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8 Things Your Doctor Didn’t Tell You About the Flu Shot

It’s that time of year. We’re smack dab in the midst of flu pandemonium. Flu shot propaganda is FULL force. Instead of going over all the glowing accolades heaped upon the flu vaccine, I’m going to cut right to the chase and tell you what you NEED to know about it in order to make an informed decision regarding whether or not it’s a good choice for you and your family. Information that, unfortunately, fails to get disclosed to the public.

  1. The flu vaccine is essentially a brand new, experimental vaccine each and every year.Dr. Mark Geier is very pro-vaccine. He is well respected, has worked with the FDA, and most notably was a member of the 4 person team that replaced the unsafe DTP vaccine with the somewhat safer version that we have today (DtaP). Yet, even Dr. Geier can’t get behind the flu vaccine. He explains in the video below that, by law, vaccines must have two double blind field trials in order to show efficacy and long term safety. However, the flu vaccine is reformulated each and every year in order to anticipate the flu strains that will be prevalent in a given season. Geier points out that it is impossible to test for efficacy (how can you test a strain that hasn’t come yet?) or long term safety (manufacturers have approximately 2 weeks to test safety) when rushing a vaccine to market each year. Geier notes that, by law, vaccines that have not (or in the case of the flu shot) cannot be adequately safety tested, must be disclosed to the public as “experimental.” This is not happening.

  1. The flu vaccine still contains mercury (thimerosol).Most everyone remembers the big uproar about mercury in vaccines. While some people maintain that mercury in vaccines is not a problem, I’ll list a few statistics from the National Vaccine Information Center:
    • .5 ppb (parts per billion) mercury = kills human neuroblastoma cells (Parran et al., Toxicol Sci 2005; 86:132-140).
    • 2 ppb mercury = US EPA limit for drinking water
    • 20 ppb mercury = Neurite membrane structure destroyed (Leong et al., Neuroreport 2001; 12:733-37)
    • 200 ppb = level in liquid the EPA classifies as hazardous waste
    • 50,000 ppb mercury = current “preservative” level mercury in multi- dose flu (94% of supply), meningococcal and tetanus (7 and older) vaccines. This can be confirmed by simply analyzing the multi-dose vials.Vaccine manufacturers began removing mercury in vaccines in 2000. Single dose flu vaccines are advertised as “mercury free,” however it should be noted that they still contain “trace amounts” of mercury. Other than that, they are completely identical to the multi-dose vials. They are NOT “free of harmful ingredients” as I have heard some individuals (even nurses) erroneously claim.
  1. The flu vaccine is rarely over 50% effective any given year. This year (2017-18 season) it is particularly poor-performing- estimated at only 10% effective.

Here’s a CDC graph of flu vaccine efficacy over the years. First, I love how this graph is even a little visually deceptive since the top attainable effectiveness percentage is only 70% rather than 100% (which most people just taking a glance at the graph would assume). Other than that, note that the flu shot has failed to surpass the odds of a coin flip in 9 out of 13 years. Three of those years it failed to surpass 21% efficacy. Based on this year’s abysmal efficacy in Australia, the efficacy in the US this year is estimated to be a whopping 10%. Stated another way- 90% of individuals who receive the flu shot, will receive no protection against the flu.

  1. The flu shot can have some very serious side effects, which are almost NEVER mentioned.While the benefits of the flu shot are touted ad nauseam, the risks are seldom deemed worth mentioning. A quick look at the flu vaccine pkg insert is quite eye opening. Please note: the screenshots below are for the Fluarix Quadrivalent vaccine:

Notice first, the immediate mention of Guillain Barre Syndrome under the title “Warnings and Precautions.” The CDC defines Guillain Barre Syndrome as, “a rare disorder in which a person’s own immune system damages their nerve cells, causing muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis. GBS can cause symptoms that usually last for a few weeks. Most people recover fully from GBS, but some people have long-term nerve damage. In very rare cases, people have died of GBS, usually from difficulty breathing.”

While admitting that the 1976 flu vaccine caused an 8 fold increased risk of GBS (cause yet undetermined), the CDC claims that subsequent flu shots have not been adequately causatively related to GBS.

While, the CDC uses the word “rare” frequently in their discussion of GBS, this doesn’t seem to reflect real world experience. Just this week, in my hometown, a healthy 19 year old contracted GBS most likely due to a flu vaccine. The screenshots of the Facebook post are below- names are blacked out for privacy.

In the comments below this woman’s post, I have counted no less than 7 individuals stating that they either knew someone or had themselves contracted GBS from the flu shot. (Not my definition of rare.) This is not surprising at all, since by the CDC’s own admission, the VAERS system that they rely on to track vaccine adverse events is inefficient in collecting this data. According to my research for a separate article on the inadequacy of the VAERS system in tracking adverse vaccine events, the VAERS system is estimated to underreport vaccine injury by a whopping 90%. Let that sink in a moment.

Now direct your attention at the list of side effects from the flu vaccine: malaise, drowsiness, appetite loss, myalgia, vomiting, and fever. Basically, the side effects of the flu shot, are feeling as if you have… the flu…

Note all of the serious conditions listed under the “Postmarketing Experience” heading:

I don’t know about you, but I’m beginning to believe I’d be better off taking my chances with the flu!

Finally (and arguably most disturbing):

Even though the CDC recommends the flu vaccine to pregnant mothers and the flu vaccine is heavily marketed toward them: “There are insufficient data on Fluarix Quadrivalent in pregnant women to inform vaccine- associated risks.” Restated- they cannot tell you that the flu vaccine is safe for a pregnant woman or her unborn child because they do not have safety tests. They can’t! How many pregnant women would voluntarily sign up for an experimental vaccine??

Wait a minute…check the highlighted line above, “There is a pregnancy exposure registry that monitors pregnancy outcomes in women exposed to Fluarix Quadrivalent during pregnancy. Healthcare providers are encouraged to register women by calling 1-888-452-9622.” Restated- if you are currently pregnant and receive a flu vaccine on recommendation of your doctor and your doctor didn’t disclose to you that this vaccine has not been tested on pregnant women- you and your child have just become unwitting guinea pigs.

  1. The NVICP pays out more to flu vaccine victims than any other vaccine.

Most individuals aren’t aware, but vaccine manufacturers and doctors have no legal liability for damage caused to an individual by a vaccine. They were granted indemnity in the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Protection Act which was later expanded in the 2011 Supreme Court decision Bruesewitz vs Wyeth. This act created a “vaccine injury court” in which individuals injured by vaccines can file a claim in order to receive a settlement from a fund that is set aside specifically for that purpose. Every three months the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines meets and the Dept of Justice releases a report listing cases settled for vaccine injuries and deaths. In the report issued September 20, 2016 (covering 5-15-17 to 8-15-17) 83 of the 113 cases settled were for injuries and deaths due to the flu vaccine. The clip below is a portion of that list. The complete report can be accessed here, and past reports can be accessed here. As you scroll the report for the adverse effects due to the flu vaccine, notice the incidence of GBS and SIRVA.

  1. There is NOT sufficient evidence that the flu shot will lessen severity of the flu.This bit of shady information is often quoted as fact. The CDC backs this claim. However, the American Society for Microbiology states, “Individuals who have been recently vaccinated may still get infected with influenza (“vaccine failure”). Among these individuals, it is not known whether recent vaccination can attenuate the course of illness, that is, lessen the severity and/or duration of symptoms associated with influenza.”

    Upon closer investigation, the CDC is basing this claim on one study conducted in hospitalized flu patients in 2013-14 (a year when the vaccine was a good match for the strain that circulated that year), in which the lead researcher is a CDC employee, and numerous supporting researchers are employed by the Dept of Health in various states. The sample size is not listed in the study. Besides the fact that nothing can be legitimately asserted based on ONE study, can you say conflict of interest? Also, of note is the fact that this study was conducted in a year when the flu vaccine had higher than average efficacy. It cannot be stated from this study, that a poorly efficacious flu vaccine would have any affect on the severity of the flu.

  1. The flu death statistics that are used to urge the population into flu hysteria are massively inflated.The CDC claims that there are a whopping 36,000 deaths attributable to flu and flu related complications. Incidentally, the National Vital Statistics System in the US disagrees. Even Huffington Post calls the CDC out on this one, and that’s saying a lot! They write, “for example, annual flu deaths in 2010 amounted to just 500 per year- fewer than deaths from ulcers (2,977), hernias (1,832), and pregnancy and childbirth (825), and a far cry from the big killer such as heart disease (597,689) and cancers (574,743).” They further note than even this number could be exaggerated, “Only about 15-20 per cent of people who come down with flu-like symptoms have the influenza virus- the other 80-85 per cent actually caught rhinovirus or other germs that are indistinguishable from the true flu without laboratory tests, which are rarely done. In 2001, a year in which death certificates listed 257 Americans as having died of flu, only 18 were positively identified as true flus. The other 239 were simply assumed to be flus and most likely had a few true flus among them.”

    So, how does the CDC go about inflating their numbers? They bundle together flu and pneumonia deaths. The HuffPo author writes, “Pneumonia, according to the American Lung Association, has more than 30 different causes, influenza being but one of them. The CDC itself acknowledges the slim relationship saying, ‘only a small portion of deaths…only 8.5 per cent of all pneumonia and influenza deaths [are] influenza related.”

  1. The CDC and the government incite hysteria in order to create demand for the flu vaccine and thus avoid massive monetary loss for unused flu vaccines each year.As I mentioned above, a new flu shot is manufactured each year. The FDA actually sets an expiration for each season’s flu vaccine of June 30. NBC carried this Associated Press article back in 2007 after a mild flu season led to poor flu shot sales, “more than 10 million of a record 110 million produced- will be destroyed before a new supply is guaranteed…Wasted vaccine means lost money for drug companies and one stopped making flu shots because of it- setting the stage for a flu shot shortage in 2004…After the 2002-03 season, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals had to destroy a third of the 20 million doses it produced because of low sales. The company lost about $35 million and then dropped out of the flu shot business…Doctors and VNA clinics will get a refund of taxes paid but will still lose about $10 per dose. Losses of up to $20,000 a season have caused some clinics to quit offering shots.”

    This article archived in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) library chronicles a “Seven Step Recipe” given at the 2004 National Influenza Vaccine Summit co-sponsored by the CDC and the American Medical Association, “One step of a ‘Seven- Step “Recipe” for Generating Interest in, and Demand for, Flu (or any other) Vaccination’ occurs when ‘medical experts and public health authorities publicly…state concern and alarm (and predict dire outcomes)- and urge influenza vaccination.’…Another step entails ‘continued reports…that influenza is causing severe illness and/or affecting lots of people, helping foster the perception that many people are susceptible to a bad case of influenza.’”

Do you feel sufficiently manipulated yet?

Conclusion

This season is definitely shaping up to be a “bad” flu year and nobody likes to get the flu. At the end of the day, the choice belongs with you when it comes to whether or not getting the flu shot is a good choice for you or your children. There may be some cases in which, after evaluating the benefits and risks, getting a flu shot is the right choice. However, one thing is certain: No one is in the position to make an educated decision about the flu vaccine when its risks are censored, its benefits exaggerated, and the actual danger of the flu inflated. Creating demand by lying about flu deaths and enlisting the medical field as flu shot salesmen to avoid loss of profit for vaccine manufacturers is wrong no matter how you slice it- particularly since otherwise healthy individuals are being put at unnecessary risk for horrific adverse effects due to this flu shot scam.

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6 Things You Need to Know When Deciding Whether or Not to Vaccinate

Before we begin, I’d like to stress that the intent of this article is not to condemn anyone regardless of whatever decision you make when weighing whether or not it is in your best interest to vaccinate your children or yourselves. Instead, it is my intention to arm you with more complete information with which to make your decision. Don’t take my word for it. I have linked every source (the majority of which are CDC, WHO, FDA, etc.) so that you can read and discern them for yourselves.

  1. The first thing you need to know is that regardless of what you have been told, the science on vaccines is not and never was settled.

A.Despite CDC claims, our current vaccine scheduling regimen has not been adequately tested. The CDC says, “Following the recommended immunization schedule protects infants and children by providing immunity early in life, before they are exposed to potentially life-threatening diseases.” The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) endorses this statement. However, when the Institute of Medicine (IOM) investigated this claim in 2013 in response to parental concern over the vaccination schedule they were able to identify less than 40 scientific studies published since 2003 and noted, “First, the concept of the immunization “schedule” is not well developed in the scientific literature…Key elements of the immunization schedule- for example, the number, frequency, timing, order, and age at the time of administration of vaccines- have not been systematically examined in research studies.” (Institute of Medicine. The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence, and Future Studies. The National Academies Press 2013.)

B. Despite CDC claims, combining multiple vaccines in one visit has not been proven to be safe. “Although CDC recommends polio, hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, rotavirus, flu B, and pneumococcal vaccines for two, four, and six month old infants, this combination of eight vaccines administered during a single physician visit was never tested for safety in clinical trials. This is at odds with a CDC report that found that mixed exposures to chemical substances and other stress factors, including prescribed pharmaceuticals, may produce ‘increased or unexpected deleterious health effects.” (Combining Childhood Vaccines at One Visit Is Not Safe, Neil Z. Miller)

C. The CDC recommended the TdaP vaccine to pregnant women prior to licensure of the vaccine,and does not even know for sure if the vaccine will protect newborns from pertussis as they claim: “In prelicensure evaluations, the safety of administering a booster dose of Tdap to pregnant women was not studied…The effectiveness and optimal consideration of maternal antipertussis antibodies in newborns are not yet known, but high levels of antibodies in the first weeks of life after birth likely confer protection and might prevent pertussis or modify disease severity.” (emphasis mine).(CDC. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, October 21, 2011) Incidentally, the FDA classifies TdaP a class C pregnancy drug which is defined as drugs in which “Animal reproduction studies have shown an adverse effect on fetus and there are no adequate and well-controlled studies in humans, but potential benefits may warrant use of drug in pregnant women despite potential risks.” (FDA Pregnancy Categories)

– Don’t miss this quote from the CDC in the above 10/21/11 report, “Because information on the use of Tdap in pregnant women was lacking, both manufacturers of Tdap established pregnancy registries to collect information and pregnancy outcomes from pregnant women vaccinated with Tdap. Data on the safety of administering Tdap to pregnant women are now available.” (emphasis is mine). The CDC tells you in black and white that they recommended a vaccine to you in which information was lacking though you were not informed that they did not have complete information.

– Rephrased: Uninformed women were used as guinea pigs in an undeclared trial.

– The very same scenario is occurring right now with respect to the  Gardasil vaccine that the CDC currently recommends.

D. Heavy Metals used in Vaccines have not been found to be safe. Use of mercury in vaccines has been greatly decreased, however the use of aluminum has not decreased. A study in Pediatrics, which is the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics states, “Aluminum is now being implicated as interfering with a variety of cellular and metabolic processes in the nervous system and other tissue.” Another group of researchers note, “Despite almost 90 years of widespread use of aluminum adjuvants, medical science’s understanding about their mechanisms of action is still remarkably poor. There is also a concerning scarcity of data on toxicology and pharmacokinetics of these compounds.” (Current Medicinal Chemistry, Volume 18, Number 17)

– Rephrased: They have been using aluminum and other heavy metals in vaccines for 90 years, yet do not know exactly how they affect your body. Concerns have now been raised that aluminum may very well be interfering with your nervous system.

E. Finally, regarding “settled science”, many pro-vaccine advocates cite lack of peer reviewed research in response to anti- vaccine data. For your further research, I have included a website containing links to several published vaccine safety studies citing major concerns: http://www.vaccines.net/newpage11.htm

2. Speaking of vaccine research, you need to know that massive conflicts of interest exist in this industry which must be weighted when examining the findings of these studies. Many people consider CDC or FDA findings to be unbiased and that couldn’t be further from the truth.

A. The CDC was authorized to accept funding in the form of industry“gifts” in 1983. “Despite the agency’s disclaimer, the CDC does receive millions of dollars in industry gifts and funding, both directly and indirectly, and several recent CDC actions and recommendations have raised questions about the science it cites, the clinical guidelines it promotes, and the money it is taking.” (British Medical Journal BMJ 2015;350:h2362)

B. 1992 legislation (Prescription Drug User Fee Act) mandated that pharmaceutical companies directly pay the FDA to review their applications for drug approvals. Healthcare consulting firm Avalere Health found that pharmaceutical companies have contributed $7.67 billion to the FDA since 1992. (Avalere Healthcare Press Release)

-This act was passed because the FDA didn’t have enough researchers to review the number of new pharmaceuticals being submitted resulting in extensive lags in drug approvals. However, now we have created a conflict of interest in which the FDA accepts money from pharmaceutical companies and drugs are fast tracked to market. While the government denies the process could be corrupt, this claim defies both logic and history.

-An article appearing in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics edited by Marc Rodwin and supported by the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics states, “The authorization of user fees in 1992 has turned drug companies into the FDA’s prime clients, deepening regulatory and cultural capture of the agency. Industry has demanded shorter average review times and with less time to thoroughly review evidence, increased hospitalizations and deaths have resulted.

– Frankly, this revelation is a no brainer. You can’t even sit down to watch a 30 minute sitcom without seeing advertisements for class action lawsuits aimed at various pharmaceuticals which have injured or killed people. These were all approved by the FDA prior to prescription, and all were accompanied by peer reviewed research.

C. The pharmaceutical and health industries combined were the 3rd largest contributors in our last presidential election with Hillary Clinton benefiting the most, followed by Ted Cruz in 2nd place. This doesn’t include donations made by corporations. For example, Pfizer alone spent $10 million lobbying Congress last year. (Big Pharma’s Big Donations to 2016 Presidential Candidates, CNN)

D. Why don’t we see very many studies that are critical of vaccine safety? A British Medical Journal study concludes, “Jefferson’s analysis confirms that drug company’s marketing vaccines have a major influence on what gets published and is said about vaccines in medical journals. It is no wonder that there are almost no published studies in the medical literature that call into question vaccine safety.”

E. Many of the vaccine studies claiming vaccine safety that we do see are not forthcoming with their inherent bias. Many of these studies (not all) are actually funded by vaccine manufacturers and the pharmaceutical industry. For example, this must see study by Dr. Brian Hooker of the Alliance for Natural Health USA reveals the study flaws and various significant conflicts of interest in some of the premier studies refuting a connection between the MMR vaccine and autism/neurological disorders: http://www.anh-usa.org/vaccine-science-is-not-settled-a-critical-review-of-the-literature/

3. In 1986, the government passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act which protects vaccine manufacturers from vaccine injury lawsuits. Under this legislation the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) was created. It was created as an alternative to civil court lawsuit, giving partial liability protection to vaccine manufacturers, pediatricians, and other vaccine providers from civil liability for injuries and deaths caused by federally recommended childhood vaccines. (American Bar Association) In February of 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled in Bruesewitz vs Wyeth LLC, to grant the pharmaceutical industry total immunity from lawsuits even if they could have made a vaccine less harmful, because (per court docs) vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe”.

-Rephrased: If you or your child have suffered from a vaccine injury you have no legal recourse against vaccine manufacturers or the physician who recommended the vaccine. Instead you must file a petition with the US Court of Federal Claims where beaurocrats will decide if your claim should be submitted to the VICP which will determine if you deserve compensation. The Supreme Court doesn’t feel that vaccine manufacturers should be held responsible for dangerous vaccines even if the vaccine could have been made less dangerous because it is already impossible to make a vaccine that isn’t dangerous due to the fact that the ingredients required to be included in vaccines at this point are dangerous in and of themselves.

-The Health Resources and Services Association (HRSA) is required to release the amount of damages paid as settlements through the VICP. Current disclosures from the HRSA Data and Statistics report states that to date the VICP has paid out $3.6 billion in settlements for vaccine injury.

4. Vaccine injury is NOT just autism. Many studies are linking vaccines to Asperger’s, ADHD, autoimmune disorders, and food and digestive allergies. These are quickly becoming epidemics recognized by the CDC while they claim that they have no idea at this point what environmental factors are contributing to this trend. So far, no correlation is being considered based on the massive increase in childhood vaccinations (In 1983, there were 10 recommended vaccines by the age of 6 given in 24 doses, 7 injections, and 4 oral vs the 2016 schedule of 74 doses by age 17, 53 injections, and 3 oral.) Right now, hundreds more vaccines are in the pipeline to be added to future vaccination schedules.

A.  According to this CDC study in Medical News Today, “the prevalence and incidence of autoimmune diseases, such as lupus, celiac disease, and type I diabetes is on the rise and researchers at the CDC are unsure why…Earlier studies have shown that genetics and environmental factors cause autoimmune disease…With the rapid increase in autoimmune diseases, it clearly suggests that environmental factors are at play due to the significant increase in these diseases. Genes do not change in such a short period of time.” (emphasis mine)

B. According to this CDC report in Food Allergy Research and Education, “the prevalence of food allergy in children increased by 50% between 1997 and 2011…Between 1997 and 2008, the prevalence of peanut or tree nut allergy appears to have more than tripled in US children…Childhood hospitalizations for food allergy tripled between the late 1990’s and the mid-2000’s… Compared to children who don’t have food allergy, children with food allergy are two to four times as likely to have other allergic conditions, such as asthma or eczema…1 in 13 children now have food allergies… There is no cure for food allergy.”

C. This website lists multiple published studies linking vaccines to some of the most common rapidly increasing conditions: https://www.fourteenstudies.org/ourstudies.html

5. There are multiple published studies documenting vaccine failure though they are not widely reported in the mainstream media.

A. This page from GreenMedinfo lists 31 published studies of vaccine failure ranging from the 80’s to today (measles, mumps, polio, tetanus, chicken pox, and flu): http://www.greenmedinfo.com/keyword/vaccine-failure

B. This article from Scientific American documents the 2016 mumps spike across the US. The CDC is quoted as reporting, “Vaccine coverage rates in the worst affected states of Arkansas, Illinois, and Iowa is generally high. All have two dose coverage rates around 90% or better” Janell Routh, a medical officer at the CDC makes three notable admissions: 1. “We know generally that mumps cases wax and wane over the years.” 2. “We don’t know the level of antibody required to stop a case of mumps in a person, so that question of knowing if a vaccine works less well over time is something we’re still working to investigate.” 3. We know the mumps vaccine is only 88% effective after 2 doses, so that means a certain portion of vaccinated people are still vulnerable.”

-Rephrased: Routh might as well have said due to the fact that mumps outbreaks are cyclical in nature on their own, and the fact that we are unsure of the levels of antibodies needed to protect a person from mumps, and that we know at least 12% of the population doesn’t respond to the vaccine at all, and that we don’t know how long vaccines are even effective after administered- we really can’t gauge the actual effectiveness of the mumps vaccine in eradicating mumps. (Instead, however, the CDC is recommending that we get a third MMR vaccine.)

C. Currently the CDC recommends that anyone who will come in contact with an infant receive the pertussis vaccine (you’ve probably seen commercials on TV urging you be vaccinated for pertussis for this reason- I’ve seen several), due to a strategy that is referred to as “cocooning”. The theory is that since newborns can’t receive the pertussis vaccine (cannot be given until 3 months old), if everyone who comes into contact with the infant is vaccinated the infant will not contract pertussis. The problem is this strategy has been proven ineffective- yet the US still recommends it. As a matter of fact the ACIP (panel of immunization experts that advise the CDC) acknowledges this (documented by the CDC in this morbidity report), “ACIP concluded that cocooning alone is an insufficient strategy to prevent pertussis morbidity and mortality in newborn infants.” Australia discontinued their pertussis “cocooning” program in 2012, yet the US continues despite knowledge that it is ineffective.

-This article from local Alabama news source al.com documents a pertussis outbreak in multiple schools in Alabama and notes concern that vaccinated children are contracting the disease: http://www.al.com/news/montgomery/index.ssf/2017/05/pertussis_outbreak_confirmed_i.html

D. The CDC routinely admits that the flu vaccine has a low effectiveness rate that varies from year to year. According to this year’s CDC flu morbidity report the vaccine was 48% effective, however in the 2014-15 season the CDC reported that it was only 23% effective. Remember, you will not know how effective any particular year’s vaccine is until after the season is over. The CDC admitted in this seasons report, that the Flu Mist was not recommended at all due to ineffectiveness.

-Contrast this information with the fact that, “As of October 3, 2016, there had been 2,954 claims filed to VICP for injuries and deaths following the Influenza vaccine, including 109 deaths and 2,845 serious injuries.” (http://www.nvic.org/Vaccines-and-Diseases/Influenza.aspx) Despite this knowledge, flu vaccines are advertised ad nauseum and recommended by doctors consistently. You literally can’t check out at CVS without being offered one.

6. The dangers of the diseases we are vaccinating against are sensationalized to a degree, while adverse vaccine effects are vastly under reported to the VICP and VICP results are not readily broadcast to the public.

A. First you should know that when the World Health Organization (WHO) states mortality statistics regarding infectious diseases- they apply global statistics.

-Why does this matter? Take measles for example: The WHO says 122,000 people die globally from measles. The WHO also states that, “Severe measles is more likely among poorly nourished young children, especially those with insufficient vitamin A, or whose immune systems have been weakened by HIV/AIDS or other diseases…As high as 10% of measles cases result in death among populations with high levels of malnutrition and a lack of adequate health care…More than 95% of measles deaths occur in countries with low per capita incomes and weak health infrastructures…Overcrowding in residential camps greatly increases the risk of infection.”

-Rephrased: Even in third world countries where children are severely malnourished, have weakened immune systems, very little access to health care, live in crowded and unsanitary conditions in which disease thrives- only 10% of children die from measles. 95% of the 122,000 measles deaths occur in these third world countries.

B. The complications of the diseases we vaccinate against vary widely. Mumps, measles,diphtheria, and polio absolutely have some very serious complications that can occur including death. Whereas rubella is virtually harmless to children. However, the CDC documents the percentage of occurrence of serious complications due to these diseases and most are surprisingly low. You can check out the various stats for the diseases at the links I have provided (be sure to note that global statistics are given in many instances as we noted earlier in the article):

Measles: Stats from CDC

Mumps: Stats from WHO

Rubella: Stats from WHO (Note: Children vaccinated are NOT protected into adulthood, so this vaccine offers no protection to unborn babies.)

Pertussis: Stats from CDC

Diphtheria: Stats from CDC

Tetanus: Contracting tetanus as an infant is highly unlikely since it is not passed person to person and anaerobic.

C. Note that all of the serious complications that rarely arise in the above diseases are also listed as rarely occurring side effects of the vaccines against them PLUS additional serious complications NOT related to the diseases on their own.

-MMR vaccine insert: http://www.merck.com/product/usa/pi_circulars/m/mmr_ii/mmr_ii_pi.pdf

-TdaP vaccine insert: https://www.fda.gov/downloads/biologicsbloodvaccines/vaccines/approvedproducts/ucm124514.pdf

-Note: TdaP includes risk of developing Guillan-Barre Syndrome, in which your immune system attacks your nervous system. This article in Mercola states, “In the United States, over half of the 2,480 compensation awards made under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which total more than $2 billion dollars, have involved brain inflammation and encephalopathy resulting in permanent brain damage associated with whole cell and acellular pertussis vaccine in DPT and DtaP shots.” (Note the figures are lower because the latest information I could find was from 2012 reports.)

D. Since 1990 there have been 6,058 serious adverse events reported to VAERS including 842 serious injuries and 140 deaths. There have been over 200,000 adverse effects reported (not necessarily serious). This is not a sufficient indicator of the adverse events however due to the fact that less than 10% of adverse effects are reported to VAERS. (http://www.nvic.org/reportreaction.aspx) Less than 10% are reported yet VICP has paid $3.6 billion since its inception!! Think about that.

-Why aren’t adverse effects being reported? Well, had you ever heard of VAERS before you read this article? I had never heard of it before I began the research for this article, and the fact is the majority of people aren’t aware of it. In my personal experience with the MMR vaccine, one of my 3 children broke out in a measles rash one day after being vaccinated. When I reported this to the pediatrician, he denied that the rash was in any way related to the vaccine received the day before. Begs the question how many reactions that parents report to pediatricians, that pediatricians do not report to VAERS.

Here is what becomes apparent upon research: The scientific community, medical community, and our government are aware that vaccines cause adverse effects (in varying degrees) in a significant portion of the vaccinated population. However, they do not know why. It could be due to individual, undetectable sensitivities to any number of the ingredients in vaccines. They do not know and have no way of discerning at this point who is vulnerable and to what degree (minor or severe or anywhere in between) reaction anyone may have to any given vaccination. The government has taken steps to provide vaccine manufactures as well as doctors protection from liability due to any vaccine injury you may incur.

I’ll end with this quote from an article in Forbes encouraging parents to be introspective regarding “anti vaccination alarmists”, “Who told you to be afraid? Trace the path straight to the toxic root of your fear. Then ask yourself: How do the people telling you to panic stand to benefit from those who buy what they’re selling?” Knowing what you know now, I hope you will indeed ask yourself: Who stands to profit?