Modern medicine has tried to convince us (and for the most part pretty successfully) that vaccines are a sort of armor, protecting the human body against repeated attacks from disease-producing germs.
But the reality is quite different, and at times, quite the opposite. The truth is that the genetic and chemical vaccine cocktail has been shown to cause disease and even accelerate its spread.
When we study and analyze the historical record of the many pandemics that have killed large swathes of the population across continents, it makes you wonder how many lives could have been saved, had hundreds of thousands of people not been vaccinated at all.
When you read the following information, there are several factors you might want to bear in mind. Vaccination research has always been a cutting-edge area of medicine, and mass immunization provides researchers, drug companies and governments a captive and willing human sample to test new drugs and formulations.
Introducing these chemicals into the human body through vaccines sometimes has little or nothing to do with the vaccine being administered or the outbreak of a particular disease. In other words, throwing ethical considerations to the wind, researchers have used mass vaccinations as a readymade testing ground or a human laboratory, as it were.
On other occasions, scientific ignorance and inadequate equipment and testing procedures have led to errors of judgment in the development of vaccines, which has cost thousands of lives while leaving others afflicted with debilitating diseases.
In still other instances, either the antigen, or the contaminants, or the additives in vaccines have actually caused disease and death.
1. The Polio Controversy
It is not surprising then that more than half a century after the first polio vaccine was developed, controversy still rages over the contamination of the vaccine with the deadly SV40 virus.
The Simian Vacuolating Virus 40 or Simian Virus 40 is found in the kidney cells of the rhesus monkey. The SV40 is carcinogenic, causing tumors especially sarcomas or cancer of the connective tissue.
Let’s rewind to the mid-20th century, when polio was a health crisis across continents and had claimed more than 50,000 lives in the US alone. No wonder the development of the first polio vaccine by Dr Jonas Salk (‘dead’ or Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine or IPV) in 1953, and the second polio vaccine (‘live’ or Oral Polio Vaccine) by Dr Albert Sabin in 1957, were embraced with a collective sigh of relief.
Mass vaccinations began as soon as the Salk vaccine was approved by federal agencies in 1955, and by 1961, more than 90 million people across the globe were inoculated with the IPV.
But it took only two years after the Salk vaccine was approved for scientists to discover that it contained strains of SV40, which lives in the rhesus monkey’s kidney cells (the rhesus monkey’s kidney cells had been used to grow the polio virus). In subsequent years, numerous eminent scientists and research studies confirmed this contamination after demonstrating that SV40 could infect and cause cancer in human cells.
More recently, the American Journal of Medicine cited many studies which have reported the presence of SV40 from the polio vaccine in human brain tumors and bone cancers, malignant mesothelioma, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
In the late ’50s, when the SV40 controversy could no longer be ignored, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decreed that companies submitting their polio vaccines for approval to the FDA after June 30, 1961, must be free of SV40 contamination.
But the FDA left two gaping loopholes for drug companies. One, the government allowed vaccine manufacturers who had made millions of doses prior to June 30, 1961, to sell their vaccines till their shelf life expired two years later.
Two, the FDA did not require vaccine-makers to discard tissue cultures and other related material. What some vaccine manufacturers claimed to have done to prove that their vaccines passed muster after 1961 was to add rabbit anti-SV40 antibodies to their viral cultures to neutralize the simian virus!
With drug companies keeping their facilities under lock and key, there is no way to officially prove that they actually did this. Also, the assumption that these rabbit antibodies were effective against the SV40 has never been proved. Also, vaccine manufacturers have never been forced to prove that they had indeed destroyed their contaminated stocks worth millions of dollars.
Despite this charade, four decades after the first polio vaccine was developed, the World Health Organization proclaimed in 1994 that it had eradicated the scourge of polio from the face of the planet.
However, the damage had already been done. In a candid admission, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced that around 10-30 million Americans may have been inoculated with the SV40-contaminated IPV whereas another 10,000 people may have been administered the OPV. What the CDC omitted to mention was that millions of individuals in the former USSR, where clinical trials on the OPV had been conducted, had also received the vaccine.
Here is another way to present the argument that the polio vaccine does not produce immunity. If live viruses in vaccines can still induce polio today when standards of sanitation and hygiene are high, it is plausible to assume that the polio epidemics half a century ago were also caused by immunization against the disease when hygiene, sanitation, housing and nutritional standards were relatively crude. What is absolutely clear is that the infection rate is high in areas with poor hygiene. It is important to know that only 0.1 percent of all polio infections are likely to progress to paralysis. The rest of symptoms resemble other viral infections such as influenza.
No matter what may have caused polio outbreaks in the past, it is ethically, morally and medically questionable today to immunize vast sections of the population against a disease that scarcely exists any more but may be experience a comeback because of mass vaccination.
2. Vaccines Cause Disease
There is more than sufficient evidence to show that vaccines have repeatedly failed to prevent disease. In fact, history is littered with instances where vaccination during epidemics has actually led to an increase in the incidence and further spread of the diseases they were meant to prevent and eradicate.
Yet with statistical manipulation and pro-vaccine propaganda, the medical fraternity has been able to convince most of us that these chemicals protect the human body from disease and death.
After the polio controversy, let us learn another lesson from history. Smallpox had been sweeping across 19th and early 20th century Europe and taking a heavy toll, till Britain finally passed a law mandating compulsory and universal smallpox vaccination in 1854.
It was a disastrous mistake. In the years following 1854, every successive smallpox outbreak coincided with a mass vaccination campaign. In other words, there was a sudden increase in the incidence of the disease after the vaccine was administered to the population en masse.
The London epidemic (1857-1859) claimed more than 14,000 lives; the 1863-1865 outbreak resulted in 20,000 deaths; and between 1871 and 1873, smallpox spread across Europe, recording the worst epidemic of the disease in history. In England and Wales alone, the disease claimed 45,000 lives despite the fact that 97 percent of the population had been vaccinated by then!
Germany too experienced the same vaccination pains. The country had passed a law allowing for compulsory vaccination in 1834. Yet, as the disease raged across England, Germany too took a heavy hit.
Despite a rigorous vaccination campaign that had covered 96 percent of the population, the country recorded 125,000 deaths from smallpox. Of these, 17,000 cases in Berlin took place among a fully-vaccinated population. Baffling, isn’t it?
But Europe alone has not suffered the mistakes of history. Compulsory vaccination against smallpox in 1872 in Japan caused a spurt in the disease every year after that, till the country registered 165,000 cases and 30,000 deaths in 1892. Ironically again, most of the victims had been vaccinated against smallpox.
Compulsory vaccination was introduced in the Philippines in the early 20th century, which seemed to result in a marked decline in smallpox in that country. However, inexplicably, the disease dealt a deadly blow between 1917 and 1919 in an epidemic that saw 160,000 cases and 70,000 deaths. Here too, the population affected had been fully vaccinated.
There may be several reasons why the smallpox vaccine didn’t work then, the most frightening and real one being that the very premise on which the smallpox vaccine is based is flawed.
The smallpox vaccine is made from the genetic material present in cowpox, a disease in cows characterized by pustular lesions on the animal’s udders. Incidentally, it was the cowpox virus – or vaccinia virus – which lent its name to the generic term ‘vaccine’.
Though vaccine manufacturing procedures are refined today, the smallpox vaccine is still made from the vaccinia virus, and though the scientific establishment today publicly denies this, its so-called success is based on pure presumptions rather than scientific experimentation.
These presumptions were made by an 18th century English physician named Edward Jenner, who had observed that milkmaids and farmers who worked with cows infected with cowpox appeared to be resistant to smallpox.
Jenner went a step further and experimented with the cowpox and smallpox viruses on human beings. In 1796, he injected the smallpox virus into an eight-year-old boy who he had already inoculated with cowpox and observed that the child did not die. (!) Jenner then proclaimed that his ‘theory of vaccination’ was successful.
This and other ‘experiments’ performed by Jenner, all of them based on loose observation, managed to convince the medical establishment then that he had found a vaccine for smallpox.
What if it wasn’t the cowpox that had produced immunity but the human immune system that prevented Jenner’s ‘subjects’ from developing smallpox? The English physician’s ‘proof’ that the vaccine did indeed work was to round up farmers who had contracted cowpox and inject them with material from smallpox lesions. When the farmers showed no symptoms of smallpox, Jenner offered this as ‘proof’.
What if these farmers had already acquired immunity to smallpox from exposure to the disease from others infected with it? When others presented cases that suggested exactly the opposite, Jenner’s defense was to scoff at these claims!
Half a century later, England and the rest of the world were to pay for Jenner’s unscientific and incredible claims.
Vaccination history continues to expose the claims and myths of global bodies such as the WHO and the Red Cross, who have spearheaded immunization programs across the world. Yet, in a huge embarrassment for the WHO, Ghana was declared measles-free by the global health agency in 1967, after a mass immunization drive that covered more than 90 percent of the country’s population.
The WHO should have been more careful before making such bold and self-congratulatory statements because between 1970 and 1972, Ghana was hit by one of its worst-ever measles outbreaks. The Journal of Tropical Pediatrics reports that 235,930 cases were recorded during that period including 834 deaths.
Measles outbreaks and immunization programs continue in Ghana today, turning history’s mistakes into a billion-dollar industry for the drug companies who make these vaccines.
The claim that the measles vaccine protects against measles is totally unsubstantiated. Although most Japanese children are vaccinated against measles, a measles outbreak took place in Japan in April 2007, causing a total estimated 27,600 cases.
The US is far from immune to the tall claims made by the pro-vaccination lobby. In 1989, measles outbreaks were reported in American schools where 98 percent of the children had already been vaccinated. These outbreaks were recorded across geographies.
The American Medical Association admitted in 1990 that despite the fact that 95 percent of school children are covered by mass vaccination campaigns against measles, it has failed to altogether stop the disease. The incident sparked a heated debate, with some researchers claiming that immunization suppresses the immune system, leading to a general vulnerability to infection.
The case for the spread of diseases by vaccines becomes iron-clad when you include whooping cough, tuberculosis and diphtheria and practically any other communicable disease.
In a bold move, Sweden decided to stop inoculating the population with the whooping cough vaccine in 1979 when the country discovered that of the 5,140 cases which surfaced in 1978, more than 80 percent had been vaccinated three times already.
The New England Journal of Medicine reported a study conducted in 1994 which found that more than 80 percent of children aged under five who were afflicted with whooping cough had already been inoculated against the disease.
In the UK, the Community Disease Surveillance Centre detected more than 200,000 cases of whooping cough in children between 1970 and 1990. All these children had already been vaccinated.
Returning to polio, after the introduction of mass immunization. in the US in 1955, the number of polio cases increased by 50 percent between 1957 and 1958, and by 80 percent from 1958 to 1959.
In five states, cases of polio doubled after the vaccine was given to large numbers of people. As soon as hygiene and sanitation improved, despite the immunization programs, the viral disease quickly disappeared.
3. Oops! We Forgot!
There are several conclusions we can draw from the data presented above. Foremost among these is that history has established no causal link between vaccination and protection from disease.
The immune system is the most critical factor that determines whether an individual develops a certain disease or not. It is also a factor that was not taken into account during the development of vaccines.
All that these pioneering researchers noted was the prior presence or absence of the disease in the individuals they observed while conducting their experiments. There were no long-term studies (and still aren’t) and no control groups used.
Other crucial factors that contribute to the development and spread of are living conditions. Poor quality living conditions, overcrowding, unsanitary and unhygienic environment and malnutrition, and most importantly, vitamin D deficiency due to lack of regular sun exposure, systematically weaken the immune system, thus compromising its ability to maintain homeostasis and ward off disease.
It is no coincidence that epidemic outbreaks have declined over time as the quality of living improved. By that same yardstick, diseases take a far greater toll in poorer countries where malnutrition, contaminated water and unhygienic conditions are widespread.
A glaring omission while performing a headcount during an epidemic or tallying the death toll is that the medical establishment has never stopped to inquire into the medical histories of the individuals affected by the ‘killer’ virus in question.
Despite this, during epidemic outbreaks, the polio, smallpox and whooping cough viruses, among others, are routinely blamed for cases whose weakened immunity may not have saved them from most illnesses anyway. This raises serious questions about the very foundation of vaccine theory and the so-called efficacy of vaccines.
This is also a matter of documented record. A study conducted by the British Association for the Advancement of Science reveals that improved hygiene and sanitation between 1850 and 1940 coincided with a 90 percent decline in childhood diseases in general.
In the US, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company documented the four leading causes of death from infectious diseases between 1911 and 1935. It named diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough and measles.
By 1945, the death toll from these diseases had fallen by a dramatic 95 percent – before the advent of mass immunization programs for these diseases. Again, this dramatic decline in disease was due to improved sanitation, nutrition and better housing.
Buttressing the argument for hygiene leading to decrease in mortality, is the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of July 30, 1999, which cites better sanitation, water quality, hygiene and the introduction of antibiotics as being the most important factors in disease control in the 20th century.
Could it be that these advancements (with the exception of antibiotics which weaken the immune system) were boosting health and immunity and saving lives, and not vaccines? The descending and ascending timelines for disease and better conditions, respectively, coincide almost too perfectly to ignore this conclusion.
But when it comes to vaccination, there are more sinister factors at work – the deliberate manipulation of facts to suit the ulterior motives of the medical establishment and drug companies. This includes fudging data, misdiagnosing disease, under-reporting a disease in patients who have been vaccinated against it and over-reporting illnesses in patients who have not been afflicted by them. All this to support the theory that vaccines save human lives!
4. The Semantics of Disease
One of the most obvious factors that affects the incidence – or apparent incidence – of an infectious disease is its definition. And history has shown how sleight of hand, or a few strokes of the pen, can seem to make diseases appear, disappear or look less menacing.
In the US, during trials of the Salk vaccine, there appeared to be a significant decline in the number of polio cases between 1954 and 1957. But did you know that the definition of polio was rewritten during that period?
By this single stroke of genius, the number of polio cases was destined to fall during this crucial time – specifically chosen because the Salk vaccine was officially approved in 1955, when mass vaccination was introduced. It was a deliberate attempt to suggest that the new vaccine was responsible for the decline in the infectious disease.
The medical community took three steps to ensure this. One, diseases that had hitherto been misdiagnosed as paralytic polio were now suddenly excluded from the definition of the disease. These diseases included viral and aseptic meningitis, which had been affecting thousands of children in the US annually.
While the medical establishment may have corrected an inaccuracy, doing so at this juncture served the agenda of the promoters of the polio vaccine. Conversely, in a double sleight of hand, cases of non-paralytic polio were now being classified as viral or aseptic meningitis!
As if this was not enough, an overzealous medical establishment was intent on bringing down the apparent incidence of the infectious disease even further. It therefore raised the limit for the declaration of an epidemic from 20 to 35 for every 100,000 people. This meant it required a larger number of cases to declare that the disease had assumed alarming proportions.
The definition of polio was overhauled in one more critical way. To qualify as polio, symptoms of paralysis had to now persist for 60 days as opposed to just 24 hours. Convenient, isn’t it?
5. Hiding The Virus
Medical records are replete with examples of how statistics have been twisted to suit hidden agendas. One way to do this is to conceal the whole picture. Take a bunch of medical statistics out of context and you could get a drastically distorted view of infectious diseases.
Here is an example of how this was done by two researchers from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in the book Communicable Diseases Handbook. Arguing in favor of the red measles vaccine in the US, the authors claim that inoculating the population with the vaccine (80 million doses) post-1963 brought down the number of cases from 500,000 before that year, to around 35,000 in 1975.
Nothing wrong with these figures – till you read them against the pre-1963 figures for red measles or rubeola. In 1958, there were 800,000 rubeola cases, indicating that the number of cases was actually falling before the vaccine was administered in 1963.
Add to this picture figures for 1955 and you will see that the death rate for red measles had already fallen 97 percent since the early 1900s!
All this hoopla when there was a bigger lie being perpetrated on the American public in the ’60s. The CDC publicly admitted that the inactivated vaccine for rubeola administered between 1963 and 1968 was ineffective, and advised the public to get re-vaccinated! So was the massive drop of red measles infection that occurred between 1963 and 1968 due to the ineffective vaccine, and the continued reduction of infections after 1968 due to the effective vaccine after re-vaccination?
Here is another way in which the medical fraternity has hoodwinked not only the public but budding researchers as well. Close scrutiny of medical texts and journals will reveal that infectious diseases across the spectrum appear to decrease in incidence and severity from 1940 onwards.
Is it any coincidence that this was also the time when advances in antibiotics were made and many immunization programs were undertaken? Deliberately excluding data that reflects the incidence of disease before the era of mass vaccination suggests that vaccines are the champions of good health.
However, medical students, fed on a distorted picture of disease and on baseless assumptions, therefore regard their textbooks as the absolute truth and thus, over time, medical untruths turn into ‘fact’.
Here is another example of a dishonest medical establishment. According to publicity material published by a provincial government in Australia, a three-decade-long campaign against tuberculosis before the 1950s had considerably whittled down the incidence of the disease in the country.
Again, even a quick look at statistics from the 1920s reveals that the disease was already in decline well before drugs were introduced to combat tuberculosis in the country. The march of modern medicine had, in fact, little if anything to do with the situation. Alas, they are always quick to usurp credit.
So do infectious diseases pose any significant threat to us now? Well, see for yourself. According to Dr. Robert Sears, author of The Vaccine Book, the number of childhood cases of diseases included on the vaccine schedule in the US in 2007 was:
• Pneumococus – approx. 10,000 cases a year
• Diphtheria – 5 cases per year, 0 cases some years
• Tetanus – 1 case per year in children under 5
• Pertussis – approx. 10,000 cases a year
• Hepatitus B – 30 cases in 1 year olds, 30 cases in 1-5 year olds
• Rotavirus – 500,000 cases, 50,000 hospitalizations, 20-70
• deaths
• Polio – 0 cases since 1985
• Measles – 50-100 cases a year
• Mumps – 250 cases a year
• Rubella – 250 cases a year
• Chickenpox – 50,000 cases a year
• Hepatitis A – 10,000 cases a year, most in children aged 5-14
• Flu – Millions of cases
• Meningococcal Disease – approx. 3000 cases a year
To reiterate, vaccination has nothing to do with these low infection rates. Improved sanitation, nutrition, healthcare and living conditions played a major role both before and after vaccines came on the scene. Other first-world nations, such as Iceland, which give just a third of the number of vaccines to children than the US, experience the same decline in infectious diseases as every other country that improves living conditions.
However, the vaccine fraud comes tagged with a hefty price to pay. In the US:
• 1 in 6 children is diagnosed with a learning disability
• 1 in 9 children suffer from asthma
• 1 in 94 develop autism
• 1 in 450 become diabetic
Vaccinating – or rather poisoning – millions of children one shot at a time, year after year, leaves us with future generations that have to live with disabilities and chronic diseases. We are literally breeding sick populations for many years to come, until hopefully, some day, vaccines will be banned because they are largely being considered responsible for the continuously escalating healthcare crisis.
Switching Diseases
When the term ‘re-diagnosis’ is used by the medical fraternity, it spells ‘hoax’. Re-diagnosis, or changing diagnostic criteria, is usually a means to falsify statistics to achieve a pre-determined objective. And the pro-vaccination lobby uses it time and again to support the premise that vaccines work.
According to the National Anti-Vaccination League in Britain, more than 3,000 fatal chickenpox cases were reported in England between the turn of the century and the 1930s. The league goes on to point out that chickenpox is not a fatal disease and that the deaths took place due to smallpox. Doctors had allegedly ‘re-diagnosed’ smallpox cases as chickenpox because each of the individuals affected had already been vaccinated for smallpox.
Remember, the smallpox vaccine was the ‘first successful vaccine ever to be developed’. Hence, the re-diagnosis served to cover up the embarrassment of the medical establishment.
Vaccine-nation Poisoning the Population,
One Shot at a Time
Andreas Moritz
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