Ham and the Flu Shot

A newlywed was trying to impress her husband with a meal her mother had cooked.  She took a ham, cut the end off, and put the large part in a roaster for the oven.  Her husband asked her why she cut one end off. She replied, “That was how Mom did it.”  Now curious, the young woman asked her mother why she cut the end of the ham off before cooking.  Her mother replied, “That was how my mom did it.”  So the both of them went to Grandma to ask about the ritual.  She replied, “At the time that was what would fit in the small pot I owned.”  Sometimes when you see or hear something long enough it becomes an unquestioned path. 

Every year we are inundated with the get your flu shot campaign.  As a pharmacist, it seems blasphemous to even question the current dogma.  Some healthcare professionals may think it irresponsible that I would not support this well entrenched intervention.   As a health care professional it is my job to provide educational material for you to make your own informed decision.  Please consider the following:

1. When you come in contact with a virus, you may or may not become sick depending on your current state of health.  You can create immunity to that particular virus.  Immunity is a complex individual phenomenon that can last for years.
2. Vaccination is an attempt to create an immune response in the individual as a prevention of the disease such as influenza. 
3. The flu virus is not a stable virus.  When it infects a person, it uses the cells of the person to replicate or make more viral material.  Your body will develop immunity to that particular virus.  But viruses are ever changing and can even change from one person to another during the flu season.  There are hundreds of possibilities.
4. You can get the flu shot and get flu like symptoms from that shot and/or still get the flu later.
5. If we have a naturally mild flu season then you can claim vaccine effectiveness.  If we have a heavy flu season the news will report there was a “mismatch” of the flu vaccine. 
6. Flu vaccination manufacturers by law bear no liability for any harm done by their products.

We have all heard that the flu kills 36,000 people per year.  Of course this number never changes in the media which is evidence of our corporate training.  The American Lung Association, “ Trends in Pneumonia and Influenza Morbidity and Mortality April 2010, page 13, reports influenza statistics from 1979 to 2006.  The total deaths for 2006 were 849.   Perhaps they are adding in pneumonia deaths but it is still inaccurate.  You could also look at the details of influenza deaths by age group, page 20, to see that infants and children do not have a great risk.  The 65 years old and up has the highest risk.

Consider the following information taken from the pharmaceutical manufacturers package insert.  This link has detailed information from manufacturers about influenza vaccinations and others.

  

1. Each year, scientist guess which flu virus may occur months ahead of the beginning of the flu season.  They select 3 to 4 viruses to be manufactured into the new flu vaccination.  These are viruses from 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 depending on the product.  Were we not here living and breathing those viruses of the past?  Theoretically this means we could already have that immunity to the viruses of the vaccination.  If the concept of flu vaccination actually worked why would we need a booster every year?        
2. Many of these vaccinations still contain thimerosal (a known neurotoxin that contains mercury) as a preservative.  There are some preservative free products.
3. Other ingredients may include egg protein, hydrocortisone, antibiotics (neomycin, polymyxin B, kanamycin), formaldehyde, detergents, and polysorbate 80.  We are knowingly injecting toxic drugs and chemicals into your body.
4. The most troubling “side effects” relate to the nervous system and include Guillain-Barre’ syndrome that translates into hospitalized paralysis and either years of recovery or death.

 Nervous system disorders:

Headache, syncope shortly after vaccination, dizziness, neuralgia, paraesthesia, convulsion, myelitis (including encephalomyelitis and transverse myelitis), neuropathy (including neuritis and brachial plexus neuropathy), paralysis (including Bell’s Palsy and other cranial nerve paralyses), Guillain-Barré Syndrome  (taken from a package insert).

  

The British Medical Journal, Public Health: Influenza vaccination: policy versus evidence analysis of studies surrounding influenza vaccinations concluded:

1. Most studies are of poor quality.  Insufficient data were available in 11 of 17 studies in the elderly.  Resulting studies show no effect to 60 % effectiveness, which are “counterintuitive and implausible.”  “It is impossible for a vaccine that does not prevent influenza to prevent its complications, including admission to hospital.”
2. The argument that the vaccination of children to minimize transmission to other family members is invalid because of weak methods used in the primary studies.
3. Little comparative evidence exists on the safety of these vaccines with no long term safety information.

The Lancet reported that “The effect of influenza vaccination on the risk of pneumonia in elderly people during influenza seasons might be less than previously estimated."

Statistics cannot account for the impact to an individual or family that suffers from any disease or treatment of disease.  I am very concerned about the injection of toxic material that causes neurological damage.  There are no long-term studies that measure such effects in children or older adults.  We already have too much neurological disease including Autism, Attention Deficit, and Alzheimer’s.

Stay Well!

This blog is written for general informational purposes only.  This information should not be used for the diagnosis, recommendation for treatment, nor should it be considered a replacement for consultation with a healthcare professional.  If you have questions or concerns about your health, please contact your healthcare provider.    

Autism and Natural Immunity

There is nothing of more concern to a parent than his or her child.  Certainly, a child’s health is paramount and the rise of autism is alarming.  The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports that in 2000 the rate was 1 child in 150.  In 2008 it was 1 in 88 children.  The rate for boys is 1 in 54 and girls 1 in 252.  This is scary as this disease was virtually unknown 20 years ago.  So what is the cause?

Autism is a neurological disease that is associated with problems in the development of brain and nerve tissue.  Metals such as mercury, lead and aluminum are known neurotoxins.  Mercury actually causes the myelin sheath covering nerves to be destroyed.SEE UNIVESITY OF CALGARY VIDEO.    Lead is associated with learning defects in children.  Aluminum is associated with impaired learning and reduced motor coordination. 

It is highly likely that such metals may contribute to autism.  It is also likely that there are other contributing factors that have yet to be identified.  This could include immune system disorders, and the toxic load of the mother from the environment.  A 2005 study reported over 200 different chemicals in each newborns umbilical cord blood sample.    Looking for a single cause will not solve the problem.  Illness usually has a number of factors that come together to create disease.

In 1994, North Carolina enacted a law that required hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccination for all children.  Current vaccination for HBV is started on the day the infant is born, followed by a shot at the fourth and 16^th week of life. This is just one of many vaccinations to follow.  HBV vaccine is made from a fungus using “recombinant” technology.  Recombinant means genetically engineered.  Recombinant technology has brought us human insulin. 

Information found in the vaccination manufacturer’s package insert states that the product contains no more than 5 percent of yeast protein.  This translates into RNA or DNA, which is genetic material.  This is unknown RNA or DNA, which, in theory, can interact with our genetic material.  It also reveals that the vaccination contains aluminum and thimerosal.  The thimerosal is a preservative that contains mercury and is reported to be in “trace amounts” in a concentration that is technically not a preservative. 

So if you have a known substance that causes a problem, would you think the first step would be to eliminate the source of the problem?  If I had a room full of puppies, should I keep cleaning up after them or just put them outside?    The first principle of wellness should be to eliminate any source of a toxin entering the body.  This is simple common sense.  However, in medicine it seems that we must study the problem and get a consensus as the problem gets worse.  Science is not always scientific.

Let’s assume that a pregnant woman is already infected with HBV.  Does it stand to reason that the infant already has the virus?  Can the vaccine protect the child from something it already has?  HBV is transmitted by sexual contact, contaminated blood and/or illegal IV drug use.  So if you are a parent that does not fall in the behavior of common transmission then what is the actual risk to your child?  If your job is in the health care field then you have already taken the HBV shots.  If the vaccine works then your immunity is passed on to the infant through breast-feeding.  The last possibility is that the infant contracts the virus in the hospital.  Hopefully this is not likely.  What is the actual risk of contracting the disease and what are the potential risks of the treatment?

A newborn does not have an intact immune system, which is why breast-feeding is important.  The child gets its immunity from the mother.  Can the baby’s immune system really respond in a positive way to the vaccination?  The very question is unreasonable.  Also, the infant’s brain is not fully developed; even if it were, would you really want to give a known neurotoxin in any amount?  Scientific researchers continue to tell us that vaccinations are not the cause of autism.  They may not be the only cause but are they a contributing factor?  Even if they are right, we are still in violation of risk verses benefits.  We are trained to believe vaccinations prevent disease.  Have you ever Googled “Vaccine Injury”?  Health care is about choices. 
Be informed. 
Be well!

This blog is written for informational purposes only.  This information should not be used for the diagnosis, as a recommendation for treatment, nor should it be considered a replacement for consultation with a healthcare professional.  If you have questions or concerns about your health, please contact your healthcare provider.