Saturday, September 19, 2009

T: Is for thoughts on vaccines

The idea of vaccination is that if you give the immune system a small "taste" of a bug (such as polio, whooping cough etc) it will make antibodies which will protect one against future exposures to the real thing. Good idea, but in practice it is not as simple. There are vested interest (primarily from drug companies) and it is difficult to trust the data with which one is presented. The evidence that vaccinations reduce incidence of disease is pretty thin. Most infectious diseases have declined as a result of improved hygiene and nutrition. The medical profession, backed up by the pharmaceutical and chemical industry, are experts in cover ups. Cover ups with drug side effects (which kill huge numbers of people every year but are hushed up. Pesticide poisoning, problems from silicone breast implants, the Gulf War syndrome and children with serious health problems dating from vaccination for which there is no other explanation for their illness. There is now strong evidence that part of Gulf War Syndrome was caused by multiple vaccinations. MMR has been linked with autism and there is still a case to be answered here. There are many cases of brain damaged children following triple vaccine (diptheria, pertussis, tetanus). Polio vaccination may be the cause of the huge increase in post viral fatigue syndrome. Before polio vaccination, post viral syndrome was rare. We now know that many cancers are caused by viral infection. Obvious examples include hepatitis B (primary liver cancer), cervical wart virus (cervical cancer) and AIDS (Kaposi's sarcoma). Chronic myeloid leukaemia is probably virally induced. How many other cancers could there be from which we are protected by proper exposure to a virus, but not protected by vaccination? Nobody knows the answer to this question. And certainly no studies are being done.

SO when you wonder weather or not to get that flu shot think twice and weigh your options for right now you have them and that is a F.A.C.T.

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