It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
(visit the link for the full news article)
He said that the programme was sensible, because “stopping just one child from needing intensive care treatment more than pays for vaccinating the whole school”.
The decision, taken at a meeting of the PCT on January 5, had been backed by local doctors.
The PCT now says it changed its stance last week “based on further advice received from the SHA”.
Originally posted by pianopraze
Finally some seeming sanity. These mercury based vaccines being forced on the populous have repeatedly been shown to be dangerous.
Originally posted by pianopraze
Sadly they probably pulled it because they found they were in some danger of being sued.
Originally posted by pianopraze
Thread after thread here on ATS has shown this.
Originally posted by pianopraze
Yet the MSM totally ignores it. Our media has become worse than the propaganda in the old USSR. At least there they did not pretend it was controlled media...
SAN DIEGO -- In the 1970's, a Swine Flu vaccine was blamed for causing more problems than the disease.
The vaccine was associated with a condition called Guillain-Barré syndrome. It’s a paralyzing neuromuscular disorder.
10News reporter, Charisse Yu, spoke to one San Diegan who shared how he got sick during the big Swine Flu scare of the 70's. The last time a form of the virus showed up in the U.S., Yu reported, it triggered a public backlash against flu vaccinations.
In response to a public service announcement, Scott Bittl got a vaccination. But, he said, it backfired. “Up until that point in my life, I was never that sick. Unbelievable,” Bittl said.
It was all part of a $137 million plan to immunize every man, woman and child. The plan was to prevent a pandemic like the Spanish Flu that killed half a million people in the U.S. and as many as 50 million worldwide.
But some said the vaccine had side effects. “Obviously, I got sick. I didn't die. I did get feverish. I went through all the motions of having probably the Swine Flu. At the time the feelings were intense,” Bittl recalled.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, shortly after the campaign started, three people died after receiving the vaccine. But, the CDC said, they found no evidence that the vaccine caused it.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the vaccine was linked to Guillain-Barré syndrome and more than 500 people developed the disorder. 25 people died.
A CORONER has ruled that a flu vaccine linked to convulsions in almost 100 children may have contributed to the death of a toddler.
The finding by Queensland Coroner John Lock sparked calls for improved testing procedures before the release of mass vaccinations. Mr Lock yesterday finalised his investigation into the death in April of two-year-old Brisbane toddler Ashley Jade Epapara - less than 24 hours after she received the seasonal flu vaccine.
Nine hours after Ashley and her twin sister, Jaime, were given Fluvax, Jaime started vomiting in her cot. As parents David and Nicole attended to Jaime, Ashley slept, seemingly unaffected. But at some point during the night, Ashley died.
. . . . .
A fortnight after Ashley's death, amid reports of an unusually high number of young children suffering fevers and convulsions in Western Australia, Australian health authorities suspended the use the seasonal flu jab for children under five.
EUROPE and the US have banned an Australian-made flu vaccine for young children, after a surge in febrile fits in Australian children.
The US Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices has taken stronger action than Australia's Health Department, by recommending that children younger than nine not be vaccinated with CSL's seasonal flu vaccine.
Originally posted by stumason
reply to post by pianopraze
Ah yes, a whole furore over something that was never proven, only affected a small amount of people and has never been linked to any other vaccination since. Bad batch? Possibly, but hardly proof against vaccination.
EDIT: I stand by my stance that vaccination has saved far more lives than can be spuriosly claimed it has taken. If it wasn't for vaccines, we'd have small pox epidemics killing millions every year, measles wiping out children and causing crippling disabilites and so on.
It is pure paranoia that they are harmful. I've got 3 kids, all have been vaccinated against a wide variety of diseases and the only time I ever saw any "bad" reaction was my latest one, who is 6 months old, have a slight fever which is to be expected as the vaccine is supposed to trigger an immune response. He was grumpy for a day and was fine.edit on 18/1/11 by stumason because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by stumason
reply to post by backinblack
Without knowing why the fits were caused, it is pretty daft to jump to conclusions. Just think, out of the millions and millions and millions of people who get vaccinated every year for a wide variety of diseases, just what is the proportion of bad reactions? What about people having bad reactions with cough medicine, or Aspirin, or Ibuprofen? You can find cases of people dying from anything if you look hard enough and have a large enough sample. You have to look at the big picture and see what the rate of incidence is.
I have a feeling I am talking to people who have already made up their minds, however.
I suspect some people ARE adversely affected by vaccines. About 1% of kids are exempted from getting them for medical reasons (and about 2% for non-medical reasons) as there are certain conditions known to make getting the vaccinations less safe according to this interesting article:
Originally posted by DrMattMaddix
I'll say it over and over and over to everyone that I know UNTIL THEY GET IT. If just one person is adversely affected by a vaccine, then it is unsafe
Polio should really be a thing of the past but why do we see an outbreak of polio? Because of not getting vaccinated against polio.
When diseases like polio ran free in the early 1900s, the clamor was less about why we needed vaccines than about why there weren't more of them. Once you've seen your neighbor's toddler become paralyzed, you're a lot more likely to worry that the same thing will happen to yours. "The fact is," says Offit, "young mothers today never grew up with the disease."
What worries him and others is that young mothers of tomorrow will—and that could be disastrous. CDC officials estimate that fully vaccinating all U.S. children born in a given year from birth to adolescence saves 33,000 lives, prevents 14 million infections and saves $10 billion in medical costs. Part of the reason is that the vaccinations protect not only the kids who receive the shots but also those who can't receive them—such as newborns and cancer patients with suppressed immune systems. These vulnerable folks depend on riding the so-called herd-immunity effect. The higher the immunization rate in any population, the less likely that a pathogen will penetrate the group and find a susceptible person inside. As immunization rates drop, that protection grows thinner. That's what happened in the current measles outbreaks in the western U.S., and that's what happened in Nigeria in 2001, when religious and political leaders convinced parents that polio vaccines were dangerous and their kids should not receive them. Over the next six years, not only did Nigerian infection rates increase 30-fold, but the disease also broke free and ranged out to 10 other countries, many of which had previously been polio-free.
So yes some people are aware of the risks of getting vaccines and choose to not get them for their kids, like Kelly Lacek.
Some parents have taken to cherry-picking vaccines, leaving out only the shots they believe their children don't need—such as those for chicken pox and hepatitis B—and keeping up with what they see as the life-or-death ones. But that can be a high-stakes game, as Kelly Lacek, a Pennsylvania mother of three, learned. She stopped vaccinating her 2-month-old son Matthew when her chiropractor raised questions about mercury in the shots. Three years later, she came home to find the little boy feverish and gasping for breath. Emergency-room doctors couldn't find the cause—until one experienced physician finally asked the right question. "He took one look at Matthew and asked me if he was fully vaccinated," says Lacek. "I said no." It turned out Matthew had been infected with Hib, bacteria that causes meningitis, swelling of the airway and, in severe cases, swelling of the brain tissue. After relying on a breathing tube for several days, Matthew recovered without any neurological effects, and a grateful Lacek immediately got him and his siblings up to date on their immunizations. "I am angry that people are promoting not getting vaccinated and messing with people's lives like that," she now says.
So something may have been causing autism, but it apparently wasn't thimerosol.
thimerosal-free formulations of the five inoculations that included it—hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis and some versions of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)—had replaced the older versions. The result was a drop in mercury exposure in fully immunized 6-month-old babies from 187.5 micrograms to just trace amounts still found in some flu vaccines. Yet there's been no effect on autism rates. In the seven years since the cleaned-up vaccines were introduced, new cases of autism continue to climb, reaching a rate of 1 in every 150 8-year-olds today. That trend suggests that other factors, including heightened awareness of the condition and possible genetic anomalies or environmental exposures, are behind the climbing rates.
If I apply that standard of evidence, I can say I got my car tuned up and 2 days later I was in a car accident, therefore the tune-up obviously caused the accident. Maybe it did, maybe it didn't. If the mechanic doing the tune-up forgot to put a screw back in the right place and that was the cause of the accident then yes the tune-up was the cause. But without finding that link, it's just as reasonable to conclude, maybe even more reasonable to say that the accident wasn't caused by the tuneup, that there was just a coincidence of timing. I think some illnesses occurring after vaccinations may be similarly misinterpreted. Because sometimes kids get sick, even when they haven't been vaccinated, right? Just like sometimes people get in car accidents even when they haven't just had their car tuned up.
Originally posted by pianopraze
The evidence was incontrovertible from the 70's - here is but one article:
As my signature says, I don't want to believe, I want to know, and in this case that means the truth, whichever side it's on. There are some valid arguments on both sides and that's why I'm not "picking a side" of core beliefs. I want to see the facts on each individual case.
Originally posted by pianopraze
But it is fruitless to devolve into this because it comes down to a base set of outlooks and core beliefs about government and the pharmaceutical industry which are drastically different.