In eight children, the onset of behavioural problems had been linked, either by the parents or by the child’s physician, with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination. Five had had an early adverse reaction to immunisation (rash, fever, delirium; and, in three cases, convulsions).
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We did not prove an association between measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and the syndrome described. Virological studies are underway that may help to resolve this issue.
If there is a causal link between measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and this syndrome, a rising incidence might be anticipated after the introduction of this vaccine in the UK in 1988. Published evidence is inadequate to show whether there is a change in incidence or a link with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. A genetic predisposition to autisic-spectrum disorders is suggested by over-representation in boys and a greater concordance rate in monozygotic than in dizybotic twins.
| Type of Ingredient | Example(s) | Purpose | Most common source found… |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preservatives | Thimerosal (only in multi-dose vials of flu vaccine)* | To prevent contamination | From eating foods such as certain kinds of fish, mercury (which thimerosal contains) gets into the body |
| Adjuvants | Aluminum salts | To help boost the body’s response to the vaccine | From drinking water, infant formula, or use of health products such as antacids, buffered aspirin, and antiperspirants |
| Stabilizers | Sugars, gelatin | To keep the vaccine effective after manufactured. | From eating food such as Jell-O® and resides in body naturally |
| Residual cell culture materials | Egg protein^ | To grow enough of the virus or bacteria to make the vaccine | From eating foods containing eggs |
| Residual inactivating ingredients | Formaldehyde† | To kill viruses or inactivate toxins during the manufacturing process | Resides in body naturally (more in body than vaccines). Also found automobile exhaust, and household furnishing such as carpets and upholstery. |
| Residual antibiotics | Neomycin | To prevent contamination by bacteria during the vaccine manufacturing process | Antibiotics that people are most likely to be allergic to — like penicillin — aren’t used in vaccines |
Last August, CDC senior scientist, Dr. William Thompson, reportedly invoked federal whistleblower status and confessed that the CDC has allegedly known since 2001 that black American male children exposed to the MMR vaccine have a disproportionate risk of autism.
Thompson, a 17 year CDC veteran, is the author of some of the leading studies cited by CDC to exculpate vaccines from the autism epidemic. Thompson, who still works at CDC, released the raw data sets that he says his bosses at CDC ordered him to conceal. Those data allegedly show that black boys who received the MMR vaccine prior to three years old, as the CDC recommends were 3.36 times more likely to receive an autism diagnosis than those who received the vaccine after 3 years of age. This effect was not observed in other race categories. Nevertheless, when the CDC scientists published their results in Pediatrics in 2004, they reportedly omitted the damaging data, fraudulently declaring there was no risk of autism from the MMR vaccination. In August 2014, Dr. Thompson issued a press release through his attorney stating, “I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that black male children who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism.
"I say nobody has proven to me that they are safe, that I have scientific reason to believe that the components that are in them, and how they act upon the immune system and the potential for autoimmunity and cancers and neurologic diseases is there, and so I cannot say, guarantee that these vaccines are safe, not even one of them, let alone numerous vaccines in the childhood vaccination program given earlier and earlier and more and more."
"And what you might notice if you have been in the middle of this problem yourself is that the people who want to vaccinate are often very aggressive, and they don't want you to hear the other side. And that should make a light-bulb in your head go off, why don't they want me to hear the other side, why don't they think I can actually listen to both and come up with my own decision. See I will never tell you not to vaccinate, but they will always tell you to vaccinate for everything. That alone I believe should be a red flag to you. That I'm saying you listen to everything and then you choose. What you do is your responsibility. And that's not what the people who are supporting this aggression vaccination campaign, more and more vaccines all the time for little babies (are doing)."
The rise and fall of RotaShield demonstrates how social values and external considerations interact with empirical evidence throughout the decision-making process and in communications to the public.
The Polio vaccine was licensed in the United States in 1955. During 1951 to 1954, an average of 16,316 paralytic polio cases 36 and 1,879 deaths from polio were reported each year. As of 1991, polio caused by wild-type viruses had been eliminated from the Western Hemisphere. A physician entering practice today may never see a case of meningitis due to Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib). Before the introduction of effective vaccines, in 1988, approximately one in 200 children under the age of five developed invasive Hib disease. Hib was the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in children under age five—accounting for 60 percent of all cases. From 15 to 30 percent of affected children became hearing impaired and about 420 children died every year despite antibiotic therapy. In addition, Hib vaccine has prevented the leading cause of acquired mental retardation in the U.S. By 1998, vaccination of pre-school children reduced the number of Hib cases by more than 99 percent. In the 1960’s many people witnessed first-hand the terrible effect of rubella, commonly known as German measles. During an epidemic between 1964 and 1965, about 20,000 infants were born with deafness, blindness, heart disease, mental retardation and other birth defects because the rubella virus infected their pregnant mothers.37 Today, thanks to nearly universal use of an effective vaccine, the rubella virus poses virtually no threat to the children of expectant mothers. (former Surgeon General of the United States, David Satchar, M.D., Ph.D)
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Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth have both ruled that a parent cannot be compelled to vaccinate their child, regardless of how irrational their concerns may be.38 Similarly, Rav Hershel Schachter, Rav Mordechai Willig and Rav J. David Bleich are all of the same opinion.
“Dangerous Disease & Dangerous Therapy,” Rav Akiva Tatz; Targum Press. From page 48: “The question was put to Rabbi Elyashiv, who ruled that the parents should accede to immunization despite their concerns. When asked if the reason behind this ruling was the issue of fairness and the obligation to share responsibility, Rabbi Elyashiv indicated that it was; his reason was that since immunization of children is normal practice throughout the world, one should follow that normative course. In fact, Rabbi Elyashiv went so far as to assert that failure to immunize would amount to negligence.” He then continues, “Refusing childhood immunizations on the basis of unsubstantiated fears of vaccine side-effects is irresponsible and out of order halakhically. The danger of precipitating epidemics of measles, poliomyelitis and other diseases with potentially devastating complications is far more real than the dangers attributed to vaccines on the basis of anecdotal claims. Until objective evidence to the contrary accrues, the halakhically correct approach is to do what is normal. In addition, a legitimate government’s legislation concerning standards of medical conduct adds weight to their halakhic acceptability.” As is well known, the “theories” that suggested that the MMR vaccine was responsible for autism have been thoroughly discredited by all medical authorities, not to mention that Thimerosal (the mercury-based ingredient alleged to have caused the problem) is no longer used in the production of these vaccines.
In fact, the CDC statements are contradicted by a large, consistent and growing body of scientific evidence, including: 1) studies showing neurotoxic and neuroinflammatory effects (e.g. microglial activation) from dosages of aluminum adjuvants lower than or approximately equal to dosages received by infants according to the CDC vaccine schedule (Crepeaux 2017, Petrik 2007, Shaw 2013, Shaw 2009); 2) studies linking vaccines to immune activation brain injury (Zerbo 2016, Li 2015); 3) studies showing that early-life immune activation is a causal factor in autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders and mental illnesses (e.g. schizophrenia) (Meyer 2009, Deverman 2009, Estes 2016, Kneusel 2014, Careaga 2017, Meyer 2014). The accumulating evidence indicates that vaccine-induced immune activation, and aluminum adjuvants in particular, may cause mental illnesses and neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism.
