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"Superb – I have been writing this in my mind for years but never had the nouse to be so erudite."
Dr Charles Lister, Dentist, Private Treatment Centre, Salisbury
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Concerns About the Safety and Efficacy of Vaccinations
The theory
The theory behind vaccination is that if the body is exposed to infective material in an attenuated (weakened) or denatured form it will memorise the immune response so that when the body later encounters the pathogen it will mount a rapid and effective response.
However, there is a lot of concern about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccination programme for several reasons.
The safety of vaccinations
Concerns about vaccination safety include:
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The fact that infected matter is being injected directly into the circulation or muscles.
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The simultaneous introduction in some vaccines of multiple infective agents, which is something that would never happen in nature. Examples include the diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus (D.P.T.) and measles, mumps and rubella vaccines (M.M.R.).
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The timing, frequency and sheer number of vaccinations given to babies and small children with immature immune systems. For instance, in the USA the number of mandatory vaccinations has increased from 10 to 46 in the last 25 years.
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That production of vaccines involves culturing samples collected from the infected pus, urine, faeces or blood of sick people or animals on decomposing animal or human material. This means that the vaccine is often contaminated with faecal matter; animal tissue, DNA, RNA and animal blood; retroviruses, yeast proteins and antibiotics.
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Various chemical adjuvants (which provoke an immune response) and preservatives are added so that the vaccine may contain: formaldehyde; phenol; alum; acetone; aluminium phosphate; glycerine; monosodium glutamate (M.S.G.) and toxic metals such as lead, cadmium, aluminium and mercury (as thimerosal - a preservative). Many of these substances are known to be toxic individually and when combined have a highly synergistic and detrimental effect on the body.
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Vaccines may be implicated in the onset of Gulf War syndrome where young, fit soldiers had been given 15-17 experimental vaccines and many chronic fatigue, M.E. and fibromyalgia sufferers can date the onset of their condition to a recent vaccination. French soldiers who served in the Gulf War had the lowest rates of illness of any nationality and this may be due to the fact that they were not given the anthrax vaccination used by other troops. Also, in one study, over half of teenage girls vaccinated against rubella reported the onset of joint pain and/or arthritis within 4 weeks of vaccination.
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Some believe that the vast increase in autism and learning disorders is wholly or partly attributable to the vaccination programme. These disorders, for instance, are practically unheard of in communities such as the Amish that have refused all vaccinations on religious grounds.
The effectiveness of vaccinations
Concerns about the effectiveness of vaccinations include:
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Many vaccines were introduced after a dramatic decline in incidence of the disease and yet the vaccination programme has claimed the credit. Many infectious diseases such as the deadly smallpox, declined in unvaccinated populations also.
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Illnesses for which there is no vaccination such as scarlet fever and typhoid have also declined.
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The entire concept of vaccination is based upon germ theory as developed by Louis Pasteur and the idea that infective materials attack healthy individuals. An alternate theory is that ‘infective organisms’ may largely arise from within the body in response to toxicity as proposed by Antoine Beauchamp, so the very principles upon which vaccination is based may be wrong.
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Ultimately, the immune system works simply on the basis of identifying ‘self’ and ‘non-self’ and may not need to be introduced to every pathogen as is supposed.
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A good proportion of those who have been vaccinated go on to contract the disease and this is often overlooked or is attributed by doctors to another illness because of their unquestioning faith in the vaccination programme.
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Vaccination may not confer lifelong immunity as naturally acquired infections do (Th1/Th2 lymphocytes).
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Worse yet, we may actually be perpetuating infections which would have died out by vaccinating.
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The simple fact is that we have no hard data on either safety or efficacy because there is practically no requirement to test vaccines (unlike pharmaceuticals) and because no meaningful data of adverse effects are kept as symptoms have to manifest within a remarkably short period of time to legally be attributed to the vaccine.
Further resources
For more detailed information on the debate about the safety and effectiveness of vaccinations please read chapters 8 and 9 of Chronic Fatigue, M.E., and Fibromyalgia: The Natural Recovery Plan
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