I recently heard at tape from Dr. Lendon Smith regarding the ineffectiveness of immunizations and there possible connection to other diseases/illnesses (ear infections, autism, etc.). Not to mention any of the other KNOWN side effects. I am very confused. I have a 3 month old daughter. She has gotten 2 of the Hep B shots and the DPT and polio vaccines at 2 months. I don't know whether to continue the vaccinations or wait until 2 years or just what should be done. I am very much into letting our immune system/body fight for itself. My daughter is very healthy, but i certainly don't want to cause her harm. Please advise.
In Reply to: Immunizations posted by Andrew on July 15, 1998 at 12:36:50:
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This is the very best place I know of for you to get the information you are looking for. They tell how to have it done if you DO decide to do it at all. Here is some info about polio that I put up some time back.
POLIO-90% of all those (unvaccinated) exposed to the polio virus
produce no symptoms, even under epidemic conditions..M. Burnett and D.
White, The Natural History of Infectious Disease (New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 1972), p. 16 Polio is virtually nonexixtent in the
United States today; however there is no credible evidence that the vaccine
caused polio to disappear...R. Mendelson MD, How To Raise A Healthy
Child..In Spite of Your Doctor(Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1984), p. 228
>From 1923 to 1953, before the Salk killed virus vaccine was introduced, the
polio death rate in the U.S. and England had already declined on its own by
47% and 55%, respectively. The introduction did nothing to speed up the
decline of the disease...Michael Alderson, International Mortality
Statistics (Washington, DC:Facts on File, 1981), pp. 177-178 In fact the
number of reported cases of polio following mass inoculations with the
killed virus vaccine was significantly greater than before mass
inoculations, and may have more than doubled in the US as a whole.
Massachusetts alone went from 273 cases from August 30 1953 to August 1954,
to 2027 cases in the year from Aug 30 1954 to Aug 30 1954...H Allen, Don't
Get Stuck: The Case Against Vaccinations..( Oldsmar, FL: Natural Hygiene
Press, 1985), p 146 The CDC reports that between 1973 and 1983 87% of
the Polio cases were caused by the vaccine itself. More recently from 1980
thru 1989, EVERY case of polio in the US was caused by the vaccine(excluding
5 imported cases). And three of the five imported cases had been vaccinated
against the disease...PM Strebel, et al "Epidemiology of Poliomyelitis in
the US..." Clinical Infectious Diseases, (CDC, February 1992) pp 568-79
Skewing the reported effectiveness was necessary. Figures from the Los
Angeles Health Index: Morbidity and Mortality, Reportable Diseases reveals this.
sample months reported cases of polio reported cases of aceptic meningitis
July 1955
(before 273 50
vaccine)
Sept 1966
(after 5 256
vaccine)
Quotes from Dr. Jonas Salk.."When you inoculate children with a plio vaccine
you don't sleep well for two or three weeks" he also testified that the live
virus vaccine (used almost exclusivly in the US since 1961) was " the
principal if not sole cause" of all reported polio cases in the US since
1961...Washington Post, (Sept 24, 1976).
In Reply to: Re: Immunizations posted by David Ferguson, D.C. on July 15, 1998 at 13:26:01:
The chart on aseptic menengitis/polio came out wrong. Pre '55 was 273 cases of polio, 50 of asept. meneng. After '66 was 5 polio and 256 asept. meneng. Essentially, the reclassification of what constitutes polio changed more about the statistics than the vaccine ever did.
In Reply to: Immunizations posted by Andrew on July 15, 1998 at 12:36:50:
Dear Andrew,
I had my staff compile the world literature on this question nearly 20 years ago. The final report was 11 pages of single spaced typing that could come to no definite conclusion. Over the past 20 years more & more data is accumulating that vaccinations DO have a big "whoops factor" and we should be looking for a safer way to do this.
In other countries (with no MD monooly) homeopathic immunizations are being shown to be at least as effective with NO short or long term risks.
Go to the archives for this 'site and see if I have not described this several times already (save me typing).
THEN, if you still have questions, write again.
You are to be congratulated for thinking deeply about this question!
Walt