EVIDENCE AGAINST VACCINES
FEBRUARY 10. Because I've received so many emails about my articles on the dangers of vaccines, I'm reprinting here an
excerpt from my October newsletter as an article, so that more people will read it. I hope you copy and send this far and wide.
by Jon Rappaport
When the toxic anthrax vaccine was given to gigantic numbers of soldiers departing for Gulf War One, did you immediately
hear about health problems? No, you heard NOTHING. It was only long after the cessation of activity in Iraq that the first
reports came trickling in, and they were quickly discredited.
We are taught to believe that vaccines are very safe and very effective in preventing diseases. We are shielded from reports
that come to opposite conclusions.
Here is a collection of lesser-known data on vaccines in general. On various vaccines. Keep in mind that when I compiled this
collection, many years ago, I was writing about AIDS. I was demonstrating that AIDS is really IMMUNE SUPPRESSION
stemming from a number of different causes, none of which was HIV. I was saying that one of these causes was VACCINES.
Once you break through the disinformation barrier on vaccines, you can look at the currently announced OP on smallpox
vaccine with a new set of eyes.
For years, critics on the fringes of medicine have pointed to problems with vaccines. It is generally acknowledged that, given to
people whose immune systems are compromised, they can be immunosuppressive. And from time to time, stories have
surfaced about vaccines which have been contaminated by extraneous viruses or bacteria, as a result of the manufacturing
We are taught to believe that untoward reactions to vaccines are rare, and that there has never been a question about the
overwhelming success of all vaccines at all times, wherever they have been used.
The recent history of vaccines, though, shows a much more spotty record than one might think. In fact, it raises very disturbing
questions about what vaccines do and don't do to the human body. Here is simply a series of excerpts from several authors on
the subject. It is a quite different slant on vaccines.
"The combined death rate from scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough and measles among children up to fifteen shows that
nearly 90 percent of the total decline in mortality between 1860 and 1965 had occurred before the introduction of antibiotics
and widespread immunization. In part, this recession may be attributed to improved housing and to a decrease in the virulence
of micro-organisms, but by far the most important factor was a higher host-resistance due to better nutrition."
Ivan Illich, Medical Nemesis (Bantam Books, 1977)
"The principal evidence that... vaccines are effective actually dates from the more recent period, during which time the dreaded
polio epidemics of the 1940s and 1950s have never reappeared in the developed countries; and measles, mumps and rubella,
which even a generation ago were among the commonest diseases of childhood, have become far less prevalent, at least in
their classic acute forms, since the triple MMR vaccine was introduced into common use.
"Yet how the vaccines actually accomplish these changes is not nearly as well understood as most people like to think it is. The
disturbing possibility that they act in some other way than by producing a genuine immunity is suggested by the fact that the
diseases in question have continued to break out even in highly immunized populations, and that in such cases the observed
differences in incidence and severity between immunized and unimmunized persons have tended to be far less dramatic than
expected, and in some cases, not measurably significant at all.
"In a recent British outbreak of whooping cough, for example, even fully immunized children contracted the disease in fairly
large numbers; and the rates of serious complications and death were reduced only slightly. In another recent outbreak of
pertussis, 46 of the 85 fully immunized children studied eventually contracted the disease.
"In 1977, 34 new cases of measles were reported on the campus of UCLA, in a population that was supposedly 91% immune,
according to careful serological testing. Another 20 cases of measles were reported in the Pecos, New Mexico, area within a
period of a few months in 1981, and 75% of them had been fully immunized, some of them quite recently. A survey of
sixth-graders in a well-immunized urban community revealed that about 15% of this age group are still susceptible to rubella, a
figure essentially identical with that of the pre-vaccine era.
"Finally, although the overall incidence of typical acute measles in the U.S. has dropped sharply from about 400,000 cases
annually in the early 1960s to about 30,000 cases by 1974-76, the death rate remained exactly the same; and, with the peak
incidence now occurring in adolescents and young adults, the risk of pneumonia and demonstrable liver abnormalities has
actually increased substantially, according to one recent study, to well over 3% and 2%, respectively."
Richard Moskowitz, MD, The Case Against Immunizations, 1983,
American Institute of Homeopathy.
"Of all reported whooping cough cases between 1979 and 1984 in children over 7 months of age - that is, old enough to have
received the primary course of the DPT shots (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus) - 41% occurred in children who had received
three or more shots and 22% in children who had one or two immunizations.
"Among children under 7 months of age who had whooping cough, 34% had been immunized between one and three times...
"... Based on the only U.S. findings on adverse DPT reactions, an FDA-financed study at the University of California, Los
Angeles, one out of every 350 children will have a convulsion; one in 180 children will experience high-pitched screaming; and
one in 66 will have a fever of 105 degrees or more."
Jennifer Hyman, Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, New York, special supplement on DPT, dated April, 1987.
"A study undertaken in 1979 at the University of California, Los Angeles, under the sponsorship of the Food and Drug
Administration, and which has been confirmed by other studies, indicates that in the U.S.A. approximately 1,000 infants die
annually as a direct result of DPT vaccinations, and these are classified as SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) deaths.
These represent about 10 to 15% of the total number of SIDS deaths occurring annually in the U.S.A. (between 8,000 and
10,000 depending on which statistics are used)."
Leon Chaitow, Vaccination and Immunization, CW Daniel Company Limited, Saffron Walden, Essex, England, 1987.
"Assistant Secretary of Health Edward Brandt, Jr., MD, testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human
Resources, rounded... figures off to 9,000 cases of convulsions, 9,000 cases of collapse, and 17,000 cases of high-pitched
screaming for a total of 35,000 acute neurological reactions occurring within forty-eight hours of a DPT shot among America's
children every year."
DPT: A Shot in the Dark, by Harris L. Coulter and Barbara Loe Fischer, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
"While 70-80% of British children were immunized against pertussis in 1970-71, the rate is now 39%. The committee predicts
that the next pertussis epidemic will probably turn out to be more severe than the one in 1974/75. However, they do not
explain why, in 1970/71, there were more than 33,000 cases of pertussis with 41 fatal cases among the very well immunized
British child population; whereas in 1974/75, with a declining rate of vaccination, a pertussis epidemic caused only 25,000
cases with 25 fatalities."
Wolfgang Ehrengut, Lancet, Feb. 18, 1978, p. 370.
"... Barker and Pichichero, in a prospective study of 1232 children in Denver, Colorado, found after DTP that only 7% of
those vaccinated were free from untoward reactions, which included pyrexia (53%), acute behavioral changes (82%),
prolonged screaming (13%), and listlessness, anorexia and vomiting. 71% of those receiving second injections of DTP
experienced two or more of the reactions monitored."
Lancet, May 28, 1983, p. 1217
"Publications by the World Health Organization show that diphtheria is steadily declining in most European countries, including
those in which there has been no immunization. The decline began long before vaccination was developed. There is certainly no
guarantee that vaccination will protect a child against the disease; in fact, over 30,000 cases of diphtheria have been recorded
in the United Kingdom in fully immunized children."
Leon Chaitow, Vaccination and Immunization, p. 58.
"Pertussis (whooping cough) immunization is controversial, as the side effects have received a great deal of publicity. The
counter claim is that the effectiveness and protection offered by the procedure far outweigh the possible ill effects... annual
deaths, per million children, from this disease over the period from 1900 to the mid-nineteen seventies, shows that from a high
point of just under 900 deaths per million children (under age 15) in 1905, the decline has been consistent and dramatic. There
had been a lowering of mortality rates of approximately 80% by the time immunization was introduced on a mass scale, in the
mid-nineteen fifties. The decline has continued, albeit at a slower rate, ever since. No credit can be given to vaccination for the
major part of the decline since it was not in use."
Chaitow, Vaccination and Immunization, p. 63.
"... the swine-flu vaccination program was one of its (CDC)
"It all began in 1976 when CDC scientists saw that a virus involved in a flu attack outbreak at Fort Dix, N.J., was similar to the
swine-flu virus that killed 500,000 Americans in 1918. Health officials immediately launched a 100-million dollar program to
immunize every American. But the expected epidemic never materialized, and the vaccine led to partial paralysis in 532 people.
There were 32 deaths."
U.S. News and World Report, Joseph Carey, October 14, 1985, p. 70, "How Medical Sleuths Track Killer Diseases."
"Despite (cases) in which (smallpox) vaccination plainly failed to protect the population, and despite the rampant side-effects of
the methods, the proponents of vaccination continued their attempts to justify the methods by claims that the disease had
declined in Europe as a whole during the period of its compulsory use. If the decline could be correlated with the use of the
vaccination, then all else could be set aside, and the advantage between its current low incidence could be shown to outweigh
the periodic failures of the method, and to favour the continued use of vaccination. However, the credit for the decline in the
incidence of smallpox could not be given to vaccination. The fact is that its incidence declined in all parts of Europe, whether or
not vaccination was employed."
Chaitow, Vaccination and Immunization, pp. 6-7.
"Smallpox, like typhus, has been dying out (in England) since 1780. Vaccination in this country has largely fallen into disuse
since people began to realize how its value was discredited by the great smallpox epidemic of 1871-2 (which occurred after
W. Scott Webb, A Century of Vaccination, Swan Sonnenschein, 1898.
"In this incident (Kyoto, Japan, 1948) - the most serious of its kind - a toxic batch of alum-precipitated toxoid (APT) was
responsible for illness in over 600 infants and for no fewer than 68 deaths.
"On 20 and 22 October, 1948, a large number of babies and children in the city of Kyoto received their first injection of APT.
On the 4th and 5th of November, 15,561 babies and children aged some months to 13 years received their second dose. One
to two days later, 606 of those who had been injected fell ill. Of these, 9 died of acute diphtheritic paralysis in seven to
fourteen days, and 59 of late paralysis mainly in four to seven weeks."
Sir Graham Wilson, Hazards of Immunization, Athone Press,
University of London, 1967.
"Accidents may, however, follow the use of this so-called killed (rabies) vaccine owing to inadequate processing. A very
serious occurrence of this sort occurred at Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, in 1960. No fewer than 18 out of 66 persons vaccinated
with Fermi's carbolized (rabies) vaccine suffered from encephalomyelitis and every one of the eighteen died."
Sir Graham Wilson, Hazards of Immunization.
"At a press conference in Washington on 24 July, 1942, the Secretary of War reported that 28,585 cases of jaundice had
been observed in the (American) Army between 1 January and 4 July after yellow fever vaccination, and of these 62 proved
Wilson, Hazards of Immunization.
"The world's biggest trial (conducted in south India) to assess the value of BCG tuberculosis vaccine has made the startling
revelation that the vaccine 'does not give any protection against bacillary forms of tuberculosis.' The study said to be 'most
exhaustive and meticulous,' was launched in 1968 by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) with assistance from the
World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia.
"The incidence of new cases among the BCG vaccinated group was slightly (but statistically insignificantly) higher than in the
control group, a finding that led to the conclusion that BCG's protective effect 'was zero.'"
New Scientist, November 15, 1979, as quoted by Hans Ruesch in Naked Empress, Civis Publishers, Switzerland, 1982.
"Between 10 December 1929 and 30 April 1930, 251 of 412 infants born in Lubeck received three doses of BCG vaccine by
the mouth during the first ten days of life. Of these 251, 72 died of tuberculosis, most of them in two to five months and all but
one before the end of the first year. In addition, 135 suffered from clinical tuberculosis but eventually recovered; and 44
became tuberculin-positive but remained well. None of the 161 unvaccinated infants born at the time was affected in this way
and none of these died of tuberculosis within the following three years."
Hazards of Immunization, Wilson.
"We conducted a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial to test the efficacy of the 14-valent pneumococcal capsular
polysaccharide vaccine in 2295 high-risk patients... Seventy-one episodes of proved or probable pneumococcal pneumonia or
bronchitis occurred among 63 of the patients (27 placebo recipients and 36 vaccine recipients)... We were unable to
demonstrate any efficacy of the pneumococcal vaccine in preventing pneumonia or bronchitis in this population."
New England Journal of Medicine, November 20, 1986, p. 1318,
Michael Simberkoff et al.
In the spring of 1955, Cutter Labs started selling their standard polio vaccine. The vaccine was infective, and 200 cases of
polio resulted among vaccinees. Of these, there were eleven deaths. About 100 cases of paralysis resulted. JR
"But already before Salk developed his vaccine, polio had been constantly regressing; the 39 cases out of every 100,000
inhabitants registered in 1942 had gradually diminished from year to year until they were reduced to only 15 cases in 1952...
according to M. Beddow Baylay, the English surgeon and medical historian."
Slaughter of the Innocent, Hans Reusch, Civitas Publishers,
Switzerland, and Swain, New York, 1983.
"Many published stories and reports have stated, implied and otherwise led professional people and the public to believe that
the sharp reduction of cases (and of deaths) from poliomyelitis in 1955 as compared to 1954 is attributable to the Salk
vaccine... That it is a misconception follows from these considerations. The number of children inoculated has been too small to
account for the decrease. The sharp decrease was apparent before the inoculations began or could take effect and was of the
same order as the decrease following the immediate post-inoculation period."
Dr. Herbert Ratner, Child and Family, vol. 20, no. 1, 1987.
"So far it is hardly possible to gain insight into the extent of the immunization catastrophe of 1955 in the United States. It may
be considered certain that the officially ascertained 200 cases which were caused directly or indirectly by the (polio)
vaccination constitute minimum figures... It can hardly be estimated how many of the 1359 (polio) cases among vaccinated
persons must be regarded as failures of the vaccine and how many of them were infected by the vaccine. A careful study of the
epidemiologic course of polio in the United States yields indications of grave significance. In numerous states of the U.S.A.,
typical early epidemics developed with the immunizations in the spring of 1955... The vaccination incidents of the year 1955
cannot be exclusively traced back to the failure of one manufacturing firm."
Dr. Herbert Ratner, Child and Family, 1980, vol. 19, no. 4,
"Story of the Salk Vaccine (Part 2)."
"Suffice it to say that most of the large (polio) epidemics that have occurred in this country since the introduction of the Salk
vaccine have followed the wide-scale use of the vaccine and have been characterized by an uncommon early seasonal onset.
To name a few, there is the Massachusetts epidemic of 1955; the Chicago epidemic of 1956; and the Des Moines epidemic of
Dr. Herbert Ratner, Child and Family, 1980 vol. 19, no. 4.
"The live (Sabin) poliovirus vaccine has been the predominant cause of domestically arising cases of paralytic poliomyelitis in
the United States since 1972. To avoid the occurrence of such cases, it would be necessary to discontinue the routine use of
live poliovirus vaccine."
Jonas Salk, Science, March 4, 1977, p. 845.
"By the (U.S.) government's own admission, there has been a 41% failure rate in persons who were previously vaccinated
against the (measles) virus."
Dr. Anthony Morris, John Chriss, BG Young, "Occurrence of Measles in Previously Vaccinated Individuals," 1979; presented
at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology at Fort Detrick, Maryland, April 27, 1979.
"Prior to the time doctors began giving rubella (measles) vaccinations, an estimated 85% of adults were naturally immune to the
disease (for life). Because of immunization, the vast majority of women never acquire natural immunity (or lifetime protection)."
Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, Let's Live, December 1983, as quoted by Carolyn Reuben in the LA Weekly, June 28, 1985.
"Adminstration of KMV (killed measles vaccine) apparently set in motion an aberrant immunologic response that not only failed
to protect children against natural measles, but resulted in heightened susceptibility."
JAMA Aug. 22, 1980, vol. 244, p. 804, Vincent Fulginiti and Ray Helfer. The authors indicate that such falsely protected
children can come down with "an often severe, atypical form of measles. Atypical measles is characterized by fever,
headache... and a diverse rash (which)... may consist of a mixture of macules, papules, vesicles, and pustules... "
To even an untrained eye, these quotes should signal the fact that THERE IS MUCH MORE WE HAVE NOT SEEN.