Re: A little more vaccine info

[Guest guest]

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Thanks for this note. Have you ever seen the publication from England

called " What Doctors Don't Tell You? " It regularly deals with issues such

as this, and it is particularly refreshing because it is not subject to the

media pressures ever present in America. It is something I would recommend

for any chiropractor's office. It is a monthly newsletter which is

excellent, and I believe that there is another newsletter made by the same

panel on Alternative Health. Additionally, they have a series of well

written books on topics such as immunizations and other significant health

issues which are great for the lay person. I believe you can find their

site at www.wddty.co.uk I have always found these resources to be excellent

for informing myself and my patients.

Best wishes,

Dr. DeShaw, Esq.

A little more vaccine info

> Thanks from R. Stearns, D.C.

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> M.D.s questioning wisdom of giving second

> dose of measles vaccine

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> For years, health advocacy groups such as the National

> Vaccine Information Center

> (NVIC) have raised concerns about the safety and

> effectiveness of the measles, mumps

> and rubella (MMR) vaccine, particularly the

> controversial second dose.

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> More recently, medical experts have joined them in

> questioning the wisdom of subjecting

> children to the drug, which has been linked to numerous

> cases of inflammatory bowel

> disease and autism.

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> Particularly in Britain, M.D.s are speaking out about

> the vaccine. The Telegraph of Britain

> reported that Dr. Fletcher, a senior scientific

> civil servant and assessor to the

> Committee on Safety of Medicines -- who formerly served

> as principal medical officer at

> Britain's Department of Health -- thinks the

> introduction of the vaccine 12 years ago was

> premature. Fletcher says the department should have

> waited for a year and conducted

> more research.

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> In another article published three days later, the

> Telegraph quoted Wakefield, a

> consultant gastroenterologist at the Royal Free Hospital

> in London, as saying that in the

> " majority " of cases parents had documentary evidence

> that their child's physical and

> mental decline had followed the vaccination.

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> These doctors aren't alone in their concerns. A report

> published in a major British

> medical journal revealed that nearly half of all health

> professionals surveyed have

> reservations about the second dose of the MMR vaccine.

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> The researchers surveyed 140 health visitors, 204

> practice nurses and 165 general

> practitioners in the North Wales Health Authority area

> about their knowledge, attitudes

> and practices regarding MMR vaccination. They found that

> 48% of the professionals had

> reservations about the second dose of the vaccine --

> although only three percent

> disagreed with the policy of giving it.

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> Most shocking was the news that these medical providers

> hadn't even tried to educate

> themselves about the drug. Despite nationally available

> resources on immunization,

> nearly a fifth of general practitioners reported that

> they had not read the MMR section in

> the " green book " and 29% reported that they had not

> received the Health Education

> Authority's fact sheet on MMR immunization.

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> SOURCES: " MMR doctor links 170 cases of autism to

> vaccine, " by Lorraine Fraser,

> medical correspondent, Telegraph, Jan 21, 2001.

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> " MMR jab was launched too early, says health chief, " by

> Celia Hall, medical editor,

> Telegraph, Jan. 18, 2001.

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> " Second dose of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine:

> questionnaire survey of health

> professionals, " British Medical Journal, January 13,

> 2001.

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