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,

The Danger of Excessive Vaccination During Brain Development: The Case

for a Link to Autism Spectrum Disorders, a Mercola.com exclusive,

for an in-depth understanding of how childhood vaccinations can damage

your child’s brain, resulting in autism.

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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

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.

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

childhood vaccines

did

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,

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

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

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

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.

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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