Just the FACTS please....

Little Known Facts about Childhood Vaccinations

Original MCC-FHC FACTS to Missouri Legislators

Email this page to a Friend!

Dear Legislator,

"I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help me God."

Hepatitis A (Hep A) is endemic. Poor toilet habits and hand washing create epidemics. Hep A vaccine has been on the market only since 1994. Part of the marketing plan is to identify endemic and epidemic areas and then concentrate on promoting the vaccine as an end to the disease vs. improving sanitation. This logic, focusing on a multi-billion dollar profit margin vs. putting more money towards good basic hygiene and proper sanitation (there is no direct profit margin for that) is wrong, the focus is skewed. In a time in history when we are dazzled by the supposed potential of this promise that Hep A will go away with vaccination, that ‘fire’ will never be put out and another ‘fire’ will start such as e.coli, salmonella or staph aureus. All food borne illness will improve with more money focusing on mandatory education (hygiene and sanitation) not mandatory vaccination. Lives of educated employees will be enhanced. Channel 5’s, in St. Louis, reporting of Subway Restaurants on 12/17/99 was excellent in demonstrating how Phillis Jones, a Subway manager, ‘lives’ sanitary practices in her daily life because of her job. This kind of education can only serve to make life better for her, her children and their children. Consistent reinforced education can do more for an individual than a series of shots. This kind of education empowers them to make their life better, not dependent on someone else to keep them safe and well. It teaches responsibility and accountability. Mandatory vaccination does not encourage any of that. It does encourage dependence upon the ‘State’ for a quick ineffective fix. This kind of dependence is not good for the human spirit. People learn to look toward the ‘State’ to fix everything instead of them contributing toward the fix. Passing legislation which requires employers to do monthly educational presentations for employees makes more sense than mandating vaccinations.

If you are frustrated with lack of citizen involvement, look only to yourselves to blame. To pass this measure reinforces the ‘police state’ that Europeans are seeing the U.S.A. to have become as reported during the protests in Seattle during the World Trade talks.

Manufacturers are careful to disclose all information about Hep A and the Hep A vaccine to limit it’s liability. But the local Dept.'s of Health do not go to such extents. Why? Who’s being manipulated, and by whom?

The Hepatitis A disease occurs worldwide. Sporadic and epidemic, with a tendency to cyclic recurrences. Where environmental sanitation is poor, infection is common and occurs at an early age. thus, in developing countries, adults are usually immune and epidemics are rare. In developed countries, epidemics often evolve; slowly, involve wide geographic areas and last many months, but common source epidemics may evolve explosively. Most common among school aged children and young adults (a major problem in day care centers). Seroepidemiological studies suggest diminishing frequency in the USA and other developing areas.1 This statement was published in 1989 well before the vaccine was on the market!

Mode of transmission is person to person or by common vehicle, by fecal-oral route. Contaminated food. including milk, sliced meats, salads, raw or under cooked mollusks (due to fecal polluted waters) and drinking water can be the source. 1

Education of the public about good sanitation and personal hygiene, with special emphasis on sanitary disposal of feces and careful hand washing will control outbreaks. 1

Onset is usually abrupt with flu like symptoms, fever, malaise, anorexia, nausea and abdominal discomfort followed within a few days by jaundice and dark urine. It varies from a mild illness lasting 1 to 2 weeks, rarely to a severely disabling disease lasting several months. Convalescence usually is prolonged. In general, severity increases with age but complete recovery without sequelae or recurrences is the rule. Many infections are asymptomatic, many are mild and without jaundice, especially in children, and recognizable only by liver function tests. The case fatality rate is < 0.1%, the rare death usually occurs in an older patient in whom the disease has a fulminate course, or individuals with prior liver dysfunction. 1 The description of disease has become more ‘tragic’ since the vaccine came on the market.

Common source epidemic is what is being responded to locally and because of its cyclic nature this is certainly not the first outbreak but it is the first serious outbreak in the St. Louis area since the Hep A vaccine became licensed in 1994.

Past outbreaks were handled with an increase in sanitation education. This outbreak has been handled with vaccination to the exclusion of sanitation improvement. Food service workers are not seeing the increase in sanitation education which they had seen in the past. What they do see everywhere is vaccination signs instead of hand washing signs and talks on sanitation. Some can not get their paycheck until they have shown they’ve been vaccinated! This is coercion!! None are given options such as a blood test, IgM antibody, to determine immunity or if they are pregnant or will become pregnant or are nursing. Without a physician involved, these medicines are injected without regard to the individual! Is the state practicing medicine without a license? This is a dangerous situation.

VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System), mandated to exist by law through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program of the CDC (Centers For Disease Control & Prevention), has 800-1000 cases of vaccine reactions reported to them monthly. 15% of which, i.e. 95 to 150 persons a month, have severe debilitating reactions or death. 2 85% are less severe. You can find the VAERS website by just logging on to www.hometown.aol.com/mccfhc and clicking on ‘Resources’ then ‘VAERS’.

It is important to note that the Hep A vaccine has an 83% effective rate. 3 It is not 100%. Good hand washing is 100%.

Hep A incubation period is 2 to 7 weeks. It is spread by stool to mouth. 30% of all reported Hep A cases are children less than 15 Years old. Many more children have Hep A infection, but have no symptoms. the disease is usually not noticed until it has been spread to older members of the family. 4

Immunity, after the disease, is lifelong, you can’t get it again. This vaccine (83% effective) requires multiple boosters throughout life. Vaccine manufacturers make a regular income on each person receiving the vaccine. this vaccine changes the epidemiology of the disease!

Other food borne illnesses such as e.coli, salmonella and staph, which can also be fatal. are not prevented by the Hep A vaccine. These diseases can be prevented by good hand washing and good sanitation practices. Pasteur said on his deathbed "It’s the terrain, not the germ". 5 Consistent education in hand washing and sanitation is essential for prevention of all food borne diseases.

Hep A vaccine has no data on carcinogenesis, mutagenisis or impairment of fertility.

1 Only 5% of Hep A cases are attributed to food service workers
2 Hep A responds to treatment - rest, proper nutrition
3 Immumoglobulin treatment also available for Hep A
4 Hep A is cyclical in areas for 3 years, dormant for 10 years
5 Expensive - who profits?

If we’re administering vaccines in the best interest of the children, and disease in children is so mild its barely noticed, then why a vaccine program for children which will require booster upon booster vs. lifelong immunity from a mild illness? Follow the money trail. Legislators and bureaucrats are being used by big business to make billions, all along convincing everyone who doesn't stop to reason, that it’s the best and only way to go! Its not the best, considering all the controversy, and certainly not the safest or long lasting and far reaching.

Please do not pass any legislation mandating this vaccine. Do not add to children's already overburdened schedule of injections, and do not set a president for adult mandates. It is not in the best interest of humanity.

Sincerely,

Fran Norton, RN
Director, Missouri Citizens Coalition for Freedom in Health Care