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10 Reasons Why Parents Question Vaccination

By The Australian Vaccination

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For some time now, members of the government and the medical industry have

tried to explain away the phenomenon of parental refusal to vaccinate.

Despite the government's own studies, such as and Pilgrim; 1993,

which shows that " Older, highly educated parents form the basis of the [sic]

anti-immunisation lobby " , parents continue to be accused of being ignorant,

uncaring and stupid for refusing vaccines which the medical community claim

will keep their children healthy.

In an effort to set the record straight, the AVN, which is contacted by more

than 10,000 Australian parents each year who question this procedure, would

like to give you the 10 most common reasons why the parents who contact us

have chosen not to vaccinate.

1 - Vaccines have never been tested.

The gold standard of medical science is the double blind crossover placebo

study. This test has never been performed on any vaccine currently licensed

in Australia. In an astounding leap of logic, contrary to all rules of

science, vaccines are assumed to be safe and effective and therefore, it is

considered to be unethical to withhold vaccinations for the purposes of

testing them.

2 - Vaccines contain toxic additives and heavy metals.

The list of vaccine ingredients includes toxins such as formaldehyde, a

substance which the Queensland Poisons Control Centre has said was " unsafe

at any level if injected into the human body " ; carbolic acid, also a strong

poison which was implicated in deaths and serious injuries in a recent

Sydney hospital mishap; aluminium which is linked with the development of

Alzheimer's disease and allergies; and Thiomersal, a mercury-based

preservative which is a known neurotoxin and whose inclusion in vaccination

sparked a series of Congressional hearings which saw the US Government and

the AAP (American Academy of Paediatrics) call for its immediate withdrawal

from any vaccine product and which was withdrawn over two years ago in the

USA from any over-the-counter medicines . It was also withdrawn from the

American Hepatatis B vaccines, Engerix and HB Vax II, though their

Australian counterparts which are still being injected into children here

today, are only just being made mercury free or mercury reduced (though the

old, mercury-laced stocks will be used up rather than being withdrawn from

use).

3 - Vaccines are contaminated with human and animal viruses and bacteria

All childhood vaccines, apart from the Hepatitis B (which is genetically

engineered and carries with it a different set of problems,) are cultured on

either animal tissue, a broth of animal and/or human blood and blood

products or the cell lines from aborted human foetuses. None of these

culturing methods is able to guarantee an uncontaminated vaccine. In fact,

it is well known that many foreign viruses and bacteria can and do

contaminate vaccines. Almost none of these contaminants have been studied.

The few which have been leave many parents concerned about the long-term

effects of injecting these substances into their children. For instance, SV

40 (simian or monkey virus 40 – just one of 60 monkey viruses known to

contaminate the polio vaccines) has been linked with cancers in humans;

there is a chicken retrovirus which contaminates the measles and mumps

vaccines called Reverse Transcriptase. This substance, an ancient non-human

DNA code, is thought to switch on the HIV virus and cause it to become AIDS

in humans; AIDS itself has been linked with a virus called SIV (Simian

Immunodeficiency Virus) which contaminated both the polio and smallpox

vaccines; the current MMR (measles mumps rubella) and other vaccines which

contain bovine (cow) blood products are thought to be able to spread the

human and always fatal form of mad cow disease, Creutzfeld-s disease,

more readily than eating contaminated meat.

4 - Vaccines can cause serious immediate side effects.

As long as there have been vaccines, there have been reports of serious side

effects following their administration. These side effects include (but are

not limited to) convulsions and epilepsy, permanent brain damage,

anaphylactic (life threatening allergic) reactions, Sudden Infant Death

Syndrome (SIDS), retinal and brain haemorrhages (now being confused with

Shaken Baby Syndrome) and death.

5 - Vaccines can cause serious long-term side effects.

According to medical reports, children are now less healthy than they have

ever been before. More than 40% of all children now suffer from chronic

conditions , something that was unheard of prior to mass vaccination.

Vaccines have been associated with such conditions as Asthma, Eczema, Food

Allergies, Chronic Ear Infections, Insulin Dependent Diabetes, Arthritis,

Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder,

Ulcerative Colitis, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Hyperactivity, Schizophrenia,

Multiple Sclerosis, Cancer and a raft of other chronic and auto-immune

conditions which are experiencing dramatic rises in incidence.

6 - Vaccines do not necessarily protect against infectious diseases.

For many years, parents were told that once a child was fully vaccinated,

they would be protected for life. That has now turned into a series of

life-long boosters that are still not able to protect either children or

adults from infectious diseases. For the very real risk of both short and

long-term side effects from vaccines, parents are asked to allow their

children to be given vaccines that at best, will provide a temporary

sensitisation to illnesses and at worst, can make their children more

susceptible to both opportunistic and infectious illness. As evidenced by

the recent whooping cough outbreak in SA, the only Australian state which

actually records vaccination status in cases of infectious illness, 87% of

all those who contracted whooping cough and whose vaccination status was

known were fully and appropriately vaccinated. In fact, Australian

government statistics have shown that the majority of outbreaks in Australia

occur in those who have been either fully vaccinated or were too young to be

fully vaccinated.

7 - Doctors, as paid salesmen for vaccine products, are no longer considered

to be trustworthy arbiters of their safety and effectiveness.

Doctors are currently receiving several payments from the government to push

vaccines. These include $6 for reporting vaccinations to the Australian

Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR), a national database which tracks

vaccination status in our children and which has been called " a back-door

Australia Card " ; $18.50 on top of their Medicare rebate for vaccinating a

child on time; and a bulk payment at the end of each year based upon them

having a practice vaccination rate in excess of 80%. These payments can add

up to many tens of thousands of dollars in a busy inner-city practice.

As a result of this grossly unethical situation, doctors can no longer be

thought of as objective when it comes to this issue. Parents no longer trust

that their doctors will recommend that they vaccinate simply because it is

the best thing for their child rather than the best thing for the doctor's

bottom line.

8 - Pharmaceutical companies have paid for almost all vaccine research to

date.

Just as the tobacco companies paid for corrupt and incorrect research which

purported to show that tobacco and tobacco products were safe for human

consumption, so too the pharmaceutical companies have paid for and produced

almost all of the research into vaccines. While the Australian government

continues to spend literally hundreds of millions of dollars a year in

promoting and implementing vaccination campaigns (an example is the $292

million earmarked for vaccination against Meningococcal this year alone!)

and little or no money on independent research, parents will continue to

mistrust the research that has been performed by vested interests. After

all, companies are by their very definition commercial concerns which are

motivated by profit. There is nothing that would make a pharmaceutical

company intrinsically more ethical and therefore more trustworthy than a

tobacco company.

In addition, it is a little-known fact that the Therapeutic Goods

Administration (TGA), the government body which licenses and registers

vaccines and other medical products, does not perform any tests whatsoever

to verify pharmaceutical company claims of safety or effectiveness.

9 - Doctors and health professionals rarely if ever report vaccine

reactions.

In discussions with representatives of both ADRAC (The Adverse Drug

Reactions Advisory Committee) and the SAEFVSS (Serious Adverse Events

Following Vaccination Surveillance Scheme), the two government bodies

charged with keeping track of reactions to vaccines and other drugs, the

AVN's representatives were informed that less than 10% of all adverse

reactions are ever reported. This means that the government's claims of

vaccine safety are admittedly 90% incorrect. In addition, the AVN's adverse

reactions database currently contains details on more than 800 serious

adverse vaccine reactions. Not one of these reactions was ever reported by

the doctors or health professionals involved. Parents cannot rely on data

with that wide a margin of error when they are dealing with the health and

well-being of their children. &

10 - Some childhood illnesses have beneficial aspects and therefore,

prevention may not necessarily be in the best interests of the child.

Measles, for example, has been used in Scandinavian countries to

successfully treat such autoimmune conditions as eczema and many studies

have performed which show that children who do not contract measles

naturally as a child are more likely to suffer from certain cancers later in

life. In addition, recent studies have shown that contracting the common

childhood illnesses help to prime and strengthen the immune system in a way

that vaccinations just cannot do. This priming means that children are much

less likely to suffer from the now common allergic and autoimmune conditions

that plague them today. Conditions such as asthma, diabetes and cancer. In

addition, vaccinated mothers cannot confer passive immunity to their

children even if they have contracted the wild form of the disease. This

immunity used to protect all children during their vulnerable first months

and years. Now, a vaccinated mother will give birth to a child who will be

susceptible to these infections when, prior to vaccines, they would normally

have been immune.

Vaccination is a medical procedure. It should never, ever be mandated. Nor

should there ever be any coercion, financial or social penalties for those

parents who have chosen, as is their right under the law, not to take the

above risks on behalf of their children.

Unvaccinated children continue to be among the healthiest children in our

society. They are no more the carriers of disease than any other healthy

person. It is the government's responsibility to do the necessary research

to ensure that procedures they are recommending for all Australian families

are as safe and effective as they possibly can be. It is also their

responsibility to keep vested interests honest. On both counts, this

government has failed in its duty of care to our most vulnerable resource –

our children.

Every one of the points raised above deserves critical examination and

public discussion and the parents who ask these questions deserve respect,

not vilification.