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How Dangerous are the Diseases?
“Are we trading transient childhood diseases for a lifetime of chronic illness?”
How Dangerous Are The Diseases?
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▻ Anaphylaxis
here is great fear of contagious disease. However, we have an incomplete understanding of the actual risks of “vaccine preventable diseases.” For example, almost everybody has heard:
▻ ADD/ADHD
Measles: Extremely contagious/ encephalitis (brain inflammation)
▻ Dyslexia
Rubella: Birth defects
▻ Asthma
▻ Chronic bronchitis ▻ Allergies ▻ Autism
▻ Learning disabilities
▻ Crohn’s disease
▻ Ulcerative colitis ▻ Infertility
▻ Guillain-Barre Syndrome ▻ Eczema
▻ Shingles
▻ Diabetes ▻ Obesity
▻ Hypothyroidism
▻ Hyperthyroidism ▻ Alzheimer ’s disease ▻ Childhood Leukemia ▻ Cancer
▻ Blindness ▻ Deafness ▻ Epilepsy
▻ Depression
▻ Bipolar Disorder ▻ Rheumatoid arthritis
▻ Juvenile arthritis
▻ Colic/high pitched screaming ▻ Infantile insomnia
Mumps: Male sterility Polio: Paralysis/iron lungs Pertussis/whooping cough: Compromised breathing and death in infants Tetanus: An incurable infection that causes paralysis and is invariably deadly These examples illustrate virtually the only thing most people know about these diseases. Until now, the partial information the public has received about the dangers of the diseases has inevitably led to widespread fear and therefore faithful acceptance of vaccines. Do we know: ▻ How frequently these diseases occur? ▻ How often they produce these side effects? ▻ Whether the numbers cited by health authorities have any basis in reality? ▻ Whether there are any risk factors that make complications from these diseases more or less likely? ▻ How vaccines have affected the epidemiology of these diseases? ▻ Whether vaccines have reduced the incidence of the feared consequences of these diseases? ▻ Whether other treatments besides vaccines exist? Below, we provide a brief overview of some important but little-known facts about these diseases. It becomes apparent that selective information can be misleading enough to make it impossible to make a truly educated decision about vaccines. You can find answers to the above questions through further reading. After reading this handbook, if you like,
take a look at the recommended book list found at the back of this handbook. Diseases for which there are vaccines are not all equal. We have categorized them below in the hopes of clarifying their true relevance in our lives. For the sake of brevity, this list does not include every disease for which there is a vaccine. Conduct your own research to find out more about the diseases mentioned, as well as those that are not. While some of these diseases can be interchanged within these categories, the medical establishment would have us believe that all “vaccinable” diseases fall into the realm of dangerous or deadly. This is far from the truth. There are: ▻ Diseases that are frightening and possibly dangerous, ▻ Diseases that are low risk or generally harmless, and ▻ Diseases that are irrelevant to most populations.
FRIGHTENING DISEASES Pertussis/ Whooping Cough
Pertussis is a genuinely frightening disease, which despite massive vaccination coverage is still transmitted today. However, death rates from the disease have declined dramatically since the early 1900s, before the vaccine became available.(4) The most likely reason is improved standard of living and nutrition. In 2010, out of 27,500 cases of whooping cough reported in the U.S., there were 27 deaths, 25 of which occurred in children under 1 year old.(1) This does not come close to the average 10,000 annual cases of Sudden Infant Death, 70% of which may be caused by the DTaP vaccine.(11) The vaccine for whooping cough is highly reactive; in addition to SIDS, it has been correlated with brain damage and many other severe side–effects. One study found that the DTaP vaccine caused severe reactions (such as brain inflammation) in 1 out of 106 babies.(12) This