Three Most Important Questions About Vaccines and Their Answers

Start Your Journey Into the Controversial World of Vaccination Here

Nearly 10 years ago I was pregnant with my first child. I was a supplement manager at a local health food store and finishing up my Naturopathy degree. My co-workers began to bombard me with questions whether I was going to vaccinate my baby. I was simply trying to get past the morning sickness and extreme fatigue. Vaccinations for my baby were the last thing on my mind.

Honestly, up until that point, I had not given much thought to vaccines in general. Vaccination was not the controversial subject then that it is today. Terms like anti-vaxxers and pro-vaxxers didn’t even exist yet!

Mothers who shopped in the health food store told me stories about their child’s vaccine injuries. But I had never personally looked into the negative effects of vaccination. Being a naturalist at heart, I knew that I would likely find the same side effects and dangers with vaccines that are so prevalent with pharmaceutical drugs.

As I was going over my baby girl’s birth plan provided by my doctor, I noticed that it included a Hepatitis B shot. Why would they give my newborn a shot for Hepatitis B? I realized at that point I couldn’t dodge the subject any longer. Thus began my journey into the controversial world of vaccination.

I began by searching out the answers to these 3 questions:

• Are vaccines medicine or poison?
• Do they prevent us from becoming sick or make us sick ?
• Are all vaccines necessary?

In this article, I will explain what I found in searching for answers. I believe knowledge is power and we should never rely on an organization or government to tell us what is best. You have the right to choose whether or not you or your child should receive particular vaccines. This is a fundamental health freedom issue that medical authorities using the force of government are trying to deny people all across the United States.

Even as I write this, bills are being proposed to take away this right to choose and force vaccination upon us all. In California, should the proposed bill SB 277 become law, every resident in the state from preschool to the age of 18 will be forced to be vaccinated with every mandated vaccine in order to reside in California and be eligible for any public or private school.

This would strip parents of their right to exempt their children from one, some, or all vaccines no matter their religious philosophical or ethical beliefs! This is an infringement on our freedoms and an outrageous step that could lead to thousands of vaccine induced injuries and even deaths.

Which brings me to the first question.

1. Are vaccines medicine or poison?

Vaccines are often deemed one of the greatest medical advances of all times. Millions of people now view vaccination as the savior from infectious deadly diseases. However, there is much more than meets the eye. Better nutrition, clean water and improved sanitation have profoundly contributed to the decline of many of the diseases that we now vaccinate against. Vaccines are definitely not the sole reason behind the decline of these diseases.

Few people stop and question what vaccines contain and their potential side-effects on the human body. How often does a parent ask to read the package insert for the vaccine their child is about to receive? Rarely, I would venture to say.

Sadly, we blindly trust the medical and pharmaceutical industry and we do not question their expertise or motives. Furthermore, the media strategically blacks out anything negative regarding vaccines.

It is time to ask more questions about what we are truly putting inside our children and our own bodies.

Furthermore, I believe medical professionals should be far more transparent with the ingredients and possible side effects before injecting a person with a cocktail of chemicals! Every year more than 25,000 vaccine reactions are reported to the US government. These reactions include severe injury and even death! It is also estimated that these reported reactions only account for 1-10% of the total actual reactions per year!

This means that literally millions of reactions to vaccinations have occurred over the last few years!^[1] As a result, the U.S. government has paid out more than $1.5 billion in its Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to families of children who have been injured or killed by vaccines.^[2]

With all the uncertainty surrounding the safety and efficacy of vaccines, it’s critical to protect your right to make independent health choices and exercise voluntary informed consent to vaccination.

That being said, lets take a look at some of the typical ingredients found in vaccines and the possible negative consequences on the human body.

• Thimerosal – This toxin is over 40% mercury by weight! Mercury is highly toxic! It kills brain cells, causes severe damage to the nervous system, kidneys, digestive system and a host of other tissues in the body. Mercury toxicity can lead to complete kidney failure… and more.
• Polysorbate 80 – Side effects can range from allergic reactions to cancer.
• Triton X-100 – A detergent and derivative of mercury. Side effects include brain and kidney damage.
• Formaldehyde – A cancer causing toxin can cause liver damage, gastrointestinal issues, reproductive deformation, respiratory distress and neurological damage. (Yes, this embalming fluid is being put into LIVE people!)
• 2-Phenoxyethanol – This is antifreeze and extremely poisonous. It causes kidney and liver damage, as well as cardiac failure.^[3]
• Aluminum – Enhances the toxicity of mercury, therefore making the minimum mercury tolerance underestimated. It can also cause cancer, liver toxicity and Alzheimer’s.
• Human albumin – This is the protein portion of blood from pooled human venous plasma. Injecting this can result in a loss of body cell mass and cause immunodeficiency and viral infection. Or, the human blood donated by screened donors may contain SV40, AIDS, cancer or Hepatitis B from drug addicts.^[4]
• Phenoxyethanol – A glycol ether/chemical is highly toxic to the nervous system, kidneys, and liver.
• Ammonium Sulfate – Made by mixing ammonia with sulfuric acid. It lowers the pH of the body causing acidosis. It is also a liver, neurological and respiratory toxicant.

This list is just the tip of the iceberg. The toxic additives in vaccines are far too numerous to list in this article. However, the point in listing these toxic chemicals is to expose the risks that vaccines can have on the human body. Vaccine side effects can be far more harmful than just the mild fever and redness at the injection site that the nurse warns you about. Don’t wait for something bad to happen before you begin researching the side effects.

From an ethical standpoint, you may be surprised to learn that several vaccines are derived from aborted fetal tissues! The rubella, hepatitis A, and varicella vaccines are all cultured in aborted fetal tissue.

Although I don’t want to fully delve into the autism argument, I will point out that an article published in the Journal of Public Health, found a spike in autism rates when the use of human fetal cell vaccines increased.^[5] These vaccines that are manufactured with human fetal cells are also associated with childhood leukemia and lymphoma!

2. Do vaccines prevent us from being sick or make us sick ?

Unfortunately, I don’t believe we can definitively answer this statement. Vaccines work by creating antibodies, which can prevent you from acquiring that specific illness. However, that isn’t always the case. Vaccinated persons can not only still acquire the disease, they can also spread it! In 2011, it was documented that a twice vaccinated person spread the measles virus to multiple people!^[6]

Something called vaccine shedding can occur with live virus vaccines, as well. Vaccine shedding occurs when the live virus from the vaccine, moves through the human body and is present in the feces and saliva. Anyone around that vaccinated person can then potentially contract the disease.

This problem existed with the oral polio vaccine, which was one of the reasons it was taken off the market in the US. The polio vaccine isn’t the only culprit, however. Both the CDC and the WHO acknowledge that viral shedding may occur after the administration of the nasal spray flu vaccine and the rotavirus vaccine.

As mentioned earlier, the shear number of chemical additives in vaccines have the potential to cause an even more serious disease than the one it seeks to prevent! Neurological damage and cancer are just a few among the many possible outcomes from vaccines.

Can vaccines prevent disease? Well sure. But, they can also make you sick by creating a toxic overload in your body, causing damage and lowering your immunity. This is particularly the case in infants and the elderly who already possess lowered immunity.

3. Are all vaccines really necessary?

A lot has changed with vaccinations in the last 35 years. The medical community now recommends that babies in the United States receive 26 doses of vaccines before age 1 with a total of 49 doses by the time he/she is 6 years of age! This number is truly astronomical! Giving just 7 vaccines to a 13-pound, two-month old infant is equivalent to 70 doses in a 130-pound adult! What’s even more disturbing is that more than one shot is often given during the same visit. This only increases the chances of vaccine injury and toxic overload from the poisonous additives.

In 1980, only 9 vaccines were given to children. Of those, 8 were given before the age of 2. Shots were given one per visit and vaccines reactions were minimal compared to today’s rigorous vaccine schedule.

Contrary to popular belief, vaccines actually suppress the immune system. They can make some people more susceptible to coming down with a viral or bacterial infection. The chemicals, lab altered viruses and bacteria, and foreign DNA/RNA from animal and human cells in the vaccines cause this compromised immunity.^[7]

Excitotoxins present in many vaccines may also cause neurological issues in an infant’s rapidly developing brain. Repeated exposure of these toxins from multiple vaccines can damage a baby’s immune system and their brain!

When parents approach me about vaccinating their children, I tell them they must ultimately weigh out the risks with the benefits. Is putting 26 chemical cocktails into a developing infant really the best idea?

Furthermore, what are the risks of some of these diseases themselves? Chickenpox (varicella), for example was a common illness up until 15 years ago when the vaccine became very popular. It was rarely referred to as a deadly disease and parents even held parties to get their children exposed to promote lifelong natural immunity!

Hepatitis B, the vaccine given to babies literally hours after being born, is spread by blood, shared needles from drug use and sex. Why on earth would they give this vaccine to a newborn? The rationale is based on preventing the baby from contracting Hep B from a positive mother. However, for the millions of birthing mothers who do not have Hep B, there is really no founded reason! I remember questioning my first pediatrician about this vaccine and his response was, “It’s just in case your child makes risky lifestyle choices.” What a ridiculous reason to vaccinate a perfectly healthy baby!

If you choose to vaccinate, many doctors and natural health practitioners are recommending an alternative vaccine schedule for the 1st year of a child’s life.

Dr. Donald Miller recommends vaccines, but with far fewer vaccines beginning after age 2. To allow the immune system sufficient time to recover and stabilize between shots, no more than one vaccine is given every six months, one at a time. He also recommends:

• No vaccines that contain thimerosal (mercury)
• No live virus vaccines (except for smallpox, should it recur) – this eliminates MMR, chickenpox and rotavirus

Dr. Donald Miller’s alternative vaccine schedule is as follows. Beginning at 2 years old, give the following one at a time, spaced at every six months:

• Pertussis (acellular – aP, not whole cell)
• Diphtheria (D)
• Tetanus (T)

However, for those of you who choose not to vaccinate, I recommend the website Vaccine Liberation to research your state exemption laws. Even those who follow an alternative vaccine schedule or choose to forego certain vaccines may need to use exemptions for public and private school admissions.

But what about adult vaccinations? The influenza vaccine is one of the most unnecessary and clinically unfounded of all the vaccines. It rarely works and contains some of the worst offenders when it comes to chemical additives like thimerosal. A recent study found that the flu vaccine prevents type A or type B influenza in only 1.5 out of every 100 vaccinated adults!^[8]

A balanced diet, plenty of vitamin D and regular exercise are far better and safer methods at preventing the flu than the vaccine itself.

Remember, vaccines are not 100% safe and they can often cause more harm than good. It is always best to educate yourself, read the ingredients and weigh out the risks with the benefits. I do not believe in infringing on someone’s right to choose what they believe is best for themself or their children. However, I do believe that everyone has the right to know the risks and possible side effects of vaccines.

 

Sources:
^[1] http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/11/03/right-vaccine-dosage-for-babies.aspx
^[2] http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/12/29/vaccination-schedule-part-one.aspx
^[3] http://vaxtruth.org/2011/08/vaccine-ingredients/
^[4] http://www.naturalnews.com/035431_vaccine_ingredients_side_effects_MSG.html
^[5] http://www.ms.academicjournals.org/article/article1409245960_Deisher%20et%20al.pdf
^[6] http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/02/27/cid.ciu105
^[7] http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/01/03/flu-shot-increase-flu.aspx
^[8] http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099%2811%2970295-X/abstract