2. Do vaccines have any long-term side effects or damage that may not surface for months or years?



No one knows. There have been no studies conducted to find out if vaccines might cause long-term damage that may take years to surface. For example, in the product insert of the pharmaceutical company Merck's Hepatitis B vaccine we learn that the children in the test (vaccinated) group were observed a total of four days to see if the vaccine had any long-term effects. This is remarkable, since autoimmune damage may take weeks or months to arise. Unfortunately, limited testing is typical for childhood vaccines. In a sense our children are all part of an experiment to see if vaccines have any long-term effects. In the pharmaceutical business this is known as "post marketing surveillance."

US Representative Dan Burton has been holding Congressional hearings on vaccine safety. Rep. Burton's grandchild became autistic following her vaccinations.

This is what Rep. Burton recently told the Los Angeles Times (April 24, 2000):

Instead of hiding our heads in the sand to protect the status quo, it is time to admit that the US Government has failed the American public by not funding adequate studies to determine the long-term affects of vaccines on our children and future generations.

We have yet to conduct adequate scientific research to rule out a connection between vaccines and autism, or to determine whether low-birth weight or pre-term babies should receive the same dose of vaccine and use the same shot schedule.

We have not funded studies or research to indicate whether it is okay to vaccinate a child who has repeated ear infections and rounds of antibiotics, or to determine what children are likely to be adversely affected by vaccines.


Catherine Diodati, a Canadian researcher based in Ontario, in her 1999 book, Immunization, History, Ethics, Law and Health, says long-term studies on vaccines are not conducted and when studies are done at all, "the methodology used is highly questionable." For example, when a new vaccine is tested on one group of children for adverse events, the "control" group will not be unvaccinated kids, but will consist of vaccinated children who were vaccinated with a different vaccine. This is known as meaningless or "junk" science.

In September 1993 the US government's Institute of Medicine released a report entitled Adverse Events Associated With Childhood Vaccines: Evidence Bearing on Causality. The report examined putative serious adverse consequences associated with administration of diphtheria and tetanus toxoids; measles, mumps, and measles-mumps-rubella vaccines; oral polio vaccine and inactivated polio vaccine; hepatitis B vaccines; and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccines. The committee spent 18 months reviewing all available scientific and medical data, from published and unpublished individual case reports to controlled clinical trials. They revealed that the proper studies had not been done to see if vaccines caused a wide variety of problems.

The committee found that the evidence favored acceptance of a causal relationship between diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and Guillain-Barre syndrome and brachial neuritis, between measles vaccine and anaphylaxis, between oral polio vaccine and Guillain-Barre syndrome, and between unconjugated Hib vaccine and susceptibility to Hib disease. The committee also found that the evidence established causality between diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and anaphylaxis, between measles vaccine and death from measles vaccine-strain viral infection, between measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and thrombocytopenia and anaphylaxis, between oral polio vaccine and poliomyelitis and death from polio vaccine-strain viral infection, and between hepatitis B vaccine and anaphylaxis. For five vaccine-related adverse events, there was no evidence identified. For the remaining 33 vaccine-related adverse events the evidence was inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship.

There are no genetic or laboratory screening tests available to determine which children will react to a vaccine (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America's New Research and Development Database, http://www.phrma.org/webdb/phrmawdb.html . Also, no one knows which shot may be the one to cause damage. It may be the first one or the fifth or the 25th!

 

 

 

 

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