GETTING YOUR SHOTS – Immunization is not a problem. Shots of various kinds can be obtained in many places, in some cases at the local pharmacy.
Whenever one of her patients or a parent of a child refuses immunization shots, Dr. Virginia Witt, who practices family medicine in Hoboken, tells them a story about her own life, about how she was going to get her son an immunization shot against diseases affecting the human immune system, and the doctor she’d gone to had run out of vaccines.
“I got busy, and I never followed it up,” she said last week during an interview. “Seven weeks later, my son was rushed to the hospital with a 50 percent chance he wasn’t going to live.”
While he did survive the ordeal, he still suffers learning disabilities from complications that arose in transporting him to the hospital, and Dr. Witt has lived with the guilt ever since.
While this might not have been the motivation for her to change careers and become a doctor, Dr. Witt has become a strong advocate for immunization shots, saying that arguments against them are based on misinformation and fear.
“We were making a lot of progress against these diseases, but now they are on the rise again.” –Dr. Virginia Witt
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Many people are using a loophole in national health law that allows people to avoid giving their children immunizations because of religious reasons.
“In many cases, it is not because of religious reasons,” Dr. Witt said, “it is because they are frightened and they believe the ton of information available on the internet about the dangers of immunization.”
While there is a widespread fear of immunization with claims against every kind of shot – from measles to flu shots, most of the fear was generated out of one case when a doctor in Great Britain published a study suggesting there is a link between measles vaccinations and autism. The study was later found to have been flawed.
Study published in England
In 1998, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist, and his associates published a paper in the British medical journal “The Lancet” suggesting that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine might cause symptoms associated with autism. In England, thousands of parents refused to let their children be vaccinated, resulting in hundreds of hospitalized children and three deaths.
“What was later learned,” Dr. Witt said, “is that he went into the study looking for a connection, and it has since been determined that he altered his findings to come up with that conclusion. There are a number of possible causes of autism, but there is no known link to immunization.”
In fact, 10 out of the 13 authors of the Wakefield study have since withdrawn their support for the study.
“The Lancet” – one of the most respected medical publications in England – retracted Wakefield's entire study after an independent government review concluded that he had acted "dishonestly and irresponsibly" in conducting his research, and that he was working as a private consultant for attorneys representing parents who had cases against the manufacturers of the vaccine. This eventually led to Wakefield being banned from practicing medicine in England.
But the harm was done, Dr. Witt said.
Root of it all
The Wakefield study became the root of distrust for all vaccines, and has caused a resurgence of childhood and other diseases many doctors believed were on their way to being wiped out.
“There are more cases of whooping cough today than when I was born,” Dr. Witt said.
Northern New Jersey has seen a surge of these over the last few years, according to the Essex Metro Immunization Coalition, a group of state and local health officials seeking to increase immunization rates by urging all New Jersey residents, adults and children alike, to check with their doctors to make sure they have received all necessary vaccines to date.
Of the eight cases of whooping cough – a highly contagious bacterial respiratory infection also known as pertussis – in Hunterdon County, several of the kids are known not to have been vaccinated at all, and others did not receive the complete series of immunizations appropriate for their age.
This outbreak is driving officials to remind parents to double-check that their children and adolescents are age-appropriately immunized, and that they, too, are fully vaccinated.
“There are too many illnesses that we cannot avoid for us to ignore the ones we can help prevent,” said Dr. David Bendich, president of the Essex Metro Immunization Coalition. “Pertussis is just one of several, including measles and mumps, that do not have to exist. Vaccines are responsible for virtually eliminating diseases such as polio; we just have to make sure we stay up-to-date with all of our immunizations and not wait for these scary reminders.”
Hunterdon County faced a similar spread of pertussis in 2009, when 20 cases were confirmed. More recently, a mumps outbreak in April 2010 sickened over 1,500 people in the New York and New Jersey area. A couple of measles cases in the state last year sounded alarms, in fear of an outbreak.
These recent cases can be partially due to the fact that the state trails all but one in estimated vaccination coverage in children ages 19 to 35 months. According to the most recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 67 percent of New Jersey residents have received their recommended vaccines.
Dr. Witt said it is difficult to overcome the fear generated by rumor and the internet, even when prestigious medical journals retract the information that was published.
Polio, small pox, and the dozens of other diseases against which children and some adults are immunized for are being questioned, when they have already proven to have saved lives.
“Everybody is taking one article and painting all immunizations [as bad],” Dr. Witt said, “and as it turned out, that one article was wrong.”
Autism
Part of the problem is that autism is poorly understood.
“We have a lot of theories as to what causes it, but science can’t tell us and many parents are looking for a reason, even it is irrational,” she said.
Of course, there is some risk associated with immunization in regards to the diseases that they are designed to guard against, such as risk of infection, but it is such a small risk that medical professionals believe that being immunized against disease is better than the risk of getting the disease.
“Any time you break the skin even for a shot of Novocain, there is a risk, but the risk is small,” Dr. Witt said. “One in 100 people died from whooping cough.”
Seniors and flu
Unimmunized babies face a host of dangerous and life threatening diseases, from diphtheria and tetanus to meningitis, and Hepatitis A and B, not to mention polio – all of which might be preventable through immunization. Senior citizens risk death by not getting an immunization against influenza.
And the cost should not be a factor, since nearly every insurance company pays for these. If not, there are state and federal programs that provide for children who cannot afford to be immunized.
“We were making a lot of progress against these diseases, but now they are on the rise again,” Dr. Witt said. “People should not make these decisions based on emotion. Fear is the reason they don’t vaccinate. But I try to motivate my patients by the fear of what happens if they get the disease.”
I reacted to a tetanus booster when I was nineteen with both arms being paralyzed for two days, brachioplexal neuropathy (recognized since 1968 as a rare side effect of the tetanus vaccine). It wouldn't have been a big deal in itself, but I later developed multiple sclerosis, yet another disease (like allergies and autism, probably all the autoimmune diseases) that did not exist before vaccines),
All the vaccines are very dangerous. They are supposed to make the immune system react with inflammation, that's what makes it produce antibodies. Unfortunately, many people's immune system reacts with too much inflammation, leading to encephalitis (causing autism, seizure disorders, ADHD, learning disorders) or chronic autoimmune disease when the immune system is skewed from a correct Th1 response to an incorrect Th2 response. This causes the modern epidemic of asthma, allergies, bowel disease, diabetes, and many more horrible diseases.
The vaccine-preventable diseases are either very rare or routine, usually relatively mild diseases in children. If children with measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, hepatitis A, or pertussis are kept warm in bed, well-hydrated, and given no fever reducers, they will get well on their own if they were previously healthy and well-nourished. The vaccines, on the other hand, are very likely to damage them. 11% of children who have gotten the pertussis vaccine have asthma, while only 2% of those who haven't gotten it do. Thirty years ago only one in 10,000 had autism, now it's one in 88, one in 48 boys. A hundred years ago, before the pertussis vaccine, the rate was 0.
The pertussis vaccine is not very effective, only 30-70%. This means that about half of even recently-vaccinated people can get and transmit pertussis anyway, so parents of newborns should keep them in quarantine for the first few months regardless of whether they or those around them have been vaccinated. My baby got the DTaP at 2, 4, and 6 months, and caught pertussis anyway at a La Leche League meeting when she was nine months old. Ten coughs on a breath, coughing fits every half hour or so for the worst week, coughing up sheets of slippery mucus at the end. She coughed for over a month, and gave it to me, I coughed for over two months. But it wasn't dangerous, we both eventually recovered, and now we're immune, and don't have to ever give it another thought.
The pertussis vaccine used in the old DTP was more effective, but it caused so much death and seizure disorder in so many, that it was taken off the market (thanks to the groundbreaking book A Shot in the Dark) and replaced by the current acellular version (which still causes asthma, SIDS, seizure disorders, and autism).
Dr. Wakefield's case study in the Lancet was professionally done, and the evidence was supported by many independent medical professionals. He was railroaded by Big Pharma in order to protect vaccine profits, and to discourage other would-be vaccine researchers from investigating the dangers of vaccines. Dr. Wakefield's lawsuit brought in Texas against the BMJ, Fiona Godlee, and Brian Deer will be heard this month, and I'm sure it will vindicate him. Hundreds of thousands of parents just in the U.S. have reported that their child was developing normally until he got the MMR, and suddenly regressed into autism and/or bowel disease.
The flu vaccine is dangerous. It paralyzed Lisa Marks Smith for four years, killed little Kaylenne Matten two months ago, paralyzed my elderly father, and has caused the twenty-fold increase in Alzheimer's in the U.S. since 1980. The aluminum in the vaccine accumulates in the brain, causing the symptoms of Alzheimer's.
Yes, it is better to be safe than sorry. You will be much safer if you refuse all vaccines and don't have to worry if you will be one of the millions whose immune system reacts excessively. There are treatments available for all the vaccine-preventable diseases. Crisis care in hospitals is better now than it used to be, few people who develop tetanus die from it now, and there are herbal and homeopathic treatments available for all the diseases, including the viral ones that allopathic medicine can't do much for.
It's probably not a good idea for the Hudson Reporter to publish bad medical advice from unqualified people.
"I think full disclosure, is not a good idea"
Wait till your hear, what was found in his vaccine
From a new study on Dr.Paul Offitts Rotavirus vaccine.
The number of hospitalizations caused by intussusception did not significantly decrease
after the rotavirus vaccine was reintroduced in the United States, according to study findings.
In other words, a researcher that is nationally Touted on thee News about the safety of vaccines and is universally trusted, made a vaccine that made him 50 million dollars. That is, according to this study [completely worthless]. And in a few more lines down this post, you are going to learn that Offitts vaccine is not only worthless. But probably very very very! dangerous too.
Now for the whole story,the FDA said they were suspending the GSK version of the Rotavirus vaccine. Because in their words,the research
had found pig virus bits 1 in the vaccine and
they said we do not know the short term or the long term effects of this. So they said were suspending the GSK version.
Weeks later, the same researcher found in the Merck version the same. But with a sinister twist
that sounds so much worse. You see, he not only found Pig virus bits 1 but also 2 and it came
with statement from the FDA in concerning it's suspension. We do not know the short term or
the long term effects,but we think the good out weighs the bad. So they decided, to go back to business as usual.
What I left out was this, they were told at the FDA that pig virus bits 2 causes wasting in pigs
such as seen in aids in humans. So knowing this, they thought the Good out weighed the Bad?
And now we find out the vaccine, is useless?
In, that it failed to slow the hospitalizations
for intussuseption.
In other words, it was a junk vaccine with pig virus bits in it that has killed children.
When Paul Offitt was told how many died taking the vaccine.
He said, I thought it would have been more.
“The reintroduction of rotavirus vaccine since 2006 has not resulted in a detectable increase in the number of hospital discharges for intussusception among US infants,” the researchers concluded.
The safety of our children was never! on the
radar of the FDA, CDC, or the AAP, concerning
this junk vaccine in light of the dangerous findings. One would think, when they
were charged with the safety of the Nations
most precious resource. [our American children].
That the agencies trusted to govern vaccine safety, might want to err on the side of caution.
Offit did not make $50 million from his vaccine. You are way off. And he sold the rights to the patent two years ago.
RotaTeq was never associated with intussusception. That was RotaShield, a competing vaccine that someone else developed.
RotaShield is very effective and very safe. It is estimated the vaccine prevents 70,000 hospitalizaton every year in the US, and saves over one thousand lives a day in the Third World.
The "pig virus" is actually a snippet of porcine DNA. It's harmless to humans, and you get the same thing from eating pork.
The Hudson Reporter might want to consider removing this libel.
they don't want you to know.
Vaccine pusher, Paul Offitt said this when speaking about the ingredients of vaccines .
"I think full disclosure, is not a good idea"
Yeah,the reason it's not a good idea is that they are full of Toxins and heavy metals. In PPB parts per billion that is frightening.
Whats in vaccines? Thimerosal A preservitive that's 50 percent mercury by weight.Of an injected Mercury; that crosses the BBB easier than the fish mercury.
It is a Neural-toxic, IQ lowering compound.
That turns into inorganic mercury, after it inters the Brain. By 2.5 times that as does the fish mercury.
Also it is a mutagenic Translation [ It alone, has the ability to mutate your child's genes ]
The Inorganic mercury! that Thimerosal turns into is the most damaging to the Mitochondria. And is also very efficient at depleting the child's glutathione
(The manufacturer says to not mix ,Thimerosal with Aluminum)
If you do, the toxicity rate climbs by 10 times. Aluminum,was and still is in almost all the children s vaccines as a catalyst.
Injected MSG; [Second most damaging, to the mitochondria]
Formaldehyde; After the Katrina disaster,
they found out the trailers that fema supplied
to the public. Was found to have Formaldehyde in them, and it was causing respiratory problems. The CDC, came forward and said.
"there is no!safe levels what so ever of Formaldehyde"
No safe levels? why is it in a child's vaccine?
Aluminum;An injected neural toxin that is used as a catalyst in vaccines to cause a much stronger immune response.
They are finding that the immune response is so strong,they are causing the cells to commit suicide.
It's called, Neuron cell death. Aluminum, is a Excitotoxin.
Parents, that's just 4 of the Neural toxins and Heavy metals in the Vaccines. To date, what they are finding is. That the Mitochondria is damaged, in most of the Autistic children. And that Mito problems,are feared to be turning into Autistic like features. [Autism]
Not surprising, considering that 2 of the ingredients in children's Vaccines Thimerosal
and MSG is the most damaging to the Mitochondria.
The latest is, this. They are finding ,the children with Autism have mutated genes.
Thimerosals Manufacturers Safety Data Sheet says Thimerosal is a [mutagenic]
mutagenic ; Translation [ It alone, has the ability to mutate your child's genes ]
The AAP says, there is nothing in children's vaccines that's toxic.
I believe, they are not telling you parents
the truth. Because it appears, there is nothing
but Toxic ingredients in children's vaccines.
In fact, Flu vaccines have similar ingredients. And if they get out of date,they have to be destroyed by incineration. Because of the mercury content, being considered Liquid Hazardous Waste.
FYI, the H1N1 is considered a pandemic vaccine
that has no liability. In other words,if you get
hurt by the vaccine. Go live under a bridge.
Now the seasonal flu vaccine,contains the pandemic
H1N1 vaccine also.So, when they added the pandemic vaccine to the seasonal vaccine did they skirt all liability? And if so, was it by design?
It appears,that they have ignorantly created the perfect storm to cause neurological damage in our
children.
is that autism is little understood. First it's in the DSM and and doesn't belong there because it's not a mental disorder, but a metabolic disorder affecting every organ in the body. These children are physically sick and need to be treated as such. And no, parents don't vaccinated because there is a child with autism on every block. Of course they're scared when all the gov't tells us is that they don't have a clue what causes autism, but they know it's not vaccines. The ability to opt out of vaccines is not a loophole in the law. It is a fundamental and Constitutional right for people to decide what drugs can be ijected into their childrens' bodies. Most people who are concerned about vaccine safety never heard of Dr. Wakefield. They see and hear about the tens of thousands of parents who took their normally developing children to the doctor and they lost all skills following their vaccinations.
Maurine meleck SC
http://www.healthsentinel.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2598:study-clearly-demonstrates-that-aluminum-found-in-vaccines-can-cause-neurologic-damage&catid=5:original&Itemid=24
Please note this recent article in the Vancouver Courier, Responses to UBC vaccine paper a problem for free scientific inquiry and expression UBC researchers raise questions, experience backlash.
http://www.vancourier.com/Responses vaccine paper problem free scientific inquiry expression/6073466/story.html
http://www.safeminds.org/research/research3.html
http://www.safeminds.org/research/peer-reviewed-publications.html
http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/library.php
Influenza Vaccines: Poor Evidence for Effectiveness in Elderly
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100216203146.htm
Claire Dwoskin from the National Vaccine Information Center and Leslie Manookian, producer and writer of new movie, "The Greater Good," talked about vaccine safety claims with NY talk show host Thom Hartmann on Nov. 21. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38qPvdFit_U&feature=channel_video_title
They discussed the poor design of the research used as proof that vaccines are safe. No one ever talks about this!
Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism http://www.ageofautism.com/
Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism http://www.ageofautism.com/
There are experts on both sides of this controversy.
See the book, Vaccine Epidemic http://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Epidemic-Corporate-Coercive-Government/dp/1616082720 and the National Vaccine Information Center http://www.nvic.org/.
Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism http://www.ageofautism.com
States decide which exemptions are allowed. Currently every state allows health exemptions. All but two states - Miss. and W. Va. - also allow religious and/or philosophical.
See Fox News report: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4687300/law-school-links-autism-vaccines-in-report/
Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism http://www.ageofautism.com/
“Pace had no participation in the paper," said a law school spokesperson. "Pace Law students assisted with legal research of the vaccine court decisions and creating an objective database of the case holdings and facts, but neither Pace Law School nor any of our students had anything to do with the article or its findings or conclusions nor do we express any opinion on the article or its findings.”
http://autism-news-beat.com/archives/1671
See Fox News report: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4687300/law-school-links-autism-vaccines-in-report/
Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism http://www.ageofautism.com/
Citing a paper published in a British medical journal 13 years ago could hardly explain why tens of thousands of parents report that their child was born healthy and was developing normally until they received certain routine vaccinations. The independent science linking an unsafe, unchecked vaccine schedule to autism is mounting.
Many of us in the autism community have endured endless years of denials about vaccines and autism. Dr. Witt leaves out some very important details and lots of unanswered questions.
Where is the study comparing fully-vaccinated and never-vaccinated children to see if never-vaccinated kids also have a one percent autism rate? THERE ISN'T ONE.
Where is even ONE STUDY that disproves a link between vaccines and autism that isn't connected to the vaccine industry. THERE ISN'T ONE.
Those who deny that injecting more and more toxins into babies and small children is harming them are like those who deny they more and more pollution is affecting our climate. Where is the science showing that it's safe to inject the three live viruses in the MMR into children at one time? THERE ISN'T ANY.
Where are the studies that show that adding aluminum and mercury to vaccines is safe? THERE AREN'T ANY.
Where is even one study on the cumulative effect of the increasing number of vaccines in the childhood schedule? THERE ISN'T ONE.
Doctors who still claim that vaccines aren't damaging children are on very thin ice here. Pharma-funded studies disproving a link between vaccines and autism prove nothing.
Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism http://www.ageofautism.com/
That "independent science" now includes a Fox News report and a movie review. And don't forget what some person told Michele Bachmann after a televised debate.
See CBS News story, Family to Receive $1.5M in First-Ever Vaccine-Autism Court Award, from Sept, 2010 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20015982-10391695.html
Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism http://www.ageofautism.com/
Folks who have children with autism are looking for something to blame it on. You all have my sincerest empathy. But trying to pin the disease on immunizations is doing a great disservice to those who have autism, because money that should be spent on research is being diverted because of the belief that the cause is known. The fact is, we don't know what causes it and we need to find out!
Wakefield was paid by a lawyer trying to find deep pockets to hit with a class action suit to find a link between MMR and autism. Wakefield pre-defined his outcome before ever designing the study. Then he selected his study group in order to prove his outcome. He then ignored some data and created some other data to prove his outcome. Then he covered it all up and denied it. Bottom line, it was a total fraud and he was ejected from the UK medical society for it and was convicted by them of fraud. The Lancet withdrew the article as having been fraudulent. No single other study was ever able to reproduce his results.
Vaccines are, by and large, safe. I strongly recommend them for all my patients, for their safety, the safety of the people around them, and for the human race as a whole.