Vaccines show sinister side (cause neurological disorders)

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I apologize if this is a repeat. I've kinda lost track of the group lately.

Vaccines show sinister side (cause neurological disorders)

http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=16717

Mar 23, 2006

Vaccines show sinister side

By Pieta Woolley

If two dozen once-jittery mice at UBC are telling the truth postmortem, the

world's governments may soon be facing one hell of a lawsuit. New,

so-far-unpublished research led by Vancouver neuroscientist Shaw shows a

link between the aluminum hydroxide used in vaccines, and symptoms associated

with Parkinson's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease),

and Alzheimer's.

Shaw is most surprised that the research for his paper hadn't been done before.

For 80 years, doctors have injected patients with aluminum hydroxide, he said,

an adjuvant that stimulates immune response.

" This is suspicious, " he told the Georgia Straight in a phone interview from his

lab near Street and West 12th Avenue. " Either this [link] is known by

industry and it was never made public, or industry was never made to do these

studies by Health Canada. I'm not sure which is scarier. "

Similar adjuvants are used in the following vaccines, according to Shaw's paper:

hepatitis A and B, and the Pentacel cocktail, which vaccinates against

diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio, and a type of meningitis.

To test the link theory, Shaw and his four-scientist team from UBC and Louisiana

State University injected mice with the anthrax vaccine developed for the first

Gulf War. Because Gulf War Syndrome looks a lot like ALS, Shaw explained, the

neuroscientists had a chance to isolate a possible cause. All deployed troops

were vaccinated with an aluminum hydroxide compound. Vaccinated troops who were

not deployed to the Gulf developed similar symptoms at a similar rate, according

to Shaw.

After 20 weeks studying the mice, the team found statistically significant

increases in anxiety (38 percent); memory deficits (41 times the errors as in

the sample group); and an allergic skin reaction (20 percent). Tissue samples

after the mice were " sacrificed " showed neurological cells were dying. Inside

the mice's brains, in a part that controls movement, 35 percent of the cells

were destroying themselves.

" No one in my lab wants to get vaccinated, " he said. " This totally creeped us

out. We weren't out there to poke holes in vaccines. But all of a sudden, oh my

God-we've got neuron death! "

At the end of the paper, Shaw warns that " whether the risk of protection from a

dreaded disease outweighs the risk of toxicity is a question that demands our

urgent attention. "

He's not the only one considering that.

The charge that there's a sinister side to magic bullets isn't new. With his pen

blazing, celebrity journalist F. Kennedy Jr. popularized vaccine

scepticism with his article arguing that mercury in vaccines causes autism,

which ran in the June 2005 Rolling Stone and on-line at http://Salon.com. So did

last year's vaccines-linked-to- autism bestseller, Evidence of Harm by

Kirby (St. 's Press). But there's a potential public-health cost to all

the controversy, according to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.

" Vaccines have been a victim of their own success, " spokesperson Ian Roe told

the Straight in a telephone interview from Ottawa. Diseases such as polio, which

killed his father-in-law, are almost eradicated and therefore no longer serve as

a warning to parents. But the epidemic threat is still real. " If everyone

decided to not get vaccinated, we'd live in a very different world. "

Canada's last national immunization conference, in December 2004, heard a report

that vaccine coverage is sometimes low. For diphtheria, the Public Health Agency

of Canada found that just 75 percent of two-year-olds are immunized; the target

is 99 percent. For tetanus, just 66 percent of 17-year-olds are immunized,

compared to a target of 97 percent.

Dr. Gold, the former head of the infectious-disease division at Toronto's

Hospital for Sick Children, told the conference that " we will never be without

an anti-vaccine movement, " but " in reality, there is no scientific evidence for

these myths. "

Shaw acknowledges that there's a lot of pressure on parents to vaccinate their

children. " You're considered to be a really bad parent if you don't vaccinate, "

he said-and your child can't attend public school. " But I don't think the safety

of vaccines is demarcated. How does a parent make a decision based on what's

available? You can't make an intelligent decision. "

Conservatively, he said, if one percent of vaccinated humans develop ALS from

vaccine adjuvants, it would still constitute a health emergency.

It's possible, he said, that there are 10,000 studies that show aluminum

hydroxide is safe for injections. But he hasn't been able to find any that look

beyond the first few weeks of injection. If anyone has a study that shows

something different, he said, please " put it on the table. That's how you do

science. "

Neuroscience research is difficult, Shaw said, because symptoms can take years

to manifest, so it's hard to prove what caused the symptoms.

" To me, that calls for better testing, not blind faith. "

He pointed out that W. Bush passed legislation that opens the door for

the USA to order a nationwide anthrax immunization campaign, with the threat of

bioterrorism.

Shaw's paper is currently undergoing a peer review.

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[Guest guest]

I know they used the Antrax vaccine that contained aluminum

hydroxide for this study, Does any one know if the flu vaccine

contains aluminum hydroxide? I also wonder if thimerosal is used in

the Antrax vaccine. I am sending this study to some men in the

military.

Thanks,

Donna

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> I apologize if this is a repeat. I've kinda lost track of the

group lately.

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> Vaccines show sinister side (cause neurological disorders)

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> http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=16717

> Mar 23, 2006

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> Vaccines show sinister side

> By Pieta Woolley

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> If two dozen once-jittery mice at UBC are telling the truth

postmortem, the world's governments may soon be facing one hell of a

lawsuit. New, so-far-unpublished research led by Vancouver

neuroscientist Shaw shows a link between the aluminum

hydroxide used in vaccines, and symptoms associated with

Parkinson's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's

disease), and Alzheimer's.

> Shaw is most surprised that the research for his paper hadn't been

done before. For 80 years, doctors have injected patients with

aluminum hydroxide, he said, an adjuvant that stimulates immune

response.

>

> " This is suspicious, " he told the Georgia Straight in a phone

interview from his lab near Street and West 12th

Avenue. " Either this [link] is known by industry and it was never

made public, or industry was never made to do these studies by

Health Canada. I'm not sure which is scarier. "

>

> Similar adjuvants are used in the following vaccines, according to

Shaw's paper: hepatitis A and B, and the Pentacel cocktail, which

vaccinates against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio, and a type

of meningitis.

>

> To test the link theory, Shaw and his four-scientist team from UBC

and Louisiana State University injected mice with the anthrax

vaccine developed for the first Gulf War. Because Gulf War Syndrome

looks a lot like ALS, Shaw explained, the neuroscientists had a

chance to isolate a possible cause. All deployed troops were

vaccinated with an aluminum hydroxide compound. Vaccinated troops

who were not deployed to the Gulf developed similar symptoms at a

similar rate, according to Shaw.

> After 20 weeks studying the mice, the team found statistically

significant increases in anxiety (38 percent); memory deficits (41

times the errors as in the sample group); and an allergic skin

reaction (20 percent). Tissue samples after the mice

were " sacrificed " showed neurological cells were dying. Inside the

mice's brains, in a part that controls movement, 35 percent of the

cells were destroying themselves.

> " No one in my lab wants to get vaccinated, " he said. " This totally

creeped us out. We weren't out there to poke holes in vaccines. But

all of a sudden, oh my God-we've got neuron death! "

>

> At the end of the paper, Shaw warns that " whether the risk of

protection from a dreaded disease outweighs the risk of toxicity is

a question that demands our urgent attention. "

>

> He's not the only one considering that.

>

> The charge that there's a sinister side to magic bullets isn't

new. With his pen blazing, celebrity journalist F. Kennedy

Jr. popularized vaccine scepticism with his article arguing that

mercury in vaccines causes autism, which ran in the June 2005

Rolling Stone and on-line at http://Salon.com. So did last year's

vaccines-linked-to- autism bestseller, Evidence of Harm by

Kirby (St. 's Press). But there's a potential public-health

cost to all the controversy, according to the B.C. Centre for

Disease Control.

>

> " Vaccines have been a victim of their own success, " spokesperson

Ian Roe told the Straight in a telephone interview from Ottawa.

Diseases such as polio, which killed his father-in-law, are almost

eradicated and therefore no longer serve as a warning to parents.

But the epidemic threat is still real. " If everyone decided to not

get vaccinated, we'd live in a very different world. "

>

> Canada's last national immunization conference, in December 2004,

heard a report that vaccine coverage is sometimes low. For

diphtheria, the Public Health Agency of Canada found that just 75

percent of two-year-olds are immunized; the target is 99 percent.

For tetanus, just 66 percent of 17-year-olds are immunized, compared

to a target of 97 percent.

>

> Dr. Gold, the former head of the infectious-disease

division at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, told the

conference that " we will never be without an anti-vaccine movement, "

but " in reality, there is no scientific evidence for these myths. "

>

> Shaw acknowledges that there's a lot of pressure on parents to

vaccinate their children. " You're considered to be a really bad

parent if you don't vaccinate, " he said-and your child can't attend

public school. " But I don't think the safety of vaccines is

demarcated. How does a parent make a decision based on what's

available? You can't make an intelligent decision. "

>

> Conservatively, he said, if one percent of vaccinated humans

develop ALS from vaccine adjuvants, it would still constitute a

health emergency.

>

> It's possible, he said, that there are 10,000 studies that show

aluminum hydroxide is safe for injections. But he hasn't been able

to find any that look beyond the first few weeks of injection. If

anyone has a study that shows something different, he said,

please " put it on the table. That's how you do science. "

>

> Neuroscience research is difficult, Shaw said, because symptoms

can take years to manifest, so it's hard to prove what caused the

symptoms.

>

> " To me, that calls for better testing, not blind faith. "

>

> He pointed out that W. Bush passed legislation that opens

the door for the USA to order a nationwide anthrax immunization

campaign, with the threat of bioterrorism.

> Shaw's paper is currently undergoing a peer review.

> _________________

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