Has vaccination— and the propaganda campaign for it— run amok? We hear from England that a man, Jerry Friedman, is suing his employer after he got fired because he refused to be vaccinated against the measles. Friedman, a vegan (partly for ethical reasons) claims religious freedom to refuse the vaccine, since it is prepared on chicken embryos. This article explores, in depth, the dangers of vaccines and vaccination.
The vaccine for the measles is cultivated on chicken embryos, just like the one for influenza (the flu), yellow fever and mumps. These embryos are formed entirely after 35 hours of incubation. We can see their heart beat after the fifth day. The birds come from huge henhouses containing more than 10,000 birds (in addition to 700 males). In the production of its flu vaccines, a pharmaceutical company consumes around 160,000 eggs per week.
The vaccine against Japanese encephalitis is cultivated on mouse brains and by-products from the slaughterhouses are to be found in various steps of the fabrication of the vaccines. On top of being cultivated on animal or human aborted fetus cells, vaccines bathe in formaldehyde, phenylic alcohol, mercury, aluminum, gelatin, bovine serum, albumin coming from human blood, aspartame and antibiotics. No wonder that these vaccinal cocktails have multiple side-effects — pains at injection, fever, aches, articulation pains, asthma or eczema crisis, allergies, anaphylactic shock, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), autism, meningitis, convulsions, encephalitis, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, lupus, and various types of cancer. The use of multiple vaccines potentiates the side-effects risks of every vaccine and their interaction is a time bomb.
The animal by-products in vaccines include a great risk of viral contamination. No laboratory can guarantee the asepsis of animal cells used in vaccine culture. The flu vaccine, for example, in addition to being prepared in an animal embryo, may contain the chicken leukemia virus, and be transmitted to the vaccinated human. It also contains elements coming from the pig because an enzyme taken from the stomach of the animal separates the cells in laboratory. A discovery made by Swiss researchers and reported in the Washington Post (12.9.95), noted that the enzyme, reverse transcriptase, contaminated the vaccines for the measles and the mumps. This enzyme comes from chicken embryos used in the making of the vaccines against the flu and the yellow fever. This enzyme is associated with the presence of a retrovirus, a type of virus that can modify the genes permanently.
Mercury
Thimerosol, a salt composed of ethyl mercury and thiosalicylate, is a conserving agent added to prevent bacterial and fungal contamination. It contains 49.6% mercury. It was introduced in vaccines in the 30’s, but, following numerous studies on its side-effects, vaccines now tend to be made without it. However, in Canada, thimerosol can still be found in a great number of vaccines, including the ones against Hepatitis B, meningitis and influenza. This mercury derivative in vaccines is extremely allergenic, carcinogenic and toxic when it is injected directly in the blood. It accumulates in the brain and weakens the respiratory, digestive, nervous and immune systems. According to Hugh Fudenberg, M.D., an individual who has received five consecutive vaccines against the flu has 10 times-higher chance of getting Alzheimer’s disease than a non-vaccinated individual. This can be partly explained by the fact that the vaccine contains mercury and aluminum, and that the accumulation of these substances affects the cognitive functions of the brain. Researchers Markesbery and Ehmanns have demonstrated, after having autopsied patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, that the brains of the affected persons contained a higher level of mercury that those without the disease. This accumulation of mercury from vaccines is on top of what is absorbed from other sources, such as dental fillings, food (fish) and certain products such as ophthalmic and nasal drops, and the solution for ophthalmic or immunoglobulin lenses.
Aluminum
According to the vaccination concept, aluminum serves as an immunity adjuvant, creating an inflammatory reaction that raises the antigen-antibodies reaction. It is used in the majority of vaccines. It has been estimated that a child, through vaccination, receives up to 3.75 mg. of aluminum during the first six months of its life. Aluminum’s strong toxicity is well known: it causes neurological and immune-related troubles. Its presence in vaccines is more and more often shown to be related to the increase of allergies throughout the world. Many drugs contain aluminum. Coated aspirin has 44 mg. of aluminum per tablet, and many anti-acid drugs contain aluminum. Drugs against diarrhea have more than 600 mg. of aluminum per tablet.
Gelatin
In a large number of vaccines, gelatin has a stabilizing function. It’s a product made from slaughterhouse leftovers, such as the cartilage, skin, and bones of animals. In Europe, the contamination of gelatine by BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) has been widely noted, and the use of bones coming from countries where a large number of BSE cases have occurred, such as the UK and Portugal, has recently been banned. Gelatin in vaccines is greatly allergenic.
Bovine Serum
In October, 2000, the Health Department of England took from the market an oral polio vaccine cultivated on bovine fetal calf serum, which was suspected to be infected with the BSE or the mad cow disease prion. The vaccine given to 11.5 millions children and adults during the last two decades had been prepared with serum coming from English cows that may have been contaminated. In Canada, bovine serum is contained in the poliomyelitis vaccine, and in the series of vaccines against rabies, chicken pox (varicella), and hepatitis A.
Linked to intensive farming and the horror of slaughterhouses, bovine serum can also be the host of viruses that become mutagenic in the human organism. The Bovine Leukemia virus endemically exists in American herds, as well as a virus genetically close to HIV, which is suspected to be related implicated in human AIDS. These viruses can be transmitted to humans and provoke leukemias.
Dr. Ryo Harasawa of Tokyo University in Japan and Dr. Massimo Giangaspero of Milan University in Italy, as well as many of their colleagues in Germany and Belgium, have detected the bovine diarrhea virus in many vaccines produced in Europe, the US, and Japan. These include vaccines for German measles, influenza, measles, and mumps.
The bovine serum is used in many steps of the cellular laboratory culture. In the BCG vaccine, the tuberculosis bacteria come from the serum.
Diseases and Vaccines
The serious short-term and long-term side effects of vaccines exist but deliberately remain obscure because of a well-orchestrated campaign of misinformation. Every vaccine, without exception, carries negative side effects, and monographs provided by pharmaceutical laboratories describe them very well. However, after their descriptions, the manufacturers often add: “no cause and effect link has however been established between these reactions and vaccination.”
The Flu Vaccine, repeated each year and massively given to elderly people, can bring about allergic type reactions such as urticaria, angioedema, allergenic asthma, neurological diseases such as facial paralysis, encephalitis, encephalopathy, demyelination troubles, labyrinthitis, and the Guillain-Barré syndrome.
The Hepatitis B Vaccine could be at the origin of an increase of neurological troubles leading to multiple sclerosis, and grave and invalidating diseases in adults. In France, more than 300 cases of acute demyelinizations imputed to the vaccine have been recorded, among them a small number of teenagers. (The vaccine damages the myelin, the sheath nerve and this degeneration is the first symptom of multiple sclerosis.) An impressing number of articles published in scientific magazines report severe auto-immune and neurological complications following the vaccination against Type B Hepatitis: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, urticaria, tachycardia, heart palpitations, zona, eczema, purpura, paralysis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, optical nephritis, conjunctivitis, vision troubles. Also cases of arthritis, rheumatism, liver problems, asthma, and even deaths.
Dr. Barthelow Classen, known for his work on Type 1 diabetes, believes that there is a link between vaccination, especially against hepatitis B, and insulin-dependent diabetes. In the New Zealand Medical Journal (May, 1996), he noted a 60% increase in juvenile diabetes after a massive vaccination campaign against hepatitis B between 1988 and 1991. The hepatitis B vaccine is not the only one implicated in this diabetes/vaccination relation. Classen also discovered that the incidence of diabetes in Finland was stable in children under 4 years of age until the government modified the vaccination calendar of children. In 1974, 130,000 children of 3 to 4 years of age were vaccinated against hepatitis B and meningitis (type C). Then they were injected with the vaccine against the whooping cough. In the following years, there was an 64% increase of type 1 diabetes in vaccinated children.
The vaccine against pertussis (whooping cough), given at the same time as those for diphtheria and tetanus to children, may also have a link to diabetes. This vaccine contains a toxin secreted by a microbe, the Bordetella pertussis, a toxin described by some as a “virulent poison” and having a disastrous effect on the pancreas. It can also lead to hypoglycemia: two German researchers, Hennessen and Quast, discovered, in 1979, that in 149 children having received this vaccine, 59 developed hypoglycemia symptoms. Cases of juvenile diabetes also occurred after vaccinations against the mumps and the German measles.
The DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) and its relation to autism is becoming clearer. After this vaccine and those against the measles and hepatitis B became of general use, an increase in children autism was recorded. A study led by Ray Gallup noted an increase of more than 300% in autism cases between 1992 and 1997 in 25 American states. An increasing number of experts believe the weakening of the immune system really constitutes a syndrome in autistic people — a neuro-immunological trouble. More than a third of the affected children show a reduced count of CD4 and CD8 lymphocytes, which may hinder their organism in producing the necessary antibodies to fight the viruses coming from vaccines. DPT can trigger an epilepsy crisis, meningitis, and create allergic encephalitis, which in their turn may lead to autism and other behavioral troubles. “Parent of autistic children frequently report disorders immediately after the inoculation with the series of vaccine for diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus” declared Dr. Vijendra Singh, professor of immunology. The later published a study on autistic children, in the Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology (1998), which demonstrated that an exposition to the measles virus could trigger off an auto-immune response interfering with the development of the myelin.
The persisting presence of the measles virus in the intestines of autistic persons has been noted. Dr. Andrew Wakefield, director of a group of research at the Royal Free Hospital in London, published a study in the Lancet (February 1998) done on eight children affected with severe intestinal affections. They became autistic right after the DPT series of vaccines.
The vaccine against the German measles may lead to rheumatoid arthritis. Researches indicate that 41% of vaccinated women developed articulation pains, 9% a transitory athritis, and 5% a chronic arthritis.
Meningitis
Bacterial meningitis is caused, according to allopathic medicine, by three germs: the meningococci, the pneumococci (mostly responsible for pneumonia) and the H. Influenza (type B/Hib). Recently in Quebec, numerous cases of meningitis have appeared. The weakening of the children’s immune systems who receive repeated doses of vaccines since their birth may well be linked to this.
The pneumococcus vaccine can cause an erythema and an induration during injection, fever, general discomfort, allergic type reactions such as urticaria, angioneurotic oedema, or an anaphylaxis as well as vasculitis, a general skin outbreak, myalgia, and various neurological troubles including the Guillain-Barré syndrome.
The Haemophilus influenzae B polysaccharide vaccine given to two months old babies can induce convulsive crisis, pains during injection, irritability, sleepiness, diarrhea, vomiting, otitis, skin eruptions and infection of the superior respiratory tract.
In September 2000, the newspaper The Observer of London, after the discovery of secret documents, exposed the death of 11 persons following a recent massive vaccination against type C meningitis. The vaccine caused 16 500 negative reactions, and when we know that only 10 to 15% of these reactions are reported to the Health Department, the number of side effects and deaths is without a doubt higher.
Two of the declared deaths succumbed to a “meningococcal septicemia,” an infection of the blood related to meningitis. The vaccine, instead of protecting them, gave them meningitis. More than 13 million babies, children, and adults have received the vaccine in England during the year 1999/2000. The vaccine manufacturer is even suspected of having deliberately hidden the side effects to the general public, with the complicity of government employees responsible for the vaccination campaign. Two of these employees were member of the administration council of the pharmaceutical laboratory manufacturing the vaccine. MISINFORMATION.
A few months ago, there was an information session held for parents at the Sainte-Justine hospital in Montreal under the theme “Why vaccinate our children?” It was led by two pediatricians, among them Dr. Jean-François Chicoine, and sponsored by the pharmaceutical company Merk Frosst, a vaccine manufacturer. In order to exert maximum pressure on the parents, Chicoine declared: “It’s big social responsibility. We’re also going to be vaccinated for others.” However, if mass-vaccination protects us and is so effective in the war against diseases, like we have been led to believe, why be afraid of the non-vaccinated? The vaccinated people carrying viruses represent a greater menace than the non-vaccinated ones, as it was the case for the vaccine against polio. In spite of numerous scientific studies done by allergy, immunology, neurology, as well as biochemist specialists on the dangers of vaccines, pediatricians keep on maintaining that vaccination does not weaken the immune system, that risks remain low, and that good nutrition and hygiene have nothing to do in the prevention of diseases. Are we witnessing chronic insincerity or a sad connivance with pharmaceutical labs?
Fortunately, more and more intelligent physicians are exposing this vaccination dogma and dare to question it. Many are telling us that all these diseases against which children are vaccinated were progressively disappearing before vaccination. Worst still, even though they have been entirely “immunized,” some children still suffer from these diseases. These vaccines seriously affect our immune system, and their inherent dangerous qualities open the doors to various diseases.
In Japan, for example, the number of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) cases dropped dramatically as soon as they stopped vaccinating children under two years of age.
Sweden, in 1979, banned the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine, after discovering that the diseases affected vaccinated children and caused neurological troubles. Even though Swedish children are no longer vaccinated against the whooping cough, the death rate for this disease is not greater in Sweden than in the vaccinated populations of other countries. In the USA, according to Susan Ellenberg, Ph.D., director of the “Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology of FDA,” in 1997, 43 children under two years of age died from hepatitis B following vaccination.
Natural Immunity
Quebecois children, starting from the age of two months, receive a whole series of vaccines and follow-ups spread out over a few months — more than 18 chemical mashes.
Babies are systematically vaccinated against rare diseases such as tetanus, diphtheria or hepatitis B, although they probably have as many chances to catch these diseases than to win the lottery. When going to foreign countries, vaccines against meningitis, the rabies, Japanese encephalitis, yellow fever, tetanus, three follow-ups for hepatitis A and B, and a small test for tuberculosis are recommended. Enough to get you sick before setting one toe aboard the airplane.
In Quebec, no vaccine is obligatory. Every individual can refuse a vaccine. Vaccines are mandatory in most US states, and children cannot attend public schools without having received them. You may however find useful information on how to legally avoid them in the books recommended at the end of this article.
No vaccine is obligatory for travel abroad, except for the one for the yellow fever that certain countries, in Africa or South America, may request it if you come from an infected zone. (Seven severe complications, among them six deaths, have been reported after the vaccination against the yellow fever, in the British medical magazine The Lancet, July 2001, which brought questioning over the security of the vaccine. In Brazil, a 5 year-old girl died five days after the inoculation, struck by fever, headaches, discomforts, and vomiting, three days after having received the vaccine against yellow fever, and the combined vaccine against the measles, the mumps, and the German measles. Dr. Michael Martin and his colleagues at the American Center for Disease Control (CDC, Atlanta), reported post-immunization complications that affected four American tourists, which caused three deaths in 1996 and 1998. They suggested a possible causal relation with the vaccine and advised to verify if the travelers are really going to an infected zone, and to take precautions before recommending the vaccine.)
To keep on vaccinating babies, whose immune system is not really developed, with highly carcinogenic, mutagenic, and allergenic substances, is consternating. The immune system does not become mostly mature before the age of 6-7, keeping on evolving up to adult age. The complexity of our natural defense mechanisms ridicules all the vaccination theories, who are part of a false and obsolete conception of health. Our immune system absolutely does not need artificial and chemical products in order to build its immunity. How can we make the population believe that a mixture of a sick animal corpses, viruses, and toxic substances would strengthen our immunity against diseases, and that this terrible aggression of our integrity will bring us health?
A healthy diet and good hygiene maintain our natural defenses. For prevention of, or during infection diseases, multiple natural treatments can be considered — such as homeopathy, acupuncture, medicinal herbs, clay poultices, vitamin C, A and zinc intake, rest, massages, warm baths against fever, good hydration, fasting, etc. [JEAA does not recommend homeopathy, medicinal herbs, and vitamin therapy — Ed.] These therapies can also drain our organism of accumulated toxins and poisons, from the too numerous vaccines we have received since childhood.
Another important fact is that non-vaccinated children, having a better immune system, can go through childhood without ever suffering from any infectious disease. (My own son, now 24 years old, has never received any vaccines, and has never caught any childhood infectious disease — not the measles, the mumps or anything else. We also traveled many times to India and Nepal, without vaccines and without diseases.)
To be truly healthy, we must, before anything else, not succumb to fear.
Even having no scientific training, we, as parents, travelers, or subjects of the pressure of doctors and the lobby of multinational pharmaceutical companies, will be brought, more and more, to question vaccination. For some scientists, the future belongs to vaccines. More than 200 new vaccines are actually tested: vaccine cocktails taken in one dose, vaccines inoculated by intranasal way, or others directly genetically incorporated to fruits and vegetables. Our health capital belongs to us and does not necessarily have to go through the dictatorship of pharmaceutical labs.
Vaccines manufacturers care for their profits before anything else, and not really for our health. And on ethical grounds, vaccines remain the bloody symbol of animal exploitation — the suffering of the cattle, mice, chicken, and monkeys sacrificed on the vivisection altar. Their corpses forever foul the vaccines.
Translated by Frédéric Patenaude
Edited by Frédéric & Juicy Pepper
Originally Published in “Ahimsa.”
Book suggestions
- The Immunization Resource Guide by Diane Rozario (60 pages) — Where to find answers to all your questions about childhood immunizations.
- Immunization: Theory vs. Reality, by Neil Miller (157 pages) — Medical ploys, Gulf War syndrome, childhood shots, and more.
- Immunizations: The People Speak! by Neil Miller (78 pages) — Contains hundreds of questions and comments addressing all aspects of the vaccine controversy.
- Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective? by Neil Miller
(79 pages — Systematically evaluates every “mandatory” vaccine to determine their safety and effectiveness.
- What Every Parent Should Know About Childhood Immunizations by Jamie Murphy (192 pages) — Explaining what vaccines are, how they are made, and the toxic chemicals used in their production.