Letter to The Union

Grass Valley/Nevada City, CA

"Don't fear vaccines"?

October 28, 2000

To the Editor:

In their letter to The Union [Nevada City/Grass Valley, CA], "Don't fear vaccines" (October 22, 2000), five doctors offer the opinion that vaccines are "safe and effective."

The evidence against their claim is significant.

In the past eleven years the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), a taxpayer-financed program, has awarded $1 billion to over 1,300 people injured by childhood immunizations. Approximately 6,000 claims have been made since the program's inception in October 1988.

The VICP was created to compensate families of children adversely affected by diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella and polio immunizations. The program has since been expanded to include hepatitis B, chicken pox, influenza B, rotavirus, and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines.

Awards for injury cases average $800,737 and range up to $8.4 million.

Typical injuries compensated are anaphylaxis, paralytic polio, and encephalopathy. Awards for death cases are capped at $250,000 plus attorneys' fees.

The M.D. letter-writers claim that vaccines will be free of Thimerosal (a mercury-containing preservative) by early next year. This is good news, if true, but 1) it has no relevance for the millions of children who have been and are still being injected with this substance in the name of public health, and 2) it falsely implies that vaccines will be free of dangerous ingredients when Thimerosal is removed.

In fact, vaccines will still contain the following toxic ingredients:

- aluminum (associated with Alzheimer's disease and seizures)

- formaldehyde (a carcinogenic disinfectant labeled as hazardous waste in the building industry)

- ethylene glycol (antifreeze)

- phenol (a disinfectant dye)

- benzethonium chloride (an antiseptic)

- ethylparaben (an antifungal preservative).

The polio vaccine--celebrated as a great success by the medical industry--was in fact a failure. Polio incidence began to decline before the vaccine was administered to the general population.

And in Europe, where public vaccination was not undertaken, polio continued to decline at the exactly the same rate as in a vaccinated America.

The five doctors claim that there is "an overwhelming body of evidence" that routine vaccination is good for our children." I invite them to present it, or any part of it, in this forum.

Yours faithfully,

Jock Doubleday

Director

Natural Woman, Natural Man, Inc.

http://www.SpontaneousCreation.org

director@spontaneouscreation.org