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Re: Child vaccination refusal rate increasing
Reply #75 - Sep 2nd, 2016 at 10:38am
 
Marla wrote on Sep 2nd, 2016 at 10:33am:
You're either a mindless troll or severely mentally ill.

Or both.


pls comment on the information posted on the CDC website

that makes a complete liar out of you

quote marla

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Thimersol and mercury preservatives are actually no longer present in childhood vaccines.



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Real science like the CDC, FDA, and the NIH


http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/thimerosal/faqs.html

Is thimerosal still used in vaccines for children?

No. Thimerosal hasn’t been used in vaccines for children since 2001.

However, thimerosal is still used in some flu vaccines.
Yearly flu vaccines are recommended for all children.  If you are worried about thimerosal, you can ask for a flu vaccine without it.

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Re: Child vaccination refusal rate increasing
Reply #76 - Sep 2nd, 2016 at 10:42am
 
Again, change the bulb, burn out
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Reply #77 - Sep 2nd, 2016 at 10:52am
 
this is interesting ,

if marla was a mod she would have banned me ,

Marla wrote on Sep 2nd, 2016 at 9:35am:
If I was a mod of this forum I'd ban your ass in a heartbeat because what you are posting is false evidence copy and pasted from pseudoscience websites that do more harm than good. Your mindless crap is not benefiting anyone.



and yet

I have illuminated how she has made a complete and utter fool out of herself by her own inadequacy and ignorance , go figure in love and light , while she posts distractions to take focus off her shortcomings , of which ,.. appear to me numerous ,

Marla wrote on Sep 2nd, 2016 at 10:42am:
Again, change the bulb, burn out



Marla wrote on Sep 2nd, 2016 at 10:33am:
You're either a mindless troll or severely mentally ill.

Or both.


hi marla,

pls forget about your smoke and mirrors and answer the question ..

pls comment on the information posted on the CDC website

that makes a complete liar out of you

Marla wrote on Sep 2nd, 2016 at 10:26am:
Thimersol and mercury preservatives are actually no longer present in childhood vaccines. Autism such as the spectrum stands today has actual scientific evidence shows that there is, in fact, no link.



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Real science like the CDC, FDA, and the NIH


http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/thimerosal/faqs.html

Is thimerosal still used in vaccines for children?

No. Thimerosal hasn’t been used in vaccines for children since 2001.



However, thimerosal is still used in some flu vaccines.
Yearly flu vaccines are recommended for all children.
  If you are worried about thimerosal, you can ask for a flu vaccine without it.

( first they say no , in the very next sentence they say yes ?????????????? they plainly lie in clear sight and people cannot see it ???????????? )

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Reply #78 - Sep 2nd, 2016 at 4:28pm
 
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This is interesting

https://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/graphs/

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Reply #79 - Sep 3rd, 2016 at 1:33am
 
PZ547 wrote on Sep 2nd, 2016 at 4:28pm:
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This is interesting

https://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/graphs/



and so it is

https://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/graphs/

Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries Of Official Statistics


This is the data the drug industry do not want you to see. Here 2 centuries of UK, USA and Australian official death statistics show conclusively and scientifically modern medicine is not responsible for and played little part in substantially improved life expectancy and survival from disease in western economies.
A detailed Contents listing of this article with each category of disease and related graphs appears after the Introduction.
Introduction
The main advances in combating disease over 200 years have been better food and clean drinking water.  Improved sanitation, less overcrowded and better living conditions also contribute. This is also borne out in published peer reviewed research:
“The questionable contribution of medical measures to the decline of mortality in the United States in the twentieth century“. McKinlay JB, McKinlay SM, Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc. 1977 Summer; 55(3): 405-28.
“Symposium: Accomplishments in Child Nutrition during the 20th Century.  Infant Mortality in the 20th Century, Dramatic but Uneven Progress” Myron E. Wegman School of Public Health, University of Michigan: J. Nutr. 131: 401S–408S, 2001.
In addition to the extensive static graphs below, the following superb BBC FOUR broadcast by Professor Hans Rosling shows how health improved in step with wealth over the last 200 years “200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes“:



Measles mortality graphs are enlightening [more below] and contradict the claims of Government health officials that vaccines have saved millions of lives.  It is an unscientific claim which the data show is untrue. Here you will also learn why vaccinations like mumps and rubella for children are medically unethical and can expose medical professionals to liability for criminal proceedings and civil damages for administering them.


further ..

https://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/vaccination-causes-autism-%E2...

Vaccination Causes Autism – Say US Government & Merck’s Director of Vaccines

Posted on June 30, 2010 by ChildHealthSafety
A New Scientist article 29 June 2010 by Jim Giles states:-
We still do not know what causes autism.“
Desperate measures: The lure of an autism cure
That is not correct. Here we set out four ways autistic conditions are caused and confirmed by statements from the current President of pharmaceutical giant Merck’s Vaccines Division, by US Government agencies, by the US Federal Court and in formally published academic journal papers.
If you read nothing else we strongly recommend you read this PDF Download – Text of May 5th 2008 email from US HRSA to Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News].  In it the US Health Resources Services Administration [HRSA] state to CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson
We have compensated cases in which children exhibited an encephalopathy, or general brain disease. Encephalopathy may be accompanied by a medical progression of an array of symptoms including autistic behavior, autism, or seizures.” [Text added 10 April 2011]
The first known cause of autism was rubella virus. So not only is New Scientist an unreliable source of information, this cause of autism has been known since the 1960s. And rubella virus is one of the three live viruses in the MMR vaccine.
… rubella (congenital rubella syndrome) is one of the few proven causes of autism.”  Walter A. Orenstein, M.D. US as Assistant Surgeon General, Director National Immunization Program in a letter to the UK’s Chief Medical Officer 15 February 2002.
rubella virus is one of the few known causes of autism.” US Center for Disease Control.
“FAQs (frequently asked questions) about MMR Vaccine & Autism”  [ED 8/Apr/12: This is the web archive of the CDC page – you will need to search in or scroll down the page to see the text.  As papers cited on the original page by the CDC as evidence for no link with the vaccine have been steadily discredited it seems the CDC has decided to remove the page and it seems someone has been deleting the archived versions of the page from the web archive too].
rubella can cause autism“ The Pediatrician’s Role in the Diagnosis and Management of Autistic Spectrum Disorder in Children – PEDIATRICS Vol. 107 No. 5 May 2001
Journal references:
Chess, S. Autism in children with congenital rubella. J Autism Child Schizophr. 1, 33-47 (1971).
Chess S. Follow-up report on autism in congenital rubella. J Autism Child Schizophr. 1977;7:69 –81
Ziring PR. Congenital rubella: the teenage years. Pediatr Ann. 1997;6: 762–770
People who are pre-disposed to have a mitochondrial dysfunction can develop autistic conditions following vaccination.  The current President of Merck’s Vaccines Division, Julie Gerberding confirmed to CBS News when she was Director of the US Centres for Disease Control that:
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Reply #80 - Sep 3rd, 2016 at 1:33am
 
Now, we all know that vaccines can occasionally cause fevers in kids. So if a child was immunized, got a fever, had other complications from the vaccines. And if you’re predisposed with the mitochondrial disorder, it can certainly set off some damage. Some of the symptoms can be symptoms that have characteristics of autism.“
HOUSE CALL WITH DR. SANJAY GUPTA – Unraveling the Mystery of Autism; Talking With the CDC Director; Stories of Children with Autism; Aging with Autism – Aired March 29, 2008 – 08:30   ET



Mitochondrial dysfunction is claimed to be “rare” but is not.  It can apply to a minimum of 20% of cases.
And this was said when Gerberding was then head of the US Centres for Disease Control – budget US$11 billion.  It followed from  award winning author and journalist David Kirby breaking the story of the Hannah Poling case, secretly settled by the US Government.  It was after this story broke that it started to be acknowledged that autism has an “environmental” cause and is not solely an “internal” condition [ie not determined solely by genetics]: AUTISM – US Court Decisions and Other Recent Developments – It’s Not Just MMR
Gerberding went from the US agency charged with promoting vaccines [CDC] directly to become vaccine maker Merck’s Director of Vaccines Division: Dr. Julie Gerberding Named President of Merck Vaccines – 21 Dec 2009 – Merck & Co., Inc.
Autistic conditions can result from encephalopathy following vaccination.  The US Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) confirmed to CBS News that of 1322 cases of vaccine injury compensation settled out of court by the US Government in secret settlements:-
We have compensated cases in which children exhibited an encephalopathy, or general brain disease. Encephalopathy may be accompanied by a medical progression of an array of symptoms including autistic behavior, autism, or seizures.” [PDF Download – Text of email from US HRSA to Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News]
CBS News Exclusive: Leading Dr.: Vaccines-Autism Worth Study Former Head Of NIH Says Government Too Quick To Dismiss Possible Link – WASHINGTON, May 12, 2008
Vaccine Case: An Exception Or A Precedent? – First Family To Have Autism-Related Case “Conceded” Is Just One Of Thousands – CBS News By Sharyl Attkisson WASHINGTON, March 6, 2008
Measles and mumps are two of the three live viruses in the MMR vaccine. Exposure to live measles or mumps viruses can cause encephalitis:-
measles and mumps can cause significant disability, including encephalitis“
The Pediatrician’s Role in the Diagnosis and Management of Autistic Spectrum Disorder in Children – PEDIATRICS Vol. 107 No. 5 May 2001
So there is direct evidence that live measles, mumps or rubella viruses separately can cause encephalitis leading to autism.
More troubling is that this has been known for a long time.  So the risks of giving very young children a vaccine containing three live viruses all at once were known. These two World Health Organisation papers published nearly 40 years ago set out the hazards:
Virus-associated immunopathology : animal models and implications for human disease”:
1. Effects of viruses on the immune system, immune-complex diseases, and antibody-mediated immunologic injury Bulletin of The World Health Organisation. 1972; 47(2): 257-264.
2. Cell-mediated immunity, autoimmune diseases, genetics, and implications for clinical research Bulletin of the World Health Organisation. 1972; 47(2): 265-274.
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Reply #81 - Sep 3rd, 2016 at 1:44am
 
I know this is pointless IITL but look at your graph.
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The deaths per have continued to drop and reported cases have remained steady until the mid 60s when both take a tumble. This is immunisation at work. Keep in mind the US population grew from about 76 million in 1900 to over 4 times that now.
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Reply #82 - Sep 3rd, 2016 at 2:05am
 
Setanta wrote on Sep 3rd, 2016 at 1:44am:
I know this is pointless IITL but look at your graph.
[url]https://childhealthsafety.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/measlesmortalityusa1971-7
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The deaths per have continued to drop and reported cases have remained steady until the mid 60s when both take a tumble. This is immunisation at work. Keep in mind the US population grew from about 76 million in 1900 to over 4 times that now.


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you may wish to read the entire article before commenting ..

yet either way be at peace

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Reply #83 - Sep 3rd, 2016 at 7:15pm
 
http://www.naturalnews.com/035431_vaccine_ingredients_side_effects_MSG.html

Health Basics: The 11 most toxic vaccine ingredients and their side effects



(NaturalNews) It's been only 70 years since World War II, and the mad scientists from companies like I.G. Farben, BASF, Hoechst, Dow and Bayer, who created the gas chambers and tested dangerous vaccines on innocent Jews, didn't just go away. In fact, they went to work for U.S. corporations and pharmaceutical companies that run the vaccine industry today. At least a dozen of these cold blooded killers were hired fresh out of prison, just 4 to 7 years after the Nuremberg trials found them guilty of mass murder and enslavement. (http://frank.mtsu.edu/~baustin/trials3.html)

In fact, at the close of WWII, the IG Farben building in Frankfort was protected from allied bombings by the highest levels of military command. Why? IG Farben was the FDA/CDC type of "pharmaceutical arm" of Hitler's 4th Reich, and the Rockefellers had a financial interest in maintaining and controlling this pharmaceutical empire, which would soon be catapulted on U.S. soil. Research reveals that Hitler also invested heavily in Merck and other pharmaceutical companies.

Nazi convicted mass murderers became executives for major U.S. chemical and pharmaceutical companies

Fritz ter Meer, found guilty of slavery and mass murder at Auschwitz, served only seven years in prison and became Chairman of the Board at Bayer in 1956. Still trust U.S. vaccines?

Carl Krauch, Executive Member of IG Farben and Head of Military Economics for Hitler, found guilty of slavery and mass murder, served just 6 years in prison, then became Chairman of the Board for BASF in 1952. Still want to get those flu shots? How about that HPV shot for your daughter or son?

This is the same vaccine industry today which protected and employed Nazi war criminals. The very industry that produced the Nazi gas chambers was purchased by Bayer. So, exactly whom are you trusting with your children's health and welfare?

Currently, the U.S. Government and the CDC rely solely on the manufacturers of vaccines to report problems, injuries and deaths. This atrocity is like letting murderers be their own judges in court! Where are the checks and balances this country was founded upon? Vaccines have economic and political agendas now, and the FDA does absolutely no testing of their own before making decisions to release vaccines to the masses.

Want more research before you or your child get injected with a new concocted disease for which there is no cure? Listen to stunning admissions by vaccine industry experts, including Dr. Maurice Hilleman (formerly w/Merck), who admitted to the deadly nature of the most trusted vaccines. (http://www.naturalnews.com/033584_Dr_Maurice_Hilleman_SV40.html)

Today's vaccines not only contain live versions of the diseases you DO NOT WANT, but also contain GMOs, hormones from infected cows, pigs, chickens and monkeys, untested virus combinations (like H1N1), aluminum, mercury, emulsifiers, and crossbred bacteria from animals, mosquitoes, and diseased humans:

Measles Live Virus Vaccine: (Attenuvax) Made by Merck. Two injections are given; one at 1 year and another at 4 years old. Contains gelatin, sorbitol, sodium chloride, bovine cow serum, egg protein and human albumin.

Measles and Mumps Live Virus Vaccine: (M-M-Rvax) Made by Merck. Injected into one year old babies. Contains gelatin, sorbitol, sodium chloride, bovine cow serum, and human albumin.

Diptheria, Tetanus and Polio Vaccine: Five injections given between 2 and 6 years of age, plus boosters "recommended" every 10 years. Contains formaldehyde, phenoxyethanol and aluminum phosphate.

DTaP, IPV, HBV and Hib*: (Diphtheria, tetanus, polio, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenza type B) Given to infants 2 to 12 months with boosters less than a year later. Contains aluminum hydroxide, formaldehyde, and bovine cow serum.

Gardasil HPV: Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Made by Merck. Administered to children as young as 9 years of age for a rare sexually transmitted disease. Contains polysorbate 80, sodium chloride, aluminum, and a "denatured" (fragmented and weakened) form of the virus.

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Reply #84 - Sep 3rd, 2016 at 7:17pm
 
what sane person would accept these ingredients injected

directly into their bloodstream ????????

Toxic vaccine ingredients and their adverse effects:


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• Bovine cow serum: Extracted from cow skin. When injected causes connective tissue disorders, arthritis and lupus; also shortness of breath, low blood pressure, chest pain and skin reactions.

• Sorbitol: Synthetic sweetener which metabolizes very slowly and aggravates IBS and gastrointestinal issues.

• Gelatin: Derived from the collagen inside animals' skin and bones. Injecting gelatin poses the risk of infection from synthetic growth hormones and BSE infectivity (mad cow disease).

• Sodium chloride: Raises blood pressure and inhibits muscle contraction and growth.

• Egg protein: Vaccines are prepared in eggs (certainly not organic). May contain growth hormones, antibiotics, and salmonella bacteria.

• Thimerosal: A neurotoxic mercury which causes autism: There are 25 mcg in one average flu vaccine, and the EPA safety limit is 5 micrograms, so children who are vaccinated simultaneously with multiple* vaccines receive over 10 times the safety limit of mercury in one day.

• Human albumin: The protein portion of blood from pooled human venous plasma; when injected causes fever, chills, hives, rash, headache, nausea, breathing difficulty, and rapid heart rate. Injecting "pooled blood" can result in a loss of body cell mass and cause immunodeficiency virus infection, or contain SV40, AIDS, cancer or Hepatitis B from drug addicts.

• Formaldehyde: Highly carcinogenic fluid used to embalm corpses. Ranked one of the most hazardous compounds to human health; can cause liver damage, gastrointestinal issues, reproductive deformation, respiratory distress and cancer. Plus, formaldehyde has been known to fail to deactivate the virus the vaccine is intended to cure, thus enabling a live virus to enter your blood and infect your system.

• Phenoxyethanol: A glycol ether/chemical; highly toxic to the nervous system, kidneys, and liver. The FDA warns "can cause shut down of the central nervous system (CNS), vomiting and contact dermatitis" in cosmetics; imagine when injected into your blood.

• Aluminum phosphate: Greatly increases toxicity of mercury, so caution about minimum mercury tolerance is therefore severely underestimated. CDC scientists and all doctors are well aware of this.

• MSG (monosodium glutamate): When injected becomes a neurotoxin, causing CNS disorders and brain damage in children.

If you especially enjoy being lied to, visit vaccinateyourbaby.org, where they tell you formaldehyde is safe because it is "present in the environment and is a byproduct of metabolism, so it is already present in the human body." They also inform you that aluminum is good for you, because "[a]luminum is also commonly found in food, water, infant formula and even breast milk." Hey, if it's in the environment, it must be safe to inject into your veins (so why not use snake venom, bleach, and plutonium?).

Want the ultimate alternative to vaccines that prevents disease? Buy organic vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, amino acids, and enzymes! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH6N7tHGsi8)

Sources for this article include:

http://www.naturalnews.com/033584_Dr_Maurice_Hilleman_SV40.html

http://vaxtruth.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH6N7tHGsi8

http://frank.mtsu.edu/~baustin/trials3.html

http://www.novaccine.com/vaccine-ineffectiveness/

http://www.novaccine.com/pdffiles/gardasil_information_HPV.pdf

http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/components-MMR.htm

http://www.fda.gov/cber/efoi/approve.htm

http://www.tetrahedron.org

http://www.supernutrient.com/articles/fibromyalgia/taf.html

http://www.whale.to/b/nazi_allopathy.html

http://www.vaccinateyourbaby.org/about/ingredients.cfm

http://heinonline.org

http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/mad_cow.html

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Reply #85 - Sep 11th, 2016 at 12:23pm
 
Distrust of vaccines is high in Europe. Are Australians just too trusting of government?

http://www.vox.com/2016/9/9/12852698/global-vaccine-confidence-survey

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France had far and away the most science denialists in the survey, with nearly half of respondents (41 percent) disagreeing that vaccines are safe. (The study authors point out that this is more than three times the global average of 12 percent.)

The United States fell somewhere in the middle. Of the 1,000 people in the US surveyed, 14 percent disagreed vaccines were safe and 10 percent disagreed vaccines were effective. Lead study author Heidi Larson thought this average, however, masked some variation in the country.

"I’m pretty confident that if we had done a state-level analysis, we’d have seen more extremes," Larson said, referring to the tremendous variation in vaccine coverage rates within states and counties in the US.

Why does Europe distrust vaccines?

The study didn’t look at the reasons for the discrepancies in vaccine trust, but Larson surmised that there’s probably a link between high-profile vaccine controversies in Europe and diminished trust in vaccines. A number of vaccine scares have taken place in France in recent years — including concerns about whether the hepatitis B vaccine may cause multiple sclerosis, and worries about the safety profile of the HPV vaccine — "none of which have been scientifically [proven], but they’ve created some anxieties," Larson said.

A similar cycle played out in the UK over the past two decades. In 1998, an esteemed medical journal published a paper with a startling conclusion: that the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine — administered to millions of children across the globe each year — could cause autism.

This study, led by the discredited physician-researcher Andrew Wakefield, has since been thoroughly eviscerated: The Lancet retracted the paper, investigators have described the research as an "elaborate fraud," and Wakefield has lost his medical license. Still, Larson said, "it took five years for [MMR vaccine coverage] to drop to its lowest point after that article, and another 15 years for it to recover to the pre-Lancet days."

Many of the countries with a lot of vaccine denialism are also places with strong beliefs in homeopathic and alternative medicines. "In France, if you go into most pharmacies, they will have a good portion of the store dedicated to homeopathy," Larson says. (There is no reliable evidence that homeopathy is effective.)

By contrast, she thinks the higher trust in vaccines in many poorer countries in Africa and Asia may be attributed to the fact that the diseases vaccines prevent are still common there. "People in these countries have other reasons for being more confident in vaccines," she said. "It’s something they feel there’s some value in for their children’s health, because they face these diseases." There may be less room for denialism in places where people can see the impact of these deadly scourges every day.

Europe has seen massive outbreaks of measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases

France has been battling some of the world’s largest measles outbreaks in recent years, on a scale usually seen in low-income countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo or Somalia. Between January 2008 through December 2011, France reported 22,686 measles cases — an epidemic that has hampered the country’s efforts to eliminate the disease.

France isn’t alone in Europe. There were 2,016 measles cases in England and Wales in 2012 — the most in a year since 1994. Over the past year, Italy reported 617 measles cases, the United Kingdom reported 371, and Germany reported 260. In 2015, Spain experienced an outbreak of whooping cough involving more than 4,800 people.

These numbers make the 2015 Disneyland measles outbreak in California, which involved fewer than 200 people, look small.

Unsurprisingly, researchers have found that rates of whooping cough and measles are higher among people who are intentionally unvaccinated. So there’s a clear link between refusing vaccines and risk of outbreaks.

What to do about this is less clear. Since vaccine exposure and availability don’t seem to predict how people feel about shots, the study authors noted that their research signals a "shift away from access to vaccines as the primary barrier to vaccination in many countries."

This means the public health community needs to work on understanding and addressing all the other barriers that may be preventing people from getting immunized — including the lack of vaccine confidence in some places.

"The public is much more questioning today," Larson said. There’s a limit to how much people will accept the old "take this because it’s good for you" adage, she added. "People are saying, ‘Wait a minute — I want a voice here.’" The trouble is, when it comes to vaccines, waiting can be deadly.
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