Meningitis Vaccine

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

This has been forwarded to me by a colleague
Soroush
Hemophilus Meningitis Vaccine Proven to Cause Diabetes in Clinical Trial of
Over 100,000 Children; Many Diabetics Eligible for Compensation

BALTIMORE, July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The prestigious peer reviewed journal
Autoimmunity published data this week by Dr. J. Bart Classen, an
immunologist at Classen Immunotherapies, and David Carey Classen, an
infectious disease specialist at the University of Utah, proving a causal
relationship between the hemophilus vaccine and the development of insulin
dependent diabetes.

The data is particularly disturbing because it indicates the risks of the
vaccine exceeds the benefit. The findings are expected to allow may
diabetics to receive compensation for their injuries and lead to safer
immunization.

The study followed over 100,000 children which had been randomized in a
large clinical trial to receive 1 or 4 doses of the hemophilus vaccine and
over 100,000 unvaccinated children. After 7 years the group receiving 4
doses of the vaccine had a statistically significant 26% elevated rate of
diabetes, or an extra 54 cases/100,000 children, compared to children who
did not receive the vaccine. By contrast immunization against hemophilus is
expected to prevent only 7 deaths and 7 to 26 cases of permanent disability
per 100,000 children immunized. The study showed that almost all of the
extra cases of diabetes caused by the vaccine occurred between 3-4 years
after vaccination.

Furthermore the paper provides new data proving the vaccine causes diabetes
in mice and reviews data from 3 smaller human studies, which all had similar
results to the current study, but were too small to reach statistical
significance.

"Our results conclusively prove there is a causal relationship between
immunization schedules and diabetes. We believe immunization schedules can
be made safer," stated Dr. Bart Classen.

The Classens' research is already becoming widely accepted. An independent
group of researchers working at a prestigious Swedish medical center
recently published a paper (Ann. N.Y. Acad Sci. 958: 293-296, 2002)
supporting their findings.

Last year doctors attending a conference of the American College for
Advancement in Medicine overwhelmingly agreed that vaccines can cause
chronic diseases such as diabetes. For the latest information on the
effects of vaccines on insulin dependent diabetes and other autoimmune
diseases visit the Vaccine Safety Web site (http://vaccines.net).