Important Info about Infant Vaccines

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Like parents of cf children don't have enough to worry about!!

P.

mom of (6 yrs) and Cody (4 yrs) both with cf

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Emerging Scandal in Vaccine Mandates

by: Phyllis Schlafly

July 28, 1999

A scandal in mandatory mass vaccinations of infants is beginning to

surface.

Vaccine-caused injuries have just forced the Clinton bureaucrats to make

four sensational

announcements that bugle temporary retreat from their plans to force all

American

children to submit to government-dictated medical treatment.

On July 15, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the American

Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) halted the use of the oral rotavirus

vaccine, which is given to infants to prevent one of the major causes of

diarrhea, after reports that the vaccine caused a bowel obstruction in

some infants that required surgery to repair.

The bowel obstruction, called intussusception, results when one portion

of the bowel slides inward, like a telescope, into another part of the

bowel and causes blockage. A previously healthy infant suddenly screams

in paroxysms of pain.

In its initial trial, the rotavirus vaccine appeared to cause

intussusception at 30 times the average rate, but the government

pretended that those injuries were insignificant. Instead of testing

further, the CDC and the vaccine manufacture subjected babies to more

than a million doses of this unnecessary, expensive, and inadequately

tested vaccine.

While the risk of intussusception may have been mentioned on the package

insert, it was not on the vaccine information statement given to

parents. The arbitrariness of government vaccine mandates is shown by

the fact that, for the previous year, CDC was demanding that the vaccine

be given to all infants, and now suddenly a CDC spokesman

is saying, " No one should now be giving rotavirus vaccine to anyone. "

The second sensational vaccine announcement came on July 9, when the

U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) and the AAP issued a joint statement

cancelling their previous recommendation to inject all newborns while

they are still in the hospital with the hepatitis B vaccine. PHS and AAP

now recommend that vaccination of newborns be limited to those who are

at risk of getting hepatitis B from their infected mothers.

Their remarkable backtracking from the universal mandate for newborns

must have resulted from the widespread publicity

given to the many cases of vaccine damage causing lifetime injury or

death reported on ABC's 20/20 and at the May 18 hearing conducted

by the U.S. House Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and

Human Resources.

PHS and AAP continue to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine for infants at

2 to 6 months of age, even though few of them are at risk.

Meanwhile, 42 states require the hepatitis

B vaccine for schoolchildren, although

teachers and health care workers are not required to

receive it. The legislator who sponsored

the hepatitis B mandate in Ohio admitted that

he did so at the request of a vaccine manufacturer lobbyist, while

Governor Whitman is trying to impose a New Jersey requirement

administratively without legislation.

In another announcement the same day, PHS-AAP issued a joint statement

that revealed the risk to children of vaccines containing mercury and

called on the FDA to " assess the risk of all mercury-containing food and

drugs. " A mercury product called thimerosal is used as a preservative in

many vaccines, even though the FDA last year banned its use in

over-the-counter products for safety reasons.

Under the current CDC schedule, most infants receive a total of 15 doses

of mercury-containing vaccines by the time they are six months old, many

given simultaneously. The fact that the FDA has prohibited the use of

thimerosal for most products, but continues to allow its use for

vaccines, sounds like political corruption in the vaccine approval

process.

The National Vaccine Information Center has been criticizing the use of

mercury in vaccines for many years. Contact lens solution bottles

routinely advertise that they contain " no thimerosal, " yet any

damage to adults from contact lens solutions must be minuscule compared

to the same product ingested or injected into infants.

The fourth announcement came on June 17, when

government officials voted to withdraw their recommendation for the use

of the live poliovirus vaccine, and to recommend the " exclusive " use of

the inactivated poliovirus vaccine. Since 1979, the only polio cases

in the United States have been caused by the live vaccine because, taken

by mouth, it travels through the child's body and can cause polio in a

parent changing the diaper.

The unjustified delay in converting to the safer polio vaccine is due to

mandatory vaccination laws that require the public to use a certain

product. The government still demands that babies be given four doses of

polio vaccine, even though, according to Surgeon General Satcher,

M.D., " The Western Hemisphere was certified by the World Health

Organization (WHO) as polio free in 1994, and no case of polio has been

reported in this region since 1991. "

We are long overdue for a Congressional investigation into the validity

of research and licensing standards for vaccines, the results of

clinical trials (if any), the motivations of the vaccine policymakers,

and the lobbying activities of the cash-rich pharmaceutical corporations

whose profits depend on universal mandates rather than on sales to those

at risk for various diseases.

Phyllis Schlafly column

7-28-99