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Testimony of Raphaele Moreau-Horwin
& Michael Horwin
August 12th, 1999
Congressman Dan Burton
Chairman
Government Reform Committee
US House of Representatives
2157 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Congressman Burton,
This letter is in support of your Government Reform Committee on Vaccines; Finding the Balance
Between Public Safety and Personal Choice. After speaking with your
staff member, Mrs. Beth Clay, I had to forward you the appalling story
regarding the death of our son, Alexander. I have also included some of the
facts that my husband and I have uncovered since our son’s death that link
vaccination with brain cancer.
On August 10th, 1998 our only child, Alexander, was diagnosed
with the most common pediatric brain cancer, medulloblastoma. He was two years
old. Our lives were shattered. The next six months became a race against time
to try to understand the disease, find the appropriate treatment, and save
Alexander.
After two brain operations Alexander recovered quickly. We wanted to give
our son the most effective cancer therapy possible. After weeks of research,
many conversations with parents who had children with brain cancer, and
conversations with doctors from all over the world, we selected the Burzynski
Clinic in Houston, Texas. We arrived there and incredibly we were turned away.
Dr. Burzynski said he was not allowed to accept Alexander. I’ll never forget
it. We sat in an examining room. Alexander was smiling at the doctor.
"Why can’t you take Alexander?" I asked Burzynski.
"The FDA dictates who I can and can’t accept," Burzynski said.
Burzynski explained to us that the FDA would only allow him to accept
children who had suffered through chemotherapy and/or radiation and still had
"measurable tumor" left in their brains. Alexander hadn’t had either
of these "world class treatments" but already endured two brain
operations (16 hours of surgery in total) and was tumor free for the moment. He
had paid a dear price to be tumor free. His optic nerves had been injured so
that his big brown eyes were stuck pointing in opposite directions, he lost the
ability to cry and laugh and he temporarily lost the ability to walk.
"Please accept my son. He’s only two years old. His whole life is in
front of him. I know your treatment works. I’ve spoken to several parents whose
children are here. They had malignant brain tumors like Alexander but now
they’re alive and well. You have to treat my son," I begged.
Dr. Burzynski said simply, "I am sorry but I can’t." Burzynski was
saddened but he was powerless. The FDA had made him turn away many children
just like Alexander.
Chemotherapy was started soon after and Alexander died in my arms three
months later.
Because of the FDA, Dr. Burzynski has to turn away over 90% of the cancer
victims who come to him, many of them children. Burzynski’s cancer therapy is
non-poisonous to the body and light years ahead of the crude poisonous
treatments - chemotherapy or radiation - offered by conventional medicine. If
Burzynski could accept Alexander and other children like him his cure rate
would increase. It’s a clever ploy on the part of the FDA to only allow Dr.
Burzynski to accept children who have already had chemotherapy and/or radiation
and whose cancer has returned. Then nothing can save those children. When
Alexander’s cancer returned while he was on chemotherapy, he died within two
weeks.
Who is the FDA really protecting? Why would the FDA not want Dr. Burzynski
to have a high cure rate? Dr. Burzynski’s therapy is a better product - it is
not toxic to the body and it is much more effective against cancer. But every
year, chemotherapy and radiation gross tens of billions of dollars for
the drug companies and the medical establishment. If Dr. Burzynski’s treatment
was allowed to be accessible, imagine the market share it would take from chemo
and radiation. Imagine the money it would cost the drug companies and the cancer
doctors. It could literally cost them billions.
Lederle, the same company that produces vaccinations, manufacturers the
chemotherapy that killed Alexander! Alexander was originally diagnosed with
medulloblastoma. The cancer that took his life was called leptomeningeal
sarcoma. How did one cancer turn into another? By the carcinogenic (by
definition the "DNA changing") effects of chemotherapy. In fact,
nearly all chemotherapy drugs are listed as "Class I - Known Human
Carcinogens" with the FDA. Yet every day hundreds of children are injected
with these deadly chemicals.
Alexander’s immune system was completely destroyed by the chemo and he had
no strength to fight the new cancer.
Whether we are talking about childhood vaccinations, therapy for cancer,
treatments for cardiovascular diseases or any of the other big money makers,
the interests, motives and actions of the federal government are completely
inseparable with the motives and goals of the drug producers and the AMA
leadership. After all, we are talking about the exact same people. The same
doctors who work for the major drug companies and own stock in those
corporations take a rotation through the FDA. They will work at this
governmental "regulatory" body for a few years, make decisions that
protect their investments and careers, and then return to the drug companies
for reportedly bigger salaries and stock options. Over the last twenty years,
the most powerful people at the FDA have been employees, grant recipients,
board members or research "affiliates" of the major pharmaceutical
corporations.
Why
Did Alexander Get Cancer?
The Vaccine-Related Symptoms
Why did our strong two-year-old boy have a brain tumor? There is no cancer
on either side of our families going back three generations. Both of our
paternal grandmothers lived to almost 90! Two of Alexander’s great-grandparents
are still alive today.
My husband and I started to review everything we knew about Alexander’s
health. Alexander never had been a good sleeper. At four months old, when most
babies start to sleep through the night, Alexander actually got worse. He used
to wake us up at least four times a night and yell. We also recalled an evening
when Alexander was about seven months old. It was a couple of weeks after he
had received his latest round of vaccinations shots. He started crying very
loud and long and he suddenly had convulsions that lasted about five minutes. I
held him in my arms. He calmed down but it had made him very tired. The next
day I called his pediatrician. I was told that little children sometimes get
excited and can have spasms. It was nothing I should worry about. A couple
months later, Alexander would have another episode of "spasms."
After the age of one, Alexander began to have eczema outbreaks that would
cover the back of his legs. I went to the pediatrician. He said that lots of
little children have food allergies and he gave me cortisone cream. The cream
didn’t help very much. I used vitamin E and almond oil, which seemed to help a
little.
But why would Alexander get cancer? He always had been a good eater. He was
very strong and tall for his age- in the top 95 percentile in weight and height
compared to other children. We didn’t live near a nuclear plant, I didn’t work
near pesticides. My husband worked in an office. Since 1992, we had lived in
Marina del Rey, a suburb by the beach in Los Angeles. Of course, Los Angeles is
not known for its fresh air, but none of his little friends had cancer.
We started to do research on medulloblastoma - the brain tumor that
Alexander was originally diagnosed with. The tumor had been identified in the
1920’s by two of the first neurosurgeons, Drs. Percival Bailey and Harvey
Cushing. They removed medulloblastomas and other brain tumors at the Surgical
Clinic of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. We read their articles and
books and studied their graphs on the survival rates of children with
medulloblastoma. We learned that after "100%" of the tumor had been
surgically removed it would grow back within six to twelve months (assuming no
additional therapy was attempted). This suggested to us that the original tumor
took approximately that same amount of time to grow.
Alexander had been very irritable and threw up a lot in November 1997. The
pediatrician told me it was a viral infection, a stomach flu. Alexander often
had ear infections around this time. Then in March 1998, Alexander threw up
again and told me he had pain in his tummy. I thought he had swallowed a button
or little toy. That night, the pediatrician on call told us to go to the
emergency room. There, Alexander threw up more. The ER doctor told us that
Alexander had a viral infection. The next day, his pediatrician told me the
same thing. This was five months before he would be diagnosed with a three-inch
malignant tumor growing in his brain.
We now understand that sometime between November 1997 and March 1998 the
tumor began to grow.
What had happened to Alexander at or before that time which could have led
to cancer? I opened Alexander’s "medical file" and suddenly saw all
the vaccines he received within weeks or months of these symptoms. My husband
and I focused on the DPT, the IPV and OPV and Hepatitis B vaccine. What were
these vaccines all about? What was in them? And more importantly what were the
side effects on an infant’s brain?
The
Vaccine Cancer Connection
After extensively researching the medical literature, we have identified six
ways that vaccination may cause cancer, either directly or indirectly. After
reading this you may wonder why aren’t these subjects being actively pursued?
Childhood cancer is on the rise, why aren’t the "authorities"
conducting objective research to determine the risks? The answer is simple - money.
Nearly all the medical research in this country is funded by drug companies or
the U.S. government (viz. taxpayer’s money). Both parties have an inherent
interest in, at a minimum, maintaining the status quo. What would motivate a
drug company to pay for a study that demonstrates that their products cause
cancer? Do they want to commit fiscal suicide? Why would the federal government
pay for research that presents the dangers of a program that they have
ostensibly mandated?
Orthodox
Medicine Has No Idea If Vaccines Are Carcinogenic
We will begin with a very basic question - are vaccines carcinogenic? And
the answer is that nobody knows because no studies have ever been done.
The inserts that the vaccine manufacturers must place with each and every vial
of vaccine state this fact. Here’s a summary of what the vaccine manufacturers
publish about their products for the eyes of physicians. This information is
taken directly from their inserts as it is published in the Physicians’
Desk Reference (PDR, 51st edition, Medical Economics Co.
Inc., 1997). The last column is of most interest.
|
Type
of Vaccine |
Manufacturer |
Brand
Name |
Ages
Prescribed |
Studies
on carcinogenic potential according to manufacturer |
|
Chickenpox (Varicella) |
Merck |
Varivax |
12 months and older |
No studies conducted |
|
DTP |
Lederle |
Tetramune |
2 months to 5 years |
"Tetramune has not been evaluated for its
carcinogenic or mutagenic potential." |
|
DTP |
Lederle |
Tri-Immunol |
2 months to 7 years |
No studies conducted |
|
DTP |
Connaught (subsidiary of Pasteur Merieux) |
Tripedia |
15 months to 7 years |
"Tripedia has not been evaluated for its
carcinogenic or mutagenic potential." |
|
DTP |
Lederle |
Acel-Immune |
17 months to 7 years |
"Acel-Immune has not been evaluated for its carcinogenic
or mutagenic potential" |
|
DTP (whole cell pertussis) |
SmithKline Beecham (subsidiary of Pasteur Merieux) |
DTP |
6 weeks to 7 years |
"Animal and human studies concerning possible
carcinogenic or teratogenic effects have not been done." |
|
Hepatitis A |
SmithKline Beecham (subsidiary of Pasteur Merieux) |
Havrix |
Over two years old |
"Havrix has not been evaluated for its
carcinogenic or mutagenic potential." |
|
Hepatitis B |
Merck |
Recombivax |
"infants" |
No studies conducted |
|
Influenzae type b Haemophilus b conjugate with
diphtheria protein |
Lederle |
HibTITER |
2-71 months |
"HibTITER has not been evaluated for its
carcinogenic or mutagenic potential." |
|
Influenzae type b Haemphilus b conjugate with tetatus toxoid conjugate |
Connaught (subsidiary of Pasteur Merieux) |
ActHIB |
2 months to 5 years |
No studies conducted |
|
Japanese encephalitis virus |
Connaught (subsidiary of Pasteur Merieux) |
JE-VAX |
One year and older |
"No studies have been performed to evaluate
carcinogenicity or mutagenic potential." |
|
Measles live |
Merck |
Attenuvax |
15 months and older |
No studies conducted |
|
Measles, Mumps, Rubella live |
Merck |
M-M-R |
15 months and older |
No studies conducted |
|
Measles, Rubella (live) |
Merck |
M-R-Vax |
15 months and older |
No studies conducted |
|
Mumps (live) |
Merck |
Mumpsvax |
12 months and older |
No studies conducted |
|
Polio (live) |
Lederle |
Orimune |
6 weeks to 18 years |
No studies conducted |
|
Poliovirus (inactivated) |
Connaught (subsidiary of Pasteur Merieux) |
IPOL |
"infants, children and adolescents" |
"Studies in animals to evaluate carcinogenic
potential have not been conducted." |
|
Rubella and mumps (live) |
Merck |
Biavax II |
12 months and older |
No studies conducted |
|
Rubella (live) |
Merck |
Meruvax |
12 months to puberty |
No studies conducted |
None of the vaccines injected into children have ever been tested for
their carcinogenic (cancer causing), mutagenic (mutation causing), or
teratogenic (developmental malformation causing) potential. Not a single one.
Can these chemicals that are injected into healthy children cause cancer? The
people manufacturing the vaccines (the drug companies) and the bureaucrats
mandating the drugs can’t say because no studies have ever been conducted.
In summary, federal and state governments are mandating that infants and
children swallow and be injected with substances that have never been tested
for their ability to cause cancer, mutations or developmental malformations. In
the meantime, the drug companies are grossing billions of dollars on sales of
these potentially carcinogenic products.
How
Vaccination Can Cause or Contribute to Cancer
Vaccines
contain Known Carcinogens
If you call the American Association of Pediatrics and ask them what is the
safe dosage of mercury derivatives, aluminum and formaldehyde to be injected into
an infant, they may suspect child abuse. After they have calmed down, they will
explain that there is no safe dosage because these are all potentially
carcinogenic substances. But mercury derivatives, aluminum and formaldehyde are
ingredients in most vaccines. How is it possible that they’re safe? The answers
depends on who is injecting them. If you or I inject our child with mercury or
formaldehyde we are going to jail. But if a drug company and a doctor inject
the same chemicals then they are perfectly safe.
Viruses
Can Be Carcinogenic
Vaccines are comprised of viruses and viruses can be carcinogenic. According
to mainstream science a number of viruses with oncogenic (cancer causing)
properties have been identified over the last twenty years. The information
below comes from the chapter entitled "Etiology of Cancer: Viruses"
from the 5th edition of the book - Cancer: Principles &
Practice of Oncology. (One of the book’s editors is Dr. Vincent De
Vita, Jr., former director of the National Cancer Institute.) This chapter
lists various viruses and the cancers associated with them:
Virus And the Human Cancer associated with
them:
Hepatitis B
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Hepatitis C
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Epstein-Barr
Burkitt’s lymphoma
Epstein-Barr
Hodgkins disease
Epstein-Barr Immunoblastic lymphoma
HPV-16, HPV-18, 33, 39 Anogenital cancers and some upper airway cancers
HPV
5,HPV-8,HPV-17
Skin cancer
BK,JC
Brain tumours (possible), Mesotheliomas (possible)
HTLV-1
Adult T-cell leukemia
HTLV-II
Hairy cell leukemia
Murnane Poeschla E, Wong-Staal F. Etiology of
Cancer: Viruses, p.169, Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology;
Fifth Edition, edited by V. T. DeVita Jr., S. Hellman, S. A. Rosenberg.
Lippincott-Raven Publishers, Philadelphia, 1997.
The association between some viruses and some cancers is a well-accepted
medical fact. Are there other viruses that may cause or lead to other cancers?
Of course. There are literally tens of thousands of viruses, but only a small percentage
has been tested for their ability to cause cancer. In fact, some viruses use a
"team approach." One virus by itself may be relatively benign but
when it is combined with other viruses it "helps" the first one cause
cancer. These viruses are literally called "helper viruses." How many
various combinations of different viruses can lead to cancer, no one knows. But
when you consider that:
Children are injected with
bacteria (that contain viruses)
Children are injected with
viruses themselves as per the vaccine
The bacteria and virus vaccines
are grown on animal tissue (i.e. monkeys, eggs, etc.) that also contain their
own population of viruses
There is no way of knowing what viral combinations have formed and what is
in the final "soup" that will be injected into a healthy infant. The
toxicity test that vaccine manufacturers use is as crude as can be imagined.
They inject mice with the vaccines and if a given percentage still eat and put
on weight than the vaccine is pronounced safe for children. Unbelievable!
Vaccines,
Brain Injury and Brain cancer
Oncologists and neurosurgeons at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital and UCLA Medical Center told us that pediatric
brain cancer is on the rise? Why? Why are more and more children getting cancer
in their brains? Could it be due to the various types of brain injuries caused
by vaccines?
The fact that vaccines can cause temporary or permanent brain damage is an
established fact. Even the manufacturers admit it. For example, the
manufacturer of one of the DTP vaccines (Lederle), warns pediatricians on their
insert that their vaccine can cause "neurological complications such as
convulsions, encephalopathy, and various mono and polyneuropathies including
Guillian-Barre Syndrome…Permanent neurological disability and death have been
reported…"
- Physicians’ Desk Reference,
51st edition, Medical Economics Co. Inc., 1997
There is an abundance of medical literature going back one hundred years
that suggests a connection between cancer and chronic injury caused by viruses
or bacteria. It appears that cancers have a tendency to form in organs that are
injured or irritated by viral or bacterial infections. For example, it is well
known that people who have various forms of hepatitis (viruses that infect the
liver) are at a much higher risk for liver cancer. This fact was presented in a
recent article published in the European Journal of Cancer Prevention.
The authors wrote, "Chronic disease conditions…are well established as
risk factors for cancer development. These may be due to viruses (for example,
in the case of hepatitis and liver cancer), bacterial infections, parasite
infestation or physical trauma."
- Moore, MA, Tsuda H, Chronically elevated
proliferation as a risk factor for neoplasia. European Journal of cancer
Prevention 1988 October; 7(5): 353-385.
The same line of reasoning suggests that a viral infection of the brain
(which vaccines are known to cause) can lead to cancer of the brain. It’s a
rational conclusion and a reasonable question to ask, but no one from the drug
companies or the federal government is asking it.
Simian
Virus 40
In the 1950’s and 1960’s the polio vaccine injected into millions of
children contained an unexpected guest - another virus that was growing on the
same monkey kidney cells in which the vaccine was being grown. This virus was
named Simian Virus 40 (SV40) because it was the 40th simian or
monkey virus found. Unfortunately, this virus was also found to cause cancer.
The vaccine manufacturers changed their monkeys (African green monkeys) but
this wasn’t enough. Today SV40 is found in many human cancers including many
pediatric brain cancers. Coincidence? I don’t think so. It turns out that SV40
can be passed horizontally (i.e. between father and mother) and vertically
(i.e. between mother and child). In fact, SV40 is often associated with
medulloblastoma, the most prevalent pediatric brain tumor. When scientists
injected young hamsters with Simian Virus 40 over 80% developed brain cancers -
all of which were medulloblastomas. Here are a few of the studies that have
looked at SV40 and human cancers:
In 1979, Drs. Jaqueline Farwell,
George Dohrmann, Lorraine Marrett and J. Wister Meigs wrote a paper entitled: Effect
of SV40 Virus-Contaminated Polio Vaccine on the Incidence and Type of CNS
Neoplasms in Children: A Population-Based Study, in which they
found a substantial increase in childhood brain tumors, especially
medulloblastoma, when the mothers had been inoculated with vaccines containing
SV40. They wrote:
"In the late 1950’s and
early 1960’s, an increase occurred in the number of central nervous system
tumors diagnosed in children as recorded in the Connecticut Tumor Registry.
From 1955 to 1961, polio vaccine was used in Connecticut, which subsequently
was found to contain the virus SV40. In animal models SV40 has produced central
nervous system tumors… particularly striking rises in gliomas
(astrocytoma, spongiblastoma, and glioblastoma multiforme) and medulloblastomas
were noted in children born during 1956-1962…Among medulloblastoma patients, 10
of 15 were exposed to SV40. This rate of exposure is high and significantly
greater than among controls (children without brain tumors)…SV40 may
selectively induce malignant tumors…In summary we demonstrate a strong
association between exposure to SV40 and the development of
medulloblastoma…(and) the occurrence of gliomas."
In 1987, Drs. George Roush,
Theodore Holford, Maria Schymura and Colin White of the Yale University School
of Medicine published a book on cancer risks. In it they wrote:
"Infectious agents have
been strongly associated with childhood brain tumors. An excess of central
nervous system malignancies occurred in a cohort (a group) of offspring
(children) whose mothers were inadvertently exposed to polio vaccine
contaminated by Simian Virus 40 (SV40). Medulloblastomas bore the strongest
relationship to the contaminated vaccine."
-
Roush G, Holford TR, Schymura MJ, White C, Cancer Risk and Incidence
Trends: The Connecticut Perspective, Brain, Cerebral Meninges,
and Cranial Nerves, Ages 0-19, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Yale University School of Medicine; The Hemisphere Publishing Company, 1987.
In this 1995 study published in
the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, SV40 was again
found in various human brain tumors but not in any healthy brain tissue. The
researchers wrote:
"…we found SV40 DNA
sequences in five of six choroid plexus papillomas, eight of eleven
ependymomas, three of seven astrocytomas…None of the 13 normal brain tissues
were positive for SV40 DNA."
- Martini
F, et. al., Human Brain Tumors and Simian Virus 40, Journal of
the National Cancer Institute, September 6, Volume 87, 1995
In 1997, when researchers looked
for SV40 in other human cancers such as mesotheliomas (a kind of lung cancer),
and osteosarcomas (a kind of bone cancer that kills children and adults), they
found them. The doctors wrote:
"We decided to test human
mesotheliomas and osteosarcomas for SV40 based on…the enormous increase in the
incidence of mesotheliomas in the second half of this century which coincided
with the inadvertent inoculation of millions of people with SV40 contaminated
polio vaccines… SV40 or closely related DNA sequences are present in specific
types of human tumors."
-
Rozzo P, et. al, Evidence for
and implications of SV40-like sequences in human mesotheliomas and
osteosarcomas; Conference: SV40 a Possible Human Polyomavirus
National Institute of Health January 27 and 28, 1997
This paper, like the previous
one, was presented at an SV40 seminar at the National Institute of Health in
1997. In it the authors state that SV40 is found in most brain cancers and that
it can spread from one generation to the next. They also mention that more
people who are vaccinated have brain tumors versus those who have not been
vaccinated. They wrote:
"SV40 amplification
products were detected at high prevalence in primary human brain tumors: 83% of
choroid plexus papillomas, 75% ependymomas, 47% astrocytomas, and 37%
glioblastomas…35% osteosarcomas, and Ewing’s tumors…These results indicate that
SV40 is associated with human brain and bone neoplasms (cancers)…SV40 infection
(may be spread) by blood transfusion and sexual transmission in the human
population.
"…a viral co-factor
should be taken into consideration as a possible cause of… human brain and bone
tumors…a higher incidence of brain neoplasms (brain cancers) was noted in
cohorts (groups) of vaccinated persons. In this as well as in other studies, a
high prevalence of SV40 was detected in brain and bone tumors that affect early
childhood."
-
Martini F, et. al, Simian Virus footprints in normal human tissues, brain
and bone tumors of different histotypes; Conference: SV40 a Possible
Human Polyomavirus - National Institute of Health January 27 and
28, 1997
And in this most recent study
published in January of this year, researchers found SV40 in all the brain
tumors they examined. They wrote:
"We found SV40…sequences
in all brain tumor types investigated. High frequencies were found in low-grade
astrocytomas, anaplastic astrocytomas and secondary glioblastomas
(59%)…Presence of viral DNA was also found in pediatric brain tumors…"
-
Huang H, et al, Identification in human brain tumors of DNA
sequences specific for SV40 large T antigen, Brain Pathology,
January 9, 1999
So here’s the obvious question - Is the SV40 from the 1950’s and 1960’s back
to haunt us? Are parents passing cancer on to their children?
Vaccines
& Immune Deficiency
This is a very broad subject so we will only present the highlights:
Cancer is often associated with immune deficiency. Scientists believe that
the reason one person gets cancer and another doesn’t is because the second
individual has a "stronger" or "more competent" immune
system. But vaccines can cause a child to become immune deficient. It is known
that vaccines can cause immune deficiency through various mechanisms including:
Vaccines cause commitment of
T-lymphocytes to a specific antigen and T-lymphocytes posses one of the major
defenses against cancer. In other words, vaccines cause important cells in our
immune system (T-cells) to commit themselves and once an immune cell becomes
committed to a specific antigen, it becomes inert and incapable of responding
to other challenges.
Vaccinations can cause the T-cell
count to temporarily and significantly decrease to the levels found in AIDS
patients.
Vaccines cause depression of
lymphocyte function.
This means that vaccines can actually cause your immune system to be weaker
in its response to other viruses and bacteria. Scientists are beginning to
understand that the inoculation of billions of organisms into the human body
viz. vaccination is an abnormal event and causes the body to react in an
abnormal way. This reaction, even if is only the formation of antigens,
requires the energy and the attention of the immune system. If the immune
system is reacting to the sudden and strange invasion of billions of vaccine
organisms, it may not be able to pay the same level of attention to protecting
the body against other threats such as cancer as it did before the
invasion/vaccination.
In addition, according to a report by the Medical Advisory Committee of the
Immune Deficiency Foundation published in 1992 (made possible by a grant from
the American Red Cross) "most immune deficiencies cannot be diagnosed
until a child is one year old." And one of the most important
contraindications for childhood vaccines (a reason not to be vaccinated as
stated by the vaccine manufacturers) is to not administer a vaccine to "a
child with impaired immune response." Wait a second here. We have a
contradiction. By the time a child is one year old they have already received a
number of vaccines. Yet, we are told by the vaccine manufacturers, that we
should not vaccinate an immune deficient child. But diagnosing an immune
deficient child cannot be done until the child is one year old. I don’t know if
this is circular logic, a paradox, or a "Catch-22." What is clear is
that it is irresponsible and a potentially dangerous practice.
How often are children immune deficient? According to the Immune Deficiency
Foundation:
"The primary immonodeficiency diseases were originally thought to be
quite rare. In fact, however, some of the primary immunodeficiency diseases are
relatively common… because there are so many primary immunodeficiency diseases
when taken together as a group of disorders, they become a significant health
problem, occurring with a frequency
comparable to leukemia and lymphoma in children and four times as
frequently as cystic fibrosis."
- The Clinical Presentation of the Primary
ImmunodeficiencyDiseases, A Primer for Physicians, Produced by the Medical
Advisory Committee of the Immune Deficiency Foundation, Towson, Maryland, 1992.
So what’s the answer to this "paradox"? The answer is that every
vaccination is a game of roulette with your child’s life.
Viruses
From Vaccines Can Change DNA
Scientists are learning that DNA is not a blueprint that is "carved in
stone" and locked away and untouchable. It turns out that DNA can be cut,
torn and spliced and pieces can be inserted, deleted, truncated, fused, mutated
and amplified. What kind of organism can change our DNA? Viruses. It turns out
that viruses and viral sequences (pieces of DNA from a virus) can actually be
inserted into our cells and into our own DNA. Researchers like John Martin
M.D., Ph.D. of the Center for Complex Infectious Diseases in Rosemead,
California, and Howard Urnovitz Ph.D. of the Chronic Illness Research Foundation
in Berkeley, California are discovering that viruses especially viruses in
various combinations can invade our cells, change our DNA and even hide from
our immune system. Some of these changes include turning on oncogenes (growth
genes that can cause cancer). Remember that all vaccines contain millions of
viruses from the bacterium or virus itself, the tissue it was grown in, or
contaminants. These viruses may exchange sequences, pick-up animal DNA or
combine in other unknown ways. Once in the body the range of damage they may
reap is only now being recognized.
Conclusions
on Vaccines & Cancer
I am not suggesting that vaccination always leads to cancer. What I am
suggesting is that in the same way vaccination can lead to encephalitis (damage
of brain tissue) it can also, in some cases, lead to cancer. Why does one child
become autistic from the vaccine and another gets Crohn’s disease? Why does one
child get Guillian-Barre Syndrome from a vaccination and another die of SIDS?
Why does one child get reoccurring seizures and the other cancer? How many
other viruses is that child carrying? What other latent or hidden infections do
they have? How strong is their immune system? How many vaccines can an infant
handle before some invisible threshold has been crossed and the body becomes
sick? Alexander got 16 vaccinations from the age of 2 months to 17
months old. My grandparents got one childhood vaccine and they are both
alive today. My parents, both born in 1937, got a total of two vaccines
up to 17 months old. According to my vaccination booklet (my parents kept
wonderful records) I was vaccinated only seven times before I reached 17
months. In fact, my first vaccine came at the age of 5 months, not two months
like Alexander.
Every new childhood vaccine that is introduced means more profits for the
drug companies so there is a tremendous incentive to keep adding more and more.
Alexander got vaccinated against chicken-pox, a "disease" that kept
our generation at home from school for one week. Do we really need a vaccine
against chicken-pox? The drug companies will answer "yes."
So I will ask the question again - How many vaccines can an infant handle
before some invisible threshold has been crossed and the body becomes sick?
This is not an easy question to answer but it should be asked! Sadly for all
the children who are about to be maimed and killed by the vaccines they will
soon receive, the answer to this question is only being pursued by a handful of
independent scientists (researchers who are not being financed by the drug
companies or the government). These scientists operate outside medical
orthodoxy on "shoe-string" budgets. Mainstream science, the
"science" of the drug companies and the government is not interested
in the truth. They have no interest in knowing the real answer. Why ask a
question when the answer can only hurt you?
Dr. Howard B. Urnovitz possesses a degree in Microbiology and Immunology and
is the Scientific Director of the Chronic Illness Research Foundation. He
testified to the following in front of the Committee on Government Reform and
Oversight.
The human body retains a genetic
memory of the foreign substances to which it has been exposed, including viral
and bacterial vaccines;
Each individual responds to
foreign substances differently, based on his or her own unique genetic
background;
There appears to be a limit on
how much foreign material to which the human body can be exposed before some
level of genetic damage occurs and a chronic disease initiates.
Each generation gets more vaccinations. Each generation has more immune
related diseases. Where are all the new "auto-immune" diseases coming
from? (Such as Crohn’s disease, Guillian-Barre syndrome, asthma,
encephalomyelitis, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, chronic neuropathy, stiff-man
syndrome, retinopathy, primary biliary sclerosis, pernicious anemia, systemic
lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, etc. etc.) And regardless of the
self-serving pronouncements by the American Cancer Society and the National
Cancer Institute, cancer rates continue to climb.
By giving each generation more and more vaccinations are we not creating
populations of genetically damaged mutants?
There are a lot of unknowns in respect to childhood vaccination. But as
parents, nobody ever waved them in front of us. Nobody ever said that there’s
over 50 years of evidence that vaccines can cause brain damage. Nobody ever
said that we don’t know if vaccines cause cancer because we never tested it.
Nobody told us that if Alexander was immune deficient he shouldn’t get the
vaccines. Nobody ever told us that Alexander’s symptoms (before he was
diagnosed with cancer) of vomiting, "spasms" and eczema were signs
that this child could not endure the vaccinations. Nobody ever told us that
monkey viruses that have been found in vaccines are known to cause brain
cancer.
What would happen if parents were provided with full disclosure or
"informed consent" as is legally required with any medical procedure?
Some parents might say "no thanks" to the vaccines. But then this
could take a bite from the billions of dollars earned by the vaccine
manufacturers.
Between the greed of the drug companies and the impotence of our government,
parents and children have been forced into making a dangerous trade. Assuming
for a moment that vaccines actually work (after careful research we believe
they do not work but that would take another letter), assuming they do,
we have traded mumps for autism, polio for SIDS and whooping cough for cancer.
We are not suggesting that there exists a one to one relationship, but we are
suggesting that our government has traded one group of diseases (relatively
benign childhood diseases) for another group of diseases (complex, permanent,
disabling and deadly). That trade continues to be made without our permission
and without good science. For example, for years, pediatricians and pediatric
neurologists were finding that the pertussis vaccine can cause neurological
side effects - some temporary, others permanent. However as late as the 1980’s
some physicians were fighting fifty years of clinical observations. They
claimed that there was no link between the pertussis vaccine and permanent and
disabling brain damage. As it turns out these doctors were employees of the
drug companies that manufactured the vaccines.
According to the book A Shot in the Dark: Why the P in DPT vaccination
may be hazardous to your childs health, by H.L. Coulter and B.L.
Fisher, one of these doctors, James D. Cherry received money (nearly a half a
million dollars) from Lederle. Lederle manufacturers vaccines including various
brands of DTP, Hib, influenza, and poliovirus. It also manufacturers
chemotherapy, and countless other drugs. Lederle is a division of American
Cyanamid the manufacturer of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and all the
other "wonderful chemicals" poisoning the earth, our food, water and
air, the animals, the plants and our bodies.
Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
in March 1990, Cherry stated that it was a "myth" that pertussis caused
encephalitis. Such a statement is an insult to 50 years of dead or disabled
children and 50 years of grieving parents. But if you investigate who Cherry
is, his position makes sense. He is a recipient of funds from one of the
largest manufacturer of vaccines. What’s the money for? Is it just a
coincidence that he has also testified in over 125 lawsuits on behalf of
vaccine manufacturers who were being sued by parents of vaccine damaged
children. But here’s the problem - as a doctor he is considered "independent"
and "credible." His research, analysis and conclusions are considered
"objective." He is a peer reviewer for JAMA which means that he has
influence as to what gets published and what doesn’t get published - what gets
communicated and what doesn’t get communicated to children’s doctors. His
articles in JAMA and other prominent medical journals are read by thousands of
doctors. When Dr. Cherry says encephalopathy from vaccines is a
"myth" those words are believed. Children are vaccinated. After Alexander
received his DTP vaccinations he had convulsions. We called his pediatrician
and the doctor told us that it was nothing to worry about because
"sometimes little children get excited." The pediatrician didn’t
consider encephalopathy. Our pediatrician was probably aware that there was a
controversy regarding the pertussis vaccine but that no scientific consensus
had been reached. But the controversy is artificial. On one hand there was 50
years of maimed and dead children and pediatricians and pediatric neurologists
who knew encephalopathy when they saw it. On the other hand you had prominent
doctors like Cherry. The two sides seemed to have an equally objective point of
view. Doctors on either side of an important question, rationally debating a medical
issue where lives are at stake. But this "controversy" is a fiction.
On one hand you have experience, observation and clinical skills. On the
other hand you have a drug company protecting its immense profits. People like
Cherry are not doctors if you define doctors as truly objective and rational
professionals who are seeking truth. People like Cherry are MD’s for hire.
Their positions and arguments are a direct result of who is paying them. Sadly,
there are many many Ph.D’s and MD’s like Cherry. People need to be paid and
some people want to be paid more than others. As mentioned above, today there
are two major employers of science - the drug companies and the U.S.
Government. Since he who pays the piper calls the tune, the prevalent point of
view throughout the medical literature is the position of the drug companies
and the government. In respect to vaccines, where one of these entities stops
and the other starts is hard to discern. The government mandates the vaccines
and corporations like Lederle produces them. Where is the incentive for either
of these two parties to admit that vaccination can harm? To admit this would
subject the government to severe criticism and cause the drug companies to
loose millions of dollars.
Another corruption of the scientific process is that "scientists"
like Cherry can help determine the frequency of adverse events that are
reported. How often does autism, SIDS, encephalitis, permanent neurological
damage and cancer result from vaccination? The vaccine manufacturers through
their pay-rolled scientists decide. Is an infant’s sudden death that takes
place twelve days after vaccination counted as vaccine related or does it have
to take place within seven days or three days or 24 hours? Who chooses the
number? If you scrutinize the data on the frequency of adverse reactions you
will find that the very corporations manufacturing the vaccine financed most of
those studies. In other words, the vaccine makers have chosen the number for
their own ends. They have chosen a number that will ensure that most vaccine
related deaths and injuries will not be counted as such. Your child died seven
days after the vaccinations? Sorry, she had to die within 24 hours for it to be
linked to the vaccines. Therefore, cause of death is unknown.
The most powerful doctors in American are those affiliated with drug
companies. The influence of the drug companies is so complete and profound that
the agenda of the drug manufacturers has become the agenda of mainstream
medicine and the U.S. government.
Our son, Alexander was our life. At two years old Alexander was bilingual in
English and French. He was full of joy and laughter. He loved life. He loved
looking at the little ants in the earth. He would say, "Look Daddy they go
vite, vite, vite" (fast, fast, fast). He loved going to the beach,
in particular the tide pools looking for "gaga crabs" and "little
tiny animals." When I asked my son, "Alexander you want to go
rollerblading? He used to give me a big smile and say: "Yeah,
rollerblading with Mommy" and run to the closet to get the rollerblades.
We used to go fast on the bike path along the beach. Alexander was in his
special purple stroller holding his apple juice bottle and Mommy would push.
But Mommy will never push the stroller again with her beautiful son who loved
life.
I’m only left with his handsome pictures, his special smell in his little
clothes, his bag of special cars, memories of laughter and pain, a little brown
sandwich bag with his curly brown locks, his smiling face on the videos and his
beautiful innocent little voice which always said: "Mommy, I’m happy,
happy, happy."
Alexander used to say: "Mommy, Daddy and Alexander, the Team!"
Yes, my love we will always be the team, but a family we are no more.
Yours Sincerely,
Raphaele Moreau-Horwin Michael Horwin
Alexander’s Mommy Alexander’s Daddy
MHBiomed@aol.com
http://www.ouralexander.org/
Vaccinations Alexander Received from age 2
months to 17 months. Within 15 months my son received 16 vaccinations.
But how many viruses? This was the same time his brain cancer began to grow.
Date Date
Date
Date
DTP
8/12/96 10/10/96
12/14/96 11/7/97
IPV
8/12/96 10/10/96
OPV
11/7/97
MMR
7/7/97
HbPV
8/12/96 10/10/96 12/14/96
7/7/97
Tuberculin (Only checking
for the antigen) 7/7/97
HEP
B 12/14/96
1/2/97
3/7/97
VARIVAX 7/7/97 (chickenpox)
[Burton] [Vaccination]
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