Here are some excellent intro articles to show you some
of the risks that you need to examine and research:
http://mercola.com/2000/oct/15/vaccines.htm
Shots in the Dark by Barbara Loe Fisher
http://www.ias.org.nz/fuss.htm
What's all the fuss about?
An introduction to the vaccination controversy
http://www.healthy.net/library/articles/moskowitz/vaccin
ation.htm
Vaccination: A Sacrament of Modern Medicine*
Richard Moskowitz, M.D.
http://www.909shot.com/hepBfacts.htm
Hepatitis B Disease & Vaccine Facts
http://www.909shot.com/hepbnlr.htm
Hepatitis B Vaccine: The Untold Story
And some of the hearings held during the last 18 months
by Congress...
Conflict of Interest Hearings:
http://www.house.gov/reform/hearings/healthcare/00.06.15
Chairman Dan Burton
Committee on Government Reform
"FACA: Conflicts of Interest and Vaccine Development:
Preserving the Integrity of the Process" Thursday, June
15, 2000
Hepatitis B Vaccine Hearings:
Hearings were held before a Congressional committee in
May of 1999 and research is still continuing...
http://www.house.gov/reform/cj/hearings/99.5.18/index.ht
m
Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human
Resources Committee on Government Reform
"Hepatitis B Vaccine: Helping or Hurting Public Health"
The Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and
Human Resources May 18, 1999
Mercury Hearings:
Mercury in Medicine - Are We Taking Unnecessary Risks?
http://www.house.gov/reform/hearings/healthcare/00.07.18
/index.htm
Autism & MMR Vaccine Hearings:
http://www.house.gov/reform/hearings/healthcare/00.06.04
NVIC Press Release on Hepatitis B Vaccine
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:50:17 -0800
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Subject: NVIC PRESS RELEASE ON HEPATITIS B
For immediate release
January 27,1999
HEPATITIS B VACCINE REACTION REPORTS OUTNUMBER REPORTED
DISEASE CASES IN
CHILDREN ACCORDING TO VACCINE SAFETY GROUP
National Poll Reveals Majority of Americans Want
Informed Consent Rights
Washington, D.C. - The National Vaccine Information
Center (NVIC)released figures this week which show that
the number of hepatitis B vaccine-associated
serious adverse event and death reports in American
children under the age of 14 outnumber the
reported cases of hepatitis B disease in that age group.
NVIC is calling the government-mandated hepatitis B
vaccination of all children a "dangerous
and scientifically unsubstantiated policy." At the same
time, a national poll reveals that two thirds of all
Americans want the right to make informed, voluntary
decisions about vaccination.
Independent analysis of raw computer data generated by
the government-operated Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting
System (VAERS) confirms that in 1996,
there were 872 serious adverse events reported to VAERS
in children under 14 years of age who had been injected
with hepatitis B vaccine. The children were either
taken to a hospital emergency room, had life threatening
health problems, were hospitalized or were left
disabled following vaccination. 214 of the children had
received hepatitis B vaccine alone and the rest had
received hepatitis B vaccine in combination with
other vaccines. 48 children were reported to have died
after they were injected with hepatitis B vaccine
in 1996 and 13 of them had received hepatitis B vaccine
only before their deaths. By contrast, in 1996 only 279
cases of hepatitis B disease were reported in
children under age 14. (Click here to see graph)
1997 hepatitis B disease statistics from eight states
reinforce the lack of hepatitis B
disease in young children, particularly in children
under 5 years old. For children under 5 years old, New
Hampshire reported 1 case of hepatitis B; Washington
state reported 2 cases; Michigan reported 9
cases; and Texas reported 13 cases. Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts, New Jersey and Illinois reported no
hepatitis B cases in children under 5
years old.(Click here to see graph) By contrast, in 1997
there were a total of 106 VAERS reports of hepatitis B
vaccine-related serious adverse events and
10 deaths in children under age 5 living in the eight
states with 13 of the reported serious adverse
events and 2 deaths occurring in children receiving only
hepatitis B vaccine. (Click here to see graph)
There were 24,775 hepatitis B vaccine-related adverse
events reported to VAERS in all age groups, including
9,673 serious adverse events and 439 deaths
between July 1, 1990 and October 31, 1998. Out of this
total, 17,497 reports were in individuals who
received only hepatitis B vaccine without any other
vaccines. 5,983 of the reports were
for serious events and there were 146 deaths, which
means that 35 percent of reports in
all age groups after receipt of hepatitis B vaccine only
are for serious events. (Click here to see graph)
During the same time period, there was a total of 2,424
adverse event reports, with 1,209 serious events and 73
deaths in children under age 14 who got
hepatitis B vaccine alone without any other vaccines.
This means that 52 percent or 1 out of 2
reports for children under age 14, who only receive
hepatitis B vaccine, are for serious
events.
VAERS depends primarily upon physicians reporting and
causation cannot be conclusively determined without
in-depth follow-up of each serious event
and death report. NVIC maintains that reports made by
doctors to VAERS represent only a small
fraction of the vaccine-related injuries and deaths
which occur in the U.S. every year. A former FDA
Commissioner wrote in JAMA in 1993 that one study showed
"only about 1 percent of serious events" attributable to
drug reactions are reported to the FDA.
A 1994 NVIC survey of 159 doctors' offices in 7 states
revealed that only 28 out of 159 doctors (18%) said they
make a report to the government when a child
suffers a serious health problem following vaccination.
In New York, only one doctor out of 40 surveyed
reported vaccine adverse events to the government.
In a related development, NVIC also released the results
of a national poll of 1,000
registered voters, taken by The Polling Company on
December 8-11, 1998, which showed that 2 out of 3 (68%)
Americans support a parent's right to be
informed of the risks of diseases and risks of vaccines
and be able to choose whether or not their
children receive certain vaccines which could
potentially hurt them. A plurality (45%) of Americans
oppose state laws requiring all five-year
olds to get the hepatitis B vaccine before being allowed
to attend kindergarten and, when given information about
risks of hepatitis B vaccination, 59 percent of
respondents were less likely to support such
mandatory vaccination laws.
Only 25 percent of Americans believe that people, after
getting information about risks and benefits of medical
procedures such as the administration of
prescription drugs and vaccines, should then be required
to follow the orders of their doctors
or public health officials. The poll's margin of error
is +/-3.1% at the 95% confidence
level (i.e. the same survey could be administered to a
similar population and yield comparable results in
roughly 19 of 20 cases).
Hepatitis B is primarily an adult disease most often
transmitted through infected blood. Highest risk
populations are IV drug users and people with multiple
sex partners. In 1991 the CDC recommended that all
infants be injected with the first dose of hepatitis B
vaccine at birth before being discharged from the
hospital newborn nursery, even though
the only newborns at risk for contracting hepatitis B
are those born to hepatitis B infected mothers. By 1998,
only 15 states required mandatory screening of pregnant
women for hepatitis B infection so babies born to
infected mothers could be effectively targeted for
hepatitis B vaccination, and yet 35 states required all
children to get 3 doses of hepatitis B vaccine or be
denied entry to daycare, kindergarten, high
school or college.
The U.S. has historically had one of the lowest rates of
hepatitis B disease in the world even before a hepatitis
B vaccine was in use. In 1990, a year before the CDC
issued the order for all children to get the
vaccine, there were 21,102 cases of hepatitis B reported
in the U.S. out of a total US population of 248 million.
In 1996, there were 10,637 hepatitis B cases reported.
According to the October 31, 1997 Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report published by the Centers for
Disease Control, "Hepatitis B continues to decline in
most states, primarily because of a decrease in the
number of cases among injecting drug users
and, to a lesser extent, among both homosexuals and
heterosexuals of both sexes."
In October 1998, France became the first country to end
hepatitis B vaccination requirements for schoolchildren
after reports of chronic arthritis,
symptoms resembling multiple sclerosis and other serious
health problems following hepatitis B vaccination
became so numerous that the Health Minister of France
suspended the school requirement.
"As more states mandate hepatitis B vaccination, NVIC is
getting more reports of children dying or suffering
rashes, fevers, seizures, arthritis,
diabetes, chronic fatigue and other autoimmune and brain
dysfunction following their hepatitis B shots," said
NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher.
"Newborn babies are dying shortly after their shots
and their deaths are being written off as sudden infant
death syndrome. Parents should have the right to give
their informed consent to vaccination and Congress
should give emergency, priority funding to
independent scientists, who can take an unbiased look at
this vaccine, instead of leaving the search for the
truth in the hands of government officials who have
already decided to force every child to get the
vaccine," she said.
Drug companies marketing the genetically engineered
recombinant DNA hepatitis B vaccine in the U.S. used
studies to demonstrate safety which only
monitored children for 4 or 5 days after vaccination.
Professor Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D., a Texas
cell biologist and pioneering vaccine researcher, said
"It takes weeks and sometimes months for
autoimmune disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis, to
develop following vaccination. No basic science research
or controlled, long term studies into the side effects
of this vaccine have been conducted in American babies,
children or adults." Dr. Dunbar has
joined consumers in calling for informed consent to
hepatitis B vaccination as well as NIH funding for
independent research to determine the biological
mechanism for hepatitis B vaccine reactions, to identify
high risk factors and to develop therapies to
repair vaccine damage.
Founded in 1982, the National Vaccine Information Center
is the oldest and largest vaccine safety and informed
consent rights advocacy organization
representing health care consumers and the vaccine
injured. NVIC was instrumental in the
creation of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of
1986, which has paid out nearly
$1 billion dollars for vaccine injuries and deaths. For
more information or to report a vaccine
reaction, call 1-800-909-SHOT or access
http://www.909shot.com.
Also other information at
http://www.909shot.com
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm
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OPINIONS OF THE PUBLISHER, AND IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED OR INTENDED 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.