Refusing Vaccinations Puts Other Kids At Risk, Experts Say

I'm very sorry to hear of the misfortune of the little one mentioned in this article. However, As a mother of 2 children who are both not vaccinated, I refuse to put my childrens health at risk on the off chance that they may run into a child with immune issues. For experts who say" that parents who forgo vaccinations due to mistaken concerns about autism or fear of overwhelming their child's immune systems are putting ALL children at risk." Just doesnt make sense to me. Lets take the children out who have immune system issues and just include healthy, average children. IF they were inoculated should they not be protected? But no vaccine is 100%- this is stated on EVERY insert of vaccine administered. So why the hype? Because parents these days rely more on chemicals and poisons to keep their children "healthy" than to make sure they are getting the neccessary vitamins and minerals to keep them healthy. I'm not so concerned about the whole autism thing, sure its a fear, but there is soo much more in those vaccines that could wreak havoc on a lil body. I read a study - not funded by big pharma- that looked at the Amish community who normally do not vaccinate. I believe the study was based on 20,000 Amish children. 3 of those 20,000 had autism. 2 of the children had been vaccinated and the other lived near a factory thats emission was mercury.The majority of vaccination studies are funded by the companies that make them-- and if you find one that isnt and still states that vaccines are completely harmless let me know. I'm quite sure ill get some flak for my views, with women and men calling me irresponsible and im sure other not so nice things. That's ok, I've done my research to protect my babies, have you?

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lies lies lies-- there are religious/private schools all over america that have no kids vaccinated at all. AND GUESS WHAT? no one is sick. here in Penn. theres a group called Faith Tabernacle,refuses doctors for almost anything,GUESS WHAT-no serious diseases of any kind. better nutrition(,now under attack from world gov't), is what improved childrens health in the last 100 yrs. , not vaccines. if they can give your kid autism or asbergers via vaccine, they have a customer for life! with the U.N.'s agenda 21 in full swing, i'd keep my children away from any "state offered/industry offered" chemicals. file a UCC 1 with the gov't and list the childs birth certificate. they have to give it back and will no longer own your childs body in hoc for the bankruptcy of 1933!

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Lemme get this straight:

"You're putting my kids at risk and that's not fair."

So, I should put *my* kids at risk and then suddenly it's all fair?

No matter how you slice it, someone's kids are going to be at risk.

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It is unfortunate that we need to argue about something that should be made very clear... but no, as long as pharmaceutical companies are chasing their BIG BUCKS, good luck to us! Their biggest pride, Africa example, is thrown in our faces every time we ask for more specific information - as we should. It is ridiculous to think that a place where minimum nutrition and hygienic standards are very far from reality would be considered the bar after which the rest of the world should align. Nutrition for babies - breast milk - was replaced with formula, another corporate crime that is starting to stink big time nowadays... and it's part of the big immunologic picture. Many other factors come in place when we're talking about healthy immunity and here is no place to have a conference but one thing I feel that is important to share: do not argue and hate your neighbours for their parenting choices - we make them to the best of our ability. Informed or not informed, we make these choices always with the well being of our child in mind, not to hurt anyone else. Of course it's a lot easier to think that by vaccination we solved the problem - we don't even think about it anymore right the next second after it's done - this shows how unprepared we are to be responsible for another... Fear will make us blind and ignorant. Immunity - the root of all illnesses and dysfunctions - has a complex makeup and requires a healthy lifestyle - emotional, physical and spiritual; As parents is our number one priority and our lifelong commitment - no one should ever cut corners on this one. Even though I'm against vaccination, I made a hard decision to vaccinate my daughter... but only under the supervision and additional treatment of a homeopath. Homeopathy is the inspiration for vaccine practice - but used in a oh, so wrong way!!! If anyone can really help, that's a homeopath. Wish you all the best is this fascinating endeavour of raising a child.

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Your comments that unvaccinated kids are many time more likely to contract chicken pox and whooping cough are not borne out by the UK Cumbria study of 29,000 school age children reported in Pulse (UK MD's journal Nov 2002) that found that vaccinated kids were up to 18 times more likely to be affected by immune conditions such as allergies, asthma, eczema and psoriasis.

Judging by the speed at which the medical establishment buried the report once they realised its significance I know which one I believe. My four grandchildren in two countries are unvaccinated and they are streets healthier than nearly all their classmates.

Tony Bateson, Oxford, UK.

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West Virgina and Mississippi are the only two states without a religious exemption to forced childhood vaccination. January 13, 2010, WV house of representatives introduced bill 3069 to change that now sits in House Health and Human Services Committee.


I hope everyone will support this effort to stop forced vaccinations.

Susanne WV

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How can we tell what is really helpful to our children when big drug companies are making BILLIONS off us. Not to mention having billions of dollars worth of contract from the government. More and more studies are PROVING vaccines are more harmful than the dieases themselves.

“Immunization against relatively harmless childhood diseases may be responsible for the dramatic increase in autoimmune diseases…such as cancer, leukemia, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease, lupus and Guillain-Barre syndrome.”
. Dr. Robert Mendelsohn MD

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This is the Pulse report:

Study links childhood vaccines to 'huge' increase in allergies
09 Dec 02

Patients immunised with vaccines included in the UK childhood immunisation schedule are 14 times more likely to be diagnosed with asthma than unvaccinated children, a study of 29,000 patients suggests.

The researchers said although the study found a link between the vaccines and asthma, it was 'unlikely' to be causal.

The cohort study compared doctor-diagnosed asthma and eczema rates in unvaccinated children with those immunised against diphtheria, polio, pertussis, tetanus and MMR.

Children who had been vaccinated some 96 per cent were 14 times more likely to be diagnosed with asthma and 9.4 times more likely to be diagnosed with eczema than unvaccinated children, the study showed.

Study co-author Dr Rich-ard Hubbard, senior lecturer in respiratory medicine at the University of Nottingham, played down the findings, arguing there were 'significant interactions' between vaccination and consulting behaviour.

He said: 'The problem is people who don't go to the doctor's don't get diagnoses of asthma and don't get vaccinated. In the unvaccinated group you will always see a lower risk of asthma.'

The study, presented last week at the British Thoracic Society winter meeting in London, found no association between the vaccine dose response and allergies, making a link between current vaccination policy and allergies 'very unlikely', said Dr Hubbard.

Dr David Bellamy, a GP in Bournemouth, Dorset, and a committee member of the General Practice Airways Group, said the study findings were 'pretty startling'.

He said: 'A 14-fold rise is a pretty huge increase. If these findings are true the implications are somewhat worrying.'

He added other factors such as maternal history needed to be considered before drawing any firm conclusions.

Dr Chris Cates, editor of the Cochrane Airways Group and a GP in Bushey, Hert-fordshire, said that he was unaware of any previous link between vaccinations and asthma.

He added: 'What I would not do is say this proves that vaccination causes asthma. Trying to untangle whether vaccinations have a role in this is incredibly difficult.

'If people consult more they are more likely to get diagnosed.'

It doesn't make the 'hard' claim that Bateson reports - it's very restrained and qualified - and certainly not buried - it's there for all to see if they actually want to read what was said, not what Bateson claims.

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