Inject some sense into immunisation

By Bill Dewison

If I offered you a cocktail which included in its ingredients formaldehyde, aluminum phosphate, ammonium sulfate, washed sheep red blood cells, embryonic fluid from chickens and thimerosal, what would be your initial reaction? Would you gladly accept this concoction of animal byproducts, heavy metals and chemicals without question?

It is more than possible you lack the relevant knowledge of chemistry, biology and metallurgy to identify what all those ingredients are, as do I, so I decided to look up one of these; thimerosol. It is a mercury-containing compound (an organomercurial) that has been in use since the 1930s. There have been concerns raised regarding its use, or specifically more than a little concern about its effect on the male and female reproductive systems. To quote the OEHHA ‘The scientific evidence that PMA and Thimerosal cause reproductive toxcitity is clear and voluminous’.

Why would any of this be relevant to you? Well if you have children, the chances are you’ve already allowed these chemicals, animal byproducts and heavy metals to be injected into them. They are present in modern vaccines, vaccines given to newly born children right through to the age of 18 years of age. But why should we worry? Surely these vaccines have been thoroughly researched and tested to ensure that they are safe long before they are given to the population?

My wife has recently given birth to our daughter and inbetween changing nappies, cleaning clothes, changing nappies and have I mentioned changing nappies, we are discussing the implications of immunising our child against potentially fatal diseases. It is something I would imagine many parents discuss and with an 18 month old son, it is something we seem to have talked about nonstop over the past 2 years. As a couple we are faced with the dilemma of believing what we are told by the medical authorities or questioning what we give our children in the same way we would question what foods to give them, what the environment around them is and how we go about educating them.

Our primary worry is the sheer number of vaccines contained in a single injection, but also the number of injections our children are given in one sitting. Our daughter can not for instance be injected with the tetanus jab by itself, we can not opt to have measles and mumps seperately or even to have the injections themselves spread out over a longer time period. Considering the age of our children, they are after all still developing, their internal organs are yet to fully form and their immune systems are not operating at full capacity. I feel our concerns are justified, regardless of the scare stories proliferated by our media here in Britain.

The media does tend to rule the roost these days in terms of what we see and hear, and it does seem that everyday we are presented with conflicting health related advice or information, much of which is grossly exagerated to sell the story to the public. For instance, take the measles virus, are you aware that in the past 17 years there has been one death in relation to measles? This death, tragic as it is, was a 13 year old boy who was taking immunosuppresive drugs for a lung condition. Although this particular case was reported correctly by the media, it led to numerous stories of measle epidemics. It has been noted that the media in general have exagerated figures by as much as 700% to sensationalise their story which does nothing but damage to the messages the government is trying to convey to parents just like me.

That said, it can not be ignored what is happening with regards to immunisation and the serious questions still to be answered. Why, following the injection of vaccines in America, has the American government paid out millions of dollars to parents of children who have had adverse effects to these vaccines, but at the same time accepted no responsibility? If we follow America on things like immunisation and it has been reported often that parents who have refused to sign consent forms for vaccinations have been accused of child abuse for doing so, will we follow America on that one?

Once a child is injected with a vaccine we can not remove that vaccine from their system, so isn’t it about time this was debated with parents in a realistic manner? Before the National MMR Vaccine Catch-up Campaign was launched, providing PCTs (Primary Care Trusts) with additional funding of £30,000 each, wouldn’t it have been prudent to discuss some of the concerns of parents about the MMR? And long before we start to have decisions made about unvaccinated children entering the school system, what is wrong with a discussion about injecting them with a certain vaccines that contains 62.5 mcg of mercury which is 78 times the safe level?