To Ms Blanco (Part II)

I assume that you saw my post describing when and where she acquired Lyme and how at most a week later she got the MMR, followed by a high fever, Itwas June of 1988. I was very pregnant with my 3rd child who would be born August 5th of 1988,

The cyclical fevers (and cyclical oral antibiotics) continued until February of 1990, when Stephanie contracted Cickenpox from her siblings, yet had no fever and was not sick from it, displaying only 5 poxes on her torso....yet 2 months later she would be found to have a very high Herpes Zoster antibody titer.
4 weeks after the chickenpox, the cyclical fevers were back, but would not abate. Ampicillin and another couple of oral agents did nothing. Then huge lymph nodes appeared in the neck, then painful and ugly sores on the tonque and inside the cheeks precluding feedings, We were at the pediatrician every other day, By then she diagnosed Herpes Simplesx and started an antiviral,,,,Meanwhile ever since the summer of 1988 we had expressed our concerns about Lyme disease.
No longer trusting the pediatrician who kept throwing antibiotics at us but could not determine the cause of the fever to our satisfaction' I entrusted the care of Stephanis to my hudband. We took her to the ER where he ordered the blood work deemed unnecessary by the pediatrician. Stephanie was profoundly anemic in a pattern of "anemia of chronic disease" and her Sed Rate was greater than 120 mm/hr. A Lyme serology was at last drawn. The result came back 4 days later as my husband was on duty in his ER. He called me. The sound of his voice was simultaneously one of relief and anger. Me, I yelled: "I knew it all along"....then the guilt quickly set in. As physicians, when we become parents we are taken aside by older, wiser doctors who warn us against taking care of our own kids...because we would lack objectivity....Well if I made one mistake that I will never forgive myself for, it is for not hsving obeyed to that qnawing gut feeling....
I called Dr Reik in the middle of the night for advice, He gasped when he heard about the Lyme titer still positive after an excess of 16000 dilutions.

My daughter was admitted to U Conn that same night and the battle began, on one side, my very ill baby daughter, us and Dr Reik on the other side my daughter's pediatric neurologist, his croonies, and a bunch of other pediatric subspecialists...who totally refuted the Lyme diagnosis branding the blood work result as a "FALSE POSITIVE Lyme test" ''''I can still picture Louis Reik rolling his eyes to all the nonsense. The basic issue was a matter of EGO. The pedi neurologist could not stomach the fact that he had missed the diagnosis the Lymr.
My daughter spent 6 days in the hospital. Thank goodness for the admitting team that did MRI and lumabar puncture, sng gave my daughter her first dose of Rocephin.
The morning after admission, my daughter's neurologist mase rounds, avoided all eye contacts with me before leaving to write orders. Next thing I know a nurse comes in visibly upset and interrupts the antibiotic infusion otherwisw discontinued by the pedi neurologist.
I will spare you the fine words that were thrown at me. My daughter did not have Lyme disease they kept repeating,,,they were sure she had AIDS,,,
Had we not been physicians, our daughter would have died several times during those years of battling the Lyme disease.
We signed her out of the hospital "against medical advice" to take her home and start her on IV Rpcephin. Lou Reik recommended a full month of treatment.
Imagine this: a 34 monthd toddler who could not tolerate clothing and diapers and walked around in the nude at home, lived with an IV in her arm that was replaced every 8 to 10 days and never once attempted yo pull it out!!
Omly explanation I could come up with was that the treatment nade her feel better...
Within 5 days of starting the IV Rocephin, the fevers (had gone as high as 106.0F) were gone, the Sed Rate had dropped by 70 mm and the anemia was gone.

An observation that I otherwise made whenever Stephanie had a high fever: she cuddled in my arms, molding her body to mine, as opposed to stiffen up and wiggle away from my embrace, which she had begun doing after the MMR. She also made eye contact when she had a feverm and responded to her name instead of "acting" deaf.
The moment the fever subsided, autism would comr running back.
This phenomenon was described but not understood in a pediatric jourmal less than 2 years ago... Has any of you observed this??

Lyme/Autism saga to continue tomorrow.

Donna L. - "...glaringly obvious just how incredibly absurb our current vaccination policy really is."

The absurdity is getting worse! Just review the history of the 23-valent pneumonia inoculations. Why are serotype-1 and multiple drug resistent pneumonias becoming more common?

I suppose pharma's "final solution" and next generation preventive will be a 50-valent pneumonia inoculation?

Are serial flu inoculations "priming" pharma's immune system to implode, for example, with cytokine storm and hemorhagic pneumonias? Our God-given natural immune systems have been shattered by the vaccine schedules and effectively replaced by pharma's man-made immune system. This is why vaccine epidemics are now widespread - rampant, actually.

God help us all!

Excellent, Julie. Your 100 percent common sense approach makes it glaringly obvious just how incredibly absurb our current vaccination policy really is. Bravo!

GENETIC CHANGES AND VACCINES, wow...

One of the indications that vaccinations may in fact be changing the
genetic structure of humans became evident in September of 1971, when
scientists at the University of Geneva made the discovery that
biological substances entering directly into the bloodstream could
become part of human genetic structure. Originally, Japanese
bacteriologists discovered that bacteria of one species transferred
their own specific antibiotic resistance to bacteria of an entirely
different species. Dr. Maurice Stroun and Dr. Philip Anker in the
Department of Plant Physiology at the University of Geneva, began to
accumulate evidence that the transfer of genetic information is not
confined to bacteria, but can also occur between bacteria and higher
plants and animals. According to an article in World Medicine on
September 22, 1971, "Geneva scientists are convinced that normal
animal and plant cells shed DNA, and that this DNA is taken up by
other cells in the organism."

In one experiment, scientists in Geneva extracted the auricles of
frog hearts and dipped them for several hours in a suspension of bacteria.
Afterward, they found a high percentage of RNA-DNA hybridization
between bacterial DNA extracted from bacteria of the same species as
that used in the experiment and titrated DNA extracted from the
auricles which had been dipped in the bacterial suspension. Bacterial
DNA had been absorbed by the animal cells. This phenomenon has been
dubbed transcession. There is evidence that this kind of phenomenon
is happening all the time within the human body. It is conceivable,
for example, that heart damage following rheumatic fever could the
the result of the immune system reacting to its own cells producing a
foreign RNA complex after absorption of foreign DNA.

In Science magazine, November 10, 1972, bacterial RNA was
demonstrated in frog brain cells after a bacterial peritoneal
infection. In the April
1973
issue of the Journal of Bacteriology, transcription of spontaneously
released bacterial DNA was found to be incorporated into cellular
nuclei of frog auricles. Studies by Phillipe Anker and Maurice Stroun
have indicated spontaneous release of DNA material from mammalian
cells, spontaneous transfer of DNA from bacteria to higher organisms,
spontaneous transfer of DNA between cells of higher organisms,
release of RNA by mammalian cells, and biological activity of
released complexes containing RNA.

Malignant Cellular Transformations Caused By Foreign DNA:

There is evidence that freely circulating foreign DNA can cause
malignancy.
In a 1977 issue of International Review of Cytology, Volume 51, Anker
and Stroun discuss the possible effects of foreign DNA causing
malignant cell transformations. When foreign DNA is transcribed into
a cell of a different organism, "this general biological event is
related to the uptake by cells of spontaneously released bacterial
DNA, thus suggesting the existence of circulating DNA. In view of the
malignant transformations obtained with DNA, the oncogenic
(cancer-causing) role of circulating DNA is postulated."

The discovery in 1975 that viruses causing cancer in animals had a
special enzyme called reverse transcriptase makes the problem even
more interesting.
These kind of viruses are called RNA viruses. When an RNA virus has
the reverse transcriptase enzyme within its structure, it allows the
virus to actually form strands of DNA which easily integrate with the
DNA of the host cell which it infects. Studies by Dr. Robert Simpson
of Rutgers University indicate that RNA viruses which do not cause
cancer can also from DNA, even without the presence of reverse
transcriptase. DNA formed in this way from an RNA virus is called a
provirus. It is known that some non-cancerous viruses have a tendency
to exist as proviruses for long periods of time in cells without
causing any apparent disease. In other words, they remain latent.
Some examples of common RNA viruses that do not cause cancer, per se,
but have the capacity to form proviruses are influenza, measles,
mumps and polio viruses. In the October 22, 1967 British Medical
Journal, it was brought out by German scientists that multiple
sclerosis seemed to be provoked by vaccinations against smallpox,
typhoid, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis and diptheria. Even earlier, in
1965, Zintchenko reported 12 cases in which MS became evident after a
course of antirabies vaccinations. Remember that millions of people
between 1950 and 1970 were injected with polio vaccines containing
simian virus 40 (SV-40) transferred from contaminated monkey kidney
cells used to culture the vaccine. It is impossible to remove animal
viruses from vaccine cultures. You are reminded that SV-40, the 40th
virus to be discovered in simian tissue, is a cancer-causing virus.

Immunization programs against influenza, measles, mumps and polio are
in fact seeding humans with RNA and forming proviruses which become
latent for long periods in throughout the body, only to re-awaken
later on.
Post-polio
syndrome is a good example of this problem. Other examples may
include the so-called mesenchymal and collegen diseases, such as
rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and lupus erythmatosis,
where antibodies are formed by the immune system against the person's
own tissues - tissues which have been impregnated with foreign
genetic material. According to a special issue of Postgraduate
Medicine in May 1962, "although the body generally will not make
antibodies against its own tissues, it appears that slight
modification of the antigenic character of tissues may cause it to
appear foreign to the immune system and thus a fair target for
antibody production." Two years later in 1964, studies were conducted
on the polyoma virus, a tumor-producing DNA virus. It was discovered
that the persistent genetic DNA material in the polyoma virus brought
about malignant transformations in hamster embryo cell cultures. This
was reported in the November 23, 1964 issue of the Journal of the
American Medical Association.

Even common non-tumor viruses, including those in smallpox vaccine
and polio virus 2, can act as carcinogens. It was reported in Science
on December 15,
1961 that these common viruses acted as catalysts in producing cancer
when given to mice in combination with known organic carcinogens in
amounts too small to induce tumors themselves. This means that some
vaccinations will induce cancer, when combined with the growing
problem of environmental pollution from toxic by-products of
agriculture (pesticides on and in
food)
and industry. Of course, this information is hidden from the public,
which is why the FDA, EPA and the agricultural industries can get
away with "sanctioning" small amounts of pollutants in food, water
and air. As an aside, it has already been admitted that polio
vaccinations have caused 100% of all polio in the United States since
1980 and the predominant cases of all paralytic polio since 1972
(Science, April 4, 1977). It is suspected that the Salk and Sabin
vaccines, made of monkey tissue culture, have also been responsible
for the major increase in leukemia in the United States.

The use of viruses, bacteria and animal tissue cultures in mass
immunization campaigns, considering that this information has been
known for 20 years, constitutes an intentionally created hazard to
humans. The global impact on the wide range of genotypes relative to
human beings is difficult to assess. This fact is ignored and
suppressed from public knowledge, despite a 1984 plea by some U.S.
physicians to the United Nations in a report.

Persistence of long-term viruses and foreign proteins and their
relationship to chronic and degenerative disease was also pointed out
by Dr.
Robert Simpson of Rutgers University in 1976, when he addressed
science writers at an American Cancer Society seminar, saying "these
proviruses could be molecules in search of a disease." Dr. Wendell
Winters, a virologist at the University of California noted,
"immunizations may cause changes in slow viruses and changes in the
DNA mechanism." Although host cells containing latent viral particles
operate more or less normally, they begin to synthesize viral
proteins under the guidance of the viral DNA, eventually creating the
circumstances for various autoimmune diseases, including diseases of
the central nervous system, which unfortunately add to the growing
load of aberrant social behavior patterns.

To Ms Blanco

Fascinating. I wandered for years from autism to Lyme to autism meetings, most for parents, some for medical prof.between 1989 and 2000, Whenever I brought up my daughter's story and dual diagnoses of "CNS LYME disease and autism", the parents would give me blank looks and the doctors??? "Lyme does not cause autism".
Of course my daughter regressed into autism in 1988, at the satart of the "first spike" in the epidemic.

Lyme is dubbed the "great immitator" because it can affect every organ system just like the spirochete of Syphilis to
which it is related (different mode of transmission) used to.
I have great "respect" for that diagnosis, whereas much of the medical establishment even in the high risk areas "Pooh-Poohs" it. It is somehow the same practitionners who consider vaccines safe and look at me suspiciously...

Was it possible to determine where and when and how everyone in your family was diagnosed??

Do you have MS? Do you have CNS Lyme disease misdiagnosed as MS? Do you have MS and Ly and are you/were you treated for both??

I am off to the link you typed.me

Amen Julie!

You ROCK!

My husband is going this Wednesday to listen to a back surgeont about multiple inflamed disc in his back.
He took a steroid shot back a month ago that did not seem to help.
He had trouble with two tetanus shot 20 years ago that I now believe were really DPT shots and has been sick every since with a mitochondria cytopathy.

I do not see how a back surgery on something inflamed will help and not hurt.

Dr. Denayer, I may have missed it but was Stephanie's illness by Lyme or other possible factors such as vaccinations?

Thanks for your contributions -

Uncle Autism

To Ms Blanco,

Sounds like you and your kids have overtly active immune systems. Tell me about your Lyme disease, particularly in relation to your pregnancies.. Have the kids been tested?

The Lyme spirochete can cross the placenta (like the spirochete of Syphilis in the old days, causing congenital Syphilis).
Somehow the ID people have very little interest in Lyme in young kids let alone the newborn. Any enquiry about congenital Lyme always elicits a blank look from my interlocutor.

My Stephanie was devastated by Lyme disease. She more than likely contracted it at age 13 months when we were in Rhode Island(Like in CT where we live Lyme is endemic in RI), even though I never found a tick attached to her.
Two days after our return from KI, Stephanie received the MMR. The dame evening she spiked tto 104*F

Left untreated too long, the Lyme seems to stop responding to Antibiotics....however sympyoms (fatigue, arthralgia, neuroborreliosis)may persist and even worsen, because the Infection once chronic can evolve into an AUTOIMMUNE disorder, very difficult to treat.
Good luck.

I agree with Uncle Autism and Cia Parker. The key to health and vitality in the infant has nothing to do with curing a pharmaceutical / vaccine deficiency but instead has everything to do with preventing nutritional deficiencies in the mother during pre-pregnancy, gestation, and nursing. A civilization that focuses on that and abandons vaccines and processed food will be rewarded with abundant health. A must read for everyone in this community is Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price DDS.

"Life in all it's fullness is mother nature obeyed"
Weston A. Price DDS

The immunization schedule concocted since the mid-late 1980's rests on pillars of sand.

For instance, Hep B instituted in 1991 should NEVER be given to any baby whose mother does not have active Hepatitis B viremia. Otherwise, NEVER.

For instance, Hib tried in the mid-1980's for infants 15 months old with little detectable bad reactions was switched in 1992 to three shots starting at 2 months age! It should NEVER be given before an infant is at least 15 months old. To top it off, the only remotely possible infants who are candidates are those who test to sickle-cell disease or are missing their spleens. Otherwise, NEVER.

For instance, Tetanus vaccinations should NEVER be given until an infant is at least two years old, and even then it is barely, remotely rationalized IF a child obviously in a suspect environment.

For instance, Rotavirus shots are just plain dangerous to boot have never been honestly justified. Of course the first rotavirus vaccines were so lethal they were stopped. How Offit got his into the Schedule can only be imagined (or documented elsewhere on AoA).

For instance, the Mumps shots given at 12 months (in the MMR combined doses) are beyond ludicrous. Mumps is a legitimate danger??!!

For instance, the Pertussis (Whooping Cough) given at 2 months, 4 months, 6 months is 99.999% risk, .001% benefit (if that).

For instance, the Flu shots for a pregnant mother, and the baby with 2 shots at 6 months, and every year, are nothing short of medical insanity.

For instance, the oral polio vaccine was switched to injections about 15 years ago raising its toxicity and potential for causing neurological damage an order of magnitude; Retrospectively, many medical historians now cite it never in truth was needed - and its injection risk/benefit profile is awful.

I could go on. But the point is that "mass vaccination policy" for the whole population starts out with an impoverished ethnic minority target (such as inner-city African-Americans and Native Indians on reservations and Eskimos, Asian-descent, etc. that indeed have a greatly higher risk than babies of European-descent mothers who breastfeed and otherwise provide excellent nutrition, and don't have pre-existing illnesses themselves. But, THE INDUSTRY gets it instituted for EVERYONE. Got to be politcally correct you know.

It is pure political power and financial motivations that have brought about our present national and countless families' catastrophes. It is certainly not sound science.

Autism Uncle

It is so, so sad because this ongoing madness is creating a whole generation of people with chronic diseases and will break our health and education system. And only when the full costs are visible will someone higher up decide to do the right thing. Then there will be a lot of finger pointing and blaming of people who are not in decision making positions anymore and promises will be made that this will never happen again. The journalists who are the loudest now condemning people who dare to question vaccines will be writing new books on how this should have never happened. Offit will be safely retired and sitting on his millions and big pharma will abandon vaccine research once again. And this later might be the only silver lining, because removing excess greed from vaccine manufacturing is the only way to create a safer world for future generations.

Any article that questions vaccination deserves to be applauded. There are however some very bizarre statements, such as this one:

"Finally, responsible vaccination is scientifically sound. All vaccinations are studied in the real world setting in which they are administered, subject to rigorous, long term, and independent safety testing. A study of the vaccinated and never vaccinated is done and continues to be monitored over time, and because of this, vaccines are overwhelmingly trusted by the public at large....and consequently, the rest of the world."

"Responsible vaccination"? That's a classical oxymoron if there ever was one! One may as well talk about responsible use of depleted uranium weapons, or cluster bombs! Responsible vaccination is as much a contradiction in terms as e.g. "vaccine safety", "vaccine preventable diseases" and "medical ethics".

"Responsible vaccination is scientifically sound"

I'm dumbfounded. How can something that has been a scientific fraud from the very beginning ever be "scientifically sound"?
It's an obvious impossibility.

In the author's opinion, responsible vaccination would also mean that "all vaccinations are studied in the real world setting in which they are administered, subject to rigorous, long term, and independent safety testing. A study of the vaccinated and never vaccinated is done and continues to be monitored over time..."

The reason why it isn't being done and will never be done is because it would spell instant death for the vaccine industry, which is basically an organised criminal enterprise dressed up as disease prevention.

The problem is that in most people's minds, vaccination is associated with disease prevention, when in fact vaccination is - very much deliberately and knowingly - used as disease promotion. Vaccines don't have "side"-effects: the wide-spread harm in the form of chronic ill-health and neurological disorders including autism vaccines cause is the main and ONLY effect vaccines have - and the source of far greater profits than those from the sale of vaccines themselves.

I highly recommend the article
"Are vaccines a gift from God" by Dr Suzanne Humphries MD.
http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2010/12/05/are-vaccines-a-gift-from-god/

What sort of consciousness does it take to continue
deliberately poisoning ourselves and our families?
What sort of consciousness does it take to manufacture
these poisons and sell them? And what kind of
consciousness lives with the illusion th...at it’s safe
to use them in our medicines, dental fillings, and vaccines?

I would like to agree with Autism Uncle, and add that it is necessary for a child's immune system to confront challenges as great as those presented by diseases like chicken pox, measles, and mumps in order for it to learn how to protect the child. Without the opportunity to learn how to fight moderately challenging microbes, it is liable to turn on itself and instead develop auto-immune diseases, of which allergies would be the most common manifestation. I think tetanus is the most useful of the vaccines, although I had a reaction to even that usually safe vaccine when I was nineteen, and it paralyzed both my arms for two days. I have MS now, and my daughter reacted to the hep-B vaccine given to her when she was one day old, and is now autistic.
For this reason, I don't think you can speak of responsible, safe vaccination. There are certainly dangers from infectious diseases but also dangers from consequences of vaccines like autism, ADHD, diabetes, asthma, and allergies, but it will certainly be many years, if ever, before scientists can identify which children are likely to react with which reaction. If you give any vaccine, you run the risk of triggering one or more of these reactions, and you certainly prevent the immune system from acquiring the skills it will need to protect the child throughout life. Not many parents will feel certain that their child has no gene which might predispose him to a bad reaction to a vaccine. It really is a roll of the dice, and I think it is misleading to speak of the possibility that any vaccine can ever be declared to be scientifically sound and overwhelmingly trusted. This is not an arena in which such certainty would ever be possible.

I compare the risk associated with vaccine decisions and people's willingness to accept those risks to investments. In the world of investing, you have everything from stuffing cash under the mattress, to savings accounts to CD's to 401Ks to stocks to day trading and everything in between. Where someone falls on that continuum with their investment strategy depends on their individual perception of risk.

The same risk perception applies to vaccines and produces a bell curve of vaccine uptake. On the one extreme you have those who perceive the risks of vaccines so great they will never vaccinate and on the other end you have those who perceive the risks of disease as so great that they are consumers of every vaccine the industry can create.

Just as it's imprudent to force the cash-in-the-mattress crowd to convert their social security funds into what they percieve as risky stocks, so too it is bad policy to force anyone to vaccinate against their will, their conscience or their faith.

Wow! I couldn't have said it better myself. This is excellent. Thanks, Maurine