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Preventive Vaccines: Triggering an Immune Response

curetoday.com
BY KATY HUMAN
Spring 2010
…Vaccination (or immunization) generally starts with the introduction of something the body can recognize as a harmful foreign invader—dead or weak viruses, or even proteins that are unique to the surface of a disease-causing pathogen. Our immune system “learns” these signals and can store that information in long-lived immune cells. If infected later, a person’s immune system is ready to kick into action, and can destroy the invading cells.

Baby in Britain is overdosed with BCG vaccine and is now being treated for TB

American Chronicle

March 11, 2010

by Christina England

A catalogue of horror stories in our newspapers may leave many parents feeling anxious as to whether those vaccinating our children are really fit to do so, especially after one baby became ill after being overdosed with ten times the amount of tuberculosis vaccine.

The baby who is currently being treated in Sheffield children’s hospital in England UK, with antibiotics used to treat tuberculosis is now said to be out of danger.

Parents Still Worried About Vaccine Safety

U.S. News & World Report
Although most get their children inoculated, concerns persist, study found

March 1, 2010

MONDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) — Although most American parents vaccinate their children, many are concerned about the safety of vaccines and some choose not to have their children protected from potentially deadly diseases, a new study found.

A potential biological cause for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

Defective serotonin pathways in the brain stem may increase infants’ vulnerability
Children’s Hospital Boston

October 31, 2006

New autopsy data provide the strongest evidence yet that sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is not a “mystery” disease but has a concrete biological basis. In the November 1 issue of JAMA, researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston document abnormalities in the brainstem — a part of the brain that regulates breathing, blood pressure, body heat, and arousal — in babies who died from SIDS. SIDS is the leading cause of death in American infants after the newborn period, affecting 0.67 in 1,000 live-born babies.

Biotech Vaccines Boost the Bull Market

Wealth Daily
How to Cash In on a New “Golden Age”

By Steve Christ
Thursday, February 4th, 2010

As you might expect, Bill Gates can’t stand viruses. Yet it’s not malware or Trojan Horses that have earned his ire these days.

Instead, Gates is focused on the kinds of bugs that cause infectious diseases — like malaria, hepatitis, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS. Along with his wife Melinda, Gates has left Microsoft behind and since devoted his life to delivering new vaccines to the countries ravaged by these and other diseases.

Some Seattle doctors may stop vaccinating kids

Examiner.com

January 27, 12:23 PMSeattle Pharmaceuticals ExaminerTerry Richardson

You may not have known this but until recently Washington State was a universal vaccine state, which meant the state purchased all childhood vaccines and gave them to doctors for free. Doctors then administered the vaccines and billed insurance companies for the cost of giving the shot (not the cost of buying the vaccine).

Doctors Vaccinate for Profit

VacTruth.com

by Christina England
January 25, 2010

Years ago children were sent up chimneys or sold as servants to earn their parents extra money. Now they are being vaccinated by doctors, to boost their takings. Doctors, Governments and Pharma see our children as their property and are making thousands of pounds/dollars/euros out of them right under our noses. This, they call ‘Health Care’, I call it the legalization of child labour.

Are mothers natural protectors or baby killers?

Shaken Baby Syndrome and vaccines
American Chronicle

by Christina England

January 25, 2010

For many years around the world, doctors, scientists and professors of medicine have been debating as to whether ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ or SBS as it is known, actually exists. For a diagnoses of SBS a baby will need to display a serious acquired brain injury, which is said to be caused when a frustrated or angry adult holds an infant or toddler by the trunk or arms and shakes back and forth in a jerking, whiplash motion. Most cases occur in children under one year of age, although there are documented cases of SBS in older children.

Parents Continue to Support Dr. Wakefield

Parents continue to support Dr Andrew Wakefield, convinced that vaccines are the cause of their children’s Autism

Article by Christina England

Autism Today Online

December 7, 2009

Tension mounts in the UK, as Dr Andrew Wakefield’s case, has continued behind the closed doors of the the General Medical Council, or as it is sometimes referred to, the ‘lions den‘ for over three years. Parents have raged, protesting openly outside the gates of this massive building and around the UK, parents await anxiously for the GMC decision.

Autism Increase Environmental Not Genetic – Says New Director of USA’s $30.5 Billion Health Research Budget

Child Health Safety
October 24, 2009

A controversy raging for two decades over the causes of the worldwide pandemic of autism in children was resolved unequivocally in formal evidence by Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. in 2006.Today Collins controls the US’ annual medical research budget of US $30.5 billion: [NIH Budget] making Collins’ 2006 evidence of substantial international significance for many millions of parents and their children and for funding of research into the causes of autism.