Stories like Anna’s just sadden me so. What a horrible thing for a child and parents to have to go through. And as I mentioned in Part 1 of this article, this kind of atrocity is not an isolated case and is happening all over the world.

It wasn’t that long ago, 1987 to be exact, that the high dose EZ Measles vaccine (10 to 500 times stronger than standard concentrations) was administered to young babies in Haiti, Mexico, Senegal, and Guinea Bissau. The rationale was that these radically high doses might permit vaccination of babies younger than 9 months by overwhelming the maternal antibodies, present at birth, which normally defeat the vaccines given too early. In the US and other wealthy countries, measles vaccine is withheld 15 months, by which time maternal antibodies have subsided and the infant’s own immune system has matured enough to respond to the vaccine. In poor countries, where measles is a more dangerous illness and maternal antibodies may be less persistent, the World Health Organization (WHO) had long recommended measles vaccine at 9 months. The high dose EZ studies were aimed at lowering the age to 6 months, which would theoretically protect more babies. Well, it didn’t work. Babies, especially girls, given the high dose vaccine died in significantly great numbers, 6 months to over 3 years after the vaccination. And because this deadly vaccine caused broad immunosuppression, the babies didn’t technically die of measles, but rather by things like diarrhea, malnutrition and pneumonia that are commonly known for killing babies in poor countries. Thus, the vaccine had sort of a stealth killer effect and the deaths it caused disappeared into the background mortality.

By the time these failed studies were halted in June 1992, the high dose EZ vaccine had been given to many thousands of Third World infants, and WHO had a contract ready for another 250 million doses. Wow! Had these doses actually been administered, an estimated 15 to 18 million babies would have died, and their deaths would never have been linked to the vaccine.

It all seems like such a waste of time and life when you consider that respected Ph.D’s like Viera Scheibner tell us that vaccinated children contract the very diseases against which they are vaccinated at the same or higher rate than unvaccinated children. According to Dr. Scheibner, "Vaccines, like any other noxious substances, do not immunize when injected into the blood stream, but rather they sensitize. This was known more than 100 years ago and was well described in medical journals like The Lancet. The upsurge of allergies in children in the past 50 years is the result of repeated multiple injections of the foreign antigens in vaccines. An exaggerated reaction to measles virus or subsequent measles virus vaccine is just another example of sensitization by vaccination.

Asthma and other autoimmune diseases are also widespread side effects of vaccination. Animal viruses contained in the vaccines cause lingering upper and lower respiratory tract infections, such as otitis media and bronchiolitis leading to the development of wheezing and asthma. Increased incidence and mortality due to these diseases is also well- documented in medical papers."

Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center, sums it up beautifully in her statement made at a workshop on Risk Communication and Vaccination on May 13, 1996. "During the course of our research into more than 50 years of medical literature, we discovered that scientists and doctors had discussed among themselves for decades how vaccines can cause injury and death both in lab animals and in humans. Vaccine manufacturers, providers and policymakers knew that vaccines were being created out of viruses and bacteria grown in potentially contaminated human and animal tissue cultures, and that substances such as mercury derivatives and sodium chloride and aluminum were being added, and that, although heat and formaldehyde and other chemicals were being used to theoretically detoxify or render the viruses and bacteria incapable of causing harm, there was no guarantee, only hope, that an unknown number of healthy vaccine recipients would not die or be injured. But they never bothered to tell the people who were being vaccinated. This failure to communicate what medical science does and does not know about vaccine risks was, quite simply, perceived as fundamental betrayal of trust by those who were being asked to take the risk. "

Every uninformed parent I’ve spoken to is horrified when I tell them I didn’t vaccinate my son. They look at me like a child abuser, quick to tell me how the number of children that vaccines save far outweigh the number of those who have been injured or killed. Talk about the ultimate in corporate propaganda, media hype, and misinformation! And part of that misinformation, whether intentional or not, lies in the lack of reports filed by doctors. For example, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) reported that in New York alone, only one out of forty doctor’s offices (2.5%) confirmed that they report a death or injury following vaccination. I find this rather alarming when you consider that adverse event reporting is vital to ensure the health and safety of vaccines.

I do not think, however, that these same uninformed parents I speak of would disagree with me when I say that all vaccines or lot numbers that demonstrate an inordinate number of adverse events should be reported to the public. But, you see, that rarely happens since, once a vaccine has been licensed, there are no requirements for manufacturers to continue investigating the product. And my research further shows that health officials generally do not admit that a particular vaccine causes serious adverse events until such time as they have another product to replace it. This has been the case with the pertussis vaccine. Only after the acellular vaccine was available, did they openly admit that the whole cell vaccine caused brain damage. Ergo, the effect of suppressing the adverse event data was two-fold: those who could have been protected against vaccine-induced brain damage were not and they were denied compensation because there was "no evidence" to support that the vaccine could cause such adverse events.

Even the World Health Organization will tell you that there’s no such thing as a "perfect" vaccine which protects everyone who receives it AND is entirely safe for everyone. They even have a list of specific errors which can lead to "adverse events following immunization" (AEFI): Too much vaccine given in one dose, an improper immunization site or route, syringes and needles that are improperly sterilized, vaccines reconstituted with incorrect diluent, wrong amount of diluent used, drugs inadvertently substituted for vaccine or diluent, vaccines prepared incorrectly, e.g., a vaccine that hasn’t been shaken properly before use, contaminated vaccines or diluent, vaccines stored incorrectly, contraindications ignored, e.g., a child who experienced a severe reaction from a previous dose of DTP is re-shot with the same vaccine, and reconstituted vaccines not thrown out at the end of an immunization session and then reused at a subsequent one. What a nightmare!