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> Subject: Vaccine Scene 1999: Overview and Update by Harold Buttram, MD

> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 21:58:57 -0400

> From: RAYMOND GALLUP <truegrit@...

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> Harold Buttram, MD has given me permission to use this article he sent

> to the Townsend Letter since it isn't copyrighted. Dr. Buttram is a

> Defeat Autism Now (DAN) doctor which is an organization founded by Dr.

> Bernard Rimland, foremost expert in autism. Dr. Buttram is also a

> Scientific Board Member of the Autism Autoimmunity Project.

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> Courtesy of

> Gallup, President

> Autism Autoimmunity Project

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> Vaccine Scene 1999: Overview and Update

> by Harold Buttram, MD

>

> As an introductory comment, virtually all of the world's religions, in

> their origins, have taught the importance of maintaining cleanliness and

> purity of the human body. Although it is an accepted practice to

> maintain a separation between matters of science and religion, in issues

> surrounding childhood immunizations there is sufficient overlap to

> justify mention of the religious aspect.

>

> The most basic long-term concern with current childhood vaccines, one as

> yet largely theoretical, is that the introduction of foreign genetic

> material, especially in the forms of live-virus vaccines, into the

> system of the child may bring about genetic changes. These in turn may

> bring about disease-creating situations due to the presence of alien,

> incompatible genetic elements in the child. Research in this area being

> in its infancy, we have a long way to go before such a theory can be

> proven scientifically, but the concept does have roots in folklore from

> the earliest dawn of human history as well as in religious faiths.

>

> It is true that there may be situations where extreme measures may be

> justified to preserve life and health as the lesser of two evils. The

> basic question, therefore, is whether the benefits of current childhood

> vaccines outweigh the harm, or whether the reverse is true.

>

> As to the benefits of vaccines, polio has been eliminated from the

> Western Hemisphere; smallpox may have been eliminated worldwide,

> although there are disturbing reports that it still to be found in parts

> of the Far East.

>

> However, vaccine proponents would have us believe that vaccines have

> been largely responsible for controlling virtually all of the former

> epidemics of killer diseases in the U.S.A. With the exceptions cited

> above, the facts do not bear this out. According to the records of the

> Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, from 1911 to 1935 the 4 leading

> causes of death from infectious diseases in the USA were diptheria,

> scarlet fever, whooping cough (pertussis) and measles. However, by 1945

> the combined death rates from these causes had declined by 95%, BEFORE

> THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MASS IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS. (1) By far the

> greatest factors in this decline were sanitation through public health

> measures, improved nutrition, and better housing with less crowded

> conditions.

>

> It should be pointed out that today's children receive up to 35 vaccines

> before school age, whereas today's senior citizens received only one,

> the smallpox vaccine. Most infants have been receiving up to 15 doses of

> mercury-containing vaccines by the time they are 6 months old. It is

> almost inconceivable that these heavy burdens of foreign immunologic

> materials, introduced into the immature systems of children, could fail

> to bring about disruptions and adverse reactions in these in these

> systems. It is reasonable to ask ourselves, therefore, what is known

> about these reactions.

>

> A small but growing minority of physicians and scientists are becoming

> aware that safety testings for the various vaccines have been woefully

> inadequate. As one of many examples, in 1994 a special committee of the

> National Academy of Sciences published a comprehensive review of the

> vaccine safety of the hepatitis B vaccine. When the committee

> investigated 5 possible and plausible adverse effects, they were unable

> to come to any conclusion for 4 of them because, to their dismay, they

> found that revelant safety research had not been done.

>

> The clear implication of this and other revelations (2) concerning a

> general deficiency of safety testing in the vaccine field is that

> adverse reactions may be taking place on a large scale without being

> recognized as to their true nature.

>

> There is a school of thought that the so-called minor childhood

> illnesses of former times, including measles, mumps, rubella and chicken

> pox, which entered the body through the mucous membranes, served a

> necessary and positive purpose in challenging and strenthening the

> immune systems of these membranes. (3) In contrast, the respective

> vaccines of these diseases are injected by needle directly into the

> system of the child, thereby bypassing the mucosal immune system. As a

> result, mucosal immunity remains relatively weak and stunted in many

> children, one complication of which may be the rapid increase in asthma

> now seen, both in frequency and severity.

>

> It is true that in former times there were occasional serious

> complications from these childhood diseases, but most of these could be

> eliminated by nutrition, homeopathy, and other simple means, if these

> approaches were made widely available. No one wants to see serious

> complications from diseases in our children, but the vaccine route may

> in time prove to be the worse possible choice that could have been made,

> as concerns these minor childhood diseases.

>

> Perhaps the greatest concern with vaccines today rests with the possible

> casual relation with the growing epidemic of childhood autism,

> developmental delay, and attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder,

> (ADHD). Regarding the latter, a recent report stated that ADHD had

> increased from 900,000 in 1991 to nearly 5 million today. Regarding

> autism, a recent statistical survey mandated by teh California state

> legislature found an increase of 273% in California in the past 10

> years. Reports from education departments in a number of states,

> reporting on the rapidly increasing needs of classrooms for

> developmentally delayed children, reflect comparable increases

> throughout the nation. (4)

>

> At present, primary suspicion for this epidemic of neurobehavioral

> disorders rests with the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine. Although

> scientific evidence has not yet reached the standards of proof, one

> pioneer researcher in this area, Dr. Vijendra Singh with the University

> of Michigan, has published a report of a study in which he found that a

> large majority of autistic children tested had antibodies to brain

> tissue, in the form of antibodies to myelin basic protein. He also

> found a strong correlation between myelin basic protein antibodies and

> antibodies to measles, mumps, and rubella (almost all of the children

> had been immunized with MMR, and none had had these diseases). (5)

>

> This study confirms the results of a similar study published in The

> Lancet in 1998 by Dr. Wakefield of thE Royal Free hospital in

> London, showing a link between MMR vaccination and Crohn's disease of

> the bowel and autism. (6)

>

> If the MMR vaccine is causing an autoimmune reaction involving the

> brains of autistic chidren, what would be the mechanism? Although

> research in this area is in its infancy, as previously mentioned, we do

> know some things. Both the measles and mumps fractions of the MMR

> vaccine are cultured in chick embryo tissue. As purely gentic material,

> viruses are highly susceptible to the process of " jumping genes, " in

> which they may incorporate genetic material from the tissues in which

> they are cultured (7-8). Once this genetic material of chick origin is

> introduced into the child, it may set in motion an immunologic

> battleground, a process which the work of Dr. Singh would tend to

> confirm.

>

> A similar process may have taken place with the oral (Sabin) polio

> vaccine, which is cultured in monkey kidneys. Years ago Dr.

> , then serving as the director of the viral oncology branch within

> the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, reported to his supervisors that

> he found foreign DNA in contemporary polio vaccines. He later learned

> that a simian (Monkey) cytomegalic virus had been found in all of the

> eleven African green monkeys imported for production of the polio

> vaccine. (9) After leaving the FDA he took a position as professor of

> pathology with the University of Southern California. There he tested

> blood samples from patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, autism, and

> other nervous disorders. This work led to his discovery of unique

> cell-destroying viruses that were not recognized by the immune system.

> Termed " stealth viruses, " the viruses were able to cause persistent

> infections because they were missing genes which, if evoked, would

> express immunity. (10-11)

>

> In March, 1995 Dr. communicated to FDA officials that some

> stealth viruses clearly originated from African green monkey simian

> ctyomegalic viruses, a type of herpes virus which may also infect

> humans. Dr. asked the FDA to help him investigate the prevelance

> of this infection in the general population and in polio vaccine lots.

> His request was denied. (9)

>

> Long overdue, on June 17, 1999 U.S. government officials voted to

> withdraw their recommendation for the use of the live polio vaccine and

> to recommend " exclusive " use of the inactivated (Salk) polio vaccine.

> (Parenthetically, the Salk vaccine is free of the danger of herpes virus

> contamination.)

>

> In summary, it is possible that either the MMR or the oral polio

> vaccines, by mechanisms described above, may induce a process of

> encephalitis or brain inflammation, which may be highly prevalent but as

> yet rarely recognized for its true nature.

>

> As another basic concept, it is highly pertinent that many of today's

> children are second generation vaccinees, that is, they are born to

> mothers previously vaccinated with the measles, mumps and rubella

> vaccines. It is possible that the reaction rates in the

> second-generation vaccinees may be happening on a much larger scale due

> to previous sensitization of the mothers from their vaccines, this

> sensitization in turn being transmitted to the fetus during pregnancy.

> (12) If this process is taking place, something we cannot know until

> appropriate research is done, one shudders to think of the unfathomable

> consequences, should the process be continued into yet another, a third

> generation.

>

> Time may prove that vaccine programs went awry when they deviated from

> the most basic of all medical ethics, the right of a patient to accept

> or reject a medical therapy, or the right of parents to accept or reject

> vaccines for their children. Freedom-of-choice provides a system of

> checks and balances now lacking. At the very least, this would provide

> the parents with power to compel better safety screening of the

> vaccines. The remedy? Parents should be allowed the right of informed

> consent, or the right to accept or reject vaccines for their children

> based on full and uncensored disclosure of pros and cons.

>

> Today we have a system in which vaccine production by the pharmaceutical

> companies is largely self-regulated. Of course these companies are

> interested in profits from their products which, in itself, is not

> wrong. However, when arbitrary decisions in the mandating of vaccines

> are made by the government bureaucracies, which are highly partisan to

> the pharmaceuticals, with no recourse open to parents, we have all the

> potential ingredients for a tragedy of historical proportions.

>

> REFERENCES:

> (1) Dublin, L. Health Progress, 1936-1945, New York Metropolitan Life

> Insurance Co., 1948, Page 12.

> (2) Buttram, H. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act: A Critique,

> The Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, October, 1998: 66-68.

> (3) Incao, Philip Supporting Children's Health, Alternative Medicine

> Digest, Issue 19: 54-59.

> (4) From information compiled by F. Yazbak, MD, FAAP, available

> from our office on request. Tel# 215 536-1890.

> (5) Singh V & Yang V. Serological association of measles virus and human

> herpesvirus-6 with brain autoantibodies in autism, Clinical Immunology

> and Immunopathology, Vol 88 (1); 1998: 105-108.

> (6) Wakefield, AJ et al, Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia,

> non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children,

> The Lancet, Vol 351, February 28, 1998: 637-641.

> (7) Kumar S & LK, Effects of serial passage of Autographa

> California nuclear polyhedrosis virus in cell culture, Virus Research,

> Vol 7; 1987: 335-349.

> (8) Jahnke U et al, sequence homology between certain viral proteins

> related to encephomyelitis and neuritis, Science, Vol 29, July 19,

> 1985:282-284.

> (9) Emerging Viruses, AIDS and EBOLA, Leonard G Horowitz, DMD, MA, MPH,

> Tetrahedron Publishing Group, Rockport, Massachusetts, 1997:488-493.

> (10) WJ et al. African green monkey origin of the atypical

> cytopathic " stealth virus " isolated from a patient with chronic fatigue

> syndrome. Clin & Diagn Virology, Vol 4; 1994: 93-103.

> (11) WJ et al. Stealth virus epidemic in Mohave Valle, I. Initial

> report of virus isolation, Pathobiology, 65 (1); 1997: 351-356.

> (12) Gupta S et al. Dysregulate immune system in children with autism,

> beneficial effects of intravenous globulin on autistic characteristics,

> J of Autism and Develop Disorders, 26 (4); 1996: 439-452,

> (In this article on page 450 it was stated, " We theorize that the high

> titers of rubella antibody....presented in mothers of children with

> autism would be transplacentally transferred and may persist for a

> prolonged period in the child. When such a child gets MMR immunization,

> rubella antigen may complex with preexisting antibodies and such

> complexes might play a role in pathogenesis of autistic features. " )