Editor’s Note on the above article:
The following (above)exposé on vaccine safety and their inherent dangers is noteworthy because it is written by a Washington State attorney who really understands the profound legal ramifications. James Deal, J.D. wastes no time in completely deconstructing the many false assertions that are routinely presented by those government and corporate entities promoting a Super-Vaccination agenda.
More importantly, Attorney Deal furnishes the American people with the substantive legal arguments which can serve as the basis for lawsuits against both the Pharmaceutical Industry and the U.S. Federal Government.  When considered in the aggregate, the implicit points of law delineated below constitute a legal foundation for a clear-cut criminal indictment.  Great harm is being inflicted on the children throughout the country by mandatory, state-sponsored vaccination programs.
No entity under the sun has the right or lawful authority to arrogate power unto itself to harm or injure, sicken or infect, paralyze or kill the people of this nation.  Not only is such conduct a serious breach of the social contract, it represents a profound violation of the public trust.  Vaccination programs therefore break the inviolable bond between the citizenry and the government.

Dr. Paul Thomas, M.D. – Preserve Medical Freedom – Vaccines Linked to Autism

Dr. Paul Thomas in Oregon, prior to testifying in a committee hearing on proposed bill SB 442 to remove vaccine exemptions for children.

Health Impact News Editor Comments
Dr. Paul Thomas, M.D. was born in Portland Oregon, and grew up in Southern Africa. He has a masters degree in biology, an M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School, and completed his pediatric residency at the University of California, San Diego. He is a board-certified fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and also carries board certifications in Addiction Medicine and Integrative Holistic Medicine. He started the Pediatric After-hours Clinic (now Pediatric ER) at Emanuel Children’s Hospital, where he also taught medical students and residents from 1988-1993.

Dr. Thomas is obviously knowledgeable in the area of immunization, as a practicing pediatrician and currently one of the few actual board-certified fellows of the American Academy of Pediatrics residing in the State of Oregon. He took time out of his busy schedule to appear at the hearing last week before the Oregon Senate Committee on Health Care, regarding Bill SB 442, written by Oregon State Senator and physician Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, which seeks to remove all philosophical and religious exemptions to vaccines in the State of Oregon.
Here is Dr. Paul Thomas’ testimony and comments regarding his concerns about this proposed law:


Dr. Paul starts out his comments by mentioning how SB 442 will remove all philosophical and religious exemptions to vaccines, and that the only medical exemptions that would be allowed would be from “certain pre-selected medical providers.”

He states: “This is a travesty.”

Dr. Paul then stated why this bill is such a travesty:

This is powerful. This is important. This is for our children. We need to protect our children and preserve the right for freedom of choice, and the right to give informed consent when your child is about to get a vaccine.

Dr. Paul then begins his testimony by stating that he represents 11,000 patients and that 500 new babies come into his practice each month wanting informed consent about vaccines.



He states that it is his responsibility as a physician to point out the risks and benefits of every medical procedure, but that this proposed bill would not allow him to do this for his patients.
Next, Dr. Paul addresses the Hepatitis B vaccine routinely given to newborn babies in hospitals. He states that the amount of aluminum contained in this vaccine is 10 to 15 times the limit allowable for infants.




He provided handouts for each committee member showing the peer-reviewed studies linking toxic aluminum exposure to brain damage and autism.



According to Dr. Paul, the only people who need the Hepatitis B vaccine are moms who are positive for Hepatitis B, which is less than 1% in Oregon and the rest of the country:

So we are going to poison the other 99%, and it is going to be mandated by this law, so that we cover that 1%. And our Ob Gyns are doing a masterful job. We know who needs the vaccine and who doesn’t.

Dr. Paul also pointed out a study conducted in Norway that followed 85,000 pregnancies over 6 years which tracked folate intake and autism.

Norway only had a 1 in 1000 rate of autism, while the U.S. had a rate of 1 out of 100. As Dr. Paul looked for the differences in newborn pediatric care between the U.S. and Norway, he noticed that Norway does not give the Hepatitis B vaccine at birth like the U.S. does.
Dr. Paul then made the stunning statement that in his practice he currently has over 1000 kids at least 3 years old, and there are no new cases of autism, while nationally, his peers in pediatric care are seeing 1 out of 50 children on the autism spectrum. He tells the committee that we can greatly reduce the rate of autism by understanding that increased vaccines are in fact correlated with increased rates of autism. He referenced the 2004 CDC study that supposedly showed no link, but which now is known to show an increased link to autism among African-American boys after the release of all the data sets last year (2014).

Dr. Paul ends his brief testimony before the committee by stating that the “science is not settled” linking vaccines to autism, and that we need more studies.
Will the politicians listen? Or will they pass this bill anyway, forcing every child in Oregon who wants to attend school and receive other services to first receive forced vaccinations against the will of their parents and doctors like Dr. Paul Thomas?

Next Public Hearing on Oregon Bill SB 442

There is another public hearing scheduled on SB 442 for March 9, 2015. If you would like to tell Senator Dr. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward how you feel about this bill, here is how to contact her:
Senator Elizabeth Steiner Hayward
Democrat – District 17 – NW Portland/Beaverton
Capitol Phone: 503-986-1717
Capitol Address: 900 Court St. NE, S-215, Salem, Oregon 97301
Email: Sen.ElizabethSteinerHayward@state.or.us
Website: http://www.oregonlegislature.gov/steinerhayward
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SenatorElizabethSteinerHayward

Other  members of the Senate Committee on Health Care:
Senator Chip Shields
Democrat – District 22 – Portland
Capitol Phone: 503-986-1722    District Phone: 503-231-2564
Capitol Address: 900 Court St. NE, S-421, Salem, Oregon 97301
District Address: 2104 NE 45th Ave., Portland, OR 97213
Email: Sen.ChipShields@state.or.us
Website: http://www.oregonlegislature.gov/shieldsc
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/State-Senator-Chip-Shields/898399056848666

Senator Laurie Monnes Anderson
Democrat – District 25 – Gresham
Capitol Phone: 503-986-1725
Capitol Address: 900 Court St. NE, S-413, Salem, Oregon 97301
Email: Sen.LaurieMonnesAnderson@state.or.us
Website: http://www.oregonlegislature.gov/monnesanderson
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SenatorLaurieMonnesAnderson

See Also:

Medical Tyranny in Action in Oregon: Doctor and Senator wants Medical Freedom for herself, but Not Oregon Citizens

Other Physicians Questioning Vaccines:

See Also:

Richard Moskowitz, M. D. – The Case Against Immunization 

Dr. Toni Bark, M.D. – Do Not Remove Vaccine Exemptions – Some Children Die from Vaccines

Nicholas Gonzalez, M.D. – Scientifically No Polio Vaccine was Needed

Dr. Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. – The Danger of Excessive Vaccination During Brain Development: Link to Autism

Dr. Brownstein, M.D. – Human DNA From Fetal Cells in Measles Vaccine Could be Linked to Increase in Autism

Dr. Michael Elice M.D. – Media Promoting Medical Harm to Our Children

Dr. Lee Hieb M.D. – Vaccine Hysteria Could Spark Totalitarian Nightmare

Doctors Against Vaccines: The Other Side of the Story is Not Being Told

Dr. Rowen: Measles Spread by those Vaccinated

Dr. Humphries: The Truth About Measles the Mainstream Media is Suppressing

Arizona Cardiologist Responds to Critics Regarding Measles and Vaccines

Former UCLA Medical Center Pediatrician: Let Parents Choose on Measles Vaccine

Doctors Against Mandated Flu Vaccines

 SOURCE: http://vaccineimpact.com/2015/dr-paul-thomas-m-d-preserve-medical-freedom-vaccines-linked-to-autism/

Please visit the site above for MORE INFORMATION.  The Vaccine Impact has solid research, facts and findings that do effect each and every one of us to some degree.

 

CONNECTING THE DOTS

Did Vaccines Cause My Daughter’s Cancer?

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Thinking Moms' Revolution
 

I read with great interest the recent ‘measles epidemic’ articles that addressed the vaccine debate from the point of view of a cancer parent. My interest is the result of being a cancer parent myself – my little girl has been battling leukemia on and off for the past 10 years. I read these articles, and I became angry. Very, very angry. Once again, the government and drug companies are exploiting the plight of children stricken by cancer to achieve a profit-driven end without actually helping them. In fact, this profitable end could cause great harm, even increasing the rates of pediatric leukemia, if their obvious goal of a federally mandated vaccination protocol is achieved. I am a seasoned Momcologist, a term the research-driven cancer parents call themselves.  We are the cancer equivalent of  Thinking Moms, critical thinkers. I have done extensive reading on the etiology of leukemia, its connection to autoimmune disease, and how vaccines and natural disease may influence these sorts of childhood illnesses. Come connect the dots with me.

Clearly, I empathize with the raw fear the parents in these articles have that their children may contract an illness that could be devastating to their immunocompromised children. I have walked for years in their shoes. I get it. However, the parents in these articles are either grossly misinformed, or their comments have been edited with bias. Let’s get some facts straight about cancer treatment and infection. One of the first things we were warned about after my daughter’s diagnosis was live-virus vaccination. No one in the family was to receive a live-virus vaccine while my daughter was on treatment because these viruses can and do shed (1, 2, 3, 4), some for as much as four weeks (5), potentially infecting the immunocompromised patient with disastrous results. That includes the measles vaccine  (MMR II and ProQuad), the intranasal flu vaccine, and the chicken pox shot. In fact, my other children were able to get medical waivers not to receive vaccines because of my daughter’s illness. I know my child is much more likely to encounter a peer at school who has been recently vaccinated with a live-virus vaccine than she is to encounter natural disease from an unvaccinated child.

If my child were at a stage of treatment in which she was very immunocompromised, she would not be in school. My daughter missed most of fourth grade and a good portion of fifth, not because she was so sick, but because others were sick. Despite a nearly 100% vaccine compliance rate at our school, there were regular outbreaks of shingles, occurring after chicken pox vaccine boosters, influenza and other illnesses. Please note that, even in areas in which vaccine compliance is extremely high, there are still outbreaks of disease that are not caused by the unvaccinated (6).

The most deadly threats for a child during intensive cancer treatment lie right within his or her own body. Immunocompromised pediatric cancer patients are far more likely to die from opportunistic infections that originate from overgrowths of fungi, mold and bacteria(7) than they are from vaccine-related viral infections.  When I searched to find the last recorded incidence of a child dying of measles (because that is the hated disease du jour) while undergoing cancer treatment, well, I couldn’t find one.  I did, however, find at least one death in the immunocompromised from the measles vaccine (8), with no indication of when it or they occurred. There hasn’t been a recorded death in the U.S. from measles in the past 10 years. (9) In fact, measles infection may actually be curative of some blood cancers (10, 11), presumably by initiating normal immune system defenses.  The measles virus as an actual treatment has also been explored in other malignancies (12, 13).


There is evidence that the “hygiene theory” of the immune system may have some relevance to to vaccines. It has been found that more “hygienic” populations, i.e. kids who have had fewer exposures to everyday germs, are at higher risk for some illnesses. The idea being that the immune system needs to “learn” how to respond appropriately by coming in contact with common bugs in order to develop properly.  Industrialized countries that have a decrease in infectious burden over less developed nations nevertheless show an increase in allergies and autoimmune disease.  “The leading idea is that some infectious agents — notably those that co-evolved with us — are able to protect us against a large spectrum of immune-related disorders.” (14) Are we trading benign, transient illnesses that were once considered normal childhood rites of passage, illnesses that appear to be protective for more serious disease, for a lifetime of chronic illness, even death?

A discussion of the peculiarities of leukemia is in order, its relationship to the immune system, and the and the idea that vaccines can act as a possible trigger for the cancer itself. Leukemia begins with the development of immature white blood cells in the bone marrow, when one of these baby white blood cells mutates into an abnormal, leukemic cell. The more actively the body produces white blood cells (which are infection-fighting cells), therefore, the higher the risk of mutation. This is the explanation given for  increases in the incidence of leukemia after a flu virus passes through an area (15), and why children who exhibit hyper-stimulated immune responses in the form of asthma and eczema also have increased risk for leukemia (16). It may seem contradictory to discuss infection as a preventative for leukemia when applying the hygiene hypothesis, while also pointing to infection as a cause.  It’s apparently all about the maturity and status of the immune system.  “Timing is critical, as early infections are likely to positively modulate the immune system thereby reducing risk of leukemia, whereas later infections in children whose immune system was less well modulated may increase such risk.” (17)

Time to stop and connect more dots.  What are American children exposed to that deliberately hyper-stimulate the immune system? Vaccines. Our children are subjected to an incredibly aggressive vaccine schedule, the likes of which no other country sees, from the day they are born (and we have the highest first-day infant death rate of any first-world country, by the way) (18). Could we actually be triggering leukemia, the most common form of childhood cancer, with these vaccines? Particularly when we give them to children who already show signs of abnormal immune response?

Vaccines are not calibrated by weight or age or health-risk factors; potency levels of vaccines are standardized (19), which may cause hyper-stimulation for a child with a highly sensitive immune system.  Isn’t it interesting that less industrial countries have lower rates of autoimmune disease,  yet when those kids come to industrialized countries, in one generation they match our rates? (20) Could this possibly be related to the fact that these immigrants are required to submit to more aggressive vaccine schedules?

Acute lymphocytic leukemia is also less common in third-world countries, despite their children’s otherwise more debilitated state.  Children in industrialized nations experience a sharp rise in leukemia between two and six years of the age, the vaccine years, which does not occur in less developed nations. (21)

It is so very obvious that this potential connection requires exploration, yet the only studies to be found merely compare leukemia in more vaccinated to less vaccinated kids. The data from children who are completely unvaccinated is critical in uncovering the true reality of overall pediatric health.  We may very well find many interesting discoveries. Read this study from Germany (22), for example, which shows less acute and serious chronic illness overall for unvaccinated children, though they did not include childhood cancer. Why are we merely chasing a cure when a likely cause is sitting right under our noses?

Jean’s daughter

One word: Profit. As of 1988, vaccine makers and the doctors who administer vaccines bear no liability for vaccine injury (23). They cannot be held accountable by law for adverse events from vaccination. In fact, the entire adverse event reporting system (VAERS) is voluntary! This means that the more aggressive our vaccine schedule, the more profitable it is for vaccine makers. But what about the Centers for Disease Control, don’t they direct the vaccines our children really need? Please note that the CDC uses worldwide disease data to formulate our policies, which makes no sense at all. How could one possibly compare a malnourished child living in unsanitary conditions and subsequently exposed to illness to a child exposed to that same illness in a first-world country? I invite parents to take a look at the resumes of some of the heads of pharmaceutical companies and members of the CDC like this one (24). One can very clearly see those in charge of vaccine policy have a dangerous conflict of interest with those who profit from that policy. Remember, pharmaceutical companies contributed $34 million dollars in campaign funds in 2014  (25). It would behoove anyone attempting office these days to err on the side of ‘big pharma.’

I must add additional comment about parental trust in the government as it concerns our cancer kids.  Once parents recover from a cancer diagnosis, they have a strong desire to  help their children – to participate in activism in some way.  It is then they discover a disturbing reality about the state of pediatric cancer research and funding: In a united front, the major cancer fundraising organizations, our government, and the pharmaceutical industry ignore pediatric cancer. Why? First, kids don’t vote.  Second, kids don’t get cancer in rates high enough to warrant good profit returns. There has not been a novel drug developed for the treatment of acute lymphocytic leukemia, the most common childhood cancer, in 20 years (26). Oncologists are forced to use the same horridly harmful chemotherapy and radiation; the only variability in protocols is in the combinations, dosages and timing of the same archaic drugs. And while ‘cure’ rates have increased, childhood cancer incidence is still on the rise (27).  Over and over again, however, these organizations will exploit the pitiful stories and pictures of our kids to tug heartstrings and solicit funding.  The National Cancer Institute directs a pittance (4%) at pediatric cancer research versus other, more common and profitable, cancers (28).  When  will health research be directed by the needs of the people rather than the greed of corporations?
If any parent wants their child to be safe from preventable illness, it is a cancer parent. Yet I also stand with scores of cancer parents who have seen their children become stricken with leukemia shortly after vaccination.  My little girl?  She was diagnosed with leukemia shortly after her pediatrician “caught her up” on her shots almost 10 years ago.  That “catch up” schedule matches the regular schedule for a toddler today.  Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to untangle true childhood cancer statistics or ‘cure’ (as in survival) rates (29).  The SEER database includes only five states and ten cities in the U.S., and one cannot readily backtrack to the time before the mad rush of vaccines. (30)

It is time to ask the hard questions for the sake of our children.  Are we actually causing leukemia and other childhood illnesses with these vaccines?  Could we even prevent leukemia by allowing natural disease?  The current measles “scare” is clearly a push for a federally mandated vaccine program.  Measles is highly contagious, yes, but benign (even potentially helpful) for the vast majority in a first-world country. If the current vaccine schedule could be harming our children, what will happen when pharmaceutical companies are given carte blanche?  Do we really want to relinquish our parental rights to a government that has shown itself to be both corrupt and callous in their treatment of our cancer kids?  What data is critical to either prove, or disprove, the hypothesis that vaccines can lead to increased chronic disease, particularly those related to the immune system like leukemia?  An independent study of the overall health of vaccinated versus unvaccinated children must be undertaken.  It is past time to finish connecting the dots to reveal the true picture of vaccines and childhood cancer.   Though it is too late for my vaccine-injured daughter, this Momcologist stands against vaccine mandates, for the health of future children.

~ Jean Ghantous
About the author:  Jean Ghantous is a wife and mother of three with a background in science, who formerly held a position with a pharmaceutical company as a research specialist. She has been a Momcologist for the past 10 years, since her daughter was diagnosed with high-risk pre-B cell acute lymphocytic leukemia as a toddler. After three years of treatment, the family enjoyed years of remission until her daughter was again diagnosed with a very late relapse at nine years old. She is currently in remission and doing well.
Jean’s penchant for research led to the important discovery that transfusional iron overload had been a long-overlooked high-risk factor for adverse late effects in cancer children. “Oncologists are so focused on treatment protocols that preventative care has been neglected, universally,” said Jean. “I realized within the first 10 minutes of researching iron overload that not only did my daughter have a very grave problem, but many kids, over many years, were at risk as well. I was horrified to read the list of side effects of iron toxicity; it was eerily similar to the late effects one is told to expect from chemotherapy.” Jean pushed for treatment and preventative care. She said “No one addressed iron overload because, well, no one had NOTICED it. For decades of cancer treatment.” This led to her hospital implementing a computerized tracking program for transfusional iron deposition and its involvement in a nationwide strategy for reducing risk from iron toxicity in children with cancer.
While Jean had always been suspicious that vaccines could play a role in the development of leukemia, she was told her daughter’s diagnosis after aggressive vaccination was “coincidence.” After her third child also sustained a vaccine injury, Jean took on the additional descriptor of Thinking Mom and became more actively involved in advocating for vaccine safety. “It is abundantly clear to any parent who takes the time to do the research that there is a very real causative connection between immune system disorders, chronic disease and vaccines,” warns Jean. “American kids are sick, really sick. EpiPens, inhalers, glucometers, special diets and special-needs teachers have become normalized in our schools. Four children in my neighborhood have been granted Make-A-Wish trips for life-threatening illness. One-third of my son’s class is in need of special-needs educational support. This is NOT normal. We MUST stop this insane, profit-driven push for federal vaccine mandates. Clearly, our families’ futures depend on it.”
References
1) “Detection of Measles Virus RNA in Urine Specimens from Vaccine Recipients,” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC228449/
2) “ Vaccine Oka Varicella-Zoster Virus Genotypes Are Monomorphic in Single Vesicles and Polymorphic in Respiratory Tract Secretions,” http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/193/7/927.full
 3) MMR II vaccine insert: “Excretion of small amounts of the live attenuated rubella virus from the nose or throat has occurred in the majority of susceptible individuals 7 to 28 days after vaccination.” http://www.merck.com/product/usa/pi_circulars/m/mmr_ii/mmr_ii_pi.pdf
4) “Chickenpox Attributable to a Vaccine Virus Contracted From a Vaccine With Zoster,” http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/106/2/e28.full
5) FluMist vaccine insert: “FluMist contains live attenuated influenza viruses that must infect and replicate in cells lining the nasopharynx of the recipient to induce immunity. Vaccine viruses capable of infection and replication can be cultured from nasal secretions obtained from vaccine recipients (shedding).” Study showed shedding up to 28 days post vaccination: http://www.medimmune.com/docs/default-source/pdfs/flumist_pi.pdf
6) “Influenza Outbreak in a Vaccinated Population — USS Ardent, February 2014,” http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6342a3.htm?mobile=nocontent
7) “Infections in the Neutropenic Patient— New Views of an Old Problem:,” http://asheducationbook.hematologylibrary.org/content/2001/1/113.full
8) MMR II vaccine insert: “Measles inclusion body encephalitis{44} (MIBE), pneumonitis{45} and death as a direct consequence of disseminated measles vaccine virus infection have been reported in immunocompromised individuals inadvertently vaccinated with measles-containing vaccine.” http://www.merck.com/product/usa/pi_circulars/m/mmr_ii/mmr_ii_pi.pdf
9) “There has been no measles deaths reported in the U.S. since 2003,” Dr. Anne Schuchat, the director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. (Apparently, the veracity of this statement is in question, as CDC data for 2009 and 2010 both list two measles deaths, leading one to wonder why does the director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases not seem to know about them?  Don’t you think given the current hoopla about an outbreak with no associated deaths that they would be screaming about them?  Could it be that they were in immunocompromised people who got the disease either from the vaccine or from recently vaccinated people?)  http://vaccineimpact.com/2015/zero-u-s-measles-deaths-in-10-years-but-over-100-measles-vaccine-deaths-reported/
10) Bluming A, Ziegler J. “Regression of Burkitt’s lymphoma in association with measles infection.” The Lancet. 1971 Jul 10;:105–106.
11) “Remission of Disseminated Cancer after Systemic Oncolytic Virotherapy,” http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(14)00332-2/fulltext
12) “Measles Virus for Cancer Therapy,” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3926122/
13) Liu TC, Galanis E, Kirn D. “Clinical Trial Results with Oncolytic Virotherapy: A Century of Promise, a Decade of Progress.” Nat Clin Pract Oncol. 2007;4(2):101–117. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17259931
14) Hygiene hypothesis: “In countries where good health standards do not exist, people are chronically infected by those various pathogens. In those countries, the prevalence of allergic diseases remains low. Interestingly, several countries that have eradicated those common infections see the emergence of allergic and autoimmune diseases.”
“The ‘Hygiene Hypothesis’ for Autoimmune and Allergic Diseases: An Update,” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2841828/
15) “Childhood Leukemia Incidence in Britain, 1974–2000: Time Trends and Possible Relation to Influenza Epidemics,” http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/98/6/417.full.pdf+html?sid=b366f430-37bb-49a4-b9b0-794149a1d2da
16) “Allergic Conditions and Risk of Hematological Malignancies in Adults: A Cohort Study,” http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/4/51
17) “Timing is critical, as early infections are likely to positively modulate the immune system thereby reducing risk of leukemia, whereas later infections in children whose immune system was less well modulated may increase such risk.”
“Infection and Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia,” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2834409/
18) U.S. highest first-day infant mortality of industrialized nations: “6 Articles You Should Read about Infant Mortality in the U.S” http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/fault-lines/FaultLinesBlog/2013/9/19/america-s-infantmortalitycrisisbackgroundreading.html
19) “Potency Tests of Combination Vaccines,” http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/33/Supplement_4/S362.full
20) “The ‘Hygiene Hypothesis’ for Autoimmune and Allergic Diseases: An Update,” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2841828/
21) “An Infectious Aetiology for Childhood Acute Leukaemia: A Review of the Evidence.” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15491284. Sharp peak in ALL diagnoses in developed countries between 2 and 6 years; early infection could be protective.
22) German study on the health of vaccinated versus unvaccinated children: http://healthimpactnews.com/2011/new-study-vaccinated-children-have-2-to-5-times-more-diseases-and-disorders-than-unvaccinated-children/
23) Vaccine Liability removed: http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/March-2011/No-Pharma-Liability–No-Vaccine-Mandates-.aspx#a1
24) Julie Gerberding: “Merck Announces Appointment of Dr. Julie Gerberding as Executive Vice President for Strategic Communications, Global Public Policy and Population Health,” http://www.mercknewsroom.com/news-release/corporatenews/merck-announces-appointment-dr-julie-gerberding-executive-vice-president
25) Pharmaceutical campaign contributions 2014: “Pharmaceuticals/Health Products: Long-Term Contribution Trends,” http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/totals.php?cycle=2014&ind=H04
26) “Little Patients, Losing Patience: Pediatric Cancer Drug Development,” http://mct.aacrjournals.org/content/5/8/1905.full
27) Childhood and Adolescent Cancer Statistics, 2014: http://acco.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=gAi0ji8IFPU%3d&tabid=670
28) National Cancer Institute gives 4% to pediatric cancer research: http://acco.org/Information/AboutChildhoodCancer/ChildhoodCancerStatistics.aspx
29) “Because Statistics Don’t Tell the Whole Story: A Call for Comprehensive Care for Children With Cancer,” http://acco.org/LinClick.aspx?fileticket=9egsDtJw3fw%3d&tabid=670
30) SEER database: http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2011/results_merged/sect_29_childhood_cancer_iccc.pdf

SOURCE:  http://thinkingmomsrevolution.com/vaccines-cause-daughters-cancer/

Much Needed Vaccination Conversation

"Whether you're pro-vaccine, anti-vaccine, or fall somewhere in the middle, the questions you need to ask yourselves are as follows:

Do you want to live in a world, where you cannot freely refuse a medical procedure that carries risk of injury or death? I'm not questioning your comfort level with today's vaccine schedule, because today's vaccine schedule will change. New vaccines and additional doses are added all the time. children today receive as many as 49 doses of 14 vaccines before they reach age six, which is roughly 12 times higher than the number of vaccines administered to children back in 1940. With more than 220 new vaccines in the developmental pipeline for children and adults...and no end in sight..the question you must ask yourself is ARE YOU CERTAIN you will be 100% comfortable with vaccines that are added to the mandated list in the future?

If you say that yes, you're comfortable, then you're either
a) not expecting to be a parent or grandparent,
b) don't have to worry about it because your kids are grown and out of the house, or
c) lying to prove a point.

No critical thinker, no honest person, would ever sign off on the sight-unseen vaccine schedule of the future. And yet that's what you're doing when you condemn the people who are fighting for your right to refuse. YOU have the right to refuse, should you ever choose to use it, because the very "anti-vaccine" people you demonize have been fighting for us all.

Right now, the burden of "herd immunity" falls on small children, but that is changing. Vaccine manufacturers see an untapped market in adult vaccines and are coming for you next. What will you do if your state, your employer, or your insurance company forces you to get a vaccine that you simply don't want? It hasn't happened to you yet, but if the right to refuse is eroded, it will happen to you sooner than you might think. Who then will you turn to? Your legislators who get campaign donations from pharmaceutical companies? The CDC that has former pharma executives sitting on the board? Who will you turn to if you ever want to say no? There will be no one.

Once we enter the slippery slope of removing and individual's right to refuse medical procedures that carry a risk of injury or death, once we remove an individual's right to speak for him/herself and his/her children, we open ourselves up to an insidious new era, where other drugs and other procedures can be mandated. I heard (on NPR, interestingly enough) that there are people who want to test for a gene marker that's been found in mass shooters in the hopes that they can put the carriers of that gene on medications in early childhood. Sounds great, right? But many of us carry genes that will never be expressed. You could be a carrier of that gene. Or your child could be a carrier. So if we follow the "for the greater good" mentality behind vaccines (or the Nazi's "for the greater good" mentality behind eugenics (breeding out illness), we are looking at forcing people who may never express a sociopathic gene to take antipsychotics, just in case. Because that's what forced vaccination does. It asks children who may never come into contact with a particular virus to accept a vaccine just in case. And that's what eugenics was all about. It sterilizes people who can pass on a genetic disease just in case. Forced vaccination is a human rights violation, and to support it when you know that the government's own Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System exists and lists people who have died as a result of vaccines is unethical at best, sociopathic at worst.

The ethical thing to do is to allow people their right to refuse and leave it up to doctors and big pharma (who have marketing budgets larger than the GDP of some countries) to do a better job of convincing parents that vaccines are safe. We can start by reversing the law that grants vaccine manufacturers total immunity from vaccine injury lawsuits. Because as it stands, you can't sue a vaccine manufacturer if your child is injured or killed by a vaccine, even in cases where they could've made a safer vaccine and chose not to or when they failed to recall a contaminated lot# in a timely manner. Think about that. You can't sue the manufacturer. That immunity from liability does more to shake parents' confidence in vaccines than anything else out there."

Author unkown. Great questions that everyone should be asking. It is getting shared all over on other sites and felt it brought some insight maybe not thought about."

Rebuttal To CHOP Doc's Radio Broadcast

From: Kreider, Susan
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 6:35 PM
To: 'thepulse@whyy.org'
Subject: Editorial by CHOP MD advocating elimination of religious and philosophical vaccination exemptions by Parents

Dear Radio Producers,

Sunday morning I had a ‘kitchen moment’ while listening to a rerun of your weekly health news program, The Pulse. Unlike your so-called ‘driveway moment,’ this consists of being in the kitchen and yelling “Idiots!!” at the radio at the top of my lungs, in response to the female CHOP doctor who believes “for the Greater Good,” Parents should not be able to choose whether their children are vaccinated.

Does 4 years of medical school and at least as many years of residency make her God, not a doctor? Vaccines are not without risk. My (hypothetical) child should risk being crippled by injection of toxic substances in order to (hypothetically) protect your child who cannot receive vaccines? Perhaps your child was damaged in utero because you foolishly chose to vaccinate while pregnant. Of course, vaccines for pregnant woman have never been tested because it is unethical to test vaccines on pregnant women. Doesn’t it therefore follow that a woman must be a risk-taker if she accepts vaccines while her fetus is most vulnerable? Does the female doctor even remember when we used to be concerned about even drinking coffee while pregnant?

If my perfect child becomes damaged after receiving vaccines to protect your defective child who cannot receive vaccines, does my vaccine-injured child get written off as collateral damage? Who will pay for the medical bills and additional care? Our broken dreams? Since manufacturers cannot be sued for defective products, why would I want to take such a chance? What makes the industry care if their products are defective? Doesn’t that, in fact, offer opportunity to sell more products to treat vaccine-induced maladies?

It is rather like the folks who protest a woman’s right to choose. Are they going to step up to the plate to adopt the unwanted child? I seriously doubt it. They should mind their damn business and worry about their own souls.

Prior to vaccinations I was forced to receive in 1990-91 as a nursing student, I was the picture of health. Seventeen years later I settled with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program because –more likely than not—the subsequent sensory variant of Guillain Barré Syndrome I developed left me crippled. People ask me if I have post-polio syndrome. I am happy to educate them that vaccines caused me to be crippled. It is the only satisfaction I have from the experience.

If CHOP doc is stupid enough to volunteer for an annual flu shot so that she can maintain her employment at CHOP, she can be my guest –I hope she does! She can have my dose as well.

Sincerely,

Susan

Susan Kreider MS, RN, CPC
Surgical Clinical Nurse Reviewer
ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Clinical Effectiveness Quality Improvement
3535 Market Street, Ste. 50
Philadelphia, PA 19104
tel.: 215.662.6185
fax.: 215.662.7399

Complete Article: http://vaclib.org/legal/forced/Chop-editorial.htm

 

Iatrogenic Child Abuse

What is Iatrogenic Child Abuse?

The word iatrogenic is Greek.  Iatros means physician and genein means 'to produce' so iatrogenic means an effect produced by a physician.

The American Heritage Medical Dictionary say it means:

'Induced in a patient by a physician's activity, manner, or therapy.' 

(http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/iatrogenic)

So iatrogenic child abuse is when harm or death is caused to a child by inappropriate medical treatment or procedures advised and carried out by a medical personnel.  This is not to say that all medical treatment is child abuse, certainly not. 

If a child has a heart condition and a surgeon performs an operation to try and correct the heart, yet the child dies on the operating table, this is not iatrogenic child abuse unless it was proven to be due to the surgeon's incompetance.

Examples of iatrogenic child abuse are:

1. Vaccines - these are given to otherwise healthy children with nothing wrong with them so are not in fact, a medical treatment and are not indicated for the treatment of any illness, yet they have the chance of causing serious injury and even death in a small minority of children.  The majority of doctors fail to inform parents of this possibility and many parents don't even know of the existance of manufacturer's data sheets, EMC Medicines or CDC vaccine information statements (VIS) so proper informed consent is not given in most cases.  Lack of parental knowledge and informed consent puts the blame of iatrogenic child abuse on the individual doctor or nurse who administered the vaccine.  See this video of a mother talking about the death of her son after MMR and how she was never told that children with febrile seizures should not recieve MMR and how she wasn't given any information on vaccine side-effects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sI8A92hofg

In 1980, O.T.S Bajc wrote in a paper on pertussis vaccine:

'Since there is a significant difference between the incidence of spontaneous fits in children of the same age group and the incidence after DPT a causal relationship between the DPT and the seizures appears to be confirmed....the severe damages are particularly tragic as they are iatrogenic and in most cases affect primarily completely healthy children.'

(Convulsions after Pertussis Vaccination, Schweiz.Med.Wschr, 1980.  110, 1965-71, p.13).

VAERS lists 5061 events since 1990 where the patient died after a vaccine, 2978 of them were children under the age of 3 years.  Please note that VAERS is a voluntary reporting system, most doctors don't report, most events are passed off as 'coincidence' or SIDS and the FDA estimate only 1% of actual cases are reported to VAERS.

(http://medalerts.org/).

The UK's 'yellow card' reporting system also noted 18 child deaths after vaccinations in a period of 4 years, but again, the system is voluntary and most reactions are not reported so this only represents a dip in the ocean. 

'The report, covering the period between 2001 and 2004, details how one baby suffered a cot death following MMR vaccination in 2003. Two more infants were reported to have died after having the MMR jab in 2001, but the cause of death in both cases was unknown.

After the death of a child who developed meningitis and swelling of the brain three weeks after an MMR jab in 2004, a claim for compensation was made by the child's parents. It is not known if this was successful.

Six fatalities followed meningitis C vaccinations between 2001 and 2003. The deaths of seven other babies were linked to combined vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough and reported to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). They include a baby who died from a heart attack. Another died after a polio jab.
Almost 800 other reports of suspected complications of childhood vaccination - including convulsions and hyptonia, in which the baby becomes floppy like a "rag doll" - were also made, including 160 for MMR.
Medics raised the alarm under the MHRA "yellow card" warning system, set up to monitor suspected adverse drug reactions. Although making such a report does not prove that vaccination caused death or injury, it means that doctors fear it may have played a part.'

Despite this the JCVI (who are a group of doctors who get paid by vaccine companies), found there was 'no significant safety issues with vaccination' (they don't call death a significant safety issue?).

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3336455/Secret-report-reveals-18-child-deaths-following-vaccinations.html).

2.  Paracetamol/Cold Medicines - For years doctors advised parents to use cough and cold medicines on their children when they have an illness and pharmaceutical companies marketed and sold such drugs to parents for years, who trusted them as figures of authority.  Now it turns out that there was never any evidence at all that they help children and they can harm and even kill them.  The MHRA say:

'The new advice is that parents and carers should no longer use over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold medicines in children under 6. There is no evidence that they work and can cause side effects, such as allergic reactions, effects on sleep or hallucinations.'  (http://www.mhra.gov.uk/Safetyinformation/Safetywarningsalertsandrecalls/Safetywarningsandmessagesformedicines/CON038908).

One in four children are also being prescribed excessive amounts of paracetamol by their doctor, putting them at risk of liver damage (The Telegraph, 19th May 2011 - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/children_shealth/8522559/Over-confident-doctors-prescribing-paracetamol-to-children-too-readily.html).

Doctors also falsely advise the use of paracetamol after vaccination.  For instance, the NHS say:

'Vaccinations shouldn’t hurt, although the area injected can be sore and red afterwards. Your child may develop a mild fever (a temperature greater than 37.5ºC) after the vaccination. If a fever develops, you can give your child infant paracetamol or ibuprofen to treat it.'

(http://www.nhs.uk/Planners/vaccinations/Pages/Appointmenttips.aspx).

This is advised even though medical science now links paracetamol use after vaccination to autism and it is known that if you give paracetamol to a child it lowers his immune system by reducing glutathione (immune cells) and thus makes the vaccines more ineffective because his body can't mount a response to them (The Autism journal wrote: ' This preliminary study found that acetaminophen use after measles-mumps-rubella vaccination was associated with autistic disorder.' - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18445737 and the Lancet wrote 'Although febrile reactions significantly decreased, prophylactic administration of antipyretic drugs at the time of vaccination should not be routinely recommended since antibody responses to several vaccine antigens were reduced' - http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2809%2961208-3/abstract).

The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology wrote:

'In febrile children, treatment with repeated supratherapeutic doses of paracetamol is associated with reduced antioxidant status and erythrocyte glutathione concentrations. These significant changes may indicate an increased risk for hepatotoxicity and liver damage' - Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2003 March; 55(3): 234–240 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1884208/

Paracetamol use in babies up to six months of age (when they are giving a lot of vaccinations) is also associated with the development of asthma and allergies (for instance, in this study Acta Paediatr. 2011 Jan;100(1):90-6 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21143295).  While a lot of parents think of asthma as a mild condition, it isn't.  It can be lifelong and disabling, requiring medications for life and it even causes death.  In 2009 in the UK there were 1,131 deaths due to asthma, 12 of them in children aged 14 or under.  One person every 8 hours dies from asthma in the UK.  Every 17 minutes a child is admitted to hospital because of asthma so to recommend something they know is causing harm is iatrogenic child abuse (statistics from Asthma UK - http://www.asthma.org.uk/news-centre/facts-for-journalists/).

Paracetamol use is also the number one cause of liver failure in both the UK and the USA (Acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure: Results of a United States multicenter, prospective study - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hep.20948/abstract;jsessionid=E0F0D0E56119644161AB244DB3D15312.d03t02 and http://www.bmj.com/content/322/7281/290?view=long&pmid=11157536).

Despite this, pharmaceutical companies advertise children's paracetamol products on television and in magazines and advise parents to give their children paracetamol after 'baby jabs'.

So the doctors and nurses create the child's fever and symptoms by giving a vaccination and the pharmaceutical companies then have a captive audience of feverish, symptomatic babies that they can profit from.  Such advertising ought to be illegal but it isn't.  They make your child sick so they can then sell you a product to make him better.

3. Other prescribed Medications and/or Untested Vaccines - Drugs which have NEVER BEEN TESTED in children can be prescribed for them by doctors.  For instance, Cisapride (also called Propulsid), a drug used to treat gastric problems in children, was never tested in children under 16 years.  The data sheet said:

'Safety and effectiveness in pediatric patients under the age of 16 years have not been established for any indication. Although causality has not been established, serious adverse events, including death, have been reported in infants and children treated with PROPULSID.'

(http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/archives/fdaDrugInfo.cfm?archiveid=6603).

The drug was suspended after five UK deaths and 60 heart complications as a result of the drug.  Why it was ever used in the pediatric population when it had never been tested in children is anyone's guess.  (UK licence for cisapride suspended, BMJ. 2000 July 29; 321(7256): 259 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1118265/).

The H1N1 'swine flu' vaccine was not tested fully before it was released to the public.  Testing only began in July 2009, yet the vaccine was released to the UK public for mass vaccination including under 5 year olds in October 2009.  The NHS said

'The trials may take some months to complete, and the vaccination programmes are likely to begin before the full results are available. However, there should be sufficient results by September or October to spot real safety concerns.' (http://www.nhs.uk/news/2009/07July/Pages/SwineFluVaccineTest.aspx

No one can say after 3 months whether a drug is safe.  Later, it was found that children could get the debilitating sleep disorder, narcolepsy, after one brand of H1N1 vaccine.  WHO wrote:

'On 1 February 2011, the National Institute for Health and Welfare of Finland issued a preliminary statement following an investigation into the cases of narcolepsy in Finland¹ . A systematic retrospective registry-based review was conducted of all new narcolepsy cases diagnosed during 2006-2010. Cases from 2009-2010, who were born in 1990 or later, were reviewed using newly developed Brighton collaboration criteria for the disease. During 2009-2010 they found that the risk of narcolepsy among people aged 4-19 years old who had received pandemic influenza vaccine was nine times higher than that among those who had not been vaccinated. This corresponds to a risk of about 1 case of narcolepsy per 12,000 vaccinated in this age group.'

(http://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/topics/influenza/pandemic/h1n1_safety_assessing/narcolepsy_statement/en/index.html).

Six year old Josh is an example of a child who got narcolepsy only three weeks after the untested H1N1 vaccine despite being previously healthy, and eight year old Lucus, who has had to leave school because he sleeps up to 20 hours a day.  His mother said

"I was never warned that there could be any connection between the swine flu vaccine and narcolepsy. “We have been told there is no cure for the illness and Lucas will have to live with it now for the rest of his life.
“He was a humorous little boy who used to make me laugh so much. He had a wicked sense of humour.
“All that’s gone and all that’s left is this angry frustrated little boy. It’s heartbreaking absolutely heartbreaking."  (The Sun, 12th December 2011 - http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3994121/Did-flu-vaccine-give-my-boy-narcolepsy.html).

In Australia, a fast tracked swine flu vaccine caused previously healthy 11 month old Saba Button to become brain damaged, quadriplegic and epileptic.  The vaccine also caused a massive spike in pediatric hospitalizations for seizures and was later banned for use in under 5 year olds.  (Saba Button, the Girl who is Never Alone, Perth Now, 7th April 2011, http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/saba-button-the-girl-who-is-never-alone/story-e6frg13u-1226035296706 and http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/flu-vaccination-ban-goes-national-after-fever-convulsions-in-children-20100423-tglp.html).

4. Inappropriate Prescribing - Doctors also prescribe medications and give vaccines that are not meant for children.  For instance, the banned flu vaccine mentioned above is still being given to under 5 year olds in Australia despite being banned in this age group and causing the death of one child and the brain damage of Saba Button.
Doctors are still injecting tots and this has led to one toddler being left critically ill in intensive care in April 2012.
Australian Medical Association WA President David Mountain said some doctors had “dropped the ball” after it was revealed that seven children under five had received Fluvax this year.
“I think some doctors who have given the vaccine (to under fives) have certainly dropped the ball,” Mr Mountain said. “For some reason they have not managed to get the message.
“There has clearly been a breakdown in communication or the standard procedures within general practices.
“It’s very clear on the inserts that comes with the product that it isn’t for children under five. There have been a lot of warnings and very clear instructions for the drug.”  (WA Kids Given Banned Flu Shot, Perth Now, 21st April 2012 - http://www.optuszoo.com.au/news/top/perth-now/wa-kids-given-banned-flu-shot/648111).

Other drugs can also be mis-prescribed, such as eczema medications.  For instance, when my son was 10 months old he was diagnosed with eczema (that he had had since 5 months and been mis-diagnosed).  The doctor gave me a steroid cream for his eczema that said on the label it wasn't meant for children under 10 YEARS old and an anti-histamine medicine that wasn't meant for under one year olds.  I was disgusted and didn't give him either.  I used a lavender natural eczema cream and then removed cows milk from his diet and he recovered at 13 months and has never had eczema again (he is now 5 years old).  What if another parent hadn't read the labels?  Many just trust their doctor.

5. Experiments Involving Children - Children from poor countries, disabled children, children in foster care, etc, are often used for medical trials before the medicines are proven safe enough to be tried on humans.  The All India Institute of Medical Sciences used 4,142 babies in tests on medicines, vaccines, instruments and new therapies.  A total of 49 babies died and the health ministry set up an inquiry but the Institute said the babies died of natural illness and not their experiments.  (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/2590667/India-investigates-drug-trial-baby-deaths.html).
The single measles vaccine introduced in the UK in 1968 was tested in 1960 on children with Down Syndrome and Mental Retardation living in institutions.  A health reporter for the Sunday Times wrote:

'BABIES and young children with Down's syndrome were used as guinea pigs by British doctors in 1960 to test an experimental vaccine for measles. The Sunday Telegraph has learnt that the children, who were living in institutions for the "severely subnormal" were subjected to the experiments because the doctors said it was "useful" having them in hospital where they could watch over them for adverse reactions.

One of the children died seven days after being vaccinated from a common side-effect of measles, but the doctors described it as coincidental in their report.

Llewellyn Smith, Labour MP for Blaenau Gwent, said last night that he would press for an adjournment debate tomorrow. Mr Smith, who has campaigned for two years on behalf of children damaged by vaccines, said that to use mentally handicapped children as guinea pigs was "to say the least scandalous. It is totally unacceptable in any society which calls itself civilized. There must be an inquiry into how this could have happened. I do not see how it could have been justified."  (Originally in the Sunday Times, 6th July 1997, http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/vaccine_awareness/Downs_Babies_Vaccine_Subjects.html).

There have also been cases where children are involved in medical experimentation without the knowledge or consent of their parents.  According to an article that was originally in the Staffordshire Sentinel, the infamous Staffordshire Hospital carried out tests on 122 sick and premature babies between the years of 1989 and 1993 to test different ventilation units.  43 babies died who had been subject to the trial ventilation units, compared to only 32 of another group of 122 who had recieved traditional ventilation.  That's 11 deaths that could have been avoided.  The point of contention is that the parents of the babies say that they were not aware their children were part of a trial and say the doctors forged their consent signatures.  Stafford Hospital have always denied this.  (http://www.msbp.com/staffordshire_sentinel.htm).

6. Birth Errors - Some complications of childbirth cannot be foreseen or avoided and these do not constitute iatrogenic child abuse.  However, if there is midwife or OB incompetance or the mother's medical needs have been ignored, this can constitute doctor caused child abuse.  For instance, 3 day old Alexandra died after a botched forceps delivery that caused severe spinal injury.  Her parents had begged for a caesarean section repeatedly but their request was refused.  They were never warned of the dangers of a forceps delivery.  The Daily Mail wrote: '

Using forceps safely requires a high level of skill and expertise, which ‘means that the outcome is always uncertain, even for experienced surgeons,’ says leading U.S. surgeon Atul Gawande, head of the World Health Organisation’s Safer Surgery initiative.
‘If you’re seeking the safest possible delivery of every baby, you have to take notice of the steady reports of terrible forceps injuries to babies and mothers, despite the training that clinicians have received,’ he says.
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1253013/Forceps-killed-baby-doctors-using-them.html).

Indeed, I (founder of VAN UK) had an episiotomy forced on me which gave a pain scale of 10/10 (never been in so much pain in my life - I now have no hip socket and a dislocated hip and bones that are chipping off and I had to be put on morphine.  My pain before they put me on morphine was less than that of the episiotomy).  It got infected and spread and nearly killed me.  The doctor told me if I hadn't got antibiotics when I did, I could have died of sepsis.  The scar still hurts after 16 years.  I was not warned that the pain could be severe or about possible injuries to my child and I DID NOT CONSENT.  My daughter was born with a cut face, but nothing compared to what Alexandra's poor parents went through.

In another case, a midwife plunged a six day old baby's foot into boiling water leaving her with burns so bad she may require skin grafts.  (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2002954/Stafford-Hospital-6-day-old-baby-left-horrific-burns-midwives-carlessness.html).  Stafford Hospital, where the incident occured, is already under its fifth investigation because between 400 and 1,200 patients have died there due to 'neglect' and sub-standard care from medical staff.  (http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/nov/08/stafford-hospital-nhs-failings-inquiry).  There has also been a police enquiry.

Other examples include congenital abnormalities caused to children by drugs given to their mothers in pregnancy (such as the thalidomide scandal).  The H1N1 vaccine given in pregnancy also caused an increase in miscarriages and reported cases of late term fetal death, sometimes at full term.  Some of the VAERS reports are listed here: http://www.progressiveconvergence.com/VAERS%20updates.pdf

7. Diagnosing Toddlers with 'Mental Disorders' - Pychiatrists are increasingly diagnosing children as young as 2 years old with conditions such as ADD and bi-polar depression (being up one minute and down the next).  What 2 year old has any attention span at all?  Most mothers will tell you their 2 year old is constantly on the go, never sits still, only concentrates for a couple of minutes before moving on to the next thing and they can turn on the waterworks at the drop of a hat and then laugh the next minute.  Completely NORMAL behaviour for a toddler, that's why people dub it 'the terrible twos'.  Now apparently being a toddler and having toddler tantrums means you can get diagnosed with ADD or bi-polar (manic) depression.

One such toddler was 2 year old Rebecca Riley who was put on Depacote, seroquel and clonidine for supposed 'bi-polar' and ADD.  The little girl died at 4 years old after the drugs caused her lungs to fill with fluid.  The International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry wrote:

'The medical examiner’s office determined Rebecca died from “intoxication due to the combined effects” of the drugs Clonidine, valproic acid (Depakote), Dextromethorphan, and Chlorpheniramine and that her heart and lungs were damaged due to prolonged abuse of these prescription drugs. Investigation into the cause of her death revealed she was taking 750 milligrams a day of Depakote, 200 milligrams a day of Seroquel, and .35 milligrams a day of Clonidine.'  (http://isepp.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/2-5-million-settlement-in-wrongful-death-of-rebecca-riley-against-psychiatrist/).

Despite it being the psychiatrist who diagnosed these conditions in Rebecca and two of her siblings and being perfectly happy to give a 2 year old child, toxic and mind altering medications, it was Rebecca's parents who were tried and convicted of murder.  (In my opinion, all were negligent and the healthcare provider should have been tried also). 

However, the healthcare provider was given 'immunity':
'On February 9, 2010, Carolyn Riley was found guilty of second degree murder in the death of her daughter and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 15 years.

 In a separate murder trial, Rebecca’s father, Michael Riley, was convicted of first degree murder and received the automatic sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Kifuji, agreed to testify in the murder trials of Rebecca’s parents only after being granted immunity from prosecution.'

(http://isepp.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/2-5-million-settlement-in-wrongful-death-of-rebecca-riley-against-psychiatrist/).

To see part of the court hearing, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU5Er1f2LSs

The reason why Kifuji was granted immunity and got away with the death of a child is because of something called, 'the standard of care' - this means that in cases where something goes wrong, professionals ask what would have been done for the majority of patients?  The fact is, the vast majority of psychiatrists would have prescribed anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, muscle relaxants etc because that is what they do.  Since the 1960's and even earlier they have been working on developing more and more  psychotropic drugs, getting paid hansome fees by drug companies and moving further away from their original purpose of helping patients with psychotherapy and counselling.

Because of this, Kifuji was not tried for murder also.  The standard of care is not there to protect patients, it's there to protect doctors from prosecution.

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry found that in America, a shocking 1.5% (a staggering one in 70) privately insured children between the ages of 2 and 5 were taking psychtropic medications.  Columbia University professor of clinical psychiatry, Mark Olfson said:

"About 1.5 percent of all privately insured children between the ages of 2 and 5, or one in 70 children, received some sort of psychotropic drug -- whether an antipsychotic, a mood stabilizer, a stimulant or an antidepressant -- in 2007."

(Pediatric Bipolar Disorder: A Review of the Past 10 Years, http://www.jaacap.com/article/S0890-8567%2809%2962192-4/fulltext).

Genital Mutilation of Children - Some countries, such as USA, routinely cut off the foreskins of baby boys, supposedly to prevent infection and because it is supposed to prevent cervical cancer in women if their sexual partner is circumcised, however, there is little medical evidence for this.  According to Net Doctor, this myth arose from a 1947 report that stated Jewish women rarely got cervical cancer so it must be down to the fact that their husband's were circumcised.  However, this was only a theory and further studies over the last 50 years do not provide enough evidence to support this theory.

It has also been suggested as a preventative for HIV, although the British Journal of Urology say there is no evidence for this and the evidence is contradictory so it cannot be recommended as a preventative for HIV.

There was a myth that it can prevent penile cancer but in fact circumcised men are more at risk of penile warts compared with intact men so the risk of developing penile cancer is almost the same between the two groups.

It is credited with being 'cleaner', and although STI's that cause ulcers on the genitals, like herpes simplex, are more common in intact men, infections like gonnorrhoea that affect the urethra (the urine tube) are more common in circumcised men and circumcised men can more easily pass thrush infections to their partners.

(http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/menshealth/facts/circumcision.htm).

So there is little medical evidence that it is necessary to cut off part of a baby boy's penis and evidence that it causes harm and distress.  If men are given the operation for a medical health reason later in life, they are given a general anaesthetic.  If it is done to a baby or child, they are only given a local anaesthetic and sometimes nothing at all.  Those who are old enough to describe it, say it is painful and video footage of babies being circumcised show them screaming in agony (I won't put a link on here, because I am the mother of a son and find it too upsetting so I'm not going to subject any readers here to that).  It is totally unnecessary pain and suffering when they could be put to sleep for the procedure.

Male Health say that circumcisions cause severe complications in 1 in 50 patients and this includes bleeding excessively, infection, ulceration of the penis, psychological problems and sexual problems in adulthood.  (http://www.malehealth.co.uk/circumcision/18888-circumcision-faqs).

Medical scientists recognise that circumcision then makes vitamin K supplementation of boys necessary because a circumcised boy is much more likely to have heavy bleeding, so parents opting for this, or those doing it for religious reasons should have a form of vitamin K, where by drops or injection, as the risks to the baby boy are too great.  This of course creates extra revenue for manufacturers of artificial vitamin K (PubMed Health, Vitamin K deficiency bleeding; VKDB, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0004573/).

The Journal of Boyhood Studies found that the annual death rate from routine infant circumcision is 117, making circumcision responsible for 1.3% of all male neonatal deaths.  The journal wrote:

'Baby boys can and do succumb as a result of having their foreskin removed. Circumcision-related mortality rates are not known with certainty; this study estimates the scale of this problem. This study finds that approximately 117 neonatal circumcision-related deaths (9.01/100,000) occur annually in the United States, about 1.3% of male neonatal deaths from all causes. Because infant circumcision is elective, all of these deaths are avoidable. This study also identifies reasons why accurate data on these deaths are not available, some of the obstacles to preventing these deaths, and some solutions to overcome them.'

(http://www.mensstudies.com/content/b64n267w47m333x0/?p=73874bae26624f9e8f865afcac183a01&pi=5).

Because the baby boys aren't actually ill and do not have a penile complaint that would require surgery, the evidence for its benefit as a preventative is so scant and the procedure is done without proper pain relief, that is what makes it iatrogenic child abuse.

Iatrogenic Deaths in all Persons, Child and Adult, in the USAThese are statistics taken from various studies and so are estimates:

Adverse Drug Reaction Deaths - 106,000 persons per year.  (http://www.healtoronto.com/adrjama.html and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11144691).

Another more recent study found that adverse drug reactions were responsible for 6.2% of all first hospital admissions and 4.2% of re-admissions and that 44.3% of adverse drug reactions were preventable (Readmissions and adverse drug reactions in internal medicine: the economic impact, J Intern Med. 2004 Jun;255(6):653-63 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15147529).

Medical Errors - 98,000 persons per year - this number of people dying from medical mistakes every year means that more people die from medical mistakes, than from breast cancer, traffic accidents and AIDS.  This was the top range figure (ranging anywhere from 44,000 to 98,000) written in an Institute of Medicine report entitled 'To Err is Human' - sorry, but not when you are in charge of human lives.  (http://freecasereview.com/InjuryLawArticles/medicalerrors.htm).

Hospital Acquired Infections - 90,000 persons a year.  By 1995 the rate of hospital acquired infections was 9.8% of patients, resulting in one death in a US hospital every 6 minutes.  I am unaware whether this rate has now gone up or down.  (http://www.scribd.com/doc/8427830/Nosocomial-Infection-ControlWhite-PaperGreg-Luther-BioWarn-LLC).

Outpatient Deaths Resulting from Sub-standard Care - 199,000 deaths per year.  (Is US health really the best in the world?, JAMA. 2000 Jul 26;284(4):483-5 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10904513).

Unnecessary Surgery - 12,000 per year - ( Leape L.Unecessarsary surgery. Annu Rev Public Health. 1992;13:363-38).  Leape wrote, in 'Unnecessary surgery, 1989, that:

'Allegations have been made that as many as 20% of operations are unnecessary.  In 1984, surgeons performed 25.6 million surgeries, an increase of 5.6 million since 1975.  If this is true, or even close to true, unwarrented surgery represents a problem of staggering magnitude in terms of needless pain, suffering and death.'

He continued

'Lewis (1969) found that the availability of surgeons to be an even more powerful predictor of utilization than bed supply....the number of physicians and surgeons alone accounted for nearly 50% of the variation (in numbers of surgery) observed.

In 1970, Bunker observed twice as many surgical procedures performed in the United States as in Great Britain and that the United States also had twice as many surgeons.

Overall, the weight of evidence indicates that if one area has more surgeons than another, its citizens will have more operations.  This is to be expected, for an unemployed surgeon has strong incentives to stimulate referrals.'  (Unnecessary Surgery, page 10, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1065571/?page=10).

Examples of some of the most common types of unwarranted surgery include caesarean sections, hysterectomies and gall bladder surgeries (http://www.medicalmalpractice.com/legal-advice/medical-malpractice/medical-malpractice-injuries/what-the-most-common-unnecessary).

For caesarean section, the mother has a three times higher risk of death compared with vaginal birth (4 in 10,000 instead of 1 in 10,000 - see obstetric myths and reality page for citations) and the baby has a higher risk of neonatal death before discharge from hospital and of an impaired immune system.

The late Dr. Barbara Starfield of the John Hopkins School of Hygeine and Public Health said that the US health care system caused between 230,000 to 284,000 deaths per year - making medical deaths of a higher amount than those who died in the Vietnam war (60,000) and making it the third leading cause of death. I, however, think this is an under-estimation based on the figures from the studies I quoted as all of these figures would add up to 505,000 deaths per year, not including vaccine deaths for which scientific statistics are not kept, so I believe the medical system to be the number one cause of death.   See Barbara's page (http://alternative-doctor.com/specials/Dr_%20Barbara_Starfield.htm).

SOURCE: http://www.vaccineriskawareness.com/Iatrogenic-Child-Abuse