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 "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that we vaccinate approximately 80 percent of our population, a practice that has greatly reduced the spread of many harmful infectious diseases in our society. Take measles as an example: Before the introduction of the measles vaccine in the United States, there were approximately five hundred thousand reported cases and five hundred deaths annually from the disease. In 1998, there were only one hundred reported cases of measles in the United States. No one can deny that's a dramatic improvement."- Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) |
 "Other scientists are examining the relationship between the measles virus and multiple sclerosis, suggesting that viral outbreaks of measles might contribute to some localized epidemics of multiple sclerosis. And for many years, one of the more unsettling questions in the field of viral autoimmune-disease research has been whether individuals exposed to common viruses while in their mothers' wombs, or as newborns, are more likely to develop type 1 juvenile-onset diabetes."- Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) |
 "Past generations thought vaccination successful: 1878, smallpox defeated; 1885, rabies; 1911, typhoid; 1921, tuberculosis; 1925, diphtheria and tetanus; 1937, yellow fever; 1954, polio; 1960, measles; and 1967, mumps.
Today, every child in the USA is vaccinated against whooping cough, hepatitis, chickenpox, measles, polio, diphtheria, mumps and tetanus. In fact there are 40 recommended childhood immunizations in all as of January 2002. If parents resist, they come into conflict with the law. Vaccinations, so it seems, are the great unquestionable victory of modern medicine."- Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) |
 "Cases of Type-1 can arise from exposure to viruses that have been documented, including measles, mumps, infectious mononucleosis, infectious hepatitis, Coxsackie virus, and cytomegalovirus. These viruses cause an immune inflammation response that destroys the beta cells of the pancreas in an infant. Infant research suggests that exposure to German measles in the womb may have a 40 percent greater chance of developing Type-1 diabetes.
Type-1 diabetes can run in families, but there is a weak association."- Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) |
 "Before Gajdusek allowed Brown to start his kuru fieldwork, Brown tested inhabitants of the Caroline Islands for antibodies to measles. The goal was to find isolated populations never exposed to measles, enabling scientists to determine if the measles vaccine would endure in the absence of an active, circulating measles virus. There would be no way to determine that anywhere else in the world, since most people have been exposed to measles or the vaccine."- Philip Yam, The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases (Get the book.) |
 "Furthermore, diseases such as mumps, measles, and German measles—for which vaccines have been developed over the past few years—don't have the dread implications of smallpox, tetanus, and diphtheria. Contrary to popular belief, measles cannot cause blindness. Photophobia, which is merely a sensitivity to light, can be treated as parents years ago did: by pulling down the windowshades. Measles
vaccine is supposed to prevent measles encephalitis, which is said to occur in one out of 1,000 cases."- Robert Mendelsohn, Confessions of a Medical Heretic (Get the book.) |
 "But why is measles "environmental" if genetic vulnerability to the virus is "universal"? According to Gottesman, if some people are genetically vulnerable to conditions such as schizophrenia, the condition is "heavily influenced" by genetics. Conversely, conditions such as measles, where everyone is genetically vulnerable, are "environmentally caused." Thus, if everyone is predisposed, then no one is predisposed. Suppose that only 50% of human beings contract measles when exposed to the virus."- Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.) "Given the universality of the genetic vulnerability to measles and the episodic, acute exposure to the virus, we can easily say that such conditions are "environmentally caused."2 But why is measles "environmental" if genetic vulnerability to the virus is "universal"? According to Gottesman, if some people are genetically vulnerable to conditions such as schizophrenia, the condition is "heavily influenced" by genetics. Conversely, conditions such as measles, where everyone is genetically vulnerable, are "environmentally caused." Thus, if everyone is predisposed, then no one is predisposed." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.) |
 "In 1990, the Journal of the American Medical Association had an article on measles which stated, "Although more than 95 percent of school-aged children in the US are vaccinated against measles, large measles outbreaks continue to occur in schools and most cases in this setting occur among previously vaccinated children." {JAMA, November 21,1990.)
In the USA, from July 1990 to November 1993, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration counted a total of 54,072 adverse reactions following vaccination."- Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) |
| "The introduction of live virus vaccines, such as live MMR vaccine made from weakened forms of the live measles, mumps, and rubella viruses, has raised questions about whether live vaccine virus could be a co-factor in causing chronic diseases such as diabetes.
In 1982, another vaccine was added to the childhood vaccination schedule in Finland. Children age 14 months to 6 years were given the live MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine. This was followed by the injection of 114,000 Finnish children 3 months and older with another experimental Hib vaccine." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) |
| "Would it follow that measles is "heavily influenced" by genetics because the population vulnerability dropped from 100% to 50%? One reason that most people would answer no, I would argue, is that we have identified the virus that causes measles.
In discussing the causes of schizophrenia, Gottesman noted that pellagra was once viewed as being heavily influenced by genetics but was later discovered to be caused by a vitamin deficiency. " - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.) |
 "MMR: measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine.
Mold: A type of fungus that produces microscopic spores, often triggering allergy. Myelin: The sheath surrounding a nerve, made of fats and protein. Nebulizer: A device that turns liquid medicine into a mist.
Neocortex: The most advanced areas of the brain, including the frontal lobes, which are responsible for most thought and memory. It is sometimes impaired among people with autism and ADHD.
Neuron: A nerve cell in the brain or peripheral nervous system."- Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) |
| "In 1998, there were only one hundred reported cases of measles in the United States. No one can deny that's a dramatic improvement.
So what could possibly be the drawbacks of vaccinations?
There has always been some controversy surrounding this subject, and like all controversies, this one has two sides. One side is easy to find on television and in newspaper articles. There's no shortage of stories about new vaccines and warnings about the "dire" consequences people will face if they don't vaccinate their children." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Some parents would argue that a few hundred cases of measles or chicken pox—diseases that many of us had, and recovered from, in the 1950s?do not justify the suffering of hundreds of thousands of children who may have regressed into autism as a result of the known developmental neurotoxins in many vaccines. These challenging questions require lengthy research and deliberation. Would it surprise you to know that the majority of parents don't ask any questions about the vaccines given to their babies?" - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) |
 "If a "dirty bomb" exposed a large segment of US citizens simultaneously to Hepatitis B, Hepatitis A, tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria, Haemophilus influenza B, three strains of polio viruses, 3 strains of influenza viruses, measles, mumps, and rubella viruses, the chickenpox virus, and 7 strains of Streptococcus bacteria, we would declare a national emergency. We would call it an "extreme act of BIOTERRORISM." The public outcry would be immense and our government would act accordingly."- Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
| "Andrew Wakefield's research, which was published in The Lancet in 1998, suggests there is a possible increase in autism and other pervasive developmental disorders in children who received the triva-lent measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. (For more studies linking mercury toxicity to autism, see p. 271 in the resources section.)
No one wants to confront these disturbing facts—not the mainstream media, not the CDC, not even most pediatricians. I keep hearing that they've "found no causal link" between mercury in vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) |
| "The lab also was said to have found evidence of measles in spinal taps of autistic children, but those results were never published. Last year, two journal articles reported an inability to replicate the O'Leary lab's findings. There was also a negative turn of events for the MMR/vaccine damage claimants in the British vaccine court. In that court, the government pays for families to sue, but will only continue the funding when it believes the chance of success is greater than 50 percent." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
| "Some doctors now believe that in the GI tract this virus can multiply and cause chronic, subacute measles infection. This infection can then trigger inflammation in the walls of the GI tract, making these walls porous and allowing harmful toxins from the gut to enter the system. Some of the toxins that escape from the gut are bacteria, some are viruses, and some are morphine-like molecules known as caseomorphin and gluteomor-phin, which can cause a type of intoxication. Dr." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Just when modern medicine had almost eradicated the traditional childhood epidemics of measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, polio, and tetanus, these even more insidious new disorders began to haunt our children with unprecedented occurrence. The end of one set of epidemics and the beginning of the other was not a coincidence. The medical technology that defeated the old epidemics was created by America's burgeoning industrialism, and this industrialism also created the ubiquitously toxic environment that has indirectly triggered the new epidemics." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) |
| "In other research, the severity of measles in children has been reduced with vitamin A supplementation; and children who suffered higher fevers and were hospitalized with measles were found to have low vitamin A levels (Frieden et al 1992). measles is one of the severest infectious diseases in poor communities; and vitamin A given to children with complicated measles was seen to enhance immune-competence and decrease morbidity and mortality (Coutsoudis et al 1992)." - Kelly J Moorhead, Spirulina: Nature's superfood (Get the book.) |
 "Chickenpox, measles, and other natural self-immunization programs (wrongly called "childhood diseases") help endow a child's immune system with the ability to counteract potential disease-causing agents more efficiently and without having to go through a major toxicity crisis.
With more than 550,000 annual cancer deaths in the United States alone, the justification for mandatory immunization programs in this country is highly questionable."- Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
 "They are also far more dependent upon highly dense host populations, which among humans are almost entirely an artifact of the last ten millennia, the period in which agriculture and settled communities started humanity down the path to civilization.13 measles, as an example, will die out in a population of less than five hundred thousand, either killing or immunizing everyone before they can produce offspring.14
The disease spread by Y. pestis, on the other hand, is vulnerable to neither of these evolutionary correctives."- William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Frustratingly—and despite the presence, during the Antonine Plague, of Galen, the most influential medical writer of all time—neither disease was described well enough for positive identification, though the consensus is that the first was smallpox and the second, measles. The conclusion is partly based on the tragically well-documented experience of New World peoples when they were exposed to both diseases without any acquired immunity, and partly on the epidemiological rule of thumb that suggests that modern-day childhood diseases are products of coevolution from far more dangerous versions." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Both faced the same early epidemics of smallpox and measles, the same political instability, the same stormy third century. At the dawning of the sixth century, the Chinese empire, like Justinian's, faced a similar loss of traditional land to barbarians (the so-called Sixteen Kingdoms of northern China) and reconstituted itself in an eerily similar way, led by an emperor of enormous talent and peasant birth named Yang Chien.f Only afterward, "historical developments in these two regions began to diverge permanently."35 The reasons were, frankly, demonic." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) |
 "Throughout the twentieth century, similar patterns occurred in the death rates from many other infectious diseases, such as measles, scarlet fever, typhoid, and diphtheria. As with tuberculosis, the vast majority of the decline in mortality occurred before the introduction of effective medical therapy, antibiotics, or vaccines—polio and HIV/AIDS being the notable exceptions."- John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
 "The oil palm counteracts everything from measles to hernias. The bush mango is said to produce Ychromosomes, so members of the Ebu and Bayangi tribes eat it before procreating in order to conceive boys. Benjamin and his wife, Doris, have three children—all girls. Didn't he use bush mango? "Traditions differ," he laughs. "We don't eat it where I come from."
We venture deeper into the wonderland of a garden, passing the remains of a prehistoric asteroid. I pick up a pink, pincushion-shaped monkey fruit with a foamy yellow interior; it tastes like marshmallows."- Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) |
| "One problem that loomed, though, was Priya's vaccination for measles, mumps, and rubella, which was based in egg. Anju didn't want to miss that vaccination, because she believed vaccinations were critically important. Priya hadn't missed any of her shots yet, not even the hepatitis-B vaccination on the first day of her life. So Anju took Priya to the hospital, where doctors tried to desensitize her to eggs, by giving her an extremely small dosage of the vaccine. The moment it hit her system, though, Priya became violently ill.
Soon after that, Priya began to suffer from asthma." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) |
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