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Soroush Ebrahimi
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Re: Vaccines
As I have long stated, and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) now admits:
"Vaccines are not free from side effects, or 'adverse effects'"
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... the-govern
ment.aspx?e_cid=20111002_SNL_MS_1
By Dr. Mercola
As I have long stated, and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) now admits:
"Vaccines are not free from side effects, or "adverse effects""
This admission came after a review of more than 1,000 vaccine studies, which was intended to assess
the scientific evidence in the medical literature about specific adverse events associated with
eight vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella (MMR); varicella (chickenpox); influenza; hepatitis A;
hepatitis B; HPV; diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis (DtaP); and meningococcal. The adverse
events selected for IOM review were ones for which people had submitted vaccine injury claims to the
federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). A convincing causal relationship was found for
14 adverse events and certain vaccines.
14 Dangerous Side Effects Linked to Vaccination, IOM Report Says
In the first comprehensive safety review in nearly two decades, the Institute of Medicine found
convincing scientic evidence for a causal relationship between certain vaccines and serious adverse
health outcomes. This includes:
Chickenpox Vaccine
Vaccine strain varicella zoster infection after vaccination without other organ involvement;
Vaccine strain varicella zoster infection and subsequent infection resulting in pneumonia,
encephalitis, meningitis or hepatitis in individuals with demonstrated immunodeficiences;
Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) Vaccine
Measles inclusion body encephalitis
Febrile seizures, a type of seizure that occurs in infants and young children in association with
fever
Short-term joint pain (arthralgia) in children and women
Other findings revealed:
Six types of vaccines -- MMR, varicella zoster (chickenpox), influenza, hepatitis B, meningococcal,
and tetanus-containing vaccines -- are linked to anaphylaxis (severe, potentially life-threatening
allergic reaction). The HPV vaccine was also linked to anaphylaxis in yeast-sensitive individuals.
Injection of any vaccine in general can lead to sudden fainting (syncope) and symptoms of deltoid
bursitis, or shoulder inflammation
Two Canadian flu vaccines were linked to oculo-respiratory syndrome characterized by conjunctivitis,
facial swelling, and mild respiratory symptoms.
Scientific research suggests that many people, who experience an adverse reaction to vaccines, have
individual susceptibility that can make them at higher risk for experiencing acute and chronic
health problems after vaccination due to biodiversity (genetic variations) within populations; age
at the time of vaccination; immune deficiencies; coinciding infections/illnesses; and other
environmental exposures, (such as toxins, traumas).
Too Little Evidence Available to Effectively Evaluate Most Side Effects
Despite conclusive findings by IOM linking certain vaccines to brain inflammation, febrile seizures
and potentially life-threatening infections like pneumonia and meningitis in susceptible
individuals, most of the media headlines about the IOM's 600-page report are spinning the reports
conclusions and stating that "few adverse effects are caused by the vaccines reviewed in this
report."
The truth is that the IOM Committee came to this startling conclusion, which they admitted openly
and that is:
"For the vast majority, (135 vaccine-adverse event pairs), the evidence is inadequate to accept or
reject a causal relationship."
In other words, for the majority of side effects and health conditions that have occurred in
conjunction with vaccinations, they simply have no idea whether the vaccine caused the problem or
not. In fact, the IOM Committee warned that there should be no misinterpretation of the fact that
they DO NOT KNOW whether or not more than 100 very serious reported health problems linked to the
eight vaccines they studied are caused by those vaccines. In most cases, the Committee was unable to
come to a conclusion because there are no or very few scientific studies investigating the reported
vaccine-related adverse event or the studies, which are published in the medical literature, are
methodologically flawed in some way.
And isn't this precisely the problem? The current vaccination schedule is a one-size-fits-all
approach that has never been proven safe!
As Barbara Loe Fisher, founder of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), stated:
"The truth is, nobody knows how many vaccine victims there are in America, how many of the 1 in 6
learning disabled children; or the 1 in 9 with asthma; or the 1 in 100 who develop autism; or the 1
in 450 who become diabetic, can trace their chronic inflammation, disease and disability back to
vaccine reactions that have been dismissed by public health officials and doctors for the past
century as just "a coincidence.""
Or, if they aren't dismissed as coincidence, they are dismissed on the grounds that there's not
enough data available to establish a "causal relationship." This is exactly the reason why unbiased
vaccine safety studies are so desperately and urgently need.
NVIC recently issued a statement regarding IOM's new report, noting this very fact:
"The [IOM] Committee was hampered by the same gaps in knowledge regarding vaccine adverse effects
that hampered IOM Committees undertaking the same task in 1991 and 1994. For the majority of
potential vaccine adverse effects reported to be associated with vaccines, this IOM Committee like
those before, came to the conclusion that the biological mechanism and epidemiological evidence
published in the medical literature is simply inadequate to accept or reject a causation finding.
This is a very important conclusion, because the current state of science holds no answers for
parents and doctors, who for many years have reported multiple vaccine injuries to the government's
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
Insufficient scientific evidence to make a call about whether certain vaccines do or do not cause a
wide range of serious health conditions, such as encephalitis, encephalopathy, stroke, asthma,
autism, SIDS, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, lupus, and blood disorders, is problematical when these
vaccines are mandated by law to be used by every child and recommended for many adults.
The Committee's clear acknowledgement that there is a lack of adequate scientific understanding
about the way that vaccines act in the human body, including how, when, why and for whom they are
harmful, is confirmation that more and higher quality vaccine safety science is urgently needed."
Why Are So Many Children Receiving Extra Vaccines?
Adding insult to injury, a separate review by independent researchers looking at the 1999-2003
National Immunization Survey data found that nearly 10 percent of children aged 19-35 months have
received extra vaccinations and the rate was highest for children who received vaccines at more than
one facility or from more than one provider. This is the last thing that kids need, considering
that just about every year one or more "new" vaccines are added to the already overloaded schedule.
As it stands, children are expected to get 48 doses of 14 vaccines by the time they're just 6 years
old - starting with the first vaccine given on the day of birth in the newborn nursery! By age 18,
federal public health officials say they should have gotten a total of 69 doses of 16 vaccines.
This "prescription" is the same for every U.S. child, even though it's well known that all children
are not the same biologically - as the recent Institute of Medicine report clearly points out - and
some children will not be able to survive the currently recommended vaccine schedule without
suffering serious harm to their health. And if you take your child to multiple health care providers
or facilities, the odds are high that they may be mistakenly given "extra" vaccines on top of the
recommended schedule.
To avoid this, if you do decide to vaccinate, be sure you keep a detailed record of which
vaccinations your child has received, and when - do not rely on your doctor's office to do that for
you. It is also a good idea to have your child's vaccination history on hand in the event there is a
vaccine reaction.
You Can View Common Vaccine Reactions Right Now
The IOM report may feel there is too little evidence to make conclusions about vaccine-induced side
effects, but you can make a conclusion for yourself by reading the entire IOM report yourself at:
You can also review the vaccine adverse event reports made by doctors and patients or parents
themselves to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a national surveillance
database to which anyone can post a vaccine reaction report. VAERS was established in 1986 under the
National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which requires health professionals to report serious health
problems, including hospitalizations, injuries and deaths, that occur after the administration of
routinely recommended vaccines.
An important aspect of VAERS is that anyone can both read and post vaccine adverse events to this
database. So if your doctor discounts your concerns about vaccination (or afterward, if your child
regresses or gets ill after a vaccine), you can verify or report them yourself -- and people are
doing just that when doctors or other vaccine providers refuse to report to VAERS after a vaccine
reaction occurs.
You can access VAERS here, or you can go to Medalarts.org, which provides an easy, powerful search
engine for looking up specific reactions or vaccines in the VAERS database. With over 70 vaccines
included, VAERS is an excellent tool that can help you read descriptions of vaccine reactions and
identify which vaccines are associated with the most side effects. It is important to know, though,
that only a tiny fraction of serious health problems that occur after vaccination are actually
reported. Studies have estimated that less than 10 percent, to as little as ONE percent of vaccine
side effects are ever reported to VAERS, so the true side effects are easily FAR higher than the
statistics show.
Are You Ready to Get Educated About Vaccines?
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is clearly the leading Internet resource, providing
objective, unbiased information that you will need to make intelligent, informed decisions about
which vaccines you, your children or other members of your family may want to use.
If you have further questions about vaccination, make sure you consult a trusted health care
professional, who has taken the time to become educated personally about vaccines. And if your
doctor threatens or belittles you, refuses to treat your family if you want to use an alternative
vaccination schedule , or will not take the time to discuss your vaccine concerns with you and allow
you to make informed, voluntary vaccination decisions, I suggest you find one who will. Remember, it
is your choice and your responsibility to get educated about vaccination, and your doctor should
treat you with respect and work with you on this.
I also encourage you to get involved with the work that NVIC is doing to protect your right to
choose which vaccines you want your children to get, including the legal right to use all, some, or
no vaccines at all. Register for the free NVIC Advocacy Portal that educates you about threats to
your legal right to make vaccine choices and puts you directly in contact with your elected state
representatives so you can help protect vaccine exemptions in your state. Stay informed about what
is happening in your state and make your voice heard.
Go to www.NVICAdvocacy.org and register today to take action.
"Vaccines are not free from side effects, or 'adverse effects'"
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... the-govern
ment.aspx?e_cid=20111002_SNL_MS_1
By Dr. Mercola
As I have long stated, and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) now admits:
"Vaccines are not free from side effects, or "adverse effects""
This admission came after a review of more than 1,000 vaccine studies, which was intended to assess
the scientific evidence in the medical literature about specific adverse events associated with
eight vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella (MMR); varicella (chickenpox); influenza; hepatitis A;
hepatitis B; HPV; diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis (DtaP); and meningococcal. The adverse
events selected for IOM review were ones for which people had submitted vaccine injury claims to the
federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). A convincing causal relationship was found for
14 adverse events and certain vaccines.
14 Dangerous Side Effects Linked to Vaccination, IOM Report Says
In the first comprehensive safety review in nearly two decades, the Institute of Medicine found
convincing scientic evidence for a causal relationship between certain vaccines and serious adverse
health outcomes. This includes:
Chickenpox Vaccine
Vaccine strain varicella zoster infection after vaccination without other organ involvement;
Vaccine strain varicella zoster infection and subsequent infection resulting in pneumonia,
encephalitis, meningitis or hepatitis in individuals with demonstrated immunodeficiences;
Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) Vaccine
Measles inclusion body encephalitis
Febrile seizures, a type of seizure that occurs in infants and young children in association with
fever
Short-term joint pain (arthralgia) in children and women
Other findings revealed:
Six types of vaccines -- MMR, varicella zoster (chickenpox), influenza, hepatitis B, meningococcal,
and tetanus-containing vaccines -- are linked to anaphylaxis (severe, potentially life-threatening
allergic reaction). The HPV vaccine was also linked to anaphylaxis in yeast-sensitive individuals.
Injection of any vaccine in general can lead to sudden fainting (syncope) and symptoms of deltoid
bursitis, or shoulder inflammation
Two Canadian flu vaccines were linked to oculo-respiratory syndrome characterized by conjunctivitis,
facial swelling, and mild respiratory symptoms.
Scientific research suggests that many people, who experience an adverse reaction to vaccines, have
individual susceptibility that can make them at higher risk for experiencing acute and chronic
health problems after vaccination due to biodiversity (genetic variations) within populations; age
at the time of vaccination; immune deficiencies; coinciding infections/illnesses; and other
environmental exposures, (such as toxins, traumas).
Too Little Evidence Available to Effectively Evaluate Most Side Effects
Despite conclusive findings by IOM linking certain vaccines to brain inflammation, febrile seizures
and potentially life-threatening infections like pneumonia and meningitis in susceptible
individuals, most of the media headlines about the IOM's 600-page report are spinning the reports
conclusions and stating that "few adverse effects are caused by the vaccines reviewed in this
report."
The truth is that the IOM Committee came to this startling conclusion, which they admitted openly
and that is:
"For the vast majority, (135 vaccine-adverse event pairs), the evidence is inadequate to accept or
reject a causal relationship."
In other words, for the majority of side effects and health conditions that have occurred in
conjunction with vaccinations, they simply have no idea whether the vaccine caused the problem or
not. In fact, the IOM Committee warned that there should be no misinterpretation of the fact that
they DO NOT KNOW whether or not more than 100 very serious reported health problems linked to the
eight vaccines they studied are caused by those vaccines. In most cases, the Committee was unable to
come to a conclusion because there are no or very few scientific studies investigating the reported
vaccine-related adverse event or the studies, which are published in the medical literature, are
methodologically flawed in some way.
And isn't this precisely the problem? The current vaccination schedule is a one-size-fits-all
approach that has never been proven safe!
As Barbara Loe Fisher, founder of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), stated:
"The truth is, nobody knows how many vaccine victims there are in America, how many of the 1 in 6
learning disabled children; or the 1 in 9 with asthma; or the 1 in 100 who develop autism; or the 1
in 450 who become diabetic, can trace their chronic inflammation, disease and disability back to
vaccine reactions that have been dismissed by public health officials and doctors for the past
century as just "a coincidence.""
Or, if they aren't dismissed as coincidence, they are dismissed on the grounds that there's not
enough data available to establish a "causal relationship." This is exactly the reason why unbiased
vaccine safety studies are so desperately and urgently need.
NVIC recently issued a statement regarding IOM's new report, noting this very fact:
"The [IOM] Committee was hampered by the same gaps in knowledge regarding vaccine adverse effects
that hampered IOM Committees undertaking the same task in 1991 and 1994. For the majority of
potential vaccine adverse effects reported to be associated with vaccines, this IOM Committee like
those before, came to the conclusion that the biological mechanism and epidemiological evidence
published in the medical literature is simply inadequate to accept or reject a causation finding.
This is a very important conclusion, because the current state of science holds no answers for
parents and doctors, who for many years have reported multiple vaccine injuries to the government's
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
Insufficient scientific evidence to make a call about whether certain vaccines do or do not cause a
wide range of serious health conditions, such as encephalitis, encephalopathy, stroke, asthma,
autism, SIDS, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, lupus, and blood disorders, is problematical when these
vaccines are mandated by law to be used by every child and recommended for many adults.
The Committee's clear acknowledgement that there is a lack of adequate scientific understanding
about the way that vaccines act in the human body, including how, when, why and for whom they are
harmful, is confirmation that more and higher quality vaccine safety science is urgently needed."
Why Are So Many Children Receiving Extra Vaccines?
Adding insult to injury, a separate review by independent researchers looking at the 1999-2003
National Immunization Survey data found that nearly 10 percent of children aged 19-35 months have
received extra vaccinations and the rate was highest for children who received vaccines at more than
one facility or from more than one provider. This is the last thing that kids need, considering
that just about every year one or more "new" vaccines are added to the already overloaded schedule.
As it stands, children are expected to get 48 doses of 14 vaccines by the time they're just 6 years
old - starting with the first vaccine given on the day of birth in the newborn nursery! By age 18,
federal public health officials say they should have gotten a total of 69 doses of 16 vaccines.
This "prescription" is the same for every U.S. child, even though it's well known that all children
are not the same biologically - as the recent Institute of Medicine report clearly points out - and
some children will not be able to survive the currently recommended vaccine schedule without
suffering serious harm to their health. And if you take your child to multiple health care providers
or facilities, the odds are high that they may be mistakenly given "extra" vaccines on top of the
recommended schedule.
To avoid this, if you do decide to vaccinate, be sure you keep a detailed record of which
vaccinations your child has received, and when - do not rely on your doctor's office to do that for
you. It is also a good idea to have your child's vaccination history on hand in the event there is a
vaccine reaction.
You Can View Common Vaccine Reactions Right Now
The IOM report may feel there is too little evidence to make conclusions about vaccine-induced side
effects, but you can make a conclusion for yourself by reading the entire IOM report yourself at:
You can also review the vaccine adverse event reports made by doctors and patients or parents
themselves to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a national surveillance
database to which anyone can post a vaccine reaction report. VAERS was established in 1986 under the
National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which requires health professionals to report serious health
problems, including hospitalizations, injuries and deaths, that occur after the administration of
routinely recommended vaccines.
An important aspect of VAERS is that anyone can both read and post vaccine adverse events to this
database. So if your doctor discounts your concerns about vaccination (or afterward, if your child
regresses or gets ill after a vaccine), you can verify or report them yourself -- and people are
doing just that when doctors or other vaccine providers refuse to report to VAERS after a vaccine
reaction occurs.
You can access VAERS here, or you can go to Medalarts.org, which provides an easy, powerful search
engine for looking up specific reactions or vaccines in the VAERS database. With over 70 vaccines
included, VAERS is an excellent tool that can help you read descriptions of vaccine reactions and
identify which vaccines are associated with the most side effects. It is important to know, though,
that only a tiny fraction of serious health problems that occur after vaccination are actually
reported. Studies have estimated that less than 10 percent, to as little as ONE percent of vaccine
side effects are ever reported to VAERS, so the true side effects are easily FAR higher than the
statistics show.
Are You Ready to Get Educated About Vaccines?
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is clearly the leading Internet resource, providing
objective, unbiased information that you will need to make intelligent, informed decisions about
which vaccines you, your children or other members of your family may want to use.
If you have further questions about vaccination, make sure you consult a trusted health care
professional, who has taken the time to become educated personally about vaccines. And if your
doctor threatens or belittles you, refuses to treat your family if you want to use an alternative
vaccination schedule , or will not take the time to discuss your vaccine concerns with you and allow
you to make informed, voluntary vaccination decisions, I suggest you find one who will. Remember, it
is your choice and your responsibility to get educated about vaccination, and your doctor should
treat you with respect and work with you on this.
I also encourage you to get involved with the work that NVIC is doing to protect your right to
choose which vaccines you want your children to get, including the legal right to use all, some, or
no vaccines at all. Register for the free NVIC Advocacy Portal that educates you about threats to
your legal right to make vaccine choices and puts you directly in contact with your elected state
representatives so you can help protect vaccine exemptions in your state. Stay informed about what
is happening in your state and make your voice heard.
Go to www.NVICAdvocacy.org and register today to take action.