A recent story carried by NPR, Yahoo, AP and others praised the 91% reduction in measles associated deaths in Africa between 2000 and 2006 and gave credit to the measles vaccination.

VacLib Comment:
However, a clue to what really saved lives is their admission that,
"In 2006, 21 million insecticide treated bed nets for malaria prevention were distributed and 87 million doses of vitamin A, which prevents blindness, were handed out during measles vaccination campaigns."
AP: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j98fMzvKKDvwjKpkthzSpLl6qygAD8T7DOC80

Estimates for the life saving due to insecticide-treated bed nets (ITN) range up to 30% reduction of all-cause mortality.
Estimates for the life saving due to Vitamin A capsules range from 20% to 60% of all-cause mortality - depending upon study and area.

http://www.ajtmh.org/cgi/content/full/73/1/149
Accordingly, community-randomized controlled trials conducted across a range of malaria transmission settings in sub-Saharan Africa have shown ITNs [insecticide-treated bed nets] and insecticide-treated curtains (ITCs) to be associated with up to a 30% reduction in all-cause child mortality over the first 1–2 years of the trials.

http://www.westonaprice.org/basicnutrition/vitaminasaga.html
Vitamin A supplementation of children in Asia and Africa has been extremely effective in reducing the rates of infection, diarrhea, anemia and blindness (Reuter's 2/12/01). African and Asian children receiving vitamin-A supplements grow faster, have better hemoglobin values and die 30-60 percent less frequently than nonsupplemented peers
(J Nutr Jan 1989 119(1):96-100).

It should be noted that vitamin A caps cost 2-cents! And provide several months protection. Vitamin A reduces malaria incidence, improves immunity and lowers HIV transmission in mothers.

"What really was amazing was that we started running across parents in large numbers with the same exact story," said Blackburn.
That's no surprise says, pediatrician, Dr. Eric Ryndland who is considered one of the nations foremost experts on autism and controversial in his public concerns over what he considers a potential safety risk of vaccines for some children and the urgent need he says for all parents to take charge of the decision to vaccinate or not.
As a former Miami-Dade detective turned holistic clinician, he is in the investigation of his life, trying to determine if there is a link between children getting vaccinated and autism, which he says is presenting in high numbers at the 18-month mark.
Read whole story at: http://cbs4.com/seenon/vaccine.autism.kids.2.598341.html

Children herded like cattle into Maryland courthouse for forced vaccinations as armed police and attack dogs stand guard.
Monday, November 19, 2007
(NewsTarget) Following the State of Maryland's threats against parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated, children were herded into a Price George County courthouse being guarded by armed personnel with attack dogs. Inside, the children were forcibly vaccinated, many against their will, under orders from the State Attorney General, various State Judges and the local School Board Director, all of whom illegally conspired to threaten parents with imprisonment if they did not submit their children to vaccinations.
[Read the rest of this medical Gestapo story here...] http://www.newstarget.com/022267.html

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Vaccine Tied to 'Superbug' Ear Infection

"By CDC estimates, hundreds of thousands of doses of vaccines against such diseases as ... are thrown out each year because of poor refrigeration at clinics, hospitals and doctors' offices."
Read story of poor refrigeration and revaccination at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/05/health/main3576722.shtml

JS ONLINE: NEWS: By ELLEN GABLER
[see JS ONLINE: NEWS: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=679712
Critics of the vaccine disagree. Physician Meryl Nass said her patients usually have 10 or 15 different diagnosis that she attributes to the anthrax vaccine - sleep disorders, fatigue, cognitive disability and higher rates of neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis. A doctor in Maine, Nass testified about the vaccine in July before the House Veterans Affairs Health Subcommittee.

Nass also points to records collected by the Vaccine Adverse Reporting System, which catalogs vaccine complications. The system has received about 5,359 adverse event reports for anthrax vaccine. About 670 of the reports were considered "serious" and about 44 of the reports recorded deaths. In the reports, some soldiers or their families pleaded with the military to stop the vaccines.

Nov 8, 2007 ABC.Net.AU
Vaccine failure exposes Aussies to AIDS risk
The multinational trials involving more than 3,000 HIV-negative volunteers were cancelled in September after a large-scale study found the vaccine was not effective at preventing infection.

Of the people who had the HIV vaccine, 49 became infected with the virus, whereas only 33 in the placebo group became infected.

What parents will pay to avoid pain and emotional distress of childhood vaccine injections.
http://www.pidj.org/pt/re/pidj/abstract.00006454-200111001-00009.htm

^ Pediatricians as Big Brother Monitors - Time to Cut the Cord?
Outrageous Snitch Docs Pump Kids About Parents Behavior
Why You Should Stay Out Of The Medical Establishment

Merck halts study of "ineffective" HIV vaccine
22Sept2007: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merck & Co has halted testing of its experimental HIV vaccine, Reuters India: in.reuters.com

^ Another Bird Flu Scam
Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline claims that it has produced a bird flu vaccine for humans that uses only a very low dose of the active antigen.
http://www.mercola.com/2006/aug/12/another_bird_flu_scam.htm

Soldier faces threats from military after refusing anthrax vaccine
Julie Weisberg [17Sept07] Read More: rawstory.com

[Drug Company]...advertising soared 330 percent, to $29.9 billion in 2005 from $11.4 billion in 1996.

The U.S. is one of two industrialized countries that permit TV drug ads -- the other is New Zealand.

^ www.washingtonpost.com/...
A series of veterinary and toxicology studies, dating to the mid-1990s, stated that chip implants had "induced" malignant tumors in some lab mice and rats.

by Daily Express (UK)
CHILDREN are being used as guinea pigs in a risky and potentially deadly vaccine experiment, a new book claims.

Author Dr Richard Halvorsen said: “The truth is the Government continually misleads us over vaccines. There are unfounded claims about their safety and effectiveness and I believe jabs may be doing potentially serious harm to hundreds if not thousands of children every year.”

Attack on Mothers
The poisonous public attacks on Katie Wright this week--for revealing that her autistic son Christian (grandson of NBC Chair Bob Wright), has recovered significant function after chelation treatments to remove mercury -- surprised many observers unfamiliar with the acrimonious debate over the mercury-based vaccine preservative Thimerosal.
Read whole story at: www.huffingtonpost.com By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

How Big Pharma Has Invaded Your Life rense.com
This is dedicated to readers who are NOT yet seriously ill or who do NOT serve as caregivers for the chronically ill. Hopefully it will instill some very sobering thoughts. If you are one of these fortunate people - live every day like it's your last.
Read whole story at: www.rense.com/general77/inv.htm

AUTISM FAMILIES KEEP CLOSE WATCH AS FIRST TEST CASE GOES TO VACCINE COURT
National Autism Association Test Case

Judicial Watch Uncovers Three Deaths Relating to HPV Vaccine
Event Reports Obtained from FDA Detail 1,637 Adverse Reactions to Gardasil
http://judicialwatch.org/6299.shtml

Report: Thousands of Soldiers Sickened by Vaccine
A U.S. military health officer says thousands of U.S. troops have had severe reactions to some of the vaccines they received before going overseas — and the Pentagon is covering up the problem.

Symptoms range from joint aches and pains — to death, according to the officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to protect his job.
Source: newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/5/20/160438.shtml

www.fox6.com news story: A mother and 4800 other parents filed a lawsuit in 2002 for vaccine's contribution to their children's autism. This June, 3 federal judges will begin to hear their cases in Washington, DC.

Video of this story

April 22, 2007
Reuters AlertNet - IRAQ: MMR vaccination campaign aims to reach 3.9 million children

BBC News
Millions in Iraq to get MMR jab

^ Why You Should Avoid Taking Vaccines [beinformed.wordpress.com]

^ Contract for Anthrax Vaccine Yanked
WASHINGTON (Dec. 20) - The U.S. government has canceled an $877 million contract for a new anthrax vaccine, after the struggling manufacturer missed a key deadline to begin human tests of the shots.

http://www.newsmax.com/ - NewsMax.com Wires
Monday, Aug. 7, 2006
India Officials: Coke, Pepsi Contain Harmful Levels of Pesticides
The group said that Coke samples had 25 times the amount of pesticides as three years ago, while Pepsi products contained 30 times more.

Coca-Cola syrup is shipped from the U.S. to bottling plants around the world, and mixed with local water. [Thus the question, is it India's water or the imported syrup, or both, that are polluted with pesticides. In any case, pesticide poisoning is a primary cause of polio.]

^ Blog: Multiple Sclerosis and Polio
There have been repeated claims that one of the causes of the rising tide of multiple sclerosis (MS) cases is somehow related to polio vaccinations. This idea has been championed by the brilliant Greek homeopath George Vithoulkas.

Blog on David Kirby's book Evidence of Harm http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/16055.php

Former FDA commissioner Crawford to plead guilty after charged with lying about conflicts of interest
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
(NewsTarget) Former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner Lester Crawford is set to plead guilty today to charges of filing false financial disclosure forms and conflicts of interest, according to court papers filed yesterday by the Justice Department.

FDA critic Mike Adams, author of "Grocery Warning," calls the FDA a "criminal organization" and claims it puts pharmaceutical and food industry profits ahead of public safety. Adams called the charges against Crawford "yet another serious blow to the illusion of FDA credibility.

Read full story here: http://www.newstarget.com/020783.html

Meningococcal Vaccine
18 October 2006
A documentary screened in Norway has raised doubts about the safety of the vaccine being used in New Zealand's campaign against the epidemic strain of meningococcal B. http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3831846a7144,00.html

French and Norwegian officials have condemned a meningococcal vaccine, injected into countless New Zealand children.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0610/S00078.htm

Norway MENZB Doco: Exported Controversial Vaccine
At the same time while Norwegian authorities were paying compensation to vaccine victims, the same vaccine was exported to New Zealand and used on small kids.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00257.htm

Norway Shocked By New Documentary
A television documentary screened last night in Norway showed the shocking long-term effects of a vaccine recently injected into one million healthy New Zealand children.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0610/S00065.htm

Biodefense bill passes House
Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2006 [GPO]
Published on Sept. 27, 2006
The House passed the Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2006 today, which would establish the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) in the Department of Health and Human Services. BARDA will develop advanced countermeasures to pandemic viruses and defenses against biological attacks.
The bill provides $160 million in funding for BARDA in 2007 and 2008 and calls for the authority to streamline development of drugs designed to counter pandemics or biological attacks.

http://www.dailyprogress.com
University mandates mumps shots
Students must prove vaccination [After one mumps case.]

www.washingtonpost.com
New vaccine would target ear, sinus infections
Tuesday, September 26, 2006; 12:49 AM
WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters Life!) - U.S. researchers said on Tuesday they are starting trials of a new vaccine aimed at wiping out childhood ear and sinus infections and many cases of bronchitis in adults.

Ear Infection and Vaccines http://www.entnet.org/KidsENT/vaccinesEar.cfm
About 62 percent of children in developed countries will have their first episode of OM by the age of one, more than 80 percent by their third birthday, and nearly 100 percent will have at least one episode by age five. In the U.S. alone, this illness accounts for 25 million office visits annually with direct costs for treatment estimated at $3 billion. Health economists add that when lost wages for parents are included, the total cost of estimated treatments mount to $6 billion.

[Has the rate of AOM in the vaccinated been compared to the unvaccinated?
A questionnaire in NZ showed 3 times as much AOM in vaccinated children versus unvaccinated. See also quote from Dr. Michael Odent.]

The Age of Autism: Gardasil vs. Hep B
By DAN OLMSTED
UPI Senior Editor
http://www.upi.com/archive/view.php?archive=1&StoryID=20060605-053515-2973r

The Age of Autism: Flu shot flashpoint
http://www.upi.com/archive/view.php?archive=1&StoryID=20051119-122306-4089r
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 [2005](UPI) -- It's flu shot season, and that simple fact is sharply focusing the debate over a possible link between vaccines and autism. The reason: Most flu shots contain thimerosal, the mercury-based preservative that some suspect caused a huge rise in autism cases beginning in the 1990s.

Vaccines: How deadly are they?
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20060801.htm

^ Government Investigation Finds Autism Vaccine Related - OpEdNews.com