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There is a massive international effort to administer artificial immunization to the children of the world.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a United Nations created and sustained multilateral agency. Its Universal or Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) began in 1983. The purpose was to achieve maximum immunization coverage of the world’s children. All national political leaders (then representing 158 nation states) made a commitment to achieve 85 percent immunization coverage in their respective countries by the year 1990. In that year WHO set a new standard for the governments of the world, the goal of 100 percent immunization by the year 2000.

My own research considers the purposes, policies and practices surrounding mass immunization. It began early in 1991 while I was an evaluation analyst in the Evaluation Division at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) conducting a field evaluation of the EPI component of a major UNICEF project. It affected several hundred communities in northeast Thailand.

The many serious issues and concerns raised in my initial study have not, by any means, been properly addressed or resolved [by WHO]. The medico-industrial complex has neither wavered nor modified its posture of providing a white-washed endorsement and promotion of vaccination–a largely unproven technological fix which carries its own seeds of disease and death.

For the most part, the same can be said of the public sector policies. Governments such as the United States and Canada are in conflict of interest by playing a direct role in the development of new vaccines; the active promotion and enforcement of mandatory artificial immunization; and the monitoring of vaccines for adverse side effects.

Only one in four vaccine-injured victims who applies for compensation under US law is compensated for often catastrophic injuries. Government qualifying rules require that the onset of adverse symptoms must have occurred within four hours of the administration of the vaccine! Despite these severe limitations in legal liability, compensatory payments have totaled $871,800 million since passage of the National Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, up to February 28, 1998!

Sad to say, the public sector’s world-wide monitoring for adverse side effects does not appear to have improved. As well, multilateral development agencies such as UNICEF continue to push this unproven technology on a largely uninformed and intimidated public in Developing World nations.

Western public awareness of the problems and dangers associated with mass immunization programs appears to have grown. The internet has helped considerably. Even some physicians are at long last waking up to and advocating the truth. In France, 200 doctors have called on their governments to immediately halt the hepatitis B vaccine program because of the many cases of neurological disorders and multiple sclerosis it caused. In Switzerland, 500 doctors continue to oppose their government’s measles, mumps and rubella vaccine campaign.

Historical Evidence

Raymond Obomsawin is president of the Circle of Nations Institute of Life Sciences and Sustainable Development.

Source: alive #207, January 2000