This article puts a somewhat different spin on the hazards of, and
reasons to avoid, vaccinations.
Paul

WHY YOU SHOULD AVOID TAKING VACCINES

By Dr. James Howenstine, MD.
December 7, 2003
NewsWithViews.com

Dr. James R. Shannon, former director of the National institute of
health declared, "the only safe vaccine is one that is never used."
Cowpox vaccine was believed able to immunize people against smallpox.
At the time this vaccine was introduced, there was already a decline
in the number of cases of smallpox. Japan introduced compulsory
vaccination in 1872. In 1892 there were 165,774 cases of smallpox with
29,979 deaths despite the vaccination program. A stringent compulsory
smallpox vaccine program, which prosecuted those refusing the vaccine,
was instituted in England in 1867. Within 4 years 97.5 % of persons
between 2 and 50 had been vaccinated. The following year England
experienced the worst smallpox epidemic[1] in its history with 44,840
deaths. Between 1871 and 1880 the incidence of smallpox escalated from
28 to 46 per 100,000. The smallpox vaccine does not work.

Much of the success attributed to vaccination programs may actually
have been due to improvement in public health related to water quality
and sanitation, less crowded living conditions, better nutrition, and
higher standards of living. Typically the incidence of a disease was
clearly declining before the vaccine for that disease was introduced.
In England the incidence of polio had decreased by 82 % before the
polio vaccine was introduced in 1956.

In the early 1900s an astute Indiana physician, Dr. W.B. Clarke,
stated "Cancer was practically unknown until compulsory vaccination
with cowpox vaccine began to be introduced. I have had to deal with
two hundred cases of cancer, and I never saw a case of cancer in an
unvaccinated[2] person."

There is a widely held belief that vaccines should not be criticized
because the public might refuse to take them. This is valid only if
the benefits exceed the known risks of the vaccines.

Do Vaccines Actually Prevent Disease?

This important question does not appear to have ever been adequately
studied. Vaccines are enormously profitable for drug companies and
recent legislation in the U.S. has exempted lawsuits against
pharmaceutical firms in the event of adverse reactions to vaccines
which are very common. In 1975 Germany stopped requiring pertussis
(whooping cough) vaccination. Today less than 10 % of German children
are vaccinated against pertussis. The number of cases of pertussis has
steadily decreased[3] even though far fewer children are receiving
pertussis vaccine.

Measles outbreaks have occurred in schools with vaccination rates over
98 % in all parts of the U.S. including areas that had reported no
cases of measles for years. As measles immunization rates rise to high
levels measles becomes a disease seen only in vaccinated persons. An
outbreak of measles occurred in a school where 100 % of the children
had been vaccinated. Measles mortality rates had declined by 97 % in
England before measles vaccination was instituted.

In 1986 there were 1300 cases of pertussis in Kansas and 90 % of these
cases occurred in children who had been adequately vaccinated. Similar
vaccine failures have been reported from Nova Scotia where pertussis
continues to be occurring despite universal vaccination. Pertussis
remains endemic[4] in the Netherlands where for more than 20 years 96
% of children have received 3 pertussis shots by age 12 months.

After institution of diptheria vaccination in England and Wales in
1894 the number of deaths from diptheria rose by 20 % in the
subsequent 15 years. Germany had compulsory vaccination in 1939. The
rate of diptheria spiraled to 150,000 cases that year whereas, Norway
which did not have compulsory vaccination, had only 50 cases of
diptheria the same year.

The continued presence of these infectious diseases in children who
have received vaccines proves that life long immunity which follows
natural infection does not occur in persons receiving vaccines. The
injection process places the viral particles into the blood without
providing any clear way to eliminate these foreign substances.

Why Do Vaccines Fail To Protect Against Diseases?

Walene James, author of Immunization: the Reality Behind The Myth,
states that the full[5] inflammatory response is necessary to create
real immunity. Prior to the introduction of measles and mumps vaccines
children got measles and mumps and in the great majority of cases
these diseases were benign. Vaccines "trick" the body so it does not
mount a complete inflammatory response to the injected virus.

Vaccines and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome SIDS

The incidence of Sudden Infant Death syndrome SIDS has grown from .55
per 1000 live births in 1953 to 12.8 per 1000 in 1992 in Olmstead
County, Minnesota. The peak incidence for SIDS is age 2 to 4 months
the exact time most vaccines are being given to children. 85 % of
cases of SIDS occur in the first 6 months of infancy. The increase in
SIDS as a percentage of total infant deaths has risen from 2.5 per
1000 in 1953 to 17.9 per 1000 in 1992. This rise in SIDS deaths has
occurred during a period when nearly every childhood disease was
declining due to improved sanitation and medical progress except SIDS.
These deaths from SIDS did increase during a period when the number of
vaccines given a child was steadily rising to 36 per child.

Dr. W. Torch was able to document 12 deaths in infants which appeared
within 3½ and 19 hours of a DPT immunization. He later reported 11 new
cases of SIDS death and one near miss which had occurred within 24
hours of a DPT injection. When he studied 70 cases of SIDS two thirds
of these victims[6] had been vaccinated from one half day to 3 weeks
prior to their deaths. None of these deaths was attributed to
vaccines. Vaccines are a sacred cow and nothing against them appears
in the mass media because they are so profitable to pharmaceutical
firms.

There is valid reason to think that not only are vaccines worthless in
preventing disease they are counterproductive because they injure the
immune system permitting cancer, auto-immune diseases and SIDS to
cause much disability and death.

Are Vaccines Sterile?

Dr. Robert Strecker claimed that the department of defense DOD was
given $10,000,000 in 1969 to create the AIDS virus to be used as a
population-reducing[7] weapon against blacks. By use of the Freedom of
Information Act Dr. Strecker was able to learn that the DOD secured
funds from Congress to perform studies on immune destroying agents for
germ warfare.

Once produced, the vaccine was given in two locations. Smallpox
vaccine containing HIV was given to 100,000,000 Africans in 1977. Over
2000 young white homosexual males in New York City were given
Hepatitis B vaccine that contained HIV virus in 1978. This vaccine was
given at New York City Blood Center. The Hepatitis B vaccine
containing the HIV virus was also administered to homosexual males in
San Francisco, Los Angeles, St.Louis, Houston and Chicago in 1978 and
1979. U.S. Public Health epidemiology studies have disclosed that
these same 6 cities had the highest incidence of AIDS, Aids related
Complex (ARC) and deaths rates from HIV, when compared to other U.S.
cities.

When a new virus is introduced into a community. It takes 20 years for
the number of cases to double. If the fabricated story that green
monkey bites of pygmies led to the HIV epidemic, the alleged monkey
bites in the 1940s should have produced a peak in the incidence of HIV
in the 1960s at which time HIV was non existent in Africa. The World
Health Organization (WHO) began a African smallpox vaccination
campaign in 1977 that targeted urban population centers and avoided
pygmies. If the green monkey bites of pygmies truly caused the HIV
epidemic the incidence of HIV in pygmies should have been higher than
in urban citizens. However, the opposite was true.

In 1954 Dr. Bernice Eddy (bacteriologist) discovered live monkey
viruses in supposedly sterile inactivated polio vaccine[8] developed
by Dr. Jonas Salk. This discovery was not well received at the NIH and
Dr. Eddy was demoted. Later Dr. Eddy, working with Sarah Stewart,
discovered SE polyoma virus. This virus was quite important because it
caused cancer in every animal receiving it. Yellow fever vaccine had
previously been found to contain avian (bird) leukemia virus. Later
Dr. Hilleman isolated SV 40 virus from both the Salk and Sabin polio
vaccines. There were 40 different viruses[9] in these polio vaccines
they were trying to eradicate. They were never able to get rid of
these viruses ontaminating the polio vaccines. The SV 40 virus causes
malignancies. It has now been identified in 43 % of cases of non-
Hodgekin lymphoma[10] , 36 % of brain tumors[11] , 18 % of healthy
blood samples, and 22 % of healthy semen samples, mesothiolomas and
other malignancies. By the time of this discovery SV 40 had already
been injected into 10,000,000 people in Salk vaccine. Gastric
digestion inactivtes some of SV 40 in Sabin vaccine. However, the
isolation of strains of Sabin polio vaccine from all 38 cases of
Guillan Barre Syndrome[12] GBS in Brazil suggests that significant
numbers of persons are able to be infected from this vaccine. All 38
of these patients had received Sabin polio vaccine months to years
before the onset of GBS. The incidence of non-Hodgekin lymphoma
has"mysteriouly" doubled since the 1970s.

Dr. John Martin, Professor of Pathology at the Univ. of Southern
California, was employed by the Viral Oncology Branch of the Bureau of
Biologics (FDA) from 1976 to 1980. While employed there he identified
foreign DNA in the live polio vaccine Orimune Lederle that suggested
serious vaccine contamination. He warned his supervisors about this
problem and was told to discontinue his work as it was outside the
scope of testing required for polio vaccine.

Later Dr. Martin learned that all eleven of the African green monkeys
used to grow the Lederle polio virus Orimune had grown simian
cytomegalovirus from kidney cell cultures. Lederle was aware of this
viral contamination as their Cytomegaloviral Contamination Plan[13]
clearly showed in 1972. The Bureau of Biologics decided not to pursue
the matter so production of infected polio vaccine continued.

In 1955 Dr. Martin identified unique cell destroying viruses termed
stealth viruses in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. These
viruses lacked genes that would enable the immune system to recognize
them. Thus they were protected by the body's failure to develop
antiviral antibodies. In March of 1995, Dr. Martin learned that some
of these stealth viruses had originated from African green monkey
simian cytomegalovirus of a type known to infect man.

The Lederle vaccine experience suggests that the higher-ups are not
concerned about sloppy and dangerous preparation of vaccines. Animal
cross infection is a huge unsolved current problem for all vaccine
manufacturing. If this vaccine production sounds like an unbelievable
mess to you, you are right.

The influential Club of Rome has a position paper in which they state
that the world population is too large and needs to be reduced by 90
%. This means that 6 billion people must be reduced to 500 to 600
million. Obviously, creating famines and genocidal wars such as
wrecked havoc in Africa, and loosing new laboratory-created diseases
(HIV, Ebola, Marburg[14] , and probably West Nile virus and SARS) can
help reduce the population. Other elitist groups (Trilaterals,
Bildenbergers) have expressed similar concerns about excess people on
planet Earth.

The company that was projected to produce the new smallpox vaccine in
the U.S. was in serious trouble in England because of unsatisfactory
quality of operations before setting up their facility in the U.S. Why
would their performance here be any better than it was in England?

If there are important powerful groups of people that are determined
to reduce the world population, what could be a more diabolically
clever way to eliminate people than to inject them with a cancer-
causing vaccine? The person receiving the injection would never
suspect that the vaccine taken 10 to 15 years earlier had caused the
cancer to appear.

Other Dangers From Vaccines

In the March 4, 1977 issue of Science Jonas and Darrell Salk warn,
"Live virus vaccines against influenza or poliomyelitis may in each
instance produce the disease it intended to prevent. The live virus
against measles and mumps may produce such side effects as
encephalitis (brain damage).

The swine flu vaccine was administered to the American public even
though there had never been a case of swine flu identified in a human.
Farmers refused to use the vaccine because it killed too many animals.
Within a few months of use in humans this vaccine caused many cases of
serious nerve injury (Guillan Barre syndrome).

An article in the Washington Post on Jan. 26, 1988 mentioned that all
cases of polio since 1979 had been caused by the polio vaccine with no
known cases of polio from a wild strain since 1979. This might have
created a perfect situation to discontinue the vaccine, but the
vaccine is still given. Vaccines are a wonderful source of profits
with no risks to the drug companies since vaccine injuries are now
recompensed by the government.

The steady escalation in the number of vaccines administered has been
followed by an identical rise in the incidence of auto-immune diseases
(rheumatoid arthritis, subacute lupus erythematosus, psoriasis,
multiple sclerosis, asthma) seen in children. While there is a genetic
transmission of some of these diseases many are probably due to the
injury from foreign protein particles, mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde
and other toxic agents injected in vaccines.

In 1999, the rotavirus vaccine was recommended by the Center for
Disease Control for all infants. When this vaccine program was
instituted several infants died and many had life endangering bowel
obstructions. Prelicensure trials[15] of the rotavirus vaccine had
demonstrated an increased incidence of intussusception 30 times
greater than normal but the vaccine was released anyway without
special warnings to practitioners to be on the lookout for bowel
problems. Children's vaccines are often not studied for toxicity
possibly because such study might eliminate them from being used.

A large study from Australia showed that the risk of developing
encephalitis from the pertussis vaccine was 5 times greater than the
risk of developing encephalitis by contacting pertussis by natural
methods.

Naturally acquired immunity by illness evolves by spread of a virus
from the respiratory tract to the liver, thymus, spleen, and bone
marrow. When symptoms begin, the entire immune response has been
mobilized to repel the invading virus. This complex immune system
response creates antibodies that confer life long immunity against
that invading virus and prepares the child to respond promptly to an
infection by the same virus in the future.

Vaccination, in contrast, results in the persisting of live virus or
other foreign antigens within the cells of the body, a situation that
may provoke auto-immune reactions as the body attempts to destroy its
own infected cells. There is no surprise that the incidence of auto-
immune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, subacute lupus erythematosus,
multiple sclerosis, asthma, psoriasis) has risen sharply in this era
of multiple vaccine immunization.

Vaccine Induced Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Dr. John Classen has published 29 articles on vaccine-induced[16]
diabetes. At least 8 of 10 children with Type 1 (insulin needing)
diabetes have this disease as a result of vaccination. These children
may have avoided measles, mumps, and whooping cough but they have
received something far worse: an illness that shortens life expectancy
by 10 to 15 years and results in a life requiring constant medical
care.

Dr. Classen has shown in Finland, the introduction of hemophilus type
b vaccine caused three times as many cases of type 1 diabetes as the
number of deaths and brain damage from hemophilus influenza type b it
might have prevented.

In New Zealand, the incidence of Type 1 diabetes in children rose by
61 % after an aggressive vaccine program against hepatitis B.. This
same program has been started in the U.S.A. so we can now look forward
to many cases of Type 1 diabetes in children. Similar rises in Type 1
diabetes have been seen in England, Italy, Sweden, and Denmark after
immunization programs against Hepatitis B.

Toxic Substances Are Needed To Make Vaccines.

Vaccines contain many toxic substances that are needed to prevent the
vaccines from becoming infected or to improve the performance of the
vaccine. Among these substances are mercury, formaldehyde and aluminum.
[17]

In the past 10 years, the number of autistic children has risen from
between 200 and 500 percent in every state in the U.S. This sharp rise
in autism followed the introduction of measles, mumps and rubella
vaccine in 1975.

Representative Dan Burton's healthy grandson was given injections for
9 diseases in one day. These injections were instantly followed by
autism. These injections contain a preservative of mercury called
thimerosal. The boy received 41 times the amount of mercury which is
capable of harm to the body. Mercury is a neurotoxin that can injure
the brain and nervous system. And tragically, it did.

In the United States the number of compulsory vaccine injections has
increased from 10 to 36 in the last 25 years. During this period,
there has been a simultaneous increase in the number of children
suffering learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder. Some
of these childhood disabilities are related to intrauterine cerebral
damage from maternal cocaine use, but probably vaccines cause many of
the others.

Many vaccines contain aluminum. A new disease called macrophagic
myofasciitis causes pain in muscles, bones and joints. All persons
with this disease have received aluminum containing vaccines. Deposits
of aluminum are able to remain as an irritant in tissues and disturb
the immune and nervous system for a lifetime.

Nearly all vaccines contain aluminum and mercury. These metals appear
to play an important role in the etiology of Alzheimer's Disease. An
expert at the 1997 International Vaccine Conference related that a
person who takes 5 or more annual flu vaccine shots has increased the
likelihood of developing Alzheimer's Disease by a factor of 10 over
the person who has had 2 or fewer flu shots.

When we take vaccines we are playing a modern version of Russian
Roulette. We not only get exposed to aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde
and foreign cell proteins but we may get simian virus 40 and other
dangerous viruses which can cause cancer, leukemia and other severe
health problems because the vaccine pool is contaminated due to
careless animal isolation techniques. Congress has protected the
manufacturers from lawsuits, so dangerous vaccines simply increase
profits at no risk to the drug companies.

U.S. children aged 2 months began receiving hepatitis B vaccine in
December 2000.No peer-reviewed studies of the safety of hepatitis B in
this age bracket had been done. Over 36,000 adverse reactions with 440
deaths were soon reported but the true incidence is much higher as
reporting is voluntary so only approximately 10 % of adverse reactions
get reported. This means that about 5000 infants are dying annually
from the hepatitis B vaccine. The CDC's Chief of Epidemiology admits
that the frequency of serious reactions to hepatitis B vaccine is 10
times higher than other vaccines. Hepatitis B is transmitted sexually
and by contaminated blood, so the incidence of this disease must be
near zero in this age bracket. A vaccine expert, Dr. Philip Incao,
states that "the conclusion is obvious that the risks[18] of hepatitis
B vaccination far outweigh the benefits. Once a vaccine is mandated
the vaccine manufacturer is no longer liable for adverse reactions.

Dr. W.B. Clarke's important observation that cancer was not found in
unvaccinated individuals demands an explanation and one now appears
forthcoming. All vaccines given over a short period of time to an
immature immune system deplete the thymus gland (the primary gland
involved in immune reactions) of irreplaceable immature immune cells.
Each of these cells could have multiplied and developed into an army
of valuable cells to combat infection and growth of abnormal cells.
When these immune cells have been used up, permanent immunity may not
appear. The Arthur Research Foundation in Tucson, Arizona estimates
that up to 60 % of our immune system may be exhausted[19] by multiple
mass vaccines (36 are now required for children). Only 10 % of immune
cells are permanently lost when a child is permitted to develop
natural immunity from disease. There needs to be grave concern about
these immune system injuring vaccinations! Could the persons who
approve these mass vaccinations know that they are impairing the
health of these children, many of whom are being doomed to requiring
much medical care in the future?

Compelling evidence is available that the development of the immune
system after contracting the usual childhood diseases matures and
renders it capable to fight infection and malignant cells in the
future.

The use of multiple vaccines, which prevents natural immunity,
promotes the development of allergies and asthma. A New Zealand study
disclosed that 23 % of vaccinated children develop asthma , as
compared to zero in unvaccinated children.

Cancer was a very rare illness in the 1890's. This evidence about
immune system injury from vaccinating affords a plausible explanation
for Dr. Clarke's finding that only vaccinated individuals got cancer.
Some radical adverse change in health occurred in the early 1900s to
permit cancer to explode and vaccinating appears to be the reason.

Vaccines are an unnatural phenomena. My guess is that if enough
persons said no to immunizations there would be a striking improvement
in general health with nature back in the immunizing business instead
of man. Having a child vaccinated should be a choice not a
requirement. Medical and religious exemptions are permitted by most
states.

When governmental policies require vaccinations before children enter
schools coercion has overruled the lack of evidence of vaccine
efficacy and safety. There is no proof that vaccines work and they are
never studied for safety before release. My opinion is that there is
overwhelming evidence that vaccines are dangerous and the only reason
for their existence is to increase profits of pharmaceutical firms.

If you are forced to immunize your children so they can enter school,
obtain a notarized statement from the director of the facility that
they will accept full financial responsibility for any adverse
reaction from the vaccine. Since there is at least a 2 percent risk of
a serious adverse reaction they may be smart enough to permit your
child to escape a dangerous procedure. Recent legislation passed by
Congress gives the government the power to imprison persons refusing
to take vaccines (smallpox, anthrax, etc). This would be troublesome
to enforce if large numbers of citizens declined to be vaccinated at
the same time.

Footnotes:

1 Null Gary Vaccination: An Analysis of the Health Risks- Part
Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients Dec. 2003 pg 78
2 Mullins Eustace Murder by Injection pg 132 The National Council for
Medical Research, P. O. Box 1105, Staunton, Virginia 24401
3 Gary Null Interview with Dr. Dean Black April 7, 1995
4 de Melker HE, et al Pertussis in the Netherlands: an outbreak
despite high levels of immunization with whole-cell vaccine Emerging
Infectious Diseases 1997; 3(2): 175-8 Centers for Disease Control
5 Gary Null Interview with Walene James, April 6, 1995
6 Torch WS Diptheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) immunizations: a
potential cause of the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) Neurology
1982; 32-4 A169 abstract.
7 Collin Jonathan The Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients 1988
abstracted in Horowitz L. Emerging Viruses Aids & Ebola pg 1-5
8 Harris RJ et al Contaminant viruses in two live vaccines produced in
chick cells.J Hyg (London) 1966 Mar:64(1) : 1-7
9 Horowitz Leonard G. Emerging Viruses AIDS & Ebola pg 484
10 Vilchez RA et al Association between simian virus 40 and non-
Hodgekin lymphoma Lancet 2002 Mar 9;359(9309):817-823
11 Bu X A study of simian virus 40 infection and its origin in human
brain tumors Zhonghu Liu Xing Bing Xue Zhi 2000 Feb;21 (1):19-21
12 Friedrich F. et al temporal association between the isolation of
Sabin-related poliovirus vaccine strains and the Guillan-Barre
syndrome Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 1996 Jan-Feb; 38(1):55-8
13 Horowitz Leonard Emerging Viruses: Aids and Ebola pg 492
14 Horowitz Leonard G Emerging Viruses: Aids & Ebola pg 378-88
Tetrahedron Inc. Suite 147, 206 North 4th Ave. Sandpoint, Idaho 83864
1-888-508-4787 tetra@tetrahedron.org
15 Null, Gary Vaccination: An Anatysis of the health risks-Part 3
Townsend letter for doctors & patients Dec. 2003 pg 78
16 Classen, JB et al. Association between type 1 diabetes and Hib
vaccine BMJ 1999; 319:1133
17 Brain 9/01
18 Incao, philip M.D. Letter to representative Dale Van Vyven, Ohio
House of Representatives March 1, 1999 provided to www.garynull.com by
The Natural Immunity Information Network
19 Rowen Robert Your first consultation with Dr. Rowen pg 20

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Dr. James A. Howenstine is a board certified specialist in internal
medicine who spent 34 years caring for office and hospital patients.
Curiosity sparked a 4 year study of natural health products when 5 of
his patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis were able to discontinue
the use of methotrexate (chemotherapy agent) after trying an extract
of New Zealand mussels for the therapy of severe rheumatoid
arthritis.

Dr. Howenstine is convinced that natural products are safer, more
effective and less expensive than pharmaceutical drugs. This research
led to the publication of his book 'A Physicians Guide To Natural
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"Dr. W. Torch was able to document 12 deaths in infants which appeared
within 3½ and 19 hours of a DPT immunization. He later reported 11 new
cases of SIDS death and one near miss which had occurred within 24
hours of a DPT injection."