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AAP Fellow Speaks the Truth on Mercury: A Must Read

Friday, February 29th, 2008

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LES INCOMPETENTS: OPEN LETTER TO THE AAP

By K. Paul Stoller, M.D.

02/26/2008

http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/02/aap-fellow-resi.html?cid=104990550#comments

“Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.” —-Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society p50, 1953

As a pediatrician, who has been a fellow of the AAP for two decades, I find the AAP’s approach to the autism epidemic to be deeply disturbing.

Not only have they allowed the myth of better diagnosing (as the reason for all the notice given to affected children) to be perpetuated, but when they were put on notice at the CDC’s Simpsonwood meeting in 2000, that the mercury in the preservative Thimerosal was causing speech delays and learning disabilities, they obfuscated and hide that information. They never made good on their 1999 pledge to have Thimerosal eliminated from vaccines and almost a decade later joined in the protest against a fictitious TV show (Eli Stone) because it was critical of mercury being in vaccine. Out of 132 million doses of the worthless1 flu vaccine for the 2007-08 flu season, 8 million doses are Thimerosal free. That means 94% contain the full amount of Thimerosal.

If a pregnant woman got a flu shot in 2001 and her child followed the flu shot recommendations, the baby/fetus would have received six flu shots with the full amount of Thimerosal by the year 2005.

Today, flu vaccine for those under 3 year of age supposedly do not contain Thimerosal, but with no government agency testing vaccines for mercury, the only ones who know whether these Thimerosal free vaccine (flu or otherwise) actually are mercury free are the manufacturers themselves.

Vaccines with “trace” amounts of Thimerosal are supposed to contain less than 1 microgram of mercury per 0.5 ml dose (1 microgram (ug) Hg per 0.5 ml is the same as 2 ug Hg per ml which is the same as 2000 ug/liter. Micrograms per liter is parts per billion [ppb]2)

0.5 parts per billion (ppb) mercury = Kills human neuroblastoma cells (Parran et al., Toxicol Sci 2005; 86: 132-140).

2ppb mercury = U.S. EPA limit for drinking water (http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/index.html#mcls).

20 ppb mercury = Neurite membrane structure destroyed (Leong et al., Neuroreport 2001; 12: 733-37).

200 ppb mercury = level in liquid the EPA classifies as hazardous waste (http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/mercury/regs.htm#hazwaste)

25,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose, Hepatitis B vaccine vials, administered at birth from 1991-2001 in the U.S.

50,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose DTP and Haemophilus B vaccine vials, administered 8 times in the 1990’s to children at 2, 4, 6, 12 and 18 months of age. Current “preservative” level mercury in multi-dose flu, meningococcal and tetanus (7 and older) vaccines.

For years the Infectious Disease division at the CDC (and others) have said the reason for the dramatic increase in autism is due to “better diagnosing” and “greater awareness.” They have encouraged those like the AAP to manufacture uncertainty by publishing articles that were less than truthful. The AAP shamefully played along, perhaps encouraged by the largesse of vaccine manufacturers who significantly contribute to the AAP’s yearly budget.

There is another budget to consider for eighty percent of autistic Americans under the age of 18, and we will soon begin to see a dramatic impact on Social Security in coming years as these children become dependent adults. There are no studies that have found the previously undiagnosed or misdiagnosed autistic individuals among older Americans. They simply aren’t there. So what is coming will significantly impact on society.

As there are no genetic epidemics, which leaves an epidemic linked to some sort of exposure. Now, the increase of autism has been linked to the increase in mercury exposure through fish and industrial sources, amalgam and additionally, through increased parenteral exposure to Thimerosal – no controlled, randomized study regarding the safety of amalgam or Thimerosal exists.

A recently released Scientific Consensus Statement on Environmental Agents Associated with Neurodevelopmental Disorders (by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment’s Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative) concludes that environmental contaminants are an important cause of learning and developmental disabilities.

Delayed detoxification of mercury severely impairs methylation reactions (required for the correct expression of DNA, RNA, and neurotransmitters), which further adversely affects growth factor derived development of the brain and attention abilities. Phospholipid methylation, which is crucial for attention, is impaired in autistic and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders.

In a first analysis of the VSD datasets, Verstraeten (et al) had described a 7.6 to 11.4 fold increase of autism risk in children at one month, with the highest mercury exposure levels compared to children with no exposure. In four subsequent separate generations of the analysis, which involve the exclusion of children with no Thimerosal exposure and less than two polio vaccines, the statistical significance disappeared. This is what was published by the AAP even though they knew the truth. How did they know the truth?

Again, they were presented at the Simpsonwood meeting in June 2000, a meeting that was illegal to hold. No Federal agency is allowed to call a meeting together with representatives of private industry (all the vaccine manufacturers were represented at this meeting) without opening the meeting to the public.

Thimerosal was tested only once, by Eli Lilly on 22 adult patients suffering from meningitis. There was no chance for follow- up to observe long-term effects, as all of the patients in this “study” died. Even if follow-up had been possible, damage to the developing brains of very young children would have remained an unknown. Eli Lilly said it was safe and the medical community accepted it. After the creation of the FDA, its use was simply continued. The federal government has never tested the type of mercury in vaccines for toxicity. This is an unconscionable oversight failure at best, at worse it is an example that we have left consensus reality to be created by the liars, thieves, cheats, killers, and the junk scientists they employ.

How it came to pass the AAP joined these rogues and became an active participant in this skullduggery is beyond reason – is even beyond greed. They have remained silent as mercury laden vaccine continue to be exported and used in all third world and second world countries.

We are living in a time where an incredible overplay and lies and self-aggrandizing behavior and non-science is the norm. We have tolerated the junk science that has covered up the true cause of this epidemic at a considerable cost to science, the public, and our very way of life in this country. Is it stretch to realize that by putting our collective heads in the sand about the autism epidemic we have made it possible for the destruction of our very civilization?

Not something easy to contemplate? Then ask why haven’t pediatricians come forward to demand the end of the use of Thimerosal once and for all, and to advocate for the treatment of these children before it is too late? Why are they not at the front of the line protesting the amounts of mercury allowed to come out of coal-fired power plants? Why aren’t they leading the charge to stop the use of mercury amalgam dental fillings that are placed in the mouths of young children and pregnant women?

The very Federal agencies that should have been sounding the alarm bell about environmental pollution creating future generations of mentally disabled citizens did less than remain silent because they have become arms of the very corporations that profit from selling and distributing poisons. Just look who sits on the FDA’s Scientific Advisory Boards – the conflicts of interest are so glaring as to suggest that the FDA has become a trade arm of big pharma.

Nevertheless, the hand writing is on the wall as the US government has quietly conceded a vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims.3 Pediatricians will no longer be able to hide behind the skirts of “Standard of Care” if they are giving autistic children heavy-metal laden vaccines. That is only one step away from giving vaccines and making normal children autistic.

The AAP should proactively be bringing in risk management specialists and be proactive towards how this could affect pediatricians in civil litigation for following the CDC recommendations on vaccinations after a diagnosis of any type of neurodevelopmental delay in a child. This is what they are afraid of and this is what the law of attraction will bring in upon the AAP and the minions of those that just followed the recommendations and drank the Kool-Aid that Big Pharma wanted them to drink.

For all the above reasons, I will no longer enable the AAP to be party to the damage that is being done to the world’s children by sending in my dues for a third decade. It is a token protest, but it has to begin with someone.

1 BMJ 2006;333:912-915 (28 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.38995.531701.80

2 http://www.ajph.org/cgi/eletters/AJPH.2007.113159v1

3 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/government-concedes-vacci_b_88323.html

K. Paul Stoller, MD is the President of International Hyperbaric Medical Assoc and Medical Director of the Hyperbaric Medical Center of New Mexico.

Facts Worth Noting About Pediatric Flu Vaccination

Friday, February 29th, 2008

The Natural Solutions Foundation, the leading Global Health Freedom organization, is proud to present this information to you. We protect your right to know about – and to use – natural ways to maintain and regain your health, no matter where in the world you live. Among your freedoms is the right to clean, unadulterated food free of genetic manipulation, pesticides, heavy metals or other contaminants and access to herbs, supplements, frequency devices and other means as therapies that may benefit or to protect your well-being without drugs and other dangerous interventions, if you choose.

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November 18, 2007

The following article presents testimony and statistics which any health freedom advocate or parent will find useful in considering whether they want to be vaccinated or have their child vaccinated against their will.

Vaccinating For Profit – From Cradle to Coffin News
February 2, 2006. By Evelyn Pringle

Due to the flooding of special education classrooms, along with the rising medical costs of treating injured children, local taxes will soon go through the roof, at which time the public will be forced to face the unthinkable truth about the poisoned generation.

And when that happens, government officials had better not even think about trying to feign ignorance because parents, scientists, and medical experts have been screaming about the epidemic in vaccine injuries, from one end of the country to the other, since the 1990s, and the fact is that lawmakers knowingly allowed it to happen.

Over the past twenty years, our government has facilitated a nationwide experiment on our country’s youngest citizens via the Mandatory Childhood Vaccine Schedule, and the tragic results of the experiment can be equally credited to the joint efforts of compromised regulatory officials and politicians, and the pharmaceutical industry that stood to make billions.

In a perverse twist of fate, the vaccine program has evolved into a grand profiteering scheme, second only to the military industrial complex’s war on terror fiasco. Instead of prevention, the program has resulted in an epidemic of serious health problems for an entire generation of children and at the same time, produced an infinite market expansion for the sale of other prescription drugs, for the scheme’s developers.

The start of the epidemic can be traced to the late 1980s, when public health officials dramatically increased the number of vaccines, which contained the mercury-based preservative thimerosal, without taking into consideration the impact of the cumulative mercury load on developing brains of infants.

Once the mercury poisoning was discovered by the FDA in 1999, vaccine-makers claimed they were eliminating thimerosal from vaccines but they never recalled the vaccines already on the market and children continued to receive mercury in vaccines for several more years. Even today, the flu vaccine recommended for 6-month-old babies and pregnant women still contain a full dose of thimerosal.

Instead of ordering drug companies to get the preservative out of all vaccines, Congressional Republicans and President George W Bush spent much of the past 3 years working on strategies to give the pharmaceutical industry protection against lawsuits from vaccine injured children. A handful of shameless Congressional Republicans remained lurking around in the shadows for years, just waiting for the right moment to attach the protective provision to some “anti-terror” spending bill until they succeeded in December 2005.

Before the age of two in this country, children receive at least 20 injections involving twelve diseases. By the time they reach first grade, they have had at least 24 vaccinations, if they are in compliance with the CDC’s 2005 Immunization Schedule. [By the time they reach age 18, if they have been vaccinated according to the American Academy of Pediatrics schedule, they have received fully 78 vaccinations! Comment by Dr. Rima]

For good reason, many parents do not want their children to receive 24 injections for diseases they have never heard of [and another 58 by age 18! Comment by Dr. Rima]. However, government officials use every trick in the book to force them to inject these poisonous concoctions into their children, including economic sanctions for refusing to comply.

Refusing vaccination can result in citizens being denied enrollment in daycare, elementary school, and college; denial of health insurance; denial of employment; and denial of federal and state benefits for poor children including cutting off medical care under Medicaid, and food, under the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program.

Medical professionals have been trying to get lawmaker to take notice of the health problems caused by vaccines since the 1990s. On June 14, 1999, Jane Orient, MD, Executive Director of the Associating of American Physicians and Surgeons, testified before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources of the Committee on Government reform and said:

“Striking increases in chronic illnesses have occurred in temporal association with an increase in vaccination rates,” she said. “Asthma and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, causes of lifelong morbidity and frequent premature death, have nearly doubled in incidence since the introduction of many new, mandatory vaccines.”

“There is no explanation for this increase,” Orient added.

“Even more alarming,” she told lawmakers, “is the huge increase in reports of autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, with devastating, life-long impacts.”

“Measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, and the whole panoply of childhood diseases are a far less serious threat,” Orient warned, “than having a large fraction (say 10%) of a generation afflicted with learning disability and/or uncontrollable aggressive behavior because of an impassioned crusade for universal vaccination.”

About 3 years later, across the country on the West Coast, Barbara Loe Fisher, President of the National Vaccine Information Center, testified before the California Senate Committee on Childhood Immunization Mandates: Politics vs Public Health on January 23, 2002. Fisher acknowledged that the CDC, and American Academy of Pediatrics, vigorously deny that the vaccines could have anything to do with more children being chronically ill.

“Yet, the haunting question remains,” she said, “if we have wiped out polio and almost eliminated measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough and other childhood diseases with vaccines – why are so many of our children stuck on sick?”

“Why are our special education classrooms so crowded that we can’t find enough money or train teachers fast enough to care for these learning disabled, hyperactive, autistic, asthmatic, diabetic, emotionally disturbed, sick children?” Fisher asked.

Since 1982, she charged, “the numbers of American children with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder and asthma have doubled; diabetes has tripled; and the incidence of autism has reached epidemic proportions, increasing 200 to 600 percent in every state, marking a staggering 3400 percent increase in the prevalence of autism in our children.”

Scientist have also been warning lawmakers about the vaccine injuries. Dr Mark Geier, holds a PhD in genetics, and was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health for10 years. He has studied vaccines for over 30 years. Dr. Geier and his son, David Geier, are the only independent researchers who have gained access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink database controlled by the CDC, to conduct studies on the connection between vaccines and the epidemic in neurological problems.

In a March 22, 2003 letter to Senator Hillary Clinton, the Geiers reported: “we have concluded in our studies that a causal relationship exists between mercury from thimerosal in childhood vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders.”

“Our best estimates are that the thimerosal contributed to about 75% of the cases of neurodevelpmental disorders while the MMR contributed to about 15%,” they said. “The remaining 10% of the cases were related to mercury in Rhogam, a shot given to Rh-negative women, and to other sources of neurotoxicity.”

On June 18, 2004, Representative Dave Weldon (R-FL), a doctor by calling, was on the floor of Congress waving red flags, and literally begging Congress to recognize the seriousness of the epidemic in children with neurological disorders all over the country.

“Mr. Speaker, something dreadful is happening to our youngest generation, and we must sound the alarm and figure out what is going on with our children,” he said.

He quoted the Department of Health and Human Services when explaining that one in every 167 children was being diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. “Furthermore,” Weldon reported, “one in 7 children is being diagnosed with either a learning disability or a behavioral disability.”

On June 19, 2002, James Bradstreet, MD, Clinical Director of The International Child Development Resource Center in Florida, testified in Washington before the Government Reform Committee, and warned lawmakers about the cost of the autism epidemic back then.

“ICDRC estimates the minimal cost in present value, to care for those 420,000 existing children with autism is $1,260,000,000,000 (based on $3million/lifetime and 420,000 children affected).”

“So a little over a $1 trillion in the next 50 years would be required if we stopped creating new cases today,” Bradstreet said.

“Because autism is doubling every four years, this is likely an overly conservative estimate” he added. “The societal cost could easily be $3-4 trillion.”

On June 20, 2005, Robert F Kennedy, Jr, a relatively new advocate calling for the removal of thimerosal from vaccines, appeared on the Don Imus Show on MSNBC, and warned the public that our government is allowing drug companies to ship thimerosal-containing vaccines for use on children in other countries.

“They’re giving this now to kids all over the third world,” Kennedy warned. “In China, autism was unknown five years ago,” he said. “They started giving them American vaccines containing thimerosal and now they’ve got 1.8 million cases of autism,” he added.

Autism is also exploding in Argentina, India, and Nigeria, Kennedy said.

“What’s going to happen when our enemies around the world realize that the United State’s most heralded foreign policy which is vaccinating the children of the world is poisoning the brains of developing third world children?” he warmed.

“This is just a disaster,” Kennedy told Imus.

But it gets worse. Over the past 15 years, the vaccine scheme has resulted in a full-circle cycle of profits for the pharmaceutical industry. After poisoning an entire generation, drug companies are now making record profits from drugging their victims.

And the true irony of the situation is that due to their partnership with compromised officials and lawmakers, they were able to pull most of it off on the tax payer’s dime. Federal and State government programs, are the largest buyers of vaccines, administered “free” beginning with pregnant women all the way up to seniors citizens in nursing homes.

The vaccine racket is raging on at full-throttle. In 2005, more vaccines were administered to infants under the age of 1 in the US than in any other country. The current immunization schedule calls for 3 doses of Hepatitis B, the first at birth, 3 doses each of DTAP, HIB, IPV, Prevnar, and one dose of flu vaccine before a child’s first birthday.

The first year of childhood vaccines costs $620, and the second year costs $340, according to Pediatric Preventive Care Cost, Estimated US Average, 2005, by Patient Age, Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care (RE9939) and Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule, US, 2005.

For the year 2004, the CDC reported the US birth rate to be 4,115,590. Without an industrial size calculator, it would be impossible to do the math to multiply the birth rate by the vaccine costs above. Suffice to say that the total amount represents major profits for vaccine makers especially when most of the bill is sent directly to the tax payers.

As for making money off the vaccine-injured children, between 2000 and 2003, the number of children treated for “severe behavioral conditions” related to conduct disorder and autism rose more than 60%, according to Behavior Drugs Lead in Sales for Children, New York Times, May 17, 2004.

Tax dollars are being directly funneled to the pharmaceutical industry through the damaged children. Public funds currently account for 63% of all mental health spending and Medicaid spending has risen more than 50% since 2000 to more than $300 billion per year, according to Parity-Plus: A Third Way Approach to Fix America’s Mental Health System, Progressive Policy Institute, June 22, 2005; Medicaid Largest US Payer, Daily Health Policy Report, March 30, 20005.

Drug companies have also been raking in major profits from the sale of attention deficit drugs, with much of it coming from the public trough. The National Center for Health Statistics, reports that the number of children aged 3 to 17 with ADHD went from 3.3 million in 1997 to 4.4 million in 2002. Between 2000 and 2004, use of attention deficit stimulant drugs rose 56% among children, according to data compiled Medco Health Solutions, one of the largest prescription benefit managers in the nation.

According to testimony at the February 18, 2004, FDA hearing, by Dr Gianna Rigoni, of the FDA’s Office of Drug Safety, a combined total of approximately 10.8 million prescriptions were dispensed for SSRI antidepressants and atypicals antipsychotics to the 1 to 17-year-old population in 2002, and children between 1 and 11-years-old, accounted for about 2.7 million of those prescriptions.

In 2004, SSRIs and antipsychotics became the third-and fourth-biggest classes of drugs in the country, with sales of $20.7 billion. And much of that cost was borne by government health-care plans, according to the July 27, 2005 Wall Street Journal.

As for the continued use of thimerosal-laced flu vaccines with infants, according to the ACIP report of July 29, 2005 / 54(RR08);1-40, actual deaths from influenza are uncommon among children with and without high-risk conditions. A study that modeled influenza-related deaths estimated that annually, an average of 92 deaths, or 0.4 deaths per 100,000, occurred among children under 5 during the 1990’s.

So, are the risks associated with injecting a full dose of thimerosal into 4,115,590 six-month-old babies worth it when weighed against the benefits, if any, of flu vaccines? More and more parents think not.

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/vaccine-profit.html

Food Fights and Fear in Australia

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Food prices are rising as biofuel uses up farm land and farmer’s time. Worse, Codex compliant foods, shipped long distances, add much more to global warming than locally produced and consumed foods (whose nutrients are more available and taste better, too). But all over the world, food is becoming so expensive, and the food shortages of food in storage are becoming so extreme that the ability of the poorest members of society to obtain food is becoming more and more difficult.

The following Australian article notes that a the price of a cow has increased in the past year from $700 Australian dollars to $1400 this fall. What this means to the poorest is cataclysmic. What it means to the middle class is difficult. What it means to the international corporations that control the production of food (Big Agribiz and Big Biotechna) is what disease means to Big Pharma and the rest of the illness care industry: profits, and big ones at that.

The David Suzuki Foundation notes that a basic North American meal could travel about 1,500 miles to get to your dinner table?
Transporting food causes greenhouse gases that lead to global climate change while locally grown foods help conserve farmlands and wildlife habitats. Local food also reduces the environmental costs of food transportation and is more likely to be fresh than food shipped long distances.

In fact, local eating has a new name: locovores. People whose diet consists primarily of food grown in their local areas have taken on the characteristics of a new type of human. Locovores celebrate the seasons and eat what their region produces all year long. Locovores can be meat eaters, non meat eaters, vegans, raw foodists or whatever they please. But whatever they fill their plates with, it did not travel long to get there. They are saving fuel, saving time, saving costs and saving the planet. And their food tastes better, too. Not a bad deal.

Grow and eat local organic produce to stem this tide of manipulated sticker shock and failing food supplies. Better yet, grow some or all of your own food in your own gardens or in community gardens. Find out more about community gardens from Canadian Health, the American Community Gardening Association (http://www.communitygarden.org/).

Do yourself and the planet a favor. Help counter the global food shortage by buying and eating locally.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

Food fear beats climate change

Article from: The Advertiser, Australia

CLARE PEDDIE, SCIENCE REPORTER

January 17, 2008 09:30pm

A WORSENING global food shortage is a problem far more urgent than climate change, top Australian scientists have warned.
The Australian Science Media Centre briefing heard why prices for some staple foods had risen by as much as 60 per cent in the past year, and how dramatic price rises are expected to sweep across all staples in the near future.

Executive director of the Australian Farm Institute Mick Keogh said dairy products, grain and poultry had seen the strongest price rises in recent months.

Beef and lamb were forecast to follow, with nationwide livestock shortages taking the average price for a cow from $700 a head 12 months ago to $1400 a head going into autumn.

Key speaker at the national science briefing Professor Julian Cribb said the security of our food supply is “the global scientific challenge of our time”.

The problem was more urgent even than climate change, said Professor Cribb, from the University of Technology in Sydney, because it will get us first . . . through famine and war. “By 2050 we will have to feed the equivalent of 13 billion people at today’s levels of nutrition,” he said.

“This situation brings with it the very real possibility of regional and global instability. Investment in global food stability is now defence spending and requires proportionate priority.”

A “knowledge drought” – the lack of innovation to address farm productivity challenges – had added to the crisis, Professor Cribb said.

He called for a massive increase in public investment in agricultural research and development.

Farmers face challenges posed by drought, climate change, rising oil prices, erosion and nutrient loss combined with more demand for food stocks and biofuels.

Global grain stocks have fallen to their lowest level since record-keeping began in 1960, while Australia’s sheep flock is at its lowest since the mid-1920s, with about 86 million.

In September last year 2007 the Australian Bureau of Statistics found consumers were paying 11.9 per cent more for basic food items than they were two years before. That is almost double the Consumer Price Index rise of 5.9 per cent during the period.

CDC: Immunize Every Kid in America Against Flu – Every Year! Hey, It Worked in NJ!

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

The CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics have succeeded in New Jersey so they are now after every child in America: vaccinate every child every year with flu shots that damage the immune system, may contain mercury, surely contain aluminum, formaldehyde, foreign protein, and actually don’t work most of the time. Apparently that sounds like a winner to the Big Pharma side of the house.

There are twists of logic that boggle the mind here. For example, although the CDC admitted within the last month that this year’s seasonal flu shot is only effective 40% of the time or less since the viruses in circulation are not the ones covered by the vaccine, there is no let up in the insistence that every child get vaccinated with this flu shot.
Consider, too, the rather astonishing quote from the article below:

“No deaths have been reported in New Jersey this season, but 16 children have been hospitalized with confirmed cases of flu, state
health officials said. Flu activity is currently characterized by the CDC as “widespread” in New Jersey.”

Does that mean that 16 kids with severe immunocompromise problems (say, kids on chemotherapy for cancer) or kids with HIV/AIDS got the flu and needed to be hospitalized and so every kid in the country needs to be vaccinated with a dangerous shot? What about the lost days and hours and lives of parents who have kids who have been vaccine injured and suffered brain injury, autism, asthma, or cancer? And what about the loss of parental rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States? Is that worth protecting the employers of New Jersey and the US from lost days of work by the parents whose kids get the flu (most often a cold, by the way)?

Apparently it does.
And then there is the rather weird “logic” of vaccinating kids yearly to protect their parents from loosing time from work (last year it was “vaccinate the kids to protect the elderly with whom they might come into contact”). You will note the same arguments used in New Jersey before the Health Commissioner declared that every child in the state, starting in infancy, would have to be vaccinated annually if they wanted to attend day care or go to school.

It is rumored in New Jersey that when Governor Corzine’s Stem Cell Therapy initiative failed to give the Big Pharma companies headquartered in that State the huge give away they were anticipating, he felt compelled to do something to help these companies (like Merck) want to stay in NJ. Reasoning that annual vaccination of kids might be a good gift to his Pharma Phriends, the Governor, who has been provided with all the scientific information needed to make it clear that this is a very, very bad idea, decided to go ahead anyway. A real “Man of the People”, as long as you are talking about Pharmaceutical investors and executives.

Read today’s entry into the “Vaccinate Every Kid Every Year” Propaganda campaign.

Compulsory vaccination is just part of the plans afoot for compulsory drugging. Please take all of the following Action Steps to protect your rights to make your own health decisions, not have them forced upon you by the Pharmaceutically controlled policy makers.

1. STOP COMPULSORY DRUGGING AND VACCINATION (http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=21835)

2. SUPPORT PHILOSOPHICAL EXEMPTIONS IN NEW JERSEY AND ALL OTHER STATES (http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=23087)

3. STOP SCHOOLS FROM FORCING DRUGS ON KIDS
(http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=18970)

4. PREGNANT AND NEW MOMS DON’T NEED FORCED DRUGGING THAT COULD INJURE OR KILL THEIR BABIES
(http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=23065)

These actions steps are vitally important in the movement toward passive helplessness in the face of Big Pharma domination of public policy toward active citizen control of our own health decisions.
Please support this change by taking the steps, letting everyone in your circle of influence know about them and making a recurring donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation by clicking here (http://www.Healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189) to make your tax deductible donation.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

CDC panel expands flu shot guidance: Children up to 18 should get vaccine
Thursday, February 28, 2008
BY ANGELA STEWART
Star-Ledger Staff
Every child up to the age of 18 should be immunized against the flu,
a federal advisory panel recommended yesterday.

The recommendation, made by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, would
increase the number of children receiving flu shots by 30 million a year. Children younger than 6 months are excluded.

It is expected to be approved by the CDC as early as this spring and
become the agency’s official policy for the 2008-2009 flu season.

“We don’t expect any issue with this recommendation,” said Curtis
Allen, a CDC spokesman.

The CDC’s previous recommendation was that children from 6 months to
5 years of age or those with chronic conditions that put them at high
risk of complications needed to be immunized.

Allen said the expanded recommendation — which would be advisory but
likely influential — is pri marily aimed at protecting healthy
children of all ages against the flu, but noted it will also offer
residual benefits to others.

“The logic is there are children in this 6-month to 18-year-old age
group who are in schools where we know a lot of influenza
circulates,” he said. “When a child becomes sick, a parent also has
to stay home and out of work, which is lost productivity. Once a
child is vacci nated, this will help protect others in their
household and the community from influenza.”

A representative of the American Academy of Pediatrics applauded the
recommendation, saying there are many children with conditions like
asthma who should be getting immunized but aren’t.

“We know that the vaccine is the best method for preventing influenza
and its potential severe complications,” said Henry Bern stein, a
member of the academy’s committee on infectious diseases and chief of
pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire

Children have among the highest rates of flu of any age group,
according to the CDC, with more than 20,000 kids under the age of 5
hospitalized each year nationwide. So far this flu season, 22
children across the country have died from flu-related illness, Allen
said.

No deaths have been reported in New Jersey this season, but 16
children have been hospitalized with confirmed cases of flu, state
health officials said. Flu activity is currently characterized by the
CDC as “widespread” in New Jersey.

Maria Spina of Colonia, whose 7-month-old daughter, Carlee, received
a flu shot yesterday at the office of Nutley Pediatrics, said she
thought the recommendations made sense.

“I think any mother would worry if their child got really sick with
the flu,” Spina said.

Richard Marcus, who immu nized Spina’s baby yesterday, said many
parents take vaccine preventable diseases “very, very, lightly.”

“It’s seen as something that doesn’t affect their children, that is
until they have an episode,” Mar cus said. “Then they become firm
believers.”

Alissa Kanowitz, who was a founder of a group called Families
Fighting Flu, lost her 4-year-old daughter Amanda in 2004 to the flu.
Amanda was not immunized, as the CDC at the time only recommended
shots for children up to 23 months. Two years ago, the recommendation
was expanded to include children up to age 5.

“Today’s vote really sends a strong message about just how se rious
influenza is,” said Kanowitz, a New York City resident.

This fall, New Jersey will become the first state in the nation to
require flu shots for infants and children entering licensed day care
centers or pre-schools. The state Public Health Council passed that
recommendation despite protest from anti-vaccine groups and oth ers
who oppose what they view as government usurping parental authority.

State Epidemiologist Eddy Bresnitz said that while he embraces the
new recommendations, New Jersey has no plans to make them mandatory.
Bresnitz, however, said he sends out an annual letter through schools
encouraging parents to have their children im munized against the flu
and will mention the CDC recommendations next fall.

Sue Collins, who co-founded the anti-vaccine advocacy group New
Jersey Alliance for Informed Choice, called the CDC’s new “blanket”
recommendation for pediatric flu shots a bad idea.

“I think the risks and side ef fects and unproven safety and effi
cacy studies do not warrant this,” said Collins, a mother of two who
lives in Long Hill. “The biggest thing is there is no data on how all
these vaccines react with each other.”

State and federal health officials, as well as most doctors, be lieve
the flu vaccine is safe for children, but many parents have raised
objections about the fact it contains thimerosal, a mercury-
containing organic compound used as a preservative in some multi-dose
vials of vaccine.

But there is flu vaccine doctors can order that is free of the
preservative, although it costs slightly more than the traditional
vaccine. Children, starting at 24 months, also have the option of
receiving a flu nasal spray instead of a shot.

Mandatory Flu Vaccine for Kids: First New Jersey, Then the US!

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

WASHINGTON (Feb. 28) – All U.S. children aged from six months up to 18 should be immunized every year against influenza, a panel of federal vaccine advisers said on Wednesday.

The panel, which advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine matters, agreed unanimously at its regular meeting in Atlanta that the new recommendations should go into effect as soon as possible, but no later than the 2009-2010 flu season.

The vote from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices would add about 30 million children to the list of those who should be vaccinated, CDC spokesman Curtis Allen said. The current recommendations cover children aged 6 months to 5 years old.

“There about 59 million (children aged 5 to 18) but a lot of those children are already covered under current recommendations,” Allen said in a telephone interview.

Based on current vaccination rates, the CDC predicts about 7 million additional children will be vaccinated because of the expanded recommendations.

Flu infects between 5 percent and 20 percent of the population each year and kills an estimated 36,000 Americans in an average year, most of them elderly. It can also kill young children, often previously healthy children.

The CDC said last week that 22 children had died in this year’s flu season so far. Flu is active in all 50 states now.

Last year, 68 children died of flu in 26 states during a very mild influenza season, according to reports compiled by the CDC. Of them, 39 were aged 5 to 17 and more than 90 percent of all the children who died had not been vaccinated.

“We are very pleased,” said Gary Stein of Families Fighting Flu, who spoke to the meeting.

“Doctors follow these recommendations in advising their patients,” added Stein, whose 4-year-old daughter Jessica died of influenza in 2002. “Parents read it, and vaccination rates are so low that this awareness strongly follows the guidance.”

Not Just a Routine Bug

Dr. Carol Baker, president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, agreed.

Babies aged 6 months to 2 years have a very high risk of complications and death from flu, but only 20 percent were vaccinated against influenza in 2006-2007, even though they are regularly being vaccinated against other diseases at this age.

“I think most parents do not understand how dangerous influenza is,” Baker, a pediatrician, said in a telephone interview.

“I think even some health care providers have that attitude, especially those who choose not to vaccinate themselves and who spread flu to their patients.”

This year’s flu vaccine is considered a poor match for two of the strains. Because the virus mutates so quickly, the vaccine is usually formulated afresh each year and includes three different strains of the virus.

For the next flu season beginning at the end of 2008, all three strains will be replaced in the vaccines available globally, the CDC and World Health Organization say.

Besides children, people aged 50 and older are advised to get annual flu vaccines, as well as anyone with certain chronic medical conditions such as cancer or diabetes, people in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, and caretakers of any of these groups.

Five companies now make flu vaccine for the U.S. market — Sanofi Pasteur, Australia’s CSL Ltd, GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Novartis AG and nasal spray maker MedImmune, recently acquired by AstraZeneca Plc.

Copyright 2008 Reuters Limited.