Smallpox Outbreak
By Sherri
Tenpenny, DO
Continuned
from Last
Issue
Myth #4: There Is No Treatment For Smallpox
A more accurate statement is
“there are no pharmaceutical drugs for the treatment for smallpox.” But they
are working on that too. There are 274 antiviral drug compounds and testing
is underway to see if one can be useful in the treatment of smallpox.[7]
One such drug is called
hexadecylosypropyl-cidofovir (HDP-CDV). Not yet available for human use, it
has been found to be 100 times more potent than its cousin, cidofovir, a
drug used to treat retinal infections in HIV patients.
If studies pan out, HDP-CDV
will be offered in a pill or capsule form over 5-14 days for the prevention
and treatment of people exposed to smallpox.[8] Unfortunately, this drug is
being developed in Europe and will most likely be kept out of the US market
until long after the general public has been subjected to mass vaccination.
It is important to note that
there are several different presentations of a smallpox infection. The most
common is called “ordinary discrete” smallpox, occurring in more than 40% of
the cases. The outbreak is seen as a small scattering of pustules
distributed across the body. The person with this type of smallpox needs
minimal medical care and the reported death rate is <10%.[9]
For mild cases of smallpox,
adequate hydration and anti-fever products are essential for comfort and
maintaining a temperature below 102ºF. Keeping the skin clean to prevent
secondary bacterial infections is also important.
A 1927 Textbook of Medicine
recommends applying gauzed soaked in carbolic acid to “decrease itching and
prevent extensive scarring.”[10] Carbolic acid is used acutely for burns
that tend to ulcerate and other skin conditions that cause burning or
prickling pain. Homeopathic forms of carbolic acid are also available.
For the severe complications of
smallpox, modern day treatment options are available. The hemorrhagic type
of smallpox, occurring in approximately 3% of cases, presents as hypotensive
shock and can be treated accordingly. In another 3% of serious cases, the
confluent-type has extensive skin involvement. These patients can be treated
the same as a burn patient. All severe cases need to be treated for
dehydration and watched for signs of bacterial suprainfection.
Research done by Dr. Peter
Havens, MS, MD from the Medical College of Wisconsin postulated that death
from smallpox was due to multisystem organ failure, a complication of an
untreated acute cytokine (inflammatory) response. Massive oxidative stress
occurs, leading to free-radical damage in the kidneys and other internal
organs. However, Dr. Havens estimates that modern medical technology would
indeed decrease the death rate, to
possibly as low as 2-3%.
Comment: The
treatment of choice for severe free-radical stress is high dose
intravenous Vitamin C. If conventional medicine would recognize the value
of this treatment, they would also be forced to realize mass vaccination
is simply not necessary.
Treating severely ill patients
would require hospitalization and unfortunately, smallpox spreads the most
quickly in the hospital setting due to poor isolation techniques. In
addition, most patients in hospitals are ill and immunosuppressed by disease
or medication, making them more susceptible to infection.
Dr. Mike Lane, former director
of the CDC’s smallpox eradication program in the 1970s, said severely ill
smallpox patients could be treated in a suburban motel or remote government
building. “You can bring care to the patient if you elect to use the Motel 6
on the edge of town” rather than put smallpox victims in a hospital where
the disease could spread to patients with weakened immune systems.
Side Bar With Dr. Mike Lane:
Dr. Lane and I had a private
conversation during a coffee break. During his presentation, he had been
adamant that those within the “first ring” would need to be mandatory
vaccinate with 100% compliance. The “first ring” includes those that have
had immediate, close contact with patients who had confirmed cases of
smallpox. Lane stated that this was the only way that “ring vaccination
would work.” When I questioned his definition of 100% compliance, he said,
“Medical contraindications would not apply… there would be NO exceptions.
I would rather vaccinate them
and take my chances treating the potential complications. In India, we
vaccinated everyone. The only medical contraindication was leprosy, and we
sometimes vaccinated them. I’m sure that we killed a few people, but we did
the best that we could.”
I pressed the issue further by
saying, “if the death rate really is 30% (which I doubt), doesn’t that mean
the survival rate is 70%? Shouldn’t that person have the right to play the
odds with his health if he chose to?” His answer was the same: “If the
person is exposed, there will be NO exceptions, medical or otherwise. Those
people in the first ring -- regardless of health status MUST be vaccinated.”
That means that all people with
medical contraindictions -- organ transplants, cancer, HIV, eczema and other
skin conditions -- would be vaccinated, even it was against their will and
with the use of force, if necessary. He was quite the zealot about it;
hopefully, in the event of a smallpox exposure, more reasonable minds will
prevail.
Myth #5: The Vaccine Will Keep Me From Getting The Infection
Most people believe that all
vaccines work to protect them, meaning that the vaccine will be clinically
effective. What most people do not know is that vaccines have never been
proven to protect them from getting the infection.
This little known fact is not
only true for all vaccines, it is also true for the smallpox vaccine. Here
are a few examples:
Chickenpox vaccine:
“No data exists regarding
post-exposure efficacy of the current varicella vaccine.”
“Vaccinated persons have a
less severe out break than unvaccinated” [11]
Pertussis vaccine:
"The findings of efficacy
studies have not demonstrated a direct correlation between antibody
response and protection against pertussis disease.”[12]
Smallpox vaccine:
“Neutralizing antibodies
are reported to reflect levels of protection, although this has not been
validated in the field.” [13]
Dr. Harold Margolis, Senior
Advisor to the Director for Smallpox Planning and Response, stated in
Atlanta that “the vaccine decreased the death rate among those vaccinated
by ‘modifying the disease’, not by preventing
infection.”
Take Home Points:
1. Smallpox is NOT highly
contagious. You have time. Don’t panic.
2. Smallpox is only spread by close contact of less than 6 feet for at
least 6-7 days. You aren’t that close to coworkers or commuters.
3. Treatment for smallpox should be surveillance and containment, without
vaccination.
4. Smallpox is not highly fatal. There are treatments for smallpox.
5. The vaccine will not protect you from getting the infection. The
vaccine has high complication rates, is an experimental drug and there are
many contraindications. (Please see
this article)
Addendum:
As I was completing this report
this morning, I read in the New York Times that the CDC plans to increase
the number of “first responders” who receive the vaccination to 500,000 from
the agreed-to 15,000.[14]
Preparations are also underway
for rapid mass vaccination of the general public. The more extensive
vaccination plan is possible because supplies are increasing. As I have
stated before, the government spent more than $780 million to develop its
arsenal.
Now
that we have it, we will use it.
In addition to medical first
responders, a presentation at the June 20th meeting suggested that first
responders should also include a class to be defined as “economic first
responders,” those who would be necessary in keeping the economy moving in
the event of a nationwide “lock down” caused by an outbreak.
This group would include
pilots, truck drivers, food handlers, etc. It is the “etc.” that is of
concern. Where do you draw the line? Obviously, the line will be drawn after
Tommy Thompson’s vision of a “vaccine for every man, woman and child” has
been fulfilled.
One of the major problems is
the lack of vaccinia immune globulin (VIG), the “antidote” that is needed
for those who experience a severe reaction to the vaccine. The Times article
reports that there are only 700 doses currently available. Dr. Tom Mack,
among others at the CDC warned that, “in the absence of VIG, extensive
vaccination would be extremely dangerous.”
With the continued rhetoric
about the US plans to go to war with Iraq, we are essentially taunting
Saddam into launching a biological weapons attack on our own people.
We are not given an exact
knowledge as to Saddam’s capability but are given euphemisms such as
“reasonably high” or “quite high.” But we don’t know for sure. And if the
government knows, it is not telling. And if Saddam does have biological
smallpox, what is the chance he has other weapons of biological destruction,
those for which we do not have a vaccine?
We are developing “grounds” for
a war with Iraq in spite of the rest of the world telling us to stay out of
there. I encourage all to spend some time on this site:
www.globalpolicy.org
for some eye-opening information on policy that you won’t see in the popular
press.
We are setting the stage for a
health disaster unlike anything we have seen before in America, and it will
be our own doing. World health records (England, Germany, Italy, the
Philippines, British India, etc.) document that devastating epidemics
followed mass vaccination.
The worst smallpox disaster
occurred in the Philippines after a 10 year compulsory US program
administered 25 million vaccinations to its population of 10 million
resulting in 170,000 cases and more than 75,000 deaths from ‘smallpox’, in a
country having only scattered cases in rural villages prior to the onslaught
of vaccines.[15]
I received an excellent
bulletin from Larken Rose (www.Theft-By-Deception.com)
who is an activist regarding taxes. So much of what he said applies to the
vaccine movement, that I got his permission to include part of his letter
here.
It
is time to stand against forced vaccination.
Stop the hysteria! Information is power. However, after gaining power, you
must ACT.
Here is something to inspire
you:
More than 200 years ago, the
people of this country chose to tell King George, not just that he was
unreasonable, not just that they didn’t like him, not just that they had
complaints about him, but that they were going to resist by force his
tyrannical ways.
The Declaration was not a
threat to take King George to court; it was not a petition, or a request
for fairness, or even a demand. It was a statement -- a declaration --
that the people of America refused to tolerate the oppression, and were
going to openly resist it, and didn’t give a damn what the King thought
about it.
Though it may be politically
incorrect to describe it this way, the Declaration of Independence was a
bunch of people openly stating that they were going to ignore the law (not
debate it or litigate it), and overthrow their present government. (King
George was not a foreign invader; he was "the government.")
Again, in the words of the
Declaration, "when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing
invariably the same object, evidences a design to reduce them under
absolute despotism, it is the people’s right, it is their duty, to throw
off such government."
Where are the Americans who
still have that attitude?
There are a few (very few),
and most people consider them to be "fringe extremists." Where do YOU draw
the line? What injustice would government agents have to commit, before
YOU would openly resist? Is there a line for you? Or would you complain
and bicker all the way to absolute tyranny?
"Power concedes nothing
without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what
people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of
injustice and wrong that will be imposed upon them, and these will
continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they
suppress."
- Frederick Douglas
This is a very different
country today from what it was 226 years ago. We have become a country of
sheep. We occasionally "baaa" at government injustice, but we do not ACT.
For the most part, our “rebelliousness" now consists of pushing buttons in
voting booths, to hopefully elect the less scummy of two lying scumbags
(after a debate about which one is scummier).
For most people that is the
extent of their resistance to government-imposed injustice. Each of us
cowers in a corner for fear that we will be the next one that government
makes an "example" of. While self-preservation is no sin, at some point a
country of "self-preservers" will "preserve" itself into total submission to
tyrants.
We are one step away from that
now.
Once upon a time, a group of
individuals declared to the world that they would fight and risk death,
rather than tolerate the oppressions of an abusive government. Now, we are
too comfortable for that. We are spoiled. We are cowards. For today’s
battle, we need only the smallest fraction of the courage our forefathers
demonstrated.
We do not need to lie in the
mud, squinting in the cold to see the rifle sites, waiting for the glimpse
of British Troops that we know are headed our way just over the next ridge.
We do not need to run into the open field, in heavy enemy fire, to retrieve
our buddy who just had his leg blown off by a cannonball.
We do not need to leave our
families and friends to fight, and possibly to die. No, today the price for
our freedom (at least a huge chunk of it) is a pittance compared to what
others have paid, but I have my doubts about whether we are willing to pay
even that. What is that price? What do we need to do?
We
need to just say NO by affirming the following:
I will
avoid fear.
I will
seek alternatives to the forced
medical experimentation.
I will
avoid being injected with an
experimental new drug based on a “hunch” or based on something that
happened hundreds or thousands of miles from where I live.
I will
resist the government’s efforts
to take away my right to do what I believe is best for my body.
I will
take personal responsibility for my heath and for the health of
my family.
One of the major problems is
the lack of vaccinia immune globulin (VIG), the “antidote” that is needed
for those who experience a severe reaction to the vaccine. The Times article
reports that there are only 700 doses currently available. Dr. Tom Mack,
among others at the CDC warned that, “in
the absence of VIG, extensive vaccination would be extremely dangerous.”
For Further Information
Dr. Tenpenny will be on the
Art Bell show for three hours tomorrow, Sunday July 14. The show starts at
11 PM Pacific time (which is 1 AM Chicago time). You can go to
www.ArtBell.com to
find the local station in your area.
Sherri
Tenpenny, DO
Website:
www.nmaseminars.com
Phone: 440-268-0897
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References:
7. LeDuc,
James and Jahrling, Peter B. Strengthening National Preparedness for
Smallpox: an Update. Emerging Infectious Diseases, Jan-Feb 2001, Vol. 7.,
No. 1
8.
Highfield, Roger. New drug could conquer smallpox,
http://www.news.telegraph.co.uik 3-21-02.
9. Data
from Rao, 1972, quoted in Fenner Table 1.2
10.
Blumgarten, A.S. “A Textbook of Medicine” for nursing students. 1927.
11. MMWR
July 12, 1996/45(RR11); p. 12
12. MMWR
March 28, 1997/Vol.46/No. RR-7, pg. 4
13. JAMA,
ibid. p 2131
14.
http://www.nytimes.com /2002/07/07/national/ 07SMAL.html?todaysheadlines
15.
Physician William Howard Hay's address of June 25, 1937; printed in the
Congressional Record.
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