The Dangers of Excessive Childhood Vaccinations by Blaylock

April 1, 2008

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The Dangers of Excessive Childhood Vaccinations

By L. Blaylock, M.D.

In 1976, children received 10 vaccines before

attending school. Today they will receive over 36

injections. The American Academy of Pediatrics

and the Center for Disease Control assured

parents that it was safe to not only give these

vaccines, but that they could be given at one time with complete safety.

Is this true? Or are we being lied to on a grand scale?

The medical establishment has created a set of

terms, which they use constantly to boost their

egos and firm up their authority as the unique

holders of medical wisdom -- the mantra is

“evidence-based medicine”, as if everything

outside their anointing touch is bogus and suspect.

A careful examination of many of the accepted

treatments reveals that most have little or no

scientific “evidence-based” data to support it.

One often repeated study found that almost 80

percent of medical practice had no scientific backing.

I find it interesting that there exist an

incredible double standard when it comes to our

evidence versus theirs. The proponents of

vaccination safety can just say they are safe,

without any supporting evidence what-so-ever, and

it is to be accepted without question.

Yet, let me, or anyone else, suggest that

excessive vaccination can increase the risk of

not only autism, but also schizophrenia and

neurodegenerative diseases, and they will scream

like banshees – Where is the evidence? Where is the evidence?

When we produce study after study, they always

proclaim them to be insufficient evidence or unacceptable studies.

More often than not, they just completely ignore

the evidence. This is despite the fact that we

produce dozens or even hundreds of studies that

not only demonstrate the link clinically and

scientifically, but also clearly show the

mechanism by which the damage is being done --

even on a molecular level. These include cell

culture studies, mixed cell cultures, organotypic

tissue studies, in vivo animal studies using

multiple species and even human studies. To the

defenders of vaccine safety -- our evidence is

never sufficient and, if we face reality -- never will be.

The Autism Disaster: Is it Man Made?

In the early 1980s, the incidence of autism was 1

in 10,000 births. By 2005, the incidence had

leaped to 1 in 250 births, and today it is 1 in 150 births and still climbing.

One of the strongest links to this terrible set

of disorders was a drastic change in the vaccine

programs of the United States and many other

countries, which included a dramatic increase in

the number of vaccines being given at a very

early age. No other explanation has been forthcoming from the medical elite.

In this paper I shall present evidence, some of

which has not been adequately discussed, that

provides a connection between excessive

vaccination and neurodevelopmental disorders.

I urge you to read Dr. Blaylock’s full-length

article,

<http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/pages/the-danger-of-excessive-vaccin\

ation-during-brain-development.aspx>The

Danger of Excessive Vaccination During Brain

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Dr. Mercola's Comments:

First, I’d like to thank Dr. Blaylock for

sharing his excellent writings on this vital

issue. If you missed his last article

<http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/02/26/how-vaccines-can-\

damage-your-brain.aspx>How

Vaccines Can Damage Your Brain, where he explains

how vaccines exacerbate depression and more

serious neurodegenerative diseases in people over

50, I highly recommend reading it now as well.

<http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/09/29/blaylock-vaccine-\

coverup-part-three.aspx>The

issue of vaccination has been a controversial

topic for many years. It remains one of the

bedrocks of " prevention " in conventional

medicine, despite the overwhelming evidence

showing that vaccinations at best do not work,

and at worst can cause serious health problems.

And yet, anyone who opposes them is viewed as a

dangerous quack and a threat to public health. I

understand this because that was precisely the

view I had when I graduated medical school.

However, after more than two decades of practice

where I encountered hundreds of vaccine

casualties -- which spurred me to review the

evidence through a more critical lens -- I changed my mind-set entirely.

There may be a slight glimmer of hope that this

dangerous tide will eventually change, however.

The U.S. government recently came to the

unprecedented conclusion that

<http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/03/22/u-s-government-co\

ncedes-that-mercury-causes-autism.aspx>childhood

vaccines

did<http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/03/22/u-s-government\

-concedes-that-mercury-causes-autism.aspx>

contribute to the onset of autism in 9-year-old

Hannah Poling. According to U.S. Division of

Vaccine Injury Compensation, the shots

" significantly aggravated an underlying

mitochondrial disorder " and resulted in a brain

disorder " with features of autism spectrum disorder. "

Poling was one of three test cases alleging the

vaccine preservative thimerosal caused autism. So

even though federal officials keep insisting

there is no link between autism and vaccines,

this concession says otherwise, and may influence

the outcome of the remaining 4,900 cases pending

review by the “Vaccine Court.”

The fact that the Vaccine Injury Compensation

Program has paid out more than $1.5 billion to

families and children who have been injured or

killed by vaccines also speaks volumes about the

supposed “safety” record of vaccines…

The Insanity of the Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule

I published Dr. 's excellent

article,

<http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/12/29/vaccination-sched\

ule-part-one.aspx>A

User-Friendly Vaccination Schedule in 2004. At

that time, 12 different vaccines were given to

children before they reached the age of two.

As of

<http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/schedules/child-schedule.htm#printable>2008,

the Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule

put out by the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC), that number has risen to 14 in

the first 24 months, plus the meningococcal

vaccine, which is to be administered between the age of two and six.

Infants and toddlers aged 0 to 6 years of age are

now inoculated against the following:

Hepatitis B Rotavirus

Hepatitis A Measles

Diphtheria Mumps

Tetanus (lockjaw) Rubella (German measles)

Pertussis (whooping cough) Varicella (chickenpox)

Polio Meningococcal

Pneumococcal infections Influenza (yearly flu shots)

Hemophilus influenzae type b infections

By the time your child starts school he or she

will have received more than 36 injections,

including four doses each of vaccines for

Hemophilus influenzae type b infections,

diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis -- all of them

given during the first 12 months of life.

And now consider this: one vaccine injected into

a 13-pound, two-month old infant is equivalent to

10 doses of the same in a 130-pound adult. Where

is the common sense in these guidelines?

Would any adult concede to being injected with

360 doses of vaccines within a couple of years’

span; equal to one injection every other day for two years?

Public health officials have NEVER proven that it

is indeed safe to inject this number and volume

of vaccines into infants. What's more, they

cannot explain why, concurrent with an increasing

number of vaccinations, there has been an

explosion of neurological and immune system disorders in American children.

Is There a More Sensible Vaccination Schedule?

Dr. is a cardiac surgeon and

Professor of Surgery at the University of

Washington in Seattle and a member of Doctors for

Disaster Preparedness. His more

<http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/12/29/vaccination-sched\

ule-part-one.aspx>sensible

vaccination schedule, which I published back in

2004, is worthy of being revisited at this time.

Many are both scared and confused as they try to

make healthier choices for their children, and

his guidelines may help you devise a more

appropriate vaccination plan for your child – a

schedule that takes the best interests of your

child into consideration rather than what biased

government planners cite as being best for

society. His is a far better approach than the

" one-size-fits-all " dogma foisted on Americans by the CDC panel.

And, as Dr. Blaylock describes so vividly in this

article, there’s plenty of information and

knowledge in neuroimmunology (the study of how

the brain’s immune system works) that raises

serious questions about the wisdom of injecting

vaccines in children less than 2 years of age.

A Child’s Best Time Table

Your brain has its own specialized immune system,

separate from that of the rest of your body. When

you are vaccinated, specialized immune cells in

your brain, the microglia, become activated.

Multiple vaccinations spaced close together

over-stimulate the microglia, causing them to

release a variety of toxic elements -- cytokines,

chemokines, excitotoxins, proteases, complement,

free radicals -- that damage brain cells and their synaptic connections.

The damage caused by these toxic substances is

what both Dr. and Dr. Blaylock refer to as " bystander injury. "

In humans, the most rapid period of brain

development begins in the third trimester and

continues over the first two years. (By then,

brain development is 80 percent complete.)

From a risk-benefit perspective, there is little

doubt that the risk of neurological and

autoimmune diseases from vaccinations at this

stage far outweigh the benefits of avoiding the

childhood infections that they (supposedly)

prevent. (One exception is the hepatitis B

vaccine, IF the mother tests positive for hepatitis B.)

As a more sensible, “user-friendly” vaccination

schedule, Dr. advises the following:

* No vaccinations until your child is two years old.

* No vaccines that contain thimerosal (mercury).

* No live virus vaccines.

* The following vaccines should be given one

at a time (not as a combination vaccine), every

six months, beginning at age 2:

* Pertussis (acellular, not whole cell)

* Diphtheria

* Tetanus

* Polio (the Salk vaccine, cultured in human cells)

And that would be pretty much it as far as

vaccinations. Your pediatrician will not like

this schedule, but if you have reviewed the

evidence and still feel your child should be

inoculated to a certain degree, this is a far

safer alternative to the standard vaccination schedule.

But please, please do review the research and

don’t just vaccinate your child simply because your doctor says you “have to.”

Don’t Forget About VAERS

Another thing most people are unaware of is that

YOU can

<https://secure.vaers.org/VaersDataEntryintro.htm>report

vaccine side effects to VAERS.

VAERS is a post-marketing safety surveillance

program that collects information about adverse

events that occur after the administration of

vaccines. They accept reports from both concerned

individuals and organizations.

Unfortunately, the system is completely

voluntary, and most doctors will never report

side effects, even if you point them out.

<http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/03/15/tamiflu-s-effects\

-on-your-brain.aspx>A

good case in point is the large discrepancy

between American reports of side effects of

Tamiflu, compared to Japan’s more stringent reporting rules.

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