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20 Reasons to Question Vaccine Safety

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  • Jun 2, 2020
  • 69 min read

Updated: Oct 21, 2020

Monopolies, Royalties, No Liability, Mandates, Tiered-pricing, Censorship = $ Billions


Here is a list of 20 things you may not know that have led to the vaccine safety controversy, which are mostly due to decisions made by the U.S. government. (Note: This is a compilation from various cited sources, including the National Institutes of Health, with emphasis added by BU for those pressed for time.)


Key Points

• The powerful pharmaceutical lobby spends the most in the U.S. - by far. In return, they receive beneficial legislation and treatment by politicians.


• The government removed all financial liability for pharmaceutical companies with vaccines in 1986, which does not motivate those companies to produce safer products for the public.


• The U.S. government, not pharmaceutical companies, is responsible for defending vaccines in “vaccine court” and has paid more than $4 billion dollars in damages for injuries and deaths caused by vaccines.


• The U.S. has the one of the highest infant mortality rates among all the industrialized countries in the world.



• Over 60 vaccine-related safety studies and their links are included in this post to enable further research and for the reader to ascertain validity.



Image by Liz Masoner from Pixabay

1. Bayh-Dole Act and the Federal Technology Transfer Act


“The Bayh–Dole Act…is United States legislation dealing with inventions arising from federal government-funded research…the Act was adopted in 1980.” This Act applies to nonprofits, including small businesses and universities. “A key change made by Bayh–Dole was in the procedures by which federal contractors that acquired ownership of inventions made with federal funding could retain that ownership…A second key change with Bayh-Dole was to authorize federal agencies to grant exclusive licenses to inventions owned by the federal government.”

(source: Bayh-Dole Act. (n.d.). Retrieved May 22, 2020 from the Scribus Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act)


Exclusive licenses enable pharmaceutical companies to have a monopoly and set egregious prices for those medical inventions developed using public funds, while making billions in revenue. “…Of the 210 medicines approved for market by the FDA between 2010 and 2016, every one originated in research conducted in government laboratories or in university labs funded in large part by the National Institutes of Health...This is not a ‘business’ functioning in some imaginary free market. It’s a system built by and for Wall Street, resting on a foundation of $33 billion in annual taxpayer-funded research.


Generations of lawmakers from both parties bear responsibility for allowing the drug economy to become a racket controlled by hedge funds and the Martin Shkrelis of the smaller firms. The current crisis in drug prices and access—as well as a quieter but no less serious crisis in drug innovation—is the result of decades of regulatory dereliction and corporate capture…


Consider the case of Mylan’s EpiPen [for anaphylaxis/allergic reactions]. In 2015, Mylan controlled more than 90 percent of the country’s epinephrine injector market, with a decade left on its patents...Mylan then started spiking the price on EpiPens…an EpiPen two-pack hit $600. The cost of manufacturing EpiPens, meanwhile, hung steady at a few dollars, as did the sticker price of EpiPens in Europe, where regulation keeps them as low as $69…Gilead Sciences’ new Hepatitis C drugs are another example. Although the drugs were developed in a NIH-funded lab at Emory University, Gilead was able to set the price at six-figures, leading to extreme Medicaid rationing and effectively sentencing millions of Americans to early deaths…” The cost of the 12-week Hepatitis C treatment is under $100 to manufacture.

(source: Zaitchik, A. (2018, June 28). How Big Pharma was Captured by the One Percent. Retrieved from https://newrepublic.com/article/149438/big-pharma-captured-one-percent)


“Why are we allowing drug companies to gain proprietary control over taxpayer-funded research, then turn around and price-gouge those same taxpayers to literal death?”

(source: Zaitchik, A. (2 years ago). Taxpayers — not Big Pharma — have funded the research behind every new drug since 2010. Retrieved from https://other98.com/taxpayers-fund-pharma-research-development/)


“Pricing scandals like these are often burned into the public mind with indelible images: Martin Shkreli smirking on cable news about jacking the price of Daraprim 5,000 percent, or Mylan chairman Robert Coury raising both middle fingers in a board meeting, and telling the parents of kids with serious food allergies to ‘go f*ck themselves’ if they can’t afford his $600 EpiPen two-pack…[The scandals] are only possible because of the monopoly patent pipeline and unregulated pricing regime established and overseen by the United States government...”

(source: Zaitchik, A. (2018, June 28). How Big Pharma was Captured by the One Percent. Retrieved from https://newrepublic.com/article/149438/big-pharma-captured-one-percent)


“The government not only possesses the power to directly control drug prices in the public interest—it is obliged to do so, as a condition of allowing industry access to taxpayer funded science. The government possesses the power to reduce the price on any drug it sees fit—known as ‘march-in rights’—and has long possessed this power…


However, ‘The NIH refuses to enforce the apparatus because it wants the pipeline,’ Barnett said. ‘The lack of political will suggests the industry has bought everyone off.’…‘The government is ignoring its own directives and allowing people to die.’”

(source: Zaitchik, A. (2018, June 28). How Big Pharma was Captured by the One Percent. Retrieved from https://newrepublic.com/article/149438/big-pharma-captured-one-percent)


“But Bayh-Dole has had many unforeseen consequences that, today, raise some serious concerns about the future of medical innovation in the U.S. For one, the pipeline from academia to industry has turned out to be a two-way street. Corporations aren’t just buying inventions once they’re created; they’re actually ordering up innovations before they’re developed by influencing research agendas. Business is telling academia what it wants scientists to work on: products that can be easily invented and easily sold, in volume…Such an intimate union between universities and drug companies raises concerns. The most obvious problem is basic conflict of interest: when a university gets millions of dollars from a drug company, it becomes obligated to its benefactor.”

(source: Mahar, M. and Karvounis, N. (2008, May 8). Bayh-Dole and the Academia-Industrial Complex. Retrieved from https://healthbeatblog.com/2008/05/bayh-dole-and-t/)


The Federal Technology Transfer Act

“The Federal Technology Transfer Act (FTTA) was enacted by Congress in 1986 and builds on the Stevenson-Wydler [Technology Innovation] Act of 1980…It allows government inventors to patent their technologies and receive a share of the royalties when patents are licensed.”

(source: Federal Technology Transfer Act and Related Legislation. (2020, May 22). Retrieved from https://www.epa.gov/ftta/federal-technology-transfer-act-and-related-legislation)


As such, government employees were granted the ability to receive patents for inventions funded by taxpayers, while having the ability to determine the recommended treatment for health issues, possibly creating a conflict of interest, due to the income generated. For example, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), since 1984, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci holds 12 patents. “Annually, each inventor who has assigned rights in the licensed invention to the Government receives a share of the royalties, not to exceed $150,000 per year [per patent].”

(source: Technology Transfer Office. (2020, May 22). Retrieved from https://www.nrl.navy.mil/techtransfer/FAQs/licensing and source: Patents by Inventor Anthony S. Fauci. (2020, May 22). Retrieved from https://patents.justia.com/inventor/anthony-s-fauci)


Furthermore, throughout Washington D.C., it is not uncommon for various government officials to sit on company boards or to have other ties to pharmaceutical companies. “While researching the financial ties of several government experts in charge of drafting treatment guidelines for the [corona] virus, Attkisson found that nine of them had ties to Gilead, the manufacturer of Remdesivir. Another 11 were reportedly linked to a drug company and seven, including two committee leaders had direct ties to Gilead, and two were even on Gilead’s advisory board.” (The expected cost to manufacture one Remdesivir treatment for coronavirus is $10 and the announced price is $3,120 for people with health insurance.)

(source: Brown, T. (2020, May 22). YouTube Censors Former CBS Journalist Sharyl Attkisson For Reporting On Hydroxychloroquine – Here’s What Is Documented About the Drug. Retrieved from https://thewashingtonstandard.com/youtube-censors-former-cbs-journalist-sharyl-attkisson-for-reporting-on-hdroxychloroquine-heres-what-is-documented-about-the-drug/) (source: Herper, M. (2020, June 29). Gilead announces long-awaited price for Covid-19 drug remdesivir. Retrieved from https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/29/gilead-announces-remdesivir-price-covid-19/)

Image by Denis Hiza from Pixabay


2. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986


The NCVIA “was signed into law…on November 14, 1986. NCVIA's purpose was to eliminate the potential financial liability of vaccine manufacturers due to vaccine injury claims in order to ensure a stable market supply of vaccines, and to provide cost-effective arbitration for vaccine injury claims. Under the NCVIA, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP or VICP) was created to provide a federal no-fault system for compensating vaccine-related injuries or death by establishing a claim procedure involving the United States Court of Federal Claims and special masters.”

(source: National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. (n.d.). Retrieved May 22, 2020 from the Scribus Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Injury_Act)


“[The law] was created in the 1980s, after lawsuits against vaccine companies and health care providers threatened to cause vaccine shortages and reduce U.S. vaccination rates, which could have caused a resurgence of vaccine preventable diseases.”

(source: National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. (2020, May 22). Retrieved from https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html)


Image by succo from Pixabay


3. Vaccine Court (from NCVIA)


“The Office of Special Masters of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, popularly known as ‘vaccine court’, administers a no-fault system for litigating vaccine injury claims. These claims against vaccine manufacturers cannot normally be filed in state or federal civil courts, but instead must be heard in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, sitting without a jury.”

(source: National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Retrieved May 22, 2020 from the Scribus Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Vaccine_Injury_Compensation_Program)


• Number of petitions filed for injuries and deaths by vaccine (here)

• Number of petitions filed by year (here)

• Time it took to adjudicate injury claims (here)


The government uses their own attorneys to defend against a vaccine injury claim and then pays the plaintiffs out of the government fund. There is no cost to the pharmaceutical companies. They do not incur any costs in the legal defense of their vaccines, regardless of the outcome. “Individuals who believe they have been injured by a covered vaccine can file a claim against the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims seeking compensation from the Vaccine Trust Fund. Civil Division, Torts Branch attorneys in the Office of Vaccine Litigation defend HHS against claims filed under the VICP [Vaccine Injury Compensation Program], and ensure that fair compensation is awarded in every case meeting the eligibility criteria.”

(source: Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. (2020, May 22). Retrieved from https://www.justice.gov/civil/vicp)


Contrary to common pharmaceutical injury cases, pharmaceutical companies have no liability for vaccine injuries after the 1986 law passed. Plaintiffs are paid out of a government fund. “Funded by a $.75 excise tax on vaccines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for routine administration to children, the excise tax is imposed on each dose (i.e., disease that is prevented) of a vaccine.”

(source: About the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. (2020, May 22). Retrieved from https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/about/index.html)


“The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) covers most vaccines routinely given in the U.S. For a vaccine to be covered, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) must recommend the category of vaccine for routine administration to children or pregnant women, and it must be subject to an excise tax by federal law.” The Vaccine Injury Table published by the government that lists vaccines and the covered injuries, including encephalitis and Guillain-Barré Syndrome, can be found here: https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/covered-vaccines/index.html.

(source: Covered Vaccines. (2020, May 22). Retrieved from https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/covered-vaccines/index.html)


Prior to the 1986 law, “…jury awards in vaccine cases increased from $25 million in 1981 to $3.2 billion in 1985...” The flood of lawsuits caused several companies to no longer manufacture vaccines.

(source: Salzberg, S. (2011, March 1). Supreme Court Saves Childhood Vaccines – and Public Health. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/sciencebiz/2011/03/01/supreme-court-saves-childhood-vaccines-and-public-health/#3e093fc859aa)



4. Vaccine Injury Payouts Are Paid by the Government


As of 2020, $4,300,000,000 in compensation (including some attorneys’ fees and costs) has been awarded to people injured by vaccines. The legislated payment for compensable deaths is $250,000. For background information on the process, visit: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-106hrpt977/html/CRPT-106hrpt977.htm.

(source: Vaccine Injury Compensation Data. (2020, May 22). Retrieved from https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/data/index.html)

From a National Institutes of Health in 2009, “Vaccines are not entirely safe. The currently used vaccines are merely less unsafe than previous vaccines...”

(source: Ewing, G. E. (2009, July 1). What is regressive autism and why does it occur? Is it the consequence of multi-systemic dysfunction affecting the elimination of heavy metals and the ability to regulate neural temperature? Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364648/)




5. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (from NCVIA)


“Established in 1990, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a national early warning system to detect possible safety problems in U.S.-licensed vaccines. VAERS is co-managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). VAERS accepts and analyzes reports of adverse events (possible side effects) after a person has received a vaccination. Anyone can report an adverse event to VAERS. Healthcare professionals are required to report certain adverse events and vaccine manufacturers are required to report all adverse events that come to their attention.”

(source: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. (2020, May 22). Retrieved from https://vaers.hhs.gov/about.html)


To research reported side effects and deaths attributed to specific vaccines, the government’s database is: https://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html. (Directions on how to search the database are found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOH7cFWS7o4&t=460s.)


“…about 30,000 reports are submitted [to VAERS] and reviewed by CDC and FDA annually.”

(source: Essick, K. (2018, August 15). A Shot in the Arm — CHR Team Gives Vaccine Safety Research a ‘Boost’. Retrieved from https://research.kpchr.org/News/CHR-Stories/A-Shot-in-the-Arm-CHR-Team-Gives-Vaccine-Safety-Research-a-Boost)


Unlike the Vaccine Safety Datalink [see below], VAERS is a public resource. As of May 2020, there are more than 2,300,000 entries in the VAERS database with approximately 1,700 deaths listed.



6. Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD)


“The Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) is a collaborative project between CDC’s Immunization Safety Office and eight health care organizations. The VSD started in 1990 and continues today in order to monitor safety of vaccines and conduct studies about rare and serious adverse events following immunization.


The VSD uses electronic health data from each participating site. This includes information on vaccines: the kind of vaccine given to each patient, date of vaccination, and other vaccinations given on the same day. The VSD also uses information on medical illnesses that have been diagnosed at doctors’ offices, urgent care visits, emergency department visits, and hospital stays. The VSD conducts vaccine safety studies based on questions or concerns raised from the medical literature and reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). When there are new vaccines that have been recommended for use in the United States or if there are changes in how a vaccine is recommended, the VSD will monitor the safety of these vaccines.


The VSD has a long history of monitoring and evaluating the safety of vaccines. Since 1990, investigators from the VSD have published many studies to address vaccine safety concerns.” However, the government has decided that the more than 11 million records from the contributing 8 health care organizations are not available for the public to search like the VAERS database, which doesn't help to quell vaccine safety concerns. The studies conducted by the VSD can be found here: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/vsd/publications.html.

(source: Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD). (2020, May 25). Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/vsd/index.html)


Some VSD Recorded Adverse Reactions to Vaccines

“Time and again, Dr. Naleway said, vaccines have proven safe. She pointed to three exceptions observed by the VSD: in the late 1990s, a new rotavirus vaccine, RotaShield, led to an increased risk of intussusception (obstruction of the intestines) in children and was quickly withdrawn from the market [see note below]; administering a combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), and varicella vaccine (chicken pox) to children caused a slight increase in febrile seizures (convulsions caused by a spike in body temperature), when compared to administering the MMR and varicella vaccine separately; and the influenza vaccine in very rare occasions increased the risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome [see note below].” (For more vaccine incidents, some resulting in death, visit: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4599698/)

(source: Essick, K. (2018, August 15). A Shot in the Arm — CHR Team Gives Vaccine Safety Research a ‘Boost’. Retrieved from https://research.kpchr.org/News/CHR-Stories/A-Shot-in-the-Arm-CHR-Team-Gives-Vaccine-Safety-Research-a-Boost)


Note: RotaShield®: “The results of the investigations showed that RotaShield® vaccine caused intussusception in some healthy infants younger than 12 months of age who normally would be at low risk for this condition. The risk of intussusception increased 20 to 30 times over the expected risk for children of this age group within 2 weeks following the first dose of RotaShield® vaccine...In studies before RotaShield® vaccine was licensed, about 7,000 infants received the vaccine. After RotaShield® vaccine was licensed, many more infants were vaccinated during the nine months that the vaccine was available. However, the exact number of infants who received RotaShield® is not known...” Over 100 babies were injured and 2 died. Read the transcript from the Congressional Hearing here.

(source: Rotavirus Vaccine (RotaShield®) and Intussusception. (2020, May 26). Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/rotavirus/vac-rotashield-historical.htm)


Note: “Guillain-Barre syndrome is a rare disorder in which your body's immune system attacks your nerves. Weakness and tingling in your extremities are usually the first symptoms. These sensations can quickly spread, eventually paralyzing your whole body. In its most severe form Guillain-Barre syndrome is a medical emergency…There's no known cure for Guillain-Barre syndrome, but several treatments can ease symptoms and reduce the duration of the illness. Although most people recover from Guillain-Barre syndrome, the mortality rate is 4% to 7%. Between 60-80% of people are able to walk at six months. Patients may experience lingering effects from it, such as weakness, numbness or fatigue.”

(source: Guillain–Barre syndrome. (2020, May 26). Retrieved from https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/guillain-barre-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20362793)



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7. Number of Vaccines After NCVIA Law in 1986


The number of vaccines on the Vaccine Schedule for children has increased dramatically after the passage of the 1986 law.


• History of Vaccines for Children – 4 doses in the 1940s to 70 doses in 2018

• For a vaccine timeline: https://www.immunize.org/timeline/


“There are multiple vaccines that generate over $1 billion in sales per year…”

(source: Jones, Chuck. (2020, May 23). Buyer Beware: Covid-19 Vaccine Maker Moderna is Valued in the Stratosphere. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2020/05/23/buyer-beware-covid-19-vaccine-maker-moderna-is-valued-in-the-stratosphere/#24519e1b6c60)



Photo by CDC on Unsplash


8. Recommended Vaccinations for Infants (2020)


By the age of 1, American children should have received 24 shots with 32 vaccine doses. For the government’s vaccine chart, visit: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/easy-to-read/child-easyread.html.


At Birth:

At 2 Months:

At 4 Months:


At 6 Months:

At 12 Months:

3) Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR)


(source: Recommended Vaccines By Age. (2020, May 25). Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/vaccines-age.html)


* Contains adjuvant

^ May contain adjuvant

** May contain Thimerosal (Only trace amounts for DTaP)

(source: Adjuvants Help Vaccines Work Better. (2020, May 22). Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/adjuvants.html)


How Many Vaccinations Are Recommended?

There is some controversy as to how to count the number of recommended childhood vaccines by the government. 70 or “72 doses,” which includes 2 during pregnancy, are said to be misleading because several of the recommended shots are combinations of multiple vaccines. 54 is argued to be the correct number. However, if the DTaP shot is comprised of diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccines and people can get a tetanus shot separately, after sustaining certain injuries, doesn’t that mean it is a separate vaccine? Vaccines given in combination are to decrease the number of shots. The number of vaccines doesn't change.

(source: Do Kids Really Get 72 Doses of Vaccines? (2020, June 3). Retrieved from https://vaxopedia.org/2018/07/15/do-kids-really-get-72-doses-of-vaccines/) (additional source: List of Vaccines Used in United States. (2020, May 25). Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/vaccines-list.html)

The vaccines in MMR are not separated today. However, “In 1963 the measles vaccine was developed, and by the late 1960s, vaccines were also available to protect against mumps (1967) and rubella (1969). These three vaccines were combined into the MMR vaccine in 1971.” This clearly states that 3 vaccines were combined into the MMR triple vaccine shot used today.

(source: Vaccine History: Developments by Year. (2020, May 22). Retrieved from https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-history/developments-by-year)


“...[A review of the MMR triple vaccine] suggests (1) single vaccines may pose less risk than triple vaccines; (2) some vaccines pose a greater risk than others e.g. pertussis and measles; and (3) the way in which vaccines are administered will be accompanied by different side-effects e.g. if pertussis is followed by measles or vice-versa...Increased disease loading is the inevitable consequence of multiple vaccine or lots of single vaccines or triple vaccines e.g. of asthma, autoimmune disease, etc. It suggests that adherence to the vaccine schedule is the problem – too many vaccines, too quickly...”

(source: Ewing, G. E. (2009, July 1). What is regressive autism and why does it occur? Is it the consequence of multi-systemic dysfunction affecting the elimination of heavy metals and the ability to regulate neural temperature? Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364648/)


From the National Institutes of Health, “There is concern that the cumulative effect of vaccines upon the body's function has not been properly assessed...and that excessive vaccination is considered ineffective and dangerous...”

(source: Ewing, G. E. (2009, July 1). What is regressive autism and why does it occur? Is it the consequence of multi-systemic dysfunction affecting the elimination of heavy metals and the ability to regulate neural temperature? Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364648/)



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9. CDC Recommendations on Food Safety and Vaccinations


Here are the recommendations for babies starting to eat solid foods from the CDC website: “Let your child try one food at a time at first. This helps you see if your child has any problems with that food, such as food allergies. Wait 3 to 5 days between each new food.” This is great advice for safety because it is difficult to identify a food a child may be allergic to when they eat more than one at a time.

(source: When, What, and How to Introduce Solid Food. (2020, May 25). Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/InfantandToddlerNutrition/foods-and-drinks/when-to-introduce-solid-foods.html)


In light of CDC's food safety advice, one might assume similar advice concerning vaccines. Instead, the CDC recommends multiple vaccinations - 6 shots at the same time - for babies. If a baby has an adverse reaction after receiving a recommended 8 vaccines at the same time, how can anyone identify which vaccine may be the cause? Adults have life-threatening reactions to some medications and are able to convey their symptoms. Are babies less susceptible to reactions or more so? If the concern is an allergic reaction to food, why is an allergic reaction to a vaccine any different? More importantly, how are babies facing fewer health risks when receiving multiple vaccinations containing various excipients, including aluminum or formaldehyde [see note below], than eating food?


Note: “Formaldehyde...is a naturally occurring organic compound...In 2011, the US National Toxicology Program described formaldehyde as ‘known to be a human carcinogen’...The safety of formaldehyde is very complicated. It occurs naturally and is ‘an essential intermediate in cellular metabolism in mammals and humans.’ It is not acutely toxic as ingestion of many milliliters is tolerated.” (source: Formaldehyde. (n.d.). Retrieved May 26, 2020 from the Scribus Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formaldehyde)


As an excipient in a vaccine, formaldehyde is an inactivating ingredient that is used to inactivate toxins or to kill viruses. (For more information about the possible links between formaldehyde and various types of cancer, including leukemia, visit: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/formaldehyde.html)


Allergic Reactions After Vaccinations

“In a 25-year review of data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), [anaphylaxis] reports in children were most common following childhood vaccinations and among adults more often followed influenza vaccine. In a Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) study, the estimated incidence of anaphylaxis was 1.3 per million vaccine doses administered for all vaccines and 1.6 per million doses for IIV3 (trivalent) influenza vaccine.”

(source: McNeil, M. M. (2019, July 16). Vaccine-Associated Anaphylaxis. Retrieved from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31815089/)


“Anaphylaxis [see note below] is a rare, serious hypersensitivity reaction following vaccination…Although anaphylaxis may occur after any vaccine, understanding the risk for this outcome, particularly following influenza vaccines, is important because of the large number of persons vaccinated annually...”

(source: McNeil, M. M. (2019, July 16). Vaccine-Associated Anaphylaxis. Retrieved from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31815089/)


Note: “Anaphylaxis [also known as anaphylactic shock] is a severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction. It can occur within seconds or minutes of exposure to something you're allergic to, such as peanuts or bee stings. Anaphylaxis causes your immune system to release a flood of chemicals that can cause you to go into shock — your blood pressure drops suddenly and your airways narrow, blocking breathing…Anaphylaxis requires an injection of epinephrine and a follow-up trip to an emergency room…If anaphylaxis isn't treated right away, it can be fatal.”



Photo by Hush Naidoo on Unsplash


10. 2017 World Infant Mortality Rates (Under 1-Year-Old)


“Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) compares the number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in the same year. This rate is often used as an indicator of the level of health in a country.” The U.S. ranked 54th globally for infant mortality with an estimated 5.8 deaths per 1,000 births, tied with Serbia and behind Bosnia and Herzegovina.

1. Monaco* – 1.8 Deaths / 1,000 live births

2. Japan*

5. Norway*

8. Sweden*

10. Hong Kong* – 2.7

11. South Korea

12. Macau

13. France

14. Spain

15. Anguilla

16. Italy

17. Luxembourg

18. Austria

19. Belgium

20. Guernsey – 3.4

21. Germany

22. Israel

23. Malta

24. Switzerland

25. Netherlands

26. Belarus

27. Andorra

28. Ireland

29. Lithuania

30. Estonia – 3.8

31. Jersey

32. Slovenia

33. Isle of Man

34. Denmark and EU

35. Liechtenstein

36. Portugal

37. San Marino

38. Taiwan

39. Wallis and Futuna

40. United Kingdom – 4.3

41. Australia

42. New Zealand

43. Poland

44. Cuba

45. Canada

46. Greece

47. French Polynesia

48. Hungary

49. Slovakia

50. Latvia – 5.2

51. New Caledonia

52. Faroe Islands

53. Bosnia and Herzegovina

54. USA – 5.8 Deaths / 1,000 live births

54. Serbia – 5.8

*Linked to the country's vaccination schedule. For European countries, visit: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/.

(source: The World Factbook. (2020, May 25). Retrieved from https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html)

The government has been well-aware for years of the deaths likely caused by the high number of vaccines in the U.S. Vaccine Schedule. From the National Institutes of Health in 2011, “Linear regression analysis of unweighted mean IMRs showed a high statistically significant correlation between increasing number of vaccine doses and increasing infant mortality rates...Among the 34 nations analyzed, those that require the most vaccines tend to have the worst IMRs [Infant Mortality Rates]. Thus, we must ask important questions: is it possible that some nations are requiring too many vaccines for their infants and the additional vaccines are a toxic burden on their health?”

“Despite the United States spending more per capita on health care than any other country...According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ‘The relative position of the United States in comparison to countries with the lowest infant mortality rates appears to be worsening [from 2011].’”


From the National Institutes of Health, “These findings demonstrate a counter-intuitive relationship: nations that require more vaccine doses tend to have higher infant mortality rates.”

(source: Miller, N. Z. and Goldman, G. S. (2011, September 30). Infant mortality rates regressed against number of vaccine doses routinely given: Is there a biochemical or synergistic toxicity? Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/?hc_location=ufi)


Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

SIDS was officially named in 1969. However, research on non-suffocation crib death was performed for decades prior to that date. “…Together, Werne and Garrow laid out the pathological findings that would soon be named ‘SIDS.’ By the time these papers had been published, their series of sudden unexpected deaths in sleeping infants had reached 299 and those which could not be explained by other findings after autopsy represented 83.2% of the deaths. In addition to these seminal publications, Werne and Garrow promoted knowledge translation at regional and national meetings in the 1940s and first half of the 1950s…” See event photo here.

(source: Wright, J. R. (2017, June 1). A Fresh Look at the History of SIDS. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6474527/)

According to a CDC publication, the significant increase in SIDS deaths between 1960 and 1980 may be due in part to the classification of deaths over time. The consistent classification of SIDS deaths has been a concern for decades. The difference in infant mortality due to SIDS from 1960 to 1980 can be found here: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/66439. Birth weight and race play an important role in infant mortality risk. The study cited SIDS in the postneonatal group (over 28 days of life) as the leading cause of death in 1980.

For the chart that shows U.S. infant mortality causes throughout the 20th century, visit: https://academic.oup.com/view-large/figure/111940786/4w03u1430007.jpeg. For the infant deaths classified as SIDS by race in 1996 and 1997, visit: https://academic.oup.com/view-large/figure/111940793/4w03u1430008.jpeg and https://academic.oup.com/view-large/111940794.

The Distinction Between SUID and SIDS

From the CDC, “In 2017, there were about 3,600 sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUID) in the United States. These deaths occur among infants less than 1 year old and have no immediately obvious cause.

The three commonly reported types of SUID include the following:

  • Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

  • Unknown cause.

  • Accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed.

In 2017, there were about 1,400 deaths due to SIDS, about 1,300 deaths due to unknown causes, and about 900 deaths due to accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed.”

(source: Sudden Unexpected Infant Death and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. (2020, June 8). Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/sids/data.htm)


Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Vaccinations

From the National Institutes of Health, “Prior to contemporary vaccination programs, ‘Crib death’ was so infrequent that it was not mentioned in infant mortality statistics...Although some studies were unable to find correlations between SIDS and vaccines, there is some evidence that a subset of infants may be more susceptible to SIDS shortly after being vaccinated. For example, Torch found that two-thirds of babies who had died from SIDS had been vaccinated against DPT (diphtheria–pertussis–tetanus toxoid) prior to death...Fine and Chen reported that babies died at a rate nearly eight times greater than normal within 3 days after getting a DPT vaccination.”

(source: Miller, N. Z. and Goldman, G. S. (2011, September 30). Infant mortality rates regressed against number of vaccine doses routinely given: Is there a biochemical or synergistic toxicity? Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/?hc_location=ufi)


“It appears as though some infant deaths attributed to SIDS may be vaccine related, perhaps associated with biochemical or synergistic toxicity due to over-vaccination. Some infants' deaths categorized as ‘suffocation’ or due to ‘unknown and unspecified causes' may also be cases of SIDS reclassified within the ICD. Some of these infant deaths may be vaccine related as well...


If some infant deaths are vaccine related and concealed within the various ICD [International Classification of Diseases] categories for SUIDs, is it possible that other vaccine-related infant deaths have also been reclassified?...For example, a new live-virus orally administered vaccine against rotavirus-induced diarrhea—Rotarix®—was licensed by the European Medicine Agency in 2006 and approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2008 [and is still licensed in the U.S.].


However, in a clinical study that evaluated the safety of the Rotarix vaccine, vaccinated babies died at a higher rate than non-vaccinated babies—mainly due to a statistically significant increase in pneumonia-related fatalities. (One biologically plausible explanation is that natural rotavirus infection might have a protective effect against respiratory infection.) Although these fatalities appear to be vaccine related and raise a nation’s infant mortality rate, medical certifiers are likely to misclassify these deaths as pneumonia.”

(source: Miller, N. Z. and Goldman, G. S. (2011, September 30). Infant mortality rates regressed against number of vaccine doses routinely given: Is there a biochemical or synergistic toxicity? Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/?hc_location=ufi)



Image by Werner Heiber from Pixabay


11. The Powerful Pharmaceutical Lobby in Washington


“Ask people which special interest drops the most lobby money into D.C. and most would guess attorneys or environmentalists, or perhaps even unions. But it’s none of the above. It’s actually Big Pharma. And that explains a lot — namely, why America has become a nation of pill poppers. We have a prescription for everything nowadays. Don’t agree? Flip on the TV. Count how many different ads cross the screen in any given hour promising fixes for this, cures for that. Then count how many others cross promising fixes and cures for the side effects the first batch brings. In 2015, Big Pharma spent $5.4 billion on ads that targeted consumers, Kantar Media reported. In return, Americans spent $457 billion on prescription drugs, Drug Watch reported.”

(source: Chumley, C. K. (2019, October 29). Big Pharma and D.C., joined at the lobbying hip. Retrieved from https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/29/big-pharma-and-dc-joined-lobbying-hip/)


“Hundreds of millions of dollars flow to lobbyists and politicians on Capitol Hill each year to shape laws and policies that keep drug company profits growing. The pharmaceutical industry...has about two lobbyists for every member of Congress...Drug companies also contributed more than $20m directly to political campaigns last year [in 2016]...”

(source: How big pharma's money – and its politicians – feed the US opioid crisis. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/19/big-pharma-money-lobbying-us-opioid-crisis)


“In 2019, the pharmaceuticals and health products industry in the United States spent the most on lobbying efforts, totaling to about 295.17 million U.S. dollars.” Electronics Manufacturing was second at $156.39 million.

(source: Duffin, E. (2020, March 4). Leading lobbying industries in the U.S. 2019. Retrieved from https://www.statista.com/statistics/257364/top-lobbying-industries-in-the-us/)


Friends in High Places

Sometimes the lobbyists’ efforts, donations, and relationships with elected representatives payoff in ways that do not always include favorable legislation. “A national medical association is suing Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). The case accuses the California Congressman of abuse of power, claiming that he bullied tech companies into censoring information about vaccines. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) filed the suit in a U.S. District Court in D.C. on Jan. 20, 2020. The complaint points to letters Schiff sent to Google, Facebook, and Amazon in February and March of 2019 urging those companies to discredit or deplatform any content that suggests vaccines may be harmful…


Schiff’s suggestion gave quick results. Within 24 hours after [Congressman] Schiff posted one of his letters, Amazon removed the popular documentaries ‘Vaxxed’ and ‘Shoot ’Em Up: the Truth About Vaccines’ from its streaming platform. A few months later, Twitter added a disclaimer above search results for an AAPS article discussing vaccine mandates, and a Facebook search for AAPS articles on vaccinations now leads users to links from the World Health Organization, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…”

(source: Milner, C. (2020, February 3). Physicians’ Association Sues Rep Adam Schiff for Vaccine Censorship. Retrieved from https://www.theepochtimes.com/physicians-association-sues-rep-adam-schiff-for-vaccine-censorship_3220485.html#)


Furthermore, representatives and government employees may face pressure from Big Pharma. “[Robert F.] Kennedy [Jr], a Democrat, isn’t the only one claiming vaccine industry money rules the day. We spoke to 11 current and former members of Congress and staff who claim they faced pressure, bullying or threats when they raised vaccine safety questions…”

Former Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Dan Burton stated, “There’s no question in my mind whatsoever that the pharmaceutical industry had a great influence with people over at the CDC and FDA. There’s no question in my mind.”

(source: Bombshell: Gov Official Confirms Link Between Vaccines and Autism. (2019, January 10). Retrieved from https://www.eutimes.net/2019/01/bombshell-gov-official-confirms-link-between-vaccines-and-autism/. See the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XUM2gvfbW8)


The High Price of Vaccines and Drugs in the U.S.

“Vaccines generate billions of dollars in revenue for drug companies as costs paid by the federal government — which purchases half of all the vaccines for the nation's children — have risen 15-fold since 1986, The New York Times reported. Annual immunization costs have gone from $100 per child in 1986 to $2,192 per child in 2015, the Times noted, citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Times described vaccination costs today as ‘soaring.’”

(source: Billups, A. (2015, June 27). How Much Revenue Do Vaccines Generate? Retrieved from https://www.newsmax.com/FastFeatures/vaccines-revenue/2015/06/27/id/652549/)


Pharmaceutical companies are able to charge vastly different prices to consumers in other countries for similar drugs. “In fact, the cost of HIV medications abroad is puzzling to many, because the price differences are so vast. According to a 2018 report from the New York Times, a year’s worth of new triple-therapy HIV drug cost a whopping $39,000, while in Africa, the same amount cost $75.”

(source: Farley, R. (2019, October 7). Why are there so few generic HIV drugs? How am I supposed to cut costs? Retrieved from https://www.pharmacychecker.com/askpc/generic-hiv-drug-costs/#!)


“The [pharmaceutical] company does not discuss its costs, but Mr. Monteyne [with Glaxo] said the cost of a flu shot is flexible depending on whether the buyer can pay more. ‘We have a tiered pricing strategy,’ Mr. Monteyne said. ‘It is mainly based on the level of income of the country.’”

(source: Woods, J. (2009, December 29). How vaccines became big business. Retrieved from https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/conditions/how-vaccines-became-big-business/article572731/)

Your Tax Dollars in Action

“The system was brilliantly put in place by suspect individuals long ago. Big pharma and billionaires fund the politicians. The politicians pass legislation favorable to the billionaire’s NGOs [non-Governmental Organizations, such as the Global Fund to fight AIDS]. The government funnels taxpayer dollars to the NGOs. They in turn funnel the money back and forth among themselves, with millions allegedly vanishing in the process, and when the politicians leave office, they reap the benefits as well through their own NGOs...”

(source: Is AIDS US $90B Taxpayer Dollars A Global Slush Fund? (2020, January 29). Retrieved from https://www.coreysdigs.com/health-science/is-aids-us-90b-taxpayer-dollars-a-global-slush-fund/)


Image by Bruno /Germany from Pixabay


12. Direct-to-Consumer Drug Ads are Legal in Only 2 Countries


The FDA is responsible for relaxing regulations that enabled pharmaceutical companies to begin to advertise drugs direct-to-consumers. “In 1997, drug companies spent roughly $17.1 billion on marketing for prescription drugs and any health conditions that may be associated with them…By 2016, that figure was $26.9 billion. Simultaneously, total US spending on prescription drugs skyrocketed from $116.4 billion to $329 billion.”

(source: Foley, K. E. (2019, January 9). Big Pharma spent an additional $9.8 billion on marketing in the past 20 years. It worked. Retrieved from https://qz.com/1517909/big-pharma-spent-an-additional-9-8-billion-on-marketing-in-the-past-20-years-it-worked/)


“Of the $1.05 trillion revenue for the global pharmaceutical market, nearly half of it -- roughly $515 billion -- comes from the U.S. and Canada. However, the two countries make up only around 7% of the total world population.”

(source: Speights, K. (2016, July 31). 12 Big Pharma Stats That Will Blow You Away. Retrieved from https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/07/31/12-big-pharma-stats-that-will-blow-you-away.aspx)


Does Money Lead to Silence?

Around the world, only the US and New Zealand allow drug ads to consumers.

(source: Ventola, C. L. (2011, October). Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising: Therapeutic or Toxic? Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3278148/)


The millions of dollars in advertising revenue received by news organizations and tech companies (Facebook, YouTube/Google, etc.) may affect their decisions to do investigative reporting on pharmaceutical companies or to suppress opposition content.


Although advertising revenue presents significant conflict of interest concerns, direct investment may also affect the dissemination of opposing views. “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust...which manages the assets of the world's largest private foundation, revealed new positions in Apple, Amazon, Google-parent Alphabet, Alibaba, and Twitter. Its stakes in the first four were valued between $100 million and $130 million each on March 31, while its Twitter holdings were worth about $7 million...


Gates has emerged as a leading commentator on the COVID-19 outbreak due to his deep experience in fighting diseases and vaccinating populations, and his warning of a pandemic back in 2015. The philanthropist recently said his foundation is giving ‘total attention’ to the pandemic, and expects to spend billions constructing vaccine factories.”

(source: Mohamed, T. (2020, May 26). The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested in Apple, Amazon, and Google last quarter. Retrieved from https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/gates-foundation-bought-apple-amazon-google-stock-first-quarter-2020-5-1029234223)


“...Should wealthy individuals or powerful groups be able to pay or lobby Google to have their critics removed from all search results? During 2018 Google employees themselves took a very strong public stance on exactly these issues, protesting their own company’s willingness to produce a ‘censored’ version of their search engine for use in China...and soon forced executives to abandon the project. But although Google censorship of content within China still remains an inflammatory topic, Google censorship of American content has now apparently become so routine and accepted...”

(source: Unz, R. (2020, May 24). What Google and Facebook Are Hiding. Retrieved from https://www.unz.com/announcement/what-google-and-facebook-are-hiding/)



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13. Vaccines are “safe and effective”


The safety of vaccines cannot be substantiated by government oversight reporting. “In 1986, Congress charged Health and Human Services (HHS) with the primary responsibility of ensuring vaccine safety after removing product liability from vaccine manufacturers as part of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act. As part of the 1986 Act, HHS is required to create a task force and submit bi-annual reports to Congress detailing actions taken to ensure vaccine safety. This stipulated order shows that HHS has not acted in its duties regarding vaccine safety, forcing 78 million American children into a vaccine program with no safety provisions.” The government admitted to never doing the reporting required by law for 32 years. Visit: https://www.icandecide.org/ican_lawsuits/his-lawsuit/.


Government Vaccine Safety Research

Were there no concerns raised anywhere that required action? No vaccine injury payouts by the government? No adverse reactions recorded in the Vaccine Safety Datalink? No deaths in VAERS? There have been numerous publications by the National Institutes of Health over the years that address vaccine safety concerns. Below are brief descriptions/points and the links to some of the government's publications.


1. “New epidemiological evidence supporting an association between increasing organic-Hg exposure from Thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines and the subsequent risk of ASD diagnosis.”

2. Positive Association Found Between Autism Prevalence and Childhood Vaccination Uptake Across U.S.

3. “Risk of autism among African American children [MMR] vaccinated before the age of 2 years was 340% that of those vaccinated later.”

4. “...the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that Thimerosal is safe and there is “no relationship between [T]himerosal[-]containing vaccines and autism rates in children.” This is puzzling because, in a study conducted directly by CDC epidemiologists, a 7.6-fold increased risk of autism from exposure to Thimerosal during infancy was found. The CDC's current stance that Thimerosal is safe and that there is no relationship between Thimerosal and autism is based on six specific published epidemiological studies coauthored and sponsored by the CDC. The purpose of this review is to examine these six publications and analyze possible reasons why their published outcomes are so different from the results of investigations by multiple independent research groups over the past 75+ years.” (See #19 in this list for the study this publication is citing that was received after a FOIA request.)


⁂ MUST READ: Background to the previous study. For the Mercury in Medicine Report in the 2003 Congressional Record that confirms that the government was aware of the safety concerns with Thimerosal for decades, visit the link found in this press release: https://www.prweb.com/releases/asot/thimerosal/prweb11598819.htm


5. Abnormal MMR Antibodies and CNS Autoimmunity in Children With Autism

6. Hepatitis B Vaccination before 1999: “Boys vaccinated as neonates [infants] had threefold greater odds for autism diagnosis compared to boys never vaccinated or vaccinated after the first month of life.”

7. “Our results show that: (i) children from countries with the highest ASD [autism spectrum disorders] prevalence appear to have the highest exposure to Al [aluminum] 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.”

8. “It is now suspected that long-term persistence of viruses and other proteins may produce chronic disease i.e. instead of producing a genuine immunity the vaccines are altering the body's systemic and biochemical stability, suppressing the production of differing types of white blood cells and hence immune function.”

9. “Based upon differential diagnoses, 8 of 9 patients examined were exposed to significant mercury from Thimerosal-containing biologic/vaccine preparations during their fetal/infant developmental periods, and subsequently, between 12 and 24 mo of age, these previously normally developing children suffered mercury toxic encephalopathies that manifested with clinical symptoms consistent with regressive ASDs [autism spectrum disorders].”

10. “Emerging evidence supports the theory that some autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) may result from a combination of genetic/biochemical susceptibility, specifically a reduced ability to excrete mercury (Hg), and exposure to Hg at critical developmental periods.”

11. “Estimates are that the maximum lifetime exposure to TM [Thimerosal] a vaccinated person may receive is now more than double what it would have been had the pre-2000 vaccination schedule been maintained…the preponderance of the evidence indicates that TM [Thimerosal] should be removed from all vaccines.”

12. “It implies that there is a genetic component to thimerosal hypersensitivity and this hypersensitivity is only found in a third of the ASD [autism spectrum disorder] sufferers.” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3697751/

13. “Documented causes of autism include genetic mutations and/or deletions, viral infections, and encephalitis following vaccination.”

14. “A review of medical literature and US government data suggests that: (i) many cases of idiopathic autism are induced by early mercury exposure from thimerosal; (ii) this type of autism represents an unrecognized mercurial syndrome; and (iii) genetic and non-genetic factors establish a predisposition whereby thimerosal's adverse effects occur only in some children.”

15. “Children with ASDs (28.30%) were significantly more likely (odds ratio 2.35, 95% confidence interval 1.17-4.52, p < 0.01) to have Rh-negative mothers than controls (14.36%). Each ASD [autism spectrum disorder] patient's mother was determined to have been administered a TCR [Thimerosal-containing Rho(D)-immune globulins] during her pregnancy.”

16. “Recently emerging evidence suggests that mercury, especially from childhood vaccines, appears to be a factor in the development of the autistic disorders, and that autistic children have higher than normal body-burdens of mercury.”

17. “The cumulative total dose of Hg exposure from thimerosal-containing hepatitis B vaccine (T-HBV) administered within the first six months of life was calculated. On a per microgram of organic-Hg basis, PDD (odds ratio (OR) = 1.054), specific developmental delay (OR = 1.035), tic disorder (OR = 1.034) and hyperkinetic syndrome of childhood (OR = 1.05) cases were significantly more likely than controls to receive increased organic-Hg [mercury] exposure.”


18. 157 Research Papers Supporting the Vaccine/Autism Link


(source: Marino, S. (2017, May 18). MTHFR Mutations. Retrieved from https://thevaccinereaction.org/2017/05/mthfr-mutations/. From comment by Dan. (2019, March 9 at 5:42 pm).)


More Studies Compiled By The Children’s Health Defense

The following links are from a document created by childrenshealthdefense.org.

19. Freedom of Information Act Request – Unpublished CDC Study

Hep B vaccine showed 2.1x for speech disorders, 5x for sleep disorders, 7.6x risk for autism, and 1.8x for neurodevelopmental disorders (Cited in #4 above.)

20. Prior to 2000, the Hep B triple vaccine series showed an increase in odds for special education for boys of almost 9x

21. A 4.4x Increased Risk for Non-influenza Respiratory Virus Infections is Associated with the Receipt of the Inactivated Influenza Flu Shot

22. DTP Increases Mortality in all Children 5x, Boys 3.93x, and Girls 10x

(Note: This publication has been criticized, even by Snopes.) There is a recent publication that did a similar comparison, while taking the criticisms of the previous study into consideration, such as by using patient charts and diagnosis codes. It is:


Analysis of health outcomes in vaccinated and unvaccinated children: Developmental delays, asthma, ear infections and gastrointestinal disorders

24. Type 1 Diabetes has increased chances by 3x after several vaccinations


25. Risk of Vaccine Induced Diabetes in Children with a Family History of Type 1 Diabetes

26. Freedom of Information Act Request – Unpublished CDC Data

On time MMR vaccination before 36 months increased the chance for autism in all groups. The highest group was African American boys. In 2014, the CDC Senior Vaccine Safety Scientist apologized for omitting the data on African American boys. Read his press release here.

27. The HPV vaccine increases the chances of asthma for males


28. Premature Puberty and Thimerosal-Containing Hepatitis B Vaccination: A Case-Control Study in the Vaccine Safety Datalink

29. Freedom of Information Act Request – Unpublished CDC Data

Highest Level of Exposure to Thimerosal Increase the Autism Risks by 11.25x

30. Association of spontaneous abortion with receipt of inactivated influenza vaccine containing H1N1pdm09 in 2010-11 and 2011-12 – increase in miscarriage odds by 7.7x


31. Neurological and autoimmune disorders after vaccination against influenza A (H1N1) with a monovalent adjuvanted vaccine: population based cohort study in Sweden – “…Relative risks were significantly increased for Bell’s palsy, paraesthesia, and inflammatory bowel disease after vaccination, predominantly in the early phase of the vaccination campaign...”


32. “Based on our analysis using data from the Nagoya City surveillance survey, a possible association between HPV vaccination and distinct symptoms such as cognitive impairment or movement disorders exists.”

33. Thimerosal exposure and disturbance of emotions specific to childhood and adolescence: A case-control study in the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) database


34. HPV vaccine increases the odds for Celiac Disease by 1.56x

35. When the seasonal influenza vaccine and the H1N1 vaccine are both given during pregnancy, fetal loss chances increase 11.4x – “In addition, because of the order of magnitude increase in fetal-loss report rates, from 6.8 fetal-loss reports per million pregnant women vaccinated in the single-dose 2008/2009 season to 77.8 in the two-dose 2009/2010 season, further long-term studies are needed to assess adverse outcomes in the surviving children.”


36. Intussusception Odds Increases by 5.8x After Rotavirus Vaccine (Rotarix)

37. Measles Vaccination Versus a Measles Infection Increases Risks of Atopy (Allergy) 2.8x

38. Delaying the first 3 DTP vaccine doses shows a reduction in the risk for asthma by 61%

39. High levels of Thimerosal prior to 13 months increases chance of early puberty by 6.45x

40. Infant Mortality Rates rise by 1.83x with a higher number of vaccinations by 12 months

41. Infant Mortality Increased by 5.68x with Early DTP Vaccinations in Girls

42. Receipt of Both DTP and BCG Vaccines Increased the Infant Mortality for Girls by 2.4x

43. Second and Third DTP Dose Increase Infant Mortality 4.36x

44. “Children who had received DTP [vaccine] simultaneously with MV [measles vaccine] or DTP after MV had significantly higher mortality (MRR=2.59 [1.32–5.07]) compared with children having MV-only as their most recent vaccination.”

45. Hep B Vaccination Increases Chances 3.1x of Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis

46. DPT Vaccine and an Increase in SIDS Deaths

47. January 2020 Study By Pentagon Shows Flu Shot Increases Coronavirus Risk by 36%

48. Pandemrix Influenza Shot Increases Chances of Narcolepsy 14.4x in Children


49. Flu Vaccine Increases the Inflammatory Response 39% for Pregnant Women


50. Flu Vaccine Increases the Inflammatory Response 173% Induces Cardiac Imbalance


51. Flu Vaccine Increases Susceptibility and Damage From Non-Target Flu Strains


52. Simultaneous Multiple Vaccinations Increase Cardiac Events for Premature Infants 3.62x


(Special thanks to The Children’s Health Defense for preparing this list of vaccine studies and to The Truth About Vaccines for assisting with the dissemination of this information.)


Some Pharmaceutical Companies Have a Poor Record with Safety

Since drug companies have zero liability due to a law passed by Congress, what motivation do they have to ensure vaccines are safe? If someone gets injured by a vaccine, the government covers the damages for the company’s mistakes. Why would drug companies be willing to invest more money to produce better products? How safe were the recalled drugs (non-vaccines) that the pharmaceutical companies have retained liability for, such as Vioxx (by Merck)?


• Vioxx Flashback: “With a TV ad budget averaging a hundred million dollars per year, Vioxx swiftly became one of Merck's bestsellers, generating over $2 billion in yearly revenue. Twenty-five million Americans were eventually prescribed Vioxx as an aspirin-substitute thought to produce fewer complications. There was a fair amount of news coverage after the recall, but pretty slim considering the alleged 55,000 death toll. A class-action lawsuit dragged its way through the courts for years, eventually being settled for $4.85 billion in 2007.”

(source: Cockburn, A. (2012, April 27). When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed. Retrieved from https://www.theweek.co.uk/us/46535/when-half-million-americans-died-and-nobody-noticed)


• Ranbaxy Flashback: “…Ranbaxy, the generic drug maker whose practices led an employee to quit his job and turn whistleblower. He wrote to the FDA in 2005. As of 2010 the regulator had still not acted against the firm, hamstrung by its own internal processes…So who will protect drug consumers from contaminated processes? Not the regulators, it seems. Apart from contamination there is also fraudulent testing of drugs, as an FDA inspector finds in plants across companies—Ranbaxy, Wockhardt, RPG Lifesciences…It turns out that drug regulation is a scandal everywhere, in the US, in India, and in China.”

(source: Ninan, S. (2019, July 31). Dangerous drugs, compromised regulators. Retrieved from https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/dangerous-drugs-compromised-regulators/cid/1695514?ref=also-read_story-page)


“Ranbaxy USA pleaded guilty to three felony FDCA counts, and four felony counts of knowingly making material false statements to the FDA. The generic drugs at issue were manufactured at Ranbaxy’s facilities in Paonta Sahib and Dewas, India. Under the plea agreement, the company will pay a criminal fine of $130 million, and forfeit an additional $20 million. ‘When companies sell adulterated drugs, they undermine the integrity of the FDA’s approval process and may cause patients to take drugs that are substandard, ineffective, or unsafe’...” More information about the government's ties to Ranbaxy, can be found here.

(source: Generic Drug Manufacturer Ranbaxy Pleads Guilty and Agrees to Pay $500 Million to Resolve False Claims Allegations, cGMP Violations and False Statements to the FDA. (2013, May 13). Retrieved from https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/generic-drug-manufacturer-ranbaxy-pleads-guilty-and-agrees-pay-500-million-resolve-false) (More information here.)


“They showed that numerous drugs had never been tested properly, if at all…An audit of Ranbaxy’s main U.S. manufacturing plant, Ohm Laboratories in New Jersey, found that the company, though required to report adverse events to the FDA, rarely did so.”

(source: Eban, K. (2019, December 8). The inside story of Ranbaxy's dirty drugs scandal. Retrieved from https://www.telegraphindia.com/business/the-inside-story-of-ranbaxy-s-dirty-drugs-scandal/cid/1696405)


“After a decade in which drug makers regularly paid huge fines for various fraudulent practices, there was a noticeable drop over the past two years [2014 and 2015]…The report compiled fines and settlements between drug makers and federal and state governments from 1991 through 2015, which totaled $35.7 billion. Of the 373 settlements during that time, 140 were federal settlements totaling $31.9 billion in fines, and 233 were state settlements totaling $3.8 billion in fines.


Among the worst offenders in recent years were Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Novartis, and GlaxoSmithKline, although the report noted that nearly every large drug maker has paid fines to resolve some kind of infraction over the past two decades. Many have reached multiple settlements, as well…Moreover, the government did not prosecute executives from the leading drug makers. ‘The penalties were far smaller than the profits made on the drugs, sometimes not even as large as the sales generated by off-label uses possibly brought about by the fraud,’ he said…” (For a list of some of the largest pharmaceutical company fines, visit: https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/bigpharma.)

(source: Silverman, E. (2016, March 31). Drug makers paid fewer fines for bad behavior in recent years. Retrieved from https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2016/03/31/pharma-fraud-kickbacks/)



14. The Problem with Testing Vaccines


Unlike other prescription medicines that undergo double-blind placebo studies (neither the participant nor the researcher are aware of whom has received the placebo), the testing of vaccines in the U.S. does not require the same process, due to ethics concerns. However, double-blind placebo studies are conducted on vaccines in other countries.


“Randomised, placebo-controlled trials are widely considered the gold standard for evaluating the safety and efficacy of a new vaccine. In these trials, participants are randomized to receive either the vaccine under investigation or a placebo (i.e. an inert substance, such as a saline injection)…However, randomised, placebo-controlled trial designs often raise ethical concerns when participants in the control arm are deprived of an existing vaccine. Furthermore, testing a new vaccine against placebo is scientifically and ethically fraught when the hypothesis being tested is whether an experimental vaccine is more efficacious than one already in use in the same or in other settings.


Currently, there is insufficient and inconsistent guidance on how to evaluate the use of placebo controls in vaccine trials…The lack of consistent guidance on the use of placebo controls raises significant ethical concern. On the one hand, investigators and sponsors may avoid conducting placebo-controlled trials when an efficacious vaccine exists, even if such trials are scientifically necessary and potentially justifiable. On the other hand, a lack of clear guidance may result in the conduct of placebo-controlled trials that are ultimately unethical.”

(source: 22 Authors. (2014, August 20). Placebo Use in Vaccine Trials: Recommendations of a WHO Expert Panel. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4157320/)


However, from the National Institutes of Health, “Vaccines are not subject to double blind clinical trials despite the evidence of vaccine-drug interactions and perhaps also of vaccine-vaccine interactions...It has been considered unethical to select a control group of children which would otherwise not be vaccinated yet such is the levels of conscientious objectors in the industrialized world and through circumstances of impoverishment in the underdeveloped countries that such statistics must currently exist.”

(source: Ewing, G. E. (2009, July 1). What is regressive autism and why does it occur? Is it the consequence of multi-systemic dysfunction affecting the elimination of heavy metals and the ability to regulate neural temperature? Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364648/)



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15. Vaccines Are Biologics and Are Regulated Differently


“A biopharmaceutical, also known as a biologic(al) medical product, or biologic, is any pharmaceutical drug product manufactured in, extracted from, or semisynthesized from biological sources. Different from totally synthesized pharmaceuticals, they include vaccines…Many vaccines are grown in tissue cultures….In the United States, biologics are licensed through the biologics license application (BLA), then submitted to and regulated by the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) whereas drugs are regulated by the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.”

(source: Biopharmaceutical. (n.d.). Retrieved May 22, 2020 from the Scribus Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopharmaceutical)


Unlike prescription medications that compete against generics when their patents expire, vaccines will never have a generic version. “Generic (more accurately, follow-on) biologics are not legal in the United States, and no regulatory pathway exists for their approval.”

(source: Morrow, T. and Felcone, L. H. (2004, September). Defining the difference: What Makes Biologics Unique. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3564302/)

• Biologics: “There is a greater potential for immune reactions to biologics [vaccines] than to chemical drugs. The molecules in chemical drugs are too small to be considered immunogenic and generally are not recognized by the immune system as ‘invaders.’ With biologics, depending on the drug, the human immune system can quickly identify the molecule and then mount an immune response to clear away a large molecule that it considers a foreign substance. This can destroy — or in rare cases, enhance — the activity of the biopharmaceutical.”

(source: Morrow, T. and Felcone, L. H. (2004, September). Defining the difference: What Makes Biologics Unique. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3564302/)

“In addition to weakened or killed disease antigens (viruses or bacteria), vaccines contain very small amounts of other ingredients – excipients [preservatives, stabilizers, adjuvants, trace materials, etc.].” Examples of excipients are: Thimerosal (almost 50% ethylmercury) “is very toxic by inhalation, ingestion, and in contact with skin...with a danger of cumulative effects”, aluminum, formaldehyde, MRC-5 cellular proteins, bovine calf serum, hydrolyzed porcine [pig] gelatin, MSG, and WI-38 human diploid lung fibroblasts. Excipients are often blamed for adversely affecting the safety of vaccines. For the Vaccine Excipient List, visit: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/appendix/appdx-b.html

(additional sources: Thiomersal. (n.d.). Retrieved May 22, 2020 from the Scribus Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal and Thimerosal and Vaccines. (2020, Jun 9). Retrieved from https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/safety-availability-biologics/thimerosal-and-vaccines)


According to the government's Vaccine Excipient List, some vaccines contain ingredients from pigs and aborted fetuses, which may be problematic for some religions. Dr. Stanley Plotkin, considered the “Godfather of Vaccines,” is an emeritus professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania. In a 2018 video deposition, in a case where a family was choosing not to vaccinate for religious reasons, he discusses ingredients in vaccines here.


The FDA Decides to Remove Thimerosal From Most Vaccines by 2001

In the 1990s, the vaccination schedule for babies dramatically increased to 20 (from 8). This led to a significant increase in the amount of Thimerosal infants received, which far exceeded the EPA's guidelines, by tripling the amount of mercury babies were injected with in their first months of life. This realization is when the link between Thimerosal and the "explosion" in autism was reconsidered by the FDA. Read about this important decision at: https://ahrp.org/vaccines-the-culprit-not-so-crackpot-autism-theory-nyt/.


“Thimerosal was removed from vaccines after an amendment to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Modernization Act was signed into law on Nov. 21, 1997…The amendment arose from a long-standing interest in reducing human exposure to mercury, a known neurotoxin (a substance that harms the nervous system) and nephrotoxin (a substance that harms the kidneys).


At the time the FDA Modernization Act was passed, infants were recommended to receive three different vaccines that contained thimerosal — diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP), hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib). Infants receiving all of these vaccines could have been exposed to a cumulative dose of mercury as high as 187.5 micrograms (ug)* by 6 months of age. The cumulative dose exceeded guidelines recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Thimerosal, as a preservative, is no longer contained in any childhood vaccine, with the exception of the influenza vaccine [multi-dose vials].”

(source: Vaccine Ingredients – Thimerosal. (2020, June 9). Retrieved from https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-ingredients/thimerosal)


Mercury in Medicine: A Congressional Report in 2003 on Vaccine Safety Failures

In 1980, an FDA advisory committee found Thimerosal (patented in 1929) too toxic for over-the-counter (OTC) products. (The FDA’s ban on OTC use of Thimerosal was finalized 18 years later in 1998.) The FDA didn’t require drug companies to study ethylmercury or Thimerosal for safety, even for vaccines, and the government wasn't conducting their own safety studies. Due to the absence of studies, the FDA chose to assume the toxic effects of injected ethylmercury were the same as ingested methylmercury. A 1985 study in rats by the Toxicology Unit of the Medical Research Council of England found that ethylmercury was actually more toxic than methylmercury and affected the sexes differently. The Institute of Medicine evaluated the standards for methylmercury and determined the EPA’s standard was the safe exposure level, instead of the FDA’s guidelines that were approximately 4 times higher.


“The EPA established the most conservative level: 0.1 micrograms of mercury per kilogram of body weight per day. Under this standard, an 11–pound baby (roughly 5 kilograms) could be exposed to up to 0.5 micrograms of mercury per day and be considered safe. This exposure standard is a marked contrast to the 25 micrograms of mercury that was contained in several childhood vaccines... After 1986, some children went from getting 25 micrograms in one day or 75 micrograms in the first six months of life to getting 62.5 micrograms of ethylmercury in a day or 187.5 micrograms in the first six months of life [which also exceeded the FDA’s limit]…if Congress had not enacted legislation in 1997 requiring the FDA to study the amounts of mercury being used in FDA-approved products, it is questionable that the FDA would have analyzed mercury in vaccines at all.”


In 1972, government agencies acknowledged mercury had cumulative adverse effects on brain cells, but the FDA’s vaccine division ignored the concerns until 1999. By 1999, most licensed vaccines used Thimerosal. In a 2000 committee hearing, a doctor testified that ethylmercury damages brain tissue as a neurotoxin. Based on scientific research, the brain absorbs 5x more mercury than other body tissues and baby’s brains are more sensitive to toxins. Also, it is easier for ethylmercury to reach the brain than methylmercury. Furthermore, the symptoms of mercury poisoning are very similar to autism.

In 2001, “…The CDC’s decision not to express a preference for thimerosal-free vaccines, and the Advisory Committee’s concurrence in this policy, was an abdication of their responsibility. As a result of their inaction, children continued to receive vaccinations [well into 2003] containing ethylmercury at a time when there were serious doubts about its safety…Thimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines is likely related to the autism epidemic. This epidemic in all probability may have been prevented or curtailed had the FDA not been asleep at the switch regarding the lack of safety data regarding injected thimerosal and the sharp rise of infant exposure to this known neurotoxin. Our public health agencies’ failure to act is indicative of institutional malfeasance for self-protection and misplaced protectionism of the pharmaceutical industry.”


Fortunately, there has been decreased Thimerosal exposure for infants and children in vaccines since 2001, but its use has not been completely eliminated. Also, American servicemen and women may still be exposed to high levels of ethylmercury from multiple vaccines.

(Source: Congressional Record. (2003, May 20). Mercury in Medicine Report. Retrieved from https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2003-05-21/html/CREC-2003-05-21-pt1-PgE1011-3.htm) (The military's anthrax vaccine GAO report found here.)


“…Thimerosal is still used as a preservative in some vaccines in the US and abroad (particularly, in the developing countries). For instance, in the US, over half of all influenza-vaccine doses, more than 75 million per year, still use Thimerosal as a preservative. The influenza vaccine is recommended for pregnant women and also infants and children (twice in the first year for infants). Thimerosal is also still used in the US in the meningococcal vaccine, as well as the tetanus-toxoid vaccine…


Thimerosal has failed testing for efficacy, indicating that it is ineffective as a preservative, especially with Staphylococcus aureus…in light of the findings of this study and other recent studies, the use of Thimerosal in vaccines needs to be eliminated.”

(source: Geier, D. A., Kern, J. K., and Geier, M. R. (2018, December 6). Premature Puberty and Thimerosal-Containing Hepatitis B Vaccination: A Case-Control Study in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6316152/) (additional important source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3888271/)


• For the list of vaccines that still contain Thimerosal, visit: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/appendix/appdx-b.html. (Company information for FluLaval.)


“Adjuvants are like superchargers for vaccines. They are mild contaminants that cause the body to respond with a more intense immune response. When paired with antigens, the adjuvant liquid can make the vaccine's impact stronger. This allows for more doses to be produced from less antigen…‘It allows us to decrease the antigen content, which allows us to multiply the capacity,’ said Philippe Monteyne, senior vice-president of global vaccines development at Glaxo. ‘And of course, multiplying the capacity has some impacts on the business side,’ boosting profits. Adjuvants allowed companies to pump out more [vaccines], but it is also a higher-margin business than antigens. Significantly more than half the price of a dose of flu vaccine is attributable to the adjuvant, though Glaxo doesn't disclose the exact figures. ‘That's why vaccines became so attractive…’”

(source: Woods, J. (2009, December 29). How vaccines became big business. Retrieved from https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/conditions/how-vaccines-became-big-business/article572731/)


• Chemical Drugs: “Each year more than 2 million serious adverse drug reactions occur in the United States, causing an estimated 100,000 deaths. Many safety problems emerge only after drugs have received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. Indeed, in the first 16 years after approval, 27 market withdrawals and serious new safety warnings—so-called black box warnings (BBWs)—are issued for every 100 newly introduced drugs. For withdrawn drugs, the median time from FDA approval to removal from the market is five years.


The FDA initiated a series of programs in the 1980s and 1990s that allowed the expedited review of certain drugs. Perhaps as a consequence of these programs, the FDA approves new drugs significantly faster than the regulatory bodies of Europe, Canada, and Japan. Unlike the United States, most European Union countries require that new drugs undergo a secondary review process comparing their efficacy to the existing standard of care before health insurance plans will pay for them…”

(source: Saluja, S., Woolhandler, S., Himmelstein, D. U., Bor, D. and McCormick, D. (2016, June 14). Over 100 million prescriptions written before drug safety recalls. Retrieved from https://pnhp.org/news/over-100-million-prescriptions-written-before-drug-safety-recalls/).

Recalled Vaccines and Drugs


The top 4 vaccine manufacturers in the world are (in order): GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Sanofi, and Pfizer. (source: Mikulic, M. (2020, March 17). Leading pharmaceutical companies and total global vaccine revenue 2017 and 2024. Retrieved from https://www.statista.com/statistics/314562/leading-global-pharmaceutical-companies-by-vaccine-revenue/) All four of these vaccine companies also manufacture and sell prescription drugs.

(source: Recalls (Biologics). (2020, February 18). Retrieved from https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/safety-availability-biologics/recalls-biologics)

(source: Drug Recalls. (2020, May 22). Retrieved from https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/drug-recalls)




16. Vaccines Can Cause Death


According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, “Vaccines save lives by preventing disease in the people who receive them. In some instances, however, a vaccine can have severe side effects, including death or an injury requiring lifetime medical care...”

(source: Vaccine Injury Compensation: Most Claims Took Multiple Years and Many Were Settled through Negotiation. (2014, November 21). Retrieved from https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-142)


U.S. Vaccine Schedule

“…The US...has the developed world’s most aggressive vaccination schedule in number and timing, starting at pregnancy, at birth and in the first two years of life. Does this make U.S. children healthier? The clear answer is no. The U.S. has the very highest infant mortality rate of all industrialized countries, with more American children dying at birth and in their first year than in any other comparable nation—and more than half of those who survive develop at least one chronic illness. Analysis of real-world infant mortality and health results shows that U.S. vaccine policy does not add up to a win for American children…No other developed country administers as many vaccine doses in the first two years of life.”

(source: Kristen, K. (2019, April 23). Japan Leads the Way: No Vaccine Mandates and No MMR Vaccine = Healthier Children. Retrieved from https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/vaccines/japan-leads-the-way-no-vaccine-mandates-and-no-mmr-vaccine-healthier-children/)


“In 2015, Former Merck Employee and whistleblower Brandy Vaughan Spoke out against the state of California’s vaccination mandate bill SB277 and said: ‘The U.S. gives more vaccines than any other country in the world. Our childhood schedule for under the age of one has twice as many vaccines as other developed countries. What else do we have? The highest infant mortality rate of any developed nation...Mississippi has the highest rate of vaccination in the U.S.–highest infant mortality rate. These numbers do not lie. But you will not hear that on the media, and that is not what Senator Pan will tell you.


What we have with vaccines is the highest profit margin pharmaceutical drug on the market. Drug companies make more money off vaccines than they do any other pharmaceutical drug, in terms of profit margin. There is a lack of rigorous safety studies. And they don’t have the incentive to do them because they have no liability.

Vaccines are the only products in the U.S. that do not have liability. You cannot sue for injuries or death. But that is only in the U.S. Around the world, there are lawsuits because of serious injuries and deaths because from vaccines. In Spain over Gardasil (Merck). In Japan over Gardasil. The flu shot was taken off the market for under five in Australia after deaths and injury. Prevnar was banned in China. Pfizer’s vaccination program was kicked out of the country. France just pulled Rotavirus off their schedule after infant deaths and injuries.’”

(source: Guzman, T. A. (2016, January 27). Big Pharma and Big Profits: The Multibillion Dollar Vaccine Market. Retrieved from https://www.globalresearch.ca/big-pharma-and-big-profits-the-multibillion-dollar-vaccine-market/5503945)


“…Despite scientists' best efforts, eliminating risk is impossible. Vaccines are biological products with biological effects, says Juhani Eskola, deputy director general of Finland's National Institute for Health and Welfare in Helsinki. ‘We can never make them 100% safe.’”

(source: Kwok, R. (2011, May 25). Vaccines: The Real Issues in Vaccine Safety. Retrieved from https://www.nature.com/articles/473436a)


Adversomics

Should people be genetically-tested prior to vaccinations? In 2009, the National Institutes of Health recommended that genetic susceptibility needed further study to decrease adverse reactions after vaccination. “We believe that adversomics (the immunogenetics and immunogenomics of vaccine adverse events at the individual and population level, respectively) is critical to understanding and preventing serious adverse vaccine-related events, developing the next generation of vaccines, and to improving public confidence in vaccine safety...


To further develop this construct, we have hypothesized that adverse reactions and events may not be random, but may in fact be, in part, genetically predetermined. For example, early studies demonstrated that certain populations are unusually susceptible to measles vaccine reactions with post-vaccine febrile reactions among different Amerind populations 0.4°C higher than in Caucasian populations...


Clearly more comprehensive studies are needed to determine if there are associations between genetic variations among individuals and susceptibility to serious adverse events in response to vaccination. These factors combined with technologic ability will lead to a new era in vaccinology and better, safer vaccines.” (See #18 for genetic testing for autism risks.)

(source: Poland, G. A., Ovsyannikova, I. G., and Jacobson, R. M. (2009, May 28). Adversomics: The Emerging Field of Vaccine Adverse Event Immunogenetics. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843136/)



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17. Vaccination Hesitancy Around the World


• Australia: “As the northern hemisphere braces itself for the flu season, and for the first time the US recommends flu vaccination for everyone over 6 months of age, Australia has confirmed that its main seasonal flu vaccine, Fluvax [by CSL Biotherapies], caused convulsions in 99 children, all of whom recovered.”

(source: Mackenzie, D. (2010, October 4). Australia Blames a Flu Vaccine for Child Convulsions. Retrieved from https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19539-australia-blames-a-flu-vaccine-for-child-convulsions/)


• China: “…Chinese Food and Drug authorities revealed that one Chinese drug company, Jilin-based Changchun Changsheng Bio-technology, has sold about 252,600 substandard DPT vaccines — used to prevent diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus…The inferior DPT vaccines were given to an unknown number of Chinese babies, some as young as three-months old. This latest revelation came merely five days after the authorities disclosed the same drug company has forged testing and production data on 113,000 rabies vaccines it produced and sold.


Unfortunately, Changchun Changsheng Bio-technology isn’t the first Chinese drug company that has pushed substandard products to Chinese children through a government compulsory health program. Chinese children were frequently given inferior vaccines in the past. The Guardian reports: ‘In 2016, $90m in vaccines were found to be stored improperly in Shandong province. The year before, hundreds of children in Henan province reportedly fell ill after being given out-of-date vaccines...’


Only last November, another major Chinese vaccine maker, the state-run Wuhan Institute of Biological Products sold 400,520 inferior DPT vaccines to several local government agencies, which were then given to countless children through the state-run vaccination programs. Every time, officials denied there were problems with vaccines at first and were quick to punish media who dared to report these scandals…”


China manufacturers a large number of medicines sold in the U.S. “Last week China’s Zhejiang Huaihai Pharmaceutical said it was recalling a heart drug sold in the United States after the European Medicines Agency found that it was tainted with an impurity linked to cancer.”

(source: Fresh scandal erupts over vaccine safety in China. (2018, July 22). Retrieved from https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/23/fresh-scandal-erupts-over-vaccine-safety-in-china.html)


• Europe: “In countries like France, Switzerland, and Austria, attitudes seem to be highly polarized between those who agree that vaccines are safe and effective and those who disagree. But in Ukraine, Belarus, and other vaccine-hesitant countries in Eastern Europe, the main problem seems to be a large number of people who are unsure what to believe — they neither agree nor disagree that vaccines are safe and effective.”

(source: Aldhous, P. (2019, June 19). Some Of The World’s Top Anti-Vaccine Countries Are In Europe. Retrieved from https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/global-survey-vaccine-safety-measles-outbreaks)


• India: “In 2009, several schools for tribal children...became sites for observation studies for a cervical cancer vaccine that was administered to thousands of girls aged between nine and 15. The girls were administered the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine in three rounds that year under the supervision of state health department officials. The vaccine used was Gardasil, manufactured by Merck. It was administered to around 16,000 girls in the district... Months later, many girls started falling ill and by 2010 five of them died. Two more deaths were reported from Vadodara, Gujarat, where an estimated 14,000 children studying in schools meant for tribal children were also vaccinated with another brand of HPV vaccine, Cervarix, manufactured by GSK. Earlier in the week, the Associated Press reported that scores of teenaged girls were hospitalised in a small town in northern Colombia with symptoms that parents suspect could be an adverse reaction to Gardasil. ...Launched in 2011 in India, Pentavalent is a combination of five vaccines in one: diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B and haemophilus influenza type b (the bacteria that causes meningitis and pneumonia)...In all, 54 cases of deaths of infants who were vaccinated with Pentavalent have been classified as ‘adverse events following immunization’ (AEFI), nomenclature that confirms the deaths have occurred soon after vaccination.” (source: Narayana Kumar, K. P. (2014, August 31). Controversial vaccine studies: Why is Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation under fire from critics in India? Retrieved from https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/healthcare/controversial-vaccine-studies-why-is-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-under-fire-from-critics-in-india/articleshow/41280050.cms?from=mdr and https://ijme.in/articles/deaths-in-a-trial-of-the-hpv-vaccine/?galley=html)


“Over 4.9 lakh [490,000] persons in India developed paralysis between 2000 and 2017 because of oral polio vaccine (OPV), say leading doctors in two reputed hospitals here.” (source: Perappadan, B. S. (2018, August 21). Vaccine-induced Paralysis Calls for Action, Says Study. Retrieved from https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/vaccine-induced-paralysis-calls-for-action-says-study/article24740588.ece) Since as early as the 1980s, use of the OPV was being replaced by the IPV (inactivated polio vaccine) in the U.S., due to paralysis and transmission risks in some patients. OPV is no longer used in the United States. However, OPV is cheaper and, for that reason, it is still used in some countries. The polio eradication program in India was funded, in part, by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (For more information on OPV incidents, visit: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4599698/ or an additional story at: https://www.nature.com/articles/473436a)


In India in 2017, “The Centre has shut the gate on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on a critical national health mission, and possible conflict of interest issues arising from the foundation’s ‘ties’ with pharmaceutical companies is one of the reasons...There were questions about the Gates Foundation’s ties with pharmaceutical companies and the possible influence this may have on the country’s vaccination strategy.”

(source: Vishnoi, A. (2017, February 9). Centre Shuts Health Mission Gate on Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved from https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/centre-shuts-gate-on-bill-melinda-gates-foundation/articleshow/57028697.cms)


In India, “Unexplained side effects to vaccines led to 10,612 child deaths nationally in 10 years since 2008, data from the Union health ministry revealed...”

(source: Pandit, S. (2018, January 23). Child mortality: Post immunisation issues led to 10,612 deaths in 10 years. Retrieved from https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/complications-after-immunisation-caused-10612-child-deaths-nationally-in-ten-years/story-xcfl8rC64dPshC2ofguIZO.html)


• Ireland: “Almost 650 girls in Ireland reported requiring medical intervention or treatment after receiving the HPV vaccine [Gardasil by Merck], according to data collected by the State’s medicines watchdog.”

(source: Cullen, P. (2017, September 12). Almost 650 Girls Needed Medical Intervention After HPV Vaccine. Retrieved from https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/almost-650-girls-needed-medical-intervention-after-hpv-vaccine-1.3217346)


• Japan: “…Japan also banned the MMR vaccine [by Merck] in the same time frame, due to thousands of serious injuries over a four-year period—producing an injury rate of one in 900 children that was ‘over 2,000 times higher than the expected rate.’”

(source: Kristen, K. (2019, April 23). Japan Leads the Way: No Vaccine Mandates and No MMR Vaccine = Healthier Children. Retrieved from https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/vaccines/japan-leads-the-way-no-vaccine-mandates-and-no-mmr-vaccine-healthier-children/)

• United States: “Judicial Watch announced it has received documents from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) revealing that its National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) has awarded $5,877,710 dollars to 49 victims in claims made against the highly controversial HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccines...The adverse reaction reports detail 26 new deaths reported between September 1, 2010 and September 15, 2011 as well as incidents of seizures, paralysis, blindness, pancreatitis, speech problems, short term memory loss and Guillain-Barré Syndrome...” (For a must-watch, in-depth look at Gardasil, see the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aluDs5SQjD8)

(source: Lind, P. (2014, December 31). U.S. court pays $6 million to Gardasil victims. Retrieved from https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/31/us-court-pays-6-million-gardasil-victims/)




18. Autism Links


Autism rates have increased significantly over the years. In 1988, about 1 in 2,500 children in the U.S. had autism. By 2000, that number had grown considerably to 1 in 150 children. See the increase at: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/data.html. “About 1 in 54 children has been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) [in 2016] according to estimates from CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network...”

(source: Data & Statistics on Autism Spectrum Disorder. (2020, May 22). Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/data.html)


The U.S. has the third-highest incidence of autism in the world. “In the U.S., around 3.63 percent of boys aged 3 to 17 years had autism spectrum disorder compared to 1.25 percent of girls. Furthermore, autism spectrum disorder is more common among non-Hispanic white children than other ethnicities. According to the most recent available data, the Northeast region had the highest rate of autism spectrum disorder in the U.S., with around 3 percent.”

(source: Elflein, J. (2020, April 23). Countries with the Highest Rates of Autism Among Children Worldwide as of 2020. Retrieved from https://www.statista.com/statistics/676354/autism-rate-among-children-select-countries-worldwide/)


“About 1 in 6 (17%) children aged 3–17 years were diagnosed with a developmental disability, as reported by parents, during a study period of 2009-2017. These included autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, blindness, and cerebral palsy, among others.”

(source: Data & Statistics on Autism Spectrum Disorder. (2020, May 22). Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/data.html)


Incidences of Government Deception

“...the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that Thimerosal is safe and there is “no relationship between [T]himerosal[-]containing vaccines and autism rates in children.” This is puzzling because, in a study conducted directly by CDC epidemiologists, a 7.6-fold increased risk of autism from exposure to Thimerosal during infancy was found...”

(For more information on this publication, see #15 above.)

(source: Hooker, B., Kern, J., Geier, D., Haley, B., Sykes, L., King, P., and Geier, M. (2014, June 4). Methodological Issues and Evidence of Malfeasance in Research Purporting to Show Thimerosal in Vaccines Is Safe. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4065774/)


“In summer 2019, ICAN submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the CDC requesting ‘All studies relied upon by CDC to claim that the DTaP vaccine does not cause autism.’ ICAN also submitted this same request for HepB, Hib, PCV13 and IPV, as well as requesting the CDC provide studies to support the cumulative exposure to these vaccines during the first six months of life do not cause autism. Despite months of demands, the CDC failed to produce a single specific study in response to these FOIA requests. ICAN was therefore forced to sue the CDC in federal court, where the CDC finally conceded, in a stipulation signed by a Federal court judge, that that it has no studies to support that any of these vaccines do not cause autism...Instead, the only relevant study the IOM [Institute of Medicine] could identify found an association between DTaP and autism.”

(source: Stipulated Order Proving CDC Has No Studies To Support Claim That Vaccines Given in First 6 Months of Life Do Not Cause Autism. (2020, March 5). Retrieved from https://www.icandecide.org/ican_lawsuits/stipulated-order-proving-cdc-has-no-studies-to-support-claim-that-vaccines-given-in-first-6-months-of-life-do-not-cause-autism/)


The government was told by their own expert that vaccines can cause autism. “Dr. Zimmerman declined our interview request and referred us to his sworn affidavit. It says: On June 15, 2007, he took aside the Department of Justice—or DOJ lawyers he worked for defending vaccines in vaccine court. He told them that he’d discovered ‘exceptions in which vaccinations could cause autism.’ ‘I explained that in a subset of children, vaccine induced fever and immune stimulation did cause regressive brain disease with features of autism spectrum disorder.’” Read the full legal affidavit here.

(source: Bombshell: Gov Official Confirms Link Between Vaccines and Autism. (2019, January 10). Retrieved from https://www.eutimes.net/2019/01/bombshell-gov-official-confirms-link-between-vaccines-and-autism/. See the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XUM2gvfbW8)


In 2012, Representative Bill Posey had an opportunity to ask the CDC questions about the link between Thimerosal and autism. Clearly, in the video below, the CDC does its best to avoid answering the questions about the studies the government has conducted, why Thimerosal is mainly in multi-dose vaccine vials today, and why the infant mortality rate in the U.S. is much higher than countries that require fewer vaccines. This is telling testimony. (The article Posey refers to on the autism in Africa can be found here: https://www.ageofautism.com/2008/11/out-of-africa-a.html, information on Dr. Poul Thorsen can be found here: https://sharylattkisson.com/2014/08/researcher-who-dispelled-vaccine-autism-link-most-wanted-fugitive/ and the U.S. Infant Mortality Rate Chart he refers to can be found here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/?hc_location=ufi)



(source: Federal Response to Rise in Autism Rates. (2012, November 30). Retrieved from https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4176643/user-clip-rep-bill-posey)


History of the Increase in U.S. Autism Rates

“...Thimerosal is a preservative that was put in vaccines back in the 1930s. Almost immediately after it was put in, autism cases began to appear. Autism had never been known before. It was unknown to science....”

(source: A Coverup for a Cause of Autism? (2005, June 22). Retrieved from http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8243264/ns/msnbc-morning_joe/t/coverup-cause-autism/)


From the NIH in 2009, “That the occurrence of autism has risen steadily in the last decades is not in dispute. Prior to the 1930's and the introduction of vaccinations autism was unknown. By 1968 in the UK, when Polio and DPT vaccines were given at 6 and 7 months autism was very rare. In 1988, when Polio and DPT was given at 3 months, DPT at 5 months and MMR at c13 months autism rates were still low. In 1996, when Polio and DPT/HIB injections were given at 2, 3 and 4 months, followed by MMR at c13 months autism rates began rising rapidly. By 2006 the occurrence of autism had reached pandemic proportions...


The characteristics of autism and mercury poisoning are extremely similar which suggests that autism arises from mercury poisoning. Children with autism have greater amounts of mercury and other heavy metals in their system. For these children the exposure route is considered to be predominately via childhood vaccines, most of which contain thimerosal...Mercury is a powerful oxidant which depletes cellular antioxidants, especially glutathione. The P450 detoxifying enzymes of the liver rely heavily on adequate availability of glutathione...


Whilst Mercury is of concern, because of evidence for neurotoxic effects and the fact that it has become so prevalent in the wider environment, Aluminum also shares common mechanisms with mercury e.g. it interferes with cellular and metabolic processes in the nervous system. Children given the recommended vaccinations are injected with nearly 5 mg of aluminum by the time they are just 1.5 years old, almost 6 times the safe level. Furthermore the nature of the Aluminum affects the prevailing blood levels and is also increasingly implicated, through their use as vaccine adjuvants, in autism.”

(source: Ewing, G. E. (2009, July 1). What is regressive autism and why does it occur? Is it the consequence of multi-systemic dysfunction affecting the elimination of heavy metals and the ability to regulate neural temperature? Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364648/)


“Aluminum is an experimentally demonstrated neurotoxin and the most commonly used vaccine adjuvant. 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. In spite of this, the notion that aluminum in vaccines is safe appears to be widely accepted. Experimental research, however, 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...” (For the effects of aluminum on fertility: https://time.com/3533098/aluminium-sperm-count-study/)

(source: Tomljenovic, L., Shaw, C. A. (2011). Aluminum Vaccine Adjuvants: Are They Safe? Retrieved from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21568886)


“By contrast Autism appears not to occur in communities which do not use vaccines...In the vast majority of cases, the emergence of autistic indications appears to happen in children who had developed normally, and before three years. The development of normal immune function appears to cease in the second year and is linked to the schedule of vaccines and/or the MMR vaccine...”

(source: Ewing, G. E. (2009, July 1). What is regressive autism and why does it occur? Is it the consequence of multi-systemic dysfunction affecting the elimination of heavy metals and the ability to regulate neural temperature? Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364648/)


Genetic Testing Prior to Vaccination for Autism Risks?

From the National Institutes of Health, “There is a great deal of evidence suggesting that DNA methylation defects are associated with ASDs [autism spectrum disorders], and the role of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene in folate metabolism may contribute to epigenetic mechanisms that modify complex gene expression, thus causing autism...To date, there have been some case-control studies of MTHFR functional polymorphisms in autism and ASD...


In a Chinese Han population, the frequency of the TT genotype of MTHFR 677 was significantly higher in children with autism (16.1%) than in controls (8.6%). According to this finding, Guo et al. suggested that MTHFR C677T is a risk factor for autistic patients in their population. One hundred and sixty-eight children with a confirmed diagnosis of autism or PDD were investigated by Boris et al. in 2004. Their data demonstrated that 677CT polymorphism, whether in homozygous or heterozygous state, was significantly associated with ASD. They observed an increased frequency of the TT genotype in the autistic children (23%) compared to 11% in the control population...” (See follow-up study below.)

(source: Sener, E. F., Oztop, D. B., and Ozkul, Y. (2014, November 6). MTHFR Gene C677T Polymorphism in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4241316/)


The National Institutes of Health did follow-up in 2017 to the 2014 study above and concluded, “There is a significant association between severity and occurrence of autism with MTHFR gene polymorphisms C677T and A1298C...”

(source: El-baz, F., El-Aal, M. A., Kamal, T. M., Sadek, A. A., and Othman, A. A. (2017, September 25). Study of the C677T and 1298AC polymorphic genotypes of MTHFR Gene in autism spectrum disorder. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5633227/)

From a previous MTHFR study in India, “A total of 138 children diagnosed as autistic based on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition criteria and Autism Behavior Checklist scoring and 138 age and sex matched children who are nonautistic were tested for five genetic polymorphisms... MTHFR 677T-allele frequency was found to be higher in autistic children compared with nonautistic children (16.3 vs. 6.5%) with 2.79-fold increased risk for autism...Conclusion: MTHFR C677T is a risk factor, whereas MTRR A66G and SHMT C1420T polymorphisms reduce risk for autism. MTHFR A1298C acts additively in increasing the risk for autism.”

(source: Mohammad, N. S., Jain, J. M., Chintakindi, K. P., Singh, R. P., Naik, U, and Akella, R. R. (2009, May 13). Aberrations in folate metabolic pathway and altered susceptibility to autism. Retrieved from https://www.ei-resource.org/research/autism-research/aberrations-in-folate-metabolic-pathway-and-altered-susceptibility-to-autism/)


Do Vaccines Trigger Adverse Reactions Due to the MTHFR Gene?

“It may be of interest in the future to examine the association of genetic variation in this [MTHFR] gene with the rare cardiac events that occur after [smallpox] vaccination. Genetic variation of MTHFR has been associated with a range of clinical outcomes, including altered cardiovascular function, organ transplantation, toxicity of immunosuppressive drugs, and systemic inflammation...


Since the outcome of interest here was the aggregation of specific AEs [adverse reactions], it is logical that more than one gene may be involved...For subjects experiencing AEs [adverse reactions], vaccination appears to trigger an acute inflammatory response that is excessive.” (For information on the concerns with the MTHFR gene and vaccinations, visit: https://thevaccinereaction.org/2017/05/mthfr-mutations/ and/or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0W-kWEoH-0)

(source: Reif, D. M., McKinney, B. A., Motsinger, A. A., Chanock, S. J., Edwards, K. M., Rock, M. T., Moore, J. H., and Crowe, J. E. (2008, July 1). Genetic Basis for Adverse Events Following Smallpox Vaccination. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2746083/)


Are there any vaccines that have autism disclosed as a possible side effect?

Tripedia was licensed in the U.S. from 1991 to 2011 and it has been studied in other parts of the world.


“In the German case-control study and US open-label safety study in which 14,971 infants received Tripedia (diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine) vaccine...The rate of SIDS observed in the German case-control study was 0.4/1,000 vaccinated infants. The rate of SIDS observed in the US open-label safety study was 0.8/1,000 vaccinated infants and the reported rate of SIDS in the US from 1985-1991 was 1.5/1,000 live births. By chance alone, some cases of SIDS can be expected to follow receipt of whole-cell pertussis DTP or DTaP vaccines.”


Some of the adverse reactions from the product's insert are:


“Adverse events reported during post-approval use of Tripedia (diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine) 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 (diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine) vaccine.” This vaccine no longer appears on the FDA's list of licensed vaccines used in the U.S.

(source: Cunha, J.P. (2018, August 15). Tripedia. Retrieved from https://www.rxlist.com/tripedia-side-effects-drug-center.htm#overview)




19. CDC and WHO Officials Discuss Vaccine Safety Concerns


Note: “An adjuvant is an ingredient [excipient] used in some vaccines that helps create a stronger immune response in people receiving the vaccine.” Excipients are blamed for affecting vaccine safety.

(source: Adjuvants Help Vaccines Work Better. (2020, May 22). Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/adjuvants.html)


Note: “In clinical trials, the term reactogenicity refers to the property of a vaccine of being able to produce common, ‘expected’ adverse reactions, especially excessive immunological responses and associated signs and symptoms—fever, sore arm at injection site, etc.”

(source: Reactogenicity. (n.d.). Retrieved May 22, 2020 from the Scribus Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactogenicity)


>> Watch Video: In 2019, the W.H.O. hosted the Global Vaccine Safety Summit. Vaccine safety, adjuvants, small sample sizes, and lack of cross-reaction studies between vaccines were discussed. In the video, the W.H.O. Chief Scientist states, “I think we cannot overemphasize the fact that we really don’t have very good safety monitoring systems in many countries, and this adds to the miscommunication and the misapprehensions because we’re not able to give clear-cut answers when people ask questions about the deaths that have occurred due to a particular vaccine, and this always gets blown up in the media.”


Later, much to the dismay of many in the room, a doctor from Nigeria, Dr. Bassey Okposen, a country not well-known as a leader in the healthcare industry, asks about whether cross-reaction vaccine studies have been conducted. The surprising answer is no. Also, the Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project adds, “The other thing that’s a trend and an issue is not just confidence in providers, but confidence of health care providers. We have a very wobbly health professional frontline that is starting to question vaccines and the safety of vaccines…”



(source: Free Speech Warrior. (2020, January 14). VACCINE BOMBSHELL as U.N. health experts admit toxic vaccines and poor scientific data [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.bitchute.com/video/XLaTZjQ79Uu6/)


>> Watch Video: Fortunately, the public is able to see some of what happens when a vaccine receives approval by the government committee before receiving FDA approval. The ACIP process appears to raise some red flags. “The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is the group that approves vaccines for public use.” Below is a video of a meeting for the approval of a new Hepatitis B vaccine. “The vaccine uses a new ingredient that has NEVER been used before… Pre-approval studies signaled an increase in heart attacks…but under pressure from vaccine makers, the committee unanimously approved the new vaccine.”

(source: LearntheRisk.org. (2018, April 4). Proof Vaccines are NOT Tested Properly Before Approval -- Watch Now! [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_JJMpe00mM)



The Vaccine Schedule for children in 1962 was 5 doses. In 2018, it was 70 doses (72 doses, including pregnancy vaccinations). Other countries, including in Europe, do NOT use multiple adjuvanted vaccines, like the U.S. Vaccines have increased dramatically after drug companies were given protection from lawsuits.


The public should question whether un-elected experts are serving in our best interest when the possibility of a heart attack becomes the same as a headache side effect. Every ACIP member in the video approved the new vaccine, even though there were concerns about an increase in heart attacks. It begs the question if any of these people may receive royalties, have ties to or serve on the board of the pharmaceutical company.

(source: LearntheRisk.org. (2018, April 4). Proof Vaccines are NOT Tested Properly Before Approval -- Watch Now! [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_JJMpe00mM)


A Congressional Hearing in 2000 found several conflicts of interest between government agencies and pharmaceutical companies after a vaccine, RotaShield, was quickly recalled.

RotaShield injured over 100 babies and caused 2 deaths while being on the market for less than 1 year before it was removed. Read the full transcript from the hearing here. A follow-up study in a 2009 HHS Inspector General report showed the ethics problems remained. A link to the full report can be found here.

(source: Congressional Hearing. (2000, June 15). FACA: Conflicts of Interest and Vaccine Development--Preserving the Integrity of the Process. Retrieved from https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-106hhrg73042/html/CHRG-106hhrg73042.htm)


• One of the most powerful ACIP videos concerning vaccine safety is: https://youtu.be/_f8u6li-SjQ • To see other ACIP videos, visit: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?feature=edit_ok&list=PLvrp9iOILTQb6D9e1YZWpbUvzfptNMKx2



Image by Mircea Iancu from Pixabay


20. Pandemic Vaccines and the PREP Act


“The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREPA)…signed into law…in December 2005, is a controversial tort liability shield intended to protect vaccine manufacturers from financial risk in the event of a declared public health emergency. The act specifically affords to drug makers immunity from potential financial liability for clinical trials of avian influenza vaccine at the discretion of the Executive branch of government. PREPA strengthens and consolidates the oversight of litigation against pharmaceutical companies under the purview of the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS)...


Vaccine manufacturers lobbied for the legislation, which would effectively preempt state vaccine safety laws in the case of an emergency declaration by HHS, by making clear they would not produce new vaccines unless the legislation was enacted.”

(source: Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act. (n.d.). Retrieved May 22, 2020 from the Scribus Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Readiness_and_Emergency_Preparedness_Act)




Coronavirus Vaccine

“Doubts about the possibility of a viable vaccine are based largely on the fact that no vaccine has ever been approved for use in the US or UK against other forms of coronavirus…‘Vaccines are looked for, for every infectious disease, they are not found for all of them.’” For example, AIDS.

(source: Bienkov, A. (2020, April 25). Scientists Fear the Hunt for a Coronavirus Vaccine Will Fail and We Will All Have to Live with the 'Constant Threat' of COVID-19. Retrieved from https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-vaccine-may-be-impossible-to-produce-scientists-covid-2020-4)


Rushing the process and skipping animal trials could be dangerous. A previous vaccine study in 2012 on another coronavirus, SARS-CoV, concluded, “These SARS-CoV vaccines all induced antibody and protection against infection with SARS-CoV. However, challenge of mice given any of the vaccines led to occurrence of Th2-type immunopathology suggesting hypersensitivity to SARS-CoV components was induced. Caution in proceeding to application of a SARS-CoV vaccine in humans is indicated.”

(source: Tseng, C., Sbrana, E., Iwata-Yoshikawa, N., Newman, P. C., Garron, T., Atmar, R. L., Peters, C. J., and Couch, R. B. (2012, April 20). Immunization with SARS Coronavirus Vaccines Leads to Pulmonary Immunopathology on Challenge with the SARS Virus. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335060/)


Moderna: After 10 Years in Business, No Products Ever and 9 Vaccines Not Approved

“The Moderna vaccine [for coronavirus], championed by Dr. Fauci and financed by Bill Gates, caused ‘serious injury’ in 20% of the people to whom it was administered. It was a small group study. Dr. Fauci was so confident of his shot’s safety that he waived ferret and primate studies (Moderna suspiciously reported no specific health data from its mouse studies). That appears to have been a mistake.”

(source: Dowling, M. (2020, May 24). Moderna Vaccine Causes ‘Serious Injury’ in 20%, Insiders Cash Out. Retrieved from https://www.independentsentinel.com/moderna-vaccine-causes-serious-injury-in-20-insiders-cash-out/)



Moderna Background: Financing on Hope or Something Else?

“Established in 2010, Moderna has never brought a product to market, or gotten any of its nine or so vaccine candidates approved for use by the FDA. It has also never brought a product to the third and final phase of a clinical trial...[In April 2020] the federal Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) awarded Moderna up to $483 million to accelerate the development and manufacturing of the vaccine. That amounts to about half of what the federal agency has doled out, with Janssen Research & Development -- part of Johnson & Johnson -- receiving $456 million, and a third company, Sanofi, receiving up to $30 million. Johnson & Johnson is a household name with a long list of approved medicines; Sanofi has been making vaccines for more than 100 years.

But much of Moderna's appeal is not what it has done, but what it says is possible: to develop a vaccine -- which normally takes years -- in record speed…Dr. Joseph Bolen, who served as Moderna's chief scientific officer and president of research and development from 2013 to 2015, believes it was reasonable to give Moderna a shot, but was puzzled by BARDA's massive allocation -- up to $483 million -- calling it a ‘big bet.’ ‘I don't know what their thinking was,’ he said. ‘Why so much? ... I just don't know. When I read that, I was pretty amazed.’ Dr. Tal Zaks, Moderna's chief medical officer, acknowledged that the company doesn't have a product on the market, but said the government's decision was wise…

Its vision is to harness a new technology that synthesizes messenger RNA, or mRNA -- essentially an instruction manual in every living cell for creating protein -- to prompt the human body to make its own medicine…More recently, [Moderna] was praised in an op-ed by Bill Gates -- whose namesake foundation has given millions to Moderna -- though his piece didn't mention the company by name…


Moderna's stock price has nearly doubled in the past 12 months. The new coronavirus, according to Forbes, turned the 47-year-old [CEO] Bancel into a billionaire.” (source: Kunzia, R., Polglase, K., Mezzofiore, G. (2020, May 1). In quest for vaccine, US makes 'big bet' on company with unproven technology. Retrieved from https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/01/us/coronavirus-moderna-vaccine-invs/index.html)


What part of the Moderna story makes sense? No products - ever - after 10 years in business, awarded the most money by the government (just under half a billion dollars) to create their first FDA-approved vaccine after 9 failed attempts, no liability for experimenting on people despite the NIH recommendation in 2012 not to test on people, and now the CEO is a billionaire? In what other industry can you have no products to sell, no history of any success, provide no service to the public, and still become a billionaire?

Summary


Regardless of what you believe concerning vaccine safety, one thing is clear: the government has not placed the safety of Americans anywhere near the top of their list of priorities.


- Government employees are allowed to patent income-generating inventions, financed by the taxpayers. By law, those employees can earn up to $150,000 per year per patent. Allowing those same employees to determine the recommended treatment for various diseases and the vaccine schedule for the public creates a conflict of interest.


- The government removed all financial liability for drug companies with vaccines, which does not motivate those companies to produce safer products. Since “there is a greater potential for immune reactions to biologics than to chemical drugs,” vaccines require more safety testing from an industry that fails time and time again with prescription medications that are recalled, such as Zantac and Vioxx. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3564302/)


- The U.S. has paid more than $4 billion dollars in damages to children and adults injured by vaccines, so pharmaceutical companies don’t have any liability in lawsuits. As such, those drug companies can continue to create products with zero concern for the public’s safety.


- The number of vaccines has increased dramatically since Congress passed the 1986 law. The Vaccine Schedule for children in 1962 was 5 doses. The Vaccine Schedule in 2018 for children was 70 doses. The U.S. has one of the most aggressive Vaccine Schedules in timing and the number of doses in the world, starting at pregnancy through the first 2 years of a child’s life.


- The Children's Health Defense: “The U.S. has the very highest infant mortality rate of all industrialized countries, with more American children dying at birth and in their first year than in any other comparable nation—and more than half of those who survive develop at least one chronic illness.” For example: asthma, food allergies, eczema, autism, etc. (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/vaccines/japan-leads-the-way-no-vaccine-mandates-and-no-mmr-vaccine-healthier-children/)


- From the National Institutes of Health, “These findings demonstrate a counter-intuitive relationship: nations that require more vaccine doses tend to have higher infant mortality rates.” (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/?hc_location=ufi)


- For a period of 32 years, the government has no documentation on the reporting required by law in their oversight on vaccine safety. However, during that time, there are various studies by the NIH questioning the safety of vaccines.


- Around the world, only the US and New Zealand allow drug ads to consumers. Allowing news organizations and social media/tech companies to accept large amounts of advertising revenue from pharmaceutical companies can lead to conflicts of interest and censorship of information.


- As the top lobbying group in Washington D.C. - by far, pharmaceutical companies have cultivated a troubling relationship with our elected representatives. In return, they have been rewarded with beneficial legislation and more vaccines added to the Vaccine Schedule.


- Prior to the introduction of Thimerosal in vaccines in the 1930s, autism was unknown. Furthermore, prior to the contemporary vaccination program in the U.S., Sudden Infant Death Syndrome occurred so infrequently, Infant Mortality Statistics didn't mention it.


- The CDC has lied to Americans for years about the link between Thimerosal in vaccines and autism, according to a National Institutes of Health publication and their own research.


- The FDA banned Thimerosal for OTC products in 1998, but not for vaccines. They didn't require any safety studies on ethylmercury and failed to realize millions of children and adults were receiving mercury in vaccines that far exceeded their own safety standards.


- The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has approved vaccines to be “tested” on the public, without any attendee voting in dissent, even when they are aware of potentially life-threatening problems with the vaccine, such as heart attacks.


-“…Despite scientists' best efforts, eliminating risk is impossible. Vaccines are biological products with biological effects, says Juhani Eskola, deputy director general of Finland's National Institute for Health and Welfare in Helsinki. ‘We can never make them 100% safe.’” (https://www.nature.com/articles/473436a)


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► The consequences of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 have been far-reaching:

1. The government removed the pharmaceutical companies’ liability for vaccine injuries/death.


2. A vaccine court was established and victims of vaccine injuries are paid from a government fund. As of 2020, that fund has paid out more than $4,300,000,000.


3. The VAERS database was created as an early warning system for injuries or deaths attributed to a vaccine. The public can search this database at https://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html.


4. The number of vaccines given to a child increased from 5 doses in 1962 to 70 doses in 2018.

► More government actions that may have adversely affected vaccine safety are:

1. The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 granted exclusive licenses for inventions from government-funded research. This decreased cooperation between research universities, increased the pharmaceutical industry’s donations and research directions to universities creating potential conflicts of interest, and created monopolies that increase drug prices.


2. In the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986, government employees were granted the ability to receive income-generating patents for inventions funded by taxpayers, while having the ability to determine the recommended treatment for health issues and possibly creating a conflict of interest. The Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Tony Fauci, holds 12 patents. There is an income cap of $150,000 per patent per year.


3. The US is only 1 of 2 countries in the world that allows for direct-to-consumer advertising by drug companies. This wasn’t due to a law that was passed, but from the relaxed regulations by the FDA in 1997. This may have led to a significant decrease by news organizations reporting on adverse vaccine events and social media companies censoring information questioning vaccine safety because of the billions of dollars the pharmaceutical companies spend on advertising. The sales of pharmaceutical drugs have increased significantly during this time. In 2016, $26.9 billion dollars in drug company advertising helped sales skyrocket to $329 billion dollars.


4. The government admitted to never doing the safety reporting required by law for 32 years. Visit: https://www.icandecide.org/ican_lawsuits/his-lawsuit/.

5. From the 2003 Mercury in Medicine Congressional Report: the FDA neither required company safety testing nor conducted their own research for safe levels of Thimerosal (almost 50% ethylmercury), even after they banned it in 1998 for over-the-counter products, but didn't ban its use in vaccines. Instead, they decided to assume ethylmercury was similar to methylmercury and used those safety standards. After the dramatic increase in vaccines in the 1990s and the “explosion” in autism, they failed to realize the vaccine schedule far exceeded their own safety standards for mercury injected into babies and children. In 1999, most licensed vaccines contained Thimerosal. Just one vaccine could exceed the safety standards and children often received multiple Thimerosal-containing vaccines during a doctor's visit. For a link to the report, visit: https://www.prweb.com/releases/asot/thimerosal/prweb11598819.htm.


► Some other things to consider:

1. The pharmaceutical lobby spends the most on lobbying the government - by far. It is the most powerful lobby in Washington and donates heavily to candidates of both parties. In return, they get preferential treatment by our elected representatives.


2. Vaccines are regulated differently than chemical drugs and have a greater chance of immune reactions, mainly due to added adjuvants/excipients, such as aluminum and mercury. Commercials for drug lawsuits are prevalent. These are the same companies making vaccines. Both get recalled, but the government covers the cost in vaccine lawsuits.


3. Unlike other medicines, generic versions of vaccines are not allowed. As such, vaccines enjoy little to no competition, no liability, and a steady market from the government that purchases around 50% of all vaccines and places vaccines on the nation’s Vaccine Schedule for children that are required by most schools. A vaccine can earn in excess of $1 billion dollars per year.


4. Vaccines are sold on a tiered pricing strategy, based on a country’s income level. As such, an HIV treatment in Africa can cost $75 per year and a similar U.S. treatment $39,000 per year.


5. By the age of 1, American children should have received 24 shots with 32 vaccine doses.


6. The US has one of the most aggressive Vaccine Schedules of any country for children under 2. It is also ranked 54th in the world for the worst mortality rate for infants.


7. Other countries in the world do not follow the US’s lead with vaccines and some do not allow multiple, adjuvanted vaccines. This is significant because the CDC and the WHO do not study cross-reaction between vaccines, so possible adverse effects in children may remain unknown.


8. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is the government organization that approves vaccines for public use, prior to the final determination by the FDA. Their lack of concern for public safety is appalling. See the disturbing ACIP vaccine approval process at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_JJMpe00mM and https://youtu.be/_f8u6li-SjQ.


9. In 2007, the expert witness for the government admitted that vaccines cause autism in some children. Unfortunately, the government hid this information from the public. See the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XUM2gvfbW8.


10. Prior to the introduction of vaccines in the 1930s, autism was unknown. Furthermore, prior to the contemporary vaccination program in the U.S., Sudden Infant Death Syndrome occurred so infrequently, Infant Mortality Statistics didn't mention it. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364648/ and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/?hc_location=ufi)


► Why did the government choose to remove Thimerosal from most vaccines?

In the 1990s, the vaccination schedule for babies dramatically increased to 20 from 8. This led to a significant increase in the amount of Thimerosal infants received, which far exceeded the EPA's guidelines for mercury, by tripling the amount of mercury babies were injected with in their first months of life. This realization is when the link between Thimerosal and the “explosion” in autism was reconsidered by the FDA. Read how this important decision was made at: https://ahrp.org/vaccines-the-culprit-not-so-crackpot-autism-theory-nyt/


► How has vaccine safety been corrupted?

This Gardasil video explains the ties between the government and drug companies. Start at the 34:45 mark. The 37:02 mark shows the troubling corruption found by a Congressional study.


► The most compelling evidence of our government's continual failure

The Mercury in Medicine Report in the May 1, 2003 Congressional Record: The report on a 3 year study details the government's failures for almost 90 years with Thimerosal and autism. Without a doubt, the FDA knowingly failed to protect babies, children, and even adults.

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