Vienna, Virginia
“Protecting the health and informed consent rights of
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April 30, 2001
Albany, New York
“Novello stresses need for infant immunizations.”
“To mark Infant Immunization Week last week, state
officials promoted a $200,000 campaign geared to educate about the importance
of vaccination. State Health
Commissioner Antonia Novello announced the campaign last week at the St. Peter’s
Family health Clinic in Albany” The lack of vaccination can permanently disable
a child and end its life early,” Novello said.
Although NY’s child immunization rate is above the national level, Novello
said the campaign will help improve the rates.
Steven Boyle, president and CEO of St. Peter’s said that “immunization
is a major part of health care.
The campaign drew a small crowd of parents protesting in
front of the Capitol Building last week.
The group, headed by Bonnie Plumeri Franz, a parent and activist for 15
years who said it was too late for her oldest child who more than 20 years ago reacted
to a vaccination with high fever and high pitch screaming, for not for today’s
parents who should have the right to choose whether to vaccinate. “Why mandate a vaccine if children are not
at risk to begin with,” Franz said. She
said that diseases such as Hepatitis B are more often than not contracted by
drug use and sexually promiscuous people.
She adds that the problem with mandated vaccination is that “You don’t
know the harm, the hidden damage.”
Franz and other parents were rallying in favor of more research into the
effects of vaccination. “Dr. Novello
and I can say whatever we want, but please do the research,” Franz said. Franz
stated that some vaccines have mercury levels much higher than those approved
by the EPA. She compared the recall of
Firestone tires with mercury levels in some vaccines. Franz asks consumers, “If you are upset about Firestone tires why
not about mercury levels in vaccines?”
Franz quotes a 1991 Institute of Medicine report which she
includes in a brochure she made and titled “13 reasons not to vaccinate.”
The report states “Many of the population-based epidemiological
studies are too small or have inadequate lengths of follow-up to have a
reasonable chance of detecting true adverse effects unless these effects are
large or occur promptly and consistently
after vaccination...Kallann Manjunath, who also participated in Novello’s announcement, said that it is vital to continue the spread of vaccination although there is a decline in threatening diseases...Manjunath added that a lot of parents continue to be resistant to infant vaccination and that it is a physician’s job to talk to parents about the safety of vaccinations as well as provide the available facts...As stated by the NYS Department of health, the program Vaccines for Children has provided more than 17 million doses of vaccine to children...”
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