READ THIS BOOK: 'Corona, False Alarm? Fact and Figures'
Top Pathologist Claims Coronavirus is “The Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated on an Unsuspecting Public”
No need for vaccines, COVID pandemic is over, says Former Vice President of Pfizer
Assertion by Johns Hopkins Econ and Stat Experts: “These data analyses suggest that in contrast to most people’s assumptions, the number of deaths by COVID-19 is NOT alarming. In fact, it has relatively NO effect on deaths in the United States.”
The WHO Posts COVID Study By World-Renowned Stanford Epidemiologist: Just 0.05% of healthy under-70s who get Covid-19 will die from the disease, true fatality rate of coronavirus is unknown because many are never diagnosed
President of the Bulgarian Pathology Association: "No One Has Died From the Coronavirus"
Major Study Finds Masks DON'T reduce COVID-19 Infection Rates: In fact, according to the data, mask usage may actually INCREASE the likelihood of infection.
COVID19 PCR Tests are Scientifically Meaningless
German Microbiologist Issues Grave Warning Over COVID Scam: "We are being led to our doom. This is the downfall of civilization. The time has come for homo sapiens to STAND UP."
The Fake Coronavirus and the Missing Study - The Secret in Plain Sight: The CDC admits it does NOT have an isolated COVID virus. Therefore, SARS-CoV-2, the pandemic virus, has NEVER been proved to exist.
The Missing COVID Virus: Researchers can assemble the PCR test without actually having the virus.
Coronavirus Hype As Economic Warfare & Occult Ritual: We are experiencing one of the most significant propaganda efforts of the modern era.
Ebola hoax: The numbers game. They manipulative the numbers to produce the greatest degree of fear and compliance. Then they introduce the vaccine or the drug, they lower the numbers, and say, “We won. We beat the virus with the vaccine.”
Swine Flu was a Hoax. Ebola was a Hoax. Zika was a Hoax. If you're jumping on the coronavirus hysteria train, you're not paying attention.
The Pro-Vaccine Propaganda on Reddit Has Reached Unprecedented Levels: Blind, unquestioning subservience to the criminal Medical Cartel is a major aspect of their control grid, and complete trust in vaccines represents one of the pillars of this tyranny.
The Skeptic's Guide to Vaccines - Part I: Poxes, Polio, Contamination and Coverup
The Skeptic's Guide to Vaccines - Part II: Vaccination Mutation and the Monetization of Immunization
The ballots were being loaded into the trucks and were being shredded!
Jovan Pulitzer says Georgia Called in Trucks to Get Rid of the Evidence in Fulton County He is Supposed to be Scanning!
Patrick Byrne has been acting really cryptic in his last few tweets, and then BOOM he comes out with this:
On Wednesday afternoon in the Georgia Senate Judiciary voted to have these ballots inspected. What happened next?
Rented Enterprise moving vans pulled up to the warehouse and began loading up. I will post that video promptly.
And then, a shredding company was engaged. They shredded everything. Not just a normal shredding either. They did not shred into long strips, or even tiny confetti: they did military-grade shredding down to tiny spitballs.
The video of the enterprise van is too big for me to upload right here. But trust me, there is a video of enterprise moving vans pulling up at 10 o’clock at night, after the Senate subcommittee voted to investigate the stuff, and they got loaded up.
sec of state
Yeah, kind of! Just trying to make sure to back up some of my older reddit threads, esp. with voat going down etc.
yeah thanks!!! I think this was even included in a published reddit "best of" compilation book. I don't remember what it was called, but I remember seeing a screenshot of the first page with all the user names that had contributed (included mine), it was a trip!
Note: At the time I wrote this (7 years ago), the linked wikipedia article did say 90-95% are asymptomatic.
As of Jan. 1 2021, it now says "up to 70%" are asymptomatic.
That's how they shift the narrative over time...
can't post this one on reddit lol
In 1971, Nixon declared war on cancer. Meanwhile, at Fort Detrick shit was going down.
Conservatively, thousands of viruses were weaponized, mutated, and mass produced. Enter Robert Gallo. In 1971 Gallo and his group at the NCI and Litton Bionetics experimented with simian and human cancer viruses and developed recombinants (mutants) of these with other viral nucleic acids including those that caused the prominent features of AIDS.
Finally, these and other NCI investigators injected such mutant viruses into human WBC and fetal tissue cultures to enable them to infect humans and even transmit these same diseases.
Dr. Leonard Horowitz sounded the alarm and got his hands on documents detailing research for germ warfare and mutating viruses. According to Horowitz, AIDS is a man-made biological weapon.
The following is a list of viruses, according to Dr. Tent, that are causing a great deal of grief among the mostly unsuspecting population (and even the medical establishment)
Epstein Barr Virus (HHV 4 or Herpes 4), best known as cause of infectious mononucleosis, also is associated with Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Burkitt's Lymphoma, Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma. EBV is associated with Dermatomyositis, Systemic Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sjogren's Syndrome, MS and Chronic Fatigue. If you don't have Epstein Barr, you are 10 times less likely to get MS
Cytomegalovirus (CMV, HHV 5): often goes undiagnosed and remains with you for life, not always being active.
Herpes 1 and 2; Herpes 6 (Roseola) can become reactivated later. A growing number of studies link HHV-6 with MS, epilepsy, cancer, fibromyalgia, optic neuritis, AIDS, seizures, chronic fatigue.
Parvo virus B19: up to 15% new cases of arthritis due to parvo virus.
The following is a list of vaccines and their animal byproducts:
measles (attenuvax): chick embryo -- rubella (Blavax): human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue -- DPT (Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis): washed sheep red blood cells -- small pox (Dryvax): vesicle fluid from calf skins -- flu shot (Flyvirin): chick embryonic fluid -- chicken pox (varivax): guinea pig embryo cells, fetal bovine serum, albumin from human blood, diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue -- hepatitis A (Havrix): human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue -- oral polio (Orimune): monkey kidney cells and calf serum -- measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (Proquad): human albumin, human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue, bovine serum, chick embryo -- Japanese encephalitis (Je-vax): mouse serum proteins -- Oral rotavirus (recalled): rhesus monkey fetal diploid cells, bovine fetal serum -- Rabies vaccine adsorbed: Rhesus monkey fetal lung cells.
Aborted fetuses are frequently used in the production of numerous vaccines (often referred to as human diploid cell). DNA and protein structures from human aborted babies is foreign DNA in your bloodstream. Your body will attack it, often leading to some sort of autoimmune disease.
Roe vs. Wade actually opened up this industry, as previously vaccine manufacturers had to go to Sweden for aborted fetuses. This is an extremely lucrative business.
There is a DIFFERENCE between immunizations and vaccination. Vaccination is the creation of antibodies. This can trigger allergies, asthma, autoimmune diseases and even cancer. Immunization is natural exposure to form proteins that challenge and build the immune system. Vaccinations do NOT prompt natural immunity.
HPV vaccination has been linked to demyelination; systemic lupus erythematosus has been triggered by the hepatitis B vaccine; measles vaccination in developing countries has resulted in higher infant mortality rates; influenza vaccines may be causing vasculitis; hep B vaccine has been associated with increased risk of MS and a wide range of autoimmune diseases; adult rubella and adult hep B vaccines have been statistically associated with chronic arthritis; Guillain–Barré syndrome has been associated with flu and hep B vaccines; Gardasil has also been linked to Guillain–Barré syndrome (Guillain–Barré syndrome, MS, polio...all suspiciously similar looking diseases according to Dr. Tent).
Viruses (wild-type or recombinant vaccine-type) can silently prime for and trigger central nervous system autoimmune diseases. Many of these viruses are hard to detect because they are so slow acting.
Numerous things can affect the immune system and stimulate these dormant viruses: steroids, ibuprofen, radiation, flu shots, blood transfusions, poisoned food, toxic environments, cosmetics, fear, and stress all can weaken the immune system.
CT/CAT scans are way overdone. It's admitted that they kill 30,000 people a year...however is it the CAT scan itself or is it actually turning on these viruses?
The following vaccines are required for immigration to US: hep A, hep B, influenza, influenza B (Hib), measles, meningococcal, mumps, penumococcal, pertussis, polio, rotavirus, rubella, tetanus and diphtheria, and varicella.
Never get travel vaccinations.
Nurses are also getting creamed...flu shots, Gardasil, it's all awful for you. Dr. Tent treats many of his patients that complain of fatigue, muscle pains, headaches, MS, etc. as being caused by viruses.
The following foods aggravate viruses, as they are high in Arginine, and should be avoided in large quantities, especially if you're sick: sunflower seeds, brown rice, chocolate, almonds, pecans, peanuts, whole wheat bread, oatmeal, soybeans, corn, millet, onions, brussel sprouts, sesame seeds, split peas, walnuts, wheat germ, caffeine.
However, curcumin (from turmeric) inhibits autoimmune diseases. L-Lysine HCL also has documented immuno-supportive properties, esp. regarding viruses. Several top immunologists believe the single most critical disease-fighting element in the human cell is ionized calcium, it even fights herpes
Dr. Tent recommends the following supplements: livaplex, livotrit plus, liv-co, livton, L-Lysine, Cal-ma plus, C/Ca/Mag, calcium lactate, bio-FCTS, Ultra Virex, Cyruta Plus, Andrographis, Dismuzyme, Garlic, Sesame Seed Oil, IAG, ADP, Thymex, Grapefruit Seed Extract, Congaplex.
IAG: 1 tsp in juice; Thymex: 3 per day; sesame seed oil 3 per day; astragulus 2 per day; Vitanox (curcumin) 1-2 per day.
During the remainder of the video, Dr. Tent details specific cases were patients of his were unable to be treated under conventional methods. Dr. Tent, however, treated them as if the virus was the cause of the ailment, and the vast majority made complete or nearly complete recoveries.
And finally, Dr. Tent recommends the following books and documentaries for more information on these subjects. I personally have read these three books and I simply can't recommend them highly enough:
Dr. Mary's Monkey by Edward T. Haslam
Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald by Judyth Vary Baker
The Virus and the Vaccine: Contaminated Vaccine, Deadly Cancers, and Government Neglect
In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood and Bioterrorism
Lethal Injection: The Story Of Vaccination Documentary
Thanks, hope this helps someone out there on their journey!
In 1960 a team was established to figure out what to do with an entire population that was inoculated with cancer-causing monkey viruses. Dr. Alton Ochsner was the overseer of this project. Dr. Sarah Stewart was the scientific director and Dr. Mary Sherman, orthopedic surgeon and radiation specialist, was operational director of the project.
Based in Louisiana, this team was trying to develop a vaccine to prevent a cancer epidemic. Soon 19-year-old Judyth Vary Baker was added to the team. Baker was to be the subject of a 60 Minutes segment about 15 years ago, but they cancelled production at the last second. According to Edward Haslam, 60 Minutes spent more time and money on this story than any other up until that time, and everyone involved in production was extremely upset at this decision which apparently came from "higher up".
The "Big" Lab was located in New Orleans: it was the infectious disease laboratory of the US Public Health Service Hospital, operated by the Military (and funded by the CIA). On site was a 5 million volt particle accelerator. Dr. Ochsner, a staunch anti-communist, was cleared by the FBI in 1959 for a "sensitive position" in the US government.
This was a national security issue. They didn't want the public to lose faith in vaccinations, as a huge blow had already been dealt with the Cutter incident. They needed to prevent an epidemic quickly, quietly and privately. It needed to be secret because if they didn't succeed no one would've stuck their neck out.
The best way to kill viruses like SV-40 is with radiation, hence the linear particle accelerator. However, radiating to alter the genetic code often made the viruses worse. Being small, many viruses don't get killed, they just get altered. They then injected radiated viruses in mice, extracted them, radiated them again, and repeated the process over and over again.
While Mary Sherman ran the big lab, David Ferrie (yes that David Ferrie) ran the little lab. Judyth Vary Baker went between the two with the help of her bodyguard (and soon-to-be lover) Lee Harvey Oswald.
In 1959, New Orleans was dependent on Cuba and Latin America for trade. Castro's revolution threatened everything. Not only did their "communism" threaten the US, but Castro threw out the casinos which pissed off the Mafia, especially in New Orleans. After the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs fiasco, things kept getting worse.
Suddenly, priorities for the "project" began to shift: they now were instructed to develop a bio-weapon (weaponized cancer) in order to assassinate Castro. In fact, things started heating up and it became apparent to the "team" that if they weren't quick enough in developing a vaccine to kill Castro, TPTB were getting far too impatient and they would kill Kennedy instead.
Carlos Marcello, the godfather of the New Orleans mafia, certainly knew what was happening, as did Jack Ruby who worked for Marcello and was a friend of Oswald's (Oswald's mother had been the girlfriend of one of Marcello's drivers).
Judyth Vary Baker was brought on the team partly because in high school she had induced lung cancer in mice in 7 days, faster than anyone else in history. She was also perfect because she had no degree, was young and naive, and therefore could easily fly under the radar.
Dr. Ochsner and Harold Urey visited Judyth and Ochsner promised her early admission to Tulane Medical School if she worked with Dr. Mary Sherman on this project in New Orleans. To prepare for this, Baker received further training at Roswell Park Center in New York Buffalo, then went to New Orleans.
For a full account of Judyth's fascinating tale, watch The Men Who Killed Kennedy - The Love Affair.
At this point, Oswald started publicly supporting Castro in order to make it easier for him to get into the country, as his job would be to transport the cancer weapon. During this time, Judyth and Oswald worked at Reily Coffee Company as a cover.
The team planned the following: expose Castro to multiple x-ray doses, weaken his immune system, then inject him with cancer. This method would be almost untraceable, as they wanted a way to off Castro without the trail leading back to the US.
To test their weapon, they killed a "volunteer" from Angola prison after taking him to Jackson Mental Hospital. Judyth was under the impression that the subject was terminally ill, but she became furious when she found the subject was healthy and not terminally ill. She also discovered that more than one test subject was likely used. She then wrote a letter to Dr. Ochsner, making a similar mistake as Bernice Eddy. Unfortunately for Judtyh, Ochsner's secretary read the letter, a huge deal for Dr. Ochsner whose entire reputation was on the line, and Ochsner proceeded to destroy Judyth, remove her from the project, and make sure her career in science was over.
The rest, as they say, was history...Kennedy entered the crossfire and Castro escaped from it. On July 21st, 1964, Mary Sherman was brutally murdered. The newspaper said she was killed in a lesbian sex crime, but the truth was covered up for decades. Police report details of her body were not released...her right arm and the side of her body/rib cage had disintegrated despite there only being a superficial fire in the room.
Dr. Sherman was likely literally "fried" by the particle accelerator, either accidentally or intentionally. Her heart, however, was stabbed while she was still alive, so at least that was done intentionally. Strangely enough (or not), also on July 21st, 1964, the Warren Commission began taking testimony for the first time. Dr. Sherman's murder was never solved.
Similarly, Oswald could never be allowed to go to court...this would be exposed. The FBI, CIA, Dr. Ochsner, Guy Banister, Marcello...it would all come out.
Jack Ruby then killed his friend Oswald. Judyth had met Ruby and seen the two acting very close to one another. Ruby, in jail, died from galloping lung cancer before his second trial. He claimed he was injected with cancer. He was put through a 45 minute x-ray session and then given a painful injection. Ruby knew Oswald and almost definitely knew what he was up to. In almost the same amount of time as the subject from Angola prison, Ruby died 29 days later of an extremely aggressive cancer.
He knew.
However, Judyth has a growing number of supporters from some unlikely individuals, including JFK-assassination giant Jim Marrs who wrote the afterword for Me and Lee.
Here is another article in support of her story.
Judyth's own website also offers significant evidence for her claims.
Here's an interview with her and Lew Rockwell..
And FWIW, Jessue Ventura has gone public endorsing her story.
Supposedly, after her association with Ventura, Alex Jones the big man himself expressed interest in interviewing her, but never followed through, which to some may actually add credibility to her claims.
So where does this leave us? We are approaching the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's death and we are no closer (publicly) to the truth of the events that day than we were 50 years ago. Judyth doesn't claim to know all the players in the assassination, but her story may provide a much-needed missing piece.
Me and Lee is an incredible book, regardless. I got the sense that either it was among the best non-fiction books I had ever read, or it was the best fiction book I had ever read. The book was thrilling, and it wasn't necessary to believe every one of her claims to enjoy it. However, anyone attempting to debunk her claims who hasn't read it, doesn't know the full side of her story and therefore, IMO, is not qualified to dismiss her outright.
I would love any thoughts and feedback, from those who have encountered Judyth before, to those that are hearing about her for the first time. Like every "conspiratorial" topic, this one should be approached with extreme skepticism, but also with a completely open mind, for if Judyth is telling the truth, then we need to drastically reconsider world history over the last half a century.
Unfortunately for her and her case, she has nothing to prove she knew Oswald, no love letters, no pictures, nothing.
However, what she does have is an intimidating amount of circumstantial evidence to support her claims.
There is no doubt, even among the skeptics and debunkers, that Judyth was a rising star in the cancer research field. Apparently with one of the highest IQ's in the state of Florida and while still in high school, Judyth induced cancer in mice faster than any public research being done at the time (one week). She attracted the attention of numerous prominent people, including Dr. Oschner, and she soon found herself being trained at the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in 1961, perhaps the most prestigious cancer-research facility at the time.
Again, this is all very well documented and substantiated.
If anyone had the credentials to work on this project it was Judyth...plus her youth, her relative anonymity, and her lack of a degree made her the perfect candidate for covert research, so she was recruited in her naivete.
There's more.
Here is Judyth's own response to a JFK skeptic who had dismissed her story completely on his website.
Judyth and Lee Harvey Oswald were hired on the same day at Standard Coffee, and then one week later they both were moved to Reilly. Their jobs at Reilly Coffee were covers for their actual activities (their boss at Reilly's knew this, but the extent of his knowledge about what exactly they were engaged in is unknown). Judyth, as the secretary, was responsible for clocking Lee out to cover up his extended absences, and sure enough, she still has numerous time cards for Lee with her initial "J" on the front.
Although none have the name "Judyth" on it, these records and the "J's" have been proven to be authentic.
The day Lee was arrested on August 9th during a staged fight between himself and supposed anti-Castro ruffians, Judyth was fired.
Anna Lewis, who was married to David Lewis, another well-known figure in the JFK assassination, is perhaps the last living person who has gone on record saying she saw Judyth and Lee together and believed they were lovers. Here is a video of Anna Lewis.
Judyth has kept an impressive portfolio of newspaper clippings, employment records and bank statements that correspond exactly with the timing and location of her story. Her lack of a picture with Lee can possibly be attributed to their clandestine work, the fact that they were both married and having an affair, and that their relationship only lasted for a few months in 1963.
As for when things went wrong, Judyth claims that a letter she passionately wrote to Dr. Ochsner doomed her future career in the medical world. Judyth had been extremely upset when she discovered that the "volunteer" the weapon was tested on was not a terminally ill inmate as she had been told, but a perfectly healthy young man. This violated her ethics so she committed the "sin" of writing down something regarding the "Project", something forbidden by Dr. Ochsner. To make matters worse, Judyth gave the letter to Ochsner's secretary, who proceeded to read it. This infuriated Ochsner and he abruptly terminated his relationship with her. According to Judyth, her promising career was destroyed forever.
After the project unraveled, Judyth says that Lee knew he was being set up as a patsy for Kennedy's death, but that he believed himself to be part of a team that was going to try and "prevent" the assassination in Dallas. According to Judyth, Lee said that his presence in Dallas meant that one less bullet would be fired at Kennedy. If this is true, then the irony of his conviction (without a trial!) for Kennedy's death is monumental indeed.
Judyth also claims to have met Jack Ruby, though he was introduced to her as "Sparky Rubinstein" and she was unaware until decades later that Sparky was the one who killed Oswald. Ruby was actually friends with Oswald who had known him since Oswald was a kid. Oswald's mother, who was adament that her son was a government agent and also framed for Kennedy's death, dated numerous Mafia men, including Carlos Marcello's personal driver, so Lee had ties to the Mafia from a young age, ostensibly how he became acquainted with Ruby.
It seems that Ruby's actions may have been a mercy killing, and that he probably didn't want to kill his friend. There is even evidence that Ruby called the police station where Oswald would be killed and warned them that an attempt would be made on his life!
Ruby's fate, however, was anything but merciless, as he died of an extremely aggressive form of lung cancer shortly after his incarceration. To make matters even more bizarre, Ruby actually claimed to have been injected with cancer while in prison to silence him! Remember, this was during a time when such a notion was considered ludicrous by the general population, but it fits perfectly into Haslam's and Judyth's narrative.
Ruby surely knew of Dr. Sherman's project, and was perfectly aware of exactly how they induced the cancer: the subject would be submitted to high doses of radiation with an X-ray machine to compromise the immune system. Then a series of painful shots would be administered to begin the process. Ruby received this X-ray treatment in jail and then received several shots from a mysterious doctor who was from out of town. It's no wonder that when Ruby's cancer was examined after his death, it was observed to be an unusual extremely aggressive and galloping lung cancer. Combine this with Ruby's desparate claims and Haslam's research and a terrifying picture emerges.
Naturally, response to Judyth's story has been all over the map, with the skeptics dismissing her outright to causing significant infighting among members of the conspiracy research community. Certain die-hard researchers said absolutely she was telling the truth, while others steadfastly maintained that she was a walking, talking disinformation machine.
James Fetzer has been one of her staunch supporters, discussing the methodical attempt at censoring Judyth on the internet, including the deletion of her Wikipedia page after it had been up for 5 years.
In Judyth's own words:
"References to me have been constantly disappearing on the Internet ever since the History Channel ran a documentary on me that was eventually banned due to pressure by special interests.
Last year, 15,000 references, which direct people to my books, paintings and writings, were erased. Over 250,000 newsgroup references were also erased.
Then my Wikipedia biography, which had been in Wikipedia over five years, was erased. One reason given was that I only had 1,700 references on google (48,000 had been erased overnight).
I was told by one person that the erasure was accomplished by a group with Usenet who had also erased over 250,000 newsgroup posts that I and my supporters had made after spurious and unfair attacks were made against me by these newsgroups, leaving mostly their pejorative and nasty posts about me. The 'nice' ones vanished."
The History channel documentary she was referring to was the video I linked, part 8 of the excellent series The Men Who Killed Kennedy. Anyone who hasn't seen it yet should watch it in its entirety!
Episodes 7, 8 and 9 were produced together, and unfortunately for Judyth and her account, all three were censored as a result of the conclusions made in the 9th episode, namely that LBJ was involved. Although an unbelievable amount of research has been done that essentially proves that he was complicit with what occurred, his wife, who was still alive at the time the special was aired, became furious and was able to get the episode censored. Although no complaints were brought against Judyth's segment, it too was censored as a result.
As for finding doubters of her story, a simple search online brings up numerous skeptical reviews and character assassinations, many stemming from Vincent Bugliosi's damning treatment of Judyth in his massive work 2007 work, "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy."
However, many claim Bugliosi (who was the prosector for the Manson killings, see Peter Levenda's "Sinister Forces"), has ulterior motives with his work, which exhaustively argues that Oswald acted alone, end of story.
Here's an excerpt from Bugliosi's book.
Reading the comments on that page are telling, including JFK researcher Martin Shackelford's response:
"Bugliosi's footnote is a pathetic fiction.
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She wrote the letters to her son detailing what happened to her BEFORE she saw "JFK" on video.
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He has trouble even admitting that she worked at the Reily Co., saying only that she "may have" worked there.
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The next paragraph is virtually a paraphrase of one of McAdams' summaries.
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Nigel Turner wasn't the only one interested in her account; "60 Minutes" was working on a segment until they were told to stop; and the producer of the Lincoln documentary "Black Easter" was also working on a Judyth documentary for Discovery."
The "McAdams" he is referring to wrote this piece, perhaps the most definitive attempt to debunk Judyth's claims.
Influencing Influenza
Originally developed in the 1940s, the influenza vaccine is strongly encouraged for nearly everyone over the age of 6 months. About 170 million doses were expected to be produced for the U.S. market during the 2015/2016 flu season, compared to 32 million in 1990.
Annual vaccination against seasonal influenza reduces protective immunity against more virulent strains. People who are naturally exposed to circulating influenza viruses (the unvaccinated) frequently gain cross-protection against other strains of the disease.
Vaccinated people are denied this benefit.
Preventing infection with seasonal influenza viruses by vaccination might prevent the induction of heterosubtypic immunity to pandemic strains, which might be a disadvantage to immunologically naive people--eg, infants.
Prior receipt of 2008-09 TIV trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine was associated with increased risk of medically attended pH1N1 illness during the spring-summer 2009.
These findings may have implications for the general recommendation to vaccinate all healthy children against seasonal influenza.
Annual vaccination may hamper the development of cross-reactive immunity against influenza A viruses of novel subtypes, that would otherwise be induced by natural infection.
The CDC policy of vaccinating pregnant women is not supported by science. Pregnant women vaccinated against seasonal influenza and A-H1N1 swine flu had high rates of spontaneous abortions.
The ACIP's recommendation of influenza vaccination during pregnancy is not supported by citations in its own policy paper (pdf) or in current medical literature. Considering the potential risks of maternal and fetal mercury exposure, the administration of thimerosal during pregnancy is both unjustified and unwise.
The current season's influenza vaccine will not work in people who also received the previous season's vaccine:
In vaccinated subjects with no evidence of prior season vaccination, significant protection (62%) against community-acquired influenza was demonstrated. Substantially lower effectiveness was noted among subjects who were vaccinated in both the current and prior season. There was no evidence that vaccination prevented household transmission once influenza was introduced; adults were at particular risk despite vaccination.
The influenza vaccine is not very effective, causes adverse reactions, and can spread disease to other people. This study (pdf) analyzed 18 years of data and concluded that the influenza vaccine has little or no effectiveness for preventing influenza cases, hospital admissions, or deaths.
Another study determined that “the manufacturers' refusal to release all safety outcome data from trials carried out in young children, together with obvious reporting bias and inconsistencies in the primary studies does not bode well for a fair assessment of the safety of live attenuated vaccines.”
In an assessment of the efficacy and effectiveness of influenza vaccines in healthy children, there was “no convincing evidence that vaccines can reduce mortality, admissions, serious complications, and community transmission of influenza.”
Children who receive an inactivated influenza vaccine are significantly more likely than non-vaccinated children to be hospitalized:
We found a threefold increased risk of hospitalization in subjects who did get trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine.
Children vaccinated against seasonal influenza are more likely to develop respiratory virus infections.
Handwashing and teaching proper hygiene may be more effective than vaccines at reducing the spread of influenza and other respiratory viruses:
The disparity in effectiveness between the high profile of influenza vaccines and antivirals and the low profile of physical interventions is striking. Public health recommendations are almost completely based on the use of vaccines and antivirals despite a lack of strong evidence.
We could not correlate increasing vaccination coverage after 1980 with declining mortality rates in any age group...we conclude that observational studies substantially overestimate vaccination benefit.
There is no unbiased scientific evidence that influenza vaccines improve death rates in the elderly.
Vaccinating healthcare workers against influenza to protect their elderly patients is not effective:
Vaccinating healthcare workers who care for those aged 60 or over in long-term institutions showed no effect on laboratory-proven influenza or complications.
Mandatory vaccination for healthcare workers to protect their patients is not supported by science:
The studies aiming to prove the widespread belief that healthcare worker vaccination decreases patient morbidity and mortality are heavily flawed and the recommendations for vaccination biased.
Influenza vaccine studies and their conclusions rarely match the actual data that is in those studies:
Most of our studies (70%) were of poor quality with overoptimistic conclusions—that is, not supported by the data presented. Those sponsored by industry had greater visibility as they were more likely to be published by high impact factor journals and were likely to be given higher prominence by the international scientific and lay media.
There is no good evidence that vaccines reduce serious complications of influenza. Moreover, promotional messages conflate "influenza" (disease caused by influenza viruses) with "flu" (a syndrome with many causes, of which influenza viruses appear to be a minor contributor).
This lack of precision causes physicians and potential vaccine recipients to have unrealistic assumptions about the vaccine's potential benefit, and impedes dissemination of the evidence on nonpharmaceutical interventions against respiratory diseases. In addition, there are potential vaccine-related harms, as unexpected and serious adverse effects of influenza vaccines have occurred.
Closer examination of influenza vaccine policies shows that although proponents employ the rhetoric of science, the studies underlying the policy are often of low quality, and do not substantiate officials’ claims. The vaccine might be less beneficial and less safe than has been claimed, and the threat of influenza appears overstated.
Are US flu death figures more PR than science?
US data on influenza deaths are a mess. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledges a difference between flu death and flu associated death yet uses the terms interchangeably.
Additionally, there are significant statistical incompatibilities between official estimates and national vital statistics data. Compounding these problems is a marketing of fear—a CDC communications strategy in which medical experts “predict dire outcomes” during flu seasons.
Measles Mania
Measles is a contagious disease caused by a virus that affects the respiratory system, skin and eyes.
Complications from the disease are unlikely, and previously healthy children usually recover without incident. However, measles can be dangerous in populations newly exposed to the virus and in malnourished children living in undeveloped countries.
A measles vaccine was introduced in the 1960's, and it was combined with vaccines for mumps and rubella in a single MMR shot.
People who are vaccinated against measles can still get the disease, and measles can be transmitted from a fully vaccinated person to other fully vaccinated individuals.
Measles vaccine failures cause outbreaks of the disease, raising “important questions concerning the relative contributions of vaccine failure versus failure to vaccinate.”
Loss of immunity after receiving the MMR vaccine, combined with viral shedding, may spread disease and prevent herd immunity:
If wild virus can be spread via individuals with subclinical infections, it is doubtful whether population immunity (herd immunity), which is necessary to eliminate the three diseases, can be attained in large populations.
Fevers induced by measles vaccination are related to the replication and shedding of the live vaccine virus, “showing that subcutaneous injection of an attenuated measles strain can result in respiratory excretion of this virus.”
Only molecular genotyping can distinguish between wild-type and vaccine-related disease.
Emergency room visits are significantly more common in children who recently received the MMR vaccine:
There are significantly elevated risks of primarily emergency room visits approximately one to two weeks following 12 and 18 month vaccination.
Young children have an increased risk of requiring emergency care after MMR. This is especially true for girls, who “may have an increased reactogenicity to the MMR vaccine.”
Vaccine-related deaths have been associated with mumps as well, as a study has observed "devastating neurological complications associated with the detection of live-attenuated mumps virus in the brain of a child."
A toddler who developed severe neurological symptoms including blindness associated with chronic encephalitis and died following MMR vaccination was found to have vaccine-derived mumps virus in his brain.
Contracting diseases like measles and mumps naturally in childhood may have lifelong health benefits, including a significant protection against heart attacks and strokes during adulthood:
Measles and mumps, especially in case of both infections, were associated with lower risks of mortality from cardiovascular disease.
The results of this study may be explained by the hygiene hypothesis, which proposes that infections suffered during childhood are necessary for normal development of the immune system.
Many autistic children have elevated levels of antibodies to the measles virus but not to other viruses. “An inappropriate antibody response to MMR, specifically the measles component thereof, might be related to pathogenesis of autism.” As a result, a large number of autism cases may stem from neurological symptoms due to an atypical measles virus infections following MMR vaccination.
Pushing Pertussis
The first pertussis vaccine was introduced in the 1930's to treat whooping cough.
The recent resurgence in pertussis infections is put down to a combination of waning immunity and new mutations in the pathogen that existing vaccines are unable to effectively control.
The pertussis vaccine has encouraged evolutionary adaptation, permitting virulent vaccine-resistant strains of pertussis to emerge.
People who are vaccinated against pertussis may be silent carriers of the disease and capable of infecting others. For example, baboons vaccinated against pertussis became carriers and spread the disease.
Because people who are vaccinated against pertussis can still spread the disease, herd immunity and eradication are virtually unattainable:
Asymptomatic transmission is the most parsimonious explanation for many of the observations surrounding the resurgence of B. pertussis in the US and UK. These results have important implications for B. pertussis vaccination policy and present a complicated scenario for achieving herd immunity and B. pertussis eradication.
Fully-vaccinated children are still susceptible to pertussis:
Pertussis has increased in the U.S. since the 1980s despite high coverage with pertussis childhood vaccines. Protection from the DtaP series beings to wane after vaccination, contributing to the accumulation of vaccinated individuals who are still susceptible to disease.
Since protection after vaccination wanes within 2 to 4 years, “lack of long-term protection after vaccination is contributing to increases in pertussis among adolescents.”
New strains of pertussis toxins have emerged subsequent to pertussis vaccination:
Global transmission of new strains is very rapid and the worldwide population of B. pertussis is evolving in response to vaccine introduction.
The vaccine is not effective against these virulent new strains:
Vaccines designed to reduce pathogen growth rate and/or toxicity may result in the evolution of pathogens with higher levels of virulence...waning immunity and pathogen adaptation have contributed to the resurgence of pertussis.
Since Pertussis has “no non-human hosts or environmental niche, vaccine-mediated immunity is the most likely selective pressure against Bordetella pertussis.”
Significant changes in B. pertussis populations have been observed after the introduction of vaccinations, suggesting a role for pathogen adaptation in the persistence and resurgence of pertussis.
Pertussis vaccine failures are due to genetic changes in pertussis strains and poor efficacy, not because too many people are unvaccinated.
When the acellular pertussis vaccine (DtaP) replaced the whole cell pertussis vaccines (DTP) in the 1990s, the World Health Organization created an official standard method to define cases of pertussis.
The new definition was excessively restrictive, requiring laboratory confirmation and at least 21 days of paroxysmal cough. As a result, legitimate cases of pertussis were eliminated and the efficacy of the vaccine was artificially inflated.
The universal use of pertussis vaccines has been associated with genetic changes in circulating B. pertussis strains...with DTaP vaccines, genetic change should be a major concern regarding vaccine efficacy.
Acellular pertussis vaccines are designed to protect against pertactin, however, pertactin-negative mutations have emerged in Japan, France, Finland, Australia and the United States.
DtaP vaccination to protect children from B. pertussis increases their risk of whooping cough from B. parapertussis.
B. parapertussis infections contribute significantly to the overall pertussis burden and contribute to the pool of children thought to have vaccine failure.
Another study concluded that "aP vaccination interferes with the optimal clearance of B. parapertussis and enhances the performance of this pathogen," resulting in "an approximately 40-fold increase in B. parapertussis lung colony-forming units."
Pertussis vaccines also do not protect against whooping cough caused by B. holmesii.
The imperfect immunity given by pertussis vaccines is causing outbreaks of whooping cough in highly vaccinated populations:
The fact that populations of B. pertussis may have evolved to circumvent the immune responses elicited by vaccination and to alter their virulence levels raises a number of questions concerning the design and use of future vaccines.
Hyping HPV
Human papillomavirus is a sexually-transmitted virus with more than 100 subtypes. Although most infections cause no symptoms and resolute spontaneously, in some cases they can result in precancerous lesions.
In 2006, the FDA approved a new HPV vaccine for 9 to 26-year-old women. The vaccine protects against 4 of the 100 strains of HPV. Another HPV vaccine, produced by a U.K. manufacturer, is also available in many parts of the world.
Young teenage girls have no risk of dying from cervical cancer, but they gamble with permanently disabling autoimmune or degenerative disorders, or death, following their HPV vaccines:
The present study provides epidemiological evidence supporting a significant relationship between HPV4 vaccine administration and serious autoimmune adverse events.
For example, women diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus, a serious autoimmune disease, were 5 times more likely that controls to have received the HPV vaccine (odds ratio, OR=5.3).
Women diagnosed with alopecia (OR=8.3), gastroenteritis (OR=4.6), vasculitis (OR=4.0), and central nervous system conditions (OR=1.8) were also significantly more likely than controls to have received the HPV vaccine.
Based on the current data, a causal link between HPV vaccination and onset or relapse of systemic lupus erythematosus is plausible.
Death after Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccination: Causal or Coincidental? (pdf)
Our study suggests that HPV vaccines containing HPV-16L1 antigens pose an inherent risk for triggering potentially fatal auto-immune vasulopathies.
The HPV vaccine has been linked to chronic pain, fatigue and nervous system damage:
Adverse reactions appear to be more frequent after HPV vaccination when compared to other type of immunizations. Clinicians should be aware of the possible association between HPV vaccination and the development of these difficult to diagnose painful dysautonomic syndromes.
Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis may be a suitable diagnosis for patients with severe and persistent suspected side effects to the quadrivalent HPV vaccine. (pdf)
Damage to the autonomic nervous system has been consistently reported after HPV vaccination, causing muscle weakness, pain, fatigue, and menstrual problems.
A relatively high incidence of chronic limb pain, frequently complicated by violent, tremulous involuntary movements, has been noted in Japanese girls following HPV vaccination.
Some girls develop premature ovarian insufficiency after HPV vaccination, which may affect childbearing. Current HPV vaccine safety research is inadequate to determine ovarian safety.
Further work is urgently needed to elucidate the potential for a causal link between the vaccine and circulatory abnormalities and to establish targeted treatment options for the affected patients.
The HPV vaccine may cause autoimmunity and ovarian failure:
We documented here the evidence of the potential of the HPV vaccine to trigger a life-disabling autoimmune condition. The increasing number of similar reports of post HPV vaccine-linked autoimmunity and the uncertainty of long-term clinical benefits of HPV vaccination are a matter of public health that warrants further rigorous inquiry.
Clinical trials and marketing tactics by the HPV vaccine manufacturer may not be trustworthy:
The poor design of existing vaccine safety and efficacy trials may be reflective of the fact that in the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has gained unprecedented control over the evaluation of its own products.
Coercive tactics such as vaccine mandates that are supported solely by vaccine manufactures' own data is unacceptable.
The HPV vaccine manufacturer aggressively lobbied legislators to mandate their vaccine for school entry, drafted the legislation, provided the science, and made financial contributions to lawmakers.
There is no significant evidence showing that HPV vaccination can prevent cervical cancer, and the long-term benefits are based on assumptions, not reliable research data:
Current worldwide HPV immunization practices appear to be neither justified by long-term health benefits nor economically viable, nor is there any evidence that HPV vaccination (even if proven effective against cervical cancer) would reduce the rate of cervical cancer beyond what Pap screening has already achieved.
The FDA licensed the HPV vaccine based on safety and efficacy studies that were designed, sponsored and conducted by the vaccine manufacturer.
We find that HPV vaccine clinical trials design, and data interpretation of both efficacy and safety outcomes, were largely inadequate. Additionally, we note evidence of selective reporting of results from clinical trials. Given this, the widespread optimism regarding HPV vaccines long-term benefits appears to rest on a number of unproven assumptions and significant misinterpretation of available data.
Likewise, the notion that HPV vaccines have an impressive safety profile is only supported by highly flawed design of safety trials and is contrary to accumulating evidence from vaccine safety surveillance databases and case reports which continue to link HPV vaccination to serious adverse outcomes (including death and permanent disabilities).
We thus conclude that further reduction of cervical cancers might be best achieved by optimizing cervical screening (which carries no such risks) and targeting other factors of the disease rather than by the reliance on vaccines with questionable efficacy and safety profiles.
HPV vaccine safety and efficacy claims are at odds with factual evidence:
Whilst 12-year-old preadolescents are at zero risk of dying from cervical cancer, they are faced with a risk of death and a permanently disabling lifelong autoimmune or neurodegenerative condition from a vaccine that thus far has not prevented a single case of cervical cancer, let alone cervical cancer death.
Selling Varicella
Chickenpox is a contagious disease caused by infection with varicella zoster virus.
Before the chickenpox vaccine was introduced in 1995, it was common for doctors to recommend exposing children to the disease because it is generally benign in childhood and complication rates increase when it is contracted by teenagers or adults.
When people regain their health after contracting chickenpox, the virus remains dormant in the body. Later, when immunity weakens, the virus can become active again and cause shingles, also known as herpes zoster.
Immunity against shingles is strengthened by periodic exposures to the varicella virus. Before the chickenpox vaccine, frequent encounters with the varicella virus boosted antibody protection against shingles. Although chickenpox cases decreased after the introduction of the vaccine, this restricted opportunities to reinforce immunity and increased the rate of shingles.
Medical costs, pain, and suffering associated with shingles generally are much greater than with chickenpox. To address this problem, the maker of the chickenpox vaccine, Merck & Co. has developed and released a shingles vaccine.
In addition to causing a dramatic rise in shingles, the vaccine becomes less effective as rates increase. This is due to a reduction in opportunities for natural boosts to immunity which occur from exposure to people who are shedding the wild varicella virus.
In the prelicensure era, 95% of adults experienced natural chickenpox (usually as children)--these cases were usually benign and resulted in long-term immunity. Varicella vaccination is less effective than the natural immunity that existed in prevaccine communities.
Universal varicella vaccination has not proven to be cost-effective as increased herpes zoster morbidity has disproportionately offset cost savings associated with reductions in varicella disease. Universal varicella vaccination has failed to provide long-term protection from varicella zoster virus disease.
In addition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sponsored and promoted studies that showed positive outcomes of varicella vaccination but opposed, and attempted to block, publication of findings that were critical of the vaccination program.
Strain Replacement & Pathogen Evolution
Ideally, vaccines would provide perfect protection that lasts forever. However, vaccines are imperfect; they confer incomplete immunity.
Mounting evidence indicates that vaccines designed to reduce the growth rate of pathogens within their hosts produce conditions that actually increase pathogen virulence, ultimately preventing eradication of the disease.
Disease-causing organisms strive to maximally infect their hosts without killing them. Vaccines induce the targeted pathogen to adapt and evolve in unintended ways, creating undesirable disease outcomes in individuals and entire host populations.
Herd immunity may never be achieved as vaccination rates impel the pathogen family to avoid extinction by enhancing its hostile nature as it adapts to its new environment:
This evolution can erode any population-wide benefits such that overall mortality rates are unaffected, or even increase, with the level of vaccination coverage.
We find that the use of either anti-growth or anti-transmission vaccines leads to the evolution of pathogens with an increased within-host growth rate; infection of unvaccinated hosts with such evolved pathogens results in high host mortality.
The emergence and spread of mutant pathogens that evade the effects of prophylactic interventions, including vaccines, threatens our ability to control infectious diseases globally.
Vaccines that reduce pathogen replication may select for more virulent pathogens, eroding the benefits of vaccination and putting the unvaccinated at greater risk.
The control of some childhood diseases has proven to be difficult even in countries that maintain high vaccination coverage. This may be due to the use of imperfect vaccines and there has been much discussion on the different modes by which vaccines might fail.
Immunity has been shown to promote virulence:
[Vaccination] accelerated the rate of virulence evolution, rendering parasites more dangerous to naïve hosts. These results argue for further consideration of the evolutionary consequences for pathogen virulence of vaccination.
Vaccines that target some but not all strains of a disease can induce the emergence of other strains that become more prominent as they replace previous ones.
Often, the new strains are more virulent and may infect age groups normally unaffected by the disease.
Haemophilus influenzae
A vaccine targeting the “b” strain of Haemophilus influenzae was recommended for infants in 1991. Mass vaccinations against Hib increased deadly infections caused by the “a” strain and other non-b strains.
Adults and the elderly have also become more susceptible to invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease following Hib vaccinations of children:
After the introduction of Hib immunization in children, invasive Hib infections in unimmunized adults also declined, but the overall rate of invasive Hi disease in adults increased.
Specifically, deadly infections from Haemophilus influenzae type “a” have increased, turning it into a “major invasive bacterial disease.”
In addition, the incidence of Hia meningitis increased 8-fold within one year after a vaccination program against Hib was initiated.
Several of the new strains are severe. More than one-third of Hif cases and one-fifth of the non-typeable cases require intensive care:
The clinical burden of invasive non-type “b” H. influenzae disease, measured as days of hospitalization/100,000 individuals at risk and year, increased significantly throughout the study period.
Vaccination against Hib has altered the epidemiology of invasive Haemophilus influenzae infections. Prior to infant vaccination against Hib, 65% of all Haemophilus influenzae cases were caused by the “b” strain. Now, 84% of all cases are now caused by the “f” strain and other non-b strains.
Since the introduction of the Hib vaccine, there have been more fatal cases of non-Hib infections in the elderly:
The epidemiological characteristics of invasive H. influenzae disease have changed from a disease that predominantly affects children and is dominated by type b to a disease that predominantly affects adults and is dominated by non-typeable strains.
The increased cases of virulent non-b Haemophilus influenzae among adults could be caused by the loss of cross-immunity that was provided by natural exposure to Hib or from changes in the organisms.
Invasive non-b strains of Haemophilus influenzae are more virulent, causing severe disease in the pediatric population. These non-typeable strains are resistant to antibiotics.
Pneumococcal disease
The Streptococcus pneumoniae pathogen has more than 90 different strains. In 2000, a vaccine that targeted 7 of these strains was recommended for infants. In 2010, a new vaccine was introduced that targeted 13 pneumococcal strains.
Pneumococcal disease rates initially declined following the vaccine's release, but then increased when non-vaccine strains quickly replaced strains targeted by the vaccine. Many of these new strains are highly virulent and resistant to antibiotics.
Pneumococcal vaccination of children also significantly increased the risk of the disease in adults. Vaccine-induced pneumococcal strains are now a worldwide problem, posing a threat to the long-term effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination.
Cases of invasive pneumococcal disease in adults have increased significantly:
Gains in disease reduction were offset by increases in replacement serotypes, particularly among the over-65 age group.
Although the vaccine was effective against some strains, “the emergence of replacement nonvaccine pneumococcal serotypes has resulted in an increase in the incidence of serious and invasive infections.”
The increase in carriage of non-vaccine serotypes, and the consequent increase in invasive disease, could reduce, negate or outweigh the benefit.
Adults are especially at risk of invasive pneumococcal disease caused by vaccine-induced replacement serotypes, but infants have been affected as well.
There is evidence that antibiotic-resistant strains of invasive pneumococcal disease have arisen from recombinations of vaccine and non-vaccine strains.
Due to strain replacement, the overall pneumococcal rate hasn't changed. Also, the new vaccine that targets 13 strains “did not affect the rate of overall pneumococcal colonization.”
The pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) that are currently in use only protect against some serotypes of the bacterium, and there is now strong evidence that those serotypes not included in the vaccine increase in prevalence among most vaccinated populations.
Just two years after PCV13 was introduced, 94% of all pneumococcal strains in healthy children were non-vaccine targeted serotypes. PCV13 is expected to induce strain replacement like that seen with PCV7.
Strain replacement is inevitable when vaccines only target some of the many strains that are in competition with each other.
Manufacturing Mutation
The World Health Organization launched its Global Polio Eradication Initiative will the goal of eliminating the disease by 2000.
However, by 2000 it became clear that polio was still around, and new strains derived form the vaccine itself were emerging.
In 1983, some researchers realized that a “vaccine-derived” polio virus had caused an outbreak in Egypt. [Reuters Health. “Polio outbreak in Dominican Republic and Haiti caused by vaccine-derived virus.” Reuters Medical News (December 4, 2000)]
In 1993, Dr. Radu Crainic of the Pasteur Institute discovered that strains of the polio virus have the ability to spontaneously recombine with themselves and create new strains.
Crainic showed that if you vaccinate a child with polio strains 1, 2, and 3, you can produce a new strain, strain 4, out of the child's stool. Crainic concluded that the polio vaccine creates favorable conditions contributing to the evolution of viral “recombinations.”
In 2000, virologist Hiromy Yoshida found a new infectious polio virus in Japanese rivers and sewages. The virus had mutated from the polio vaccine and regained much of its original virulence, as confirmed by genetic sequencing. According to Yoshida, this poses a “persistent environmental threat” and the live oral polio vaccine is to blame.
According to a 2000 Reuters Medical News article, a polio outbreak in Haiti and the Dominican Republic resulted in numerous cases of flaccid paralysis.
Laboratory examinations confirmed health authorities' worst suspicions: the disease was caused by “an unusual viral derivative” of the polio vaccine. The virus demonstrates genetic similarity to the parent vaccine strain, “but it has assumed the neuro-virulence and transmissibility” of the wild polio virus.
Health officials are obviously concerned, “because a wild poliovirus has not circulated in the Western Hemisphere since 1991,” and if the newly mutated polio virus spreads, it could cause new epidemics of the disease.
People around the world continue to be stricken with vaccine-derived polio viruses (VDPVs), and the aforementioned case in India is just one example. Under certain circumstances, polio viruses within the vaccine “regain both neuro-virulence and the capacity to circulate and cause outbreaks.”
For example, from 2001 to 2005, there were several vaccine-derived polio outbreaks in the Philippines, Madagascar, China and Indonesia. In 2006, additional cases of vaccine-derived polio were recorded in Cambodia.
In 2010, a study was published in Finland with a title that just about says it all: “Highly divergent neurovirulent vaccine-derived polioviruses of all three serotypes are recurrently detected in Finnish sewage.”
Although no cases of “suspected poliomyelitis” have reportedly occurred in Finland since 1985, “Since December 2008, 21 genetically highly divergent, neurovirulent vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPV) have been isolated from sewage in Tampere, Finland. While the source of the VDPV is unknown, characteristics of the viruses resemble those of strains isolated from immunodeficient, persistently infected persons.”
Unfortunately, animal matter and questionable drugs are still used in making the polio vaccine.
Despite the polio vaccine's long history of causing polio, and the manufacturer's inability to protect the public from dangerous microorganisms that perpetually contaminate an ever expanding repertoire of “new and improved” products, the currently available inactivated, or “killed-virus” polio vaccine continues to be manufactured in much the same way as earlier versions.
In the United States, today's polio vaccine is a sterile suspensions of three types of poliovirus. The viruses are grown in cultures of “a continuous line of monkey kidney cells...supplemented with newborn calf serum...” The vaccine also contains two antibiotics (neomycin and streptomycin), in addition to formaldehyde as a preservative.
In Canada, the inactivated polio vaccine is made in “human diploid cells” instead of monkey kidneys. Some researchers believe this is a safer alternative. According to Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information Center in Virginia, “With mounting evidence that cross-species transfer of viruses can occur, the United States should no longer be using animal tissues to produce vaccines.”
Dr. Arthur Levine of the NIH, however, believes that making polio vaccines using human cells isn't risk-free either, “because they must be tested for human infections.”
Levine also worries that even discussing these issues will frighten parents, “We do a grave disservice to the public if we were now to question the safety of the current polio vaccines on the basis of SV40.”
It is perhaps this attitude that prompted the CDC to recently remove the section of their website devoted to SV40 information. However, how can this be justified when hundreds of studies have now been conducted linking SV40 to cancer?
Barbara Loe Fisher would like to see changes in the way vaccine safety is governed. She believes that agencies like the FDA have an inherent conflict of interest because of their mandate to promote universal vaccination on one hand and regulate vaccine safety on the other. “Who's minding the store when the FDA has allowed drug companies to produce vaccines grown on contaminated monkey kidneys?”
Dr. Urnovitz is even more resolute in his convictions. He thinks that an extensive study of human exposure to simian microbes is long overdue. “Half of the people in this country are baby boomers who were born between 1941 and 1961 and are at high risk for having been exposed to polio vaccines contaminated with monkey viruses. Are we just a time bomb waiting to happen, waiting to develop lupus, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease?”
Urnovitz sums it up nicely, “You have to realize that if you mess around with nature, you're going to pay the price...”
More Malicious Microorganisms
SV-40, SIV, and BSE aren't the only concern. Monkeys and cows, the preferred animals for making the polio vaccine, harbor thousands of viruses and potentially infectious microorganisms. Scientists have known since 1955 that monkeys host the “B” virus, foamy agent virus, haemadsorption viruses, the LCM virus, arboviruses, bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV), and more.
In 1956, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) was discovered in chimpanzees.
According to the controversial researcher Dr. Viera Scheibner, RSV viruses “formed prominent contaminants in polio vaccines, and were soon detected in children.” Allegedly, RSV caused “serious cold-like symptoms in small infants and babies who received the polio vaccine.”
By 1961, the link between RSV and respiratory tract illnesses became clear, as the virus was found in 57% of infants with bronchiolitis or pneumonia, and 12% of babies with a milder febrile respiratory disease.
Infected babies babies remained ill for three to five months. RSV was also found to be contagious, and soon spread to adults where it has been linked to the common cold.
According to the CDC, today RSV affects the majority of children by the age of two, and is the most common cause of bronchiolitis and pneumonia among children under one.
RSV remains highly contagious and results in thousands of hospitalizations every year; many people die from it. Ironically, scientists are developing a vaccine to combat RSV—the infectious agent that very likely entered the human population by way of a vaccine.
The Wikipedia page for RSV ends with this provocative statement: “The RSV is virtually the same as chimpanzee coryza virus and can be transmitted from monkeys to humans...the inactivated polio vaccine was reportedly contaminated with simian viruses, including Chimpanzee coryza, during 1955-1963.”
The two sources given for this statement are a 2005 study and, in the category of other simian viruses, Wikipedia provides a link to the now-deleted CDC page on SV40 contamination of the polio vaccine.
In 1996, at the Eighth Annual Houston Conference on AIDS, a microbiologist named Dr. Howard B. Urnovitz revealed that as many as 26 monkey viruses may have been in the original Salk vaccines, including the simian equivalents of human echo virus, coxsackie, herpes (HHV-6, HHV-7, and HHV-8), adenoviruses, Epstein-Barr, and cytomegalovirus.
Urnovitz maintains that contaminated Salk vaccines given to U.S. children between 1955 and 1961 likely set this generation up for immune system damage and neurological disorders.
He sees correlations between early polio vaccine campaigns and the sudden emergence of human T-cell leukemia, epidemic Kaposi's sarcoma, Burkitt's lymphoma, herpes, Epstein-Barr and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Indeed, as early as 1957 it was known that as many as eight “apparently new” viruses had contaminated the vaccine from using monkey-kindey tissue cultures.
Urnovitz challenged medical science to prove wrong his theory that the human immunodeficiency virus Type-1 (HIV-1) is a monkey-human hybrid that was created after 300,000 Africans were injected between 1957 and 1959 with quantities of experimental live oral polio vaccines contaminated with different monkey viruses.
Urnovitz also discussed “jumping genes”—normal genes that may recombine with viral fragments to form new hybrid viruses called chimeras. He believes that this is exactly what happened when monkey viruses and human genes were brought together during early polio vaccine campaigns.
And because the chimera “has the envelope of a normal human gene,” typical cures won't work. How do you develop a vaccine or other antidote against the body's own DNA?
For more information about autoimmune diseases and viruses, I recommend the following lecture available on Youtube: "The Exploding Autoimmune Epidemic: It's Not Autoimmune, you have Viruses." Here's a summary I put together of the important points mentioned in the lecture.
AIDS in America
Although Koprowski's experiment may have contributed to the rise of AIDS in Africa, what might have contributed to the spread of the disease to the homosexual community in America?
In 1974, clinics in New York and California began experimental treatments for gay men afflicted with herpes. Therapy consisted of multiple doses of the live polio vaccine.
The vaccine was produced in the kidneys of the African Green monkey, a known reservoir for SIV, a likely precursor to HIV.
Beginning in the early 1980s, simultaneous outbreaks of Kaposi sarcoma and serious opportunistic infections (later associated with AIDS) were reported among homosexual men, especially in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. This time span coincides with the average incubation period between HIV infections and the development of AIDS.
In 1982, the CDC concluded that such outbreaks “strongly suggests the occurrence of a single epidemic of underlying immunosuppression....” The next year, HIV was identified as the causative agent.
In 1992, Lancet (http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PII0140-6736%2892%2990876-5/fulltext) published the first scientific explanation showing how repeated doses of SIV-contaminated polio vaccines may have seeded HIV among American homosexual men.
In the 1980s, hundreds of people diagnosed with AIDS had no identified risk factor, in other words, they didn't engage in risky behaviors associated with AIDS infection. Many children were listed as NIR. Some parents even claimed that HIV-contaminated polio vaccines infected their children.
On February 12, 1994, Bruce Williams filed a civil suit against the American Cyanamid Company, claiming its polio vaccine caused his daughter's illness. The suit alleges that “the live oral poliovirus vaccine was produced, tested, and approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration pursuant to measures inconsistent with accepted standards of medical practice.”
The lawsuit also asserts that “the product was FDA approved despite the known presence of contaminants, including retroviruses such as HIV.”
The Williams' lawyer even identified the specific lots of vaccine the child received, but the CDC and federal health officials refused to test them. According to their lawyer, “The CDC could disprove my entire hypothesis by testing the vaccines they have in their possession. The fact that they haven't done so is evidence there's something wrong with the vaccine.”
How Now, Mad Cow
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, was first noticed in the mid-1980s. Mad cow disease is a progressive nerve disorder of cattle that's similar to scrapie, a disease that affects sheep.
Authorities believe it spread to cows from sheep when they were fed scrapie-infected bone meal. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD and vCJD (a newly discovered variant) are the human equivalents of mad cow disease. They cause a comparable wasting of the brain leading to muscle incoordination, sensory loss, and mental confusion. It is always fatal.
Mad cow disease and the newly discovered variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob may be caused by the same infectious agent. A study published in Nature showed that monkeys injected with BSE developed very similar symptoms to vCJD. They also have similar molecular characteristics.
Mad cow disease can be passed from cows to humans if they ingest BSE-infected beef, or if they receive vaccines contaminated with BSE.
BSE-associated infectious agents are capable of contaminating polio vaccines because polio vaccines are not only grown in monkey kidneys, but in calf serum as well. In fact, many parts of the cow are used in vaccine production. Glycerol is derived from cow fat; gelatin and amino acids come from cow bones; and the growth medium for viruses and other microorganism may require cow skeletal muscle, enzymes, and blood.
Authorities knew that vaccines could be infected with BSE-associated transmissible agents as early as 1988. Yet, in England, vaccine manufacturers waited months before switching to cows less likely to be infected and refused to removed current stock off the shelves and out of doctor's offices until it was all sold, or expired five years later toward the end of 1993.
According to one British legislator, “The Department of Health was potentially criminally negligent in not requiring the immediate withdrawal or cessation of use of vaccines from potentially contaminated sources. It is also beyond belief the Department should not even have monitored those who were injected, and is now trying to sweep the whole thing under the carpet.”
Finally, in October 2000, the Department of Health became so concerned about the likelihood of of children being infected with BSE-contaminated vaccines and falling prey to vCreutzfeldt-Jakob disease—dozens of people, including children, had already contracted it—that they issued a recall of hundreds of thousands of polio vaccines made using fetal bovine serum extracted from British cows.
In the United States, the FDA issued a “warning” to manufacturers in 1996 instructing them to “take whatever steps are necessary to reduce potential risk of transmission of BSE agent.” By 2000, the FDA realized that its “recommendations” were being ignored, for vaccines were still being made in bovine materials from countries reporting BSE. These vaccines wouldn't be removed from the market until 2002, when all existing stock had been purchased.
Although cows in America don't exhibit “mad cow symptoms,” tens of thousands of cattle are severely incapacitated each year in what some have suggested may be related to BSE. These “downed” animals have not been ruled out of vaccine production by the FDA.
Dr. Richard Marsh of the Department of Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, conducted research providing evidence that down cattle in the U.S. may harbor a new variant of mad cow disease. He inoculated cows with TME, a variant of BSE. They became “downed” instead of “mad.”
Other scientists inoculated cows with scrapie from U.S. sheep. They, too, became “downed” instead of “mad.”
According to Farm Sanctuary, a national non-profit organization dedicated to preventing irresponsible agricultural practices, “We are concerned that, like in Britain, there is a powerful economic incentive to ignore evidence that BSE, or a variant of BSE, exists in the U.S.”
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