National Vaccine Advisory Committee Seeking Comment on CDC's Vaccine Safety Agenda

Urgent Action Needed Today!

You have an opportunity to comment on CDC's vaccine safety agenda.  Electronic responses are preferred and may be addressed to vaccinesafetyRFI@hhs.gov. You can send a personal story, like the hundreds of comments left on Dr. Paul Offit's piece on HuffPo, or touch on one of the topics at the end of this post.

The official deadline is 2/2 but comments that are filed today by 5 will be summarized and included in the folders for the NVAC vaccine safety working group.
There are a few revealing sentences in the  NVAC document.  CDC concedes on page 33 that "[u]sually simultaneous vaccination is incompletely studied at time of licensure."  And this one on page 17: "Little is known about the immune gene expression changes that occur after vaccination; even less is known about immune genes expressed during an [adverse event following immunization]." Is this finally an admission that the vax schedule is an experiment and the government is treating a generation of kids as lab rats? Read the full  (this is the home page for the National Vacccine Advisory Committee working group.)

It is extremely important that our voices be heard, both as individuals and as organizations. Without constructive engagement, there will never be change. So, please take the time to make a paper trail, and, if possible, attend this
and the other upcoming meetings.

HERE is a pdf of the Federal Register Announcement:

SUMMARY: The National Vaccine Program Office (NVPO) is soliciting public comment on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Immunization Safety Office (ISO) draft Scientific Agenda related to scientific research questions in vaccine safety.

DATES: Comments on the draft ISO Scientific Agenda should be received
no later than 5 p.m. on February 2, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Electronic responses are preferred and may be addressed to
vaccinesafetyRFI@hhs.gov. Written responses should be addressed to
National Vaccine Program Office, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Room 443-H, Washington, DC
20201, Attention: Vaccine Safety RFI.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Kirsten Vannice, National Vaccine
Program Office, Department of Health and Human Services, Hubert H.
Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Room 443-H,
Washington, DC 20201; telephone (202) 690-5566; fax 202-260-1165; e-
mail vaccinesafetyRFI@hhs.gov.

Topics to Consider in your email.

1.  Vax safety research must be taken away from CDC [as with all other
"safety" agencies in DC] because you would never expect the "cheerleaders" to assess
the safety of the products they promote.

2.  Any ethical and legally sufficient vax safety agenda must BEGIN with a
comprehensive and ongoing review of the health outcomes of fully vax vs. unvax
children, both prospectively [no ethical concerns because families choose the
unvax category according to state law exemptions] and retrospectively. There is
NOTHING about this in the CDC draft agenda. Only with such a study can the
costs of both acute and chronic vax-caused disease be compared with the benefits
of preventable disease. If problems are found, further studies would be
conducted focussed on how to fix vax's, the schedule, screening for susceptibility,
etc.

3.  The recent addition and deletion of vax research from IACC's autism
strategic plan.

4.  Public confidence in vaccines is at a tipping point. CDC's has
substituted a "vaccinate or die" campaign for the basic science required by ethics and
law.

5.  The studies purporting to clear vaccines of any association have severe
methodological flaws that in some cases amount to scientific fraud. Example:
the dimunition of the Verstraeten data to produce the desired outcome.

6.  The debate over safety is not "parents vs. science," but CDC's willful
failure to conduct required safety studies and instead its deliberate
manufacture of flawed studies designed to clear vaccines.

7.  See the Fed. Reg. notice for other comment ideas.

Autism research gets little mention in the 64-page draft document.  In
particular, citing IOM '04, no new research is proposed. Autism is noted is a
possible clinical outcime, but the draft simply says:

".. In 2004, the IOM concluded that the evidence 'favors rejection of a
causal relationship' between MMR vaccine and autism and thimerosal-containing
vaccines and autism (IOM, 2004). .. VSD is conducting a thimerosal and autism
case-control study (in progress). The chief aim is to determine if exposure to
thimerosal in infancy (through 7 months of age) or in-utero is related to
development of autism. A secondary objective is to evaluate whether exposure to
thimerosal in infancy is related to a subclass of autism predominately associated
with regression. .. CDC has funded a study in Italy comparing children who
previously received thimerosal-containing or non-thimerosal-containing DTaP
vaccines; the authors submitted a manuscript for publication."

Comments

[Diane F.]

Yes, I got the same response. I assume now we all did. I think their response is a good thing; shows somebody's on the ball!

[response from HHS/OS]

I just received a response.

I'll post it here. Did everyone get a response?

Thank you for your submission of public comment regarding the CDC Immunization Safety Office Scientific Agenda. Your comment will be both summarized and given in its entirety to the NVAC Vaccine Safety Working Group on February 4th, and it will be posted on the NVPO website after all comments have been received. Also note that there will be another opportunity for written comments on the NVAC Vaccine Safety Working Group draft report, likely to be solicited this summer. Additional information on the NVAC Vaccine Safety Working Group including solicitation of public input may be found at http://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/nvac/vaccinesafety.html. Please feel free to contact me at kirsten.vannice@hhs.gov with any further questions.

Sincerely,

Kirsten Vannice

[ObjectiveAutismDad]

I figured out why my e-mail was rejected. I was reading the Federal Register announcement when I started working on my e-mail... And I cut and pasted the e-mail address from that announcement. But the e-mail address listed in the announcement has a typo in it (and it's that way in the text and PDF version of the announcement). The ones listed in the AoA article are correct.

[Kevin]

I sent mine, but it's already too late.

[Twyla]

Done.

[ObjectiveAutismDad]

My message was rejected. I'm hoping that their inbox was full. I don't know whether to :) or :(

[D.D. Carlson, PhD]

Copy of letter sent: We saw the play "Wicked" Saturday and the metaphors to the vaccine program/CDC perceptions of good and evil...inescapable. See below:

CALL TO ACCOUNT:

"The truth is less about fact or reason
And more about what people believe in.
And right now, they think I am wonderful..."

A quote from the Wizard in the play "Wicked". So we don't look behind the curtain of the CDC and the vaccine program? Regardless of what people are 'believing' the medical profession is responsible for identifying the CAUSE of the chronic immune dysfunction epidemic in children born after 1990. Anaphylaxis has increased 700%, food allergy 500% ADHD 250% and asthma 150%. WHAT COULD IT BE...maybe altering the infant immune system using dozens of products with no accounting for unintended long term effects?

THIS IS NOT AN AUTISM ISSUE - it is a pediatric health issue. So stop playing politics and account to millions of tiny victims for the cause of their chronic disorders. It is not an option for pediatricians to evade responsibility for answering the tough questions. The cause is "unknown" is no longer acceptable. The $18 billion spent annually treating these disorders is no longer acceptable when the same providers may be causing the problem they profit from treating. The choice is to answer the tough questions or parents will continue to warn the wary that there is NOTHING behind the curtain but a lot of smoke, lights, dismissals, denials and self promotion...the great and powerful CDC has spoken. Time to draw back the curtain and look for the truth.

[ObjectiveAutismDad]

Whew, not much time to review the data... So I sent a short and sweet note without doing so. I'll read the detail tonight and maybe send another note -- just to make sure!

[Kathy Blanco]

Here is mine, some may not like it...some may

Dear Sirs

You are asking the general public about their thoughts on the current vaccine program. Here are my thoughts and my distress.

I was a vaccine believing mother, I did my duty, for the call of eradicating diseases thought to be dangerous and life threatening. Now I am faced with the fight of my life, trying to convince YOU professionals, that vaccines have caused, initiated, worsened the autism epidemic. I have two counted in that epidemic. They were born in the early eighties, to later eighties. I witnessed horrifying reactions, one with a DPT shot (VAERS listed as one of the hot lotts for highest deaths and maimings), in my son, who raged with fever of 105, convulsions, high pitch screaming with disorientation for many days. Within weeks, his language was lost, and he began to have within a year, seizures/leg tetany. Because I thought that P was the problem in DPT, I took out that part of the vaccine component, and continued to vaccinated my subsequent children, still believing, that YOU professionals, knew what you were talking about, and fully disclosed to ME, that they were safe and effective. Unfortunately, this advice led to my last child having an extreme MMR reaction, with rashy bottom, diahrreah, fevers of unknown origins, resulting in loss of language, even muscle tone, by the time she was one and a half. This also resulted in autism. My other two children, though not autistic, have numerous autoimmune problems, and one child has severe ADHD.

We have done scopes into their gut, and retrieved tissue, that they both still have the Measles STRAIN vaccine on peyers patches. This resulted in extreme wasting, diahrreah to intermittent constipation-a true IBD disease. We have done neuroinflammation markers (IL-B10), and their brains to be extremely inflammated. They both have marginal to extreme mitochondrial issues (OXPHOS/LACTACE PYRUVATE RATIOS), not unlike HANNAH POLING, who just won in vaccine court, which suggested that an underlying mitochondrial dysfunction or disorder, may predispose children to vaccine reactions, which further damages the brain by oxidative stress. Both of my children, also have Complement C4B anulle, meaning, they don't have the means to deal with injectable viruses or bacteria, on a correct level. And on that note, many ACIP members have recommended the use of antipyretics during vaccine fevers. IS THIS CAUSING AUTISM? (www.rollingdigital.com/autism )? Certainly, most mothers I talked to, used this drug even before the vaccine hit their child's skin.

Both of of my children have seizures, both of them have severe methylation defects, both of them have immune dysregulation and antibodies to myelin basic protein (said to be the target organ for autoimmune mimicry by measles, detected in three labs, SINGH et al), and both have antibodies to NAFP, *(neural axon filament protein), to catecholimines and various neurotransmitters. MRI shows atrophying of cerebellum, something we can chaulk up to inflammation, use of AED's, and severe oxidative stress. They also have thyroid disease, which is also another target organ of vaccine injury. ON SPECT SCANS, their brains are sevrely hypoperfused (loss of blood flow), inflammated, toxic, non functioning in several areas. This includes myself. They both also have lyme disease tick born disease (which is often sexually transmitted)/placentally - see www.liafoundation.org ), which is said to be the predisposition to injury, due to the fact that it creates a high state of oxidative stress and glutathione block, which is necessary for them to deplete metals out of their system. They had no such ability. In fact, their metals were off the charts when prompted by DMPS IV challenges.

A background of injury/illness or concerns of illnesses (ear infections one after another) could have been suggested to me, as a wait and see approach, instead of GUESSING GAMES, of which the the ACIP members think is not necessary, even in chidlren with severe B and T Cell deficiency, Severe IgA deficiency (viruses love people like this) Common Variable Immune Deficiencies (which often kids with autism possess) such as in the case of AIDS. My kids also have Hyper IgE, of which I found out later, is a MARKER, that a child could be unable to handle vaccines. Upon that subject, I made it a point to write a standards at www.voicesofsafety.org in which we called to try to vote on public standards, and the ACIP members had no cooperation. This is the level of concern of this epidemic.

It is evident to me, that the only thing vaccine corporations want, is our money, not our health, not the absence so called of innocuous childhood diseases taken care of handily by mega High VIT A, C, Cod Liver oil, and other adjuncts. I do believe that an unvaccinated population poses NO risk to the vaccinated (else, do the vaccines work?), in fact, it would show purely, that which population has the most autism, ADHD, Allergies, Seizures, Obesity, Autoimmune Thyroid diseases, Asthma and even Diabetis. Throwing the herd immunity card is unscientific. I do believe medical freedom, from this experiment, is a certainty of the level of freedoms we have or don't have still in our possessions. Would this not be a fascinting study? More than a study, a witness, of what vaccines have done commonly to our population? Yet the pseudo concern committes ISAAC, just dropped any mention of studying vaccines in total. Combating autism, I think not....? The rise in autism, along side childhood cancers is staggering. In fact, the MIND institute UC DAVIS, just came out with the proclamation, that autism is due to TOXINS in our environment, and pathogenic viruses and bacteria, not better diagnosing.

The mechanisms of autoimmunity are ill-elucidated, the role of pre-existing risk factors including genetic predisposition and environmental factors is largely accepted however, and one of those studies which suggested this, suggested that an autoimmune favor genetically, added AT THE TIME with a toxin, such as mercury or other neurotoxins in vaccines (formaldehyde, polysorbate, MSG derivatives), could in fact, INITIATE the autoimmune attack against tissues. Certainly, it does not help the TH1 and TH2 balance, nor does it help with other immune markers. When upon further examination, most seizure disoreders are caused by dysregulation of immune cells and inflammation in the brain due to toxins and viruses and bacteria? This is a no duh...

There is another very important issue reported in studies that is evidently being largely ignored as regards long-term vaccine effects and safety. There is obvious evidence that in the lab, continuous immortal cell lines react differently between one type of animal species and another. As an example, tissue from one species will allow the immortal cell to induce a cancerous change more quickly, in comparison to tissue from a different species. These results then beg the following questions. How extensively have these continuous cell lines been tested on human tissues, and would the results vary from one type of tissue to another? And what happens over the long term if an immortal cell from a vaccine culture makes its way into the final vaccine product, does it keep dividing in the human body? Another scenario might suggest the tumor-promoting portion of its DNA inserting into a viral genome, which then gets injected
into the bodywhat happens at that point? And so, why do I make this point? Because we also tested positive for SV-40, this includes me and my husband, my children, my mother and father, and my siblings.

The dirth continues, for we also have MYCOPLASMA FERMANTENS in our bodies, everyone of us. It is said, that 6% of our childhood vaccine series, are contaminated. "The current Fed. Regs., Title 21 states that "each pool of virus used in vaccine preparation shall be tested for the presence of Mycoplasmas. Only when the virus pool shows no evidence of Mycoplasmas is the viral pool considered acceptable for vaccine manufacture." Unfortunately the Code for detection of mycoplasma contamination is based on the culturing of viable mycoplasma. This Criteria does not exclude mycoplasma fragments or antigens. Past experience found mycoplasmas remained attached to cells causing frequent failures to isolate viable cultures from tissues. When investigators learn more about mycoplasma properties they will know that it's their combined cellular antigenicity in the host's immune system that in itiates pathogenicity. Later, when adverse reactions to vaccines were being reported, we looked for possible mycoplasma contamination.". End Quote. Are you looking, where are the studies in autistic children that have this? Dr Garth Nicholsen found that 58% of children with autism, have Mycoplasma bacteria in their bodies. SIR, do you believe this is the legacy of our GREAT VACCINE NATION?

Dr Robert Mendelsohn, M.D states "It is a difficult task really to deviate from the ritual just like getting out of the church. There is no definite science at all behind the vaccine propaganda. Every benefit they told you about vaccines are accrued with the doctors while the patient runs the risks. But be very cautious on how they focus their attention on the mercury in vaccines. It is just a smokescreen to hide the enormous horrors of vaccines. Some anti-vaccine groups are actually riding the propaganda to make vaccines "green", which is an utter impossibility and amiss. They cannot make a poison "green". The only way to a healthy body is by creating "health" and not building "defenses". The Medical companies and doctors unfortunately, will allow this to happen until everyone of us is stricken with debilitating or chronic diseases. And what's even more peculiar is that this same group of victims will turn to their doctors for treatment. Having said that, it is just right to get out of this Church of Modern Medicine and never look back"..

Unfortunately, I still look back and beat my chest to raw, for the things I trusted in. I never thought to question, if my child, was going to react favorably, it was assumed. I was never tested, asked questions about our background autoimmune troubles, was never listened to, and now, I am suppose to shut up and suck it up? At minimum, a list of contraindications should be enlarged, biological markers for autism tested before you even dare to put a vaccine into a child. Better than that, how about quit the whole paridigm all together? I would have LOVED measles showing up on my kids, for they would have had lifetime immunity, AND HEALTH.

The VEARS standards to report injury (by the way WRITTEN by the pharmaceutical companies, fox guarding the henhouse)...dont fit. This happened 11 days to two weeks after the vaccine in my children. I am in limbo. I am in the land of what the hell went wrong? I found out, and got real. The realness of injury lives today, and will live on, when I am gone, where the government themsevles, will have to suck it up and take care of my chidlren. This growing list of children, who will become adults, is going to hamper the stability of SSI and support systems-if not already, the evergrowing weak economy. Does anyone see this trouble I have seen? I don't think we can look away from this disaster of 1-68 children. In my own state, Oregon, there is way more than that number. What will it have to take, for our government to listen to the mothers and fathers of this land, who have been robbed of their prescious children?

Sincerely-
Kathy Blanco
Beaverton Oregon

All I am asking, is for some thought to this. I am asking for the entire program to be revamped. That Obama will see through this non transparency, and protectionism, and see for the poignant questions we parents ask. NO, we don't see coincidence, we see evidence. We see evidence of injury.

[Bob Moffitt]

Done....because I truly believe CHANGE is coming!!!

[kathleen]

Done, thanks.

[Kub Marshman]

Done

[K Fuller Yuba City]

Email Sent, and no bad words used!

[Ray Gallup]

The CDC promotes vaccines and the whole Dept of HHS (CDC/FDA/NIH) is behind the vaccine policy in the USA. I don't see how that can be changed unless the Dept of HHS was eliminated by our representatives.

To get an unvaccinated population versus unvaccinated population study done; it would have to be funded by an autism organization/organizations that had an inclination to do that.
Frankly, I don't see it being done by the CDC or any other area in the Dept of HHS.
Of course, parents can continue to try but realize you are going down a futile path of frustration.

I know!!! I dealt with the CDC and NIH over the years and nothing I asked for came to fruition.

Ray Gallup

[Richard]

email sent

[rileysmom]

Oh Oh something I can leave a comment on!!!! Unlike the Huffington Post thing, I'm sure I can voice my concerns here!!
I'll do it this evening after the monkey butts go to bed that way I may be able to have an intelligent thought. Thanks for the heads up.

[jen]

done. thanks babes...

[cj]

done..

[bek]

To Whom It May Concern,

This is in regards to the CDC vaccine safety agenda. I am a young mother to 3 little ones, thankfully none with autism. I realize how easily it could have been.

I don't think all cases of autism are caused or triggered by vaccines, but many are. The studies that are always referenced in order to "prove" that vaccines don't cause autism are either flawed, have conflict of interest, or, if actually read, don't show "no link". The studies that do show a relationship have data that are changed (Verstraaten) or ignored.

I don't need a study to believe in parents in my very own community.

I'm sure there are other environmental factors that link to autism. The chemicals, toxins and pollutants in our world aren't being reduced, just growing by the minute. The astronomical amount of drugs being produced and marketed to us is insane. Soon, if not now, we'll all be consuming all of these medicines, as they are ever increasing in our water supply.

When I trusted enough to have my little ones vaxed I knew enough to ask for thimerosal free shots. The nurses reasurred me that vaccine manufacturers no longer made vaccines with thimerosal in them, don't worry there's none in our clinic. Oh, but once I started researching myself I found that not to be the case. As for the shots with just "trace" amounts of mercury, we could not drink one as the levels of mercury in that trace amount are above toxic level for drinking water. The flu shot and tetanus boosters as have much more than that. Needless to say, I no longer trust any of it, as I have put in thousands of hours of research into vaccines by now.

Why would I trust the CDC with my children, anyway? Just before I did research on the vaccines I learned of the CDC not disclosing (and I believe covering up) the toxicity of the FEMA trailers used for many months by the displaced families of Katrina. I watched the testimony of one family in tears, how the mother watched her children, husband and herself all get sicker by the day while living in the trailer deemed safe by the CDC. They didn't question until it was too late. Neither did many other families. I will learn from them, and from all of the families saying "Vaccines injured my child".

I watched a recent episode of The Doctors with the president elect of the AAP who agreed with Dr. Jay Gordon, that indeed vaccine safety needs to be studied more.

Do the Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated study for crying out loud!

The CDC should not be responsible for promoting vaccines. It's everywhere, you know. When I go to my email website I am bombarded with All Kids age 11-18 GET THE MENINGITIS SHOT (of course no one would wish meningitis on anyone, but the #'s of kids that die from this are SSSSOOOOO low, but every kid get this, even if they could have a reaction from the shot itself?????) When I sign up for school I read that my kids MUST BE CAUGHT UP ON VACCINES (even though we can opt out with an exemption form-guess they just don't really want us to be aware of that). When I watch tv the commercials claim that my daughter should be ONE LESS - GARDISIL (but what they don't say is the fact that this vaccine has the most adverse reactions reported than any other vaccine on the market-so let's just approve it for boys while we're at it.) When I listen to the local nightly news, I am given inflated numbers on flu deaths in our state (I have verified this) and how now, most people SHOULD GET THEIR FLU SHOT, unless you are a non pregnant adult between 19-49 or a baby less than 6 months. (But they don't mention how many years the flu vaccine has proven to be innefective because it's the wrong strain) and oh I could go on and on. Oh, what I meant to say is the CDC is promoting AND doing safety studies.....HELLO!!! Is that the best we in America can do for our children?????

I recently found out that the IACC's autism strategic plan included funding for research on environmental causes for autism, but at the last minute a surprise meeting was held and a vote put the kabosh on that. Some day in the not so distant future, our children will look upon these last 20 or so years and wonder why we, WE hadn't learned from our past. This is certainly not the first time that medicine has hurt people, but the way in which we continue to close our eyes to the children being harmed today is inexcusable.

[Kecia]

Email sent and link added to Facebook to encourage others to do the same. They cannot silence the roar that is coming from our community.