No Historical Benefit in Vaccines: Polish Study

No Historical Benefit in Vaccines: Polish Study

Heidi Stevenson


Activist Post

The evidence continues to mount. That vaccines are doing a great deal of
harm is well beyond denying. Worse, though, the evidence that vaccines
have had little or no effect on infectious diseases is clear, as
documented in new graphs. The precautionary principle, which is
enshrined in a UN directive, should have been implemented before
vaccines were ever routinely injected.

Yesterday's article, Vaccines Do Irreparable Harm: Study from Poland,
documents the revealing information brought out by Polish scientists'
review of the scientific literature on vaccination's adverse effects and
immune system effects. Today, the rest of the study covering
neurological symptoms following vaccination and a history of vaccines
demonstrating little benefit is reviewed.

Post-Vaccine Neurological Complications

The authors focused primarily on the preservative thimerosal's active ingredient,
mercury, in their discussion of vaccine-induced neurological damages.
They noted that the percentage of people who have allergic reactions to
thimerosal has been calculated at a low of 13% in the Netherlands to a
high of 21% in Austria.

Allergic responses to mercury are often initially
triggered by vaccine injections. It's noted for toxicity to the heart,
liver, kidneys, and nervous system, along with being a carcinogen.

Readers of Gaia Health are probably aware that much current research on
vaccine adjuvants indicates that aluminum may be the greatest concern.
The reduced mercury load in the United States' vaccines did reduce the autism burden
for a short time in the US. However, a great number of vaccines was
added to the schedule shortly after, and many of them included aluminum
as an adjuvant, thus increasing the autism burden.


Over the last 20 years, neurological conditions such as autism, ADHD, mental retardation, epilepsy have increased many times over across the world. The authors wrote:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">[F]rom the 1990s new vaccines for infants
containing thimerosal began to be used in America. In the DTP, Hib and
Hep B vaccines, children received a dose of 62.5 ug of mercury, which is
125-fold more than the dose considered safe (0.1ug/kg/day). These
reports were the reason that Scandinavian countries already prohibited
the use of mercury in 1990</blockquote>The deaths of 19 infants of SIDS
(sudden infant death syndrome) shortly after vaccination with two
hexavalent vaccines were described in a paper. Those authors suggested
that, though it hadn't been proven that vaccines had caused their
deaths, "it is a signal that brings to attention the need to monitor the
course of vaccination and its complications."

Epidemiological research has shown a direct relationship between
increasing doses of thimerosal and the rate of autism in the US from the
late '80s through the mid '90s. They found a correlation between the
number of measles-containing vaccines and autism prevalence during the
'80s. The same researchers also found odds ratios that were
statistically significant, indicating that increasing doses of mercury
from vaccines with thimerosal correlate to increasing rates of autism.

Several of Poland's childhood vaccines contain mercury, including

• Euvax: Hepatitis B, made by LG Life Sciences in Korea – 50μg/dose
  
• DT: Diphtheria & Tetanus, made by Bio-med in Krakow, Poland – 50μg/dose
  
• Td: made by Biomed, Krakow, Poland – 50μg/dose
  
• DTP: Diphtheria, Tetanus, & Pertussis; made by Biomed, Krakow, Poland – 50μg/dose
  
• D,d: Diphtheria, made by Biomed, Krakow, Poland – 50μg/dose
  
• TT: Typhus, made by Biomed, Krakow, Poland – 50μg/dose
  

Note: Not included in the review is the fact that Poland's
vaccination schedule is mandatory. Notice that all but one of the
vaccines listed above are made in Poland. It's one way to assure profits
for the home-grown pharmaceutical industry!

The
authors discuss particular concern over the
action/vaccination-diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus">DTwP (Diphtheria,
Tetanus, & whole cell Pertussis) vaccine. It is known to result in
cytomegalovirus, which can result in severe neurological sequelae,
including coma, hypotonia, seizures, and necrotizing encephalopathy.
They state that replacing DTwP with DTaP (acellular) vaccine, and OPV
(oral polio vaccine) with IPV (inactivated polio vaccine), can reduce
the risk of fever after the first dose by 99%, the risk of inconsolable
crying by 87%, and the risk of hypotonic-hyporesponsive episodes by 56%.

Other complications found with vaccines on the Polish schedule include;

• Guillain-Barré syndrome after influenza, hepatitis, meningitis C, polio and HPV vaccines
  
• Transverse myelitis after cholera, typhoid, and polio vaccines
  
• Influenza, flaccid paralysis, meningitis, encephalitis, convulsions and facial palsy after oral polio vaccine
  
• Rapid progression of retinopathy in premature infants after BCG vaccination
  

Vaccination History

In 1996, Poland introduced a monitoring system to record adverse effects
of vaccinations. A study done by Zieliński of adverse effect reports
from 1996-2000, stated:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">[T]hey met astonishing examples of ignorance
of the medical staff, including specialists, in their duty to report the
AEFI [adverse effects following inoculation].</blockquote>Unfortunately,
there is no laboratory test to confirm a cause and effect association
between an adverse effect and vaccination. While that makes it
difficult, the authors of this review report:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">[T]here are also no reports in the literature
(except those listed above) of research work in immunology in the
context of reactions following vaccination. It should also be noted that
in more developed countries, there is little incentive for doing
appropriate follow-up and laboratory tests on individuals who suffered
serious adverse reactions following vaccinations.. The reason for such
oversight is likely due to the fact that historically, vaccines have not
been viewed as inherently toxic by the regulatory agencies.</blockquote>So, the upshot is that there is precious little research into the adverse effects of vaccination. As the authors state:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">The resulting lack of evidence of causality
between vaccinations and serious adverse outcomes has thus been filled
with an assumption that vaccines are safe.</blockquote>However, even if
adverse effects were minor or rare, it is still necessary to demonstrate
that vaccinations are beneficial. If they are not, then no amount of
risk in vaccination is acceptable.

This is where historical records of infectious disease cases and deaths
come in handy. Take, for example, these two graphs on the number of
cases of tuberculosis (TB) and number of deaths from it:



They are reports from Germany showing, on the left, the number of TB
mortalities from 1956-1988, and on the right, the number of reported
cases from 1949-1987. The BCG vaccine against TB was introduced in 1970.
(The area in the rectangles represents the total number of vaccinations
given during the decade from 1970-1980.) It matters not whether you
take a quick look or a long one, it's obvious that the TB vaccination
had absolutely nothing to do with the reduction in either cases of TB or
deaths from it.



The graph above of pertussis (whooping cough) mortality rate from
1946-1987 in Germany, with the times that the original pertussis vaccine
was introduced and the diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus
vaccine took its place. As can be seen, the death rate from pertussis
stayed on approximately the same downward trajectory it had been on at
the time of vaccine implementation.



The graph above shows the pertussis mortality rate in Switzerland from
1910-1980. The shaded area (at the top right of the graph) shows the
introductory date of the pertussis vaccine in 1944, and shows how that
vaccine's coverage increased to nearly 100% by 1980. However, it is not
possible to see any change in the trajectory of reduced pertussis
deaths.



The next graph above, shown to the right, shows the number of diphtheria
deaths in Germany from 1920-1987. Notice that the diphtheria vaccine
was introduced in 1925, with an enormous increase in the rate of disease
rate!

On looking at these graphs, how seriously can we take claims that
vaccines have saved lives? We can't see any improvement in either
mortality or number of cases before and after vaccinations were
initiated—and in the case of diphtheria, it certainly looks like
vaccinating aggravated the rate of disease!

Conclusion

The review refers to a report in the 2002 Lancet that states:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">[T]he weight of evidence collectively suggests that personal and environmental hygiene reduces the spread of infection ... </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">...
Thus results from this review demonstrate that there is a continued,
measurable, positive effect of personal and community hygiene on
infections.</blockquote>Our review authors state that the same article
in the Lancet also showed that mortality from infectious diseases in
general had decreased to "nearly negligible levels long before
introduction of universal vaccination practices."

They
point out that the vaccine schedule has increased dramatically since
the time of these studies, and antigens are being injected again and
again. They then state:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">Doctors and researchers point to the worsening
state of health of the child population since the 1960s, which
coincided with increasingly introduced vaccinations. Allergic diseases,
including asthma, autoimmune diseases, diabetes and many neurological
dysfunctions – difficulty in learning, ADD (attention deficit disorder),
ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), seizures, and autism –
are chronic conditions, to which attention has been brought.</blockquote>So,
for no apparent benefit in reducing infectious diseases, vaccines are
being mandated, in spite of the fact that evidence points strongly to
the suggestion that vaccines are fueling the astronomically rising rates
of chronic autoimmune and neurological disorders.

Of course, political realities do exist for these researchers. In spite
of their powerful findings, they still don't suggest that vaccines
should be eliminated. They do, however, offer several suggestions around
the idea of reducing their application. They conclude with:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">It seems that it would be worthwhile to apply
the precautionary principle – the ethical principle (from 1988)
according to which if there is a probable, although poorly known, risk
of adverse effects of new technology, it is better not to implement it
rather than risk uncertain but potentially very harmful consequences.</blockquote>So,
we're back to the precautionary principle, something that should have
been applied decades ago. It's difficult to imagine the massive amount
of harm that's been brought to generations of children, with each
succeeding one suffering worse than the last. Will those in power ever
listen to reason, or will they continue to be led around by their greed,
leaving our children and future generations to suffer? Do they really
believe that society can continue to function when most people are
chronically ill?

source:-
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/05/no-historical-benefit-in-vaccines.html