10,000 VACCINES FOR A BABY?
A baby's immune system could safely cope with as many as 10,000 vaccines at any one time and is not at risk from the current practice of giving combinations such as measles, mumps and rubella together, according to a paper in the influential American medical journal Paediatrics.
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A POX ON VACCINES

Parents who refuse to have children immunised are regarded as dangerous cranks - in defiance of the facts, says Anne Karpf, in the UK Guardian on Wednesday, January 16, 2002.

We call it propaganda when governments peddle "facts" which are demonstrably untrue. And yet the claim that without vaccination measles is a stalking killer is disseminated by both the Department of Health and most medical journalists, despite strong counter-evidence. In 1976, Professor Thomas McKeown, investigating trends in mortality, compared declining death-rates from infectious diseases with medical interventions since the cause of death was first registered in 1838. He found that immunisation had no significant effect on the trend of the death-rate from measles, which had fallen to a low level before mass vaccination was introduced, because of major improvements in sanitation and nutrition. More at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4336182,00.html

MOST OLDER CHILDREN ARE
NATURALLY IMMUNE TO CHICKENPOX

Contrary to widely held beliefs, most 10-year-old children with negative or unknown varicella (chickenpox) histories are actually immune to chickenpox.

Investigators from Laval University in Quebec assessed the age-specific incidence of chickenpox in over 2000 fourth grade students. A subset of children with negative or unknown chickenpox histories were tested for anti-varicella antibodies.

The study was performed to determine the proportion of children that would need to be vaccinated in a catch-up program.

The reported cumulative incidence of chickenpox at 10 years of age was 92%. Furthermore, about half of the children developed chickenpox before entering kindergarten. Of the children with negative or unknown chickenpox histories, 63% had antibodies against the virus.

Prevaccination testing could identify children who are immune, but such testing could be difficult to implement and might reduce vaccine coverage.
Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal November 2001;20:1087-1088

DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:
Another piece of evidence from what is considered perhaps the most well respected pediatric infection journal supporting the insanity of continuing to provide chicken pox vaccines.

The vast majority of children who do not get chickenpox vaccine wind up immune to chickenpox anyway. At least that is the way it was prior to widespread immunization with the vaccine.

Who knows what effect the vaccine will have on the prevalence of the wild virus to provide a truly effective and permanent immune response. We know that about 75% of those that are vaccinated can still get chickenpox. Translation: The vaccine doesn't work very well.

Yet for those who never even remember having chickenpox, 2/3 of them were protected. Translation: Most who come down with chickenpox have such a mild condition they don't even know they had the disease.

However, please note that you don't have to have the rash to have an immune protective response. If you are healthy you may not have any symptoms other than a mild fever and runny nose.

CHICKENPOX VACCINE WORKS
LESS THAN HALF THE TIME

New study findings indicate that, at least among one group of children, the varicella vaccine is much less effective than previously reported. Dr. Jane Seward, from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and colleagues reported on their investigation of a recent outbreak of chickenpox at a New Hampshire day care center.

The outbreak in 23 children began with a child who had been vaccinated, contradicting the belief that such "breakthrough" cases are not contagious, Dr. Seward noted. The child, a 4-year-old, was confirmed not to have developed chickenpox infection from the vaccine, but probably developed it after exposure to a sibling with shingles.

Previous findings indicate that the vaccine's effectiveness ranges from 71% to 91%. In the current study, however, the effectiveness that was only about 40%.
41st Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Chicago December 16, 2001

DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:
Folks the evidence is quite clear. There is absolutely no reason to expose your children to the risk of chickenpox vaccine. Why? First of all, and perhaps most importantly, it doesn't work. Don't believe me? Read the Washington Post article from one year ago.

Please keep in mind that the Washington Post is one of the top newspapers in the country with no axe to grind. They reported that in a chickenpox outbreak 75% of those who came down with chickenpox were vaccinated.

Please read my comment in that article which reviews the other major reasons why giving your child the chickenpox vaccine does not make any sense.

Second of all most children are already immune to chickenpox.

The Post also ran an article four months ago describing how Merck (the vaccine's producer) was running TV commercials using fear and guilt to motivate parents to get the vaccine. They would have you believe that if your child gets chickenpox they will die. Nothing could be further from the truth.

My article last year on this subject clearly shows that it is not the chickenpox infection that causes deaths. It is the doctor's attempts to control the fever with drugs like Tylenol that cause the problem. Even the CDC admits that children don't die from chickenpox per se, but rather "complications" from chickenpox. All these complications are derived from acute blood toxemia established by the very treatments used by drug-using physicians.

Let's review the stats. Chickenpox is not a fatal disease, but rather a very common, benign inflammatory condition. In the U.S. there are approximately 100 deaths (about half of these in children) and 10,000 hospitalizations each year for complications from chickenpox.

Nearly all of these deaths were a result of over aggressive medical care. Physicians would treat the children with antibiotics, analgesics, or steroidal medications as their condition grew progressively worse. Physicians respond to each new symptom with yet another drug, until the children die.

Of course there is no way to know if the 100 children who die from chickenpox every year would survive if they were not treated with such aggressive medical interventions. The study will also never be done, as no institutional review board would ever approve it. But I believe it is highly likely that if these children are provided with natural therapies, rather than immune suppressing ones, their bodies would easily recover and they would actually have a stronger immune system.

But even more foundationally, one needs to examine why these children even became sick in the first place. In the vast majority of the cases, it is because they are being fed foods that are devastating their immune system.

One cannot drink soda, fruit juice, milk, processed foods, and regular amounts of grains and sugar without severely impairing one's immune system and increasing one's risk of acquiring all sorts of infections.
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