If any of these parents do call into your show, you should also get their addresses so you can get the police to go and arrest them for child abuse. Anyone who seriously believes that vaccines do more harm than good is definitely not playing with a full deck

Who would be willing to publicly announce that they are not only threatening the health of their own children by failing to vaccinate, but also are placing the entire community in danger? A parent who fails to vaccinate is the moral equivalent of a parent who allows their children to play in the middle of the road, not only threatening the health of their own child, but also others. It's clearly child abuse.

Most parents who choose not to vaccinate do so with the best information they can gather. Most of the parents I know who have chosen not to vaccinate (yes, myself included), do not do so lightly. I have read more articles on vaccination than most doctors. I spent months researching vaccines, reading everything I could possibly find on them. I've looked at the CDCs parent pages, I've read their MMMR (monthly morbidity and mortality report), and I've read most of the Pink Book, a CDC publication on vaccines, reactions, and the diseases they supposedly prevent. Have you done so?

If you have, and you have chosen to vaccinate your children after having done so, congratulations. With all of the information I have gathered I have come to a different conclusion. Vaccinating or not vaccinating is a paren'ts right to choose. Medical decisions should always be made after much thought and consideration. Not all vaccines are OK for every child, and pretending that they are helps no one.

I have to lol at the first two posts from Bryan and Steve. This is a great mainstream example of 'ignorance is bliss'. I agree with Emily as I have done similar extensive research on the subject.

There is much misinformation about the safety and efficay of vaccines. Anti vaccine or anti schedule folks have made it a conscience effort to go the extra mile to become informed on both sides of the issue. They are the parents that ARE concern with their childrens health.

Before you condem those for making an informed choice, I suggest you do the same.

www.nvic.org
www.novaccine.com
www.generationresue.org

Dr. Palevsky's had a presentation on vaccines and natural immunity and it was impeccable. He presents concise scientific and clinical data in such an easy-to-understand manner; I wish all pediatricians and parents could attend his lecture, so they can truly make informed decisions.

He began by explaining the delicate balance of the immune system and how immature a child's system is from birth until about three years of age, when it really begins to mature. He emphasized the importance of contracting illnesses/microorganisms in a natural setting in order to build/mature a child's immune system. For example, when a child contracts a virus, such as the flu, it will enter the child's nasal passages/airways and mouth, where the body's TH1 cells create temporary inflammation to weaken the virus and antibodies are able to kill the virus; then TH2/TH3 cells reduce/counter and "clean up" the residual
inflammation; the child's immunity strenthens and the "memory" of this illness is stored for the future.

When a child is injected (unnaturally) with a vaccine filled with a killed or live virus and other ingredients such as heavy metals, formaldehyde, neomycin/antibiotics, etc. it bypasses the "built in" immune system and the foreign "intruders" cause the body to go into a state of confusion and continuous inflammation--the TH1/2/3 cells are not activated properly, causing autoimmunity--the body, in essence, attacks itself, resulting
in illnesses like asthma, allergies, autism/ADHD, eczema, lupus, etc. Consider that vaccines never provide true immunity, which is why vaccines "wear off" and children need continuous boosters--and why disease epidemics often occur in fully or near-fully vaccinated populations.

There were so many disturbing issues that Dr. Palevsky brought up about vaccines that are seldom addressed: How could we knowingly inject heavy metals (neurotoxins) into a fragile child's developing body (or an adult's!) where they attach to their brains and other organs and usually cause damage; Why would we allow Polysorbate 80, a vaccine ingredient, to enter a child's bloodstream where it knowingly breaks down the blood-brain barrier and causes vaccine ingredients to directly enter the brain; Why would we allow Neomycin (antibiotic in vaccines) to reduce B6, which is a necessary vitamin for proper immune function, and one that magnifies the effects of heavy metals and formaldehyde; Why combine MMR (live viruses with mercury) which is a cancerous combination and causes
viruses to become much more dangerous (as seen in studies)???

As a parent, I know how difficult it is to sift through all of the conflicting
information on vaccines. It is a dreadful responsibility that every parent, who chooses to research the topic, faces. I wish I could say that 'what you don't know, won't hurt you (or your child)', but this subject defies that notion. It's important to put our fears aside and truly look at the facts: vaccine safety and efficacy studies have NEVER been done on combinations of vaccines and their ingredients; safety studies that were performed on individual vaccines have NOT been conducted for more than three weeks; and that NO double-blind studies have been done, which is the scientific standard of medical industry, whereby a vaccine should be administered to a vaccinated child population, and the effects compared against a control group of unvaccinated children.

Vaccines are never compared against a control group -- ever. That means a vaccinated group of kids are given the polio vaccine and analyzed for reactions/effects against vaccinated kids given a measles shot. They also only test vaccines on perfectly "healthy" children; anyone with asthma, eczema, allergies are specifically removed from the "safety" studies...so you never know what reaction would occur in these children until pediatricians actually inject the child (this is called a live experiment!).

Lastly, pharma companies, who normally do a distribution safety curve for all medical drugs -- meaning, if Lipitor is being tested on subjects, pharma is required to inform doctors/the public that certain people must be excluded from taking the drug (i.e. those with asthma, eczema, heart problems, etc.), as they will experience dangerous side effects.

This curve does NOT exist for vaccines -- there is a one-size-fits all policy
and ALL children are required to take them.

A great deal of Dr. Palevsky's patients are vaccine-injured children, so he sees their disorders and focuses on healing them by reducing their "constant" inflammation and detoxing their bodies of aluminum, thimerosal, and other harmful ingredients. There are further details on this subject in NVIC's new "enlightened" doctor's corner:

http://www.nvic.org/doctors_corner/lawrence_palevsky_aluminum_and_vaccine_ingred\
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/02/mccarthy.autsimtreatment/index.html

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I can appreciate the intent of wanting to protect our children; however there is much more information to consider. The topic of vaccines is a hot debate but my goal is to raise awareness so that eventually all people including government officials will look at all the studies and information and speak to other Drs., including those that are not funded by special interests and those that benefit the companies that make the vaccines.

As Doctor David Ayoub stated, “I am no longer trying to dig up evidence to prove vaccines cause autism. There is already abundant evidence... This debate is not scientific but is political.”

Consider the motives and motivation from both sides of the issue. The common thread is that each side wants to protect the health and lives of our children. The mainstream side is not even entertaining the thought that the vaccines and amount we give our children is an issue. This is a grave mistake. Our doctors and government steer the way the CDC and other organizations tell them without a second thought. The problem is that vaccines have become a big business and like all big businesses they want to increase profits. How do they do that? They make more vaccines and create an ambush of a vaccination schedule that is highly toxic and damages the immune system, alters DNA and from birth begins antibiotic resistance.

Read Robert Kennedy Jr Article, “While public-health officials may have been well-intentioned, many of those on the CDC advisory committee who backed the additional vaccines had close ties to the industry. Dr. Sam Katz, the committee's chair, was a paid consultant for most of the major vaccine makers and shares a patent on a measles vaccine with Merck, which also manufactures the hepatitis B vaccine. Dr. Neal Halsey, another committee member, worked as a researcher for the vaccine companies and received honoraria from Abbott Labs for his research on the hepatitis B vaccine.”

Please also review the article, ‘Maryland Schools Have Huge Financial Stake in Coerced Vaccinations of Schoolchildren’ Is it true that schools get money for children being vaccinated?

One of America’s leading pediatricians, Robert Mendelshon, M.D. stated in his book, How to Raise a Healthy Child... In spite of your Doctor back in 1984 his concern with immunizations:
1. Their is no convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood disease.
2. It is commonly believed that the Salk vaccine was responsible for halting the polio epidemics that plagued American children in the 1940s and 1950s. If so, why did the epidemics also end in Europe, where polio vaccine was not so extensively used?
3. There are significant risks associated with every immunization and numerous contradictions that may make it dangerous for the shots to be given to your child.
4. While the myriad short term hazards of most immunizations are known (but rarely explained), no one knows the long term consequences of injecting foreign proteins (heavy metals, chemicals and antibiotics and DNA)in to the body of your child.
5. There is a growing suspicion that immunizations against relatively harmless childhood diseases may be responsible for the dramatic increase in autoimmune diseases since mass inoculations were introduced.

I am for parents being able to make an informed choice and not be forced to vaccinate their children just to be able to get an education. An an excerpt from an article written by Robert Kennedy Jr. reads, {Even for scientists and doctors accustomed to confronting issues of life and death, the findings were frightening. "You can play with this all you want," Dr. Bill Weil, a consultant for the American Academy of Pediatrics, told the group. The results "are statistically significant." Dr. Richard Johnston, an immunologist and pediatrician from the University of Colorado whose grandson had been born early on the morning of the meeting's first day, was even more alarmed. "My gut feeling?" he said. "Forgive this personal comment -- I do not want my grandson to get a thimerosal-containing vaccine until we know better what is going on." }

Recently the US government awards damages in a vaccine-autism case.

“After years of insisting there is no evidence to link vaccines with the onset of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the US government has quietly conceded a vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims.
The unprecedented concession was filed on November 9, and sealed to protect the plaintiff's identify. It was obtained through individuals unrelated to the case.

The claim, one of 4,900 autism cases currently pending in Federal "Vaccine Court," was conceded by US Assistant Attorney General Peter Keisler and other Justice Department officials, on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services, the "defendant" in all Vaccine Court cases.

The child's claim against the government -- that mercury-containing vaccines were the cause of her autism -- was supposed to be one of three "test cases" for the thimerosal-autism theory currently under consideration by a three-member panel of Special Masters, the presiding justices in Federal Claims Court.
Keisler wrote that medical personnel at the HHS Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation (DVIC) had reviewed the case and "concluded that compensation is appropriate."

The doctors conceded that the child was healthy and developing normally until her 18-month well-baby visit, when she received vaccinations against nine different diseases all at once (two contained thimerosal).

Days later, the girl began spiraling downward into a cascade of illnesses and setbacks that, within months, presented as symptoms of autism, including: No response to verbal direction; loss of language skills; no eye contact; loss of "relatedness;" insomnia; incessant screaming; arching; and "watching the florescent lights repeatedly during examination."

Mercury is not the only thing to blame. This story is similar to many children having recent reactions as well.

Another incident in Idaho there were three babies that died after getting vaccinated from the same pediatricians office.
David Waddel Died Sept. 4, 2007
Vance Walker Died Sept. 15, 2007
Paiytu Ames Died Oct. 10, 2007

The article that I have attached also quoted this study: In a study of more than 34,000 children in which about half received Prevnar and half received a control vaccine, a dozen deaths, including five SIDS deaths, occurred in the Prevnar group. By contrast, 21 deaths occurred in the control group, including four SIDS deaths, according to manufacturer data.

Personally, we recently had a death in the family. A cousin went to pick up her 2 month old from day care. When she arrived she witnessed emergency vehicles all around. I am sure every parent arriving to pick up their child was struck with panic. Her son John died in his sleep. He was 2 months old. I was suspect from the beginning that it was SIDS from vaccine reaction, knowing that he probably just had a round of vaccines. At two months of age babies now get DaPT, HIB, IPV, Rotateq and Prevnar.

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that children diagnosed with asthma (a respiratory ailment not unlike SIDS) were five times more likely than not to have received pertussis vaccine. Another study found that babies die at a rate eight times greater than normal within three days after getting a DPT shot. The three primary doses of DPT are given at two months, four months, and six months. About 85 percent of SIDS cases occur at one through six months, with the peak incidence at age two to four months. In a recent scientific study of SIDS, episodes of apnea (cessation of breathing) and hypopnea (abnormally shallow breathing) were measured before and after DPT vaccinations.

"Cotwatch" (a precise breathing monitor) was used, and the computer printouts it generated (in integrals of the weighted apnea-hypopnea density -- WAHD) were analyzed. The data clearly shows that vaccination caused an extraordinary increase in episodes where breathing either nearly ceased or stopped completely. These episodes continued for months following vaccinations. Dr. Viera Scheibner, the author of the study, concluded that "vaccination is the single most prevalent and most preventable cause of infant deaths."

Another article states, “The reality, as documented by the American Medical Association's own journal (JAMA) in the January 1999 issue, is that there is no connection between death from infectious diseases and vaccinations; that's right, "None."

In a 2005 study brain tissue was obtained during autopsy from autistic patients. The author’s data show an active neroinflamatory process in the cerebral cortex, white matter and in the cerebellum of autistic patients. Immunocytochemical studies showed marked activation of the microglial and astroglial cells.

If you are not familiar Dr. Tenpenny has done a tremendous amount of research and looked at CDC and scientific documents and present the facts. She has a website and excellent DVD. www.drtenpenny.com

This is an important matter and one that needs to be look at more carefully and taken seriously. The concern is the welfare and health of our children. I encourage everyone to learn more before putting our children in harms way.
There is a reason autism and other disorders are on a 10-17% increase each year. I do not blame one thing . I believe it is a combination of things. What I do know is that the ingredients in vaccines are toxic and way you look at it.

Unfortunately, studies have NEVER been performed by pharma or our govt. on multiple vaccines; our children are truly a live experiment. What is being discovered by scientists who look further into vaccines, is that ingredients
like thimerosal (in the flu, meningococcal, and DT vaccines), indeed react with aluminum and become much more toxic. It is sad enough that vaccines are only tested for two to three weeks on single vaccines. It's only a guess what
happens when they are combined.

If Maryland public doctors, health officials and elected officials alike all want to keep Maryland's children healthy and safe I would encourage you to look at all the information and not just the ones that have other motives and conflicts of interest.
We must first “Do no harm” and consider all the sources.

Interview with ex-vaccine reseacher: http://www.whale.to/v/rapp.html

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In health!

My wife works with autistic children, so she has first hand knowledge of what it does to a family. We both agree that a delayed schedule works best. I am not a health professional, but I think I have a grasp on vaccines and what they are supposed to do. I think its a bit ridiculous to give a child a massive dose of anything, from advil to vitamins. However, to completely deny your child, and the surrounding community, the benefits of immunization is at best, overcautious and at worst, dangerous.

Due to the extensive brain-washing by medical authorities and the main stream media, most people make the mistake of thinking of vaccination as disease prevention.

Jenner invented the cowpox vaccine in the hope that it would prevent smallpox. His vaccine was not only a complete failure, but also spread TB, syphilis and other diseases and maimed and killed countless people. To save face and to keep the vaccination racket going, smallpox vaccination was however celebrated as a triumph of medical science, despite the fact that it was actually based on a popular superstition which had it that dairymaids were immune to smallpox if they had been exposed to cowpox from the cows they were milking.

Other equally useless vaccines followed. Google the infectious diseases graphs on 'health sentinel'; they show that vaccines have never prevented any diseases.

Most doctors vaccinate blindly believing that vaccines "immunise". The top vaccine policy makers are however fully aware that vaccination is an elaborate hoax and that vaccines are actually useless and dangerous.

Vaccines are actually GIVEN to promote ill-health in the form of illnesses and disorders, the treatment of which is a bonanza for the medical-pharmaceutical establishment. Vaccination is more accurately described as a form of chemical-biological warfare against civilians, particularly our children.

I recommend th 5-part youtube video series 'Vaccination: Miracle or Mayhem?" and the youtube video 'Creating a nation of zombies'; also Gary Null's documentary 'Vaccine Nation'.

Also google and read
'Death by Lethal Vaccine Injection' on Dr Kim's website,
'The deliberate de-neuralization of America' by Kathy,
'Vaccine Cover-Up' by US neurosurgeon Dr R Blaylock MD and 'Deadly Immunity' by US Snr Attorney Robert Kennedy Jnr.

I also highly recommend the website 'www.thinktwice.org'. Click on 'studies' and 'personal stories'.

Once enough people realise that vaccination is an organised criminal enterprise, vaccination will become redundant. One can only hope that this will be sooner than later, that is before humanity has been harmed beyond hope, something some people fear may already be the case.

Thanks to Emily for her great post! She asks:

"How could we knowingly inject heavy metals (neurotoxins) into a fragile child's developing body (or an adult's!) where they attach to their brains and other organs and usually cause damage; Why would we allow Polysorbate 80, a vaccine ingredient, to enter a child's bloodstream where it knowingly breaks down the blood-brain barrier and causes vaccine ingredients to directly enter the brain; Why would we allow Neomycin (antibiotic in vaccines) to reduce B6, which is a necessary vitamin for proper immune function, and one that magnifies the effects of heavy metals and formaldehyde; Why combine MMR (live viruses with mercury) which is a cancerous combination and causes
viruses to become much more dangerous (as seen in studies)???"

How could we, indeed?

As I have outlined in my earlier comment, the obvious answer to the above questions is that vaccines are MEANT to do all that; in other words, the widespread harm vaccines cause is carefully planned and deliberately inflicted.

Watch the youtube video 'Creating a nation of zombies.

Sunshine believes that "to completely deny your child, and the surrounding community, the benefits of immunization is at best overcautious and at worst, dangerous."

As the late prominent US health educator Dr. Herbert Shelton has pointed out, "Belief in immunization is a form of delusional insanity."

Infectious diseases graphs based on official government statistics of infectious disease mortality rates (some of which can be found by googling 'health sentinel') clearly show that vaccines have never prevented any diseases, or saved anyone's life.
There is in fact no scientific evidence whatsoever to show that vaccines prevent diseases.

There is however a huge amount of evidence which shows that the harm caused by vaccines is widespread and serious. US neurosurgeon and health educator Dr. R. Blaylock MD warns:

"Our society is littered with millions of children who have been harmed in one degree or another by vaccinations. In addition, let us not forget the millions of parents who had to watch helplessly as their children have been destroyed by devastating vaccination programmes."

For further information, I recommend the website www.thinktwice.org or the 5-part youtube video series 'Vaccination: Miracle or Mayhem?