""What we forget is that millions of years of evolution have taken place on
this planet and, up until the last 100 years, humans have lived in relative
harmony with microbes," he says. "Yes there have been epidemic infectious
diseases in history, but they have always resolved themselves. I don¹t think
there is any real appreciation for what we may be doing by using so many
vaccines to try to eradicate so many organisms."

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Assurances from New Zealand health officials that infant immunisation does
not cause cot death have been thrown into doubt amid revelations that
pathologists don¹t test for vaccine complications during autopsies. For
years the Ministry of Health has rubbished claims that a rise in cot deaths
shortly after vaccinations is linked to the immunisations, saying "there is
no evidence" to suggest a link.

But when concerned parents asked pathologists whether they tested for
vaccine complications during infant autopsies, they were told "no". That
could mean that some children whose deaths were put down to Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome (SIDS), were in fact killed by immunisation reactions.

The problem was discovered by researcher Julena Meroiti, who works with the
National Advisory Group on Autopsy Inc, Kirihaehae.

"This question kept on nagging me ­ what is really causing our babies to
die? And I couldn¹t understand why, in this age of science and technology,
we could not identify what our babies die of."

Meroiti says it was a chance discovery that led her to look at whether
vaccines may play a part in SIDS, and she was stunned to find out how poorly
vaccines are monitored in New Zealand.

"No one has put a vial under the microscope and quantified what is actually
in the vaccines. Not the Ministry of Health, not ESR, not the health
officials who advocate mass immunisation. I know this because I asked them.

"None of these agencies or people has done any research to verify what
bacteria, viruses or other impurities are present in the vaccines imported
for use on New Zealand children. No due diligence, no homework, no facts, no
checking it out. Yet all of these agencies will strongly advocate your baby
is vaccinated," explains Meroiti.

"The vaccine is manufactured in the USA, put on a plane, flown all around
the world and then distributed to GPs and given to a baby, without there
being one mechanism in place to verify that it is even the correct vaccine."

Meroiti¹s claim is frighteningly true. The Ministry of Health¹s
pro-immunisation team at Auckland School of Medicine quietly admit that no
tests have been done on the vaccines, but are unashamed. They do not,
however, shout such important details from rooftops when talking to gullible
TV reporters about the dangers of not immunising children.

The Ministry of Health claims the vaccines are tested overseas, but even
that claim is shot down by overseas doctors.

"There has never been a single vaccine in this country [the USA] that has
ever been submitted to a controlled scientific study," says Dr Robert
Mendelsohn MD. "They never took a group of 100 people who were candidates
for a vaccine, gave 50 of them a vaccine and left the other 50 alone to
measure the outcome.

"And since that hasn¹t been done, that means if you want to be kind, you
will call vaccines an unproven remedy. If you want to be accurate, you¹ll
call people who give vaccines Oquacks¹."

Julena Meroiti says the shock of discovering nobody is checking the vaccines
led her to question pathologists over whether they looked for vaccine
poisoning in SIDS autopsies, and the discovery that they didn¹t.

"There is factual evidence that some vaccines, like Pertussis (whooping
cough), lower baby¹s breathing rates, to the point where they can actually
just stop breathing. No trauma, no visible signs of struggle, just stop
breathing.

"Dr Viera Schreibner and her late husband, who designed and developed what
we no know as the Apnoea Breathing Monitor for infants at risk of SIDS, have
documented this. The monitor is currently placed on at-risk babies to sound
an alarm if they stop breathing. But quite accidentally, they stumbled on a
fact that startled them: babies who had been vaccinated tripped the alarm
every time. Their breathing lowered beyond normal. Three years of research
later, they surrendered to the fact that vaccines lower breathing rates in
babies ­ dangerously so, sometimes ending in death. Respiratory arrest.
Death by vaccine. Marked down as SIDS."

The autopsy advisory group has now raised its concerns with the Royal
College of Pathologists of Australasia, asking to have two specific blood
tests introduced into autopsies on SIDS babies: Endotoxins and Circulating
Immune Complexes. These tests, says Meroiti, are already being used by some
pathology labs overseas to identify toxic reactions to immunisation.

So why, if they have no actual hard evidence that proves vaccines don¹t kill
some children, do the health authorities in New Zealand spin the line to the
media and the public that there is "no evidence" to link vaccines with SIDS?

Auckland Medical School, which is heavily involved in the promotion of mass
immunisation, says it draws the conclusion from comparison studies between
vaccinated and unvaccinated communities, but acknowledges that other social
factors could distort the figures.

A leading health insurance company is also concerned at what appear to be
major complications caused by infant vaccines, but says privately "the
health authorities are very good at not collecting statistics that could be
embarrassing."

And the allegation of a deliberate cover-up by medical authorities goes
further. One American mother whose daughter died after a DTP injection says
the medics and police kept on trying to write it off as a SIDS death.

"After Brandy died, the police and the medical examiner never asked us any
questions about what happened to her. The lawyers never asked us how Brandy
acted the night before she died.

"I made several attempts within the month following her death to speak to
the medical examiner and ask him what he found. Her autopsy report said that
her brain was mildly swollen, and all her lymph nodes were swollen. He told
me that he had to file her death as 'Underterminable'. When I asked why, he
said that she could have been strangled, suffocated, or died from SIDS. I
told him I knew that was a lie because if that were true there would have
been bruises somewhere on her body and the police would have done an
investigation, and I knew that at her age a child doesn't die from SIDS."

But parental concerns have been gravely underlined, in the wake of a new
report in a British medical journal last month that alleges the MMR vaccine
given to toddlers should never have been released on the market, and may
cause autism and bowel disease in children.

Autism rates have increased markedly since the introduction of the
triple-vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, and the new scientific report
says MMR should not have been introduced because there was "insufficient
evidence of its safety".

Fears about MMR have been widespread for more almost two years, yet the
latest criticism from health experts in the UK, just published in the
Journal of Adverse Drug Reactions, adds increased weight to the argument
that the use of MMR around the world is putting children at risk.

Dr Peter Fletcher, who was a senior professional medical officer for
Britain¹s Department of Health in the early 1980s, criticizes the decision
taken by his successors. In his review, Dr Fletcher says: "Being extremely
generous, evidence on safety was very thin, being realistic there were too
few patients followed-up for sufficient time. Three weeks is not enough,
neither is four weeks."

He adds in his report: "On the basis that effective monovalent vaccines were
available, the Committee on the Safety of Medicines could be confident that
delay in granting a licence would not result in a catastrophic epidemic of
measles, mumps and rubella. Caution should have ruled the day, answers to
some important questions should have been demanded and encouragement should
have been given to conduct a 12-month observational study on 10-15,000
patients and a prospective monitoring programme set up with a computerised
primary care database. The granting of a product licence was definitely
premature."

The report¹s conclusions that MMR was not properly tested are even more
significant in New Zealand where no tests have been done at all.

In Britain scare stories about the MMR injection have caused a serious
drop-off in the number of children being vaccinated. Between October and
December of 1999, MMR coverage had dropped to 88.2 per cent.

As well as autism, MMR has, in a series of widely-publicised scientific
studies, been linked to Crohn¹s disease ­ a particularly nasty form of
inflammatory bowel disorder.

The British government insists there is no evidence for the claims and
recently launched a $9m advertising campaign to highlight the point.

The controversy first emanated from a group of scientists at the Royal Free
Hospital in London who have been doggedly pursuing a theory for many years.
Dr Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues have been investigating the
possibility that inflammatory bowel disease is caused not by bacteria, but
by something else that breaks down the blood vessels in the gut wall. In
1989, he and Professor Roy Pounder published in The Lancet the first of
their controversial papers, suggesting that the measles virus was the cause
of Crohn¹s disease.

In the Lancet in 1995, the team claimed they had found measles virus in
tissue taken from the bowel of people with Crohn¹s disease. The disease,
they said, was three times more common in those who had been vaccinated
against measles.

So what about autism? Because of his work on bowel disorders, a number of
parents took their children to the Royal Free. A number of these suffered
both from bowel disease and from autism. They also had, Dr Wakefield
established, developed their autism around the time they were given the MMR
vaccine.

Recently Dr Wakefield disclosed that he had identified 170 cases of new
syndrome of autism and bowel disease in children who had the triple-dose
injection.

"Last week in our clinic we saw nine or ten new children with exactly the
same story," said Dr Wakefield. In his first public comments since the row
erupted in 1998, Dr Wakfield repeated his Oserious concerns¹.

He adds: "The department says that the safety of MMR has been proven. The
argument is untenable. It cannot be substantiated by the science. This is
not only my opinion but increasingly the view of healthcare professionals
and the public."

At the time Dr Wakefield¹s research was lambasted by the government and his
peers alike.

"The research has dubious relevance to the safety of the MMR vaccine. Like
many other articles by Dr Wakefield, it is vulnerable to scientific
scrutiny," said Britain¹s Department of Health.

Even Dr Wakefield¹s colleague, the dean of the school of medicine at the
Royal Free, joined the criticism. He warned journalists eager to
sensationalise the story not to overstate the links.

The problem with Wakefield¹s conclusion, said Dr Ramsay, was that the autism
element was not a study in the proper sense at all. This was a group of
children whose parents were worried. They had developed autism at around 18
months to two years ­ the time of the MMR vaccine, but also the time when
autism usually shows itself. There was no control group of children who had
been vaccinated but did not have autism.

In the correspondence columns of the Lancet for months afterwards there were
criticisms, more or less scathing in tone, of the research. The then Chief
Medical Officer commissioned a review of the Royal Free data from 37 experts
called together by the Medical Research Council, who concluded there was no
evidence that the MMR vaccination caused either bowel disease or autism.

But Dr Wakfield remains unrepentant.

He told the Telegraph recently: "Tests have revealed time and time again
that we are dealing with a new phenomenon. The Department of Health¹s
contention that MMR has been proven to be safe by study after study just
doesn¹t hold up. Frankly, it is not an honest appraisal of the science and
it relegates the scientific issues to the bottom of the barrel in favour of
winning a propaganda war."

In a survey of British health workers, 13 per cent of doctors, 17 per cent
of health visitors and 13 per cent of practice nurses thought it "very
likely or possible" that the MMR vaccine was associated with children
developing autism. When asked about a link with the bowel disorder, Crohn¹¹
disease, 13 per cent of doctors, 11 per cent of health visitors and 33 per
cent of practice nurses thought it very likely or possible.

In the US opinion is equally divided and polarised. One leading authority,
Dr Mendelsohn, M.D, believes that nearly 10,000 child deaths each year are
related to one or more vaccines that are routinely given to children.

Dr William C.Douglass, who was honoured twice as America¹s "Doctor of the
Year", hits the nail on the head. "The evidence for indicting immunisation
is circumstantial, but compelling. However, the keepers of the keys to
medical-research funds are not interested in researching this very important
lead to the cause of an ongoing, and possibly, preventable tragedy.

"Can you imagine the economic and political import of discovering that
immunisations are killing thousands of babies?"

In New Zealand, the evidence is mounting by the week that vaccines are
killing more babies than they¹re saving, yet health authorities continue to
push the official line that it¹s good for kids.

Aucklander K Wright told her story to the Immunisation Awareness Society -
how her 11 year old sister Michelle had received an MMR booster shot at
school. She became ill just a few weeks later with flu-like symptoms, a
fever and bowel problems, and died three months after that in Starship
Hospital, where doctors point blank refused to acknowledge parental concerns
about a possible link to the vaccine. Yet the medics could not provide any
other reason for her death.

And a Bay of Plenty grandfather reports how his up-till-then normal 15 month
old grandson was given MMR and DPT vaccines, immediately developed a raging
105 degree fever and five months later was diagnosed with autism by the
bright staff at Starship Hospital.

"We applied for compensation," reports his grandfather, "but this was
refused by the ACC on the grounds of Ono medical evidence¹."

The Immunisation Awareness Society¹s files are full of testimony from
parents whose children were immunised with dire results, yet little media
coverage results.

In Japan a delay of DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) immunisation
until the age of two has resulted in a dramatic decline in adverse side
effects. In the period of 1970-1974, when DPT vaccination begun at three to
five months, the Japanese national compensation system paid out claims for
57 permanent severe damage vaccine cases, and 37 deaths. During the six year
period between 1975-1980, when DPT injections were delayed, severe reactions
were reduced to just eight, with only three deaths.

In May 24 1996 in the New Zealand Medical Journal, J.Barthelow Classen MD, a
former researcher at the US National Institutes of Health and the founder of
the Classen Immunotherapies in Baltimore, US, reported that juvenile
diabetes increased 60 per cent following a massive hepatisis B vaccination
campaign for babies six weeks or older in New Zealand from 1988 to 1991. The
same was true in other countries, including Finland, where cases of diabetes
increased 40 per cent between children aged between five and nine.

US doctor Richard Moscowitz, MD, believes we have created a society too
dependent on immunisation, which itself is bringing new levels of disease
rather than safeguarding us against it.

"What we forget is that millions of years of evolution have taken place on
this planet and, up until the last 100 years, humans have lived in relative
harmony with microbes," he says. "Yes there have been epidemic infectious
diseases in history, but they have always resolved themselves. I don¹t think
there is any real appreciation for what we may be doing by using so many
vaccines to try to eradicate so many organisms.

"If we stay the present course, will mankind be free from infectious disease
but crippled by chronic disease? Will eradication of feared diseases, such
as AIDS, through mass vaccination, be one of man¹s greatest triumphs or will
we live in fear of deadly mutations of microbes that have outsmarted man¹s
attempt to eradicate them?

"We may look back at the crossroads we are at today and wish we had decided
to make peace with nature instead of trying to dominate it."

And a perfect example of that came this month when the New England Journal
of Medicine reported that the implantation of fetal brain stem cells into
Alzheimers patients has caused irreparable harm to the patients in the form
of massive seizures, leading scientists to call for a halt to what others
had previously described as "safe" research. 

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