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There has been some friendly dialogue and healthy debate on Facebook recently

regarding the very contentious issue of childhood vaccines; focused mostly on the

safety of vaccines. Childhood vaccinations can easily become a very divisive issuewhich has the potential to damage relationships as each side (pro and anti vax) dig

their heals in and become ever more convinced of the veracity of their position (and

the patent falsehood of the other position). My personal opinion on childhood

vaccinations is that parents need to do their own research and that this research needs

to be based on a variety of sources:

1. What public health officials tell us, as well as the medical profession(established guidelines, information on government websites, information

from your GP or Pediatrician)

2. Published research in scientific journals that sheds light upon issues of vaccinesafety and efficacy

3. Anecdote and personal experience of family, friends as well as from socialmedia

Combining these three sources, an intelligent individual is able to reach some

reasonable conclusion about how to proceed on the issue. Three choices face parents

based on their research:

1. All vaccines listed on the schedule have a high level of safety and efficacy. Allthe vaccines target illnesses that are potentially life-threatening/disabling and

could not be adequately treated with other means. The vaccine schedule, as set

out by public health authorities (e.g. NSW Health), is the one to follow as is

(no changes).

2. Some of the vaccines on the schedule have questionable safety and/or efficacy

or the diseases they target are low prevalence and/or not life threatening or achild has such a low risk of contracting the disease, that the risks of vaccines

adverse effects outweigh the benefits, that they can be reasonably excluded

from my childs schedule of shots. Parent proceeds with an alternative

schedule, in cooperation with their doctor, omitting certain shots (e.g. MMR,

Heb B) and/or changing the spacing of when the shots are given (e.g. avoiding

multiple shots in one doctor visit spacing them out more to reduce the

chances of and to monitor for adverse effects)

3. The entire schedule is not suitable for my child and the vaccines, as a whole,are probably unsafe and the risk of adverse effects is too high. Parents in this

camp may have already had a vaccine injured child or have a history of


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autoimmune disorders in their family (read on to see the burgeoning scientific

literature on the causal link between certain vaccines and autoimmunity).

What I aim to demonstrate here is not that vaccines are dangerous and should betotally avoided. Rather, I aim to demonstrate that there is more than sufficient

scientific evidence to move many parents well away from position number one (total

acceptance of what public health authorities state, following the vaccines schedule as

is, and a move toward positions two or three). Unfortunately, and this is based on my

personal experience, most parents who are entrenched in position number one have

honestly not taken the time to access and read the group 2 evidence (published

science), and largely rely upon evidences groups 1 and 3 (what public health

authorities tell them and anecdote). This creates an atmosphere where healthy debate

is exceedingly difficult.

Let me now take you through just some of the published science, that I believe wouldtip any reasonable individual, toward position 2 or 3. I will set out my argument

according to the following headings, and back each one with published data.

1. Historical is it true that vaccines were a decisive factor in the eradication orreducing the prevalence of some of our worst communicable diseases?

Historical evidence compiled in the recently published book, Dissolving Illusions -

Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History, by Suzanne Humphries MD, provides

compelling evidence that much of what vaccines are credited for doing was actually

the result of better hygiene, sanitation and accurate medical diagnosis. The book isfilled with documented evidence, fully referenced with archival data. Here is just one

example from Dr Humphries meticulously researched book.


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Dont be scared away by this busy graph. Each colour represent the death ratefor a

particular disease. The point illustrated is quite straightforward. For each of these

diseases, the death rate had already greatly reduced beforethe vaccine for the disease

was introduced. The measles vaccines, introduced in 1968/1969, came well after the

mortality rates from measles had plummeted. You can clearly see that for all these

diseases, you had massive mortality rates in the 1800s which then greatly reduces wellbefore each of the vaccines were introduced. If you read Humphries book, you will be

shocked at the level of poor hygiene, poor sanitation and people living in filth at this

time in Britain as well as America. With no proper sanitation, people living in slums,

no access to fresh food, any disease would overwhelm such a weakened immune

system. Bottom line mortality rates had significantly dropped well before vaccines

were introduced.

2. Documented lack of efficacy of vaccines and lack of long-term protection outbreaks occur in populations with high vaccination rates (as opposed to

media scares about measles and whooping cough, that convince parentsunvaccinated children are to blame).

Scientific references documented outbreaks of disease in populations with very high

rates of vaccination for the disease.

California whooping cough epidemic in 2010 most children who got the whooping

cough were completely vaccinated, as were the adolescents.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22819634

Measles outbreak in highly vaccinated high school population 99% were vaccinated

and 95% had antibodies to measles after vaccination


And another measles outbreak in a school with 92% vaccination rate almost half the

cases of measles were in students who had received two doses of the measles vaccine

http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/05/23/cid.cis445.full

And another


And anotherhttp://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(05)80726-7/abstract

And another showing vaccines do not confer long-lasting immunity


And another, this time in a population who had received THREE doses of the

whooping cough vaccine We conclude that pertussis remains a significant health problem in Nova Scotia, despite nearly universalvaccinationhttp://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(89)80643-2/abstract

And anothermeasles outbreak in population with 99% vaccination

coverageIncomplete vaccination coverage is not a valid explanation for the Quebec City measles outbreak.



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3. Vaccine adjuvants (usually aluminium) can be neurotoxic to the developingbrain and have a documented link to triggering autoimmune disorders,

including lupus, arthritis and Type 1 diabetes. The Hepatitis B vaccine seems

to crop up often in the literature as a documented causal link and this is the

vaccine that is first given to all newborns. Links to each study are provided

below the title of the study.

Aluminium Vaccine adjuvants: Are they Safe?

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ben/cmc/2011/00000018/00000017/art00011

Aluminum is an experimentally demonstrated neurotoxin and the most commonly usedvaccine adjuvant. Despite almost 90 years of widespread use of aluminum adjuvants,medical science's understanding about their mechanisms of action is still remarkablypoor.There is also a concerning scarcity of data on toxicology and pharmacokineticsof these compounds. In spite of this, the notion that aluminum in vaccines is safeappears to be widely accepted. Experimental research, however, clearly shows thataluminum adjuvants have a potential to induce serious immunological disorders in

humans. In particular, aluminum in adjuvant form carries a risk for autoimmunity, long-term brain inflammation and associated neurological complications and may thus haveprofound and widespread adverse health consequences.In our opinion, the possibilitythat vaccine benefits may have been overrated and the risk of potential adverse effectsunderestimated, has not been rigorously evaluated in the medical and scientific community.We hope that the present paper will provide a framework for a much needed and longoverdue assessment of this highly contentious medical issue.

Hepatitis B vaccine induces apoptotic death in Hepa1-6 cells

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22249285Vaccines can have adverse side-effects, and these are predominantly associated with

the inclusion of chemical additives such as aluminum hydroxide adjuvant Weconclude that exposure of Hepa1-6 cells to a low dose of adjuvanted hepatitis Bvaccine leads to loss of mitochondrial integrity, apoptosis induction, and cell death

Vaccinations may induce diabetes-related autoantibodies in one-year-old children.


The spectrum of ASIA: Autoimmune (Auto-inflammatory) Syndrome induced by

Adjuvants

http://lup.sagepub.com/content/21/2/118.short

Autoimmunity following Hepatitis B vaccine as part of the spectrum of Autoimmune

(Auto-inflammatory) Syndrome induced by Adjuvants (ASIA): analysis of 93 cases

http://lup.sagepub.com/content/21/2/146.short

Rubella Vaccine causal link to chronic joint disease

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/art.1780390913/abstractThe Program and the US Court of Federal Claims have accepted a causal relationship between currently used rubella vaccine in the US and some chronicarthropathy with an onset between 1 week and 6 weeks after vaccine administration.

Hep B vaccine and increased risk of multiple sclerosis


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http://www.neurology.org/content/63/5/838.shortThese findings are consistent with the hypothesis that immunization with the recombinant hepatitis B vaccine is associated with an increasedrisk of MS, and challenge the idea that the relation between hepatitis B vaccination and risk of MS is well understood.

Mechanisms of aluminum adjuvant toxicity and autoimmunity in pediatric

populations. (Published in the journal Lupus in 2012)


In summary, research evidence shows that increasing concerns about current vaccination

practices may indeed be warranted. Because children may be most at risk of vaccine-induced

complications, a rigorous evaluation of the vaccine-related adverse health impacts in the

pediatric population is urgently needed.

A case-control study of serious autoimmune adverse events following hepatitis B

immunization.


Aluminum in the central nervous system (CNS): toxicity in humans and animals,

vaccine adjuvants, and autoimmunity.Publishedin Immunological Research, 2013.


We have examined the neurotoxicity of aluminum in humans and animals under various

conditions, following different routes of administration, and provide an overview of the various

associated disease states. The literature demonstrates clearly negative impacts of

aluminum on the nervous system across the age span. In adults, aluminum exposure

can lead to apparently age-related neurological deficits resembling Alzheimer's andhas been linked to this disease and to the Guamanian variant, ALS-PDC. Similar

outcomes have been found in animal models.In addition, injection of aluminum adjuvants

in an attempt to model Gulf War syndrome and associated neurological deficits leads to an

ALS phenotype in young male mice. In young children, a highly significant correlation

exists between the number of pediatric aluminum-adjuvanted vaccines administered

and the rate of autism spectrum disorders. Many of the features of aluminum-induced

neurotoxicity may arise, in part, from autoimmune reactions, as part of the ASIA

syndrome.

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