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Dec. 11, 2001
Washington, D.C. – The National Vaccine Information Center
(NVIC) today released a comprehensive report on smallpox and smallpox vaccine
critical of model state legislation initiated by the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) militarizing the public health infrastructure during
state-declared “public health” emergencies. In the report, which is published
in the organization’s newsletter, THE VACCINE REACTION and is available at www.909shot.com,
NVIC calls for full testing of both old and new smallpox vaccines before
release because the old smallpox vaccine was never tested in clinical trials
and the CDC admits it is so dangerous that it cannot be used on a mass basis
today.
In an editorial, NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe
Fisher criticizes a federal plan urging state health officials to use the state
“militia” to arrest, imprison and force vaccination and medication on Americans
and be exempt from liability for any injury or death that results.
The plan “treats American citizens like runaway slaves in need of subjugation” said NVIC’s Fisher. “America should have a sound, workable emergency plan in place in the event of a bioterrorism attack, but not one that places the life and liberty of the majority in the hands of an elite few, who will have the power to take both from citizens without their consent”.
The proposed legislation would also give health officials
control of all roads and the power to seize homes, cars, telephones, fuel,
food, firearms, prescription drugs and alcohol. It has already been introduced
in Massachusetts.
A non-profit, educational organization founded in 1982 by
parents of vaccine-injured children, NVIC serves as a consumer watchdog on
vaccine development and policymaking. NVIC advocates the institution of safety
and informed consent protections in the mass vaccination system and basic science
research into genetic and other biological factors which place some individuals
at high risk for vaccine injury and death.
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AS PROVIDING MEDICAL OR LEGAL ADVICE. THE DECISION WHETHER OR NOT TO
VACCINATE IS AN IMPORTANT AND COMPLEX ISSUE AND SHOULD BE MADE BY YOU, AND YOU
ALONE, IN CONSULTATION WITH YOUR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER.