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One of the worst smallpox epidemics of all time took place in England between 1870 and 1872 – nearly two decades after compulsory vaccination was introduced. After this evidence that smallpox vaccination didn’t work the people of Leicester in the English midlands refused to have the vaccine any more. When the next smallpox epidemic struck in the early 1890s the people of Leicester relied upon good sanitation and a system of quarantine. There was only one death from smallpox in Leicester during that epidemic. In contrast the citizens of other towns (who had been vaccinated) died in vast numbers.
Doctors and drug companies may not like it but the truth is that surveillance, quarantine and better living conditions got rid of smallpox – not the smallpox vaccine.
When the World Health Organization campaign to rid the world of smallpox was at its height the number of cases of smallpox went up each time there was a large scale (and expensive) mass vaccination of populations in susceptible countries. As a result of this the WHO changed its strategy. Mass vaccination programmes were abandoned and replaced with surveillance, isolation and quarantine.
For example, in the 1960s Sierra Leone had the highest rate of smallpox in the world. The country got rid of smallpox in just over a year – largely by the simple process of identifying and isolating patients with the disease.
It is worth pointing out that Edward Jenner, widely feted as the inventor of the smallpox vaccine, tried out the first smallpox vaccination on his own 10 month old son. His son remained mentally retarded until his death at the age of 21. Jenner refused to have his second child vaccinated.
Originally posted by VneZonyDostupa
reply to post by soficrow
So you searched and searched, and came up with three people with conflicts of interest?
Research funding relies on industry partnerships - and those partnerships include university-corporate, government-corporate and scientist-corporate alliances. It's how the system works.
I really don't have the time or interest to do your research for you. Personally, I think it incumbent upon YOU to prove the negative.
But here are a few quick picks:
...more at...
reply to post by soficrow
Although an early breakthrough in the development of a polio vaccine was made in 1949 with the aid of a human tissue culture, monkey kidney tissue was used when the first practical vaccine was prepared in the 1950s. The monkey tissue was used simply because that was standard laboratory practice, but no one realised that one of the viruses commonly found in monkey kidney cells can cause cancer in human beings.
(As a side issue this is yet another example of the stupidity of using animal tissue in the treatment of human patients. The popularity of using transplants derived from animals suggests that doctors and scientists have learned nothing from this error. I sometimes despair of those who claim to be in the healing profession.)
Originally posted by PplVSNWO
Another good quote. I guess this destroys the doc's argument that animal dna is harmless when injected in our blood.
Originally posted by soficrow
reply to post by VneZonyDostupa
Your agenda is showing VneZonyDostupa. ...Just curious. Are you paid by the word or by the post? Are you employed by Big Pharma or Big Government?
Your dishonesty is not welcome, but clearly illustrates the fact that your position requires dishonesty to defend.
Originally posted by VneZonyDostupa
reply to post by soficrow
So you searched and searched, and came up with three people with conflicts of interest?
No. Not what I said.
What I DID say:
Research funding relies on industry partnerships - and those partnerships include university-corporate, government-corporate and scientist-corporate alliances. It's how the system works.
I really don't have the time or interest to do your research for you. Personally, I think it incumbent upon YOU to prove the negative.
But here are a few quick picks:
...more at...
reply to post by soficrow
Originally posted by grahag
reply to post by jameshawkings
And you could easily be shills for the anti-vaccine establishment which consists of aliens attempting to weaken our immunities to introduce a global pandemic that will have a greater chance of wiping us out....
It's very easy to point the finger, but backing your arguments is much harder.
Frankly, I'm tried of people making baseless accusations because they can't find a way for their arguments to hold water other than anecdotal evidence.
There are MANY more published research papers extolling the virtues of vaccinations than those against them. When that balance shifts, I might consider a change, but posting links to homeopathy sites and alternative medicine blogs doesn't sway my opinion.
This is one of those issues that quacks can absolutely harm the general well-being of the populace because all it takes is a generation of people to follow them and we're dealing with a global pandemic from something that we thought we eradicated 20 years ago.
Julie Gerberding, the head of the CDC, went on CNN's House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta to discuss the Hannah Poling case and admitted that vaccines trigger autism in a subset of the population with mitochondrial disorders. It is time for Dr. Gerberding to answer some hard questions before congress.
Call for congressional hearings into the Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund autism cases, so we can find out what the government knows about the relationship between vaccines and autism.
AdventuresInAutism.com
Originally posted by Travlla
I was immunised in the early 70's as was my wife,my children have both been vaccinated,we are all healthy no ADHD or autism here,if all vaccines are evil why didn't they make us sick?as for the swine flu vaccine being about depopulation ,a couple i know both had swine flu shots 12 months ago,they have just found out their having a baby,how did this happen?
Originally posted by budaruskie
reply to post by Travlla
Two seperate couples I know were pregnant during what I'm going to refer to as "the swine flu craze" of 2009 and both received the H1N1 vaccine during pregnancy at their doctor's request. At the time, both had seemingly normal pregnancies with normal children. One of the women had a miscarriage within a month and the other had a child that died within 2 days of birth. I'm not saying that I know for a fact that the shot caused these things to happen, however, I do know for a fact that NO ONE EVER INVESTIGATED whether or not there was a relationship. That, to me, is somewhat alarming. The doctor certainly isn't going to elude to the shot being the cause because they prescribed and administered said shot, and the pharmaceutical company couldn't care less because they already had a deal with the gov't at the time that relieved them of any and all liability.
Originally posted by grahag
reply to post by jameshawkings
And you could easily be shills for the anti-vaccine establishment which consists of aliens attempting to weaken our immunities to introduce a global pandemic that will have a greater chance of wiping us out....
It's very easy to point the finger, but backing your arguments is much harder.
Frankly, I'm tried of people making baseless accusations because they can't find a way for their arguments to hold water other than anecdotal evidence.
There are MANY more published research papers extolling the virtues of vaccinations than those against them. When that balance shifts, I might consider a change, but posting links to homeopathy sites and alternative medicine blogs doesn't sway my opinion.
This is one of those issues that quacks can absolutely harm the general well-being of the populace because all it takes is a generation of people to follow them and we're dealing with a global pandemic from something that we thought we eradicated 20 years ago.
Originally posted by liveyourlife
I have to say I find it a little frightening that people do not have their children vaccinated. The purpose is to prevent your child from contracting a disease that will hurt them, possibly for the rest of their lives or kill them. It is also to prevent the spread of disease to others. This is why we there is not wide spread cases of mumps or polio. I dont know if you have ever seen a picture of someone who has the mumps, but I would never forgive myself if my child contracted that disease because I did not make sure they were vaccinated.
I know people will argue the autism case on this....but there could be many other factors that are causing the increase in autistic children, such better diagnosis procedures, pollution, genetics...it goes on and on.
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