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The pressure to vaccinate never stops. Now nurses and other "health care practitioners" explain away increasing consumer non-compliance by blaming busy family lifestyles. They recommend that vaccine clinics be open in the evening to give easy opportunity for children and adults to get their "shots."

Fortunately, it’s not busy working hours that have caused a decline in vaccination. It’s education. People are learning both sides of the vaccine debate–and making their own decisions. Often their choice is to say "no" to vaccines that are supposed to prevent disease but often have more lethal side effects.

Dr Harris Coulter wrote in his text Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality: The Medical Assault on the American Brain: "Edward Jenner’s 1798 discovery that cow pox inoculation prevents later infection with smallpox was the start of a new science."

After cowpox came vaccines against rabies (1885), typhoid (1911), tuberculosis (1921), diphtheria (1925), tetanus (1925), yellow fever (1937), influenza (1943), poliomyelitis (1954 and 1956) and others. Vaccines against whooping cough (1925), measles (1960), German measles-rubella (1966) and mumps (1967) and recently chicken-pox and hepatitis B have become available.

Vaccines for every other disease-from cancer to AIDS to diabetes–are busily brewing in the laboratories of the Western world.

Creating the Market

Vaccines have been well marketed. It’s very attractive to most people to believe that a shot in the arm or a pill will give immunity from troublesome and time-consuming illnesses. Working parents, for instance, can’t really afford to stay home with a schoolchild recovering from a case of mumps or measles. Vaccination has become an accepted part of medical practice. According to holistic vet Dr Edgar Sheaffer, DVM, both the medical and veterinary professions rely heavily on vaccination income (Acres USA, Sept 1999).

An advertisement in Pennsylvania, for instance, uses the slogan "20 before two:" before a child reaches age two, he should have 20 immunizations. These might include four DPTs (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus), three polio (live or killed), one MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), four HIB (haemophilus B) and three HB (hepatitis B).

Reactions to vaccines are common. They can occur immediately and last days or weeks. They may include fever at or above 41C , irritability, soreness, swelling at the site of injection, crying, convulsions, joint stiffness and allergic reactions. Reports of deaths in infants after hepatitis B injection are usually classed as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), even though SIDS is not historically recorded in babies under two months old.

"Developmental disabilities are nearly always generated by encephalitis," says Dr Coulter. "And the primary cause of encephalitis in the United States and other industrialized countries is the childhood vaccination program. The so-called sociopathic personality which is at the root of the enormous increase in crime of the past two decades is also largely rooted in vaccine damage."

A Shot of Stupidity

Dr Coulter believes that 1963 marked the decline of the American IQ, and that it was directly related to routine vaccination policies.

"Childhood vaccinations cause various types of mental retardation, ranging from a slight drop in IQ to total idiocy; they also generate dyslexia and other reading disabilities," he says. "It is no coincidence, therefore, that when the 1945 generation took examinations in 1963 for entrance into college or into the army, they gave notice of an incipient decline in the American intelligence. In 1963 the average scholastic aptitude tests (SAT) verbal score was at its highest since the commencement of testing, 478, while the average mathematics score was 502."

After that, aptitude tests continued to decline until, by 1980, the verbal score had dropped 54 points to 434 and math dropped 54 points. Coulter says scores today are the lowest in the 60-year history of these tests. And since the tests have become easier, researchers conclude that the IQ decline is 50 per cent worse! Coulter calls the 20th century "the age of vaccination." Now we’ve left that century behind us. The time is right for individuals to think for themselves, ask relevant questions of professionals and manage their own health.

The pressures to vaccinate come from everywhere: government, physicians, public health nurses, schools, the media, your family and neighbors. It’s usually heavily laced with guilt when you dare to say "no," and it’s loaded with misinformation regarding vaccines’ contribution to eradication of communicable disease. In fact, The Centers for Disease Control (US) report about 10 cases of polio each year and whooping cough is still prevalent. Tuberculosis is a recurring and worrisome medical problem and about half of the reported cases of measles occurs in children who have already been "immunized."

Despite the pharmaceutical and medical industry push, the credibility of vaccines as disease prevention has not survived the century. We need to return to a nutrition-based system of health care. The choice is ours.

For more information on vaccines get in touch with The Society for Vaccine-Damaged Children, phone/fax: 204-896-0971 or The Vaccine Risk Awareness Network, phone/fax 250-355-2525.

Source: alive #209, March 2000