Vaccination 101

Natural Immunity

These vaccinations are given before the baby has had a chance to develop a healthy immune system.  Mother’s milk or colostrum is high in the immunoglobulin IgA, which coats the GI tract. This helps to protect the newborn until its own immune system is functioning properly.  Colostrum also enhances resistance to the harmful effects of pollutants, contaminants and allergens. When breast feeding is inconvenient or not practical, quality formulas containing colostrum can duplicate some of the benefits of mother’s milk.

Herd Immunity

This is the theory that everyone should get vaccinated in order to protect those that are unvaccinated.  What!?!  We are led to believe that when we vaccinate our children, they are protected from the unvaccinated. 

In order to demonstrate the flaw in the herd immunity theory, let’s look at the MMR vaccine.  Children vaccinated with the MMR measles vaccine (a live attenuated viral vaccine) can actually become carriers of the disease.  It is interesting to note that those who do vaccinate their children insist that those who choose not to vaccinate their children, must be made to do so!  Their children are vaccinated so what do they have to fear from those children who are not?  Even if the unvaccinated children had measles, theoretically, their vaccinated children should be protected.  However, the facts reveal the truth.  Not only can vaccinated children spread measles, they can experience what is now called vaccine-related measles.

Heavy Metal Toxicity

Aluminum is the most common adjuvant in all vaccines, both veterinary and human. Aluminum causes degeneration of the brain and nervous system. Brain inflammation, oxidative damage, low levels of brain antioxidants (i.e., glutathione) and disturbances in calcium balance at the cellular level are affected by aluminum.

It can severely impact an immature and developing brain.  In the aging brain, aluminum can lead to Alzheimer’s disease and ALS.  Research has uncovered an aluminum core in each brain plaque formation in Alzheimer’s patients.  This applies to both dogs and people. Vaccines also contain mercury (Thimerosal), another toxic heavy metal that will accumulate in the brain and lead to cognitive dysfunction.

The UC Davis study indicates that in addition to being a direct neurotoxicant, Thimerosal may also be an immunotoxicant, leaving the immune system vulnerable to microbes and other external influences.

Side Effects

Always read the package inserts for any drug you plan to take.  Research the pros and cons and make informed decisions.  Ask yourself these important questions: How was the drug or vaccine tested (if it was even tested)?; How long was it studied before it went on the market?; what are the ingredients?  How does it affect the body? You will have to find a copy of a vaccination insert on the Internet.  It will not be provided to you

NCVIA/NCVIP

In October 1986, the U.S. Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA). The act included a number of regulations related to informed consent and adverse event reporting.  Vaccine providers must give patients an information sheet regarding some, but not all, vaccinations.  Side effects are downplayed and have simply become a routine part of getting a shot.

The NCVIA also established a system for reporting suspected vaccine-related adverse events called VAERS – the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.  The system was established to limit manufacturer liability and pave the way for research into new vaccines.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) established the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) in 1988. NVICP is funded by a tax of $0.75 per vaccine dose, collected from vaccine manufacturers and passed on to the patient. The NVICP does not cover all vaccines; however, vaccines routinely given to children as part of the recommended immunization schedule are included, and some adult vaccines are covered as well.

Under the NVICP, those claiming a vaccine injury from a covered vaccine cannot sue a vaccine manufacturer without first filing a claim with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Civil suits can be filed only if the NVICP claim is denied or if the claimant rejects the compensation. No amount of money can compensate for the pain and heartbreak of the families that that result from vaccines known to cause severe injury to children.  The money can, however, help ease the financial burden of caring for these children.

As you can imagine, these federal claims may take years to be resolved while families struggle to care for their injured children.  By March 1, 2010, 13,330 cases had been filed in the special vaccine court, with 5,617 representing autism cases. Of those 13,330 cases filed, only 2,409 were compensated. The rest were dismissed, but there were 5,933 cases still pending, and most of those were claims for vaccine-induced autism, mostly due to either the MMR vaccine, or vaccines containing thimerosal (mercury).

Not surprisingly, the vaccine court litigated against three test cases, from all that were filed, that involved autism.  The court’s own appointed judges ruled in each case that vaccines were not the cause of autism.  Numerous research papers have since shown a direct link between vaccines and autism.

In the meantime, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has accumulated $3.5 BILLION in vaccine tax revenue which is currently “sitting” in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund.  The program itself, via the federal agency, is funded by taxpayer money.

Immunity for Drug Manufacturers – not for People

The truth is that the drug manufacturers threatened to stop manufacturing vaccines if they were not granted legal immunity from damages due to vaccines. It was no longer profitable for them to continue manufacturing vaccines in a free market, because of the large amount of lawsuits for injuries and deaths due to vaccines.  The result?  Drug companies received total immunity from civil litigation due to injuries and deaths resulting from vaccines.  They were not held accountable or required to make safer vaccines.

Drug Manufacturers Create Lifelong Patients

The lifetime costs of autism average $1.4 million to $2.4 million . The number of individuals with autism is estimated at more than 3.5 million in the United States and that number will continue to grow.