E-NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER

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Note from THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER

BL Fisher Note:

MMR vaccine, brain injury and death: the truth will always prevail in the end, no matter how many try to distort or hide it along the way. The people are beginning to understand that the truth about vaccine risks is realized when they stand up and witness what they have experienced after vaccination.

For 25 years, parent founders of the National Vaccine Information Center have been pleading with U.S. public health officials to investigate the biological mechanisms of vaccine induced neuro-immune injury and death. Not only have those responsible for one-size-fits-all forced vaccination policies in the U.S. and Britain refused to conduct credible scientific research into vaccine reactions, they have manipulated existing data and covered- up evidence that vaccines kill and injure children far more frequently than the public has been told. Instead of doing their job and finding out how and why vaccines can do harm, they content themselves with witchhunting doctors trying to find out how and why vaccines can do harm.

As Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

SUNDAY EXPRESS 18 June 2006

by Lucy Johnston

HEALTH EDITOR

Can we ever trust MMR?

'The Government has not looked at the whole picture'

Four years ago, the Sunday Express revealed that at least 26 child deaths have been linked with the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. In many cases, the Government - or leading medical officials - accepted the connection.

Now, as we report today, two more parents have come forward claiming their babies died as a result of the jab. And, last month, Vietnamese health authorities withdrew the MMR jab after the death of one child and hospitalisation of five others. The World Health Organisation is now investigating this scare.

Since its launch in 1988, thousands of parents have reported unwanted reactions to the triple jab, from moderate – rash, headache, temperature – to severe, including brain damage, autism and convulsions. In 1992, the Department of Health conceded it got the pre-licence trials wrong when the chief medical officer announced the withdrawal of two of the three brands of MMR because they were found to be causing meningitis.

All drugs, including vaccines can have side effects.The Government accepts this – why else would it make vaccine damage pay-outs of up to £100,000? But, publicly, it claims no deaths have been associated with MMR. How can it do this when its own officials and post-mortem reports state otherwise?

Vaccine manufacturers accept there can be serious side effects, and have informed the Government of this. So why does the Government’s publicity machine continue to insist that the triple jab is entirely safe?

Instead of being open and investigating potential dangers in what appears to be a minority of children, the Government polarises the debate by implying there are no risks.The Whitehall propaganda machine really kicked in eight years ago when the press reported findings of Dr Andrew Wakefield’s explosive paper linking the MMR jab with autism.

At the time, his work was accepted as credible by experts in the field. But, instead of making stocks of single vaccines available, as Wakefield advised, policy chiefs made it difficult for parents to obtain them.

MMR uptake continued to fall. With an outbreak of disease on the horizon, public health officials panicked. The Department of Health launched a campaign to rubbish Wakefield’s research. He was ostracised by his peers and forced to resign his post at the Royal Free. The Government risked losing face if it changed its stance and accepted MMR might cause problems in some children, but it also stood to lose millions in compensation claims. Action had also been taken against the drug companies, which is still ongoing.

Dr Wakefield has become the scapegoat for the frenzy over MMR but he is not, as the Government likes to portray him, a lone maverick. Many other doctors have concerns, and other scientists have found evidence to support his findings. But the Department of Health insists that research proves the jab is safe.

However, the Government has not looked at the whole picture. Instead of looking at the affected children themselves, the studies it cites are based on patterns of disease taken from medical records of large populations, which are unable to detect adverse reactions in small numbers of children.

When Dr Wakefield alerted the Government and vaccine chiefs to his research before publication, it promised an independent forum into his findings. This has never happened. Instead, it has called for an investigation into Dr Wakefield. The General Medical Council is considering whether to charge him with serious professional misconduct.

Figures released by the Health Protection Agency last week reveal the number of potentially deadly measles cases seen by doctors since January is five times higher than during all last year, prompting fears of an epidemic.

As Richard Halvorsen, vaccine expert and central London GP said: "With the threat of a measles epidemic, the only way many parents will protect their children is with the single vaccine. By refusing to allow this, the Government is contributing to the epidemic it seeks to prevent."

One has to ask the question: where does the Department of Health’s interests lie? Is it to protect the nation's health, or to protect officials, and the pharmaceutical industries’ lucrative patents for new combination jabs?