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Time and FAMILIES “COMPENSATED” diabetes, attention deficit disorder, and obesity
again‚ FOR LOSS OF THEIR CHILD have skyrocketed as well. As the SV40 polio
Because of the dramatic increase in the debacle proved what can happen, “We may be
vaccines number of injuries from childhood vaccines over trading mumps and measles during childhood,
have simply the past decades, Congress enacted the National for cancer and leukemia in adults,” says Barbara
not worked Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, setting up Loe Fisher.
a fund to compensate parents for injured or dead
against the children (as if parents could ever be “compensat- DO VACCINES EVEN WORK?
disease they ed” for the loss of their child due to vaccination). Even if parents find out about the risks of
are targeted This fund is the first step parents must take when vaccines on their own, their doctors usually as-
their child has been harmed and serves to shield sure them that the risk is worth the almost certain
to prevent. the pharmaceutical company from all initial benefit of freedom from infectious disease that
liability. As of 2019, the fund has paid out $4.2 their child receives. However, time and again,
billion to parents with approximately 30,000 vaccines have simply not worked against the
reports made every year. This is a staggering disease they are targeted to prevent. A 1978
number considering how many reactions occur survey of 30 states showed that more than half
that medical authorities refuse to attribute to the of all children who contracted measles had been
vaccine. And if David Kessler is correct and 90- fully vaccinated. Sweden abandoned its whoop-
99 percent of all injuries are not even reported, ing cough vaccine after it examined 5,140 cases
the true number of children injured or killed by of whooping cough in 1978 and found that 84
vaccines would be nearly 3 million per year. percent had been vaccinated three times. A 1990
The many excellent organizations that work Journal of American Medicine Association article
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to inform doctors and parents of the risks of vac- stated that “Although more than 95 percent of
cines describe the anguished phone calls they re- school-aged children in the U.S. are vaccinated
ceive, recounting the devastation, guilt, confusion against measles, large measles outbreaks contin-
and distress that follow. Parents describe babies ue to occur in schools and most cases. . . occur
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who within hours or days of their vaccination among previously vaccinated children.” The
run fevers, become restless or listless, fall into medical literature is filled with example after
deep sleeps interspersed with piercing screams, example of the failure of vaccination to furnish
arch their backs strangely while they cry, fall protection against common childhood diseases.
into comas or repetitive seizures, twitch, jerk, or But rather than accept the premise that the
stare into space blankly. Or parents describe a entire system of vaccination is fundamentally
general decline in overall health with constant ear flawed, the medical industry calls for “booster”
infections, sudden sensitivities to foods and food shots and re-vaccination, without any solid, long-
allergies, sleep disturbances, asthma, unexplained term studies to see whether immunity is actually
rashes, and loss of developmental milestones achieved and, if so, for how long.
replaced instead with repetitive head banging or
body rocking. VACCINATION DID NOT
Many parents and doctors believe the stag- END EPIDEMICS
gering increase in chronic childhood illness is a While we have all been taught that vaccina-
reaction to the dozens of vaccines that are now tion ended the world’s many deadly epidemics,
part of the standard vaccination schedule. In an honest and careful review of original historical
the 1960s, autism affected less than 1 in 10,000 medical sources, publications and statistics from
families, but now in 2019 1 in every 36 children the past two hundred years reveals that infectious
are diagnosed with autism. The rate of school diseases declined 90 percent before mass vacci-
children with autism created a huge drain on nation was ever introduced.
families, school resources and social services that Experts attribute the cessation of epidemic
can never be remedied if the root cause turns out diseases not to mass vaccination, but to a major
to be vaccination as many suspect, and the true sanitation reform movement that swept Europe
solution is never addressed. Childhood asthma, during the 1800s. These reforms included moving
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