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/vaccination.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
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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
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.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm
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VACCINATE IS AN IMPORTANT AND COMPLEX ISSUE AND SHOULD BE MADE BY YOU, AND YOU
ALONE, IN CONSULTATION WITH YOUR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER.