Mandatory Vaccinations In Australia

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Mandatory Vaccinations In Australia

By Helen Lobato. http://is.gd/d53X

This coming year may well see an end to my long period of

employment as a nurse.

In 2009, the n Department of Health Services will

release their mandatory vaccination program for all health care

workers. The compulsory program includes vaccines for diptheria,

tetanus and pertussis, polio, measles, mumps and rubella, chicken pox,

hepatitis A and B, influenza and tuberculosis. Failure to comply will

mean an end to one's employment as nurse, doctor or allied health worker.

This draconian policy, has supposedly been developed, due to an

unsubstantiated fear, that nurses will transmit these infectious

diseases to their patients, in spite of the fact, that there have been

no recorded incidents of unvaccinated nurses, passing on diseases in

this way. There is currently a severe shortage of nurses and doctors,

and such a policy might just make matters worse, with those not

complying, no longer able to work in the health system.

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Upon the implementation of this policy, individual freedom to

accept, or refuse a medical treatment is seriously at risk, as are the

rights of workers who refuse vaccination to retain employment. It

remains to be seen how many doctors, nurses and allied health workers

will comply with this policy, which is already in use in New South

Wales and Queensland. One NSW nurse who has refused vaccination is

challenging the policy and her case is due to be heard in the courts

within weeks.

The issue of compulsory vaccination has been discussed within

the medical profession and by Isaacs who, writing in the British

Medical Journal, discusses whether it is ethical and good practice, to

make immunisation mandatory.

The state sometimes exerts benign paternalism to coerce personal

choice. Examples are the mandatory use of seat belts or of motorcycle

helmets, where the infringement of autonomy is justified by the effect

on public health, and where the intervention poses little or no harm

to the individual and has been proved to save lives. But it is not

clear that this applies to immunisation of healthcare workers. For

mandatory immunisation to be acceptable it would have to be effective,

not harmful, feasible, and have no alternative.

A professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the Children's

Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Isaacs concludes that mandatory

immunisation of all healthcare workers, is an excessive infringement

on autonomy, relative to its potential benefits. Isaacs states that

for compulsory vaccination policy to be acceptable it has to be

effective and cause no harm and must be indispensable.

In order to discuss whether vaccinations are effective,

indispensable, and of no harm, we need to understand just what a

vaccine is, and how it is supposed to work.

First, let's look at what happens when we come in contact with a

virus or bacteria. When we suffer a disease naturally, the virus or

bacteria travels through the nose or mouth into the lungs, and into

the circulatory and lymphatic systems, providing antibody protection.

However when we vaccinate by injecting concentrated pathogenic micro

organisms directly into the body, the natural defence system is

bypassed and the immunity is very short lived.

Vaccines can contain live viruses, and in fact, five out of

these ten compulsory vaccines do contain live virus material. Live

virus vaccines can sometimes infect the recipient, and even infect

those in close contact such as immuno-compromised patients. For

example, the MMR - the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine - contains

live viruses. There have been reports of children presenting with

fevers, a few days after vaccination with a measles-mumps-rubella

vaccine. Measles virus was isolated in throat swabs taken four days

after fever onset. This virus was then further genetically

characterised as a vaccine-type virus. In the same way, the hospital

patient could be at risk from a recently vaccinated staff member.

Regarding the safety of these mandated vaccines there are grave

doubts. In fact, these vaccines have not been the subject of

established medical scientific testing.

The gold standard of science, which is the double blind trial,

where one group of people is given the drug or vaccine, and the other

a placebo, has not been performed for vaccinations. Vaccines contain

various toxic ingredients such as mercury, aluminium and formaldehyde.

The fact that vaccines can cause harmful side effects has been

acknowledged recently by the United States Federal Government, which

conceded in 2000, that a 19-month-old child became autistic after

being given his childhood vaccines.

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This would be a great thing to do for health care workers here. Then

when they all start getting sick from all these vaccines we can tell

them it is just a coincidence and lobby that they recieve more so

they dont infect the rest of us.In fact, I think all pediatricians

should be first so as they arent spreading these horrifying[tounge in

cheek] diseases to children whom have yet to be vaccinated.I wonder

how many children have been infected with something thier

pediatrician could have been vaccinated for.

In EOHarm , " schaferatsprynet " wrote:

>

> Mandatory Vaccinations In Australia

>

> By Helen Lobato. http://is.gd/d53X

>

> This coming year may well see an end to my long period of

> employment as a nurse.

> In 2009, the n Department of Health Services will

> release their mandatory vaccination program for all health care

> workers. The compulsory program includes vaccines for diptheria,

> tetanus and pertussis, polio, measles, mumps and rubella, chicken

pox,

> hepatitis A and B, influenza and tuberculosis. Failure to comply

will

> mean an end to one's employment as nurse, doctor or allied health

worker.

> This draconian policy, has supposedly been developed, due to

an

> unsubstantiated fear, that nurses will transmit these infectious

> diseases to their patients, in spite of the fact, that there have

been

> no recorded incidents of unvaccinated nurses, passing on diseases in

> this way. There is currently a severe shortage of nurses and

doctors,

> and such a policy might just make matters worse, with those not

> complying, no longer able to work in the health system.

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> Upon the implementation of this policy, individual freedom to

> accept, or refuse a medical treatment is seriously at risk, as are

the

> rights of workers who refuse vaccination to retain employment. It

> remains to be seen how many doctors, nurses and allied health

workers

> will comply with this policy, which is already in use in New South

> Wales and Queensland. One NSW nurse who has refused vaccination is

> challenging the policy and her case is due to be heard in the courts

> within weeks.

> The issue of compulsory vaccination has been discussed within

> the medical profession and by Isaacs who, writing in the

British

> Medical Journal, discusses whether it is ethical and good practice,

to

> make immunisation mandatory.

> The state sometimes exerts benign paternalism to coerce

personal

> choice. Examples are the mandatory use of seat belts or of

motorcycle

> helmets, where the infringement of autonomy is justified by the

effect

> on public health, and where the intervention poses little or no harm

> to the individual and has been proved to save lives. But it is not

> clear that this applies to immunisation of healthcare workers. For

> mandatory immunisation to be acceptable it would have to be

effective,

> not harmful, feasible, and have no alternative.

> A professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the Children's

> Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Isaacs concludes that mandatory

> immunisation of all healthcare workers, is an excessive infringement

> on autonomy, relative to its potential benefits. Isaacs states that

> for compulsory vaccination policy to be acceptable it has to be

> effective and cause no harm and must be indispensable.

> In order to discuss whether vaccinations are effective,

> indispensable, and of no harm, we need to understand just what a

> vaccine is, and how it is supposed to work.

> First, let's look at what happens when we come in contact

with a

> virus or bacteria. When we suffer a disease naturally, the virus or

> bacteria travels through the nose or mouth into the lungs, and into

> the circulatory and lymphatic systems, providing antibody

protection.

> However when we vaccinate by injecting concentrated pathogenic micro

> organisms directly into the body, the natural defence system is

> bypassed and the immunity is very short lived.

> Vaccines can contain live viruses, and in fact, five out of

> these ten compulsory vaccines do contain live virus material. Live

> virus vaccines can sometimes infect the recipient, and even infect

> those in close contact such as immuno-compromised patients. For

> example, the MMR - the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine - contains

> live viruses. There have been reports of children presenting with

> fevers, a few days after vaccination with a measles-mumps-rubella

> vaccine. Measles virus was isolated in throat swabs taken four days

> after fever onset. This virus was then further genetically

> characterised as a vaccine-type virus. In the same way, the hospital

> patient could be at risk from a recently vaccinated staff member.

> Regarding the safety of these mandated vaccines there are

grave

> doubts. In fact, these vaccines have not been the subject of

> established medical scientific testing.

> The gold standard of science, which is the double blind trial,

> where one group of people is given the drug or vaccine, and the

other

> a placebo, has not been performed for vaccinations. Vaccines contain

> various toxic ingredients such as mercury, aluminium and

formaldehyde.

> The fact that vaccines can cause harmful side effects has been

> acknowledged recently by the United States Federal Government, which

> conceded in 2000, that a 19-month-old child became autistic after

> being given his childhood vaccines.

>

> + Read more: http://is.gd/d53X

>