another Hep B nightmare

January 11, 1999

to include with our discussion regarding the Hep B vaccine.... this came from

a journalist and I'm going to assume the story is valid. Liz.

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Date: 1/10/99 7:10:58 AM CST

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This article appeared in the Novemeber 18, 1998 " strategic investment "

newsletter which reaches 10,000 people. Watch 20/20 Wednesday, January 13,

1999 at 9:00 pm CST.

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Subj: Lyla

Date: 1/7/99 3:50:13 PM CST

From: Belkin@... ( Belkin)

To: yrux@...

Mindless Vaccination Bureaucracy

My daughter Lyla Rose Belkin died on September 16, 1998 at the age of

five weeks, shortly after receiving a Hepatitis B vaccine booster shot.

The following comments are intended to be a heads up to parents and

potential parents about the risks of the Hepatitis B vaccine (HBV), and

a firsthand report questioning the scientific legitimacy of the vaccine

industry, which provides $800 million of annual revenue to Merck -- the

company which makes the Hepatitis B vaccine distributed in the US.

Lyla Rose Belkin was a lively, alert five-week-old baby when I last held

her in my arms. Little did I imagine as she gazed intently into my eyes

with all the innocence and wonder of a newborn child that she would die

that night. She was never ill before receiving the Hepatitis B shot

that afternoon. At her final feeding that night, she was agitated and

feisty -- and then fell asleep and didn’t wake up. The autopsy ruled

out choking. A swollen brain was the only abnormal finding. Most

doctors I spoke to at the time said it must have been Sudden Infant

Death Syndrome (SIDS), a catch-all diagnosis for unexplainable childhood

mortality. The first instinctive reaction in such a situation is for

parents to blame themselves. For many weeks, my wife and I agonized

over what we might have missed or could have done differently.

Meanwhile, the logical part of my brain kept returning to the obvious

medical event that preceded Lyla’s death -- and that internal voice kept

asking the question could the Hepatitis B Vaccine that Lyla received

that afternoon have killed her? Most doctors I asked scoffed at that

notion and said the vaccine was perfectly safe. But I began to search

around on the Internet and Medline and discovered disturbing evidence of

adverse reactions to this vaccine.

In the US, the Hepatitis B disease mainly infects intravenous drug

users, homosexuals, prostitutes and promiscuous heterosexuals. The

disease is transmitted by blood, through sex or dirty needles. How

could a newborn baby possibly get Hepatitis B if the mother was screened

and tested negative, as my wife was? It is almost impossible. Unless a

newborn child is having unprotected sex or sharing needles with an

infected junkie, it is extremely unlikely to get the Hepatitis B

disease. So then why are most US babies inoculated at birth by their

Hospital or Pediatrician with the Hepatitis B vaccine? That is a

question every parent should ask before getting this vaccination. I’ve

discovered the answer is -- an unrestrained health bureaucracy decided

it couldn’t get junkies, gays, prostitutes and promiscuous heterosexuals

to take the Hepatitis B vaccine -- so they mandated that all babies must

be vaccinated at birth. Drug companies such as Merck (reaching for new

markets) were instrumental in pushing government scientists to adopt an

at-birth Hepatitis B vaccination policy, although the vaccine was never

tested in newborns and no vaccines had ever been mandated at birth

before. It is widely recognized that newborns have under-developed

immune systems, which can be overwhelmed or shocked.

My search for answers about a link between the Hepatitis B vaccine and

my daughter’s death led me to a Hepatitis B vaccine workshop on October

26th at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Institute of Medicine

entitled Vaccine Safety Forum -- Neonatal Deaths. The NAS was concerned

enough about reports of Hepatitis B vaccine-related infant deaths and

adverse reactions to hold a special workshop on the subject. Doctors

and scientists flew in from all over the US and Europe to attend. I sat

in the back and soaked it all up. It was a real eye-opener. There were

basically four constituencies represented: 1) Serious scientists

observing or presenting research studies. 2) Center for Disease Control

(CDC) pseudo-statisticians and FDA officials. 3) Merck and other

corporate drug officials and 4) Parents of vaccine-related dead or

severely injured children.

The presentations included a study of Animal Models of Newborn Response

to Antigen Presentation, which showed that newborn immune systems were

undeveloped and strikingly different than those of adults. The message

I received was that immune response in a newborn to shocks such as being

injected with a vaccine was potentially unknown, since newborn T-Cells

have a radically different behavior then those of adults. Another

presentation was Strategies for Evaluating the Biologic Mechanisms of

Hepatitis B Vaccine Reactions, in which vaccine researcher Dr. Bonnie

Dunbar of Baylor College related numerous Hepatitis B-vaccine related

cases of nervous system damage in adults, such as Multiple Sclerosis,

seizures and blindness. On the more positive side, the FDA presented a

seemingly reassuring study from its Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting

System (VAERS), which showed only 19 neonatal deaths reported since 1991

related to Hepatitis B vaccination.

I found the VAERS study data to be completely deceptive. Since I was

sitting in that room and my daughter had died during their sample period

and wasn’t counted -- I wondered why. In fact, the New York City

Coroner called VAERS to report my daughter’s Hepatitis B Vaccine-related

infant death and no one ever returned their call! What kind of

reporting system doesn’t return the calls of the NY City Medical

Examiner -- and how many other reports were ignored? This is supposed

to be the emergency 911 number for disasters such as bad lots of vaccine

that could poison thousands of other babies. With the personal

knowledge that the VAERS data was completely flawed, I sat in that room

and listened in amazement as CDC officials and Dr. Sharrar of Merck

(their head of vaccine safety) made disparaging comments about any

possible risk from Hepatitis B vaccination, despite the evidence just

presented by impartial scientists.

I studied statistics and econometrics at UC Berkeley and have developed

innovative methods of applying probability to financial and economic

data in my consulting business with some of the largest financial

institutions in the world. That training and experience qualifies me to

criticize the statistical legitimacy of the VAERS study, on which

Sharrar of Merck and the CDC pseudo-scientists based their

pro-vaccination stance. Their comments were scathingly dismissive of any

possible risk from the vaccine. But that VAERS study is not a

legitimate sample of a data set from which any conclusions about the

larger population can be made. VAERS doesn’t return coroner’s calls,

leading to the suspicion that deaths and adverse effects from

vaccination are woefully under-reported. To conclude that the Hepatitis

B vaccine is safe because VAERS only reports 19 deaths is scientific

fraud. In fact, I obtained the raw data from the VAERS system and found

54 reported SIDS cases after Hepatitis B vaccination in just the 18

months from January 1996 -- May 1997. That’s almost 15 times as many

deaths per year as their own flawed study reported. There are 17,000

reports of adverse reactions to Hepatitis B vaccine in the 1996-97 raw

data. Clearly something is fishy about VAERS. VAERS was set up by the

FDA and CDC and is supposed to be monitored by vaccine manufacturers.

If there are 17,000 reports and VAERS doesn’t even return the NY Medical

Examiner’s call, how many other deaths and injuries go unreported? I

came away from that NAS workshop with the distinct impression that Merck

and the CDC didn’t know and didn’t really want to know how many babies

are being killed or injured by Hepatitis B vaccination. This is a

bureaucratic vaccination program that is on auto-pilot flying into a

mountain. The CDC bureaucrats have a vested interest in the status

quo. If there were 17,000 reports of a dangerous disease in a 18 month

period, the CDC would be all over the case. But when there are 17,000

reports of adverse reactions to a vaccine the CDC advocates for “public

health” -- the CDC dismisses it as a coincidence. Merck makes $50 a

shot from the three-shot series. Where do you think the allegiance of

their vaccine safety official Dr. Sharrar lies? He was by far the most

arrogant character at the workshop. Merck has sales of upwards of $800

million a year from vaccines.

Vaccination can be a lifesaver if an epidemic is raging, but in this

case the risk of vaccination outweighs the risk of infants getting the

disease. Surely, the hepatitis B vaccine doesn’t injure every child

that gets it, but in some unknown number of cases, it appears to be a

death sentence and/or a nervous system toxin to innocent children who

are at no risk of getting the disease the vaccine is supposed to protect

against. My observations of Merck and CDC scientists at the Vaccine

Safety Forum left me with the distinct impression that they had

absolutely no idea which babies might be killed or injured by this

vaccine. Furthermore, they used obviously flawed scientific data to

arrogantly steamroller any opposition to their power. Parents should be

aware that the Hepatitis B vaccine is not administered for the

well-being of their child. Rather, it is delivered by the long arm of

some incompetent and mindless bureaucracy in the name of stamping out a

disease most babies can’t possibly get. The Drug Company/CDC/FDA

alliance has really pulled the wool over the medical profession’s eyes

with the Hepatitis B vaccine. The American Pediatric Society bought the

alliance’s sales pitch and now recommends that all infants get this

vaccine at birth. So now the first thing most babies get in life is a

shock to their immune system from a vaccine against a non-existent risk

of contracting Hepatitis B. Clearly, the interests of newborn babies

were not represented on the original panel that created this vaccination

policy in 1991. This vaccine has no benefit whatsoever for newborns, in

fact it wears off and they will need booster shots later in life when

they actually could get exposed to the disease.

This is simply a case of ravenous corporate greed and mindless

bureaucracy teaming up to overwhelm common sense. Merck in particular

has gone way over the edge with this vaccination program. Ignoring and

suppressing reports of adverse reactions to their profitable Hepatitis B

vaccine verges on criminal conduct. A major media organization will

soon present an investigative report on the issues discussed here.

Nothing will ever bring my lovely daughter Lyla back, but other needless

deaths and injuries can be prevented if this senseless Hepatitis B

newborn vaccination program is halted. Please contact Belkin Limited in

New York City if you are aware of other infant deaths that may be