WHO is Anti-Vaccine?

By Dan Olmsted

This morning's New York Times (HERE) has piece by Donald G. McNeil, Jr., headlined "Vaccine Delays in Poorer Nations Raise Health Risks for Infants." Let's put aside for a moment the author (who wrote that awful article on the Somalis) and the premise (in fact, even slight delays in vaccines lower the risk of asthma and probably autism), and go straight to this golden nugget: "In the first nine months of life, the World Health Organization recommends vaccines for tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio and measles." My, my: Isn't that pretty much what the U.S. vaccine schedule was before the autism epidemic -- and before Big Pharma got ahold of it and added HepB at birth, and the MR to the M, and the shot for the dreaded Pox (chickenpox, that is), and rotavirus, and on and on? We don't give TB shots, so doing exactly what WHO says to would leave us with the DPT, which has been around since the 1940s, polio vaccine and a monovalent measles shot (which is what Andy Wakefield suggested and Merck just quit making as a single dose).

Just exactly WHO is anti-vaccine? Not us!

 

Comments

[Twyla]

I think Dan's point is not that WHO's vaccine schedule is good, but that it is a lot less than the current CDC vaccine schedule. Parents who suggest giving fewer vaccines are called "anti-vaccine" even if they are not (and yes, I know, some are anti-vaccine, but some are not against all vaccines). Would our opponents who call us anti-vaxers with tin foil hats say that the WHO is "anti-vaccine"?

[John Stone]

The pertussis shot was always dangerous as Prof Gordon Stewart recently stated in a letter to BMJ regarding the Sally Clark affair (and recalling the view of Sir Graham Wilson, the first director of the UK Public Health Service Laboratory, now incorporated into the Health Protection Agency):

"All of this and much more clinical and forensic detail about the two deaths is available in the transcripts, correspondence and especially in the book Stolen Innocence by John Batt, all of which contain additional reasons for questioning the conviction. For instance, it was revealed that the medics who transported Harry alive to the hospital in Macclesfield and the three doctors – a casualty officer, a registrar and a consultant paediatrician - who examined and tried unsuccessfully to revive him were not called to give evidence. There is no proof anywhere that the vaccines used (DTP/Hib/Polio) cause death but the pertussis component was the whole cell preparation are known to be associated with apnoea, shock, encephalopathy, and very occasionally with deaths, which led Sir Graham Wilson, former and first Director of the PHLS, to say in his book on Hazards of Immunization that life-spoiling and threatening reacticns, especially after pertussis vaccine and in the context of incomplete or non -protection were too frequent to justify mass vaccination. These features, widely-recognized internationally, led some countries in the 1960’s and others later to omit pertussis from childhood programmes and to replacement of the whole-cell vaccine with an acellular replacement. In the UK, this did not happen until 2006. It should be noted also that the three main manufacturers of pertussis vaccine in the UK and 10/13 in the USA withdrew their products between 1978 and 1986. These facts are important because vaccination is compulsory in most States of the USA and some in the EC. This removes the safeguard of parental option, respect for contraindications and medical discretion."

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/336/7639/302#191689

The key to this is not being "anti-vaccination" but having a balanced view of the evidence. Historically, we see that there are and have been leading professionals like Prof Stewart and Sir Graham Wilson whose views have gradually been marginalised, but who learnt their medicine in an era before mass vaccination and have or had a very different view of the evidence.

We are constantly being told that vaccines have saved countless lives, just as we are told that they do not have bad side-effects or that these are at least very rare. But we have a lot of propaganda and not much evidence base.

The graphs from CHS also show clearly that mortality from diptheria and tetanus had all but disappeared prior to the introduction of mass vaccination.

http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/graphs/

[dan olmsted]

thanks for the insightful comments. i know the dpt has problems and we have barb fisher and harris coulter to thank for making them fix it, one of the real triumphs of vaccine safety advocacy. i'm correlating the rise of the autism EPIDEMIC with the additions to the schedule beyond these original shots; i have no doubt that these original series of shots themselves have caused autism and much misery because they were given too early or were not as safe as they could and should have been.

[Kathy Blanco]

The DPT shot is why I am here, in 1982 my son had the worse reaction, almost dying from it. When we researched the VAERS list, it was considered the most reactitory lott known of all the lott series of DPT's. High numbers of deaths and maimings.

Subsequently, I had three more children and deduced without internet information the P in the shot was the bad boy...little did I know? The two girls inbetween seemed to fare them better, a fluke I thought? The last child got her MMR shot, and followed in the footsteps of her brother. The two in between happened to not be exposed to in utero viruses or bacteria (the first I had MONO and the last I had STREPT throat-possibly both lyme disease).

Could this be the key? Inflammation of any kind in utero pumps up inflammation cytokines? Or, the inflammation damages the viability to the myelin sheeth? And or the damage by those viruses with moms taking tylenol for fevers? I believe this was the case with my kids, and may be a key for a mother, you know? Maybe because I was sick during my pregnancy, I should hold off, or not at all? Maybe we should enlarge the contraindication tables? Redefine them? Hyper IgE? Yep. SEcretory IgA deficiency? CVID?, Complement C4B? Celiac or other autoimmune things in the family? Low CD 57? Sick while pregnant? Used antipyretics? Low NK cells? Health of Mother? Health of Baby? YEP.

In other words, don't all shots cause inflammation, microvascular strokes, immune procesees that are very unnatural and artificial and skewed, and toxic overload? If a child has already been asaulted in one form or the other, is not thriving, head growth is above normal, is hypotonic or hypertonic, is not sleeping or eating, is having too many ear infections, too many colds and flus, you'd think a mom would pause? IF not a DAMN doctor.

I say all vaccines are unsafe...and I suppose that's because I experienced it first hand. I am not alone in this thought pattern. But some would say that is unreasonable to get other people who have not had our experience to the same place. I beg to differ. Most of my friends don't have an autistic child, but they chose to not vaccinate based on my life and story. My daughters who are NT the same, and their friends. Most have remarkable well and gifted children. It's easy to tell your story, to give people the science. Once they see that success, the movement goes forward like a tree branch.. The problem is that it has to be a one on one conversation, which typically can't be done for the general public. This is where this page and others could come into play into this education. Publishing things like the USA today page, and other out there vocal pieces, and research, is the only way to convince this sheeple of a public to wake up. I also think CME credits for doctors or nurses to attend DAN conferences, a little widening of the circle is in order? PErhaps infiltrations of DAN doctors to THEIR meetings, for a change? (we all know they bust the DAN conferences to see what they really know).

Stil, I say we are making some moms think and worry..and I think we need to get to them fast and strong before more children suffer.

I found a CBS piece on a particular family in Iraq who had an autistic child, that there was no expertise there, and little is known about this condition there. Many of the experts fled the country. I cried buckets for this mom, who feared going out in harms way (car bombs in market places), because that would leave her autistic child alone. She said autism was not curable. She didn't even know what caused it. Seems to me I read that they poisoned a great deal of their citizens by putting mercury in their grain bins/siles, and on top of that started vaccinating on our american schedule. OMG...even the depleted uranium (disables genes and thyroid glands in mothers) and their tick borne diseases like sand fleas (known to cause bartonella, which is known to cause seizures). Poor sanitation and water, what a recipe for disaster!

I just think we don't give up on the parents, and the more the parents know the better...skrew the doctor really, who doesn't or wants to know...remember, we are the consumers, we can decide what we consume!! The world is opening up to this truth, and jaded is not half of this story..people are beginning to see that regular ole people can get information viable if they investigate things on their own terms. People are beginning to question everything, and in this day and age of corporate lying, it is the perfect environment to explode and implode the whole vaccine program.

[Stan]

Good points, Dan. But I would be careful about making it appear, in any way, that the DPT shot is 'safe', just because it "has been around since the 1940s". Remember that the first cases of autism appeared at that time, with the Kanner studies.

The acellular version of the pertussis component of this shot (DaPT) is supposed to be safer than the original, whole cell version - but is it? The pertussis vaccine is still a very dangerous item. As Harris L Coulter reported on (in his seminal book 'Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality'): "The pertussis vaccine...in 1959...was found to have a peculiarly powerful allergenic effect on all sorts of laboratory animals. Experiments to produce anaphylactic shock are facilitated by addition of pertussis vaccine to the solution: the mice (or rabbits, or hamsters, or whatever) die more rapidly and in larger numbers. By the same token, addition of [the] vaccine to the sterile brain and spinal cord solution greatly enhances its ability to generate an allergic encephalitis.

"For these reasons, pertussis vaccine is the preferred 'adjuvant' in experiments to produce allergic encephalomyelitis."

And he goes on, in summary: "U.S. vaccination authorities seem steadily oblivious to the danger of injecting U.S. children with an 'adjuvant' which, of all those known to the world of biochemistry, has the most pronounced ability to produce allergic sensitization."

And of course the DPT shot at least used to have thimerosal in it as well...And if they took it out, because of THAT scare, what did they replace it with? With more aluminum - which is already IN that shot?...

We're talking encephalitis here - inflammation of the brain - in the presence of various toxins. Not a good idea not to have initiated long-term studies on this shot at its time of origin. A link to autism which has been buried, to some extent, in the passage of time and the introduction into the vax schedule of over 3 times as many vaccines as used to be the case. Your article is, indeed, important in noticing this difference. But let's not make the mistake of absolving the original schedule, in having a role in the age of autism.

[John Stone]

In 2001 the WHO schedule for weeks 1 to 14 was identical to the US schedule for 0-6 months - see sub-heading "Fooling Third World Nations" here:

http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/cdc-fraud-tax-dollars-and-italian-vaccine-mercury-study/

This included 187.5 micrograms of mercury which has probably not been systematically reduced since and is for example still licensed by UK authority, the MHRA. It may be misleading to talking about the first 9 months when you are talking about 20 vaccines in the first three (including Hep B at birth). Of course, we are talking about administering this to infants already likely surviving in compromised conditions - and must represent an even greater challenge to them even if the results are even less carefully monitored and recorded.

The real health priority for these children is not vaccines but decent living conditions, clean water, nutrition.

These excellent graphs from ChildHealthSafety also demostrate how marginal at the very least vaccination has beeen to the fall in infant mortality in the developed world:

http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/graphs/

[WE SHALL OVERCOME]

Dan, those are my thoughts exactly. WHO and European vaccines practices are very different than the ones in the US. Is there any compiled data anywhere about different required vaccine schedules and practices in different countries, correlated with autism rates in those same countries? Can AOA work on any research along these lines?

Autism is on the rise on developed nations but at different degrees of growth. On poorer nations, autism is on the rise especially among the wealthy, the only ones with the means to vaccinate their kids. Correlations can be extracted from an overall comparison of vaccine practices on different countries and corresponding autism rates. I know from cursory reviews that autism rates are way lower in Spain compared to the US and that vaccine practices are different there (vaccines are NEVER given simultaneously - only one by one at different visits).