Vaccinations Overall: Where Do YOU Stand, as an American (or Otherwise)?

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Do you have a 'plan' about getting vaccinated? Does it matter to you what the disease is, or is it your belief generally to get all the vaccines suggested and available, or conversely, none?  You're here reading this, so you're somewhere past 'unaware' of the issue of vaccines, you're now 'aware' and if you continue on and do the work involved to become educated, which has been laid out for you in this topic, so it's now just a matter of your taking the TIME and ENERGY to become EDUCATED, form your opinions, and then act upon them.  

Hopefully everyone who's coming to be a YOUser at Lumigrate realizes that everyone's different (different genes at the very least plus different 'load' upon our body / system which means 'individualized medicine' is a concept to consider embracing).  What's right for one person might not be what's right for another, even within the same family. Since that takes a little more education and work on the part of the consumer or the advocate acting on behalf of another, I hope this topic streamlines that process for you. 

                                         

You'll find that our vaccine rights expert, Alan Phillips, Esq., says in the full comment he has added at my invitation, below, which I'll provide highlight of here up top as well: 

 

"It's an established medical and legal fact that vaccines cause injury and death, and no one can tell you what your or your child's reaction will be, or when and how severe. This alone provides more than a sufficient basis for all to be allowed to make an informed choice and to have free access to all relevant information.

But states around the country are implement laws requiring more and more vaccines for more and more people while simultaneously limiting free choice--often, unconstitutionally.

For example, some states have laws allowing *children* to consent to vaccines; others have bills that, if passed, will also do that -- blatantly unconstitutional (infringes on parental rights). [see www.nvicadvocacy.org for a list of current state vaccine bills].

No one can tell you if vaccines provide a net benefit, if any, really. The FDA and CDC have stated that 90 - 99% of vaccine adverse events are never reported. So, there's no data available to make the assessment."

 

 

Keeping in mind the above stated 90-99% of vaccine adverse events are never reported is critical for YOU to make a better plan about vaccines.  So I'm putting THAT right up top here, front and center, bolded and all that and all by itself.  Let that sink in for sure before you read on.

I helped guide a consumer who had adverse health effects occur in an ongoing downhill progression starting not long after receiving a vaccine, who had not even thought about vaccine being a factor because by the time they were really falling apart they'd had so many variables -- they'd had a job where they were exposed to chemicals over the summer, they'd had stress in school, with family, at the new job they got in the fall, so they focused on those factors and that one hour they'd gone with their child to get them vaccinated as required by school and then were talked into receiving one too, didn't cross their mind.  Being a 'medical detective' for YOU is sometimes best done 'putting your heads together'.  

Stress at the holidays was another factor in the above case, as was going out with the family and doing something that irritated an old knee injury was suspected, since initially that's where the symptoms started. But then why did it eventually turn into body-wide symptoms, chronic pain, fatigue, stiffness body-wide? It was a 'derailment of wellness'! 

Since the info about vaccine and injury symptoms has to be in the chart IF they opt to pursue the vaccine court system for compensation, I advised to get that 'base covered', as the vaccine had been given by a health department worker at the county and not by the person's primary care doctor or other provider with a medical chart on them and whether that is electronic with 'the system' that 'electronic medical records' or not in their city, we didn't know.  What we did know in the end is it's apparently nearly impossible to get any of the providers taking insurance who she was going to at that time to even acknowledge and record what the patient was verbalizing as concern about vaccine being a contributing factor/ cause. It's like a 'hot potato'.  So, if you're reading this and going to be looking at the data, realize this is one little story about one person that I'm bringing in here so that it might be easier to see the aspect about the data about injuries or cases of disorders, for that matter, being inaccurate. 

I recommended they provide a copy of the record from the county health department to their primary care physician so that the information was in the medical record at least.  I did not find out if the patient checked after to see if it was actually put and remained in the chart.  That would be a good thing and interesting to find out.  They felt if they pushed any harder they were at risk of being fired by the provider and since they had a less than ideal insurance, they were ultra concerned and cautious.

So I find the 90-99% figure very believable. My own history shows this as well; I'm not recorded in any statistics about vaccine injury yet was injured repeatedly, now that I realize what the symptoms are of vaccine injury having a part in the conditions such as autism, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, neuro-endocrine, neuro-degenerative, etc. 

 

Editing in February 21, 2015 - I've found that Dr. Stephanie Seneff is one of the more helpful information spreaders to tune into, and found this online related to vaccines. I'm also going to link over from the bottom of this grey box to where there's another topic I created yesterday at Lumigrate about her overall research connecting a lot of things together -- glyphosate (Roundup by Monsanto is what most people will know of with that chemical) is what she focuses on but goes into much about sulfur, gut flora, candida, heavy metals, etc. in a wonderful and easy to listen to interview at OneRadioNetwork with Patrick T., which I've taken the time to partially transcribe or overview. 
 

YouTube Link: www.youtube.com/watch
Published on Jan 19, 2015

Dr. Stephanie Seneff discusses the potential connection between vaccines and autism. It's a hotly-debated topic. Here she gets specific into what ingredient in the vaccine may be linked to autism and other conditions. Find out what her research has found. You may think differently after watching this!
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The interviewer starts things off and then doesn't have any more to say in this edited video snippet of 8 minutes: He states that another component of autism is vaccines. Kids are getting many more than when he was a child, is this making us healthier? .. more protective? .. what is it ... .. and Stephanie Senff says:

'No, I really think we've way overdone it on the vaccines, it's funny how we've managed to program people to believe so thoroughly that vaccines are awesome, ya know? .... This was all set up with the polio and the small pox -- we said 'oh, yes, of course, vaccines are wonderful, when can I get a vaccine for this, you know...  'give me a vaccine that will fix this problem', and we've got that entire mentality.  

Which is amazing to me becuse the vaccines are full of toxic chemicals. And certainly, I looked at the vaccines first.  ... and there's a great database, the VARS (vaccine adverse reporting system).. very, very interesting ... and I've looked at it -- I'm a computer scientist so I can go in and look at number crunching and the words and what statistical distributions and whatnot, and you can find a LOT of things out from looking at VARs, and one thing really striking is MMR.

MMR is the vaccine measles, mumps and rubella, and Andrew Wakefield connected that to autism way back when, like 1998 I guess... he had (a) paper in (The) Lancet, which was very interesting.  He'd taken these certain cases of kids with autism and connected it to the MMR vaccine.  And he had a whole theory --- in fact he was into the gut - brain axis connection and disruption of the gut even back then.  So this is something that's been around as a theory for autism for a long time .. and he targeted MMR, but he didn't really explain what it was in MMR that was causing this.

And I was frustrated by that as well, I confirmed in my studies of the VARS database that MMR is associated with autism. And I wrote a paper on that, and I proposed at the time that possibly ... and it was something that someone else had also proposed -- which is that it was the acetomenophen that is given to control the fever --- kids are often given that around the vaccine, and that can become toxic to certain kids who can't metabolize it properly.  

So it turns out, only recently did I figure out the connection to glutamate with the MMR .. it's truly amazing because MMR is one of the few vaccines that contains glutamate. And of course glutamate is toxic to autistic kids because they don't have manganese, at least that's my theory, anyway...   And so when you get that extra glutamate injected directly in through (via) the vaccine it goes to the brain because of the influene of the glyphosate.  The glyphosate actually opens up the barriers -- the gut barrier and it opens up the brain barrier, which allows these things to get in.  

So then what I've done recently, and I haven't published this yet, but I looked at MMR before and after 2002.  You can take a group like all the vaccines before and after, same vaccine, and look at the reports of the adverse reactions and look statistically at the numbers to see which ones are occuring out differently.  They all ought to be the same because it's the same vaccine, but they're not .. and so it's very, very interesting because the vaccines .. the events.. the reactions that occur after 2002 .. 1: there was autism, it predicts autism statistically significantly when you compare after 2002 with before 2002.  ... 

What this is saying is now this is causal in autism but before it wasn't, in some sense ...  .. or... it's MORE causal now than it was then.  And it also predicts all these things having to do with the brain.  There's seizures and shortness of breath, swelling of the face .. all these things .. brain swelling is one of the things connected with autism.  So it's really strange that it's different before and after (2002).

And the reason for it, I think, is the glyphosate. So the two are working synergistically together to cause harm, because the glyphosate is depleting the manganese which is causing the glutamate to be toxic, and the glyphosate is causing the glutamate to be going into the brain. Before 2002, there's only one thing that's more prevalant, which is joint pain.  

So joint pain says it's not going to the brain, it's going to the joints.  You know? ... And ALL of those things that are different before and after are known to be reactions to glutamate for people who have a sensitivity to glutamate. So it totally makes sense that it's the glutamate in the vaccine that's causing the problem AND that the glutamate is much more toxic now because of the glyphosate.  So all this is connecting up. 

And the same thing is true for the aluminum in the vaccines as well. People have talked a lot about the mercury and the mercury is certainly and issue and it's very toxic.  I looked at the aluminum because it's gone up quite a bit.  We have a lot of aluminum-containing vaccines now that we didn't have before. So that one fits with what's going up "in step" with the autism increase -- lots more aluminum-containing vaccines. 

For instance, HPV which has just been introduced and they're giving it to these kids -- teenagers -- that's loaded with aluminum.  And that's a very  nasty vaccine, I've looked at that one too, and it has much, much more severe reaction to that one than to other vaccines that these kids are getting, so it's a very toxic vaccine, and totally unnecessary in my opinion.

And they can't even prove that it's actually doing what they're claiming it to do because it's like 60 years later when you're going to get this cervical cancer that it's supposedly protecting you from, you know? I don't know why anybody would think it is a good idea to get that vaccine -- young girls lives are being destroyed -- people are dying, or they're getting some debilitating autoimmune disease, you know, from that vaccine.  

It's very clear from the data, so yeah, the problem is there's synergy between the vaccine and the glyphosate. And I've looked at aluminum and glyphosate because there's papers that show that glyphosate chelates aluminum just like these other minerals, it ends up hiding the aluminum inside the glyphosate molecules which gets rid of the +3 charge -- aluminum has a very strong positive charge, which ordinarily would keep it in the gut so it wouldn't get past the gut barrier.  But with the 'cage' around it, it become a neutral molecule.

And furthermore, glyphosate has an effect like citrate that opens up the gut barrier, and the same effect will open up the brain barrier as well. So the glyphosate is letting the aluminum past the gates .. from the gut into the blood, from the blood into the brain....

And the glyphosate is also bringing the aluminum to the pineal gland which is outside of the blood-brain barrier, so that pineal gland is MUCH more susceptible.  People who have studied the amount of aluminum in various parts of the brain find the pineal gland has twice as much as the other parts, because of it's being outside of the blood-brain barrier.  

But with the glyphosate you get an increased delivery of the aluminum to the pineal gland, which ends up messing it up. And so I've noted that there's sleep disorder associated with so many of these neurological diseases.  Autism, Alzheimer's dementia, depression, Parkinsons disease, multiple sclerosis ....., all of these things are associated with sleep disorder.  

The pineal gland produces the melatonin that controls the awake/sleep cycle, so when the pineal gland gets messed up and you can't make enough melatonin, you can't sleep and that's connected with everything else.

Furthermore melatonin is a product of the "shikimate pathway", which is the exact pathway that glyphosate disrupts. 

And I haven't gotten into that before in this interview but this is what Monsanto says --- "....shikimate pathway, we don't have that pathway in our (human) cells so, haha, glyphosate is harmless to us (people)", but the problem is that our gut bacteria DO have that (shikimate) pathway -- they use it to make these essential amino acids that we can't make. We can't make them because we don't have that pathway; we depend on our gut bacteria to provide those for us.  

If they're exposed to glyphosate they can't make it  .... And triptophan is one of those really important molecules that's a precursor to melatonin, and to serotonin and to melanin (which is what gets your skin dark when you get exposed to sunlight).  So ALL of those are going to be deficient if you don't have enough triptophan. And I think that's another key piece of the puzzle. 


 

The link to the primary Stephanie Seneff, PhD link (about glyphosate) at Lumigrate, in the Environmental Wellness / Illness forum: www.lumigrate.com/forum/mits-dr-stephanie-seneff-glyphosate-either-it-goes-away-or-we-go-away-our-hair-color-our-lives

 

I'm editing this in January 19, 2015, this and the paragraph above and below down through the Mercola link, after finding an article by Dr. Mercola (a highly recognized and valued name in health care today) that fits ideally with this topic/article at Lumigrate. He underscores and meshes with the 'YOU do the homework, decide what you believe, act upon it', which is our foundation at Lumigrate. and which is no exception with this highly controversial vaccines subject at hand.

It also has terrific information about the gut, and as YOUsers know we have a whole forum on the gut from way back when we learned how critically important the gut is, and the flora (bugs -- most bugs in us are helping us out, remember) of the gut.  Scientific American is quoted as a resource by Dr Mercola related to autism, and other sources that should 'stand up' to minds that are scrutinous and prefering more conventionally recognized sources.

At this point (2015) those who are going to be getting around to learning about vaccines are in higher percentages going to come from the more conventionally-steeped segment of society. A massive awakening is going on of people who are seeing the recent news events in the mainstream or signage like the one in the photo, above which was taken by someone I know from Facebook in 2014, etc.,  and their radar 'went off' that something was fishy, so they're now looking into what I call the monkeybusiness.

I also wanted this article included and people to take the time to go read it (and there's a video embedded too) because it emphasizes INDIVIDUALIZED risks for children for vaccines overall and how to determine if your child is highly likely or lowly likely to be injured, as well as breaking out for people the vaccines which  have been most injurious and telling why, with short historical background provided.  We know people maybe only have an hour a day on average they can use for studying about health (after, frequently looking at their 'choices' of how they spend their time and CHANGING PRIORITIES in these time clearly requiring us to INVEST TIME and ENERGY in YOU! (and those YOU are legally or voluntarily a guardian or advocate for).  So articles like THIS ONE from MERCOLA deserve a place UP TOP and seen early on in the process of vaccine planning. 

Here's the link: 

articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/10/06/culprits-autism.aspx

This is not a short topic, as it's a very complex subject, particularly with the mainstream information which abounds that people need to also consider. This will the complement to that. You'll see that I share my history to provide an example for people to look at and possibly learn from. But you'll also hopefully see that I'm providing information for people to consider and saying that there are different answers for different folks. So folks, find what's right for YOU! 

Do you have concerns about your "rights" related to vaccination? How much have you become aware or been impacted by the growing controversy about vaccines? I hope to set you up here with a thorough topic for your exploration because it's one of the most dynamic and changing elements in America right now related to health care; there will be some 'branching' threads related to the "simpler" issue about influenza as well as the "larger" civil rights issue, as we have topics elsewhere at Lumigrate to incorporate and route you to for the information you'll be wanting to follow if you are looking to have one stop shoppin' on investigating this important topic.

 YOU! Model and my Hope:

                        That Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" (so it's part of Lumigrate's logo!).

Also, I will share two examples of 'real people' in one community, myself and a woman who participated in Lumigrate's western Colorado LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley's project we volunteered to collaborate about to provider desired health and wellness treatment and education. We both live in the same community and have the same diagnosis (fibromyalgia), and were affected by vaccinations, but in different ways.

In my case, I was directly impacted by receiving a vaccination, or vaccinations, before I realized 'cause/effect' and learned the information that I've hoped is set up in a way here that will streamline YOUsers to know what I have learned the hard way. Because EVERYONE'S different genetically. There are many kinds of vaccines, they have different things in them. I remember one year going to a training about influenza from the mainstream, organized medicine system, and the doctor provided an overview of all the vaccines on the market that year; one still had Thimerosol in it (and therefore the things in it that the Thimerosol was there to interfere with in the vials).  Was it the Thimerosol that was injuring people as originally presumed, or the stuff in the recipe that needed that kind of toxin to keep it at bay -- or the combination; either way, it was a recipe for disaster for a lot of people's well-being. 

On the subject of flu vaccine, Alan Phillips has said this, on my Facebook wall on September 22, 2014 (edited in, keeping thing fresh here):

"Over 60% of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program's $110+ million/year annual payout (on average) is now being paid out to injuries and deaths caused by the influenza vaccine. Multiple peer-reviewed studies say the flu vax doesn't work, CIDRAP at Univ of MN says 2 consecutive years' flu shots actually lowers your protection to the flu; another recent study shows 9-15 yr olds have 3-4 times more upper respiratory illness if they get a flu shot compared to those who don't. If you're a healthcare worker or other employee required to get a flu shot to keep your job, read this article: http://www.naturalnews.com/046396_vaccine_mandates_health..."

Why so many people being injured, yet others seem fine (though how many people in the United States are 100% well, no kinds of problems anywhere with their bodies, including brain/behaviors/mood, etc.?

Everyone's combination of things that load down their body or pick it up is different; hence the difficulty in simplified scientific method and those who rely upon it to figure out what's causing people to become ill. (That's 'inside the box' we call it around here, hence we focus on 'outside the box' and integrative and functional medicine not conventional, allopathic approach, you can find TONS of that information online easily.)

The impact the other local woman I'm presenting about was indirect and in late 2012 prevented her from getting the type of medical care she was eligible for and preferred to have which was offered at her clinic -- chiropractic. The clinic's vaccination policy at the clinic where she was receiving medical services for the underinsured with financial hardships changed at that point in time with the fall 2012 'flu season' and since chiropractors generally or universally differ in opinion about illness and how to prevent it, particularly with the vaccine issue, they stopped volunteering their services at the clinic JUST as this woman had found out and resolved the copay issue that had deterred her previously.

So, the Grate Groove put our heads together and did what we could; for some reason nobody else had thought about offering the currently scheduled patients to follow along to the providers' private clinics for the same copay or waived copay that was going to be offered at her clinic. We thought it was really interesting how the vaccine controversy was affecting a consumer/patient indirectly and would be a great way we could put our little 'spotlight' of awareness on that aspect of the health care industry.  

You can see, below in a comment, information via Marc Spurlock, MD's suggestion at NaturalNews, related to the health industry institutions' trends. And many other things, below. I thank you for taking the time and energy as a consumer (which we call YOUsers around here due to our You! Model that's the foundation of Lumigrate). 

Just like anything related to health and wellness (or "illness prevention", depending upon what words and paradigm you prefer), becoming educated, deciding your opinion, deciding what YOU are going to do for you and those you are in a supervisory role with, then carrying through accordingly is the ideal plan. For YOU! (or another who you are the advocate for, whether an animal/livestock, pet, or human family member or other relationship personal or professional) 

We have presented information since 2009 at Lumigrate about "the flu shot or not", located in the colds/flu forum, which you may refer to is: www.lumigrate.com/forum/flu-shot-should-i-or-shouldnt-i. You will see there is input from Marc Spurlock, MD, Lumigrate's environmental medicine specialist related to what he recommends and what influenza vaccines antagonize within the immune systems of patients with chronic "environmental" illnesses, and setting up of a resource at YouTube. So that's what we offer related to specifically the influenza vaccine. There are about 300 types of vaccines on the market currently, however. 

There's a 30 minute video that is titled basically everything YOU need to know in 30 minutes, and here's the link: www.youtube.com/watch AND this is what you'll find at YouTube about it: 

 

 

Published on Mar 9, 2014

Mary Tocco is the Erin Brockovich regarding Vaccine Research. I hope you enjoy this fast paced, informative presentation. I encourage everyone to share this information with others, especially, soon to be moms.

Mary Tocco BIO
http://www.childhoodshots.com/Mary-To...

WAVE - World Association for Vaccine Awareness
http://www.novaccine.com/mary_tocco.asp

Mary Tocco - Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/MaryTocco1

Vaccination EXEMPTION Forms.
http://experimentalvaccines.org/vacci...

*GSK 1271 PAGE CONFIDENTIAL REPORT TO REGULATORY OFFICIALS*
https://autismoevaccini.files.wordpre...
See CHART on page 626 -- notice AUTISM .....
Vaccines CAUSE Autism folks......they know.

Vaccine Safety Tricks and Tips---
Important Information to Protect Your Family from Pharma Fraud
http://my.vactruth.com/library/free/V...

Vaccine Excipient (Inactive Ingredients) & Media Summary
http://my.vactruth.com/library/free/e...

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT !
On the FDA's website - The package insert for the DTap Vaccine (Tripedia) manufactured by Sanofi Pasteur Inc. states the following on Page 11 under Addition Adverse Reactions;

"Adverse events reported during post-approval use of Tripedia vaccine include idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, SIDS,
anaphylactic reaction, cellulitis, AUTISM, convulsion/grand mal convulsion, encephalopathy, hypotonia, neuropathy, somnolence
and apnea. Events were included in this list because of the seriousness or frequency of reporting. Because these events are
reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequencies or to
establish a causal relationship to components of Tripedia vaccine.

http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Biologic...

This presentation was produced, filmed and edited by John F. King
https://www.youtube.com/user/johnfking00
Please visit John's page for a number of very informative video presentations.

 

I want people to know about Internet-based information hosted by Debby Bruck, CHom of Homeopathic World Community. Debby became Lumigrate's newest 'resident expert' yesterday, at my request, because she is doing tremendous work in regards to education from the alternative, traditional medicine perspective. (Traditional should not be confused with "conventional, Western, allopathic", as "traditional" actually means things done in the old days with the old ways before 'modern medicine' took over.)

I intend for Lumigrate to help YOU find valid sources of quality information, presented by people with high ethical standards, while we venture together 'outside the box' of convention. It sometimes is unchartered territory, so I hope that what Lumigrate provides increases your efficiency, decreases your frustrations with education and research for learning and leads to improved health for YOU and those you influence.

Debby's background includes formal education and experience in education combined with life experience of becoming a mother, which lead her into studying homeopathy for herself and family and then professionally, and she came onto the Internet within a month of when I (and the team) had Lumigrate 'live'. I will ask her to come in below and set up additional information and comment related to vaccines from her perspective, as well as the others at Team Lumigrate. Naturally, these are things which takes time from them and we are always GRATEful when they have the interest and time to add a contribution to the discussion here for YOU, the reader/guest. 

I had 'tuned in' to Debby's webinar yesterday/Monday, as she posted on Facebook to let people know it was starting right then, and I happened to have time to tune in, and it was a topic I'd never seen anything like -- her guest was a speech therapist and homeopath who also integrates in astrology/spirituality. Fascinating stuff!.

So I got a sense of the types of experts she has contributing to her educational endeavors (from India, the 'mother ship' of many of the world's great healers), as well as how pleasant and calm Debbie is even when things are going not as planned, as is often the case when working with technology and people. (You know the old saying about working with children and animals in the entertainment industry ... I think we can create one in ours about technology and people , grins!)

Learning at the end what she and her team had coming up made me leap out of my chair and related to Thursdays seminar. Why? Well, it brings me to talking about Billie Green and the LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley's Collaborative Care Project. Billie is a middle aged woman, who is another Facebook connection of mine, like Debby, but instead of being on the other end of the country from me, as Debby is, she lives right here in 'River City', Grand Junction, Colorado. 

I had noticed Billie, over time, in the Facebook 'stream' that flows across the screen whenever I am seeing what is being shared on Facebook. I share a variety of things on my personal Facebook page, but not a lot about chronic pain and fibromyalgia information because I share that over at the Lumigrate:Fibromyalgia page. One day I shared something on my personal page about chiropractics, and she piped up about how much she wished she could have chiropractics and related appropriately some detail about having chronic pain and decreased function. There had been a miscommunication, it turned out, at the clinic she was getting services about, related to the cost to have chiropractic, so she was put on the list to be seen by one of three local chiropractors who would provide services one day a month at the clinic.

However, before she reached the top of the list and was seen, the clinic went to requiring vaccinations for the fall/winter flu season. One of the three D.C.s was Dr. Jeff McCloskey, who had been a good collaborator with Lumigrate in 2012, initially contacting me when he moved to the Valley and needed to get out there making contacts and the D.C. he moved here to work for was the D.C. who had come to speak to my live education forum about complex chronic illness/fibromayliga etcetera that I'd co-created with pain management specialist Dr. Chris Young (PhD/psychology). Dr Jeff had provided information in the forums in several places, most notably relative to fluoride, and also foods and inflammation.  Our local Grate Groove of the Grand Valley referral/education group was intended to have the providers learn more about the complex chronic illness situation from each other and then also be able to create a virtual 'groove' by having knowledgeable providers to send the patients to for services beyond what they were able to provide. So we called it "Project Billie Green: Getting out of the health care crack and into the groove." You can find it at Lumigrate with the search word of her name if you're interested. 

She made good progress in 2013 with collaborative efforts by the various providers in The Groove who contributed complimentary and complementary services as an adjunct to what Billie was receiving otherwise through the conventional means. After the year was over, her progress was documented by the chiropractor, who wasn't ready to discharge at the end of the year which was the length of my commitment and the other providers had completed already. During the year her progress was included in the topic here on Lumigrate, which included that she had been hiking mountains, was on the list to receive retraining through the State's vocational rehabilitation services, which unfortunately had just gotten to having a one to three year waiting list for those it had done intakes on and approved. We added up the amount we all would have charged for the services had we not been giving them gratis, and it was around $10,000.

That's ALL it took to get someone who was motivated enough to do a lot of things recommended for her well-being literally out of a crack and grooving their way to being able to be back where they were at in life earning income. However, we all learned the realities by working with this person how 'the system' works and how much went into getting the services, and the difficulty people in the system have getting out of the system. It's kind of like learning to do the trapeze and you are on your first trapeze and you need to get to the OTHER trapeze, so you finally accomplish that and you're going back and forth and then have to go back to the ORIGINAL trapeze. It's a risk, and then mostly if you mis-grab, you'll fall and have to start ALL over again, climb up the ladder and get onto the system again. 

So I came away from that experience in 2013 understanding more about this, a topic that I thought I already understood. I'm grateful for that and hope I can pass that along to others here.  

Here is my story about vaccines and how it was it took me so long to put all the pieces together (I'm so thankful for the Internet as a tool for education and empowerment): 

Here is my story: I too, have been a 'victim' of the medical and government systems, when it comes to vaccinations; here is my story: In order to get married in 1981 I had to prove immunity to rubella, and I had no titers for that disease, which can injure developing babies if the mother gets the disease, German measles it is also called, while pregnant.

I remember going to get the vaccine and being given the patient information about risks and one of them was 'rash', and I said to the University health center's nurse "but I'm getting married, I don't want to have a rash possibly', and they agreed to have me get it after the wedding, when I'd then 'marry' the paperworks from the minister and the health provider to submit to the State. Within a month or two I was in the ENTs office with what was the beginning of what has been devastating to my body, my livelihood, my relationships --- EVERY aspect of my life.

I was 21 at that time, so it is well over half my lifetime now that has been spent, in the trenches, digging out from a chronic illness that is categorized as 'environmental illness'. There was a class action lawsuit in 1990 involving the brand of vaccine I received and I was not aware of it so did not get in on that financial reimbursement by the pharmaceutical industry for having put a vaccine on the market which caused illness in 5% of adults who received it. There wasn't an unusual illness rate in children who received it, apparently, only adults.

I was not a child consumer with the most proactive of parents when it came to my health care. If I was bleeding or had over a 104 degree fever, they would call the hospital or doctor and do what was recommended. I was also given the vaccinations recommended per the 1960's and 1970's, at the clinic, but only when I was young. I recall being thankful when the students at my elementary school would line up and get vaccinated at school without needles, it was a blast they'd just push the serum through the skin and they were quite uncomfortable afterwards. So I had fewer than many of my contemporaries have. 

The story was, in my family, that I'd had a very serious ear infection at six months of age and became spoiled by my mother and grandmother alternating holding me on their chests because I would cry from the pain moreso when put into my crib. There is much to my medical history I have 'uncovered' in my investigating and learning over the years since I became 'chronically ill', and started turning my health back around toward 'chronically well'.

I have had heavy metals testing done, more than once, in the last 10 years and have worked to remove, through 'chelation', what I can, as well as making more informed choices about what I put into my body in terms of seafood and immunizations, second and third-hand cigarette smoke, among other things. I joke that I have so much mercury, I could be a thermometer -- but in reality, it's a joke to lighten the burden of the frustration from what this has created in my life, going back, well --- 'forever'!  (My mother and her mother who lived in the same house where I was when when were heavy cigarette smokers in a very small space. I'm hoping to really show through this example that it's toxins in more than one thing, which then clouds all the research on any ONE thing if researchers and readers are thinking 'one thing causes outcomes' and they're not thinking of the more complex interplay and the CUMULATIVE and ongoing exposures.)

I had a chiropractor in the early 1990s who was very educated and outspoken about vaccines and unfortunately he told me in 1992 he was closing his practice for a while and going off to lecture and publish about vaccines in another English speaking country (Australia). And so when you look at the YOU model, I lost one of the most important, if not THE most important health advisor I had at that time. And I was 'well', I wasn't needing to replace him necessarily but then didn't have that 'brain to run future proposed/required vaccines' past. So I learned 'the hard way'. It was maybe to the benefit of YOUsers because my whole career and life would have gone different directions and I might not have had everything line up as it did in 2006-7-8 which lead to my creating the You! Model, the live education group, and the YOU! model.  

So that's MY story and why I 'am here' overall at Lumigrate and putting my shoulder into this issue. I don't want to tell people what their opinions and actions should be: I want YOU, the consumer to know what might affect you someday and study up on it a bit so that you have an opinion and you take action accordingly. I wish I had before I did things which have been so damaging to my wellness, requiring a great deal of attention on my part to reverse or address and rectify as much as possible. 

Somewhere along the lines I went from drinking well water to municipally treated water where our governments and professional associations related to dental had taken it upon themselves to add fluoride byproduct from industry into our water supplies, and we all went along with it in those days, nobody was particularly ill, but in recent years there's an awareness of how much more autism, cancer, fibromyalgia there is ....  environmental illnesses.

And many people are now involved in the 'food movement', and they get into the non-GMO/GMO issue information, then that leads them to more awareness about all these other things which are interrelated, ultimately. Some people are starting to see the connection and there are lot of people who toss around terms that call people 'sheeple' (sheep/people) and 'lemings'.

I don't like to do that so much unless the situation really seems appropriate, but I do suggest people learn how it is that we followed with 'blind trust'. We weren't born blind, we were blinded, those of us in the majority who didn't have parents keeping us immune from the information sources that lead to that being the norm. But now it is a 'sleeping giant' being awakened. I like to think of it as people being more hypnotized or asleep at the wheel, so to speak and 'waking up'.  

 

This paragraph, which I'll repeat elsewhere in more context of the article and linking to the source, speaks volumes about it: 

Conclusion

There is little doubt that the time is rapidly approaching when public opinion will overwhelmingly demand that current vaccine programs be completely rethought and revised. This will occur largely from today’s epidemic of childhood autism and its growing impact on society as these children grow into their teenage and adult years.

 

In my personal and professional life, which includes serving people as an occupational therapist from 1996 to 2008, before founding Lumigrate and dedicating 100% of my professional efforts for five years now, where I shifted gears to being the 'conceirge' of information at Lumigrate and consulting with people if they wanted additional help beyond what they can ascertain independently at Lumigrate, I have come to realize that, whether chronically well or chronically ill, some people want to "get in the boat" and work at rowing to get to the wellness ship, and others want to just bob along in their boat and see where it takes them if they don't 'apply themselves'.

Healing the body is 'not easy', sometimes, this all takes a great deal of dedication and effort, I recognize and commend all who are making that investment! This process that we focus upon with Lumigrate takes time for people to initially view and then perhaps come back to after letting it sink in a bit, again and again, but overall I hope that YOU are becoming a more proactive YOU! I recognize that we're not for "everyone", we're for a certain type of person (consumer or provider) who wants to put in the effort (energy and time) and be a proactive patient or become better at providing to those proactive patients.

When it comes to the subject of vaccinations and immunizations (there is a slight difference in what the words actually 'mean'), this is of utmost importance. Often people haven't really done their homework before they go to the medical office (and those with pets or livestock also have this same situation related to the animals you are responsible for).  So do your homework beforehand and I hope what we present here is something which helps you with that. 

I am providing you with this link and a teaser of what you will find at that link, to get you started, from a website about environmental illness (EI):

www.ei-resource.org/articles/general-environmental-health-articles/vaccination-%11-the-pros-and-cons/

Vaccination - The Pros and Cons by Dr Sarah Myhill    

 www.drmyhill.co.uk

I have concerns about immunisations in general because I suspect they result in an overall gradual erosion of the immune system. This is compounded by excessive use of antibiotics, excessive use of hygiene (mothers who bring up their children in squeaky clean environments put them at high risk of allergy and asthma), the depletion of micronutrients in our diets as a result of modern food choices and agriculture techniques and the exposure to toxins such as pesticides and heavy metals.

There are some vaccinations which I believe are essential such as polio, tetanus, diphtheria and possibly whooping cough. They have also been around for a long time and we think we know the problems. I think that the evidence for other vaccinations is less certain and each case needs dealing with individually. Hepatitis B is a difficult one and should probably be given to 'at risk' groups. I am particularly concerned about vaccinations which are given altogether such as for example MMR. Nowhere in nature is one likely to meet up with several viruses in one go and I think this may explain some of the problems which follow vaccination. As a general principle try to be as healthy as possible on vaccination day!

Vaccination and CFS. Vaccinations are a two edged sword because whilst they have the potential to prevent illness, they can certainly cause flares of CFS. Indeed I have several patients with CFS dated from vaccinations such as flu or hepatitis B. However usually this has been on the background of overwhelming stress

Influenza vaccination: should you have one? One of the commonest triggers of a flare of CFS is flu. One can usually expect a mini epidemic most winters and a major epidemic one in every four winters. If you are the sort of person who regularly gets flu every winter then I would recommend you have a flu vaccine. If you are the sort of person who could become very ill as a result of flu (such as heart failure, chronic chest etc) you should consider flu vaccination. If you are the sort of person who never gets flu, then I would not care to risk flu vaccination. Between the two there is a grey area and it is for each individual person to decide for themselves what is the best thing to do.

 MMR vaccination: I think the evidence that the MMR vaccine causing autism is strong and I would not like to use this mixed vaccine in any child. In any case it is a complete waste of time giving rubella to boys and mumps to girls. Girls do not need rubella vaccination until they are sexually mature and by this time they will have had a good chance to have the infection and be naturally immune. Measles is a nasty illness and there probably is a case for vaccination young, but not in combination with the other viruses.

The trouble in UK is that the Government has banned the use of the individual vaccines measles and mumps. However with a doctors letter it is now possible to get these vaccinations individually. They can be ordered through IDIS 0208 410 0700.

Gulf War Syndrome. GWS is a classic example of a CFS with several causes. One probably cause was the many vaccinations that the soldiers received in one day. Some said they had 14 injections at one session. It is perfectly possible that this could have caused some sort of immune disruption resulting in CFS. 

Polio vaccination: an example of what could go wrong. The epidemic of CFS we are seeing at the moment may be partly caused by polio vaccination. Before polio vaccination, everybody got the polio virus at some stage in their lives and a few developed paralysis as a result. As a result of the immune system fighting the real polio virus an immunity to all enteroviruses was stimulated. These enteroviruses included Epstein Barr virus (glandular fever), ECHO, coxsackie B etc. Polio vaccination gave immunity against polio, but not these other enteroviruses. Enteroviruses are a major cause of post viral syndrome. Indeed it has been estimated that over 20% of people who get glandular fever never recover their full energy levels.

So we have swapped one problem for another, less polio paralysis, but more post viral syndrome.

My concerns about vaccinations. My philosophy is always 'mimic Nature'. A vaccination will never produce the same strength of immunity as getting the real infection. My worries are: The insidious erosion of the immune system. Giving vaccinations may block very useful cross immunity to other viruses. For example there are some viruses which cause cancer. I do not wish to inadvertently block immunity to one of those! We are constantly meeting new viruses and our bodies have to learn to cope with them.. We have no idea of what long term problems we are storing up.

 

And these links to two more resources with what I found to be good information overall that can be a tremendous resource for YOUsers doing their research and using Lumigrate as a resource for leads, making it more streamlined for everyone in my footsteps. As usual, a 'teaser' is provided so you can see what kind of information the source I suggest is providing and decide if YOU want to go 'see the sites' as they say. 

 

 

From vran.org/about-vaccines/vaccine-ingredients/mercury/vaccines-mercury-and-genetic-change/ (NOTEL: I have added more paragraph brakes and bolded some things, below, that I thought were areas our YOUsers might want to have pop out at them if visually scanning this over.) 


Are Vaccines Necessary in Their Present Forms, Numbers, and Schedules?

There is a general impression today that vaccines in the form of mass or herd immunization programs have been largely responsible for controlling former epidemics of killer diseases in the U.S.A., but the facts do not bear this out in most instances. In the case of smallpox epidemics of former years, very limited vaccines along with quarantines proved quite effective in third world countries.
 
In more modern times, according to the records of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, from 1911 to 1935 the four leading causes of death from infectious diseases among children and adolescents in the U.S.A. were diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough (pertussis) and measles.
 
However, by 1945 the combined death rates from these causes had declined by 95 percent, before implementation of mass immunization programs (40). Information from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, July 30, 1999 (41) drew much the same conclusion, reporting that improvements in sanitation, water quality, hygiene, less crowded housing, and the introduction of antibiotics have been the most important factors in control of infectious diseases in the previous century. Although vaccines were mentioned, they were not included among the major factors.
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Vaccines, Mercury and Genetic Change

Introduction

Thimerosal, which consists of approximately 50 percent ethyl mercury, has been used as a vaccine preservative since the early 1920s. As the numbers of mandated vaccines have steadily grown, the quantity of mercury has also grown, culminating in the 1990s, when children commonly received 187.5 micrograms of mercury during their first six months of life (62.5 mcgs at two months, again at four months, and again at six months).
 
At current safety limits set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)(1), which allows a maximum of 0.1 mcg of mercury per kilogram of body weight per day, children during the 1990s commonly received up to 100 times the safe dose of mercury on three separate occasions during their first six months.
 
According to standard toxicology texts, the brain is a prime target for mercury (2). So it is not surprising that the current epidemic of childhood autism and learning disabilities reached their peaks during the 1990s, with one in 150 American children now recognized as autistic. (3)
 
Currently the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that nine million American children under age 18 have been diagnosed with asthma, (4) whereas in 1979 asthma affected approximately two million children under age 14. (5) Four controlled studies, widely separated geographically, have shown that fully vaccinated children had significantly more allergic disorders, including asthma, than those with limited or not vaccines. (6-9)
 
Comparable increases have taken place in attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) with four million children between ages three and 17 being diagnosed with this condition. (4) These dramatic increases cannot be attributed to changes in classification or increased awareness. Could vaccine programs inherently be prone to cause these adverse trends aside and apart from the mercury issue?

The Thimerosal-Mercury Issue

From 1999 through 2004 a series of U.S. Congressional Hearings were held on issues of vaccine safety, largely concerned about a possible causal relation between childhood immunizations with their high levels of mercury and today’s epidemic of childhood autism and learning disabilities. An excellent review of these hearings is found in the book Evidence of Harm by David Kirby (10).
 
Space does not allow more than a brief recounting of the Thimerosal (mercury) story:
 
.......... (and then they go on and say more, please go and read at the source .... I come back to bring the conclusion, below) .........................

Conclusion

There is little doubt that the time is rapidly approaching when public opinion will overwhelmingly demand that current vaccine programs be completely rethought and revised. This will occur largely from today’s epidemic of childhood autism and its growing impact on society as these children grow into their teenage and adult years.

 
 

 

New Research Suggests Link Between Vaccine Ingredients and Autism, ADHD

Released: Tue 03-Feb-2004, 08:20 ET

Keywords

  • NEUROTOXINS, AUTISM, ADHD
  • THIMERISOL, DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
  • EXPOSURE TO ETHANOL AND HEAVY METALS
  • RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH IMMUNIZATIONS
  • VACCINE INGREDIENTS, NEUROLOGY, CHILDHOOD
  • ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
  • HEALTHY NEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

Description

According to new research, there is an apparent link between exposure to certain neurodevelopmental toxins and an increased likelihood of developing neurological disorders such as autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Newswise

According to new research from Northeastern University pharmacy professor Richard Deth and colleagues from the University of Nebraska, Tufts, and Johns Hopkins University, there is an apparent link between exposure to certain neurodevelopmental toxins and an increased possibility of developing neurological disorders including autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. The research – the first to offer an explanation for possible causes of two increasingly common childhood neurological disorders – is published today in the April 2004 issue of the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
 
Though some speculation exists regarding this link, Deth and his colleagues found that exposure to toxins, such as ethanol and heavy metals (including lead, aluminum and the ethylmercury-containing preservative thimerosal) potently interrupt growth factor signaling, causing adverse effects on methylation reactions (i.e. the transfer of carbon atoms).
 
Methylation, in turn, plays a significant role in regulating normal DNA function and gene expression, and is critical to proper neurological development in infants and children. Scientists and practitioners have identified an increase in diagnoses of autism and ADHD in particular, though the reasons why are largely unknown.
 
In their work, the scientists found that insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and the neurotransmitter dopamine both stimulated folate-dependent methylation pathways in neuronal cells. At the same time they noted that compounds like thimerosal, ethanol and metals (like lead and mercury) effectively inhibited these same biochemical pathways at concentrations that are typically found following vaccination or other sources of exposure.
 
By better understanding what happens when infants and children are exposed to these materials, the work of Deth and his colleagues helps to explain how environmental contact with metals and administration of certain vaccines may lead to serious disorders that manifest themselves during childhood, including autism and ADHD.
 
“Scientists certainly acknowledge that exposure to neurotoxins like ethanol and heavy metals can cause developmental disorders, but until now, the precise mechanisms underlying their toxicity have not been known,” said Deth. “The recent increase in the incidence of autism led us to speculate that environmental exposures, including vaccine additives might contribute to the triggering of this disorder.”
 
Thimerosal, which was largely phased out in the U.S. and in Europe starting in 2000,was often used for its preservative abilities in multi-dose units of vaccines for diseases like hepatitis, whooping cough, tetanus and diphtheria. Today, most vaccines carry only trace amounts of it, according to the CDC. But in larger, multi-dose vials of these vaccines, often shipped to and used in third world countries, thimerosal is still very common. Multi-dose flu vaccines still contain thimerosal.
 
Additionally, the scientists recently obtained more insight into the mechanism by which thimerosal interferes with folate-dependent methylation. It acts by inhibiting the biosynthesis of the active form of vitamin B12 (methylcobalamin), which is of particular interest because doctors treating autistic kids are having good success with the administration of methycobalamin. (Bolding added by me/Mardy and I also have broken things into smaller paragraphs for easier reading by our often tired brained and muscles (including eyes) YOUsers). 
 
Northeastern University, a private research institution located in Boston, Massachusetts, is a world leader in practice-oriented education. Building on its flagship cooperative education program, Northeastern links classroom learning with workplace experience and integrates professional preparation with study in the liberal arts and sciences. U.S. News & World Report, in its annual guide America’s Best Colleges, 2003, ranked Northeastern University number one in the country among programs that “require or encourage students to apply what they’re learning in the classroom out in the real world.” In addition, Northeastern’s career services was top ranked by Kaplan Newsweek’s “Unofficial Insiders Guide to the 320 Most Interesting Colleges and Universities,” 2003 edition. For more information, please visit the Northeastern University website.

 

Again, those are just blocks of information that I wanted to bring here so that you could get a sense for the information as it relates to this topic overall, so you will be able to better judge if you want to follow out and go there to learn further. 

 


I hope this information becomes something 'shared' between providers and consumers, as we are all connected and can do much to advance the health of people we are connected to.

~~ Mardy...  Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! 

 


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Oppressive Regulations Go Against Constitutional Rights

Thank you for introducing me, Mardy. Homeopathy World Community BlogTalkRadio shows have evolved over the past 3 years. The newest partnership began in February when Thursday's show, "Vaccination and Your Rights in the US" partnered with FreedomizerRadio. Although, we simulcast through the regular BTR-HWC channel, if anyone wants to listen live, comment, call in with questions, I recommend going to FreedomizerRadio.com 

My co-host Alan Phillips is the national expert on vaccines and respective legal issues. The format has changed, as well. He begins the show solo at 1PM Eastern Time, I join him at 1:30PM or we have a special guest, then at 2:30PM I talk about stress in our lives from all angles and how homeopathy may help move us to a better place to cope with stress. 

The archives of each show are available. You may like to check out last week's show, make a note on your calendar for future shows, send us questions to answer on-air, and send us feedback. We appreciate everyone who shares and tells their friends about our programs via Twitter, FaceBook, Digg, StumbleUpon or email. If you especially like any of these shows, just take the embed code and post it onto your own website as an audio for your visitors. 

You will find me on FaceBook and everyone is welcome to join the HomeopathyWorldCommunity FaceBook page.  I've written numerous educational, environmental and creative articles on Hubpages

Lately, I have been posting current events, news, interesting facts on the weekly announcement page that relates to vaccines in our world. You will find a link to an upcoming show, or the recorded version of a past show. The text on the page will not be a transcription of the show. It may be considered additional reading.

We talk on-the-fly, real conversations, inquiry, and more. Alan brings in his wealth of experience speaking with people from many parts of the country. Each state has their own regulations and laws. Parents, immigrants, veterans, military families, students and everyone in the health care fields must deal with vaccine laws. It's best to know your rights. It's even better to engage and become active.

If a pandemic is ever announced by the government, we simply lose our rights to refuse vaccines and may be quarantined, split up as families, and forced into camps. We must be prepared and aware.  Join us. 

Here is a small sample of the types of issues we discuss. 

Oppressive Regulations Go Against Constitutional Rights 

NEWS | U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder will announce his introduction of a bill that would require food containing genetically modified organisms to be clearly identified.

"I am proud to help lead the GMO Labeling Bill, which is all about consumer choice and information," Polis said in a news release. "It's important to empower people with the information they need to make their own healthy choices. People have the right to make consumer decisions based on accurate transparency in labeling, and knowledge is power."

 
We're now re-educating the public view of vaccines. We were taught that vaccinations were good for the body and built immunity against contagious infectious disease. We are learning otherwise. We are getting smarter. Now we must act smarter. And, we must play telephone to let our friends know about the news. It certainly defies reason to continue believe the old regime.
 
We receive contradictory messages from government agencies who we have always trusted to provide protection and safety. They tell us the risks to benefits ratios, then conclude it is best to take a vaccine, EVEN after they just gave slim reason for doing so. 
 
They require everyone to provide data and research, yet they cannot and will not do so when it comes to valid vaccine research. They push to market early untested drugs. They mass message the marketplace, the workplace, recreational and communication networks the importance of vaccines.
 
The tide is turning. People are waking up and starting to think, making their own decisions and fighting the establishment. 

 

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Debby Bruck

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Great information. Another resource I've used to study...

Vaccines sure are a loaded subject in todays world. Personally, I think they are not as effective as the medical community claims them to be. The risks, in my mind, outweigh any of the purported benefits.

Homeopathic methods of administering disease tissue would be the best way to confer immunity on a person. A resource I use on the Internet can be found if you Search on "Dr. Sherry Tenpenny, DO". She has a website on vaccinations that is loaded with information. One concept is that proteins in vaccinations can be similar to body tissue proteins, and this "seeds" the immune system to react against normal cellular proteins, causing, or contributing to, autoimmune diseases.

It would be best to support your own immune system with hydration, nutrition, homeopathy, acupuncture, manipulation, massage, etc. to prevent your self from getting sick.

The link for Dr Tenpenny's website: drtenpenny.com/

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His pieces on Lumigrate can be found in the forum related to things of the head in the section related to chronic pain, fatigue and fibromyalgia at http://www.lumigrate.com/forums/health-issuesdis-eases/head/.... Please also refer to The Cranial Academy for providers in your area who have similar treatment approaches at: http://www.cranialacademy.com/

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Natural News Link Related to Health Care Workers

Here's a link I saw today and thought it was worth sharing the link here for people to check out. There is much in the article at this link about the health industry related to what is being presented to workers related to required vaccinations. There is much to think about, and many talking and writing about this right now, including at 

now! www.naturalnews.com/039364_healthcare_workers_flu_vaccine_side_effects.html

Also, related to what you said at the top related to the influenza vaccine, I am not in favor of my patients getting a flu shot. It messes with their TH1/TH2 immune system and makes them sick. I have them do the Flu Mist or keep a prescription of Tamiflu around in case they get the flu.  This is a very short video on YouTube that I suggest people watch for other information I find beneficial specific to influenza protection. 

LifePak Nano - CBS - Flu Protection
www.youtube.com
 
Mardy's note (when editing this thread overall on 5/15/14): FOR MORE INFO ABOUT TH1/TH2 immune system which Dr Spurlock refers to, above, in patients with what are considered complex health status, I found some resources I wanted to suggest people look into.  
 
One is a fabulous blog by a woman who has written a ton of information about paleo diet for people who have autoimmune disorders: autoimmune-paleo.com/what-is-the-role-of-th1-and-th2-in-autoimmune-disease/
 
The other is a chiropractor's website which has great, short videos on a number of topics, written information, and they consult with people all over the US and sometimes beyond, and provide products. For humans and dogs and cats, by the way! Love it, since I included information about dogs and cats on this thread. Here's the link to the TH1/TH2 information topic at their website: 
www.ovitaminpro.com/th1andth2ba.html
... and what is at YouTube (which is where I found them when Searching on "th1 th2 immune response" (hints so YOU can become as proficient a researcher as possible and I can be transparent on how I create the content and resources I suggest at Lumigrate for our YOUsers). 
 
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This video goes through the basics of Th1 and Th2 dominance in the immune system, plus how they work and what you need to know about keeping them in balance. Th1 and Th2 have both made their way into the mainstream and at OVitaminPro.com, we want to clear up any confusion you have over these T helper cells and the place they have in your immune system.

To learn more about Th1 and Th2, or if you have any additional questions after this video, be sure to check out our Th1 and Th2 resources page: http://www.ovitaminpro.com/th1andth2b...

You can also give OVitaminPro.com a call at....  (gives #, please go to their website to find if you're interested)

I hope this is a great help, you'll see that Dr Dan says at the start of the video at the link, above, that this is information that is not yet much in the mainstream media so a lot of people are learning about it now from various sources -- such as Lumigrate and his OVitaminPro website / video. ~ Mardy

 

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Re: Natural News Link Related to Health Care Workers

Hello Dr Marc Spurlock - Pleased to meet you, and Dr Kennedy, and thank you for sharing the Natural News link. Mike Adams has one of the best alternative health websites, along with Dr Mercola. I'm also extremely proud of Alan Phillips for joining Natural News as a featured author all about vaccinations, current events and constitutional rights in America. 

Alan has a full practice and things have been heating up this past year, as the government clamps down heavily in more areas of society in regard to forced and/or required vaccinations: to attend school, to work in health care and hospital settings, to immigrate to the U.S., to participate in sports activities, to act in the military, and numerous other daily activities. 

Every day we learn another negative aspect of the influenza program, dealing with adverse reactions to the vaccine, harm to mothers-to-be, the elderly and young babies. We learn more about the ingredients and their toxic effects on the brain and immune system.

We learn that continued and repeated vaccines cause hypersensitivity in many people to foods and their environment. We learn that the government tests innocent populations without their consent. We learn continued vaccines stimulate viruses to mutate into more resistant strains. 

Each week Alan Phillips discusses the vaccine environment, the law and our personal freedoms, plus our own individual thoughts and ask others to join us in this discussion each Thursday at 1PM Eastern Time USA.


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Toni Bernhard's Wise Words About Convergent/Divergent Thinking

I always enjoy seeing the experts at Lumigrate 'connect here', as Debby, Jim and Marc (doctors Kennedy and Spurlock) have, with me as the hub; what a GRATE place to be! Over the years, I have been told that much of what our provider experts 'get' from being part of things at Lumigrate is the way it nudges their education along in a quality way, same as it does for the consumer experts who utilize Lumigrate for learning. It also provides them with a resource to direct their clients, patients, and consumers toward and essentially easing their burden of directing toward QUALITY progressive information. Then as you see, we link out and connect with others, such as Natural News, etc.  That is the #1 concern I and all providers have related to the consumers using the Internet, there are way more nonqualified people 'out there' than quality ones, and sometimes they are not only dangerous, they're con artists! 

One resource that came to mind today related to this information about vaccines and public policy was Toni Berhart, JD, and her recent Psychology Today article about convergent and divergent thinking related to chronic illness and overall. I do not know if the work she has done in the past related to being a lawyer and judge extended into this realm, and hope she will be pleased to have been thought of as a GRATE resource here to add to the discussion about this timely topic. 

I wanted to share "What Type of Thinker Are You?" here, with the encouragement that people use the link to it that will be set up at the bottom.  I think it might help people studying and forming their opinions about vaccines for themselves and society in general (or any other important matter).  (And I really enjoyed hearing about how she dealt with the hurdle presented about turning her written material into audio, those of us like Debby and I who have caches of information are tasked with making things available in multiple forms for 'consuption' and it's very taxing to our time, energy and money.)


What Type of Thinker Are You?

When we get stuck in convergent thinking, we miss the possibilities open to us.

 

“Convergent” and “divergent” thinking represent two different ways of looking at the world. A convergent thinker sees a limited, predetermined number of options. By contrast, a divergent thinker is always looking for more options. Many of us get stuck in convergent thinking and, as a result, don’t see the many possibilities available to us. Let’s have a look at both types of thinking.

 

Convergent Thinking. Convergent is a form of the word “converging” and so it means “coming together.” Convergent thinking is what you engage in when you answer a multiple choice question (although, in real life, we often only see two choices). In convergent thinking, you begin by focusing on a limited number of choices as possibilities. Then you choose the “right” answer or course of action from among those choices. The figure on the left side of the diagram illustrates convergent thinking.


Here’s an example: “People are sick or people are healthy.” For many years after becoming chronically ill, those were the only two possibilities I saw: I was sick or I was healthy. Each night I’d go to bed, hoping to wake up healthy. When I didn’t, I considered myself to be sick. It was one or the other.

Along with that, I thought I only had two possible courses of action: I could be a law professor or I could do nothing with my life. That may sound extreme, but that’s how I saw it at the time. Not wanting to do the latter, I forced myself to keep working, even though I was too sick to do so. It didn’t occur to me that I could be in poor health and lead a productive life.

Here’s another example of convergent thinking. When I considered how friends responded to me when I became chronically ill, I saw only two possibilities: those who stuck around cared about me and those who didn’t stick around didn’t care about me. I wasn’t able to see that people could drop out of my life and still care about me.

I’m not dismissing the value of convergent thinking. It’s an importantcognitive tool, particularly in math and science. Unless I’m missing something, it would be silly to be open to other options than “4” when asked, “What’s 2+2?”. But convergent thinking has at times been a great source of suffering for me during my illness, because it’s kept me from seeing beyond my limited vision of what is possible in this new and unexpected life.

You need not have health difficulties to see how convergent thinking—because it leads you to take a narrow view of your life—can be unskillful. For example: “It’s aerobics or no exercise at all.” With this type of thinking, if you have an injury that prevents you from doing aerobics, you’ll opt for no exercise at all rather than considering other options, such as doing something less strenuous but still valuable.

Another example: “This new job is going to be great or it’s going to be terrible.” If these are the only two possibilities you see, then if you decide it’s terrible, you won’t be able to enjoy a pleasant experience at work when it comes along. “He either loves me or he doesn’t care about me at all.” Well, you get the idea: limited options; only one “right” answer or course of action.

Divergent Thinking. By contrast, divergent means “developing in different directions” and so divergent thinking opens your mind in all directions. This opens possibilities in your life because it leads you to look for options that aren’t necessarily apparent at first. The figure on the right side of the above diagram illustrates divergent thinking.

A divergent thinker is looking for options as opposed to choosing among predetermined ones. So instead of deciding that the two choices for me are “sick” or “healthy,” I would ask myself if there are other options, like the possibility that I could be sick and healthy at the same time. It took me many years to see that this was indeed an option (and it became the major theme of my book, How to Be Sick).

When I became chronically ill, I was mostly a convergent thinker. As a result, for many years after I could no longer work, I felt useless, as if my life had no meaning. I slowly emerged from this dark place by becoming more of a divergent thinker, but I still have to work at it by reminding myself: “Look for options you haven’t considered.”

Here’s an example of how switching from convergent to divergent thinking can make our lives easier and lead to fruitful results. When How to Be Sick was published in 2010, I began to get requests for me to read it as an audiobook. I decided I could do it if I just bought a good microphone and some computer software. I announced on Facebookthat there would soon be an audiobook, and I responded to the many email requests I’d received by telling people that an audiobook was in the works.

But when I undertook the project, it proved to be much more difficult than I’d anticipated. Without going into details, suffice it to say that there’s a reason that most book narrators are professionally trained (or, at least, not limited in their energetic resources!). As I faltered, I saw only two options: Push forward, at great expense to my health; or not do it at all. I did the latter—not without having had to endure self-recrimination over letting people down.

It took me over 2 1/2  years to put on my divergent thinking cap. I thought: “Maybe there are more options than just “audiobook read by me” or “no audiobook.” I began to do some online research and found a website that matches books with narrators. (It’s a spin-off from Amazon and audible.com.) From my laptop, I signed up, submitted a short excerpt from the book, and “auditioned” narrators. They would record the excerpt, upload the audio file to the website, and I’d get an email notifying me there was a new audition.

I listened to over a dozen auditions (it was fun!) and then one day, I heard the voice that was perfect for the book. Deon reads How to Be Sickas if she wrote it; she seems to understand the intention behind every word I wrote. And so, we’re on our way to producing an audiobook. That’s an example of the value of divergent thinking—thinking in terms of possibilities instead of in terms of limited choices.

As for friends, I began to think that there might be more than the two options I’d settled on (that those who stuck around cared about me and those who didn’t stick around didn’t care about me). When I opened my mind to other possibilities, I discovered that some friends who haven't stuck around do indeed still care about how I'm doing. They aren’t in contact for other reasons. One of them is too uncomfortable around illness because of her experience with her own parents suddenly taking ill and dying within a few months. Another person, unbeknownst to me, developed serious health problems of her own.

Consider whether you tend to be a convergent thinker or a divergent one. If you’re the former, you’re likely to see limited choices instead of being open to possibilities. If you’d like to work on becoming more of a divergent thinker, I have two suggestions.

First, whenever you’re considering a course of action or forming an opinion about something or someone (including yourself), pay attention to whether you’re assuming you have limited choices—it’s this or it’s that; she’s like this or she’s like that; I’m like this or I’m like that. Second, use the Thich Nhat Hanh practice I’ve written about before: Am I Sure? Ask yourself, “Am I Sure?” before you assume you’ve considered all the alternatives available to you or before you make a judgment about something or someone. Having tried these two suggestion, then start looking for more possibilities.

Open your mind and see where it takes you!

I'm the author of the award-winning How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and their CaregiversMy new book, How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrowis available for pre-order and will be released in September.

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This and all the other wonderful things Toni provides can be found at PsychologyToday.com (as well as many other fabulous providers. I grew up reading the mailed version every month, even in the 1960s and 1970s! This particular link is: www.psychologytoday.com/blog/turning-straw-gold/201302/what-type-thinker-are-you

 

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Dear Mardy -

Convergent versus Divergent thinkingI like to keep my answers short with my limited time to expound on all of your fantastic contributions that get us thinking about "how" we think. Bringing in these diverse concepts into the picture helps us realize when we get stuck, solve problems, feel helpless or feel the possibilities of freedom or well-being. 

The concept of convergent thinking can play an important role when we must narrow down the options in order to find a solution, a path or one answer. If we must choose a school to attend, noting the negative and positive qualities, the favorable or unfavorable aspects of a choice lends itself to convergent thinking. 

Convergent thinking we might consider black and white, yes and no, can or can't -- these can put us into a rut of feeling stuck or when we 'can' then thinking we will reach the goal. 

However, divergent thinking paints the world with a broader brush. We see the benefits amongst the risks or black areas of our situation. By thinking divergently, we open to bigger possibilities. How all of this plays into our understanding of the vaccine environment, I suppose, means that we take in more information that will develop our concepts and provide more knowledge to make our choices. 

Allowing ourselves not to be limited to black and white information, but to open our eyes to points that may chip away at a rigid belief system will move us into a place of free choice with greater knowledge. Blessings, Debby

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My perspective, thank you for inviting me to the discussion

It's an established medical and legal fact that vaccines cause injury and death, and no one can tell you what your or your child's reaction will be, or when and how severe. This alone provides more than a sufficient basis for all to be allowed to make an informed choice and to have free access to all relevant information.

But states around the country are implement laws requiring more and more vaccines for more and more people while simultaneously limiting free choice--often, unconstitutionally.

For example, some states have laws allowing *children* to consent to vaccines; others have bills that, if passed, will also do that -- blatantly unconstitutional (infringes on parental rights). [see www.nvicadvocacy.org for a list of current state vaccine bills].

No one can tell you if vaccines provide a net benefit, if any, really. The FDA and CDC have stated that 90 - 99% of vaccine adverse events are never reported. So, there's no data available to make the assessment.

A non-profit org. obtained information in 2011 through the federal Freedom of Information Act proving that CDC officials know that vaccines cause autism. They deliberately withheld data from a study showing this; the resulting study now "proves" that vaccines don't cause autism -- but fraudulently.

I have faith in humanity, on the whole. I believe most doctors, state and federal health agency employees, and pharmaceutical industry employees are honest people of integrity. But there is absolutely a conspiracy at the level of key decision-makers in each of these arenas.

When you control those few key people or positions, you control the thinking of most of the nation, and in any event, the policy and law for all. There is deep, systemic corruption at work here (among other arenas), and that has lead to the unnecessary yet deliberate introduction of chronic disease throughout the population, providing an enormous market for pharmaceutical drugs, and the unnecessary but deliberate death of many innocent babies, children and adults.

For those who are skeptical that anyone would knowingly behave in this manner, consider the $ billions in *criminal* fines that the pharmaceutical industry gets every year, increasingly in recently years. Glaxo: $1B criminal fine 2012; Pfiser: $1B criminal fine 2009; fines in the $100's of millions are common. This industry routinely engages in criminal behavior, because it's profitable to do it. And who knows how much of that behavior goes on under the radar, the fines, of course, are only for those times that they get caught.

My articles document all of the above and much, much more: www.vaccinerights.com/articles.html. Thank you for including me in this discussion at Lumigrate and helping my message reach your consumers with this information.

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Animals Other Than Humans -- Our Furry Family and Friends

Through Debby Bruck, CHom, above, I learned of Christina Chambreau, DVM, whose website, MyHealthyAnimals .com, is a really nice website that outlines much information to learn for FREE, and outlines her consultation fees for national and international customers. I'm providing the link to the portion of her website that is about vaccination, below.  

christinachambreau.com/welcome-to-my-practice/welcome-to-my-practice/vaccination-guidelines-for-my-practice

And through Dr Chambreau, I learned of a couple of resources for you to look at if you're interested. 

rabieschallengefund.org is an organization lead by veterinarians who are studying vaccinations on nonhuman animals, which relies upon funding to keep the study going longer; so if this is something you're inclined to participate in, please go and do so (or simply go and learn for now!)

And even though this e-address domain is about dogs, this has information about felines/cats as well: Go to Yahoo Groups and find a group called NoVaxK9s.

 

About Dog / Canine Vaccination Issues

There is a FABULOUS article that I posted a comment about, below at #24, but here's the link if you wish to link and not scroll and find it.  The article is about vaccine schedule and history of the industry as it relates to canine veterinary medicine. The info reflects much that is also the case about the human medicine industry (which are basically coming from the same overarching source of what I recently have been calling 'organized medicine').  Here's the link: www.lumigrate.com/forum/vaccinations-overall-where-do-you-stand-american-or-otherwise#comment-2722 

About Me/ Mardy and Dogs

  (Scooter The Wonder Dog, who was a certified therapy dog I borrowed from my significant other and used at work in the early 21st century, after her 'retirement'. She is age 16 here, and had gone deaf 2 months prior to this photo when it was the year for her to have 'all' the vaccines typically suggested and required in Colorado, given on the same day. the next day she was completely deaf.

Shortly after this photo was taken, she started chewing on her feet and I took her to a veterinarian who lived near my home and his interest was piqued by what occurred with her sudden loss of hearing and looked online and came up with a solution, he proposed (printing and mailing what he found online. Back we went, and it was drops that went in the ears which included DMSO and other things, $18/bottle if I recall correctly, and her hearing did come back! She smelled like DMSO (garlicy) and ultimately her owner didn't want to keep up with the treatment and eventually she lost her hearing again after treatment was stopped.  Lesson to me: Our teachers come in all forms. Scooter also taught me a great deal about sensing about people; her owner was a Vietnam veteran with many of the medical issues found in that era of military servant.)  It is believed Scooter was 19 at the time of her death.  

 

About Cat / Feline Vaccination Issues 

There is a link within a comment on this thread (#21) and for those that would prefer a link rather than to scroll, here's the link: www.lumigrate.com/forum/vaccinations-overall-where-do-you-stand-american-or-otherwise#comment-2682  

This is something I set up for people to find and link to that was information I learned about from a Lyme advocate / educator on Facebook who had said 'hey, we're treating these bugs in us and doing a 'whack-a-mole' approach and what if we're giving and reciving these things back and forth with our pets, who are also infected'.  

The link was to a professional website and the topics were written of all things, by an old and good friend of mine, Michael Lappin, DVM. I left Fort Collins, where he was with the renowned veterinary teaching hospital, in 1996 and he was a canine guy at that time. But apparently he got into felines not long after that as the information at the website was from the late 1990s. I found that so interesting because I could have been bugging him about SpoildeyCat but had missed the memo that he'd made that switch. I'd actually seen him over the years at social gatherings with our old, mutal friends. 

I highly encourage pursuing reading his work, particularly if you have cats, whether you knowingly have anything like Lyme lurking in you (it is thought by progressive researchers that 80% of Americans do). I also highly recommend people keep in mind the 'divergent thinking' we've brought into play on this topic, and realize there is a lot of 'interplay' and 'cofactors' going on. It's very complex and someone who can break it down and write it up (or speak it out) in a way that it's very understandable for the average person who is health information-seeking are invaluable.  I hope that I find GRATE resources for our YOUsers at Lumigrate. 

 

About Me/ Mardy and Cats

 

                                                     SpoildeyCat, seen here tolerating well being decorated for a Valentine's Day photo in 2012, is enjoying watching 'the great outdoors', age 2-1/2. She would have her first 'episode' of odd, aggressive behavior which I wondered had anything to do with genes being 'tweeked' from the vaccines she'd received not long after this -- perhaps I added stress to her by having her pose for a Valentine's Day photo -- she actually didn't seem to mind it at all, as she had become used to a collar in order to go outside safely in the great outdoors she loved so much. (She's looking out to a bit of a 'wild life area' which comes complete with predators of small animals.)

I held off on further vaccination once she had significant problems present, and I have been learning from her to look again or 'harder' at "nature versus nurture" -- genetics plus the things, good and bad, that comes to the animal, human or otherwise, that are stressful or alleviate the stresses on the body, mind, and spirit. "Load Theory" as we call it after a new Dr Spurlock-provided topic in the forums about chronic pain, fatigue, illness. "Full Barrel Syndrome" as we called it from the start of Lumigrate thanks to naturopathic doctor Christopher Lepisto's provided educational information for Lumigrate YOUsers. (You can search on those keywords at our Search bar.) 

I got her at 5 months, I was her third home, some trauma went on with the people in that family resulting in jail for one, guardians for others, and SpoildeyCat needing a new home when I just happened to be in her path of travel. She'd just been spayed and vaccinated and all that 'usual stuff'.  It was a blessing to me (and hopefully to her) as her symptoms presented as we got to know each other; sensory integration / sensory processing problems and symptoms that eventually made me think 'she has a lot of the same 'stuff' I have -- isn't THAT interesting -- a cat and a human having such similar issues. Why would that be? What are the underlying reasons?

Even with my knowledge about my own history and symptoms of a variety of things that I've come to see very interrelated in terms of the underlying causes and how they contribute together to something I see in increasing numbers of people today, it was very difficult at the time to figure out what was going on with her. Was it somewhat to do with vaccines and her unique genes? I don't know, but I suspected it likely could -- I know they are a major factor for me (because of my genes and what is in the vaccines not being a good mix, and what I have with my genes is not that uncommon and it affects the detoxification capabilities of the body). But I made some nice connections for YOUsers of Lumigrate to know about, and more to share in terms of another situation from which I'd gained more wisdom (and scars). 

I am also witnessing, in my time at the locally owned pet supply store (shout out to Colorado's ChowDown) how many people are learning more about their own human wellness when seeking out the advise of knowledgeable staff at a pet supply store. And I am no exception! I asked them about veterinarians who might be more progressive about vaccination, such as doing titer testing, and was given the name of a DVM about two hours away. 

SpoildeyCat was a 'tortie' and always was very sensitive to "energy", sounds and movement, etc. She had been mind blowing remarkable when we were present for the 'home stretch' and passing of my father -- she actually honored his wishes and laid outside his open room door keeping an eye on things and being near but not in the room -- somethign she'd NEVER obeyed prior to that time.

Right now I'm thinking recently about her high intelligence and lightning fast reactions and seeing a correlation to humans I know with similar qualities who I believe are considered in mainstream circles to be "on the autism spectrum." They're 'just wired different' -- in the case of some with autism, there's a lack of pruning of neurons at a certain point when that normally occurs so they have essentially a brain overgrowth situation. That's the kind of autism that Dr Temple Grandin has, and it is believed Einsten and Tesla had. I believe my father had, and perhaps I have a bit of it too, though. I don't go looking for more labels from the conventional circles but I do like to learn what those labels would be as they become Search words for study and learning (and then presenting / teaching / providing at Lumigrate for our YOUsers too).  

I very much appreciate the education path that Debby Bruck has brought my way, and I hope you will as well if this is of interest to you. SpoildeyCat's case was featured on the weekly webinar by Debby and Dr Christina. As the advocate and human guardian for a reliant animal, I made my best attempt to find info. Later, after her euthanization, I learned more information via a Facebook group about Lyme disease, ironically, which, further ironically, was written by a long-ago friend of mine who at that time was a canine veterinary researcher.

And whenever I listen into the discussions with the homeopaths, I'm reminded of the above convergent / divergent thinking information. An animal becomes unwell and it's not that easy to see one thing that caused the other, but it's cumulative -- many things.

And that brings up the fascinating aspect about aging -- to some extent it is the cumulative, 'accumulation' of toxins such as heavy metals that reaches a high level, but is it also the body not being as able to adapt, due sheerly to the body's systems not being as efficient. But remember, what is the likely life expectancy of a supremely well human being? Right now there's a woman who is 127 and I'd learned that it was thought the number would be 120 to 130 years, ideally, if a person had what they needed and NOT what was detrimental. Natural medicine believes that if you get it 80% right, the body can adapt for the 20% not right. Dogs should live, apparently into their 20s or to 30. Cats into their 30s. Think about that!

I read a doctor's perspective about brain injury in young athletes in a Denver Post story in recent years, and he was quoted as saying, basically that 'all it is that heals brain injury is time'.  I thought that was so not the way I see things: it is what you do or do not do in your 24 hours/day of time that has the consequences to heal or not ... damage further or not. I hope this gave YOU much to think about!

 As always, Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! ~~ Mardy

NOTE, summer 2013 I added this note: Happily, I learned a great deal after writing this from SpoildeyCat. Unfortunately, she was, like all of us, a victim of "this and that and the other thing" adding up and triggering disorders she had the genes to develop -- the "load theory" I referred to, above.  

Thankfully, the experienced, holistic, homeopathic veterinarian that I learned about from the local pet supply OWNER (not the staff, it was the owner who was involved on many of my visits to the store) knew of the extremely rare disorder that had perplexed so many of us, and firmly said  they're "dangerous cats" and need to be euthanized, which was done that day in an integrative way -- conventional medication and aromatherapy for the staff, the animal, and me, the owner / guardian. For as busy as they were, having taken in an injured hawk as an emergency that afternoon before our appointment time, they were very supportive of the mind. 

I have learned more from a little 10# cat in a few years than any other single thing in my career and personal live, I believe, or it is up at the top with some other powerful experiences. I will share what I have learned so stay tuned. Blessings to all our teachers, past and present, here on Earth or passed. 

 

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Gardasil Story - I Know the Mother Writing This Story

The women involved in this story, Stephanie's mother, is my former step-daughter, and I want to support her efforts getting the word out about Stephanie.  It's always unfortunate to know of people having these kinds of devastating health problems when we hear about them in the news, or now on the Internet, but when you 'know' the people involved, it simply hits 'closer to home'. And I also want to say how impressive this topic is on Lumigrate, one I wasn't even aware of! So I think it's neat we have the 'full circle' between us we do, and I hope this part I've added helps people make the right decisions for them related to vaccines. 

I was a relatively new occupational therapist when the vaccinations that caused so many cases of Guillon Barre disease were administered, and many of my patients in the hospital for rehabilitation were among them. That's when I re-evaluated what I do related to receiving vaccinations, and thankfully the industry re-evaluated and changed the flu vaccines as a result. Perhaps things are still not quite refined completely.

I also wanted to thank you, Mardy, for the conversation privately which helped me put some pieces together of the many factors that come into play and make these kinds of illnesses so difficult to diagnose and treat. I hope that everyone working to help Stephanie find the underlying reason or reasons and solutions are successful in alleviating her symptoms. 

So, in support of this mother and daughter, who now have such significant challenges, I wanted to share this story here and hope that it's of value to the people reading this article at Lumigrate wanting to learn more about vaccinations and becoming informed and educated patients. 

Be well - Petie

sanevax.org/gardasil-the-journey-no-one-should-take/


Mardy's note: In order to encourage people to go to the link that Petie's set up, here is the top/first part:  

Gardasil: the journey no one should take…

By Stephanie’s Mother

Hospital Bills: $2 million after Gardasil

I write this story hoping it helps save at least one girl; then our journey will not have been in vain.

I will barely touch the tip of the iceberg; so much has happened over these past 4-5 years. It has been a whirlwind and like a whirlwind – an unwelcome event.

Stephanie was 23 years old at the time of her 1st Gardasil injection. As most young adults, she was working, had her own health insurance and took responsibility for her health and medical decisions. She had been a Type I diabetic since age 10 and knew the importance of taking care of herself.

At her regular check up, the doctor said she needed to get this “NEW” vaccine for humanpapilloma virus (HPV). So our journey began.

Steph received her first shot in June 2008; the second in October 2008. The night of her second vaccine, Stephanie was admitted to the intensive care unit with an acute respiratory problem and sky rocketing blood sugars.

The 3rd injection was in December 2008.  Early in 2009, Stephanie took a trip to Mexico. On the way back she experienced uncontrollable vomiting, headaches and body aches. Once again she was hospitalized.

Thinking she may have picked up something while in Mexico, we pressed the hospital and doctors to check for parasites and pathogens. All tests came back negative.

She was hospitalized over and over again with the same symptoms. Test after test revealed nothing. Finally she received a diagnosis of gastro paresis, thought to be a result of her diabetes.  Her body was also full of yeast. One gastric empting test came back inconclusive, another came back slow.

Here is the clincher; we did not give any thought to the vaccine because we did not know she had the vaccine. It was not until we started realizing that her symptoms were not exclusive to gastro paresis, that I pressed Stephanie asking what she may have done differently or been exposed to.

This is when she said, “Well, I had a vaccine.” Keep in mind she was an adult who trusted the doctors. She did not think this was relevant – they would not give her something to hurt her.

It would be close to 2 years before realizing what could have caused Steph’s “mystery illness.”

While on my Facebook page, a large flashing ad on the left of my screen shouting ‘One more girl’ got my attention. I clicked on it and found that several girls had the same symptoms. I had so many questions!  ...... 


Again, please go to the website at the link, above, and, as I say "Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better!

That link is : sanevax.org/gardasil-the-journey-no-one-should-take/

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WOW, "Interesting Coincidence", I Just Used HPV as Example

I'm so sorry to learn of this, but thank you for sharing this here with us, Petie. The comments on this post, when you go to read it at the link provided, were really interesting to me.  There's a setup by someone in the S. California area who generously provides her e-address for people to contact her as well as giving the name of a doctor who sounds like an outstanding resource for people in that area. The website looks like a great resource overall. I notice that Alan Phillips, who's commented on this topic two months ago, is one of the attorneys listed in their resources.

I found it interesting that Stephanie's mother refers to Facebook and an ad popping up that helped her get on the 'detective' trail about what appears to have potentially contributed to this change of health status for her daughter. Many people are 'creeped out' by how Google or Facebook's ads reflect things that you've typed in the body of your private messages or emails and I have to think that might have been why she had that ad provided to her page. I guess this is an example of how that kind of 'internet surveilance' works in a person's favor sometimes! 

She brings up the concern that many have about young people being allowed to get the vaccination without parental consent. That's a very interesting topic. I'll speak for myself as a young person, under the age of 18. I didn't have 'normally attentive' parents, and personally believe I was making good decisions for myself when I was a young teenager. In addition to navigating my own life at the time fairly well, I was having to navigate parents who were struglling with illnesses that were, by that time, affecting their daily functioning and the overall 'function' of their marriage and the home. 

IF I felt that the patients were being adequately told about the risks and benefits of any and all vaccines, but particularly the ones for HPV, in a professional, appropriate way, I'd say that I think young people should be able to get vaccinated without their parents being involved. Some of the young people I've worked with (who were 15, learning to drive) made some of the best health decisions about medications that I've ever seen with clients/patients. As a matter of fact, one parent was pushing the 'child' to take antidepressants and the 'child' did homework and said 'there's no evidence about safety when taken by adolescents, so 'no'." and suffered the consequences: not being allowed to get a driver's license until they were of legal age they were not the responsibility of the parent. (Who was paying for the now 'adult' to learn to drive through the program I worked for, not a 'bad parent', simply was concerned about the legalities of having a dependent driving and being responsible for damages. This is where Petie/you and I first met, as her son, Thomas came to us related to driving expertise as well, then we were co-workers a couple of years later, that 'sealed our deal' and here we are still, almost fifteen years later, working together THIS way!). 

The youth of today are growing up in a time where they've learned to question things and to think about things; I grew up in a time we just 'trusted' all that modern medicine was providing us: I've learned the hard way, not to do that. To be clear, sometimes allopathic medicine is the right thing, I'm not 'against' it, I'm just against it being used primarily. They also use social media and communicate with a lot more people per day than in our old days, so they'll hear about these types of cases and presumably be aware. I hope they don't feel 'pressured' by the entities and 'experts' that are suggesting things to them, and that they're simply presented with the options and a 'recommendation' at the most, not 'pressure'. I hear that word a lot when it comes to vaccines. 

As this story demonstrates, people often are told, or at least they 'hear' the provider telling them they 'need to get' the vaccination being discussed.  I'd like to see there be requirements that physicians and the other providers who give vaccinations present other options such as the kind of things Lumigrate teaches overall -- be good to your gut and clear up any problems stemming from your gut, having to do with if you're eating foods that cause 'leaky gut', candida yeast overgrowth, get your vitamin D levels checked and supplement appropriately to have levels where your immune system can kick bugs out the right way, hydration with pure water, ..... and certainly be aware of things about the risks of alcohol and other drugs, and mixing with other drugs, such as common over the counter pain relievers... (There's MUCH to what brings down a person's immune system or boosts it up, but I've given some of the highlights here, please look further on Lumigrate for more information.)

It's another 'step' further down the path, but ultimately learning about heavy metals accumulating in your system, to me, is something critical for people to at least be aware of, and I wish it were more accepted and paid for by insurances and everyone who's not feeling ideally 'well' had access to testing and treatment. I also wish no water treatment plants were making the decision for people that they should have the fluoride chemical added to water; it's simply not the same form found in the ground in the first place, and even if it were good for you, which nobody on Lumigrate thinks it is, the dosing based on how much water you consume is just ridiculously poor reasoning. 

Unfortunately, so much of what ultimately helps people stay or get well, or closer to it again, has to come out of the pockets of people who all too often have financial issued because of the ongoing health issues that have been going on for a while before they find the 'path' to functional medicine which looks at things like heavy metals toxicity, the gut, prevention and overall wellness of mind, body, and spirit. 

I hope she gets the expertise of a doctor that is a detective doctor, doing functional medicine to figure out what lead her to lose her well-being status and that she gets back to or toward wellness! ~~ Mardy

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"Vaccine Injury"; Good to be aware of resources and terms

 It was a natural follow up to post a little more information to get people aware of the term 'vaccine injury' and started in a direction that is hopefully the right direction about learning about it.

For starters, look above at the information Alan Phillips set up and follow out to his website resource.

I like to point out that it's in Wikipedia, and I thought what is presented there is a good overview at this time, so here is the link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_injury

The website that Petie directed us to related to Stephanie's Story also appears to be a well thought out organization; they don't come across to me as being anything 'anti-vaccine', just wanting to make people aware of the problems that people today have from the vaccinations we've been dealing with in most recent or further back times and hoping that change comes through the advocacy and education people collectively obtain from visiting such websites. Sane vax (dot) org.

Knowing the terms to Search on often helps people, such as 'vaccine injury'. Searching on "time from vaccine to manifestation of symptoms" was something that I found helpful in looking into a case I was made aware of related to someone who went from not being aware they were near the tipping point to 'chronic illness/environmental illness' to compromised functioning and pain, energy and strength problems. They are having to learn so many things in so short a period of time, at a time that is difficult for them as they're not functioning 'normally', such as the above 'divergent' and 'convergent' thinking.

I see it over and over again, people don't see it's MANY factors leadingto MANY symptoms and it finally 'whammed' you! Then the great question comes next "then how do you prove it if it does have something to do witht he vaccine?" THAT is where the experts have to be called upon. Clearly many people file for damages and some are found by those in charge to be validly deserving of being awarded damages; others are not. It's likely a 'fight' that takes time, energy and directly or indirectly money so it is a decision each person makes as to what route to take if they suspect vaccines are part of what caused their situation.  Again, the Lumigrate YOU! Model is 'all about' that decision being put in the patient's hands -- it is just my place to empower and remind about that, and provide the leads for educational foundation to get people 'going in the right direction' if they chose to head in a direction.

While some will chose to seek damages, others might chose to do nothing and stew in anger, or others might look for the solutions to rectifying the damages from the products or situations that lead to their becoming ill. Again, we stay well due to holistic, mind/body/spirit, reasons and we become ill if things affecting the whole person (or other animal) acumulate and 'tip' them to 'ill'. Sometimes all people might be doing a bit of many things; everyone who talks about having 'forgiven' wrong-doing will say that they don't always stay in that higher place. It's a process. 

There is much on Lumigrate about what causes illness and outside the box thinking about how to recover wellness or maintain it for those who are still in the 'wellness' place. That can assist people who feel they have been injured by vaccination(s). There is a lot of information about the shame/blame cycle of anger and frustration and the process to get to forgiveness, which often takes having professional help. Letting go might be what is needed BEFORE someone can even decide what to do about a process that is in the legal realm that takes energy. Or someone might want to hop into that process while in the earlier stages. Everyone is different. That is why it is difficult to tell someone who wants the shortcut answers what they need to do -- there are many different paths to the same end result. 

I hope this information is helping those interested about vaccines overall and specificially if you feel you've been injured or you want to have your ducks in a row legally about your rights, as Alan has pointed out. Let me know if you're stuck and we've not provided enough resources for what is going on for YOU. 

Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! ~~ Mardy

 

 

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My cat, Scooter too!, got cancer; they rotate sites of shots now

 Hi Mardy............I have an update on vaccinations.  I had a cat, named "Scooter" interestingly enough, that died from the vaccinations being injected in the same place...........his shoulder.  He developed cancer at this site and had two unsuccessful surgeries, then died when the cancer spread. 

The veterinarian confirmed that the vaccination caused the cancer at that site, leading to his death. This was many years ago and I have been told by my current THREE cat's veterinarian that the protocol they use now is to chart where vaccinations are being given and change the location of these shots to prevent this from happening. 

Just letting people, pet guardians know and to be aware and educated about this potential problem; their vet might not know this information and it seems to be a good thing to do.


:) Petie....the OTR
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One Law Firm I Found with Much Information about Vaccine Injury

Interesting about the name similarity of my 'old therapy dog' and your cat, Peite; I'm sorry to hear about that and it's also great you told us about how your current veterinarian currently does vaccination charting of location. I hope this is valuable information to our YOUsers/readers here on this topic. 

It's an area where a LOT of professionals are rolling up their sleeves and trying to contribute to figuring out solutions and the problem reasons. Example: I've talked with a chiropractor in the past who had a patient, a young child, who had symptoms of having chemical toxicity from vaccination and they'd do their treatments and get it detoxed out so the kid didn't test as having the chemical 'invader' anymore, and the kid would be 'well' again, then nosedive again into illness.

But the child was no longer testing with weakness with applied kinesiology (A.K. testing) with a vial of the chemical that it had in the past. I believe they went ahead and would treat again as they did before and the symptoms would go away but then come back. So the mother brought in the child again, who was having symptoms, and the doctor (of chiropractic medicine) was going to test again, and as he was holding the child's arm that was going to be used for A.K. testing to see how the usual chemical offender tested that day on the child, he happened to drop the vial of chemical from his kit against the leg of the child and he got the 'drop' of the strength of the muscle being tested.

It turns out that was the place where the injection of the vaccine was administered! And it was on an acupuncture meridian, so the last I knew they were rolling up their sleeves to collaborate and figure out more about that, write, speak/get the word out. That was a few years ago, so perhaps people can find something on the Internet now with Searching on words like vaccination / acupuncture meridians.

I presume the human medical people chart where they give the injections -- and anymore you can get them at your local grocery store or big box pharmacy. I personally think that's just ridiculous, pharmacists have enough on their plates keeping up with the pill mill they have to work and with high precision of what they're doing. I've gotten mid-done prescrptions from pharmacies who have their pharmacists set up without a good setup for concentration and focus. 

So what to do if you've been injured by a vaccine? STUDY ABOUT VACCINE HISTORY and the reform that went on if you're in the US or are interested in it. Some call it a 'kangaroo court'. I found it suspicious that there are very, very limited number of attorneys who are in the system to represent people who have had vaccine injury, and they're all in the East Coast area from what I could see. I checked extensively for Colorado as this person I've been helping with information recommendations is in Colorado, and there's not one attorney in Colorado who is part of that system. So that was how my radar went 'up' about it. But it is the system that is in place and it is there for people to take advantage of if they want to pursue things and believe they've been injured. Again, this reform occurred as a result of the enormous expense that resulted from the class action lawsuit against the vaccine I received an injury from in 1981. (Which I would NEVER have been aware of to this day had I not happened to see 20/20 the week they reported on it when it occurred.) This was the way they could afford the repercussions of the enormous numbers of people, essentially. 

What if you're suspicious of vaccine being involved in symptoms you're researching, but you're not 'sure' if it's from a vaccine or not? In addition to the 'self-serve' information I provided, above, on how to find sites, I wanted to provide one here, and I might find more in the future and tack on. I found these while searching for someone I'm currently assisting with getting education about their medical condition that had an onset of disabling inflammation system-wide in the last six months, who, it turns out, received an injection. This person had initially given me the impression they had a vaccine plan for many years which was to not get themselves or those they're responsible for as a parent vaccinated. 

As I was working on this topic thread, we discussed things more, and so I asked just to be sure, and sure enough, there had been a vaccine before symptoms began, but it was a few months after and the person just didn't think/suspect it. (This is what had occurred with me in 1981 as well, it was 1990 before I connected the dots).  Again, I remind people I'm only relating the side of the story that I am best versed at relating, please do your own research on the prevailant information out there about vaccines that are from sources that are recommending vaccines. And then decide for YOUrself what is right for YOU and those you make decisions for or have input with. 

It turns out there were symptoms this person hadn't attributed to the vaccine which are on the lists for that vaccine at the vaccine courts resource websites, shown below. It was attributed to 'age' and not being in shape for the activity. To psychological stress at work/school and personal life.  Without talking with someone specifically about that symptom, they'd not been 'aware' that the weakness and joint pain they had with the activity was a SYMPTOM at that time of something going awry in the body, it was not that activity which 'caused' the downhill spiral that followed a day of activity. This was not a couch potato person, the previous summer, before the vaccine, there was a physical job performed 40 hours a week and outdoor activities such as bicycle riding. They were almost a 'busy bee' kind, very active. 

I belabor some of these details to point out how people HAVE TO SIT DOWN and THINK and RECORD what has gone on. If you're doing this with the assistance of a health advocate or 'detective', or I call myself a health concierge as well, they'll take you through this process more than likely. But for most who read this, they're doing 'self help', so that's my suggestion. And BRAINSTORM it... get that pen or pencil flowing on flash cards or lists or whatever it is that works for you when you study something, and don't think 'oh, that's not a big deal', write everything down, you can line through or put to the back of the stack the things that are not as relevant if you want, later. Stephanie's case reminds us -- they lost time, PRECIOUS TIME when you look at the information on how little time a person has to file a claim for vaccine injury in the US, but fortunately they eventually figured out that she had received the vaccine, in this case Gardasil. 

Talk to those who witnessed the changes and who would perhaps think of something the 'victim' wouldn't -- two heads are better than one, as for instance a much younger or older person in the family or friendship circle, coworker friends, etc. might have a different point of reference about something. Ideally, get help with this from your closest ally because you're going to need someone like Stephanie's Mother in your court.  

I'm going to provide the link and encourage you to follow out to this website, and bold or blockset things in addition to what they have bolded on their website in order to highlight for you, the reader at Lumigrate, why I picked this website over many others from other law firms -- simply because it was answering my questions at this time which I was setting up for someone who has a current, potential vaccine injury.  I HOPE THAT PEOPLE READING THIS REALIZE THAT IT WILL BE IN YOUR BEST INTERESTS IF YOU HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT MIGHT BE AT THE END OF THE "ROAD", AND WILL HELP YOU WITH WHATEVER STRATEGY YOU WANT TO TAKE WITH YOU GOING INTO YOUR MEDICAL PROCESS (IF YOU POTENTIALLY HAVE A VACCINE INJURY). 

Again, I have no connection or knowledge about this law firm aside from that I really like their education on the Internet.  mullermannixlaw.com/ is their home page, I like to give that as it shows their office building and is where we welcome people to our home page of our business website. Below is what is found at the vaccine injury tab. I am going to put the entire page here and BOLD the portions that I would think most of Lumigrate's readers might be interested in, rather than cutting out the portions that are not. So many people who are looking for this type of information and resource have difficulties with their brain functioning correctly.

I will trust the firm will understand this is for the purposes of sharing their expertly done information and that I ENCOURAGE people to contact and inquire with them. Naturally, look around and do your homework if you're going to hire a legal representative, but as I said, this was the best website that came up for the particular Search words I was doing related to extending what is at Lumigrate for the users I am aware of currently with potential vaccine injury. 


Have you or a loved one suffered an injury or adverse reaction from a vaccine? If so, Gary C. Hobbs, Esq., of Muller, Mannix & Hobbs, PLLC. is one of the few attorneys in Upstate New York that is certified to handle vaccine injury cases before the United States Court of Claims under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP).
 
On October 1, 1988, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 created the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) to compensate persons who suffered harm, trauma, injuries and/or adverse reactions from certain vaccines.
 
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was established to ensure an adequate supply of vaccines, stabilize vaccine costs, and establish and maintain an accessible and efficient forum for individuals found to be injured by certain vaccines.
 
The VICP is a “no-fault alternative to the traditional tort system” for resolving vaccine injury claims that provides compensation to people found to be injured by certain vaccines. This means that you, your infant child, your son or daughter may be eligible to recover for your injuries caused by a vaccine, without having to prove that the pharmaceutical or drug company was negligent in producing, manufacturing or distributing the vaccine.
 

Q. What types of vaccines can result in injury and are covered under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program?

Generally, the U. S. Court of Federal Claims decides who will be paid. Three Federal government offices have a role in the VICP are the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (the Court).

A. The types of vaccines that can cause injury include, and are covered for compensation, include Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis (DTP, DTaP, Tdap, DT, TT, or Td), Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR or any components), Polio (OPV or IPV), Hepatitis A (HAV), Hepatitis B (HBV), Haemophilus Influenza Type b (Hib), Varicella (VZV), Rotavirus (RV), Pneumococcal Conjugate (PCV), and Trivalent Influenza (TIV, LAIV), Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and Meningococcal (MCV4, MPSV4) and Flu or Influenza Vaccines.
Q. What type of injuries can be caused by vaccines?

A. Vaccines have been found to cause a number of injuries and can even cause death. Vaccines have been linked to Autoimmune Disorders, Autoimmune Hepatitis, Chronic Arthritis, Connective Tissue Disorder, Lupus, Kawasaki Disease, Blood Disorders and Blood Clots, Bowel Obstruction, Brain Damage, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Nerve Damage and Nerve Pain and Severe Allergic Reactions. Various symptoms from a possible adverse reaction to a vaccine can include enlarged liver, jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes), nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, dark urine, a rash that will not go away, a continued fever, swollen extremities [swollen hands and feet], irritation and redness of the whites of the eyes, swollen lymph glands in the neck, irritation and inflammation of the mouth, lips and throat, a loss of vision in one or both eyes, permanent or temporary paralysis or difficulty standing or walking.
Q. Who is eligible to file a claim for an adverse reaction or injury caused by a vaccine?

A. You may file a claim if you believe you were injured by a vaccine or if you are the parent or legal guardian of an infant, minor or child or the custodian or legal guardian of a disabled adult believed to have been injured by a vaccine. In addition, if you are the legal representative of the estate of a deceased individual whose death you believe was caused by a vaccine, then you can file a claim for compensation.
Q. Does the injury or adverse effects have to last for a period of time to be eligible for a recovery or for compensation?

A. Yes. Generally, an injury must have lasted for more than 6 months after the vaccine was given or resulted in a hospital stay and surgery to be eligible for compensation.
Q. How much money can I receive for my vaccine related injury?

A. Compensation varies, depending on the type, nature, and extent of the injury. You may be eligible to recover as much as $250,000 for pain and suffering. You also may be able to recover all of your lost earnings, wages and pay from your loss of work. Your legal fees can be paid. You can recover a reasonable amount for your past and future medical care. If the vaccine results in a death, you may receive as much as $250,000 for the estate and legal fees.
Q. Is there is time limitation for my filing of a claim?

A. Yes. Generally, to be eligible for compensation, claims must be filed within 3 years after the first symptom of the vaccine injury; or within 2 years of the vaccine-related death and not more than 4 years after the start of the first symptom of the vaccine-related injury from which the death occurred; or 2 years from the date the vaccine is covered for injuries or deaths that occurred up to 8 years before the date the vaccine is covered.
Q. Where can I find additional information about vaccine related injuries?

A. Additional information concerning vaccine related injuries can be found at:
  1. The US Court of Claims website, which is located at http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov
  2. The US Department of Health and Human Services at http://hrsa.gov
  3. A Vaccine Compensation Booklet can be seen at:ftp://ftp.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/84521_Booklet.pdf

If you believe that you or a loved one may have been injured or suffered an adverse reaction from a vaccine, please contact Muller, Mannix & Hobbs, PLLC., at 2715 State Route 9, Suite 102, Malta, New York 12020. Phone: (518) 581-9797. Fax: (518) 581-9590 for a free initial case review and consultation.

For the calendar year of 2012, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) paid more than $217 million dollars in compensation for adverse reactions, injuries and/or wrongful death caused by vaccines. Your injury or adverse reaction from a vaccine could entitle you to the payment of compensation from the VICP.

 
Initial Consultation to review your potential vaccine claim is free of charge. In addition, if you do have a valid vaccine claim, you will not pay any legal fees to Muller, Mannix & Hobbs, PLLC. Your legal fees will be covered by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP).
 
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was created by Congress as a no-fault alternative to the traditional method of suing for vaccine injury claims. The Program provides compensation to people found to be injured by vaccines. The law requires that claims for vaccine injuries be processed in the Vaccine Program prior to the filing of any civil lawsuit.
 
Instead of bringing a suit against vaccine manufacturers or your doctor, a person injured must file his or her case in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (located in Washington, D.C.).
 
Muller, Mannix & Hobbs are one of the few law firms in Upstate New York registered with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to handle your vaccine injury claim. Our experienced legal team is ready to handle your vaccine injury claim before the Court of Claims, where each case is defended by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the defendant), who is represented by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
 
All vaccine injury cases are presided over by the Office of Special Masters, where a special master (or judge) is assigned to every case and decides the outcome in the event it proceeds to a hearing (or trial). Cases that do not proceed to a hearing (or trial) are either settled by the parties in advance of hearing or conceded by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program will pay your attorneys’ fees and costs of your claim, you will not have to pay the legal costs of your claim.
There are deadlines to the filing of your claim, so contact the legal team at Muller, Mannix & Hobbs immediately if you or a loved one has been injured or suffered an adverse reaction to a vaccine.

Vaccine Illness, disability, injury or condition covered Time period for first symptom or manifestation of onset or of significant aggravation after vaccine administration
Vaccines containing tetanus toxoid (e.g., DTaP, DTP, DT, Td, TT) Anaphylaxis or anaphylactic shock 4 hours
B. Brachial neuritis 2-28 days
C. Any acute complication or sequela (including death) of an illness, disability, injury, or condition referred to above which illness, disability, injury, or condition arose within the time period prescribed. Not applicable
II. Vaccines containing whole cell pertussis bacteria, extracted or partial cell pertussis bacteria, or specific pertussis antigen(s) (e.g., DTP, DTaP, P, DTP- Hib). A. Anaphylaxis or anaphylactic shock 4 hours
B. Encephalopathy (or encephalitis) 72 hours
C. Any acute complication or sequela (including death) of an illness, disability, injury, or condition referred to above which illness, disability, injury, or condition arose within the time period prescribed. Not applicable
III. Measles, mumps and rubella vaccine or any of its components (e.g., MMR, MR, M, R) A. Anaphylaxis or anaphylactic shock 4 hours
B. Encephalopathy (or encephalitis) 5-15 days (not less than 5 days and not more than 15 days)
C. Any acute complication or sequela (including death) of an illness, disability, injury, or condition referred to above which illness, disability, injury, or condition arose within the time period prescribed. Not applicable
IV. Vaccines containing rubella virus(e.g., MMR, MR, R) A. Chronic arthritis 7-42 days
B Any acute complication or sequela (including death) of an illness, disability, injury, or condition referred to above which illness, disability, injury, or condition arose within the time period prescribed. Not applicable
V. Vaccines containing measles virus(e.g., MMR, MR, M) A Thrombocytopenic purpura 7-30 days
B. Vaccine-Strain Measles Viral Infection in an immunodeficient recipient 6 months
C Any acute complication or sequela (including death) of an illness, disability, injury, or condition referred to above which illness, disability, injury, or condition arose within the time period prescribed. Not applicable
VI. Vaccines containing polio live virus (OPV) A. Paralytic polio
--- in a non-immunodeficient recipient
30 days
--- in an immunodeficient recipient 6 months
--- in a vaccine assoc. community case Not applicable
B. Vaccine-strain polio viral infection --- in a non-immunodeficient recipient 30 days
--- in an immunodeficient recipient 6 months
--- in a vaccine assoc. community case Not applicable
C. Any acute complication or sequela (including death) of an illness, disability, injury, or condition referred to above which illness, disability, injury, or condition arose within the time period prescribed. Not applicable
VII. Vaccines containing polio inactivated (e.g., IPV) A Anaphylaxis or anaphylactic shock 4 hours
B. Any acute complication or sequela (including death) of an illness, disability, injury, or condition referred to above which illness, disability, injury, or condition arose within the time period prescribed. arose within the time period prescribed.
VIII. Hepatitis B. vaccines A. Anaphylaxis or anaphylactic shock 4 hours
B. Any acute complication or sequela (including death) of an illness, disability, injury, or condition referred to above which illness, disability, injury, or condition arose within the time period prescribed. Not applicable
IX. Hemophilus influenzae type b polysaccharide conjugate vaccines No Condition Specified Not applicable
X. Varicella vaccine No Condition Specified Not applicable
XI. Rotavirus vaccine No Condition Specified Not applicable
XII. Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines No Condition Specified Not applicable
XIII. Hepatitis A vaccines No Condition Specified Not applicable
XIV. Trivalent influenza vaccines No Condition Specified Not applicable
XV. Meningococcal vaccines No Condition Specified Not applicable
XVI. Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines No Condition Specified Not applicable
XII. Any new vaccine recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for routine administration to children, after publication by Secretary, HHS of a notice of coverage b,c,d No Condition Specified Not applicable
aEffective date: July 22, 2011 See Revisions to the Vaccine Injury Table,www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/tablerevisions06222011.pdf

  1. Anaphylaxis and anaphylactic shock mean an acute, severe, and potentially lethal systemic allergic reaction. Most cases resolve without sequelae. Signs and symptoms begin minutes to a few hours after exposure. Death, if it occurs, usually results from airway obstruction caused by laryngeal edema or bronchospasm and may be associated with cardiovascular collapse. Other significant clinical signs and symptoms may include the following: Cyanosis, hypotension, bradycardia, tachycardia, arrhythmia, edema of the pharynx and/or trachea and/or larynx with stridor and dyspnea. Autopsy findings may include acute emphysema which results from lower respiratory tract obstruction, edema of the hypopharynx, epiglottis, larynx, or trachea and minimal findings of eosinophilia in the liver, spleen and lungs. When death occurs within minutes of exposure and without signs ofrespiratory distress, there may not be significant pathologic findings.
  2. Encephalopathy. For purposes of the Vaccine Injury Table, a vaccine recipient shall be considered to have suffered an encephalopathy only if such recipient manifests, within the applicable period, an injury meeting the description below of an acute encephalopathy, and then a chronic encephalopathy persists in such person for more than 6 months beyond the date of vaccination
    1. An acute encephalopathy is one that is sufficiently severe so as to require hospitalization (whether or not hospitalization occurred).
      1. For children less than 18 months of age who present without an associated seizure event, an acute encephalopathy is indicated by a “significantly decreased level of consciousness” (see “D” below) lasting for at least 24 hours. Those children less than 18 months of age who present following a seizure shall be viewed as having an acute encephalopathy if their significantly decreased level of consciousness persists beyond 24 hours and cannot be attributed to a postictal state (seizure) or medication.
      2. For adults and children 18 months of age or older, an acute encephalopathy is one that persists for at least 24 hours and characterized by at least two of the following:
        1. A significant change in mental status that is not medication related; specifically a confusional state, or a delirium, or a psychosis;
        2. A significantly decreased level of consciousness, which is independent of a seizure and cannot be attributed to the effects of medication; and
        3. A seizure associated with loss of consciousness.
      3. Increased intracranial pressure may be a clinical feature of acute encephalopathy in any age group
      4. A "significantly decreased level of consciousness" is indicated by the presence of at least one of the following clinical signs for at least 24 hours or greater (see paragraphs (2)(I)(A) and (2)(I)(B) of this section for applicable timeframes):
        1. Decreased or absent response to environment (responds, if at all, only to loud voice or painful stimuli);
        2. Decreased or absent eye contact (does not fix gaze upon family members or other individuals); or
        3. Inconsistent or absent responses to external stimuli (does not recognize familiar people or things).
      5. The following clinical features alone, or in combination, do not demonstrate an acute encephalopathy or a significant change in either mental status or level of consciousness as described above: Sleepiness, irritability (fussiness), high-pitched and unusual screaming, persistent inconsolable crying, and bulging fontanelle. Seizures in themselves are not sufficient to constitute a diagnosis of encephalopathy. In the absence of other evidence of an acute encephalopathy, seizures shall not be viewed as the first symptom or manifestation of the onset of an acute encephalopathy.
    2. Chronic encephalopathy occurs when a change in mental or neurologic status, first manifested during the applicable time period, persists for a period of at least 6 months from the date of vaccination. Individuals who return to a normal neurologic state after the acute encephalopathy shall not be presumed to have suffered residual neurologic damage from that event; any subsequent chronic encephalopathy shall not be presumed to be a sequela of the acute encephalopathy. If a preponderance of the evidence indicates that a child's chronic encephalopathy is secondary to genetic, prenatal or perinatal factors, that chronic encephalopathy shall not be considered to be a condition set forth in the Table.
    3. An encephalopathy shall not be considered to be a condition set forth in the Table if in a proceeding on a petition, it is shown by a preponderance of the evidence that the encephalopathy was caused by an infection, a toxin, a metabolic disturbance, a structural lesion, a genetic disorder or trauma (without regard to whether the cause of the infection, toxin, trauma, metabolic disturbance, structural lesion or genetic disorder is known). If at the time a decision is made on a petition filed under section 2111(b) of the Act for a vaccine-related injury or death, it is not possible to determine the cause by a preponderance of the evidence of an encephalopathy, the encephalopathy shall be considered to be a condition set forth in the Table.
    4. In determining whether or not an encephalopathy is a condition set forth in the Table, the Court shall consider the entire medical record
  3. Seizure and convulsion. For purposes of paragraphs (b)(2) of this section, the terms, "seizure" and "convulsion" include myoclonic, generalized tonic-clonic (grand mal), and simple and complex partial seizures. Absence (petit mal) seizures shall not be considered to be a condition set forth in the Table. Jerking movements or staring episodes alone are not necessarily an indication of seizure activity.
  4. Sequela. The term "sequela" means a condition or event which was actually caused by a condition listed in the Vaccine Injury Table.
  5. Chronic Arthritis. For purposes of the Vaccine Injury Table, chronic arthritis may be found in a person with no history in the 3 years prior to vaccination of arthropathy (joint disease) on the basis of:
    1. Medical documentation, recorded within 30 days after the onset, of objective signs of acute arthritis (joint swelling) that occurred between 7 and 42 days after a rubella vaccination;
    2. Medical documentation (recorded within 3 years after the onset of acute arthritis) of the persistence of objective signs of intermittent or continuous arthritis for more than 6 months following vaccination:
    3. Medical documentation of an antibody response to the rubella virus.
    For purposes of the Vaccine Injury Table, the following shall not be considered as chronic arthritis: Musculoskeletal disorders such as diffuse connective tissue diseases (including but not limited to rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, mixed connective tissue disease, polymyositis/dermatomyositis, fibromyalgia, necrotizing vasculitis and vasculopathies and Sjogren's Syndrome), degenerative joint disease, infectious agents other than rubella (whether by direct invasion or as an immune reaction), metabolic and endocrine diseases, trauma, neoplasms, neuropathic disorders, bone and cartilage disorders and arthritis associated with ankylosing spondylitis, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease, Reiter's syndrome, or blood disorders. Arthralgia (joint pain) or stiffness without joint swelling shall not be viewed as chronic arthritis for purposes of the Vaccine Injury Table.
  6. Brachial neuritis is defined as dysfunction limited to the upper extremity nerve plexus (i.e., its trunks, divisions, or cords) without involvement of other peripheral (e.g., nerve roots or a single peripheral nerve) or central (e.g., spinal cord) nervous system structures. A deep, steady, often severe aching pain in the shoulder and upper arm usually heralds onset of the condition. The pain is followed in days or weeks by weakness and atrophy in upper extremity muscle groups. Sensory loss may accompany the motor deficits, but is generally a less notable clinical feature. The neuritis, or plexopathy, may be present on the same side as or the opposite side of the injection; it is sometimes bilateral, affecting both upper extremities. Weakness is required before the diagnosis can be made. Motor, sensory, and reflex findings on physical examination and the results of nerve conduction and electromyographic studies must be consistent in confirming that dysfunction is attributable to the brachial plexus. The condition should thereby be distinguishable from conditions that may give rise to dysfunction of nerve roots (i.e., radiculopathies) and peripheral nerves (i.e., including multiple mononeuropathies), as well as other peripheral and central nervous system structures (e.g., cranial neuropathies and myelopathies).
  7. Thrombocytopenic purpura is defined by a serum platelet count less than 50,000/mm3. Thrombocytopenic purpura does not include cases of thrombocytopenia associated with other causes such as hypersplenism, autoimmune disorders (including alloantibodies from previous transfusions) myelodysplasias, lymphoproliferative disorders, congenital thrombocytopenia or hemolytic uremic syndrome. This does not include cases of immune (formerly called idiopathic) thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) that are mediated, for example, by viral or fungal infections, toxins or drugs. Thrombocytopenic purpura does not include cases of thrombocytopenia associated with disseminated intravascular coagulation, as observed with bacterial and viral infections. Viral infections include, for example, those infections secondary to Epstein Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, hepatitis A and B, rhinovirus, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), adenovirus, and dengue virus. An antecedent viral infection may be demonstrated by clinical signs and symptoms and need not be confirmed by culture or serologic testing. Bone marrow examination, if performed, must reveal a normal or an increased number of megakaryocytes in an otherwise normal marrow.
  8. Vaccine-strain measles viral infection is defined as a disease caused by the vaccine-strain that should be determined by vaccine-specific monoclonal antibody or polymerase chain reaction tests.
  9. Vaccine-strain polio viral infection is defined as a disease caused by poliovirus that is isolated from the affected tissue and should be determined to be the vaccine-strain by oligonucleotide or polymerase chain reaction. Isolation of poliovirus from the stool is not sufficient to establish a tissue specific infection or disease caused by vaccine- strain poliovirus

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 I HOPE THIS HAS BEEN A VERY THOROUGH thread for YOU to find and explore. To underscore, it's about YOU doing your research, deciding your opinion and taking action accordingly and I encourage people look at other information besides what I provide here, it's just that there are very apparent and numerous resources about the conventional approach about the subject of vaccines.  As I always end saying, "Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better!" ~ Gratefully, Mardy

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One Law Firm at the Sane Vax Website's List of Law Firms/Vaccine

I always like to show people the steps, to get them started doing their 'homework', though with laptops and smart phones they might be at work or at a coffee shop doing their 'work' related to learning about vaccines and what their plan is for getting them (or not), and what to do if they suspect they're one of the many who are injured. I had pointed the way to tell people about the resource area at the website Stephanie's Mother had posted her story, Sane Vax. So, in addition to the above-mentioned lawfirm which had great information that came up for me in a Search on certain keywords, I wanted to bring just one of the firms listed as a resource at Sane Vax, and CHCC is what I selected.

I recognize their website from the past when I was searching for my own curiousity about the 1990 rubella class action lawsuit, which I learned about on a Friday evening when watching 20/20. It is the moment the lightbulb went on for me about the symptoms I'd had that started in 1981, shortly after .... I had a vaccine! For rubella/German measles, as to get married in Colorado at that time, women had to have a blood test which was not, as people had thought, for STDs, it was presumed since it's not good for developing babies if the pregnant mother gets rubella, they'd vaccinate women getting married if they didn't have titers in their blood for the disease.  Trust me, I've gone through the whole range of emotions -- (anger),  (tears), feeling like the medical industry is perhaps a bit like  (the devil)! I have  (a broken heart) over how things unwound for me after what was supposed to have been the happiest day of my life back in July of 1981. I have recently, thankfully, been able to (laugh) about the irony of it all -- I got married to a guy who wanted kids, I was a 'planner' and didn't want to have kids until he was out of college and with his career underway and I'd completed my college and gotten my career underway. I felt it best to save up money and purchase a house before having a family -- I was into family planning, obviously -- and we'd ideally each have cars which were owned by us, not by a bank. At the time, we had my car and that was all, and I had bought it with savings, actually, my father had bought it when he saw it on a used car lot when doing his usual lunchtime walkabout outside of his Denver office building.

We got divorced within a few years and I never was in a position again with someone who wanted to have children. So I received what turned out to be a very 'bad' vaccine with 5% of adults ending up with autoimmune diseases onsetting after, per the lawsuit, all because the State of Colorado was allegedly trying to protect babies which weren't ever to come from my uterus. And if you saw the state of my uterus when it was finally removed about 25 years later, due to the endocrine system problems that are simply part of the medical condition I have, which is not considered 'autoimmune' by the way. I believe it was 'caused by' or 'significantly contributed to' by the vaccinations I received on top of other toxins my mother and I had gotten into our bodies over time, and I can only hope that you'd hopefully laugh too, at just the irony of it. Not funny haha, funny UGH!

It just is such a 'story' of how well-meaning thinkers at the State legislature, who were likely approached by well-meaning medical people long before anyone realized how people do get injured from vaccinations, ended up indirectly doing so much harm. But eventually, in order to have your sanity in an insane world, as Marianne Williamson says, one has to 'become deeply sane'. And to me, that means forgiveness,  healing your heart over what you thought your life was going to be like before everything changed, and making peace with it all. And for me, that includes helping others in my path, following in my footsteps. I missed the vaccine injury process and 'boat', but I fortunately found my way to functional medicine and have done relatively well by being able to work mostly full or part time throughout my second career as an occupational therapist, and then creating Lumigrate.com in 2008/9. I hope it is a bit of positive karma, or some might look at it as , or hopefully at the very least !

I was not, by the way, getting married because I was pregnant, but considering many people do, the whole logic of it to me now, makes absolutely no sense. If the State wanted us vaccinated for it, why not do it before we're potentially pregnant, like they do today with the HPV vaccine they apparently start suggesting to 10 year olds sometimes? At any rate, I was a sheeple at the time, though I remember reading the information about risks with the RN at the University Health Center standing by, and I was concerned about the skin rash that was listed since I was going to be in photographs of the wedding.

She suggested I come back and get the vaccination before I turned in the license provided by the minister officiating the marriage at the courthouse. And I did, and didn't think anything of the connection of the 'reverb' I was getting in my hearing, that I presented with very soon after, to the health center, then was referred to the ENT. Back in those days they had a really great system on campus and referring off campus to specialists, paid for in your student fees. 

At any rate, I believe this is the law firm which was at the helm of the biggest class action lawsuit in the United States up to the time of the tobacco lawsuit of 1994. The rubella suit completed in 1990, as I said. Here are a few of the things at the website -- again, please follow out to it and look around, same as I recommended, above, with the one in New York. www.ccandh.com/

Note: They have a more 'interactive' website, I'm providing the area to show you where they have a client login. Again, please take the trip from the link, above ^. 


 
Injured by a vaccine? Let the vaccine injury attorneys at CHCC represent you.

  • We are America’s most experienced vaccine injury law firm and have represented people in all fifty states.
  • Our firm has more than 25 years experience resulting in millions of dollars in awards.
  • Our vaccine injury law firm is solely dedicated to representing those injured by vaccines.
  • The Vaccine Injury Program – not the injured party – pays all attorneys’ fees and costs.
  • This is not a lawsuit, it is a federal no-fault compensation program.
  • There is a deadline to file a claim, so contact us immediately.
On October 1, 1988, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-660) created the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). The VICP was established to ensure an adequate supply of vaccines, stabilize vaccine costs, and establish and maintain an accessible and efficient forum for individuals found to be injured by certain vaccines. The VICP is a no-fault alternative to the traditional tort system for resolving vaccine injury claims that provides compensation to people found to be injured by certain vaccines. The U. S. Court of Federal Claims decides who will be paid.
Conway, Homer & Chin-Caplan, P.C. presently represents nearly 1200 adults and children, located in all 50 states who have filed for compensation under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Program within the Federal Claims Court.
 
 
News & Updates
New vaccines covered by the
Vaccine Program
 
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine
 
Polysaccharide Diphtheria Toxoid Conjugate Vaccine
 
 
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Client Number:
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Resources & Links
  The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) Brochure
  National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Website

 


AGAIN, please seek out their website, the above is provided to show you a bit of what is at their website in order to encourage you to go look at the real thing! Remember to find your way back to Lumigrate if you want to continue on studying with us on a variety of topics we offer! Their link, again: www.ccandh.com/

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Digging a little deeper in shoulder/arm/neck pain as an example

 

I am continuing to 'tease out' and demonstrate the process of doing this kind of Internet research. In the list, above, of the different disorders that are recognized as being connected with vaccines within certain timeframes (which I wonder how arbitratry that is, by the way), I bolded the brachial neuritis information. 
 
I then Searched on that and reviewed about 10 websites and found ONLY ONE which lists 'vaccination'/immunization (which isn't a preferred term by those who 'know about' it because you're not really becoming 'immune' in many cases). That is at this website, which I provide the link to and again, suggest people travel out to and look at. www.careplace.com/page/41440
 
There are other websites which are geared for physicians, and there are some really weak ones that are geared to consumers, and some have nice graphics and videos which could be helpful to people who would want to learn more about the brachial plexus and this type of injury. You'll notice that there are different opinions offered at different sites on the same subject, so right there you know that you're playing in a sandox which has not a lot of definition to it. 
 
Follow the money, as I keep saying -- would it be in the best interests of a lot of websites to come out and say 'vaccines can cause this or that or the other'? I saw some that were saying 'it usually gets better on it's own'... yeah, but what about all those people out there who are underemployed or unemployed, on disability or applying for it or in the mayhem turnstile of applying and being denied and without any means of income and support?
 
There ARE a LOT of people who are NOT getting better, who are in various degrees of disrepair, I talk to them all the time. Not specifically with shoulder and arm pain, or not just with migraine headaches, or considerable, unyielding fatigue, or pain with sitting, foggy-thinking, mental confusion or lack of clarity and word finding problems... Not ALL the things that I believe are contributed to from vaccine injury are covered in what was set out in 1988 to be a process for people to START to have an effective, streamlined, professional process for the 'expected' side-effects that come from vaccines. So keep that in mind if you believe your onset of symptoms had something to do with a vaccine injury and what you have isn't included. Perhaps contact the attorneys who specialize in this sort of thing and talk with them. So here is what I liked to set up to show you what I found and preferred from one of the 10 sources I looked at so far. You naturally can exhaust a longer list and find every stone and find your own you'd like. This is just my setup to teach people how to work through this stuff on your own.  

 

Brachial Neuritis or Radiculitis

The brachial plexus is a collection of nerves, one on each side of the body, that help to provide sensation to the shoulders, the arms, the hands, and the chest. Damage to this area, which can occur in many ways, may create a condition called brachial neuritis, which typically affects the shoulders most and is most likely to affect men. It is very difficult to ignore this condition, given the extreme discomfort it creates when it first appears.

Causes

Damage to Bracial plexus area (Shoulders, arms, hands, chest area). There are numerous cause of this disease, including a genetic form of the illness. Other potential risk factors for the condition include having certain autoimmune illnesses, being recently sick with bacterial, viral or fungal infection, or getting immunizations. Alternately, some tumors may result in brachial neuritis symptoms.

Symptoms

Symptoms of brachial neuritis include an onset of pain in the shoulder, usually on one side only. This pain may be observable with other symptoms like loss of reflexes or impaired range of shoulder motion. In complicated cases, since this illness can exist for a long time period, other parts of the brachial plexus fail to supply appropriate impulses to the arms or to the chest, and though rare, breathing may become affected with this failure.

Diagnosis

People should see their doctors, and most do because of the pain, to get a diagnosis, but cause isn’t always easy to determine. Doctors evaluate symptoms and if they suspect brachial neuritis they still may not have an answer as to cause

Notes

Neuritis is a term used loosely to describe symptoms of pain or numbness without nerve degeneration or objective signs of nerve dysfunction. The term "neuritis" should be reserved for conditions in which actual nerve inflammation occurs, such as optic neuritis seen in multiple sclerosis.

Radiculitis is a nonspecific term used loosely to describe pain or numbness in the distribution of a single spinal nerve root, but without objective signs of neurologic dysfunction. Radiculitis is thought to occur from inflammation of nerve roots found within the lowest portion of nerves within the spine.

These terms represent a vague diagnosis. Contact physician for additional information on the specific diagnosis and corresponding treatment.

NOS: NOS is a term used in insurance coding indicating that it is not otherwise specified, or the diagnosis is not more specific.

Helpful Links

  1. http://www.medlink.com/medlinkcontent.asp

  2. Brachial Neuropathy

  3. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/315811-overview

  4. Peripheral Neuropaty

  5. Exercises -- Live Strong

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Joe Martino at Collective Evolution on Courts and Chem Brain Inj

One of my Facebook friends in Europe/Germany had shared something that caught my eye - and in reading it I thought it would fit in well right here on Lumigrate. Here's the link, which I encourage you to go to and see the way it is presented at Collective Evolution.com, and all about the website resource. As I frequently do, I'll provide this one topic in full below so you have a good idea what type of information is at the website and you'll believe me when I say "Take the time and click and go !"

 
This topic is written by Joe Martino, who says this about himself: 
I created CE 4 years ago and have been heavily at it since. I love inspiring others to find joy and make changes in their lives. Hands down the only other thing I am this passionate about is baseball. Feel free to email me at joe@collective-evolution.com 

Courts Rule MMR & Thimerosal Containing Vaccines Caused Autism & Brain Damage

All information containing new and unprecedented conclusions begins by being violently opposed by those who create the prior information and those who subscribe heavily to it. This is very much the case with the link between Autism Spectrum Disorder and vaccines; mainly the MMR vaccine and other thimerosal containing vaccines.

 

It is clear that the stance from mainstream science is that there is no link between vaccines and autism. You can find more about thathere. But for many people this does not dispel all concern. Dr. Hooker, PhD, PE says that the recent U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study on vaccines and autism is “perhaps the most flawed and disingenuous study” he has ever encountered.

Given the number of first hand cases that make their rounds stating that children are immediately affected by certain vaccines and parents are noticing something is ‘wrong’ suddenly with their child, it is easy to see why people are still concerned. In every vaccine and autism link article we have on CE, there are many comments from parents stating that they watched their child change within hours and days of getting certain vaccines. So is there truly reason to be concerned? Are we just paranoid? Or is there something we have not figured out completely yet?

Regardless of the droves of faithful people hanging onto every word the CDC gives them about the safety of vaccines, I think it is incredibly important that we look at all of the information that truly exists and make our own educated decision. Many claim it is dangerous to question vaccines and I have been threatened on many occasions for writing about it, but it isn’t going to take away the fact that people are being damaged by vaccines. That is a cold hard fact that every parent needs to know about before deciding to vaccinate their child.

The truth is, there have been several court cases where families have been granted damage pay-outs due to what vaccines and their ingredients have done to their children. The cases are directly linked to autism and brain damage. UPDATE:  I do feel that even if only a 51% majority in decision is needed, the cases are plaintiff vs. The Secretary of Human Services. If the statement that vaccines had no link to autism was completely factual, these people would not have a case against one entity that would surely have a lot of firepower around the issue. Regardless, their victory illustrates some important factors. In terms of the size of the cases, there are an estimated 5,000 additional cases still awaiting court dates. The reason why it’s much harder and why a class action lawsuit is not possible is because the government inserted a law to protect vaccine makes after they were being forced to pay out billions in damages to families. It came a point where enough was enough when it came to their loss in profit so the gov’t stepped in to assist, unfortunately this isn’t favorable for the people but only business.

Below I have supplied three links to court cases. Please take the time to check out each one to understand them further.

http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/CAMPBELL-SMITH.MOJABI-PROFFER.12.13.2012.pdf

http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/MORAN.LAWSON011211.pdf

http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/CAMPBELLSMITH.%20DOE77082710.pdf

Is there more evidence linking vaccines to autism? Yes. While some studies exist to state that their is no link between vaccines and autism, I have found several that do show a link. Given the existence of these studies and their results, I think we need to truly examine whether or not vaccines are safe and if it makes sense for us to blindly follow what we are told to do when it comes to vaccines regardless of the dangers. I can already hear the comments that will come in from people stating the dangers of this post and that this is some conspiracy, but it is not. Realize that this is much more of a real and serious issue than many think.

Below is what I have come across in terms of studies thanks to the tireless research of people out there who care about uncovering the truth.

Viral / Immune studies:

Abnormal measles-mumps-rubella antibodies and CNS autoimmunity in children with autism

 

Autoimmunity to the central nervous system (CNS), especially to myelin basic protein (MBP), may play a causal role in autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder. Because many autistic children harbor elevated levels of measles antibodies, we conducted a serological study of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) and MBP autoantibodies.

 

 

….over 90% of MMR antibody-positive autistic sera were also positive for MBP autoantibodies, suggesting a strong association between MMR and CNS autoimmunity in autism. Stemming from this evidence, we suggest that an inappropriate antibody response to MMR, specifically the measles component thereof, might be related to pathogenesis of autism.

 

 

Serological association of measles virus and human herpes virus-6 with brain auto-antibodies in autism

This study is the first to report an association between virus serology and brain autoantibody in autism; it supports the hypothesis that a virus-induced autoimmune response may play a causal role in autism

Hypothesis: conjugate vaccines may predispose children to autism spectrum disorders

Conjugate vaccines fundamentally change the manner in which the immune systems of infants and young children function by deviating their immune responses to the targeted carbohydrate antigens from a state of hypo-responsiveness to a robust B2 B cell mediated response.

This period of hypo-responsiveness to carbohydrate antigens coincides with the intense myelination process in infants and young children, and conjugate vaccines may have disrupted evolutionary forces that favored early brain development over the need to protect infants and young children from capsular bacteria.

Effects of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis or tetanus vaccination on allergies and allergy-related respiratory symptoms among children

and adolescents in the United States.

The odds of having a history of asthma was twice as great among vaccinated subjects than among unvaccinated subjects  The odds of having had any allergy-related respiratory symptom in the past 12 months was 63% greater among vaccinated subjects than unvaccinated subjects  The associations between vaccination and subsequent allergies and symptoms were greatest among children aged 5 through 10 years.

Neurological Complications of Pertussis Immunization

Review is made of 107 cases of neurological complications of pertussis inoculation reported in the literature. The early onset of neurological symptoms was characteristic, with changes of consciousness and convulsions as the most striking features. The question of aetiology is considered and contraindications are discussed….as is the grave danger of further inoculations when a previous one has produced any suggestion of a neurological reaction.

Hepatitis B vaccination of male neonates and autism diagnosis, NHIS 1997-2002.

Findings suggest that U.S. male neonates vaccinated with the hepatitis B vaccine prior to 1999 (from vaccination record) had a threefold higher risk for parental report of autism diagnosis compared to boys not vaccinated as neonates during that same time period. Nonwhite boys bore a greater risk.

Aluminum Studies:

Do aluminum vaccine adjuvants contribute to the rising prevalence of autism?

Our results show that: (i) children from countries with the highest ASD prevalence appear to have the highest exposure to Al from vaccines; (ii) the increase in exposure to Al adjuvants significantly correlates with the increase in ASD prevalence in the United States observed over the last two decades;

and (iii) a significant correlation exists between the amounts of Al administered to preschool children and the current prevalence of ASD in seven Western
countries, particularly at 3-4 months of age.

Aluminum hydroxide injections lead to motor deficits and motor neuron degeneration.

…A second series of experiments was conducted on mice injected with six doses of aluminum hydroxide. Behavioural analyses in these mice revealed
significant impairments in a number of motor functions as well as diminished spatial memory capacity.

Aluminum Vaccine Adjuvants: Are they Safe?

Experimental research, clearly shows that aluminum adjuvants have a potential to induce serious immunological disorders in humans. In particular, aluminum in adjuvant form carries a risk for autoimmunity, long-term brain inflammation and associated neurological complications and may thus have profound and widespread adverse health consequences.  click for entire study

Thimerosal studies:

Integrating experimental (in vitro and in vivo) neurotoxicity studies of low-dose thimerosal relevant to vaccines.

There is a need to interpret neurotoxic studies to help deal with uncertainties surrounding pregnant mothers, newborns and young children who must receive repeated doses of Thimerosal-containing vaccines (TCVs).

Information extracted from studies indicates that: (a) activity of low doses of Thimerosal against isolated human and animal brain cells was found in all studies and is consistent with Hg neurotoxicity; (b) the neurotoxic effect of ethylmercury has not been studied with co-occurring adjuvant-Al in TCVs; (c) animal studies have shown that exposure to Thimerosal-Hg can lead to accumulation of inorganic Hg in brain, and that (d) doses relevant to TCV exposure possess the potential to affect human neuro-development.

Neurodevelopmental disorders following thimerosal-containing childhood immunizations: a follow-up analysis.

“The present study provides additional epidemiological evidence supporting previous epidemiological, clinical and experimental evidence that administration of thimerosal-containing vaccines in the United States resulted in a significant number of children developing NDs.”

Neonatal administration of thimerosal causes persistent changes in mu opioid receptors in the rat brain

“These data document that exposure to thimerosal during early postnatal life produces lasting alterations in the densities of brain opioid receptors along with other neuropathological changes, which may disturb brain development.”

Persistent behavioral impairments and alterations of brain dopamine system after early postnatal administration of thimerosal in rats.

“These data document that early postnatal THIM administration causes lasting neurobehavioral impairments and neurochemical alterations in the brain, dependent on dose and sex. If similar changes occur in THIM/mercurial-exposed children, they could contribute do neurodevelopmental disorders.”

Maternal Thimerosal Exposure Results in Aberrant Cerebellar Oxidative Stress, Thyroid Hormone Metabolism, and Motor Behavior
in Rat Pups; Sex- and Strain-Dependent Effects.

Thimerosal exposure also resulted in a significant increase in cerebellar levels of the oxidative stress marker 3-nitrotyrosine…. This coincided with an increased (47.0%) expression of a gene negatively regulated by T3,… Our data thus demonstrate a negative neurodevelopmental impact of perinatal thimerosal exposure.

Administration of thimerosal to infant rats increases overflow of glutamate and aspartate in the prefrontal cortex: protective role of
dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate.

Thimerosal, a mercury-containing vaccine preservative, is a suspected factor in the etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders. We previously showed that its administration to infant rats causes behavioral, neurochemical and neuropathological abnormalities similar to those present in autism.

 

Sources:

http://healthimpactnews.com/2013/can-we-trust-the-cdc-claim-...

http://www.regardingcaroline.com/pubmed

http://www.jpeds.com/content/JPEDSDeStefano

 
 

 

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2014 Vaccines & Rights in the US with Alan and Debby - 1/9/14

I hopped onto Facebook, as I do most days to see what's in the feed there -- and saw that Debby Bruck Chom had posted this: 

Did you miss us? Alan Phillips and Debby Bruck on ‪#‎BlogTalkRadio‬ talking about vaccines, vaccine rights, and homeopathy. An inspiring story related to symptoms. I'm broadcasting live on the air! Listen in now at http://tobtr.com/s/5796119.

I had a little time to listen, and they were only 15 minutes in -- I was captivated and started taking some notes to share here in order to encourage YOUsers who might be reading this thread to follow out and listen to the show BUT, as we know, it's rare we have the time to take in something like that, and so for what it's worth, my notes here will be something to look over (and perhaps you can follow out to websites and etc. based on what you see here. 
 
The format it is that Alan is on solo for a half an hour, then Debby comes in for an hour, then she is solo for the last half hour, and the show is simulcast on both of their Internet radio providers. (Love that COLLABORATION).
 
They were just going to a break at the half hour in (of 2 hours) and was talking about the militant environment of hospitals as they currently exist, saying he didn't plan on going to a hospital unless it is life or death emergency. 
 
Alan refers to an e-book for vaccine legal exemptions that is available at the radio station's website or at his website
 
Vaccines and Your Rights in the US --  from Ashville, NC
FreedomizerRadio (the call in # to listen by phone is 347/ 324 - 3704 
 
When Debby adds in they talk about "resolutions", and her suggestion is to every day and make it an opportunity for doing what you're intending to do ideally -- just get up and do what you're wanting to do to step forwards for your health. 
 
Alan shares that he's working on steps to improve his well-being by focusing more on diet and supplements. They discuss a couple of brands of gadgetry for that for making smoothies/ blending foods or juicing, extracting -- Omega (extrusion machine which she got recently and liked her old one better) versus Vitamix they discussed just based on price, and he talks about how that's helping him get more vegetables. And he's focusing on  probiotic and vitamin D he said. (I'm pleased to hear that, we have that on Lumigrate since the start and really got a boost with ITC's Gary King, RPh and Allan Jolly, RPh/ND becoming experts on Lumigrate in 2011, which came to a close in 2012 with Gary King's passing/death from pancreatic cancer. 
 
They were talking about influenza that Alan brought in earlier in the show, and referred to Natural News and the story about the number of people of people who are claimed to be killed from the flu vaccine, which is reported as 50,000 -- due to the secondary infections.  D3 is discussed related to having an effect on the people who get ill in the wintertime. (again, we have information at Lumigrate, and Natural News is another resource, there are many resources for studying). 
 
They discuss a NN article that had to do with high amounts of vitamin C, which is discussed in a Natural News article, which I know I grew up on this information, so this is likely familiar to many people. It was good to hear something from 50 years ago still being disucussed today. .... You increase your vitamin C to where you get the loose stool, as that's your 'tolerance level'. Some of the research might have been done on IV, Alan includes. 
 
Alan refers to hearing from a doctor early in the flu season last year, in his law practice, who had four patients develop Guillion Barre after the flu vaccine, three died. (Refer above to Petie the OTR and her history of working in California wit the wave of patients with G-B long ago). 
 
Mercola.com has information he cites. (And Mercola.com is a resource I refer from Lumigrate to a LOT). 
 
Seniors in particular are not being shown to have benefit from the flu vaccine. (So I suggest you look into this increasingly if you're a senior or have a senior loved one or clients/patients, etc.)
 
Independent research shows that the studies are flawed and show a negative effect from the flu vaccine. He cited a source (CDRAP in Minnesota) which showed that if you get flu vaccine two years in a row, it lowered your protection plus carries the risk injury or death. 
 
So he says:  we've got to be active -- we need to get together and sit down with our elected officials and let them know that if we're against the state's mandating as New Jersey has, for health care workers. 
 
Opting out of your state's vaccine database: 
 
Mandating vaccines: Parents in this country have a right and obligation to parent our children, and the state cannot take that authority away from all children and give it to an adult. (Aside from things like accidents and child can be treated if the parent is not present. Or if someone has emancipated themselves before age 18/of majority and have all the responsibilities of being an adult, that takes a legal procedure. OR people who are in the military before being 18 ...) Other than that, it's up to the parents, so he thinks this through out loud on the show. 
 
Whether or not you can require it, Alan says, is based on how the laws were written in the first place. He cites a bill from the midwest that would implement tracking for adults, and points out the budgets are stretched so how would the states have the money. 
 
Debby brings in a New York Times front page article, currently an issue in the news, about a woman last name Munoz, in Texas, and the life support she is being kept on due to being pregnant, despite her family wanting life support ended. They make comments about rights in general, and the boundaries and problems of these cases.
 
Alan: Vaccine mandates fall under the scope of state's police power. The State's authority/obligation to protect it's citizens. Each state has within it's inherent police powers to require things, but it is in conflict with the parent's, which he had just realized during this discussion. (Fun to be part of the evolution of expertise/opinion.)
 
What constitutes harm or risk of harm -- this is an issue in this.  
 
They discuss the case in 2013 of an Amish child in Ohio had to be turned over for some cancer treatments, that even the conventional providers were saying would likely not be successful with the state of the girl's health. Eventually, the parents and child  left the US and did natural treatments and the child recovered, Alan said. (though this was a very recent case it sounded, later in the discussion, so another word might be survived, is in recovery, perhaps is just my input) 
 
What Alan was suggesting: The state should allow a decision of a parent if there is one licensed health care provider that is licensed by the state, a naturopath, an MD, DO, etc..., that will state that the informed view of the parent is a good one for treatment/ validate it; that should be suffice. 
 
Our system is overrun by the pharmaceutical industry and solutions. 
 
Leukemia was the type ofcancer with the Amish girl in Ohio, Debby said though Alan had thought it might have been brain tumor -- Debby sounded certain of it (like she was maybe looking at the article, she is quite a multitasker on these shows). The medical guardian was an attorney who was an RN, and that person was given Sarah -- it was a 2013/October appeals court. 
 
They made the decision to withdraw doing chemo was based on that the conventional treatments were making the child sick. 
 
BACK TO FLU VACCINES OVERALL
There can be temporary or permanent side effects/harm from the flu vaccine. If you get the flu, then you have lifetime immunity. 
 
Old, young and with compromised immune system are those at most risk.. 
 
BACK TO STATES RIGHTS/PARENTAL RIGHTS/ PATIENT RIGHTS/ CITIZEN RIGHTS
 
The beliefs and convictions of the girl's parents cannot outweigh the rights of the state. When children genuinely need protection, we need that, but when is the right place for the state to step in. These are not being made on whoever can manipulate the politicians to favor who: in the case, the pharmaceutical industry. Over the decades, our society has become allopathically dominant -- not because the alopathic approach is the most effective, but due to the political might. 
 
A caller came in that brought up this angle:
Corruption in the system: Finding people with children or the elderly to have rights taken away and there is money involved to those who are involved.
 
Alan stated: Within most of the systems there are people of integrity who try to do the right thing: "The deeper I dig, the messier it gets when it comes to vaccines and rights, after 20 years now of studying the issue." 
 
Ideally (in a perfect world and this is likely impossible but for the sake of discussion:) If there were proper standards set up, and healthy people with integrity were operating with these standards, we would see appropriate behavior at all times, and since that is not the case today, there are frequent cases like this. 
 
People are rewarded financially in some corrupt systems to find problems to dig up, is another component they brought up. 
 
Capitalism doesn't work in the structure that we have set up today. As long as money is the primary goal, then everything else is secondary. People will not bat an eye if someone is going to profit from it. 
 
There have been minimal efforts to cut back on the 'benefits' that are given to doctors related to the pharmaceutical industry's products, but it is still occurring. 
 
If we somehow were able to establish a more minimalistic government, and establish transparency and integrity, there might be a basis for growing government from there a bit. We're not going to get anywhere by legislating this with the current system, in Alan's opinion. 
 
Alan referred to someone a family member knew who worked in a law firm who said: It takes a new attorney about a year to figure out that "Oh, all I do is this (X) and I get paid $Y?  There's a way to do less and get paid more. 
 
Debby: Washington Post article "2013 is the year that proved your paranoid friend right (citing an article)"  It's not just the big government, we have to create community at the local level, so they know the people who they're creating the laws for. The government doesn't know what your needs are -- citing the Amish family and deal with it at a really compassionate level.  Individualized medicine --- individualized government. 
 
There are indications that vaccines can be harmful. You're going to have to go for an educational training sessionif you want to opt out of any vaccine, per an article she was citing. She asks for Alan to hop in. 
 
They discuss something brough up by someone whose name I've not heard .. a Paul Offet (sp?) is the name of the person ... an article he'd written... 
 
Alan then recapped that: 2011, 2012, 2013, several states had laws which were related to opting out for philosophically. There are some medical reasons people can opt out which are more accommodated in vaccine rights. 
 
There's an absence of reporting of the vast majority of vaccine injuries or deaths. (I am one case -- I've shared my story, above -- it's never been calculated into the injury data, and I've known a lot of people who have had injury and I know of no cases where it got reported, even when the patient tried to let the providers know they suspected a vaccine injury, that was all brushed aside. The process for going to the vaccine injury system is burdensome and requires things of the providers which they don't get paid for, so they are overly taxed by paperwork and don't want to, is the most simplistic reason and there might be additional other reasons too, I suspect.) 
 
If a person says 'I would rather risk the disease than the vaccine'. Say that you really knew that there were good #s on vaccine injury and death for a disease as well as for the disease, then there would be clear mathematical probability to make your decisions
 
A lot of people who have done their research realize that the information is skewed, imbalanced or outright erroneous, and nothing anyone else tells them in a class will change that. This is an exercise in frustration, intimidation --- and it's offensive in that it's saying to people that they have to go to a class about vaccines to opt out in these states having this type of law. 
 
In Alan's opinion those are improper laws the way they are framed. Calilfornia just uses the word 'belief' -- according to Federal court, the first amendment of free exercise of religion. You have to have a belief that is religious in nature and sincerely held, you have the protection of the US Constitution to protect you. The state is lower, so they cannot come along and add thing.  
 
Religion under the law is VERY broad, so many people can qualify for exemptions based on this. It doesn't matter if you belong to any organized religion, it's your PERSONAL interpretation and not to be part of an organized religion. Some states are expanding laws, such as Oregon, that took out the word 'religion' and might have given the impression that philosophical was something that that was all taken out and isn't a viable reason, and it's quite the opposite. (So...  good to know!) 
 
I wrote an article recently on NaturalNews.com (Google California and his name or search at NaturalNews), December 2013, which is a good resource about how the State is adding a requirement above and beyond what the Constitution requires, so it violates the US Constitution. 
 
Washington State, Oregon, California have done this -- it's designed to coerce people out of executing exemptions. We want to see people be able to make an informed choice and have that be honored. When we're talking about vaccines, there is not information available for anyone to calculate a risk/benefit assessment. Of course we'll hear from people who's interests are in promoting the agenda of those who make the vaccines. 
 
Debby goes on to talk about REMEDIES FOR CHILDREN ..... after the next break. And so I will leave you with this amount of overview/notes that I took from this show.
 
Like the caller who so very nicely said when he got off: THANK YOU for doing this work, Alan and Debby. I hope this little piece of work I did today in two hours to encourage the Lumigrate YOU-sers to have read the highlights of this show, and ideally follow out and listen to it and follow your websites and shows regularly if that is what resonates for them, has contributed to the overall effort. Many hands, light work. Happy 2014, and thank you both for being here since March of 2013 -- this topic had 2125 reads when I came to it today. So I like it a LOT that because of our work last March, and Dr Kennedy, Dr Spurlock, Petie the OT and me -- plus the additional information from the DVM and the animal aspect, we've enlightened that many people with this one topic in under a year.   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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National Vaccine Information Center dot Org - Link to Learn From

Lots at this site, wanted to simply provide a link to let you know about it....  

www.nvic.org/News-Media-Reports.aspx

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Russell Blaylock. Personally I find this StudyWorthy; Disagree?

I like to provide a variety of resources that people might not uncover on their own. You don't need to dig very far online to find out that Dr Blaylock will have a good number of entries online that are very much not in favor of the information he provides, or who try to discredit him. I generally suggest that people look at anything that discredits in a 'bullying' way as 'consider who that source might be', and make your own assessments of what is believable to YOU. I just know that a lot of what he covered in the 90 minute presentation at this link was 'connecting dots' for me that had been there, unconnected, for a long time. New questions appeared in my mind too ... it's a process and for EACH person to decide for themselves.

But I would be remiss if I didn't include this link from the palate that is provided here. Naturally, tons of the convenetional information everyone is inundated with that you can find also with my reminder to please please study it too!  

www.google.com/url ..... or ............. 


www.youtube.com/watch

 
Published on Mar 6, 2013
Russell Blaylock M.D. Discusses vaccines on the developing brain and his concerns on the increasing vaccination schedule of infants and the vaccination of pregnant women causing neurological disorders. He also goes into depths about the harmful ingredients and adjuvants contained within the vaccines such as formaldehyde, aluminum and MSG and the effects of this on the brain and nervous system. Blaylock also discuses many other topics such as the conflicts of interests between the government and the pharmaceutical industry, the polio epidemics in Africa, mercury toxicity and medical scandals. This is a must see even for those who are sceptical as Dr. Blaylock provides compelling arguments.

CDC officials claim vaccines are safe and effective. Is that true? If vaccines are safe, why did the incidence of autism increase from one case of autism in 10,000 to one case of autism in 150 American children after the massive childhood vaccination program began? If childhood vaccines are safe, why are 560,000 vaccinated children afflicted with autism while non-vaccinated Amish and Mennonite children rarely have the disease? Why has the incidence of asthma, allergies, autoimmune disease, Type I diabetes, and neurologic conditions dramatically increased in vaccinated children?

Why do obstetricians give pregnant women influenza vaccines that contain a toxic dose of mercury? Why do newborn children receive Hepatitis B vaccine in the nursery when there is no medical justification for the immunization?

Dr. Blaylock's discussion addresses those, and many other, issues. If you are concerned about your health, and the health of your family, you must watch this DVD.

If you would like a high quality copy of this lecture, you can purchase the DVD at:- www.blaylockwellnesscenter.com

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Vaccine Injury/Law - Toward Radical Reform; "Genetic minorities"

I noticed that Lulu Langford posted on Facebook that she'd found one of the best websites she's ever seen about vaccine injury. So that's saying something! Lulu was one of the first experts I connected with on Facebook after Lumigrate was live on the Internet in 2009, and she registered and has some topics on Lumigrate in the forums, so you can Search for her. I jokingly titled a topic that she was a lulu of a homeopath or something along those lines. She's in Australia and I think we're two peas from the same pod, so to speak, except she's a little more pragmatic than I am, I'd say. Passionate, clearly, and very frustrated at the way the system that has been in control of things has made it difficult if not impossible for providers to help the people they could be helping AND make a living at it via natural, traditional medicine. 

This is a link to a topic at the website which is a paper by a law educator about vaccines. I found it really very educational and it's so off the beaten path that it's very much the kind of resource I like to make our YOUsers aware of -- things you'd not likely find freewheeling on research online. As is my 'usual format', I'll provide a sample of the information below, so you can see what you'll find if you 'take the trip and see the sites' at the link. Tons of interesting stuff all under one 'roof' there. An old roof, it's a very old website (late 90s it appears is when it was started).

Now that I've said that, in case there is some sort of problem with the site in the future, I'm going to 'mirror' this topic by the law professor so that it's backed up somewhere and isn't lost forever if a website meets a demise somehow. In order to make this more readable by brains that are dysfunctional for visually overwhelming information, I will be adding breaks into the material so it will appear differently than it does at the original site.

But PLEASE go to the website and look around and see what all is there. A listing of every kind of disorder that has any believed connection by them to vaccine, and I found interesting information about the high number of medical workers who believe a rubella vaccine injured them. I was immediately with ear problems, then headaches, breathing problems, chemical sensitivity, weight gain and endocrine system problems after receiving a rubella vaccination required by the State of Colorado in 1981 when I was getting married (and had low titers for it on the blood test). Immediately as in days or weeks, I was at the ENTs office within a couple of months. 

www.whale.to/v/lippmann.html


The Law of Vaccination - Toward Radical Reform

Stan Lippmann 
University of Washington School of Law 
Supervised Analytic Writing 
June, 1998 www.rubella.net  ---- NOTE from Mardy: At this time that is a nonworking link

Table of Contents:

Prologue

Part I.Introduction

Part II. The Development of 20th Century Vaccine Law

  • A. From Jacobson to Whitecotton
  • B. The Wakefield Study
  • C. The Tingle Example

Part III. The Problem of Establishing Causality in Modern Vaccine Caselaw

Part IV Recommendations

  • A. Recommendations for Legislative Reform
  • B. Setting a limitation on Jacobson

Prologue

A basic question of justice is whether any harm can knowingly come to an innocent group member for the good of the group. As ILs, we were taught in our criminal law class of the case of the Regina v. Dudley & Stephens in which the castaways adrift in a lifeboat without food desire to and eat the cabin boy. [FN1] The majority resorts to the murder and ingestion of it's weakest member. When the party is rescued, the captain and mate are convicted of the murder. This case is included in the casebook to teach us that the very survival of the group is placed secondary in our system of justice to the principal of the sovereign rights of the individual to life. When faced with an imminent threat of death, human beings are pressed to the limits of their willingness to sacrifice themselves for the sake of another. Rationalizations begin to form about the inferiority of the intended victim.

In the Open Boat case, the victim was seen as the weakest. Perhaps he was, but our system of justice requires an adjudicative process by an impartial jury because absent this process, it is impossible to determine the fitness of the survivors for society. The impression of this case is commonly one of incredulity: naturally, under such conditions the law of Social Darwinism will control, it is to be expected given our animal instincts for self-preservation. And the fact that the lifeboat represents its own microcosmic society calls into question the larger society's ability to judge the local justice carried out therein. A common inference drawn from this case becomes that the form of justice we are sworn to uphold being more than sand-blind, high gravel blind, knows reality not. The law students can picture themselves in a like situation and taking their chances for survival that they won't be the unlucky one who gets eaten. [refer to vail of ingorance]

The dictate against human sacrifice did not originate in Anglo-American jurisprudence. It is one of the cornerstones of Western civilization. In Greek Mythology, Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks in the Trojan war is killed by his wife Clytaemnestra for the sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia. He sacrificed his daughter to appease Aeolus, the wind god, so that his fleet could expedite the rescue of Helen. His fate indicates a rejection by our culture of human sacrifice.

We normally classify human sacrifice as barbaric when there is a plausible motive for it, as in the case of the Open Boat, and as savage when the motive is to appease a Deity, which makes no sense to a modern thinker. We associate human sacrifice with primitive tribal culture in the jungles of Africa or the Amazon basin, untouched by the influence of Judeo-Christian morality. But insofar as Judaic morality is an authority in our culture today, the instruction of God to Abraham to not sacrifice Isaac represents a moral edict that we have nominally been following for millennia.

With such a clear moral standard in our religious, cultural, and legal traditions, how is it that we are sacrificing the lives of many American citizens every day under the auspices of the National Vaccine Program? The death toll acknowledged by the Program during the past 7 years is 1094, [FN2] and this excludes the death claims which fail under the strict legal rules for establishing causality. Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler said in 1993 that only about 1 percent of serious vaccine reactions are reported. [FN3] After two full years of speculation on this subject I have let myself believe that the serious adverse reaction rate is beween 1/3000 and 1/300, which would be from 333 to 3333 times more dangerous than the public health propaganda suggests.

Suppose my worst case scenario is right and 36 babies a day are dying for the war machine. This would make women scared of having them in the first place if the odds of your government killing your child are such that 36 of his birthday perish each day. What odds are these? are they close to a hundred times the 1094 over seven years, over 100,000 dead babies. Lets take my independent worst case scenario of 36x365.25x7=92,043. So according to Dr. David Kessler, it's about as bad as I feared it might be.

Assuming an an age cohort of 30 million, the odds of dying are 0.307%. or 1:326. Do we really lose 13,200 young children every year? According to the CDC SIDS deaths peaked in 1988 at 5476 out of 3.91 million live births yielding a mortality rate of 140.1 per 100,000. [FN4] It is reported that SIDS has recently shown a marked decline to a level not seen since 1980, falling to the third cause of death among post-neonatal children. If the other two are bigger, then there were more than 12,237 neonatal deaths in 1994.

Also included is multi-year averaged deaths rate per month, seeming to asymptote at under 5 deaths per 100,000 per year after infancy, or 30 more deaths over six more years for a childhood death toll of about 15,000 small children lost each year. If vaccines were responsible for half of childhood deaths, this would correspond to a death to combined death-serious injury ratio of 7,500/109,400 or 1:14.6, using Kessler's estimate. The propaganda ratio at the extreme is 1,000,000:326 or about 3000:1.

My Gestalt at the other extreme of likelyhood of vaccine injury is 3000:1, so perhaps three orders of magnitude or slightly higher to one is a fair estmate of the risk of serious adverse reaction to vaccination at about 1:1000, not the claimed 1:1,000,000 or even the marginally tolerable 1:250,000. It is clearly intolerable by at least two orders of magnitude.

The bulk of the vaccine injury in this century was in its latter half, coinciding with the post-war Cold War, beginning with the endorsement of the Committee on Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1947 of the three-in-one DTP vaccine. [FN5]. Another major killer of the past half century is the rubella vaccine, which began life as a eugenics experiment in a Nazi germ warfare laboratory and was licensed for wholesale use in 1970 in this country. [FN6]

Although mandatory vaccination goes back into the nineteenth century and was upheld as constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1905 Jacobson decision, it is under the motif of perpetual warfare: against Communism, Disease, Poverty, and Drugs; that whatever standards of medical ethics existed before have been thrown to the winds, perhaps to appease Aeolus?

The problem with the War on Disease, as with any other type of war, is that the first victim is Truth. It is a postulate of war that one exaggerates one's successes and tries to bury ones failures. A further postulate is that the need for crash programs to develop new vaccines has stemmed from the need to obscure the fact that one of the prices of our proxy wars in Asia were epidemics of communicable diseases which were carried back home by our soldiers.

The rationale for vaccination has always been that the alternative is worse: that more would die if the preventive measure of vaccination were not taken. Taken to its logical extreme, we today have the common opinion of medical doctors that to not have one's children vaccinated should be punished as a form of child abuse. [FN7] Yet recalling the Open Boat example, it is criminal to sacrifice the one for the sake of the many, no matter what the cost/benefit ratio is claimed to be. This type of utilitarian analysis is fundamentally against the Western cultural conception of justice.

How has this corruption of our ideal of justice as represented in the case of the Open Boat taken place? At the root of the problem lies the U.S. Constitution. The creation by the legislative of the coequal executive and judicial branches laid the foundation for the establishment of an aristocratic class. This encouraged the division of society into a hierarchical system which depended on experts whose authority had to be taken as given.

In particular, the rise of the status of medical doctors in America was acknowledged through the acceptance by the U.S. Supreme Court of the doctrine of "high medical authority". [FN8] In Jacobson and its progeny, the doctrine of high medical authority is used to preclude new countervailing medical evidence, and thus presents the root of the problem of obtaining private justice in the modern Vaccine Court, i.e. the legal establishment of causation of the vaccine as the source of the injury or death.

To really address the root of our problems as a society we need to reconsider our form of government. But it is a long term project to convince enough people that the United States Constitution is fundamentally immoral and illegitimate. In the absence of more practical legal tactics, the Vaccine Program will continue to maim and kill masses of people, mostly but not all of them children.

Thus the purpose of this paper is not to directly cause the collapse of the United States Federal Government. Here it will be enough to demonstrate some of the flaws in the law and flaws in the utilitarian medical analysis of costs and benefits of the Vaccine Program, in the hope that a more rational vaccine policy than the one we have at present could be accepted by high medical authority.

We are not in an Open Boat. We are not all about to die immediately if we change vaccine policy. We have other ways of preventing epidemics, such as not having our armed forces roving the planet, not having a virtually open border with Mexico, and not mass institutionalizing our infants and children. And we have highly developed techniques for treating illnesses when epidemics do break out which have not historically existed. And we need to turn away from the activist approach toward health typified by American medical practice, toward a more respectful attitude toward the will of the patients.

The bulk of this paper adopts a utilitarian approach to the vaccine dilemma we face. The first steps on the path toward healing the wounds is to present a reasoned argument that doctors and lawyers could accept. All they must do is consider evidence that benefits of the National Vaccination Program are exaggerated by an unknown amount, and that the costs are underestimated by a factor of somewhere between 300 to 3000.

From the legal point of view, the manifest injustice of the current system of compensation leads to recommendations for legislative reform. Increased visibility and success rates for vaccine injury cases would raise more public awareness of the threat posed by vaccines, and would someday lead the Supreme Court to overturn mandatory vaccination laws as violative of human rights to life and liberty. This would lead to the possibility of a fair assessment of relative morbidity and mortality of those who voluntarily choose vaccination to those who decline vaccination. This would then lead to profound revulsion at how sadly mistaken high medical authority has been, which in turn might cause enough general doubt about the U.S. Federal Government for the people to call a constitutional convention to establish a replacement.

Part I - Introduction

In reviewing the legal, medical, and popular literature on the subject of vaccination one finds near universal agreement that in the balance, the world is a better place with the practice of vaccination than without it. Universally, in all the legal and legislative materials I have seen, it is announced at the outset that vaccination has been a good thing for the public health.

For example, the two most recent comprehensive law review articles which analyze the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) [FN9] begin with such declarations. In Striking a Balance Between Product Availability and Product Safety: Lessons From the Vaccine Act [FN10] author Daniel A. Cantor quotes the House Report which was the basis for the establishment of the NVICP:

During the twentieth century, America has developed a childhood immunization program that many praise as the most spectacular public health success in history. [FN11] In Note: Is This The Best We Can Do For Our Children? [FN12] author Lisa Steel acceptingly cites the leading Jacobson case which established the constitutionality of mandatory vaccination under the police power of the states:

The constitutionality of required immunization is well established. [FN13] Such an infringement on individual liberty is justified because immunization programs benefit all of society by decreasing the number of carriers of diseases and eventually eradicating certain viruses. [FN14] Even in a democracy such as ours, the government must ensure that the welfare of society is not jeopardized for the comfort of a few; this principle applies to the public benefit provided by mass immunization programs. [FN15]

Even Barbara Loe Fisher, who co-founded the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) as a resource center for parents whose children have been injured or killed by vaccines after her son suffered brain damage from a DPT shot [FN16], has not taken an anti-vaccinationist position, but merely urges that vaccination be voluntary with informed consent. [FN17]

Yet, even though Ms. Fisher is generally considered a legitimate player within the system, she has recently been demonized in the New Republic magazine by Arthur Allen by being lumped together with an outright anti-vaccinationists such as Dr. Len Horowitz [FN18]. The cover of the March 23, 1998 issue of the magazine shows a girl from the back and a doctor's hands; one hand holds out the girl's arm and in the other holds a syringe which points to her arm. The caption reads "This Won't Hurt a Bit ... So Why Are Conspiracy Theorists Attacking Childhood Vaccinations?" The article begins:

President Clinton's ongoing initiative to immunize every American child against infectious disease seems like the kind of safe-as-milk, baby-step health policy that everyone should love. The ultimate motherhood issue. But Clinton, presumably, didn't consult Len Horowitz. A former dentist-turned-"healthcare motivational speaker," Horowitz is carving out a new niche in the history of the paranoid style in American politics.

His message: The AIDS and Ebola epidemics resulted from the contamination-- possibly intentional--of common vaccines by the military-medico-industrial complex. The Rockefeller Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control, famed AIDS researcher Dr. Robert Gallo, and--yes--Henry Kissinger all figure in Horowitz's gallery of germ-warfare conspirators. Horowitz, who apparently honed his expertise on such matters by drilling teeth in Gloucester, Massachusetts, has urged the government to stop immunizing children until independent researchers can determine if the shots are spreading disease.

The article goes on to explain that although there have been 63,000 adverse reactions, including 1094 deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) [FN19] over the past seven years, it still may be that all of these events may be purely coincidental and that there is still no proof of the danger of vaccination.

Most of the legal commentary acknowledges that the NVICP has failed in being what Congress intended as a generous, non-adversarial system [FN20]. The difference between the present and previous commentary is that whereas within the academic legal community there is a feeling that the overall awarded damages should be perhaps 5 times what they are at present, this author will try to demonstrate below that they should be roughly 1000 times what they are at present, consistent with the belief that the risks of damage associated with vaccines have been underestimated by roughly a factor of 1000.

The annual payout from the NVICP is about $110 million a year. A payout of $110 billion a year is feasible if we adjust our current budget priorities. For example, we could take this entire amount from the defense budget, and still surpass military spending by any other nation on earth. And it would be a small payout to actual victims compared to the largely redistributionary Social Security and Medicare programs. It would involve expanding the Table Injury categories [FN21], which spells out when there is a presumption of vaccine injury, to basically include the diagnosis of any chronic illness, including allergies, within two years of the receipt of any vaccination.

Changes to the table of this magnitude would obviously need to be made with a Congressional vote, so to achieve such an outcome will require a serious public awareness campaign. Yet at the margins of the program, the same thorny problem of causality for injuries which will fall outside of the table will remain. Conventional commentary [FN22] holds causality to be the main problem responsible for the failure of a majority of worthy claims. This central problem to practice in this area of law is discussed in part III. Part II presents the doctrine of Vaccine Law in order to properly inform the subsequent legal analysis of the causality problem.

Part II - The Development of 20th Century Vaccine Law

A. From Jacobson to Whitecotton

The leading case in the area of vaccine law is Jacobson v. Massachusetts in which a local mandatory smallpox vaccination law was upheld under the police power applied to public health. [FN23] It is noteworthy that the famous Lochner v. New York case was decided differently during the following term. [FN24]. In Lochner, the police power of the state to promote public health was denied when it attempted to set limits on hours worked in New York bakeries.

The Court ruled this to be an impermissible interference with the right of contract between the bakers and the bakery owners. An essential difference between the cases is that in Jacobson, he was required by law to be acted upon, whereas in Lochner the bakers were forbidden by law from doing something. The court is placing greater weight with freedom to act than in freedom to refrain from acting. This is a slim distinction, since freedom to refrain from acting really is a form of freedom to act in accord with one's wishes.

A more realistic differentiation which renders the two decisions intelligible with reference to one another is that in both cases, the commercial interests prevailed, that the economic activity, whether baking or injecting, was furthered by the decision. Implicit in both of the Court's decisions is the belief that baking and being injected with smallpox are risks too small about which to be overly concerned. Indeed, a large portion of the Jacobson case concerns itself with just this question of costs v. benefits of vaccination, and as such it set many of the standards for what are permissible demonstrations of the costs and benefits.

In Jacobson, the Revised Laws of the Commonwealth provided that 'the board of health of a city or town, if, in its opinion, it is necessary for the public health or safety, shall require and enforce the vaccination and revaccination of all the inhabitants thereof, and shall provide them with the means of free vaccination. Whoever, being over twenty-one years of age and not under guardianship, refuses or neglects to comply with such requirement shall forfeit $5.' [FN25] Jacobson is obviously arguing on principal, not over the size of the fine but his right to life and liberty.

As it happened, he and his son had had the direct experience of having already been seriously injured by previous smallpox injections. An exception was made in favor of 'children who present a certificate, signed by a registered physician, that they are unfit subjects for vaccination.' [FN26] From this limited exception we already see the illogic of setting fixed sets of rules. Why should an unfit 17 year old automatically become a fit 18 year old.

In fact the risk of serious adverse events at least in some vaccines increases with age. For example, it was established over a quarter century ago that there is a large increase in the development of arthralgia and fibromyalgia following rubella-containing vaccination of roughly an order of magnitude. [FN27] A review of 124 such claims to the vaccine court also showed an order of magnitude increase in the number of such claims filed associated with adult versus child rubella immunization. [FN28]

At a recent meeting of the Advisory Committee on Childhood Vaccines, established under the Vaccine Act of 1986, as a source of non-binding advice for the Secretary of HHS, in regard to a question about whether straight measles or MMR should be used in the newly instituted college vaccination programs, Dr. Stephen Hadler, chief epidemiologist for the CDC, stated 'there was a higher incidence of acute arthritis at 18 [than as a child], but far less than the 20 to 25 years of age'. [FN29]

Nonetheless the University of Washington's policy, based on advice from the CDC, is irrational in that it sets a age requirement that is fixed by year born after 1957, meaning that each year it becomes a riskier policy, which now includes entering students over 40, which is twice the acknowledged unsafe age.

The reason that the policy was set at 1957 is because it is presumed that those born earlier were exposed to natural measles and thus are presumed to be immune, whereas those born later were probably vaccinated, and since it turns out that the vaccine-induced immunity is temporary compared to the permanent immunity conferred by the natural disease, a "booster shot" is needed for everyone under 41.

A problem here is that the claimed need for a measles booster can be had for colleges for free or at negative cost only if it is in the form of the so called 'preferred vaccine', MMR, which is known to be unsafe, untested, and unapproved for use by the FDA because of the arthropathic tendencies of the R component. In truth, enormous monetary waste goes into the program by giving MMR when only the measles is needed since the manufacturer receives about $12 for an measles shot and $36 for an MMR.

When the University of Washington immunization program was set up, no consideration at all was given to the known possibilities of vaccine injury, so in effect potentially deadly rubella vaccine is currently being injected into every student who cannot demonstrate two prior measles shots, for no public health reason at all, but simply to save the University $12 for a straight measles shot and let the federal taxpayer pay $36. The point of this digression is that we can see as early as in the Jacobson case how thoughtless and harmful an overly broad public health measure can turn out to be.

Jacobson defended his refusal on three separate grounds. He claimed that the particular section of the statute of Massachusetts in question [FN30] was in derogation of rights secured by the preamble of the Constitution of the United States; that one of the declared objects of the Constitution was to secure the blessings of liberty to all under the sovereign jurisdiction and authority of the United States, no power can be exerted to that end by the United States, unless, apart from the preamble, it be found in the body of the Constitution.

Knowing from his own experience that he would place his own life in jeopardy by obeying, he knew he was in the Open Boat dilemma. But the Supreme Court declined to give credence to his assertion. The court also passed without discussion the suggestion that the statute is opposed to the spirit of the Constitution. Was the spirit of the Constitution, as argued by the Federalist Papers to protect the minority from the democratic majority? In historical realty protection of minority rights began as protecting the property owners, who are the minority. Since the modern civil rights movement, the idea of the protection of minorities has been reinterpreted to extend protected status to blacks, Hispanics, and women. It is yet to consider the special protection for genetic minorities, who are more real than racial minorities in a biologic sense.

As will be discussed below, the susceptibility to harm from the rubella virus seems to be related to the presence of certain genes in the individual. [FN31] But in 1905, the Court, finding no violation of the Constitutional spirit apparent to it, quoted an earlier case in answer, "Undoubtedly, as observed by Chief Justice Marshall, speaking for the court in Sturges v. Crowninshield, 'the spirit of an instrument, especially of a constitution, is to be respected not less than its letter; yet the spirit is to be collected chiefly from its words.' [FN32] We have no need in this case to go beyond the plain, obvious meaning of the words in those provisions of the Constitution which, it is contended, must control our decision." Jacobson also defends his action under the due process clause of the 14th amendment. The Court does not answer this defense meaningfully either.

The Court then proceeds to consider Jacobson's offers of proof why he should not be compelled to take the smallpox vaccine. The Court found that the ninth of his propositions which he offered to prove, as to what vaccination consists of, was nothing more than a fact of common knowledge, upon which the statute is founded, and proof of it was unnecessary and immaterial.

The court here demonstrates how a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is still to this day not a clear what vaccine is made of. It is highly secretive business; in the case of the polio vaccine, it has turned out to have been contaminated with SV40 monkey virus. [FN33] And it can be reasonably inferred that there are other as yet undiscovered organisms grown in the petri dish in the laboratory.

The court then considers Jacobson's thirteenth and fourteenth offers of proof involved matters depending upon his personal opinion, which could not be taken as correct, or given effect, merely because he made it a ground of refusal to comply with the requirement. Moreover, his views could not affect the validity of the statute, nor entitle him to be excepted from its provisions. [FN34] I doubt any of these cases involved the potential loss of life of the citizen. It's true that drafting soldiers puts them at risk. But even in that case there is some causal distance, unlike in the case of vaccination.

Next, the court considered the other eleven propositions which all relate to alleged injurious or dangerous effects of vaccination. The defendant 'offered to prove and show by competent evidence' these so called facts. But the court declared that the only 'competent evidence' that could be presented to the court to prove these propositions was the testimony of experts giving their opinions.

The Court declares that for nearly a century most of the members of the medical profession have regarded vaccination, repeated after intervals, as a preventive of smallpox; that, while they have recognized the possibility of injury to an individual from carelessness in the performance of it, or even in a conceivable case without carelessness, they generally have considered the risk of such an injury too small to be seriously weighed as against the benefits coming from the discreet and proper use of the preventive; and that not only the medical profession and the people generally have for a long time entertained these opinions, but legislatures and courts have acted upon them with general unanimity. If the defendant had been permitted to introduce such expert testimony as he had in support of these several propositions, it could not have changed the result. [FN35]

The court seems to be saying a number of interesting things here. The court declares a priori that it is impossible to prove that vaccines are dangerous. Why should not the individual confronted with authority be free from the possibility of harm. How is it that we allow human sacrifice? It seems incongruent with the radical individualism.

But part of the resolution of this puzzle is in that we are forced to be gamblers to be winners. And we can say, it won't happen to me, the odds against are 1 in a million. And tough luck on that loser, I'm not going to get this disease. Furthermore, when V.P. Morris changed the University of Washington vaccine policy, he was pleasing his boss and wasn't even told that anybody might get hurt

Also we see here that only the testimony of experts can be admissible. Here again it's the doctrine of high medical authority, even necessarily overriding whatever experts had to say, weighed against what "everybody knows". This standard is striking in that the standard proof necessary to prevail is impossible to achieve, and that everybody accepts it. But this everybody accepts it doctrine is weak. It disallows the discovery of new evidence of risk. And it accepts without question the idea that human sacrifice is an acceptable social regulation.

But human sacrifice is ultimately an anti-social act. Over the past seven years, US courts have now found vaccine responsible for more than a thousand dead and 7,000 wounded. How can secular authority play G-d? Is the court here trying to say that every state welfare demand is permissible? Certainly this is not the case in 1998. A factor to be kept in mind is that it is mostly children who suffer the consequences of vaccination; there may be less consideration for infants just as there is tolerance for abortion or euthanasia: that there has yet been little social investment made or social utility remaining in the social member, so that if they are genetically susceptible, minimal capital needs to be expended on them.

The court goes on to argue that the welfare of the many should be honored by restraining the non-complying social members. The problem here is that Jacobson was not doing anything to hurt anyone else, he was just existing in Cambridge. It is he who sought to restrain the authorities. The court mention that there are some times when a man is free to submit to authority, but it just doesn't go deep to the essence of when such a condition obtains. Jacobson felt that his life was in immediate danger based on his own concrete experiences.

If there is any time for the exercise of this form of resistance, this is it. It is interesting to see how the court says what everybody knows, the state court must know and we must know. What it is that everyone must know is what high medical authority states. Again there is no consideration to the fundamental right to life.

The Court then goes through an exhaustive list of cost/benefit studies to justify its conclusion that the vaccine program must continue. But a republican form is opposed to the tyranny of the majority. It is the protection of the minority upon which the whole concept of federalism rests. In this case, it is a genetic minority, let's say. Should they be rubbed out of the gene pool? Then the Court claims that the many will really be hurt by the few who don't participate in the vaccine program.

This is totally false. An exemption could be made for those who claim previous adverse reactions. The herd immunity theory does not require all to be vaccinated. As will be described shortly in the Whitecotton case, the Courts policy translates into the grotesquely injustice situation where baby Maggie was born neurologically defective, was damaged by DPT and later damaged again by DT! Besides, if the program were voluntary, the people would make an educated choice as to whether they want the shot or to risk getting the disease naturally.

The one saving grace of the Jacobson decision which would allow a new case to be made to limit a program such as UW's vaccine program is that it requires that the general terms of the local law should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. [FN36] So ultimately, the Jacobson case, which is still controlling vaccine law after more than 90 years, may be ripe for a case which would limit the holding by establishing a boundary beyond which the court would find unjust, oppressive or absurd.

As implemented, the University of Washington program is unjust in that it discriminates against students in favor of faculty, and is absurd since potentially fatal viruses (rubella and mumps) are being given to the students with no public health justification at all.

Moving from the turn of the 20th century to the turn of the 21st, we find very little change in the Supreme Court's attitude toward vaccination. As will be described in part III, the problem of proving causation with the expert witnesses and the available research is a difficult one. The recent Whitecotton case is the only post-National Vaccine Compensation Fund case to reach the Supreme court (twice). [FN37]

Margaret Whitecotton was born on April 22, 1975 with evidence of microcephaly (small head size). There was a controversy over whether one has to be 2.5 or 3.5 standard deviations below mean head size to be considered microencephalic. She received her third DPT vaccination on August 18, 1975 and was hospitalized thereafter with a seizure disorder. Over the next several years, she experienced additional seizures, was formally diagnosed with microcephaly and cerebral palsy, and had episodes of febrile convulsion and limpness. Her parents filed a claim alleging that she suffered from an impairment of brain function known as encephalopathy, as a result of the DPT vaccine.

Recovery of compensation pursuant to the Vaccine Act is possible in three ways:

(1) through a rebuttable presumption of causation, in which petitioner shows that the initial onset of an injury listed in the statute's Table occurred as a result of the vaccine, within the time period after vaccination that is listed in the Table, prevailing over the government's rebuttal that the injury was caused by a factor unrelated to the vaccine;

(2) through a rebuttable presumption of causation, in which petitioner shows that the vaccine caused a "significant aggravation" of an injury listed in the Table, within the time period after vaccination that is listed in the Table, including a showing that the first symptom or manifestation of the significant aggravation occurred with the Table's time period, prevailing over the government's rebuttal that a pre-existing condition, not the vaccine, was the cause of the significant aggravation of the injury; or

(3) through a showing that the vaccine was the actual cause of the injury.

With respect to the Whitecottons' "initial onset" claim, the Special Master determined that no compensation was due because microcephaly was a symptom of the encephalopathy pre-dating the vaccination. Therefore, in the view of the Special Master, the child already had encephalopathy prior to the DPT vaccination. The Whitecottons challenged this determination.

The Federal Circuit affirmed the Special Master. The court noted its review of fact-finding to be limited to whether the Special Master was arbitrary and capricious or committed an abuse of discretion (citing the previous vaccine compensation cases of Hodges and Knudsen). Although the evidence before the Special Master was conflicting, the court cited the substantial expert testimony supporting the Special Master's decision as precluding a finding of arbitrary and capricious or abuse of discretion.

Of particular interest is the Federal Circuit's statement that it can only consider in its review the evidence that was originally before the Special Master, and not evidence (including scientific studies) outside of the earlier record. While this makes sense as an element of the law of evidence and due process, it may not comport with the ever-advancing scientific knowledge base of the relationship, or lack thereof, between vaccines and medical injuries.

With respect to the petitioners' claim on the "significant aggravation" theory, the Federal Circuit established the following four-part test for special masters to use in deciding whether compensation should be awarded:

(1) assess the person's pre-vaccination condition,

(2) assess the person's post-vaccination condition,

(3) determine if the current condition is a "significant aggravation" of the pre-vaccine condition, using the definition in the Vaccine Act ("any change for the worse in a preexisting condition which results in markedly greater disability, pain, or illness accompanied by substantial deterioration of health"), and

(4) determine whether the first symptom or manifestation of the significant aggravation occurred within the time period specified in the Table.

The government may still rebut petitioner's causation claim by showing that the pre-existing condition was the cause of the significant aggravation post-vaccination. Since the Special Master in the Whitecotton case did not use this type of test, but instead applied a theory that the Federal Circuit characterized as overly burdensome to the petitioner in establishing causation, the court reversed the decision of the Special Master that had denied compensation and remanded for additional fact-finding and determination consistent with the new four-part test.

The Federal Circuit specifically directs the Special Master to consider on remand a piece of evidence that the court believes was not considered previously -- the first abnormal electroencephalogram (brain wave test) taken four days after the time period specified in the Table. The court expresses concern that this evidence was not evaluated by the Special Master in reaching the conclusion that there was no "significant aggravation" in this case.

The Whitecotton case demonstrates how aggressive the government and the medical communities are about forcing literally every child to be vaccinated, and how difficult they make it to collect when damage occurs.

Given the known neuropathic potential of DPT vaccine, why a microencephalic baby would ever be subject to the normal vaccine regime makes one question the intelligence of the health care providers and the government who ought to be provide guidance critical situations such as this one. Even after Maggie Whitecotton's condition was arguably made worse by a DPT shot, her doctor presumed the danger was from the pertussus component, but low and behold, when a DT shot was administered instead, more apparent damage resulted. [FN38]

Though it's rather obvious that Maggie was injured by the DPT, the government uses esoteric language to argue that her small head size was to blame for her condition. One should properly ask, if it cannot be determined a posteriori whether a pre-existing defect in the child or the vaccine was a primary factor in the neurological injury, how is it fair to subject the child to the risk for which there is little chance of compensation?

B. The Wakefield Study

It is perhaps not coincidental that the New Republic vaccine conspiracy cover story appeared just a month after an article by Wakefield et al. appeared in the Feb. 28, 1998 edition of the Lancet. [FN39] The article strongly suggests that the large majority of children coming to the hospital with a syndrome including Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperpasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder (autism) had come down with the disease within two weeks after receiving MMR vaccination.

As always happens in a case of a publication such as this, the medical authorities, in this case in Britain, vigorously denied there was any significant danger from the MMR vaccine. In the month following the Lancet article, there were many of reports in the popular press of either doctors discounting the danger, or the public taking matters into their own hands by refusing to have their children injected with MMR.

According to one report, about 25% of British parents have currently lost faith in this vaccine. [FN40] If the percentage remained fixed at such a high rate of non-compliance, the this might be the beginning of the end for the worldwide DPT and MMR programs. It would give rise to a cohort of unvaccinated children who could be compared as a group to the vaccinees. It would allow the world to see for the first time which group subsequently suffered more from those suggested in the Wakefield article as well as from other forms of illness such as myopia, MS, asthma, diabetes, and arthritis. Thus there was need for a media barrage to restore confidence in the vaccines. There was the New Republic conspiracy cover story.

And then in the May 2, 1998 Lancet appeared a research letter, claiming "No evidence for measles, mumps and rubella vaccine-associated inflammatory bowel disease or autism in a 14-year prospective study." [FN41] Unlike the Wakefield paper which included very complete clinical and laboratory investigation, the Peltola letter simply looked back through the past 14 years of Finnish MMR immunization, looking for children who had reported gastro-intestinal disorder following MMR injection.

Of the thirty reports of stomach ache, they tracked the children down and interviewed them about autism Crohn's disease and found no such cases, which lead them to their conclusion. Wakefield replied in the press that their methodology in no way undermined his assertion, which seems obvious by comparing the two papers.

But perhaps what matters more in the near term is the fact that the press seized on the Finnish letter as a sign that there really was nothing wrong with the MMR vaccine. The number of articles on LEXIS citing the Finnish article and trying to call off the scare was about 5 times higher than the original reports about Wakefield's research of the concern. It seems to me that what is happening is that there is a systematic bias in the media which is controlled in part by vested interests in maintaining the status quo. In this light, the New Republic article seems to be a hit piece designed to keep the petty intelligentsia hooked into believing in the system.

It has been estimated that autism alone costs our economy $12 billion a year in labor and lost productivity. [FN42] If it turns out after sufficient study to be so that most childhood autism, asthma, arthritis, diabetes, Crohn's disease, myopia, MS, and other neurologically related disorders would not have occurred had we not had a vaccination program, the potential annual cost of the vaccine program could be on the order of $100 billion a year, rather than the nominal $100 million that is figured as the programs cost. If we found this to be the case, then it would be a much better world in which that portion of the economy was used to treat many of the newly created cases of chronic illness could be focused on the already damaged.

C. The Tingle Example

The recent media smoke screen to cover-up the revelation over the connection between MMR and autism is just the latest in a familiar pattern. Over the past year there have been new reports of a connection between MMR and arthritis. Each time such a report comes out, a counter study appears purporting to deny the link and the media tend to trumpet the counter studies which deny the link. Thus the game continues.

But eventually the truth of the science will win out, because the reports showing the links are becoming more mature scientifically. For example, Mitchell et al. have recently published a study of 283 white women in a double blind study who were given RA27/3 rubella vaccine or saline placebo injection. [FN43]. The odds of developing arthropathy were 1.9 times greater (confidence interval [CI] 1.07-3.44) in the women who received the rubella vaccine. This rather conclusive evidence was not done three decades ago as it should have been done because to obtain funding for a study like this is practically impossible.

Mitchell et al. actually looked for and found certain genetic markers in their patients which disposed them toward arthropathy. Leukocyte DNA was molecularly typed for HLA-DRB1 gene expression. Univariate analysis revealed higher frequencies of DR2 (odds ratio [OR], 4.8;95% CI 1.2-18.8) and DR5(OR 7.5;95% CI 1.5-37.5) but lower frequencies of DR4(OR, 2.3; 95% CI 1.1-4.9) and DR6 (OR 2.8; 95% CI 1.4-5.8).

Risk of arthropathy was influenced by DR interactions; odds were 8 times greater in individuals with both DR1 and DR4 (95% CI 1.45-44.03) and 7.1 times greater with both DR4 and DR6 present (95% CI, 1.85-27.54). These advanced genetic studies begin to give a hard scientific basis to the tangible risks of rubella vaccination. They also reify the notion that what is being done through the vaccine program is a form of genetic weeding out of the human race, with the potential for targeting with what that implies.

Tingle has shown that the intrinsic arthropathy-inducing properties of rubella virus differ only by a factor of two when the wild strain is compared to the vaccine strain. [FN44] Coupled with the genetic susceptibility, what this implies is that those who are genetically susceptible to rubella arthropathy are more at risk in taking the vaccine than if their chances of catching the virus naturally are less than one half.

Extending this logic to the population as a whole, the whole premise of mass vaccination can be questioned if the truth is that there are no significantly population averaged less serious adverse reactions from the vaccine or the wild strain by probability of infection product. In other words, the premise of the Vaccine Program is that there are devastating consequences if an outbreak were to occur.

But if the ones who would have gotten sick in an outbreak are the genetically susceptible ones, then giving a vaccine to them might make them just as sick with a significant probability, only their illness will not be associated with the virus because there is no sudden outbreak.

There is an addition danger of the vaccine program which has not been investigated which is that total viral load is not being considered as more and more vaccines are mandated. Also it is at least plausible that multiple strain infection takes place with intimate contact, thereby multiplying the viral load, and that the vaccine strain of rubella may actually be causing unacknowledged birth defects by casual contact between a pregnant women and a recent vaccinee.

Part III - The Problem of Establishing Causality in Modern Vaccine Caselaw

There are two basic types of claim under which a petition may be filed with the Program. [FN45] There are the injuries which fit the prescribed conditions of the Vaccine Injury Table [FN46], and those which fall outside the narrow criteria of that table. The table lists the various injuries which have been accepted by the Secretary as having been established to her satisfaction by the medical community to allow a presumption of causation if the injury can be shown to have occurred within the time period specified in the table.

The initial Table has been modified a few times since the law was passed in 1988, in accordance with the part of the Vaccine Act which calls for her to direct the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to review the medical literature and make recommendations for expanding the Table of presumptive injuries. [FN47] The most recent emendation of the table was made in March, 1995, and primarily added chronic arthritis resulting from the MMR vaccine. [FN48].

The secretary made the changes in response to an Institute of Medicine report. [FN49] But the Secretary did not follow the recommendation that the onset of chronic arthritis occur within six months of vaccination, but rather limited the onset to 42 days, simply for the stated purpose of limiting the number of claims that would qualify for the table, under the theory that to accept the recommendation would be too costly to the program. She acted for this reason even though the program has a $1.2 billion dollar surplus which is rapidly rising since only about half of the excise tax is currently being awarded.

It is unclear that this money will ever get to it's intended beneficiaries, as an attempt was made last year by the Secretary of the Treasury to reclaim this surplus for use in the general budget, arguing that it is obviously unneeded to pay out vaccine injury claims. The action by the HHS Secretary is an perfect example of how the law fails to ensure a fair compensation system. Although she is the adverse party to the claimant, a Federal Court of Appeals has found she is free to do unconditionally as she pleases in changing the vaccine table, thereby making her case against the claimant much easier in many cases.

Not only does the Secretary take a more conservative line in setting policy on presumptive injury than does the Institute of Medicine, but the IOM itself is very conservative on admitting causation of injury due to vaccination. In its definitive 1994 treatise, the IOM in most suggested categories takes a non-affirmative position on most injuries. [FN50] Its standard conclusion is "The evidence is inadequate to accept or reject a causal relation between..." vaccine X and condition Y. [FN51] Not only does this conclusion result in the condition being excluded from the vaccine injury table, but makes it very difficult to argue in court that there is proof of a causal relation, since the experts have suggested that there is no conclusive proof, and the vaccine act has been interpreted to require such proof. [FN52][FN53]

For example in Johnson v. Sect'y HHS, although the plaintiff had three experts opining that her fibromyalgia (FMS) was caused by an MMR vaccine, it was deemed by the Special Master that a causal connection between the rubella vaccine and chronic arthropathy is tenuous and has not been medically established. [FN54] This was upheld by the Federal Circuit, under the Overton Park arbitrary and capricious standard of review. [FN55] This is a good example of the injustice of the system because this author personally knows as he sits here typing this paper that, with absolute certainty, the MMR vaccine does cause FMS.

Just as the recent controversy causally relating to MMR and autism, described in Part II of this paper suggests, establishing scientific causation for any iatrogenic injury is extremely difficult. The standard that the Federal Circuit has adopted follows the reasoning of the Supreme Court's Daubert decision. [FN56] Daubert nominally advantages plaintiffs in toxic tort suits over the previous Frye standard [FN57] in applying Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, which permits testimony as long as it follows a scientific methodology and is relevant to the inquiry. One of the factors which are not determinative but demonstrative of scientific validity is publication. The Special Masters in the Vaccine program do not have to follow the rules of evidence, but they generally do allow the plaintiffs experts to testify.

Part IV - Recommendations

A. Recommendations for Legislative Reform

By most accounts, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation program has not been adequate to the task of fairly compensating the vaccine programs victim's. The basic problem is that the Secretary of Health sets the all important vaccine table however she pleases. She naturally has an incentive to save her department's money to spend in more politically rewarding projects. Therefore, Congress should recognize the injustice of the current situation and construct a much more liberal injury table.

There is nothing approaching informed consent in the vaccine clinics. Mandate that every new parent receive a copy of the injury table and an fair assessment of the risks of vaccination.

Declare a 2 year moratorium on vaccination to determine what the risk are of an outbreak of disease and how much harm such an outbreak would bring, versus observed reduction in new chronic illness.

Create a national study of chronic illness in these babies compared to year 1999 and year 2001 babies. The infant chronic illness database. There is already a nation vaccine database being created, and this should be expand this to mandate the reporting off all illness into the record. Have a toll free number where the parent directly reports illness to the database.

Make reasonable exceptions from mandatory vaccination for weaker or more delicate children.

B. Setting a limitation on Jacobson

Jacobson grants the states police power to mandate vaccination. Unless vaccines could be marketed which to not kill or seriously maim certain individuals, the Open Boat case discussed in the prologue should govern: society has no right to kill its genetically susceptible members, so Jacobson ought to be overturned on moral grounds.

But the endgame of the vaccine racket may be achieved within the framework of Jacobson. It should be possible to find a test case which the Supreme Court would find to be unjust and absurd. In fact, I think the University of Washington vaccine rules fit such criteria. By winning such a case, a milepost would be set on what is permissible and what is not. For example, using MMR on adults for no really valid reason when it has never been tested on adults in a controlled study and is known to be dangerous to a significant fraction of the adult public is absurd and unjust. 


Footnotes

FN1. 14 Q.B.D. 273 [1884]. 
FN2. Arthur Allen, Injection rejection: the dangerous backlash against vaccination, The New Republic, March 23, 1998, at 21. FN3. Chicago Sun-Times, January 4, 1998 (Editorial page). 
FN4. 45 MMWR 860. 
FN5 Private Communication. 
FN6. James D. Cherry, The Epidemiology of Pertussis and Pertussis Immunization in the United Kingdom and the United States: A Comparative Study, Current Probs. Pediatrics, Feb. 1984, at 32. 
FN7. Vaccine Boycott Threat Raises Epidemic Fears; Chief Medical Officer Concerned At Parents Abandoning MMR Jab, Belfast News Letter, March 25, 1998, at 15. 
FN8. 197 U.S. 11, at 30. 
FN9. 42 U.S.C. §§300aa 6-32. 
FN10. 44 AM. U. L. REV. 1853. 
FN11. See H.R. Rep. No. 908, 99th Cong., 2d Sess. 4 (1986) (stating that childhood vaccination has saved thousands of lives and billions of health care dollars), reprinted in 1986 U.S.C.C.A.N. 6344,6345. 
FN12. 63 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 144,145. 
FN13. 197 U.S. 11, at 26-27. 
FN14. Id. at 26-28. 
FN15. Id. 
FN16. Peoria Journal Star, February 27, 1998. 
FN17. NBC Today Show, March 19, 1997. 
FN18. 42 U.S.C. §300aa-23. 
FN19. See Bunting v. Secretary of Dep't of Health & Human Servs., 931 F.2d 867, 869 (Fed. Cir. 1991). 
FN20. 42 U.S.C. §300aa-24. 
FN21. 42 U.S.C. §300aa-14. 
FN22. Margaret G. Farrell, Daubert V. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: Epistemiology And Legal Process, 15 CARDOZO L. REV. 2183 (1994). 
FN23. 197 U.S. 11. 
FN24. 198 U.S. 45. 
FN25. Mass. Gen. L. ch. 75, § 137. 
FN26. Mass. Gen. L. ch. 75, § 139. 
FN27. Richard E. Weibel et al., Influence of Age on Clinical Response to HPV-77 Duck Rubella Vaccine, 262 JAMA 805, 806 (1972). 
FN28. Richard E. Weibel et al., Chronic Arthropathy and Musculoskeletal Symptoms Associated with Rubella Vaccines, 39 Arthritis and Rhuematism 1529, 1531 (1996). 
FN29. Minutes of the 27th Meeting of the Advisory Comittee on Childhood Vaccines. (For recent minutes, see http://www.hrsa.dhhs.gov/bhpr/vicp/minutes.htm). 
FN30. Leslie Ann Mitchell et al., HLA-DR Class II Associations with Rubella Vaccine - Induced Joint Manifestations, 177 Journal of Infectious Diseases,5 (1998). 
FN31. Mass. Gen. L. ch. 75, § 137. 
FN32. 4 Wheat. 122. 
FN33. Andrea Rock, The Lethal Dangers of the Billion-Dollar Vaccine Business, Money, Dec. 1996, at 148. 
FN34. 197 U.S. 11, 23. 
FN35 Id. 
FN36. Id. at 39. 
FN37. 514 U.S. 268. 
FN38. 81 F.3D 1099, 1102. 
FN39. A.J. Wakefield et al., Ileal-lymphoid-nodular Hyperplasia, Non-specific Colitis, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder in Children, 351 Lancet 637 (1998). 
FN40. Alison Little, Health Chief Warns Of Epidemic, Press Association Newsfile, April 3, 1998. 
FN41. Heikki Peltola et al., No Evidence for Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccine-associated Inflammatory Bowel Disease or Autism in 14-year Prospective Study, 351 Lancet 1327 (1998). 
FN42. 19 Alternative Medicine Digest 38. 
FN43. Leslie Ann Mitchell, HLA-DR Class II Associations with Rubella Vaccine-Induced Joint Manifestations, 177 Journal of Infection Disieses 5 (1998). 
FN44. Aubrey J. Tingle et al., Rubella-associated Arthritis. I. Comparative Study of Joint Manifestations Associated with Natural Rubella infection and RA 27/3 Rubella Immunisation, 45 Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 110 (1986). 
FN45. 42 §300aa-11(c)(i) and (ii). 
FN46. §300aa-14(a). 
FN47. §300aa-14(c). 
FN48. §300aa-14. 
FN49. Adverse Events Associatee with Pertussus and Rubella Vaccines (Christopher P. Howson, Cynthia J. Howe, Harvey V. Fineberg eds., 1991). 
FN50. Adverse Events Associated with Childhood Vaccines - Evidence bearing on Causality (Kathleen R. Stratton, Cynthia J. Howe & Richard B. Johnston, Jr. eds., 1994) 
FN51. Id. 333. 
FN52. 940 F.2d 1518. 
FN53. 37 Fed.Cl. 314. 
FN54. 33 Fed.Cl. 712. 
FN55. 99 F.3d 1160, citing Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe, 401 U.S. 402, 416 (1971). 
FN56. 509 U.S. 579.
FN57. 293 F. 1013, 1014.

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 I actually credit a Lyme community advocate for having posted this link on Facebook with a little commentary about it and it sounded good, so I went and was surprised to see that a researcher I knew well when I lived in Fort Collins.  I'd actually thought he was more into the dog side of the biz than cats but perhaps he ventured to the other side of the fence to round out his overall career with small animals that are typical for being our pets. 

Here's the link www.dcavm.org/03nov.html

There is information about vaccines that is very good, it's what I was looking for in recent years related to 'Spoildeycat', actually.  There is also information about how there's some interplay to be aware of between humans and their pets when it comes to diseases and I think that is very important for people to know about. Also at:  www.dcavm.org/03nov.html

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Behind the Media Blackout - CDC Whistleblower; House of Cards

I encourage the taking of the trip on this link to see the sites at ActivistPost dot com. This is a very succinct overview of that ends with the 2009 flu scare epidemic, and reminds how tons of people chose to not get vaccinated and the whole thing ended up being a dud of an 'epidemic' as the media and organized medicine system were trying to make the people believe.  The topic focuses on the controversy with the researcher who stated they had falsified their data that found a connection between autism and vaccines. The journal, a mainstream, organized medicine journal, has not retracted their publishing of the research report, after having talked to the other authors on the article. As they say in the article -- 'you couldn't write this stuff' the way that this has come about. Anyone interested in this subject, this is likely going to seem like a must-read after you've read it. 

www.activistpost.com/2014/09/cdc-whistleblower-behind-media-blackout.html

As I typically do, here's an excerpt to encourage you to go, based on seeing what's at the link I'm suggesting. In this case, I've captured the author's bio information so you can see who has written the article. Impressive credentials. AND I was thrilled to see a Lumigrate 'resident expert's book as a photo image included. Alan Phillips, who you've seen above on this topic thread! 




To publicly admit what these parents already know would set off a firestorm that would never end.

So the mainstream press remains willfully ignorant. Reporters, editors, and publishers aid and abet the ongoing crime of vaccine damage.

The entirety of mainstream media performs a specific function. It takes cues and orders from elites who are intent on building Reality for the masses, and it transmits that Reality on a continuing basis. There are certain stories which, if exposed, would engender contagion.

That is, such stories would not only reveal one set of secrets, they would suggest that other pillars of the overall false Reality are rotting as well.

The prime directive of major media: this contagion must never be allowed to happen.

Thus, the William Thompson saga is buried.

However, with enough pressure from alternative media, parents of autistic children, and the awakening public, surprises can occur.

Certainly, the exit from major media, by more and more of its audience, can accelerate beyond any possibility of top-down control.

All their boats, swamped.

This, in fact, is what happened during the 2009 Swine Flu hoax. Millions of people ignored the CDC’s fake science and demands to take the vaccine—and the “level-6 global pandemic” was revealed as a dud.

Stay tuned. 

Jon Rappoport is the author of two explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed and Exit From the Matrix, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com


 

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Earth We Are One dot com has a few nice topics too; here's one

You'll see that Alan's book is on the right side in an image at this topic at Earth We Are One.  

earthweareone.com/children-receive-80-vaccinations-throughout-childhood-new-links-to-autism-found/

A bit of what you'll find at this link:


Before we get into the peer reviewed published information, it’s important to look at some independent research as well. Just because they are not published in a peer reviewed  journal does not mean that they should be ignored. For example, Dr. Theresa Deisher, a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Physiology from Stanford University, the first person to discover adult cardiac derived stem cells, determined that residual human fetal DNA fragments in vaccines can be one of the causes of autism in children through vaccination. (8) You can learn more about her and her background here.  This is why in depended research that’s not sponsored by the vaccine manufacturers themselves is so important to look at. This is one example of many.

A  recent study published in the peer-reviewed journal Translational Neurodegeneration provided epidemiological evidence supporting an association between increasing organic -Hg exposure from Thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines and the risk of an ASD diagnosis.(2)

As most of you know Thimerosal is toxic, and a number of studies have linked autism to a variety of toxins like prescription drugs, environmental pesticides and more. This information also comes from another new study that was published in the journal PLOS Computational Biology, from researchers at the University of Chicago  who revealed that autism and intellectual disability (ID) rates are linked with exposure to harmful environmental factors during congenital development. (3) You can read more about this here.

Multiple researchers that are published in peer-reviewed journals are constantly bringing up a potential link between autism and vaccines, and new studies at that. Another example is a paper published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health titled “Thimerosal Exposure and the Role of Sulfation Chemistry and Thiol Availability in Autism” which concluded:


... AND that is all of the tidbit, please go to the source. It's a very interesting website, I hope YOUsers will appreciate becoming aware of it through this link if YOU see it (and take my advise and go). 

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Dog / Canine Vaccine Schedule, History, Overview. Human Interest

I am very thankful for having joined/liked a FB page that shares a lot of good information about vaccines (Link if you would like to find them at Facebook by a link, for the National Vaccine Information Center: www.facebook.com/national.vaccine.information.center).  Overall they are a great resource and I frequently read topics they've shared. TODAY, I started my day of work at Lumigrate reading a topic that I felt really needed to be on Lumigrate for our YOUsers, it was THAT good.  

It's an article at Dogs Naturally Magazine, written by their Editor in Chief, Dana Scott. Thought it's focus is about canine veterinary medicine, don't let that dissuade YOU if you're interested about human vaccine information, because the article's author did a great job of showing the history of vaccines for dogs (which relates to the history of vaccines for humans), the schedule and details in what is provided with the vaccine product by the manufacturers versus what is the standard of the dog industry (which includes groomers, boarders, and not just the laws of the land relative to animals being vaccinated). She teases out discrepancies, and anyone familiar with the human version of organized medicine will see the correlations, I think. And those that are not yet as knowledgeable but learning will find a nice, easy, well written article that is a GRATE overview about the vaccine monkeybusiness (just a favorite word I have take up using, ). 

So here is the About the author, and the link to the topic at Dogs Naturally Magazine dot com:

About Dana Scott 

Dana Scott is Editor In Chief for Dogs Naturally Magazine. She also breeds Labrador Retrievers under the Fallriver prefix. She is an advocate for natural health care for dogs and people and is on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Consumer Centre for Homeopathy

www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/revaccination-and-dogs/

And, as I routinely do for YOUsers at Lumigrate so they get a sense of what is at the link I'm suggesting, here's some of what you'll see if you 'take the trip to see the sites' at the link. 


Revaccination:

The untold story of vaccination schedules, science and speculation

I’ll preface the following article by clearly stating that I’m not a vet. I didn’t attend veterinary college and it’s certainly not a profession I aspire to. I’ve got six years of university and two degrees under my belt, so I know the kind of debt that vets enter into when they graduate. I also know that the vast majority of them make very little money for the amount of education that goes into their career.

But I’m a dog lover and I do like to think that I’m a fairly intelligent and rational person. I don’t want to see dogs get hurt and vets certainly don’t want to see them get hurt. I truly believe that.

So what really baffles me is why vets continue to use vaccination protocols that are harming our dogs.

And now for a little history lesson

Back in the mid 1970’s, vaccines were licensed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), based on challenge studies that were done for only a few weeks to a few months. Because of that short period of testing, all vaccine labels had this statement on them: “Annual Revaccination Recommended.”

Because duration of immunity (DOI) studies are expensive, the vaccine manufacturers tested their vaccines for a short period of time and subsequently put them on the market with the suggestion of vaccinating annually. But nobody really knew how long those vaccines would last because nobody went to the trouble to test them for more than a few months. So vets got into the habit of vaccinating every year.

During this time, a young scientist had an epiphany. Dr Ronald Schultz PhD wondered why animals were vaccinated yearly when dogs and cats that had recovered from natural infection to distemper and panleukopenia were protected, even years later. His own children weren’t vaccinated into adulthood, so based on these observations, he published “An Ideal (But Not Proven) Immunization Schedule for Dogs and Cats” in 1978 with a fellow scientist. In this report, they recommended a series of puppy and kitten shots, followed by revaccination at one year, then revaccination every three years.

Next, he set out to prove it

From the 1970’s on, Dr Schultz and his colleagues performed study after study. They tested well over 1,000 dogs and used all of the major veterinary vaccine products. They measured immunity with both serology (by measuring circulating antibodies) and challenge (exposing the dogs to the disease). And he did in fact prove that those vaccines were extremely likely to last for the life of the animal.

Dr Schultz and his team found that the distemper vaccine produced a minimum of 7 years DOI with challenge and at least 15 years with serology. This doesn’t mean that the vaccines stop working after this period of time – these numbers reflect the number of years after vaccination the dogs were tested. Theoretically, if the dogs lived to 30 and were tested at that time, they might still be protected.

His research also showed that parvovirus would protect dogs for at least 7 years with challenge and 9 years with serology. The other common part of the core vaccines, adenovirus, was also shown to protect for 7 and 9 years respectively.

The results were basically the same for every vaccine he tested and for every dog.

And then he showed that dogs that were vaccinated just once, after the maternal antibodies were gone, were similarly protected when challenged.

“Only one dose of the modified-live canine ‘core’ vaccine (against CDV, CAV-2 and CPV-2) or modified-live feline ‘core’ vaccine (against FPV, FCV and FHV), when administered at 16 weeks or older, will provide long lasting (many years to a lifetime) immunity in a very high percentage of animals” 

The good news (sort of)

These early recommendations prompted the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) to assemble a task force. In 2003, the American Animal Hospital Association Canine Vaccine Task Force evaluated the data from Dr Schultz’s work and, while noting that the core vaccines had a minimum duration of immunity of at least seven years, compromised by saying that “revaccination every 3 years is considered protective.”

Why would the AAHA recommend revaccination when faced with research showing that those vaccines were extremely likely to protect dogs and cats for life? And more importantly …

Why every three years?

Dr Richard Ford, Professor of Medicine at North Carolina State University, was a part of that 2003 task force. Afterward, he said that the decision to recommend a three year revaccination schedule for core vaccines was a compromise.

“It’s completely arbitrary…,” he said. “I will say there is no science behind the three-year recommendation…”

So, when presented with pretty convincing evidence that vaccines lasted for a lifetime, and certainly as long as seven years or more, the AAHA was only willing to move from annual revaccination to triennial.


AND this is where I'll leave off, and let YOUsers of Lumigrate decide to take the trip away with the link or not.  I highly encourage it. I loved the ending, quoting a saying from Native Americans about not being able to awaken those who are pretending to sleep, and EVERYthing in between. 

 

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SaneVax dot org on Gardasil and Bartonella re: Injury

The Gardasil HPV vaccine, which was woven in above in this thread, has been found to be interplaying in a way that indicates people who have adverse reaction / 'injury' from it often ALSO have been exposed to, and are hosts to, 'bugs'; in this study it was bartonella. The article is written by Lloyd Phillips, and is titled "Gardasil and Bartonella: A Dirty Little Secret. 

Here's the link:

http://sanevax.org/gardasil-and-bartonella-a-dirty-little-se...

.... and here's a portion of what you'll find at the link, I do this often in order for the Lumigrate YOUsers (YOU at this moment) to be able to see a sampling of what's there as online research is time consuming and we're hoping to streamline things by presenting a good variety of things that are of higher quality than a perons might find on their own in the same amount of time: 


 The Gardasil HPV vaccine may produce life-threatening reactions in any person who has ever been close to a cat, or potentially any animal infected with fleas or ticks.  New data reveals that a high percentage of these animals are infected with Bartonella, Babesia, or Lyme Disease (Borreliosis), especially pet cats.  If there is a family history of Mononucleosis, or active EBV, a cytokine storm (Interleukin-13) may typically result, and mucus may be overexpressed in the lungs and airways.  Under these conditions, it is not uncommon for a Pulse-Ox monitor to measure 85% saturation after mild exertion.  Many humans who carry these “bugs” appear healthy, and show no symptoms, until they receive the HPV vaccine.

Our study revealed that virtually all girls were unaware of their exposure to Bartonella, and were asymptomatic, prior to their vaccination.  After receiving Gardasil, Bartonella was commonly activated, and was confirmed by lab tests.  Bartonella is a fairly common dormant pathogen in a significant number of people. Bartonella (and many enteroviruses and Vector-Borne Pathogens) may be reactivated, and may become virulent when inflammation is present for an extended period.

The Gardasil vaccine contains aluminum adjuvant nano-particle substrates, bound to HPV16-L1 protein fragments, that appear to have mutated at their binding sites, and this mutation may result in excessive inflammation by allowing this mutation to stay in the body for months or possibly years.  The mutation attaches itself to the endothelial lining of blood vessels and other organs, including the brain, if the host lacks sufficient active glutathione, or similar complimentary attractant, or does not readily clear toxins.  Inflammatory HPV16-L1 DNA protein particles were found in autopsy tissue samples from two different teenage girls, six months after receiving her last vaccination, in the case of one deceased girl.

Our findings indicate that if the blood brain barrier is open, commonly due to allergies or the common cold, these man-made inflammatory vaccine nano-particles may enter the brain, and cause additional damage, and possible demyelination.


... it goes on with a bunch of good information, including linking to this presentation / document / expert-written resource:

Professor of Zoonoses, Bruno B Chomel, presented the most recent information on Bartonella in a lecture entitled, Bartonella Infections in Humans and Animals: An UpdateThe statistics listed on p.25 of this presentation indicate that about 50% of the DOMESTIC (pet) cats in the United States are infected with ‘Bartonella henselae,’ meaning a girl who has a cat, or visits a friend who has a cat, or is scratched by a cat, or gets bitten by a FLEA from a cat, IS AT EXTREME RISK OF CATCHING BARTONELLA. This risk may also come from rodents, birds, kangaroos, dogs, cattle, etc., which may also carry Bartonella or other Vector-Borne Disease(s). 

 The article at SaneVax dot com goes on to discuss more about Baratonella and commonly reported lack of awareness of symptoms that were apparent and not.  In the more well-known Lyme / Borrelia situations, many people think it only comes from ticks, and that you will always have a rash, or even always have the bulls-eye rash that is unique to Lyme, but this is not the case, in the majority of cases that are obtained from bites from ticks there is not a rash and it's often not a bulls-eye rash.  I heard first hand from a worker in a Colorado doctor's office that specializes in Lyme and the co-infections that even in 2014 with cases that were new this year, from ticks obtained in the Colorado mountains that yieilded a bulls-eye rash, the way the organized medical/ government system has developed the testing requirements for something to be counted as a case of Lyme has rendered all those cases not countable in the statistics, so Colorado goes down at the end of 2014 when I last looked at the official state information as saying 'there has never been as case of Lyme originate in Colorado'.  

But when I was telling a clearly unwell/ill bell-ringer at the holidays about this information, they instantly said 'but if it's in the deer here why wouldn't it be in the people'.  This was a person who was very much a product of mainstream medicine and had never heard of these things.  We'd struck up a conversation and they'd shared with me why they were putting in so many hours -- filling a void left by a family member who had died from something that might indicate they had Lyme lurking and so I wanted to plant that seed (as well as offer a little money to the pot which I don't normally do anymore as I'd prefer to help people directly and not through these organizations but it makes the ringers feel good to see someone donating ... black/white in the old days, shades of grey I have tried to develop within myself in the more recent times).  As Debby said above, the ripple effect -- I try to plant seeds in a variety of layers of society so they might start talking to others they know about these things and find their way to better health and solutions someday. I hope the same for YOU, or if you're well and reading this, you navigate your way as a health and wellness consumer to stay that way. 

I'm bolding this information so it 'pops', this is near the closure of the article.  CureZone dot org is a resource so I hope people go and look around from here.  But if you're not going to do that, this is really the 'punch' of this article, in my opinion.  Thanks to Lloyd Phillips for having created it. Thanks to CureZone's people for creating CureZone. Thanks to my FB friend or organization that had shared the meme about this so that I saw this 2013 article finally.  I hope my adding it here has helped YOU know more about this subject than before you came! 

Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! ~ Mardy

This presentation proves that Bartonella is NOT rare.  The hierarchy of the U.S. medical community appears to be treating Bartonella the same way they treated H-Pylori (causes stomach ulcers) over a decade ago, by attempting to suppress information to keep vaccination rates high and avoid a decline in vaccine  sales.  The fact that the HPV16-L1 MY-09 and MY-11 Consensus Primers of the HPV16-L1 protein fragment are missing, and a mutation has appeared in the Gardasil HPV vaccine, is also being hidden by the FDA and CDC,  and known only to a very few insiders.

There are huge profits in treating each Bartonella symptom separately, and because Bartonella and similar vector-borne pathogens are relatively new and not well known or understood, victims may never be properly diagnosed, and spend years going to different medical specialists, and receive separate prescriptions for fatigue, pain, memory loss, cysts, Inflammatory Breast Cancer (Bartonella is angiogenic, and loves making new blood vessels and connections), and much more.  Bartonella is difficult to diagnose, and is typically not the only pathogen involved.

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Fraud Lawsuit/Censoring Info And the MSMedia Involvement

Health Impact News bills itself as being a website resource for information that's not in the mainstream, or might be censored at other places.  I LIKE THAT, already! And I think Lumigrate YOUsers will want to know of this resource as well, generally.  

So as I do, I suggest YOUsers take the links and go use the website they find their way to here because I've recommended them as a resource on a particular topic (or overall).  I also bold and underline things when I transfer them -- sometimes breaking them into shorter paragraphs that tired / medically impaired brains can handle better. Editing things sometimes to make them more readable (such as if speech is transcribed verbatim I take out the things you'd know in hearing it were their speech mannerisms that make it harder to understand, such as when they say a few words then repeat them to interrupt the audience's making noise cheering). 

I've also come to call 'the system' of globalists / global elite 'the monkeys' and their business 'the monkeybusiness'.  So in this, below, you'll see how the monkeys involved in the medical monkeybusinesses and their operations were collaborating with the monkeys involved in the mainstream media monkeybusinesses, as well as the monkeys involved in other organizations that were allegedly set up to be the 'checks and balances' our system of government in the US was to run.  Keep studying about the history of the monkeys and the founding of the United States, and you'll find how what we were taught in school (another monkeybusiness unless we were unschooled or other places that didn't have to teach the curriculum they wanted EVERY young mind to be infused with). Learn this stuff and you'll be better able to figure out all the complexities about vaccines (and the overall house of cards mainstream, organized medicine system that is falling in the United States).  

THIS IS SOME OF THE BEST NEWS I HAVE SEEN ALL YEAR SO FAR ABOUT THE MONKEYS NOT BEING ABLE TO GET THINGS PAST THE CONTROLS ANYMORE, as many people had felt there were already a lot of 'cards' in 'the house of card' punched out, and at some point 'it' will fall! THEN we can work our tails off to have real, fair, ethical, and effective health and wellness become what will be the new 'convention'. Out with the old organized medicine which has been convention, in with the new .. the grass roots of it are firmly established now.  It'll be wonderful! In the mean time, buyer beware, consumer get educated not just 'aware'.  Not studying these things once 'made aware' is willful ignorance.  Prioritize your time, make time to study it.  I've tried to make it as straightforward to get GOOD education via Lumigrate's links and sources and experts. 

HIN refers to Dr Mercola's website's information too, as I do frequently -- I would hope that anyone with any kind of health question turns to Lumigrate if they know about it, and knows to also turn to Mercola.  He's been at this since I was just learning the ropes being a conventional medical provider and having my deteriorating health baffling me and every professional I appealed to for help.  Thankfully I eventually got things turned around, saw the importance of this type of information reaching people, and 'joined the club' telling people the truth about health and well-being and what increasingly is impairing and destroying it (mental, physical, spiritual, emotional, vocational ... so many fronts affected).  

I found this link in my feed on Facebook because a very new FB friend shared it ... an MD and JD, she is.  One of her FB friends had shared a link to a PBS show and said that it was balanced --- I commented about my perceptions about PBS and to look at who funds PBS, and related how PBS steered me wrong (in my opinion today) about the war we were going into in 2002, after 9/11.  I'd not yet learned to get my news NOT FROM mainstream, and to look at anything mainstream as propaganda-laden and as 'entertainment', as I do today, to see what their strategy is for how they're trying to get information into heads of Americans (and others).  

This is a very important case, I think, and any consumer will be thinking that the legal process would be taking down the problems if there were problems with vaccines -- it gives a false sense of security (in my opinion today). I'll bring some of the highlights of what's at this link, below, so you can see why I think this is something one should read.  Any bolding is added by me to catch YOUsers eyes for the highlights I hope skimmers will glean.  IF you are interested in the info, GO to the source as there is MORE THERE I didn't bring here which has to do with other resources, and you can see their overall layout and etc. 

healthimpactnews.com/2014/judge-lawsuit-against-mercks-mmr-vaccine-fraud-to-continue/


 Health Impact News Editor Comments

 

In a story late in 2014 that no mainstream media outlet reported, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled in favor of whistleblowers who have accused Merck of lying about the efficacy of its mumps vaccine (currently only available in combo with MMR). We had to find this story posted on a couple of websites servicing attorneys.

This story did garner mainstream news coverage back in 2012, before Merck’s attorneys appealed and tried to get the case thrown out of court. Here is a report Forbes wrote on it back in 2012. Some quotes:

Anyone who falls on either side of the debate about vaccines’ alleged potential to cause harm is sure to have heard the big news this week — the unsealing of a whistleblower suit against Merck, filed back in 2010 by two former employees accusing the drugmaker of overstating the effectiveness of its mumps, measles, and rubella vaccine.

The scientists claim Merck defrauded the U.S. government by causing it to purchase an estimated four million doses of mislabeled and misbranded MMR vaccine per year for at least a decade, and helped ignite two recent mumps outbreaks that the allegedly ineffective vaccine was intended to prevent in the first place.

As the single largest purchaser of childhood vaccines (accounting for more than 50 percent of all vaccine purchasers), the United States is by far the largest financial victim of Merck’s fraud. But the ultimate victims here are the millions of children who every year are being injected with a mumps vaccine that is not providing them with an adequate level of protection against mumps. And while this is a disease the CDC targeted to eradicate by now, the failure in Merck’s vaccine has allowed this disease to linger with significant outbreaks continuing to occur,” the suit alleges. (Source – emphasis added.)

The Wall Street Journal also covered the story back in 2012, but according to a report by Dr. Mercola,  the Wall Street Journal’s “elite” network of CFOs from the world’s top corporations met 3 days later (including executives from Merck), and the story was removed from their website.

This week, U.S. District Judge C. Darnell Jones II ruled that the whistleblowers had sufficiently pled that Merck might have provided false statements to the government and that the direct purchasers had shown enough evidence to establish that these falsehoods could have helped the company gain a monopoly.

Most people in the U.S. do not even realize that U.S. law prevents anyone damaged by vaccines from suing the manufacturer. In 1986, Congress passed a law preventing legal liability to vaccine damages, because the drug companies manufacturing vaccines blackmailed them, by threatening to stop manufacturing vaccines without legal protection. There were so many lawsuits resulting from vaccine injuries and deaths prior to this time, that it was no longer profitable for them to continue marketing vaccines without legal protection. So instead of Congress requiring that drug companies manufacture safer vaccines, they complied with the drug companies’ requests and passed legislation protecting the drug companies. In 2011 this law was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Therefore, any lawsuit against a pharmaceutical company for allegedly producing faulty vaccines is huge news. This current lawsuit is brought by two whistleblowers, virologists who worked for Merck and are accusing Merck of lying about the effectiveness of the mumps vaccine. There is also a class action suit related, brought by Alabama-based Chatom Primary Care and two individual doctors from New York and New Jersey who allege Merck’s monopoly on the drug caused them to pay more for the drug.

More details from the whistleblower lawsuit claiming fraud:

Merck is the only manufacturer licensed by the FDA to sell the mumps vaccine in United States, and if it could not show that the vaccine was 95 percent effective, it risked losing its lucrative monopoly, according to the complaint.

That’s why Merck found it critically important to keep claiming such a high efficacy rate, the complaint states.

And, Chatom claims, that’s why Merck went to great lengths, including “manipulating its test procedures and falsifying the test results,” to prop up the bogus figure, though it knew that the attenuated virus from which it created the vaccine had been altered over the years during the manufacturing process, and that the quality of the vaccine had degraded as a result.

Starting in the late 1990s, Merck set out on its sham testing program with the objective of “report[ing] efficacy of 95 percent or higher regardless of the vaccine’s true efficacy,” the complaint states.

Chatom says Merck initially called its testing program Protocol 007.

Under Protocol 007, Merck did not test the vaccine’s ability to protect children against a “wild-type” mumps virus, which is “the type of real-life virus against which vaccines are generally tested,” the complaint states.

Instead, Chatom says, Merck tested children’s blood using its own attenuated strain of the virus.

“This was the same mumps strain with which the children were vaccinated,” the complaint states.

That “subverted” the purpose of the testing regime, “which was to measure the vaccine’s ability to provide protection against a disease-causing mumps virus that a child would actually face in real life. The end result of this deviation … was that Merck’s test overstated the vaccine’s effectiveness,” Chatom claims.

Merck also added animal antibodies to blood samples to achieve more favorable test results, though it knew that the human immune system would never produce such antibodies, and that the antibodies created a laboratory testing scenario that “did not in any way correspond to, correlate with, or represent real life … virus neutralization in vaccinated people,” according to the complaint.

Chatom claims that the falsification of test results occurred “with the knowledge, authority and approval of Merck’s senior management.” (Source.)

One can easily see why Merck has worked so hard the past two years to bury this story and try to get it thrown out of court. But now a federal judge has ruled the case will proceed.

It is certainly understandable why the mainstream media does not want to touch this story, given the fact that one of the lead authors on a CDC published study in 2004 has also become a whistleblower, stating that the CDC withheld data from the public linking the MMR vaccine to a higher rate of autism among some children, specifically African American boys. The fraud surrounding the MMR vaccine is becoming a story way too hot to handle, and to report it would be to admit the media has been wrong, and reporting the wrong data, for many years now.

Dr. Andrew Wakefield is the world-renowned gastrointestinal surgeon and researcher who first proved that there were problems with mumps vaccine given in conjunction with two other vaccines, measles and rubella. But a massive smear campaign was waged against him and his license to practice was revoked in the U.K. With no trial or jury, the mainstream media simply went along with the trumped up charges, and to this day hold him up as a scapegoat to supposedly prove that there are no serious problems with the MMR vaccine or any link to autism.

The mainstream media seems united in their belief that vaccines do not cause harm, and that the rise of childhood diseases is due to unvaccinated children, rather than faulty vaccines. Even with inside testimony such as is provided by these whistleblowers from within Merck and the CDC itself, the mainstream media does not appear ready yet to come out and admit they are wrong and report this contrary news. Their credibility on reporting anything true in regards to vaccines is very quickly eroding.

Sources:

Antitrust, FCA Claims On Merck Mumps Vaccine To Advance, By Dan Packel

Qui Tam, Class Action Cases Against Merck Proceed, by Gina Passarella

Memorandum issued by Judge explaining his ruling.

Related:

Why Did the Wall Street Journal Bury the Merck Fraud Story? – by Dr. Mercola

Class Says Merck Lied About Mumps Vaccine – Courthouse News Service

Scientists Sue Merck: Allege Fraud for MMR Vaccine – Suzanne Humphries, MD

The Vaccine Autism Cover-up: How One Doctor’s Career was Destroyed for Telling the Truth about the MMR Vaccine

 

Saying NO To Vaccines
By Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
You have legal options!

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- See more at: http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/judge-lawsuit-against-merck...


The FB friend had a friend that had suggested this at PBS as something 'fair'.. is it really 'fair' when PBS has sponsors who are the most wealthy couple and their foundation in the world? And they have clearly infiltrated the movie houses / theaters with their advertisement (for MicroSoft) before the movie I just attended a week ago (the first in over two years because I was learning about the corruption from Hollywood and what is put into our media and I wanted to get that digested BEFORE I was exposed to more so that I could not let it 'have it's way with me' (and my mind/brain).  It went from a cool guy who had started a nonprofit when poor children in Africa said a pencil would be what they wanted to help them learn (aah...), to immediately electronic learning being shown and MicroSoft having been shown with this collaboration with some little nonprofit who was originally with a mission about simple education done the way it was very well in the United States before the monkeys and their monkeybusinesses took over the education system.  

If you are unaware of that, now you are aware.  So now if you wish to become educated and not just aware, Search at Lumigrate's search bar on education reform, whistleblower, Charlotte Iserbyte -- I covered it in 2014 when I was thankfully FINALLY connecting the dots about what I'd observed about our education system in my lifetime.  My mother, who would have celebrated her 90th birthday yesterday died at 62, partly, in my opinion, due to the heartbreak she suffered from being a very good, honest, ethical educator and being forced to not do what would help the students with the most impairment of neurological systems / psycho-motor processing (from the many environmental reasons we've progressively gotten less well in the US the last 100 years).  

And then realize where PBS fit into things with education reform.  They snuck a Trojan Horse past us with cute puppets and dramas like Upstairs Downstairs where educated, intelligent people thought we were learning history and having savvy humor and got very used to PBS being a mainstay and thinking our little donations were needed and we were in control of what was going to be on PBS.  

I "woke up" after I'd created Lumigrate, though I was aware of the corruption, I thought it was inadvertent, disorganization, I did NOT realize how planned our system was and how it was set up to take advantage of 'the people'.  Those who are 'in the advantage' are the elite, the globalists, and those I call 'the monkeys and their monkeybusinesses' .... in a city that is a house of cards apparently falling now.  Each time a new person becomes REALLY AWARE (a.k.a. 'awake') then they have lost one more person (and family if they're influential in a family) from holding up the house of cards.  

So after you've gotten a firm footing about the afore-recommended learning, perhaps go and see what is at a source like PBS .. or go now and keep in mind there's an agenda behind their programming.  And weight it compared to what you've learned on other aspects of this thread.  Do your due diligence and think it through, form your opinion.

Make a plan. Act on the plan for yourself and others you are responsible for (including pets) and then YOU have become AN ACTIVIST.  Not just a passive consumer doing what someone ELSE tells you to do related to vaccines. Passivist, activist.  Activists aren't just the ones out there with petitions and signs, they're consumers who are active / proactive in what they accept and not. If it's from a corrupt business, why would you have an invasive procedure they are selling?  I guess we buy cars from places we know are corrupt sometimes, or knock off brands of handbags.  But this is your body, your wellness, your LIFE.  Raise the bar! (Legal pun intended.) 

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/vaccines-calling-shots.html 


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Drs. Sherry Tenpenny and Suzanne Humphries - The Whole Story

 Whether you're new to studying about vaccines or have been at it a while, I think this interview done by Patrick at OneRadioNetwork with Dr. Sherry Tenpenny (DO) and Dr. Suzanne Humphries (MD) is excellent.  There was one detail that was something I'd been wondering for a long time.  Clearly something they and we all take seriously is at hand, but they keep it upbeat and very easy to listen to.  I particularly like the way that the doctors support each other, it seems, and it's really nice to hear the professinalism.  

(I've recently been listening to one of Patrick's show's frequent flyer interviewees who I've put information about on Lumigrate as I think he's a great example of how much a layperson can accomplish when they're motivated to study and try things.  Tony P. admits to talking like the salt of the Earth).  

I think there's a LOT that can be gained by following the information put out by people who have self-studied without any or much formal education, and is best accomplished while also having reputable, ethical professionals' opinions.  Virtually and in person. 

oneradionetwork.com/health/from-the-archives-dr-sherry-tenpenny-d-o-and-dr-suzanne-humphries-m-d-vaccines-the-whole-story-february-2-2011/

What you'll see at this ^ link about this interview I'm recommending (PLEASE GO to the website and see ALL the other things you can learn from, I think Patrick (and Sharron, his other half producing the show) have a really good standard and I really like that they have the various types of "qualifications", as I referred to above.  Dr Tenpenny on Vaccines' Facebook page is something I have liked having in my feed and seeing what she posts on a regular basis.  You'll see they talk about the Facebook page when you listen to the interview. 


Dr. Sherry Tenpenny D.O. and Dr. Suzanne Humphries M.D.

Vaccines: The Whole Story


 

A new report just released initiated by Dr.’s Tenpenny and Humphries with The International Medical Council on Vaccines is now available by clicking here.

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny is respected as one of the country’s most knowledgeable and outspoken physicians regarding the impact of vaccines on health.

Dr. Tenpenny is an outspoken advocate for free choice in healthcare, including the right to refuse vaccination. As an internationally known speaker, she is highly sought after for her ability to present scientifically sound information regarding vaccination hazard and warnings that are rarely portrayed by conventional medicine. Most importantly, she offers hope through her unique treatments offered at Tenpenny Integrative Medical Center for those who have been vaccine-injured.

Dr. Tenpenny is also an expert on women’s breast HEALTH and the use of iodine for disease.

Suzanne Humphries, MD is a conventionally educated, allopathically trained medical doctor. Prior to medical school, she earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Rutgers University. After a two year stint as the head technician in a research biochemistry lab, she went to medical school, graduating from Temple University School of Medicine in 1993. She then explored the area of social medicine in the Bronx, NY where she completed her 3-year medical residency. At this juncture, Dr Humphries became more aware of the failures of primary care medicine, observing that doctors are largely trained to prescribe drugs and hunt down disease. Despite this approach, the patients continued to get sicker, requiring more drugs and ultimately developing degenerative diseases. “Evidence-based medicine,” turned out, in her opinion to be a huge misnomer. Not wanting involvement in the generation of chronically ill patients, she opted to work at the other end of the allopathic continuum and completed a fellowship in Nephrology. After 14 years of practicing allopathic kidney medicine, her perspective on the overall success of the allopathic paradigm has developed and matured. She views allopathic medicine as an overused system—that when implemented as first line treatment across-the-board for mild illnesses and symptoms, will mostly just drive chronic illnesses deeper. Dr. Humphries has re-educated herself on the origins of disease and non-allopathic means of reversal.

She recently moved beyond mainstream medicine, and is utilizing nontoxic means to help restore health in those who seek her assistance. Whole-food nutrition, micronutrients, and detoxification are among the modalities she implements. She has developed a personal understanding that healing comes as much, if not more, from within as from without, and in that there is reason for optimism. Dr. Humphries is on the board of directors of The International Medical Council on Vaccination. She lives and works in Midcoast, Maine USA.


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"Backfire" Describes Current Vaccine/ Disease Mainstream Reality

Natural News ONCE MORE has a hit topic going around social media, this time with a very good overview article about the overall state of things currently, which is seen with large "BACKFIRE" as the image with the topic.   


vaccine

BACKFIRE: How the vaccine industry lost the propaganda war, alienated the public and stirred up suspicion of the entire medical profession



Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/048665_vaccine_propaganda_public_suspicion_medical_profession.html#ixzz3S7egNKEY

 

Here's how the article concludes, which is a quote Mike Adams utilized which I wanted to have YOUsers of Lumigrate see: (PLEASE GO to the link ^ and read the article!)


 

"This is a do-or-die moment. It's absolutely crucial in the history of this country and, indeed, the world, of who prevails. Who do your children actually belong to? And if we do not get William Thompson before a congressional series of committees, that unearth the precise nature and extent of the fraud at the CDC... if we do not do that, and if we lose this battle, your children, you, will be owned by the pharmaceutical industry, and your children and your children's children.

And they are simply a marketplace for those companies. They are quantified in terms of vaccination for every birth and how much revenue they will generate for the pharmaceutical industry in a mandated program for which there is no real recourse to any kind of compensational litigation if your children are harmed.

So they want to take away your rights as to whether your children should be vaccinated or not according to your decision, but if your child is harmed -- and vaccines are, according to the Supreme Court, "unavoidably unsafe" -- then you are left to pick up the pieces. And that is the system that we face, and at the end of it is a massive profit for the pharmaceutical industry.

Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/048665_vaccine_propaganda_public…"

 

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Whooping Cough Cases in Vaccinated vs Non; "The People's Chemist

Another aspect to reinforce the information at this thread, specific to whooping cough / pertussis. AND another resource to know about: The People's Chemist, Shane Ellison.  

"Whooping Cough

Between 1900 and 1935, mortality rates due to whooping cough dropped by 79 percent in the United States. Yet, the vaccine (DTP and DTaP) wasn’t introduced until 1940.

Today, those who have been “immunized” are the most susceptible to whooping cough. (Stats are available if you want to find them.)

Researchers with the CDC publicly stated in 2002 that, “the number of infants dying from whooping cough is rising, despite record high vaccination levels.” In 2009, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recognized the trend too. In the article titled, “Whooping Cough Vaccine not as Powerful as Thought,” the publication highlighted a recent cluster of 18 whooping cough-infected students. Seventeen of those students – 95% of those infected – had been immunized with five doses of DTaP vaccine."

Source - Whistleblower Shane Ellison - Masters in Chemistry aka The People's Chemist. A rare find - an honest pharmacist.

 

Credit where credit is due: Oh how I LOVE LOVE LOVE the strength of my Facebook feed in 2015 -- it seems like every year I connected with more people who were connected with more people and there was a lot of sorting out of who's who -- for instance, there were those who liked what went on with 'support groups' versus those who preferred 'education groups'.  

Those who want to take action / be proactive / take charge floated to the top, so to speak, and those who had commitment and skills with collaboration ended up with very successful group administration and facilitation.  Or some of us ended up flying more solo in our efforts and were on Facebook consistently. I'd put myself in that category with my efforts with groups I created and admin, or pages, and same goes for my comrade in Australia, Lulu Langford.   

Lulu is one of the early-on connections I made when I was a 'newbie' to Facebook way back in 2008. All these years later is still a Facebook friend.  She is the ONLY non-US medical expert I invited to register and provide information at Lumigrate; we are so much on the same page and have so many similarities in our careers and lives that it's uncanny.  

Thankfully I had a question only Lulu could answer a couple of years back, something I wanted to know about Umcka for our Amazing Alice, an invited layperson with complex chronic illness who provided some brilliant topics our first year on Lumigrate relative to spirituality and having chronic illness from a Christian woman's perspective in the American South.

So I went to private message Lulu on Facebook knowing that we'd not been FB friends for a long time --  I'd noticed I'd not seen her "in my feed" and checked  -- we were no longer Facebook friends!  I'd let it slide for a long while and naturally presumed she'd unfriended me for some reason. It turns out she'd noticed the disconnection and presumed that I'd unfriended her -- she was frequently 'over the top' back in those days of what I would post on Facebook but I figure everyone has to find their niches and post accordingly. I'm a believer in diversity. I'm not in agreement with everything she believes, certainly, and obviously then she has a difference of opinion from me as well. So we have agreed to disagree 'just fine'. 

Knowing what I know now about corruption in social media I'm not surprised by what happened, and perhaps it was just a glitch and had nothing to do with disconnecting two 'rabel rousers' from opposite sides of the globe. Whether intentionally or inadvertently is up to you to decide but if I were part of the 'monkeybusiness' I'd do things to break the aliance between Lulu and I up!  So, a little added 'information' into this topic thread for YOUsers to think about.  I just refer to this as 'the monkeys and their monkeybusinesses'. 

Since then, we've continued to enjoy our communications across the world, including my seeing this gem today which I felt was one to add onto this thread for Lumigrate YOUsers. I am realizing as I write this how I knew when I got on Facebook and connected with Lulu and she became 'part of Lumigrate' that it was a big step and something I'd not had any way of forseeing how it would occur when I created Lumigrate -- I just knew that I needed to build it and 'what was to come' would come.

And today it's as 'everyday' to ask Lulu a question or see something brilliant she's provided as if she were living in my live community and I'd run into her out at the Farmer's Market or a concert or the herb and health food stores!  

Thank you, Lulu, I was not aware of this man, a.k.a. "The People's Chemist".  I see you'd also provided this link about him: thepeopleschemist.com/about/

And here's the link to the introductory topic on Lumigrate about Lulu: www.lumigrate.com/forum/lulu-lessons-teachings-homeopath-and-nurse-down-under


My name is Shane Ellison.  I’m a medicinal chemist with a masters degree in chemistry.  For more than a decade, my laboratory has integrated the latest advances in chemistry and biology to create natural products that confer positive, measurable results.

My passion for medicine and living young has been shared with millions via my bestselling book, Over-The-Counter Natural Cures, which teaches people how to get off drugs so they can live a healthier more active lifestyle.

An outspoken critic of pharmaceutical checkbook science, ghostwriting and the abuse of vaccines, I’ve been quoted by USA Today, Shape, Woman’s World, as well as Women’s Health and have served as guest speaker for large corporations like BP and appeared on Fox and NBC as a natural medicine advocate.

My wife and I are proud parents of 4 children. In my spare time I enjoy snowboarding, aviation, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and soap making. 

 

 

 
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Diet Can Reverse Damage from Vaccines; Dr. Stephanie Seneff Info

 A brilliant analogy starts this topic at Health Impact News by John P. Thomas --- here's how the topic starts, titled "How Diet Can Help Heal Vaccine Damage".  

by John P. Thomas
Health Impact News

When I was about seven or eight years old, I received a stern warning from my father regarding the gas tank in his car. He told me that I was never to open the cap and put anything into the tank. I hadn’t ever done such a thing or even thought about it, but he was warning me against doing what my good friend did to his mother’s car.

Apparently, one day my friend decided that it would be fun to play gas station attendant. In those days no one pumped their own gas – this was a service provided by people who worked at automobile service stations. To help his mother out, he filled the gas tank of her car. He didn’t have any gasoline, so he decided to use the garden hose to fill it with water. Of course the car started fine when his mother needed to use it, but she never got out of the driveway before the engine quit. He eventually confessed when the cause of the car trouble was found to be water in the tank. That should have been the end of the saga, but it wasn’t.

A little while later my friend apparently planted the idea in the minds of his two younger sisters that they could make a cake by adding sand to the gas tank of their mother’s car. So, they went and got a little bucket of sand from their sand box and began to carefully spoon it into the tank. This time their mother got further down the street before the engine died.

From these events I learned that only gasoline goes in the gas tank. As I got older, I learned there are several types of fluids that are used in automobile engines. You’d better not mix them up, because each fluid has specific qualities for the task it needs to perform.

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This is the third article in a series about treating vaccine related damage. It will focus on reversing vaccine damage by making changes in what we put in our mouths. The two previous articles discussed how homeopathy can treat and restore health to people who have been damaged by vaccines. This article, and the one that will follow it, will focus on the important role that diet has in treating the physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral consequences that result from using vaccines and eating food containing the toxic pesticide called glyphosate. As we will see in this article, it is not just the harm from vaccines that needs to be healed, but it is also the harm that results from the modern food supply.

Previous articles in the series: (and then they have the list of articles in the series so GO see, learn more, please! Great information at Heath Impact New generally so it's what I'd call a 'grate' resource for Lumigrate's YOUsers. 


Here's the link and naturally my strong encouragement to GO is hopefully facilitated by excerpts I bring to the topics here at Lumigrate.  More from the interview with Dr. Stephanie Seneff as well as other aspects woven in by Mr. Thomas.  I REALLY liked this article.... it just has so much in it that I was saying out loud if anyone was around to hear me 'listen to this....'....  If you go and find this is all review for you --- kudos! I have to say that I do foresee the information Dr Seneff will be putting out in the future will shift much of what she was saying at the time of this interview.  That's the nature of the beast right now, people are finally getting to the bottom of the issues and able to get the information out to people and we all learn and have to keep changing what we're saying and relating to others AFTER we think it through... process it.  

healthimpactnews.com/2015/how-diet-can-help-heal-vaccine-damage/

Here's an excerpt of the lead in to the information about glyphosate interplaying with other things, such as aluminum, per the research related by Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT.  


Where Does Harm from Vaccines and Glyphosate Appear?

There are several key processes in the body where the synergetic harm from vaccines and glyphosate becomes visible. The first key to understanding the harm that comes from vaccines and glyphosate is seen in the major disruptions that occur in the digestive system. It becomes impaired to such a degree that it cannot extract nutrition from the food that is eaten and it cannot maintain the integrity of the gut walls. This means that certain molecules of improperly digested food and toxins can leak out of the gut into the bloodstream. This causes allergies and brain dysfunction. The second key is impaired sulfate transport in the body. The third key is disruptions in mineral utilization in the body. Dr. Seneff will explain how these factors damage our health, and how dietary changes can restore health.

Dr. Seneff sometimes uses autism as an example of how these systems are damaged, but her comments also apply to numerous other conditions such as: learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, schizophrenia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, heart disease, and cancer. All of these diseases are biomedically related. In short, the panorama of illnesses that dominate life in the so called developed countries in the 21st century is directly connected to the sand that people put in their bodies and the damage that is produced in the digestive system.


and then later.....


I was trying to figure out what was causing the autism epidemic. I have been interested in autism for a long time, but I got really serious about it starting about eight or nine years ago. I was frustrated that all the money seemed to be going toward genetics and that clearly wasn’t the whole problem. The children who are genetically susceptible are getting autism now, but eventually all the kids are going to get sick if we keep going in the same direction.

I started by looking at aluminum in vaccines, and I certainly found evidence of a problem, but I couldn’t find the whole story there. In fact, I wrote a paper discussing the gut microbe problem and how that could lead to aluminum toxicity from the vaccines. As I wrote that paper, I was frustrated, because I couldn’t explain what was causing this gut problem, which was the starting point for all the problems.

I now know that glyphosate is the starting point for the gut problems. It is really amazing how unwilling the government is to believe that glyphosate is the problem. They are so sure that it is safe.

The more I read about the GMO process itself, the more I get worried about that as well. It is so insidious and so poorly understood. When you think about what they are doing and the consequences and the potential consequences, it seems terrifying to me. The research is hard [solid] and they are just sort of pretending that nothing bad can happen without looking at it.


and..... 

My research showed that the aluminum containing vaccines in general are more toxic than the non-aluminum containing vaccines. But then, what I discovered was that if I looked at data before the year 2000 and after 2000, I found that those same symptoms that were more common in aluminum containing vaccines became more common [for all vaccines] after 2000. At the time I didn’t understand this, but now I think this is caused by the synergy with glyphosate. Glyphosate is making the aluminum more toxic than it would otherwise be.


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Any amount of aluminum is poison. People don’t think of aluminum as being toxic, because there is aluminum foil and aluminum cooking pots, etc. But, when aluminum is injected into the body [as part of a vaccine] — it is all getting inside the body.

Ordinarily, with a healthy gut, very little of it gets into the body during digestion. Less than one per cent of the aluminum that a person might ingest with food makes it past the barrier of the gut wall, but one of the things that glyphosate does is to help aluminum get across the gut barrier.

[This happens] because glyphosate causes pathogens to overgrow that produce p-cresol. P-cresol is known to enhance the uptake of aluminum into the cells. Glyphosate also enhances the calcium uptake channels in cells and aluminum takes a ride on the calcium channels and pretends to be calcium. I also believe that glyphosate escorts aluminum to the terminal watershed area of the pineal gland and to the kidneys, but I haven’t yet been able to prove that. This is more conjecture. I suspect that glyphosate binds to aluminum and carries it to these areas and then drops it off in the acidic environment, because glyphosate does bind to metals in less acidic environments. Glyphosate is an incredible metal chelator.

Glyphosate has two biological modes of action. First it is a chelator of metals, and the second is that it pretends to be glycine. The second mode of action messes up heme synthesis, because the first step of heme synthesis requires glycine [and glyphosate can be substituted for glycine.] Technically, glyphosate is glycine with an additional phosphonal group attached to it, so it fakes out the enzymes, but then it doesn’t work and heme cannot be properly produced.


....

Any amount of aluminum is poison. People don’t think of aluminum as being toxic, because there is aluminum foil and aluminum cooking pots, etc. But, when aluminum is injected into the body [as part of a vaccine] — it is all getting inside the body.

Ordinarily, with a healthy gut, very little of it gets into the body during digestion. Less than one per cent of the aluminum that a person might ingest with food makes it past the barrier of the gut wall, but one of the things that glyphosate does is to help aluminum get across the gut barrier.

[This happens] because glyphosate causes pathogens to overgrow that produce p-cresol. P-cresol is known to enhance the uptake of aluminum into the cells. Glyphosate also enhances the calcium uptake channels in cells and aluminum takes a ride on the calcium channels and pretends to be calcium. I also believe that glyphosate escorts aluminum to the terminal watershed area of the pineal gland and to the kidneys, but I haven’t yet been able to prove that. This is more conjecture. I suspect that glyphosate binds to aluminum and carries it to these areas and then drops it off in the acidic environment, because glyphosate does bind to metals in less acidic environments. Glyphosate is an incredible metal chelator.

Glyphosate has two biological modes of action. First it is a chelator of metals, and the second is that it pretends to be glycine. The second mode of action messes up heme synthesis, because the first step of heme synthesis requires glycine [and glyphosate can be substituted for glycine.] Technically, glyphosate is glycine with an additional phosphonal group attached to it, so it fakes out the enzymes, but then it doesn’t work and heme cannot be properly produced.

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Sulfur is not the only problem. There are deficiencies in manganese, magnesium, iron, and zinc [for those who eat food containing glyphosate]. Kids are especially mineral deficient. Glyphosate impairs the body’s ability to manage these minerals properly.

She recommends soup and bone broth -- cooking to get the nutrients from the marrow, but she is specific about the quality of the animal and how it was fed, so BE SURE TO GO READ THE ARTICLE.... She talks about fermented foods and the gut/ intestinal biosphere and gives tips .... and also recommends colorful vegetables and states WHY.  She cites a study about women with chronic fatigue syndrome. 

Sulfur is not the only problem. There are deficiencies in manganese, magnesium, iron, and zinc [for those who eat food containing glyphosate]. Kids are especially mineral deficient. Glyphosate impairs the body’s ability to manage these minerals properly.

She goes on about walking, sunlight on the skin and into the eyes and not using protection as we've been lead to believe in the past, and many other things.  

AND here's another snippet:


 This is how Geri Brewster, RD, MPH, CDN, describes normal functioning of the human gut. How do you and your children compare to this description of normal?

Geri Brewster states:

“When I think about the gut, I often wonder how many people actually possess an optimal gut environment. Some of the indicators of a properly functioning GI tract include having two bowel movements a day, feeling good after eating, sleeping soundly, having energy throughout the day, and experiencing no extreme mood swings or food cravings. In my experience, these indicators are all too rare. There is hardly a baby born these days who isn’t being treated for either severe reflux, necessitating powerful acid blockers, or for constipation, creating an early reliance on laxatives. Even in adults without known gut issues, complaints of pain after eating or afternoon sluggishness are more and more common and increasingly accepted as normal.” [9]

For additional information about glyphosate, please read these articles:

AND naturally they have links and the articles ..... so please go to the source!  In closing, here's what they have About the man who authored this article: 

John P. Thomas is a health writer for Health Impact News. He holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Science in Public Health (M.S.P.H.) from the School of Public Health, Department of Health Administration, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Sounds 'GRATE' to me! 

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What YOU Don't Know About Vaccines; Catherine Frompovich/OMSJ

I reflected on my personal health as a baby and child when seeing the information at the resource I'm focusing this comment on.  By my first birthday, which was on Easter that year, I am shown in a treasured home movie to be 'floppy'. My family would always ooh and aah about what a 'cute baby' or little girl I was, blond hair that had a little curl to it, it looked like angel hair. Always with a serious, frowning face, you don't see the light come into me until I'm older.  I'm in one of those little cars older kids would play in, as I was with two older kids in a back yard of a relative's house, and I'm just gazing at the camera and people who were filming. When one of the older kids comes over and has me wave my hand at the camera, I perk up a little bit, almost as if it charged up my electrical system. When I went to occupational therapy school at age 34 to 36 at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado (USA), I would realizine in applied neurology lab how messed up my neurological system was: the professor happened to come by lab class to see how we were doing, and my lab partner was not able to make me move with the cues from the pelvis the way that we had learned in school.  Naturally the professor presumed the young woman was not doing it right, but then she couldn't get it to kick in either! So she went to my arm ... maybe the same arm that 35 years before was showing me perk up when being made to wave for the camera ... and that was not working right either. "You have sensory integration problems", Dr Anita Bundy said. 

My mother was a fourth grade teacher in our public school in the mountains outside Denver, Colorado when I was growing up; I am an apple not far from the tree of Fran in terms of being on the cutting edge of things with my professional work, innovative, and putting integrity ahead of staying with a corrupt system. She quit early, retiring before she had planned which affected things to this day indirectly for me as she'd purchased a ranch she wanted me to have in New Mexico in order to grow the food we'd need in the future she foresaw.

The new principal / administration that replaced the good ol' principal who allowed her to be innovative was insisting she stop working with the 1/3 of the students who she took into her home room each year, which were those she identified near the end of third grade as having the most problems. This is how I know that she said that only one student in all those years had no signs she could find of psycho-motor processing problems, sensory integration dysfunction.

I think she would really like the motto of this website I'm suggesting people use as a resource for more than just this topic: Because integrity is worth defending. She didn't live more than five years after her retirement, never saw a computer in their home (though my husband and I had one in ours which she'd have seen when she visited, which thankfully was a month before she passed), so she didn't get the information on the Internet that helped me and millions of others now, billions now, put the dots and puzzle pieces together to figure out about The System, who's behind it, and how it's impacting every living thing on Earth. And keep in mind I consider water to be a living, magical liquid. 

I'm adding this on June 1, 2015: 5,200-5,3000 views of this topic have occurred to date at Lumigrate, which is good to see. I hope it's been taken to 'heart' and used as a study guide for some of those people and they're on their way with a better sense of vaccine planning.  I wanted to add this resource today, and a bit about the author of it and her website.  I don't believe I've seen it before, which reminds me how many people never hear about Lumigrate .... and then do, sometimes. 

Here's the "about" who wrote this article, and you'll perhaps see why this is such a good 'fit' for Lumigrate's content and niche. Below you'll see I give you more information about the Office of Medical and Scientific Justice, which was founded the same year as Lumigrate, 2009, I notice. 

Catherine J Frompovich (website) is a retired natural nutritionist who earned advanced degrees in Nutrition and Holistic Health Sciences, Certification in Orthomolecular Theory and Practice plus Paralegal Studies. Her work has been published in national and airline magazines since the early 1980s. Catherine authored numerous books on health issues along with co-authoring papers and monographs with physicians, nurses, and holistic healthcare professionals. She has been a consumer healthcare researcher 35 years and counting.

You'll see her book title fits right in with the Lumigrate YOU model....  Catherine’s latest book, published October 4, 2013, is Vaccination Voodoo, What YOU Don’t Know About Vaccines, available on Amazon.com.

The last portion of the overview that is at the link:

Graphic Source in Notes

The information offered by the CFR map is rather significant and I think speaks for itself, i.e., the more vaccinated the population, the more likely to contract the very diseases for which they are vaccinated. How in the name of non-vested-interest-science are they still getting away with such sleight of pseudo-science, together with ruining the human immune system?

Just because they say so dogmatically, doesn’t mean it’s factually and scientifically so! Do your research and learn the real science behind vaccines in order to educate everyone: pediatricians, nurses, schools, health agency personnel at all levels of government, and even Congress, who I contend gave us this vaccine mess by passing The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 (42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-1 to 300aa-34).

The NCVIA is in desperate need of being revisited, if not repealed, in my opinion. NCVIA gives vaccine makers what some call a “get out of jail free card” that exonerates them of all liability, something no other industry has.

Furthermore, with all the health damages and problems vaccines have been causing for now going on two or three generations – see the VAERS reports in the hundreds of thousands – Congress needs to seriously investigate the autism problem, neurotoxic and other toxic vaccine ingredients, and stop taking those handsome monetary gifts from Big Pharma lobbyists that apparently influence their observable lack of oversight, I contend. In 2013, pharmaceutical manufacturers paid out $227.5 Million lobbying on behalf of their products and corporate interests. [4] What does that tell you?

Lastly, an incredible story about how pseudo-science is pulled off is reported in “Academia hoaxed by fake scientific papers auto-generated by gobbledygook text generators.”

Personally, I’d like to see shakeups at all federal and state health agencies regarding vaccinations, their ‘science’ and, most of all, their toxic ingredients. It’s long overdue.

 

www.omsj.org/corruption/cfrmap

About the OMSJ: The Office of Medical & Scientific Justice (OMSJ) is a private investigation agency (license #26869) and a 501(c)(3) public benefit non-profit corporation (DOJ #CT0172071, Corp #3218992, DUNS: 94-199-9505).  

Clark Baker is OMSJ’s CEO and Principal Investigator.

Having conducted thousands of criminal and civil investigations since 1980 with the LAPD and as alicensed investigator, Mr. Baker founded OMSJ in 2009 after witnessing the reluctance of government agencies and research centers to investigate allegations related to medical and scientific corruption (also known as JUNK SCIENCE). 

Many of the agencies and companies that market junk science fund activist groups and local, state and national politicians who facilitate corruption that has cost taxpayers billions of dollars in wasted research dollars. Institutional corruption occurs at three levels:

  • Through large-scale lobbying and political contributions, the pharmaceutical industry has influenced Congress to pass legislation that has compromised the mission of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
  • As a result of industry pressure, Congress has underfunded FDA enforcement capacities since 1906, and turning to industry-paid “user fees” since 1992 has biased funding to limit the FDA’s ability to protect the public from serious adverse reactions to drugs that have few offsetting advantages.
  • The pharmaceutical industry has commercialized and undermined the role of physicians as independent and trusted advisers to patients.

According to Lancet Editor Richard Horton, as much as 50 percent of all medical and scientific literature is wrong. Junk science is used to keep predators on the streets and convict the innocent. In this way, junk science injures or kills 2-4 million Americans annually.The actual human and financial losses are incalculable.

Although the Justice Department routinely pursues cases like this, the fact that a company like Astra Zeneca can pay a $520 million fine for the illegal marketing of a drug that generates $4 billion a year smacks of arrangements once made between small town mayors, their appointed police chiefs and local madams. Unlike drug kingpins and cartels, US drug companies are typically allowed to raise drug prices, pay fines and avoid jail sentences.

Mr. Baker has earned more than eighty commendations from local, state and federal officials. He enjoys time with his grandchildren, scuba diving, flying, photography and travel. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, two cats, a dog, and a few hummingbirds.


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More Gems About Vaccines YOU Might Not Otherwise Find

Vimeo link to something from 1956, set up by a Facebook friend who is one of the most consistent people I've seen online posting from their position, clearly having understood what she's studied. I've privately communicated with her -- very affected with complex, chronic illness and passionate about getting the word out and being an activist in the ways she is able. Her profile pic is that of red shoes, which is the sign of respect for someone having died from this 'stuff'. Here's what she said, it just is best to pass on the whole message .... 

 1956 when they began knowingly giving Spirochetal disease to everyone. "The Turd in the Punchbowl" contaminated everything for decades! 
https://vimeo.com/9581140


AIDS / MadCow / Lyme they KNEW and did nothing? Hundreds of TB and Psych Sanitorium with hundreds of hidey hell holes like Willowbrook. 

So what DID they do? Gave us MORE!

I realize this might not be the kind of language everyone likes to read, but I think it shows the truth about how people feel about this; it is contamination in our vaccines, the 'punchbowl'. 

 

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Thinking Moms, Angry Victims and Momentum -- WTF Just Say It!

Oh man, I'm rolling on the floor laughing about this one today --- while at the same time EXCITED that people are writing like this, engaged as you'll see they are, and then crying with it as well, knowing how many have been harmed.  Myself included, thought I didn't start to figure that out until age 29 --- was 43 when I finally REALLY 'got it' for my own body and symptoms, and was just getting set up to the situations that unfolded that lead to Lumigrate being here since 2009.  Progress is not fast sometimes. 

I love the line you'll see below in the comments I transferred here as examples where the mother says she's going to sue in California and quotes the expression "well-behaved women rarely make history".  I think of myself as a well-behaved woman and I don't care if I make history, but I do care that I do the part I think I'm here to do, which is getting quality, interesting information people might not otherwise find their way to on my website and talk it up.  That simple. 

I'm reminded of when I was a statistical typist to make $5-6/hour and support myself and my husband's major living expenses while being a full or part time student at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.  I'd type some of the theses and dissertations of the graduate students, and they had included me in their Friday afternoon club fun and games.  And after two of them defended on a Friday afternoon (circa 1983?), we'd go to Old Chicago afterwards to celebrate. I believe at least one of the professors was with us.  One of the students that had just passed was older, well known as a running coach and "character".  I was a wall flower type, now recognizing how many traits I had and have that are in the autism realm.

At that time Old Chicago's had a pasta bar which was the best bang for your buck and we were all on our budgets so it was likely why we went to Old Chicago.  We were seated at a big table near the pasta bar as I recall.  And the word 'fuck' was being sprinkled around the conversation at our table by these very relieved guys as much as the parmesan cheeses was onto our pasta!  There was a complaint by another table and the server came and talked to the guys at that end of the table who were liberally using the word. 

"Exprigate ourselves", the character said ... we're being asked to exprigate ourselves.... I learned a new word that day. And thought I'd share that story from those days.  I wish it were easy for me to get a photograph of me then.  It was when I still thought I was healthy, I actually worked there when I got married and the rubella vaccine required of me by the State of Colorado at that time since I had low/no titers to it upon blood test was what 'tripped the trigger' of the domino effect of my health issues which I have been fighting ever since. 

Ironically, the afore-mentioned husband was not up for changing his lifestyle to meet my sensitivities and needs after tripped when I was fighting to feel halfway decent and not miserable every day, and I moved on to explore a new relationship at my new job I'd gotten based on the skills I'd developed at that first departmental typist job.  I wonder had I not been married when hanging around the graduate students if something would have come with one of them... They were perfect gentlemen always and respectful of my status and we were young and having to navigate those first relationships with those of the opposite sex who are 'off limits' to us. 

I guess in a sense I said F-you to the THAT at my new job.  Which, had I not had THAT job, I'd not have created Lumigrate with video and all the things that it launched with, which got us some initial attention in 2008 and boy did I learn a lot every day for a while.  BigPharma's cleverly disguised goons, I now suspect, were on me within four months of going live.  And I'm a better person for it today, Lumigrate's a better website for it today as well. 

Onto the inspiring NEW topic at Thinking Mom's Revolution. 

The link is the one provided by Dr. Debra Gambrell on her Facebook as a share today. Her foundation as a doctor is in pediatric anaesthesiology, and I saw she recently passed her boards in mainstream integrative medicine certification, as she is heading into the 'lines area' of the box. I'm sure she's outside the box too, but you have to have your credentials as far out there as you can and those credentials are ... where the line is. She's going to provide some content for me to include later, which I appreciate.

I'm giving the exact link so you 'put in' to the comment thread where it's at and then work your way up to read the article from there.  I'm even going to give you the pertinent comments at that point: 

thinkingmomsrevolution.com/fuck-american-academy-pediatrics/#comment-246733

Kristi says:  (Sept 5 at 1:04 pm)

One of the best articles I’ve seen yet on this topic. I’m going to share it with my VAXXED group that I administer for our town. I have to say this, however, I may lose members due to the F word, which would be a travesty because I am in a HIGHLY populated and super pro-vaccine area. We need to keep our members. I live in the Bible belt.

Of course I know that a word is not more important than the health of our children, and I never want to swallow a camel and choke on a nat. But there is also the realization that the Bible has a lot to say on our speech and our tongue. I don’t want members to miss the information or feel like they are compromising their faith walk by being in the group. Is there any possibility of an alternative article which deletes the profanity?

I only ask, not to control others speech, but only because this article is important and excellent and I want it read and shared. My members won’t share if with the profanity. I am certain of that and I’m concerned they won’t even read it as is. Thanks for considering this request

Becky at 1:35pm says:

I ditto Kristi’s request. I totally get the passion, but feel the message will be lost on too many. When we have critically important information to share – of which we are very passionate – we must purposefully try to tone down. Toning down does not weaken our case, it actually strengthens it because we give room to the audience to understand and draw their own conclusions.

I’ve been reading Crucial Conversations: Tools for talking when stakes are high, and they address this specific circumstance – dialogue when you are extremely passionate and knowledgeable in chapter 7 pages 119 – 140. “Of course this isn’t easy. Backing off when we care the most is so counterintuitive that most of us have trouble pulling it off. It’s not easy to soften your language when you’re positive about something. And who wants to ask for other views when you know they’re wrong?”… “When it comes to our strongest views, passion can be our enemy.”…

....”Our thoughts shoot out of our moths like water out of a raging fire hydrant. And guess what – others become defensive. When this happens, when our emotions turn out ideas into a harsh and painful stream of thought, our honest passion kills the argument rather than supports it.”

I have a lot of respect for you, Professor. I also abhor the statements made by the AAP. I believe all thinking people will understand. However, there is a huge majority of people that need to wake up. I would love it if you could write a piece targeted specifically at that group.

ProfessorTMR says: (at 1:41 pm) 
  • What people seem to be missing is the fact that I have presented this message “toned down” many times (and many similar ones), and it is virtually ignored. I have written a whole slew of blogs with ZERO profanity on the subject of vaccine dangers. (Seriously, just click on the “For more by Professor” at the bottom of this post and you can see.)

    This post is getting MUCH more attention than most of those have gotten. In fact, the very people saying that “I don’t use profanity” are READING this post and seem unaware that I have presented similar “toned down” information in the past. Why is that do you think? If it takes profanity to get some people’s attention, I am by no means above using it.

     
     
  •  Diane at 1:49 says:
     
     
  •  Spartan Team TMR says: (at 3:08pm)

    Always so thorough and conscise .. I agree the profanity is needed sometimes, especially when you are in the game a bit and continue to see children get vaccine injured year after year after year . Then the autism rates rise and rise and rise and people’s biggest concern is profanity ?

    I wish when my first son was born I had this article to read so I would have woken the eff up, instead of having the Hep B vaccine administered to him, he haf severe jaundice and was losing his ability to nurse etc. It was just the beginning of our little Journey down the rabbit hole called “Autism ”.

    I didn’t learn this until he was almost 3 and I am in an office trying to figure out how to save his life and the physician at the time says “Look here his Hep B vaccine def has contributed “… thus began my three year journey to healing my poor baby , his toddlerhood stolen . So yeah a little F bomb sometimes is what’s needed ! Thank you for being you

     
  •   ProfessorTMR says: (at 4:19 pm) 

    You’re welcome! And thank you for the “concise”! I sometimes feel like I must be the exact opposite. 

THE ARTICLE THEY ARE DISCUSSING IS TITLED....... FUCK the American Academy of Pediatrics, Posted on August 30, 2017 by Thinking Mom's Revolution.  ... but then the article has date stamp of  September 5, 2017 (which I don't understand but .... whatever).  Off we go to read "Professor's" words:

I am flipping furious.

I don’t know about you, but I used to believe that the pediatricians’ professional organization the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), whose professed motto is “dedicated to the health of all children,” actually cared about the health of children.

Even when it became clear that many of its recommendations were misguided at best, I could still convince myself that someone at the top genuinely thought they were doing the right thing.

With its latest recommendation, however, the AAP has made it crystal clear that whatever their agenda is, it has nothing whatsoever to do with promoting children’s health.

In an August 28 piece by Dr. Elizabeth Barnett, the AAP called for the administration of the hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns weighing more than 2,000g (4.4 lbs.) within 24 hours of birth.

The reason given for this is that approximately 1,000 of the 4,000,000 infants born in the U.S. every year are at risk of contracting hepatitis B at or near birth, almost exclusively due to the fact that their mothers are hepatitis B positive. That corresponds to a rate of 1 in 4,000, or a mere 0.025% of newborns who are even at risk. And according to CDC’s own records, the actual number of perinatal hepatitis B infections in the United States as late as 2015 was a whopping 37.

Yes, you read that right: 37 out of 4,000,000 babies born in 2015 contracted hepatitis B at or near birth. That corresponds to a rate of less than 1 in 100,000 newborns or 0.001%.

That fact shouldn’t be too surprising though, because even back in 1990—before the vaccine was recommended for all infants on the day of their birth—the rate of acute infection was less than 1 in 50,000 children aged 0-4. Even if you raise that number by a factor of 10, assuming that 90% of cases are chronic and not acute, you still get less than 1 in 5,000 with most cases concentrated in populations that were well-known to doctors, hospitals, and the CDC.

I feel so much safer now, don’t you?

The AAP justifies the ridiculous extremity of vaccinating everyone’s children, regardless of hepatitis B status, on the day of their birth with the fact that approximately 90% of infants who contract perinatal hepatitis B would go on to develop chronic hepatitis B infections in the absence of treatment. That chronic hepatitis B in combination with cirrhosis (much more likely with high levels of alcohol consumption) could put those children at significant risk of liver cancer someday.

In other words, the AAP is telling us we all need to vaccinate our newborns immediately to keep them from being among the 33 infants per year who could drink themselves into liver cancer someday.

Whew! Thank God we dodged that bullet, eh?

For those who don’t know, hepatitis B is transmitted through sexual contact and contact with infected blood, which means that infections are generally limited to healthcare workers, people who share hypodermic needles when injecting drugs, people having unprotected sex with multiple partners, and the sexual partners of all of the above. Children appear nowhere on that list. In other words, if a child’s mother is not a hepatitis B carrier, there is virtually no risk that the child will contract hepatitis B until adolescence at the earliest (and even that was highly unlikely in the days before the vaccine). In fact, transmission of hepatitis B is so unlikely in a school setting that children who are hepatitis B carriers are allowed to attend school.

But let’s not stop there. CDC and the AAP know that hepatitis B vaccination is less effective in infants than in older children and adults, thereby requiring additional doses to achieve “immunity.” CDC and the AAP also know that for many this immunity will wear off by adulthood, making it less likely to protect an adult who actually is engaging in risky behavior.

Some practitioners have been known to suggest that a child needs the vaccine in the unlikely event that the child will require a blood transfusion at some point in time. Those practitioners are apparently unaware that donated blood is screened for hepatitis B. According to WebMD transfusion-related transmission is “extremely unlikely,” and according to UpToDate.com, which contains organized clinical content by leading physicians, “it is extremely rare for hepatitis B to be spread through blood transfusion or organ transplantation.” The NIH itself says that the risk of a transfusion tainted by hepatitis B is about 1 in 205,000, approximately 0.0005%, of all blood transfusions.
........................................go to the source, read the entire article AND THE COMMENTS, they're wonderful, I'm going to provide a few, below, that I chose to place here just to show you what you'll see when you take the link and go read the whole thing, if this is 'getting you interested', the portions I'm providing..................... now to the dramatic conclusion..................

......it is unconscionable to continue to promote a blanket policy of vaccinating all newborns with an aluminum-containing vaccine, when it is fairly easy to identify the 1 child in every 4,000 who could potentially derive a benefit from such vaccination.

According to the CDC the average price for pediatric hepatitis B vaccine is about $23 in the private sector. That means that we are needlessly vaccinating 3,999,000 children a year at an annual cost of nearly $100,000,000 for the birth dose alone. And that cost doesn’t begin to account for the huge costs—both human and economic—associated with any induced chronic health condition.

The ONLY justifiable change to hepatitis B vaccine policy for newborns is a MORATORIUM on administering it to infants born to mothers who are not infected by hepatitis B.

The new AAP policy—doubling down on their previous recommendation by strongly recommending that doctors vaccinate all newborns within the first 24 hours of life—directly contradicts the idea that physicians should “first, do no harm” and constitutes a huge FUCK YOU to the parents and children of the United States.

Worried about your children’s neurological function?

Well, FUCK YOU.

Worried about the high rates of autism, ADHD, and anaphylactic food allergy in this country?

FUCK YOU TOO.

Worried about how we’re going to pay for all the therapies, treatments, and services for all the special-needs students we already have?

FUCK YOU!

Parents and pediatricians, you are the only ones who can turn this nightmare around. You must realize that you are on your own. The AAP has sold you out, and your children’s health is completely up to YOU.

Take back your agency, and tell the AAP to go FUCK ITSELF.

~ Professor


There are 58 responses to FUCK the American Academy of Pediatrics, by Professor, Posted on the 5th... 2 days ago, at ThinkingMomsRevolution.com.  Examples: 

Rob 7:31 Sept 6: "The American Academy of Pediatrics is a private for-profit corporation ‘doing business’. You can refuse to CONtract with them by simply declining their offer to CONtract.

The AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS and the AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS are not health advocacy organizations. They are trade associations-corporations (listed on Dun and Bradstreet) that are head-quartered in the STATE OF ILLINOIS and the STATE OF KANSAS respectively, whose monetary compensation from the vaccine manufacturers contributes to the ‘fiscal’ health of their corporations.

Sources:
https://parentsaganinstmandatoryvaccines.net/ten-little-know...

https://parentsagainstmandatoryvaccinesdotnet.files.wordpres...


F*CK F*CK F*CK says:
September 6, 2017 at 1:24 am
Quite frankly, if you read this and decided that the language demanded more of your attention than the content, then the gravity of the situation obviously hasn’t pierced your bubble quite yet. Go look up some more studies, more stats, pour your tea down the drain and hold on to your ass, because you obviously haven’t swallowed the hard stuff yet.

Corruption. Greed. Deception. A giant “FUCK YOU” from the US of A to your beloved little ones and you’re standing there with your hands over your mouth, appalled over soliloquy.

Let she who actually reads this damn blog cast the first comment stone.

Signed,

A Christian who lets people say FUCK.

TO WHICH PROFESSOR REPLIED

ProfessorTMR says:
September 6, 2017 at 9:05 am
I love this comment more than I can say. Do you blog? We could use your eloquence.

Jenny says:
September 5, 2017 at 11:21 pm
People complaining about 4 letters arranged into the word “Fuck” –in the meantime babies are dying or being maimed. Let’s get fucking offended about that.

Sarah says:
September 5, 2017 at 9:00 pm
Thank heavens someone is just as pissed off and just as educated about the whole thing as I am. This whole situation is fucking infuriating beyond compare.

My son HAD autism. He had a vaccine injury and I’ve been able to use biomedical interventions to heal his body to the point of healing his mind and his ability to function in this world. No allopathic doctor was able to point me in the direction of chelation, Chinese herbal medicine, an enzyme protocol and an amino acid protocol. They could only suggest poison to keep my kid healthy.

I just can’t fathom that a government can mandate ANY product that lists ON THE PRODUCT ITSELF that it can KILL. I just can’t even.

I personally live in California where vaccines have been mandated, and I can’t wait until my children are old enough to be denied entry into public school. This is when I’m going to sue because the law is a hate crime.

My children are being denied their civil rights protected by the California State Constitution on basis of our religious beliefs of not mixing blood as it says EVERYWHERE in the bible. This isn’t about not using modern medicine, we just don’t want to use any product that mixes any kind of DNA with our children’s DNA.

So, this is a religious belief. And a hate crime is when someone prevents you from enjoying your civil rights based on your race, age, skin color, and religious beliefs, etc.

If more parents started to think this way, we’d have a whole army of people who KNOW this is bull. The law needs to be repealed. And when it is we will set a precedent for the whole state and country to follow. It’s only a matter of time. Either more kids are going to get sick and more parents are going to get FUCKING PISSED OFF and actually DO SOMETHING, or I’m going to do it for them.

What is it they say? Well-behaved women rarely make history? Yeah. I won’t go down without a fucking fight.

Audrey Wilson says:
September 5, 2017 at 8:41 pm
I love this! Three cheers from California! The Hep B vaccine at birth was the door to the rabbit hole for me. Why they give it to all newborns is beyond explanation. Thank you for writing with facts AND passion. It IS time someone told them to FUCK off. This is serious business. These are our children. This is the future of our country.



 

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James Lyons-Weiler, PhD -- Neurobiological and Immunological

I'm editing this on 7Nov2018, and it's hard to believe until early this calendar year I was unaware of Dr. Lyons-Weiler.  I became his new biggest fan the day I saw him on YouTube not long after the Ohio Advocates for Medical Freedom posted the videos from their 1-2 day conference they held at the Ohio state house.

 

Due to Facebook and my friend and Lumigrate provider Alan Phillips (lawyer focusing on vaccine rights) posting about his presentation, I went to see what other gems were at the conference.  I literally binge watched the whole conference's videos on a winter day when most were tuning into the Olympics on their televisions.  

I'd go on to connect on Facebook with him and a few people from the Ohio group and eventually learn that he's known been known to those he's friendly with as "Jack", so I like to call him Doctor Jack.  It's party because it's so hard to type his 2 part last name.  (Sad but true, and I hope you're laughing a little to yourself reading that!).  

In summer of 2018 I'd rejoice when he agreed to be featured on Lumigrate, and then I'd have to figure out his M.O. -- and he is a fast rolling stone and going to a lot of great conferences and doing a LOT of activism that takes a lot of time and attention.  So I'm doing my best to guess what is going to be okay with him if I move ahead with photos and information here, and then have him see it and say it's okay (or not)(in which case I'll modify).  

Naturally, he looks for fund-raising for his efforts, and I also hope people appreciate this is full time for me as well, and they support financially when able and willing.  The information is on the About tab at Lumigrate.com, on my Facebook and if anyone has difficulties finding it simply get ahold of me on Facebook or at the contact information at the About tab (contact us is outdated and can't be updated with as out of repair the website is, unfortunately -- that's needing a big donor to help THAT).  PLEASE re-evaluate your giving and spending and help support those of us working in the truth movement! 

 

This first link I'm providing is not the first one I saw that day of his, but it makes sense to set these up in this order here.  

Please use two hours and a headset if it helps to hear.....

"The Neurobiological and Immunological Causes of Autism" at

www.youtube.com/watch

provided by

Published on Jan 18, 2017

 
A lecture and Q&A with James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, author of "The Environmental and Genetic Causes of Autism" https://envgencauses.com/ Hosted by https://ohioamf.org/ with help from http://www.makeitfit.org/

This is the one that I initially saw that day when binge watching in early 2018.  THIS VIDEO helped me, personally, connect a lot of dots in terms of my vaccine injury symptoms of the past that had escaped proper diagnosis and treatment at the time I had the symptoms and presented to mainstream or other health providers for help.  

"Biological Mechanisms of Vaccine Injury" answered so many questions about my symptoms in past and present

www.youtube.com/watch

Published on Jan 21, 2018

 
James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, discusses the biological mechanisms behind vaccine injury and how they relate to Big Mike Bailey's experience from a neuroimmune perspective.

 


THEN, by August of 2018, Doctor Jack was really getting underway with information he was putting out on his website, doing work through his nonprofit, and this is a link to get you onto something great there, with some of it included here so you simply see what I'm suggesting you GO and SEE at the LINK.  

jameslyonsweiler.com/2018/08/05/why-do-scientists-and-physicians-lose-objectivity-when-it-comes-to-vaccines/

 

Why Do Scientists and Physicians Lose Objectivity When It Comes to Vaccines?     August 5, 2018 

A RECENT NY TIMES opinion piece shed bright light on an issue that has bothered me since I decided to write a chapter on vaccines to include in Cures vs. Profits. The piece, written by Melinda Wenner Moyer, has a strange, but safe title – “Anti-Vaccine Activists Have Taken Vaccine Science Hostage“. Given the title, one would expect the same old tired tropisms about the vaccine risk- aware community.

However, in reading the opinion piece, the forces at work are clearly scientists and physicians themselves, who, as Moyer correctly points out, censor themselves against speaking about vaccine risk out of fear of criticism from other professionals:

Scientists are so terrified of the public’s vaccine hesitancy that they are censoring themselves, playing down undesirable findings and perhaps even avoiding undertaking studies that could show unwanted effects. Those who break these unwritten rules are criticized.

So why the title? Why blame the public? If the public develops vaccine risk awareness because scientists make them aware of vaccine risk, that’s a success for science and research, not a failure. Why does Moyer, and the vaccinologists who, at every turn, introduce bias into studies and inject bias into so-called systematic reviews all to hide vaccine risk, then try to blame those for whom the risk was nevertheless manifest (the vaccine injured and their families)?

Why does Moyer, and the vaccinologists seemingly at every turn, introduce bias into studies while similarly injecting bias into so-called systematic reviews in order to hide vaccine risk, then try to blame those for whom the risk was nevertheless manifest (the vaccine injured and their families)?

These are the families who carry the burden of the cost – despite the professionals’ efforts to minimize the perception of vaccine risk –  when in reality, those scientists and physicians are responsible to not taking the necessary steps to minimize vaccine risk itself.

Reading the opinion piece, it is clear than the thin veil of denialism is gone. Cochrane Nordic published a scathing review of an allegedly independent and unbiased systematic review published by Cochrane on HPV vaccine safety – which means there are a growing number of scientists and physicians who will no longer play by what Moyer calls “unwritten rules”.

To my fellow scientists and to physicians who know they should speak up, now is the time. The opinion piece cites Paul Offit, an MD who is infamous for making ludicrously unsupported claims (aluminum might be a nutrient because stillborn infants have more aluminum than healthy newborns, for one instance). Moyer cites Offit as saying that “researchers should handle findings differently when there’s a chance they might frighten the public”.

No. Researchers should stand atop buildings and mountains and declare their knowledge of vaccine risk – and demand that the Congressional mandates in 1986 to identify those most at risk and make vaccines safer be enforced before the public gives up on artificial immunization entirely.

Because the alternative is to stand by for another 15 years as ACIP gleefully and irresponsibly adds more vaccines to the pediatric schedule using weak vaccine science – underpowered correlation studies that fail to detect adverse events and that are overcooked to make serious adverse events disappear so as to not scare the public – all the while chronic illnesses such as asthma, autoimmune diseases, ADHD, autism, autoimmune diabetes all rip across the trusting public – all conditions with links to vaccines which “unwritten rules” state we should not make the public aware of – all so they can continue to trust those who are misleading them.

Because the alternative is to stand by for another 15 years as ACIP gleefully and irresponsibly adds more vaccines to the pediatric schedule using weak vaccine science.  Underpowered correlation studies that fail to detect adverse events, and that are overcooked to make serious adverse events disappear so as to not scare the public.  All the while, chronic illnesses such as asthma, autoimmune diseases, ADHD, autism, and autoimmune diabetes all rip across the trusting public – all conditions with links to vaccines which “unwritten rules” state we should not make the public aware of -- so they can continue to trust those who are misleading them.

In The Times piece, Offit is also represented as holding what, to some, is a correct view: that low-powered studies perhaps should not be published. Of course, those low-powered studies cited by IOM that failed to detect an association between vaccines and autism – the five that were actually four studies, one with 97 and 196 patients… perhaps those should not have been published? (I’ve done power calculations for any impressive positive odds ratio – 3/4 studies cited by IOM failed to have power enough to detect an association if one did, in fact, exist. That research is now under peer review).

To those of my colleagues who will no longer bow to the unwritten rules that have caused you to hide in fear, I salute you. We must work together to create a future in which vaccines are treating like any other topic, before new unwritten rules are put into place about side effects of other pharmaceutical products, like psychotropic medicines, and before clinical trials are routinely conducted without acquiring informed consent from patients, as is now permitted under the 21st Century Cures Act if those conducting the trial determine – prior to the study – that the medical procedure or treatment comes with low risk for those unwittingly enrolled without their consent.

I made a simple commitment to myself when I embarked on my journey of writing Cures vs. Profits – it was intended to be a celebration of the very best advances in biomedical research. That commitment was simply this: If I found anything negative, I would remain objective, and report the bad with the good, as any true scientist would.

Since writing the book, I found more than I cared to know about the ills of vaccine safety research – and the design of vaccines. For example, although we know that pathogens carry unsafe epitopes with high similarity to human proteins that can cause autoimmunity, but they are not excluded from vaccines. And, although we know that that pediatric dosing of aluminum in vaccines is far higher per body weight in the first six months of life than the amount received from breastmilk and formula, and we know that aluminum accumulates in the brain, the vaccination of newborns on day one with 250 mcg of aluminum hydroxide continues – even in the NICU – in spite our #NICUChallenge for anyone to produce a study that shows the safety of injection of 250 mcg of aluminum in the NICU population. No such studies have been sent our way.

Those professionals who are interested in joining who would benefit from the safety of numbers, you can also join Physicians for Informed Consent.  Physicians for Informed Consent is an organization of members who are wise enough to realize that many parents stop vaccinating after an early bad experience, learning the hard way that their child may have higher risk than others. This increased risk is either due to de novo mutations or to inherited risk, and that the right for parents to choose (and have exemptions) therefore provides a safeguard against widespread vaccine injury.

You will also find informative material at World Mercury Project’s Kennedy News and Views – although sometimes characterized as “Anti-vax”, when in reality they provide a counterpoint to the now clearly admitted misinformation campaign designed to warp the public’s view of vaccine risk.

A great number of articles at Age of Autism will inform those willing to read decades of critical thought from people who are extremely well-informed and intelligent – and who are motivated to protect people from harm.

For a more entertaining approach, visit The Highwire on Facebook or YouTube and subscribe. A related resource is ICANDECIDE.org with important, well-researched white papers that set the record straight.

If you would like a purely academic resource, visit this searchable database companion to my book “The Environmental and Genetic Causes of Autism“.

Other useful resources are

Vaccine Guide

JB Handley’s Blog

VaccinePapers.org

Ginger Taylor’s List (last count 151 papers)

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Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!

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