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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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