Letter to the TwinCities.com Editor: Take Seriously Concerns about Vaccine Injury

Note: Below is a thoughtful letter to the editor in TwinCities.com - in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. Thank you, Jerri this rational discussion of vaccine risk, reward and safety in place of the panic and fear put forth by mainstream doctors and public health organizations.

Jerri Johnson: Take seriously concerns about vaccine injury
By Jerri Johnson

Jerri Johnson of Eagan is a board member of the Vaccine Safety Council of Minnesota.twincities.com
Posted:   09/12/2012 12:01:00 AM CDT
September 12, 2012 10:15 PM GMTUpdated:   09/12/2012 05:13:24 PM CDT


"As more parents skip shots for kids, other children put at risk" (Aug. 26) implies that the heartbreak of disease is greater than the heartbreak of vaccine injury. Ask the parents of vaccine-injured babies, whose children are now disabled for life, which is worse. As one mother said to me, "When my son received his DPT shot, he quickly developed whooping cough and encephalitis. He got over the whooping cough. He is brain-injured for life."

Parenthetically, even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is admitting that this year's increase in cases of whooping cough is not due to unvaccinated children. It is due to short-lived coverage from the pertussis vaccine. For example, in California's pertussis surge last year -- in cases where immunization history is known -- 83 percent of the people diagnosed with pertussis had been immunized. In Minnesota in 2010, of the 252 cases of pertussis in infants and children through age 6, 71 percent had received at least the full primary series of three doses of vaccine.

In the article, Dr. Greg Poland reasserted his claim that vaccines do not cause autism. "There is no proof that vaccines cause autism," Poland said. "It's not there." However, in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where claims of vaccine injury are meticulously examined, nearly 3,000 cases of serious injury or death have been ruled as caused by a vaccine and compensated by the U.S.


Court of Federal Claims. Nearly half of these cases involved permanent brain damage. A peer-reviewed analysis of successful claims of brain damage caused by vaccines shows that 46 percent of these individuals actually have autism.

Minnesota is home to many of these families, and they are calling for more research on the safety of vaccines. Vaccine safety groups have repeatedly requested that the CDC research the overall health differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated children. The CDC has resisted doing this research, but the small studies done so far have found that unvaccinated children have lower rates of allergies, asthma, diabetes, auto-immune diseases and neurological disorders than vaccinated children...

Read the full letter at TwinCities.com.

Comments

[Lou]

"In New Delhi, India, prior to 2000, ASD/PDD (autism spectrum disorder/pervasive developmental disorder) symptoms were rare – typically only occurring in children who were vaccinated abroad. However, after the Indian pediatricians began recommending, in 2000, the addition of triple-dose Thimerosal-preserved Hib (Haemophilis influenza B) and Hep B (hepatitis B) vaccination programs to the existing Thimerosal-preserved triple dose DTP (diphtheria toxin, tetanus toxin and pertussis toxins) vaccination program recommended by the Government of India, the incidence of a childhood ASD/PDD diagnosis increased to 2 % to 4 % of vaccinated New Delhi children.” Doctor Paul King PhD http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6137 Note what does Doctor Greg Poland say about this? Does he assert the Hib and its mercury do not cause ASD? If he does he is a fool.

IMO there is absolutely no doubt that the DPT "vaccine" is being used to depress immune systems. Why you may ask; who would want our immune systems depressed.

Why indeed?

Why is the DPT being given to kids in India and probably many other countries? Why have the "authorities" decided it is perfectly fine to inject most of the world with the proven neurotoxic mercury? Why did NIH commission Doctor Jeffery Taubenberger to begin the engineering of the H5N1 bio-weapon? What will happen when the H5N1 hits all those weakened immune systems?

http://healthyprotocols.com/pertussis.htm

[nhokkanen]

Seems oddly convenient that the "smug mom" commenters attacking the op-ed would know who Bustin is, or have so many pharm-fiction talking points readily at hand.

It's people like Jerri Johnson (and us) who are in the front lines of the vaccine wars -- taking victim reports, doing triage for injuries, and trying hard to tell the CDC hawks in Washington about the carnage on their fields of battle.

[Mary R.]

The comment section under this article in Twin Cities is interesting. Without a doubt some of these folks are pseudonyms for pharma trolls.

[Rachael]

"Parenthetically, even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is admitting that this year's increase in cases of whooping cough is not due to unvaccinated children. It is due to short-lived coverage from the pertussis vaccine."
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And there solution is to add yet another booster shot. What I would like to know is, does this waning immunity hold true for all individuals, or are some people more vulnerable because of innate differences in immune function? What are we doing to the immune systems and brains of children who are not in need of re-vaccination because they are already immune to pertussis?