Dear President Bush:

 

I read the following in the NY Times on Friday, November 9, 2001 regarding universal vaccination of the American people for smallpox:

“But Mr. Bush said he was hesitant to back universal vaccination of the American public because of the likelihood that a small percentage of those receiving the vaccination would die. ‘I would be deeply concerned about a vaccination program that would cause people to lose their life,’ he said.”

I’m very concerned about the vaccines that are already out there and that there are safety concerns about them and the fact that a smallpox vaccine would be introduced, would not be in the best interests of the citizens of our country. There has been considerable controversy about the anthrax vaccine that has caused Gulf War syndrome and basically has undermined our military. When I was in the U.S. Navy from 1966-68, there were not nearly as many vaccines as there are now. The manufacturer of the anthrax vaccine has been cited for various violations and there have numerous deaths and disorders attributed to the anthrax vaccine by military personnel and their families. Major Sonnie Bates, head of our Delaware chapter of the Autism Autoimmunity Project, was forced to resign from the Air Force because he refused to get the anthrax vaccine.  He was concerned after hearing reports from other personnel on his base were coming down with debilitating side effects after taking the vaccine. Also, he was concerned after his son, who was normal and healthy, had multiple vaccines and regressed into autism.

Unfortunately, Major Bates is not the only parent who has seen their normal child regress into autism after getting a vaccine. I have been in contact with more than 400 families across the U.S. who have seen the same thing happen to their child. Our son, Eric, received the MMR vaccine in April 1986 when he was 15 months old. Eric was born normal and healthy. In early 1989, he was diagnosed as autistic. In 1995, we found out that Eric had elevated measles titers/antibodies ten times higher than normal, T-cell abnormalities and tested positive for myelin basic protein antibodies. We have tried all kinds of treatments including the intravenous gamma globulin but while he has improved, he still has speech and social problems. God made a perfect baby boy and man with his defective product, the vaccine, destroyed Eric and gave him his permanent disability.

Autism is in epidemic proportions across the U.S. and in other countries where vaccines are used in abundance. I started the Autism Autoimmunity Project to define, prevent and treat the immune problems of autism in 1998. To date, the NIH, CDC and FDA do not recognize that autism is an immune/gastrointestinal disorder and do not recognize that vaccines can cause autism. Parents and independent researchers do see a connection and they want the research that will make their children improve.  Unfortunately, the same Federal health agencies that are supposed to look out for our children, stand in the way of science that could prevent and treat autism.

When I was a teen in the 1950’s I never met a child or an adult with autism. Now, I meet new children every week that have autism. Herbert Hoover said that our children are our nation’s most important asset.  Why then are vaccine companies using our children as guinea pigs for their safety studies? I believe in free enterprise and profit-making, that is what makes our country great, but should money and profits come before safety when it is our children?

In a letter to the medical journal, the Lancet, July 8, 2000, in the Correspondence section titled The MMR Question I mentioned about how Dr.  Jacqueline Bertrand of the CDC addressed the incidence of autism in Brick, NJ. I asked her if any of the children were not vaccinated in Brick, NJ. She said No, it was a highly vaccinated population. I then asked her if the CDC planned on doing any immune blood panel tests on the children. Again, she said No. Yet, the CDC announced in the newspapers that there was no connection to autism and the MMR vaccine or any other vaccine. Where was their science? Recently, in April of this year Dr. Andrew Wakefield appeared before the IOM regarding autism and the MMR vaccine. When Congressman Dan Burton asked for tapes on the session, he got blank tapes from the IOM. What is the IOM trying to hide? Why the obfuscation of the truth and the fear of science? Why are there people in government health agencies who make decisions on vaccines, also connected financially to the vaccine manufacturers? When it comes to vaccine safety by the vaccine manufacturers, our children, our young people in the military and science are the victims.

Please don’t allow the attack on our country by terrorist thugs to allow the vaccine companies to make more vaccines that can disable and kill, when we already have a program in place that is doing that. Safety and science needs to be the number one priority or the human and financial costs will be horrendous.

Sincerely

 

Raymond Gallup, President

Autism Autoimmunity Project

45 Iroquois Avenue

Lake Hiawatha, NJ 07034

Tel (973) 299-9162

 

 cc:       Vice President Richard Cheney

            Congressman Dan Burton

            Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen

            Senator Robert Torricelli

            Secretary of HHS, Tommy Thompson