Exemptions:
Which states have exemption information on vaclib.org?
Specific state exemption information can be found at:
http://www.vaclib.org/pdf/exemption.htm
This includes Canada and Australia.
Science:
Do our (VacLib) positions on vaccination have any scientific standing?
There are literally dozens of well-footnoted books available on the
topic of vaccinations. Here are also a few articles you may want to print
out for your own reading and reference:
Whats Under the Curve?
http://www.vaclib.org/basic/bellcurve.htm
*Former Pharma Employee Speaks out about Vaccines
http://www.vaclib.org/basic/manu.htm
http://www.freeyurko.bizland.com/vacgen.html
Archived on VacLib: http://www.industryinet.com/~ruby/vac_coming_thru.html
*The link above is an article on Vaccine Contamination, written by a former
pharma employee, a man who prefers to remain anonymous for the sake of safety
and threats against his retirement income.
If you are beginning your study of vaccination and immunization, what is needed
is an
education in the basics, and some lost chapters in the history of medicine.
A textbook in many chiropractic colleges and the most comprehensive on this topic
is Immunization: The Reality Behind the Myth by Walene James.
This one book will give you the ability to make rational health choices for
your family that are based on REAL science.
(Book Review.)
Also, another excellent book is by Jamie Murphy called
What Every Parent Should Know About Childhood Immunization.
This book is shorter but very comprehensive.
Dr. Sherry Tenpenny, a D.O. who specializes in treating vaccine damaged
adults and children, has an excellent videotape,
Vaccines: What CDC Documents and Science Reveal. All of these are
available from VacLib on the website under
books and tapes on our homepage.
We also suggest that everyone read the package insert to all vaccines recommended and
read the adverse reactions and contraindications. The link to the inserts is here:
http://www.vaclib.org/chapter/inserts.htm
These inserts contain ingredient lists as well as limited adverse reaction lists.
The ingredient list is revealing since you wouldn't put any of these ingredients
on a piece of toast, let alone into your lymphatic system and bloodstream.
A condensed list is here:
http://www.vaclib.org/basic/ingredmar701.htm
A list of articles on Ingredients is here
Safer vaccines:
Can Safer vaccines be developed?
Yes.
But immunization comes not from injecting foreign matter into the body but
rather from lifestyle elements which include the obvious factors of good sanitation
and nutrition.
There is therefore no purpose in creating a product which cannot address fundamental
health needs.
We at VacLib understand that the concept of "safer vaccines" is an oxymoron.
Simply explore the ingredients of vaccines and then ask your doctor to explain
how these known carcinogens: heavy metals such as aluminum and mercury, pathogenic
bacteria and viruses cultured in animal (and human) tissue, formaldehyde and phenol,
to name a few, can possibly strengthen your baby's immune system?
You stated that your doctor claims that there have been some pretty good
advancements in the last few years to make the vaccines safer, more effective
and says a lot of the ingredients are not as dangerous as in recent past.
Have him prove this to you. Keep in mind that antibody production has NEVER
been proven in the field to equate to immunity from a particular disease.
Read the info. at this link:
http://www.whale.to/vaccines/antibody.html.
Consider using a letter to educate your doctor: re:
'making an informed and intelligent decision about vaccines' posted at:
http://www.vaclib.org/legal/refuselt.htm
(letter with footnotes: REFUSAL OF RECOMMENDED VACCINES). This letter
contains 55 footnotes and
if you wish to print this letter, free of the VacLib header, to give to your doctor there is a link at
the top of page or click here:
http://www.vaclib.org/legal/refuseltprn.htm
Another educational tool is this
http://www.vaclib,org/legal/accept1.htm
(letter of ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY)
Its unlikely in the extreme that anyone will sign this 'Acceptance of Responsibility' form
and take away your right to make decisions for yourself or your child.
Consider the following information for another letter to your doctor:
Dear Doctor:
In our effort to make informed and intelligent decisions about our children's
health care, we would like you to please consider the following points about
childhood vaccines:
- It is impossible to claim with any seriousness that the medical business is
free from politics. Vaccine history is full of doctors and officials who broke
away from the political machine, always to great professional peril, to speak
out against vaccines and the claims of policy makers. The development of vaccines
has consistently followed (and not preceded) the dramatic decline of infectious
diseases. As you well know, multi-billion dollar sales are at stake every time
a national recommendation is made (was the chickenpox vaccine really important?).
More importantly, the health policy makers obviously win a political victory when
the public is told that the government can now control another infectious disease.
- The efficacy of vaccines has always varied so wildly in studies that there's
almost no element of science left in the vaccine business. The same whole-cell DPT
vaccine showed efficacy of 36%, 48% and greater than 80% in different CDC trials
(many excuses followed). Since most of us made it into the 20th century without
vaccines, it seems obvious that we have natural mechanisms that offer at least as
much protection as the aforementioned products. The "efficacy" of different immune
systems may be just as varied.
- Even extremely pro-vaccine doctors have admitted that vaccinated kids seem to
have a greater incidence of annoying childhood illnesses (colds, ear infections, etc.)
than unvaccinated kids. If vaccines were benign, one could possibly consider a
risk/benefit analysis. However, these products generate nearly 11,000 adverse
reaction reports (with over 100 deaths) annually with the Vaccine Adverse
Event Reporting System (VAERS). Since this is a passive physician reporting system,
you can easily understand why the FDA's director once said that only 10% of the
reactions are ever reported. The formaldehyde, mercury derivatives, phenol,
aluminum salts, antibiotics and many other stabilizers and adjuvents obviously
make vaccines potent and toxic drugs.
- Worst of all, however, is the new and mysterious area of zoonotic virus
contamination. Monkey, chicken, cow, horse, pig and dog tissue has always been
hard to implicate in chronic disease. The CDC in 1996 admitted contamination of the
early polio vaccines with Simian Virus-40 (SV-40). Despite SV-40's presence in humans
with chronic illnesses, including its concentration in cancer tumors, the CDC denied
a causal relationship. More disturbing, however, is the discovery by W. John Martin
in California of a "Stealth Virus," which shows identical DNA to the Simian
Cytomegalovirus (SCMV) found in African green monkeys used for polio vaccines.
Dr. Martin has isolated the viruses in extremely varied neurological illnesses,
including chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and ADD. His pioneering research
is also proving that virus fragments can still damage human brain cells. Virus
fragments have been appearing in vaccines for decades but the CDC has always
maintained that fragments were never a danger.
- While there's no denying that better diagnoses are enabling us to discover a lot
of new illnesses, there's no explanation for the dramatic increase in chronic
illnesses that do not require high-tech diagnostic equipment allergies, ear
infections, autism, ADD, leukemia. epilepsy, and juvenile diabetes are just a few.
The truth is, no government or private source is ready to conduct any studies that
address the obvious and enormous pressure that zoonotic viruses may be putting on
the immature immune systems of our children. The study of slow-acting toxins is
neither profitable nor important to the "instant results" American mindset.
In light of these arguments in this emotional and controversial subject, we
would request your tolerance of our decision not to vaccinate. We are prepared
to provide studies and documentation to support the arguments provided here.
We think that you will agree that as guardians of our children, we need to educate
ourselves in a balanced manner. You will also agree that as parents, politics or
profits don't fit into our decisions; only our genuine concern for the well-being
of our children.
Thank you for your time, and the high-level of care you provide.
Treatment:
If my children contact a 'contageous disease' what treatment should I consider?
Generally speaking common childhood diseases can be treated at home.
For more information we suggest
that you go to www.800herbdoc.com and get
ALL of Dr. Richard Schulze's
newsletters and books. They will give you a REAL education in an entertaining way
on how your body works, in detail, and what you can do to prevent and/or treat
dis-ease, "infectious" or otherwise.
Another good book is by Dr. Schultze and Dr. John R. Christopher, and it is titled
Herbal Home Care. This book covers all the typical childhood diseases with
detail as to naturopathic and herbal treatment. It is available from
www.azurestandard.com. Azure Standard is also a great source of reasonable priced
organic and natural food products.
Many people sware by a book you may be able to order thorough your library,
How To Raise a Healthy Child... In Spite of Your Doctor by
Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D.
See also our page on
Homeopathic Prophylaxis for Childhood Diseases
See also:
Assistance in finding Natural or Alternative Health Physicians
Another great book that VacLib sells along these lines is
Healing Celebrations by
Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz. He covers all aspects of healing -- from dealing with the
physical as well as the emotional/mental and spiritual aspects.
Books and Tapes:
http://www.vaclib.org/basic/products.htm
What advocacy exists for the adult Health Care workers in the US?
What forms and logic can be properly used to abstain from 'mandatory' vaccine
requirements?
Logic plays little part in vaccination policy. However, if you are in nursing or
other medical courses, then often you may escape the vaccination policy by signing a
vaiver which takes puts the responsibility for your health maintenance and outcome upon
yourself and removes the responsibility from the school.
For refusing Hep B shots in an occupational setting:
OSHA & HEP-B: "They have to provide you a declination form - 29 CFR 1910.1030, Appendix A,"
from well-within site: http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/hepatitisB4.htm
Please see our page
Resource for Asserting Right to Abstain
http://www.vaclib.org/legal/resource.htm
Tetanus
We know of no tetanus vaccine that is not combined with diphtheria toxoid.
The link on our website to vaccine package inserts that detail ingredients
for all the licensed vaccines available in the United States is:
http://www.vaclib.org/chapter/inserts.htm
"During the mid-1800s, there were 205 cases of tetanus per 100,000 wounds amoung
U.S. military personnel. By the early 1900s, this rate had declined to 16 cases per
100,000 wounds—a 92 percent reduction. During the mid-1940s, the incidence of
tetanus dropped even further to .44 cases per 100,000 wounds.123 Some researchers
attribute this declince to an increased attention to wound hygiene.124,125"
Quoted from VACCINES Are They Really Safe & Effective? by
Neil Z. Miller.
You may want to expand your research to explore whether the vaccine is
effective, let alone safe. A good link on our website to continue your journey is here:
http://www.vaclib.org/email/tetanustoomany.htm