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     Deana |
These exerpts are from: http://www.vran.org "There are significant risks associated with every immunization and numerous contraindications that may make it dangerous for the shots to be given to your child,"..."immunization against relatively harmless childhood diseases may be responsible for the dramatic increase in autoimmune diseases" Dr. Robert Mendelsohn MD, pediatrician Across Canada each year, thousands of school children are lined up and injected with hepatitis B vaccine. Parents are not adequately informed of the risks associated with the vaccine nor are they told that children in Canada have an extremely low risk of contracting the disease. Hepatitis B is not a common childhood disease. The risk according to recent statistics from Health Canada is minute, with only 25 cases reported in 1998 in children under the age of 14 in the entire country, yet thousands of children every year are exposed to the hazards of the vaccine. Of the few children in Canada who may contract Hep B over 90% will fully recover and will develop antibodies for life-long immunity. Your child has a higher chance of being struck by lightning than dying from Hep B disease. Parents are not told that hepatitis B vaccine contains the following toxic ingredients: ‘Recombivax HB’, a genetically engineered vaccine injected into Canadian school children contains aluminum and thimerosal, a mercury compound. Both aluminum and mercury are neurotoxins and have been linked to Alzheimer’s disease among others. The amount of mercury contained in this vaccine is approximately 20X the US ‘safe level’ for a 35 kg 11 yr old. Thimerosal has recently been removed from many vaccines because of the severe damage it can cause. Parents are also unaware that pre-marketing clinical trials lasted only 4-5 days, not long enough to determine automimmune reactions that can take weeks and months to merge. Nor are they told the Hep B vaccine does NOT provide 100% or lifelong immunity: The manufacturer of the vaccine used in Canada states “As with other Hep B vaccines, the duration of protective effect of Recombivax HB is unknown, and the need for booster doses is not defined.” According to vaccine researcher, Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, "The pathologies that are common to hepatitis B virus infections are the same types of symptoms that are associated with both the plasma derived (old vaccine) and the new yeast derived recombinant hepatitis B vaccine. These include rheumatoid arthritis type symptoms, optic neuritis, multiple sclerosis like symptoms, autism disorders, demyelinating disorders and a variety of vascular disorders and chronic fatigue syndrome." Dr. Dunbar reports that "we're finding there are 3 basic categories of adverse reactions. When you look at the published reports in the literature we have a majority of neurological type of symptoms, rheumatic/rheumatology, autoimmune types of symptoms, etc." One of the diseases that is presently skyrocketing is diabetes; it has been shown vaccines can cause insulin dependent diabetes in children, and Hep B vaccine is the worst offender, causing a 50% increased risk for this form of diabetes. Diabetes can take 3 ½ to 10 years to develop following vaccination. In a resolution voting against mandatory childhood vaccines, members of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons stated that "children under the age of 14 are three times more likely to suffer adverse effects -- including death -- following the hepatitis B vaccine than to catch the disease itself." In July 1999 the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) called for a moratorium on Hep B vaccine for school children. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons recently stated: Public policy regarding vaccines is fundamentally flawed. Indeed, evidence is accumulating that serious adverse reactions are being ignored. While Canadian statistics are sparse on vaccine associated adverse events, the VAERS adverse events reporting system in the United States offers the following statistics. To be sure, a similar trend would be expected in Canada. Follow link to view websites: http://www.aapsonline.org/aaps/ Overall, VAERS has received a total of 17,497 reports of adverse reactions to the hepatitis B vaccine, reactions that occurred after people received the vaccine alone, rather than in combination with other vaccines, during the period between July 1, 1990 and October 21, 1998. Moreover, fully 5,983 of these reports chronicled such serious events as hospitalizations, while 146 of them told of deaths. VAERS, furthermore, is a passive system, not a mandatory one. This suggests that only a fraction of adverse events are actually reported, a fraction estimated by FDA officials to be as low as 1% to 10%. http://www.biospace.com/articles/111199.cfm Until recently the vaccine was given in a three dose schedule - the first dose usually started in the fall at the begining of the new school term, a second injected dose about a month later, and the third dose approximately 6 months later. In July 2000, The National Advisory Committee on immunization (NACI) announced a revised schedule under the heading "The Statement on Alternate Adolescent Schedule for Hepatitis B Vaccine", published in the Canada Communicable Diseases Report - Vol. 26 (ACS-5), July 1, 2000. This brief report announces that children age 11-15 will have available a two dose schedule to be given in the school setting, and identifies the vaccine as Merck Frosst's Recombivax HB, but omits pertinent product information and does not disclose details of how the new 2 dose hepatitis B vaccine differs from the old 3 dose vaccine. The NACI statement can be viewed online at: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/lcdc/publicat/ccdr/00vol26/26sup/acs5.html The timeline of the hepatitis B vaccine program varies from province to province. Some provinces start injecting children in Grade 3, others start in grade 4, 5, 6, or 7, and high schools offer catch up campaigns for students who missed their shots in elementary school. New Brunswick, and the North West Territories routinely inject newborn infants within hours of birth with hepatitis B vaccine, while also offering it with the early infant shots starting at two months. Prince Edward Island includes it in the infant shots and also offers it in schools. British Columbia recently also has added hepatitis B vaccine to its routine infant vaccination program, starting at two months. According to the Canadian Immunization Guide - Fifth edition (1998), "HBV infection is usually associated with exposure to blood or infectious bodily fluids. Common means of transmission include heterosexual and homosexual contact, injection drug use, and perinatal transmission (mother to infant). The risk of transfusion-related hepatitis B is extremely low because of routine HBsAg screening of donated blood and rejecting of donors at risk of infection. Infections also occur in settings of close personal contact through unrecognized contact with infective fluids." People at high risk for getting hepatitis B disease are intravenous drug users who share contaminated needles, prostitutes, prisoners, sexually promiscuous persons and babies born to infected mothers. Canada offers prenatal blood screening (which includes testing for hepatitis B infection) to all pregnant women, and in rare cases of maternal infection, newborn infants are immeditely treated with hepatitis B immune globulin (HBIG), which offers immediate short term passive immunity. Immune globulin is prepared from pooled human plasma from selected donors with high level of anti-HBs who are seronegative for bloodborne infections. This screening and treatment insures that vulnerable, at risk infants are protected from acquiring hepatitis B and effectively reduces their risk of becoming lifelong carriers of the disease. The majority of adults, and older children who might rarely contract the disease usually recover, and develop lifelong immunity. Only a small percentage of people who contract hepatitis B go on to become carriers of the disease and/or develop degenerative liver disease. Health Canada reports "an encouraging picture of declining incidence of HBV infection in Canada in recent years. The reasons for this apparent decline remain speculative. A high-risk group approach to the use of hepatitis B vaccine has been in place in Canada since 1982 (3) and prenatal screening, at first targeted at high-risk pregnant women and later at all pregnant women, has also been in place since 1982... A downward trend for the incidence of HBV in the early 1990s has also been reported in the United States and has been partly ascribed to declining transmission among injection drug users, possibly as a result of safer needle-using. http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/lcdc/publicat/ccdr/97vol23/dr2307eb.html Doctors refuse mandatory Hep B Vaccine for themselves: Regarding mandatory screening and vaccination for Hep B in doctors, Canadian Medical Association President Victor Dirnfeld argued “The relatively low risk of transmission of bloodborne pathogens and the absence of studies on the feasibility and cost of mandatory screening does not justify implementation at this time,” If doctors who come into contact with body fluids daily, are at low risk for contracting Hep B, then why should we vaccinate babies and children? (Please forgive the page breakups - I tried editing several times & cannot seem to delete these spaces.) | ||
| Ingrid Naiman |
I fixed the line breaks (I think.) | ||
| Deana |
Hi Ingrid! Thanks for fixing that up for me... it's frustrating for me at times & I have no idea why it does that. Sometimes I copy & paste such as what I have done here & it will come out fine. I tried changing the font & the size to no avail. The message is important enough no matter what condition it was in. Some of the lower links my not work - I rechecked them & it appeared they wouldn't load. Overall, what did you think of the information? One more thing I should add also, is that in Canada age of consent is 12 (imagine that!) so my 11 year old completely unvaccinated daughter, can be approached at school when she is 12 and an attempt made to manipulate her into signing the consent for Hep B. All the public health nurses need to do is go to her & say that the first time she kisses a boy, she WILL contract deadly Hep B virus. All lies! And, if she signs & is damaged - well, she signed the form. There is recourse here in Canada though, & the lawsuits are happening. The school will be notified that they will hear from my lawyer in the event that anyone makes an attempt. I will also send my daughter with a hep B (PDF) pamphlet that I am distributing here, so she will be armed with data & stats. I will be seeing a class action lawyer here to speak to him about my son, who was injured 19 years ago. The cutoff here for the suits, I believe is 1979. My son has 6 different autism spec disorders & currently resides in a prison. (misdemeanor charges) I have been studying the effects of vaccines for 14 years now, since my son nearly died 2X after his DPT-P shots, and we had he & his 2 sisters legally exempt from vaccines. It has been quite a journey & we have learned alot. I am aware that there are things that can be done for my son, such as chelation, cleansing, nutrition, etc... but he's a tough one to peg down! (Yes, my big 6"4, 180 lb son - you will sit still for this... ;o) Unfortunately I cannot sit on him, & he thinks life is too short to sit around doing a boring old fast etc... Thanks for this forum & the ability to spread the word... Deana P.S. Have increased my bloodroot intake & it's going well. My husband is watching the spot on my back fading. Interesting... | ||
| Deana |
OOPS!! I just tried those last two links again & they do work... they are the Health Canada Lies website... you can go read all the lies about the "ACUTE HEPATITIS B" incidence in Canada... | ||
| wanna be mom |
How can we formally protest against this? Does anyone who posts here know what to do about vaccinations in the U.S.? I posted on autism and vaccinations earlier today. I'm appalled! I know a woman whose youngest son developed autism after his first shots. I'm 25 and not a mother yet and won't be if I can't protect my child. Please help. I am not the smartest but I can read and write and try not to be lead blindly by anyone or anything. I believe in this and want to do what I can to stop it. Which is limited since I am an hourly employee at a little daycare and all I have is the library and computer. Any ideas would be great! thanks in advance | ||
| wanna be mom |
Should have read Deana's post before I posted on autism. |