Vaccinations: Just Say No

Where do you go with a mixed message like, “Vaccinations may be risky, but so is not vaccinating!”  This was my mind-set when Shana was born.  I had seen an unforgettable episode of “60 Minutes” on CBS in the ’80′s showing children whose lives were ruined after being vaccinated.  Some were autistic, some had seizure disorder, others could no longer walk or sit up, the parents were devastated, and they couldn’t get their pediatricians to acknowledge that the shots had anything at all to do with the drastic change in their children’s health.

So, there I was, remembering all this, but still “believing in” vaccination.  I was pulled in two equal and opposite directions.  I gave in and allowed Shana to get the Hepatitis-B vaccine the day after she was born.  Then I read Dr. Robert Mendelsohn’s book, How to Have a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor and suddenly it all became clear to me.  I wish I had read it sooner!  I might add that I later found out that there is virtually NO WAY a baby can get Hepatitis B!  That’s right!  This is a disease that is contracted through needle-sharing and unprotected sex!  Can you imagine how betrayed I felt?  Putting my child at risk for no reason, no benefit, for nothing?  How dare they?  Shana never got a vaccination again. 

Vaccinations are like a religion in this country, it’s something people strongly “believe in” the way they believe in the goodness of milk and the automobile.  Here’s a video I’d like you to see, it’s very short.  People are being asked if they know what’s in the vaccine they’re lined up to receive.  ”No, this is just blind faith for me,” one of them says:

Eye On The Flu Shot

Let’s look at the Polio vaccine, shall we?  Did you know that Jonas Salk himself said that from 1961 on, all cases of Polio in the United States have been caused by the oral Polio vaccine?¹ (Washington Post, September 24, 1976)

The CDC (US Center for Disease Control) was a little more cautious in its remarks. The CDC said that from 1979 on, the Polio vaccine has been the major cause, if not the sole cause, of all cases of Polio in the United States.²  I can’t imagine what more you could possibly want to know! A stunning admission by the U.S.  government:

The Polio Vaccine–all risk, no benefit (much like the Hepatitis B shot, come to think of it)!

Polio!  The vaccine actually caused Polio to sky-rocket after the immunization program began; in fact, Polio may have doubled in the US as a whole, according to US government statistics after the vaccination program got under way.⁶ Doctors and scientists at the NIH in the ’50′s knew the Salk vaccine was causing Polio. Some called it “worthless and dangerous.” ⁷ The Idaho State Health Director, in response to a local outbreak, publically blamed Dr. Salk and the vaccine manufacturers. ⁸ Why, then, do people believe we owe a debt of gratitude to the Polio vaccine for ending Polio?  That’s a good question!  The answer is public relations and manipulation!  The definition of what polio was, was changed after the vaccine came into being!/9/  Before the vaccine, you were presumed to have polio if you were down with paralysis for 24 hours./10/  After the introduction of the polio vaccine, you weren’t presumed to have polio until after you were paralyzed for 60 days!/11/   Previous polio diagnoses were now being called “meningitis”!/12/     Meanwhile, at the same time, polio was declining on its own.  It was down by 50%  already when the vaccine was introduced./13/  It declined in similar fashion in European countries where there was no vaccination program at all! /14/  

So, between redefining what constitutes polio, and the disease going away on its own, both combined to make the vaccine look very effective!  But now,  let us have a look behind the scenes of the vaccine industry.

In 1959, Bernice Eddy, a scientist at NIH discovered an infectious agent in the Polio vaccine, a cancer-causing agent! When she tried to make this finding public, she was demoted and her lab taken away!¹⁵ 

In 1960, two scientists from Merck, Drs. Ben Sweet and M.R. Hilleman, were credited with discovering this infectious agent, namely, SV-40 (Simian virus 40), a monkey virus whose kidneys were being used to grow Polio Vaccines. “When we started growing the vaccines, we just couldn’t get rid of the SV-40…. We tried to neutralize it but couldn’t…. Now, with the theoretical links to HIV and cancer, it just blows my mind” Sweet said. ^{16  If you want to actually see Dr. Hillerman reveal this on video, click below:}

Vaccine Doctor Admits Cancer Causing Virus in Vaccines

Apparently SV-40 survived the formaldehyde Dr. Salk used to kill microbes that contaminated his injectable vaccine.  (Yes, this is why vaccines contain formaldehyde.)  So, between 1954 and 1963, 30 to 100 million Americans got a cancer-causing virus in their Polio vaccine. ¹⁷ But wait, monkeys are host to not one but really hundreds of viruses, and no one knows what they all do, you can only test for the ones you know!  ”The Polio vaccine is a ticking time bomb,” said Harvard medical professor Ronald Desrosier. ¹⁸

In the 1980′s, SIV was discovered in the Polio vaccine–that’s Simian Immunodeficiency Virus. This caused some researchers to wonder if SIV might be the precursor to HIV. ¹⁹ This vaccine was given to hundreds of thousands of Africans in the Congo from ’57-’60. In ’59, Dr. Albert Sabin reported in the British Medical Journal that the Polio vaccine used in the Congo contained an “unidentified” cell-killing virus. ²⁰ Thirty years later, AIDS was discovered in precisely this area of Africa. Samples of this vaccine have been stored in the Wistar Institute, they could easily be tested, but the government won’t allow it! ²¹  What?

The origins of AIDS in the United States has been blamed by some  on a trial of Hepatitis B vaccine in 1978 among the gay population in both New York and California. What has been less widely reported was the use, in the same population, during the same time, of the Polio vaccine as a treatment for genital herpes! ²²

Cows are used to make vaccines too.  Cows also contain viruses. One of them is Bovine Immunodeficiency virus, or BIV. Added to this risk is “mad cow disease”. Did you know that they will allow “downed” cows to be used in vaccine manufacture? ²³ Another bovine virus, Bovine Visna Virus, is strikingly similar to HIV and is present as a contaminant in fetal calf serum used in vaccine production. The inference of its being a possible factor in the cause of AIDS can easily be drawn. ²⁴ During vaccine production, it is impossible to prevent contamination with Bovine Visna Virus.²⁵

In 1996, Dr. Howard Urnovitz, a microbiologist and chief science officer at Calypte Biomedical in Berkeley, California, revealed to an AIDS conference that up to 26 monkey viruses had been found in the original Salk vaccine,²⁶ including the simian equivalents of:

• Human Echo virus
• Coxsackie virus
• Herpes
• Adenoviruses
• Epstein-Barr
• Cytomegalovirus

Urnovitz proclaimed that he believed the Polio vaccine may have set up the baby-boom generation for immune system damage and neurological disorders; for example, he sees a relationship between the early Polio vaccine program and the sudden emergence of human T-cell leukemia, epidemic Kaposi’s sarcoma, Burkitt’s lymphoma, herpes, Epstein-Barr and chronic fatigue syndrome. “Are we just a time bomb waiting to happen, waiting to develop Lupus, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease?” Urnovitz asked. “What we are saying here is that there is a strong possibility that no human retroviruses existed before the Polio vaccine.” ²⁷ (By the way, the polio vaccine is still being made the same way: monkey kidneys, antibiotics, calf serum, formaldehyde, etc.)

If I had to describe the vaccination program as a whole, I would call it a religious ritual in the sense that people don’t know the first thing about it, don’t question it, but just “believe” in it.  I say this because there have never been any double-blind studies showing that it actually works!  I would also call it a wind-fall for the drug companies and the pediatric profession as it guarantees a constant flow of office visits!  I would also call it unscientific, ghoulish, reckless, ill-conceived and dangerous.  Actually, there was a seven month trial in 1955 and some doctors DID object to the fact that the vaccine contained monkey kidney tissue but nothing was done about it. The trial, by the way, resulted in more cases of Polio in the vaccinated group than in the controls, but six drug companies sought licenses for the vaccine anyway! ²⁸

So you might ask, “Well, Elaine, what are we to do? How can we protect our children from dread disease?”  Have you noticed that most of these diseases aren’t even around anymore?  Seen anyone with diphtheria lately? What about lockjaw? What about the ones you do see, like measles and chickenpox? Well, here’s an idea, see a homeopath! After all, what do you think vaccinations are? They are poorly and inartfully done homeopathy; yes, homeopathy! The principle underlying vaccinations is the homeopathic principle of “like cures like”, but when they do it, it’s clumsy and reckless! We homeopaths have been doing it for 200 years! We treat every illness this way, we even prevent illnesses this way. The difference is, we know how to do it without risking a catastrophe! Our remedies are extremely diluted, some say they are “energetic” in nature, not material substances that go through the digestion or the bloodstream.

Here’s a musical analogy:  taking your child to the pediatrician for “homeopathy”, is like going to see The Beatles to hear “Twist and Shout”!  This is an Isley Brothers song, for heaven’s sake!  Here’s how it’s supposed to go when done properly:

Twist And Shout

And the thing is, the medical profession doesn’t even believe in homeopathy, so, why are they practicing it (badly)?  Come to us; we’re the “Isley Brothers”!  We know how to do this!  (And I’m not talking about injections either.  Homeopathic remedies are tiny sugar pellets that melt in your mouth.)

Let your child get his immunity from breast milk, and if he gets sick, play it safe and see a homeopath. More often than not, your child will come down with a virus if he gets sick. Antibiotics are useless against viruses, did you know that?  So, what can your pediatrician really do for your child in most cases?

Let me give you an example of what seeing a homeopath is like.  My daughter, Shana, when she was around 2 or 3 years old, was sick for a while, we thought it was just a cold, but all of a sudden she broke out in a rash!  I said,  ”Oh my God!  It could be the measles!”  I have her Rhus tox 30C  (homeopathic poison ivy).  She got well so fast, I didn’t even have time to make a doctor’s appointment to find out what the diagnosis was!  The next day it was gone!  Isn’t this the kind of healing you want for your child?

For more information on keeping your children healthy through homeopathy, read my article, “Homeopathy and Children”:

http://hpathy.com/homeopathy-papers/homeopathy-and-children/comment-page-1/#comment-6378

And while you’re at it, read this one on the treatment of children with homeopathy too:

http://hpathy.com/homeopathic-interviews/dana-ullman-treating-children-with-homeopathic-medicines/

And always remember, Just Say NO!

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Footnotes:

1. Vaccinations: The Rest of the Story, A Selection of Articles…from Mothering Magazine (Santa Fe, NM: Mothering, 1992) p. 49
2. Miller, Neil Z., Medical Veritas I (Sante Fe, NM: Thinktwice Global Vaccine Inst., 2004) p. 241
3. Burnet M. and White D., The Natural History of Infectious Disease (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972) p. 91.
4. Mothering Selection of Articles, p. 133-134
5. Miller, p. 241
6. Cost, Curtis; Vaccines Are Dangerous (Brooklyn, NY: A&B Books, 1991) p. 24.
7. Miller, p. 241
8. Ibid.

9. Ibid., p. 24

10. Ibid
11. Ibid.
12. Miller, p. 242
13. Ibid. p. 24
14. Miller, p. 24
15. Ibid., p. 243
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid., p. 244
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid., p. 245
21. Ibid.
22. Scheibner, Viera Ph.D.; Vaccination (Santa Fe: NM: New Atlantean Press, 1993) p. 156
23. Miller, p. 247
24. Cantwell, Alan; Queer Blood (Los Angeles, CA: Aries Rising Press, 1993) p. 54
25. Ibid., p. 55
26. Miller, p. 247
27. Ibid., p. 248
28. Scheibner, p. 152

Elaine Lewis

Elaine Lewis, D.Hom., C.Hom Elaine is a passionate homeopath, helping people offline as well as online. Contact her at LEWRA@aol.com Elaine is a graduate of Robin Murphy's Hahnemann Academy of North America and author of many articles on homeopathy including her monthly feature in the Hpathy ezine, "The Quiz". Visit her website at: http://elainelewis.hpathy.com/ and TheSilhouettes.org