I'd like to acknowledge a few books that opened my eyes to this controversial but fascinating field of research.
The first is The Virus and the Vaccine, a fascinating true story of the contamination of the polio vaccine with a cancer-causing monkey virus.
The second is Dr. Mary's Monkey. Although I didn't use this book as a source, it's a thrilling story in its own right, and weaves together the JFK assassination, the contaminated polio vaccine scandal, and a secret project to develop a bio-weapon to kill Fidel Castro.
Lastly I owe much of this research to the indispensable Vaccine Safety Manual for Concerned Families and Health Practitioners. The thousands of references provided have proved to be a veritable gold mine.
Birth Control Controversy and Measles Malpractice
One of the more frequent vaccine “conspiracy theories” that gets bandied about (and ridiculed) is that some vaccines have been nefariously used for anti-fertility purposes, particularly in Third World nations.
Although this claim is largely unsubstantiated, scientists affiliated with the World Health Organization did start experimenting with anti-fertility vaccines in the 1970s. Numerous studies throughout the 80's and 90's documented the progress of these experiments, including:
“Phase 1 clinical trials of a World Health Organization birth control vaccine,” Lancet (June 11th, 1988): 1295-98.
“Vaccines for fertility regulation,” Research in Human Reproduction, Biennial Report: 1986-87 (Geneva: WHO Special Programme of Research, 1988); chapter 11, pp. 177-198.
“Anti-hCG vaccines are in clinical trials.” Scandinavian Journal of Immunology 1992;36:123-126.
hCG refers to Human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone that stops menstruation and prepares the uterus for pregnancy. They theorized that if anti-hCG antibodies could be induced, then fertilization would remain incomplete.
In the mid 1990s, Human Life International (HLI) became suspicious of a WHO tetanus vaccination campaign in countries like the Philippines, Mexico and Nicaragua. WHO had developed a “neonatal tetanus” vaccine and began distributing it in numerous Third World countries in the early 1990s.
Neonatal tetanus is extremely rare in developing countries, but it continues to be a concern in Third World regions because of the lack of proper sanitation.
According to J.A. Miller, correspondent for Human Life International (HLI Reports, Human Life International, Gaithersburg, Maryland; June/July 1995, Volume 13, Number 8):
Here are several key points raised by HLI concerning the WHO tetanus vaccination program:
Only women between the ages of 15 and 45 were vaccinated (in Nicaragua the age range was 12-49). Young children and men were excluded.
Not only did the vaccines contain human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG), but the vaccination protocols called for multiple injections: three within three months and a total of five altogether. Tetanus vaccinations allegedly provide protection for ten years or more...why multiple injections?
Since the 1970's, WHO has been researching development of an anti-fertility vaccine utilizing hCG tied to tetanus toxoid as a carrier...the exact same coupling alleged to be found in the Mexican-Philippine-Nicaragua vaccines.
HLI cites numerous studies, many written by WHO researchers, that document WHO's attempts to create an anti-fertility vaccine utilizing tetanus toxoid as a carrier. [“Observations on the antigenicity and clinical effects of a candidate antipregnancy vaccine: B-subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin linked to tetanus toxoid,” Fertility and Sterility, October 1980, pp. 328-335.]
Naturally, when reports began surfacing in the Philippines of tetanus toxoid vaccine being laced with hCG hormones, the WHO and the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) immediately denied the allegations.
Apparently, the WHO and the DOH didn't seriously respond to these results, instead trying to explain many of the findings as “false positives.” As for why one might use the tetanus vaccine for such a purpose:
The HLI report concludes by stating that similar evidence was beginning to emerge from Africa. Despite the WHO's insistence upon “false positives,” many of the women who were vaccinated had painful reactions and even abortions.
Even more disturbing was that the HLI's investigation led them to numerous clandestine groups such as the World Bank, the Population Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the US National Institute of Health (NIH).
Although it's unlikely that the current tetanus vaccine contains significant amounts of hCG, one manufacturer warns pregnant women that “animal reproductive studies have not been conducted.”
Furthermore, “it is also not known whether [the vaccine] can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman or can affect reproductive capacity.” To nursing mothers they advise, “It is not known whether [the vaccine] is excreted in human milk...caution should be exercised when administered to a nursing woman.”
The EZ-HT Experiment
Another WHO/CDC catastrophe concerns the measles vaccine.
Most infants under five months are protected from measles by maternal antibodies, and standard measles vaccines are ineffective in babies under nine months. Since measles death rates are higher in Third World countries, authorities decided to create a “high-titer” vaccine to target this 5-9 month age range.
Beginning in the 1980s, they tested the Edmonston-Zagreb (EZ-HT) strain on Mexican and Gambian babies 4-6 months old.
The same high-titer vaccine continued to be administered in Guinea-Bissau, Togo, Senegal, Bangladesh, Haiti, and impoverished minority communities in Los Angeles, California.
The public was told that EZ-HT “produces a better immunological response than standard vaccines,” but studies had been conducted that concluded the vaccine was unsafe for infants, including the following: Child mortality after high-titre measles vaccines: prospective study in Senegal.
The study concluded, quite unequivocally, that “The higher risk of death in the two high-titre vaccine groups remained significant in multivariate analyses. These findings suggest a need to reconsider the use of high-titre measles vaccines early in life in less developed countries.”
Babies who received SW-HT died at a rate that was 51% higher than those who received the standard vaccine...nearly 50 excess deaths for every 1000 babies vaccinated. EZ-HT was much more potent, contributing to a rate that was 80% higher, contributing to 75 excess deaths for every 1000.
Strikingly, according to the previously cited study published by Lancet in 1991, 1 in every 6 babies vaccinated with EZ-HT died within three years. Unfortunately, even this didn't deter enthusiasts of the high-titer shot.
Even though the WHO and the CDC knew about the high mortality rate already being associated with the vaccine, they still considered the data “preliminary.”
Before the trials finished, nearly 1500 minority babies had been given the experimental vaccine, according to this 1996 LA Times article:
We now know that the CDC lied about the study on numerous occasions.
The “informed consent” form provided to parents violated internationally accepted ethical codes of conduct regulating human experimentation. Parents were not informed that EZ-HT was unlicensed in the US.
Parents were told that millions of doses of EZ-HT had been used in Europe. But the LA babies were actually receiving a vaccine that was up to 500 times more potent.
The CDC said the communities targeted for the vaccine were those hit hardest by recent measles outbreaks. According to data obtained from the Los Angeles County Department of Health, these communities were not the hardest hit. Journalist Keidi Obi Awadu, in his Outrage!, documented that “three three regions chosen to receive the experimental shots were predominantly Black and Hispanic.” Furthermore, “several mixed-race and White communities harder hit by the recent outbreak of measles were not chosen to participate in the study.”
Although the CDC claimed no children were adversely affected, one baby did die from a rare bacterial disease. According to Awadu, several children “experienced what parents are describing as long-term immune system impairment, seizures and other acute conditions consistent with vaccine-induced injury.”
Stephen Hadler of the CDC claimed the babies died in earlier studies because they didn't have access to adequate health care. However, one of the more important findings of the Senegal study was “the three vaccine groups were comparable as regards various social, family, and health characteristics. Intensive medical care was provided during the project.”