Multiple Vaccinations 
International Medical Veritas Association

 

 

     According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) over the past 2 decades, the pediatric immunization schedule has grown more complicated.  In 1980, infants received immunizations against 4 diseases; today that number has risen to 11 diseases. The National Vaccine Information Center indicates that between 1964 and 1992 the U.S. added six new vaccines to the mandatory vaccination program which already includes multiple vaccines, such as the DPT (diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus) and MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccines. Currently, CDC recommends vaccination against 11 vaccine preventable diseases. One hundred years ago, children received 1 vaccine (the smallpox vaccine). Forty years ago, children received 5 vaccines routinely (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio, and smallpox vaccines) and as many as 8 shots by 2 years of age. Today, children receive 11 vaccines routinely and as many as 20 shots by 2 years of age. (See Table 1)  

 

     Because some of these vaccines have to be administered more than once, a child may receive up to 23 shots by the time he or she is 2 years of age. Depending on the timing, a child might receive up to five shots during one visit to the doctor. And now with the recent CDC recommendations for childhood flu shots the number of vaccines rises to 12 and the possible numbers of injections received by 2 years of age increases by another three shots, some of which contain full strength thimerosal. Recent national surveys found that 23% of parents questioned the number of shots recommended for their children, and 25% were concerned that vaccines might weaken the immune system.[i] The Institute of Medicine agrees stating that “approximately one quarter of parents believe that infants receive too many vaccines than are good for them.”                                                                                                  

TABLE 1. Number of Vaccines and Possible Number of Injections Over the Past 100 Years[ii]

Year	Number of Vaccines	Possible Number of Injections by 2 Years of Age	Possible Number of Injections at a Single Visit
1900*	1	1	1
1960	5	8	2
1980	7	5	2
2000	11	20	5

·        In 1900, children received the smallpox vaccine.

     The most recent increases in the childhood vaccine schedule are just the beginning of a series of planned vaccines the pharmaceutical companies have in store for our children. According to Dr. Thomas Saari, spokesperson for the AAP, many more vaccines are in the works. In an interview in 2004 he said, “We project over the next ten years that we’ll add one to two new vaccines a year.”[iii] Dr. Andrew Wakefield recently said, “The next few years are likely to see the introduction of ever greater numbers of vaccines and the possibility of using combination vaccines containing up to 16 different infectious diseases, is already being discussed in the US.”[iv] In England, the British Health Ministry has just announced the introduction of a new five in one shot, without offering extensive proof of its safety.[v]

     Health and medical officials assure the public that the practice of administering as many as nine vaccines in a single day is completely safe. “This is a mistake.” According to Dr. Wakefield, "Everyone accepts that no medical intervention is without some risk. Instead of issuing blanket assurances, public health officials should explain and quantify the risks within the context and limitations of the safety studies that have been performed. Parents understand risk. Instinctively, they weigh risk every time they send their children to an adventure playground, or consent to their participation in a contact sport."

 

     Dr. Russell Blaylock, a prominent neurosurgeon in the United States is one of the first to warn against the dangers of too many vaccines given simultaneously. He says, “Vaccine complications increase dramatically when given close together. To give the immune system time to settle down, vaccines should be separated by six months in children and perhaps longer in adults.” He continues, “The number of vaccinations that can be given safely in a lifetime is not unlimited. Many of these vaccinations need to be abandoned.”

An unlimited number of vaccines cannot be given safely,
 and the more vaccines given, the greater the risk of substantial harm.
                                                                     Dr. Russell Blaylock[vi]

     Some physicians and scientists are now starting to point to the scheduling of multiple vaccines as possibly playing an important role in many emerging illnesses yet parents and physicians are still being assured of their safety. For instance, autoimmune illnesses, chronic allergies and other conditions are rising at alarming rates. According to the CDC, asthma has increased 52% in persons between the ages of 5 and 34, and rates of death due to asthma have risen 42% in the period between 1982 and 1992.[vii] A more recent study by the CDC indicates that asthma has doubled during the last 20 years and is now the most common disorder in children and adolescents.       

The incidence of childhood asthma, diabetes, and
autoimmune diseases has doubled during the past 20 years;
 Attention Deficit Disorder has tripled, Autism has increased 600%. 
What part have vaccines played?
                                                                    Stanley Monteith, M.D.

     “A critical point, which is never mentioned by those advocating mandatory vaccination of children is that children’s health has declined significantly since 1960 when vaccines began to be widely used. According to the National Health Interview Survey conducted annually by the National Center for Health Statistics since 1957, a shocking 31% of U.S. children today have a chronic health problem, 18% of children require special health care or related services and 6.7% of children have a significant disability due to a chronic physical or mental condition. Respiratory allergies, asthma and learning disabilities are the most common of these,” wrote Philip Incao, M.D. He continued, “Since vaccinations have a lasting effect on the immune system, and since it is known that many vaccines shift the balance of the immune system away from its acutely-reacting "Th1" side and toward its chronically-reacting "Th2" side it is a very plausible scenario that vaccines are contributing greatly to the large-scale and unprecedented increase in chronic conditions such as allergies, asthma, diabetes and a wide range of neurological dysfunctions including learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, seizures and autism in U.S. children today.” [viii]

    "A single vaccine given to a six-pound newborn is the equivalent of giving a 180 lb. adult 30 vaccinations on the same day. Include in this the toxic effects of high levels of mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde contained in some vaccines, and the synergist toxicity is increased to unknown levels. Further, it is known that infants do not produce significant levels of bile or have adult renal capacity for several months after birth. Bilary transport is the major biochemical route by which mercury is removed from the body, and infants cannot do this very well. They also do not possess the renal (kidney) capacity to remove aluminum. Additionally, mercury is a well-known inhibitor of kidney function," wrote Dr. Boyd Haley.[ix] In the article Mercury Rising, Dr. Gregory V. Stajich says, "Vaccines are the only class of medication that are given to neonates without making dosing adjustments based on their weight."[x]  This is a serious oversight and with this alone we can begin to see why we have a medical disaster in the making when doctors and medical authorities are recommending a ten-pound baby be injected with not one but up to what could now be ten vaccines at a single visit. There is not a doctor or nurse alive who would accept what a child receives adjusted up to their body weight.

In reality there are no long-term studies on the non-specific
 negative long-term effects on health of early multiple vaccinations.

    The key question, when reviewing the safety of multiple vaccinations is whether the studies used, as the foundational basis for injecting babies repeatedly on the same day, hold the necessary scientific rigor to be used with confidence. There are gapping flaws in these studies, riddled as they are with conflicts of interest, which seriously compromise the positions taken by the world’s medical organizations. Dr. Wakefield reminds us, “Vaccines are a multi-billion pound business and drug companies, with their powerful political connections, are perceived by many as pursuing vaccine development in the private, and not the public interest”. “During the 1990s, medical school faculty entered into other lucrative financial arrangements with drug companies, as did their parent institutions. One of the results has been a growing pro-industry bias in medical research – exactly where such bias doesn't belong,” wrote Dr. Marcia Angell in her recent book The Truth about Drug Companies. Dr. Angell talks about the fantastic wealth, power and profit the pharmaceuticals wield. It is in their, and all who are connected to their interests, to favor increases in the numbers of vaccines given to children, whether safe or not. 

    According to the Washington Post, “One of every dozen U.S. children and teenagers -- 5.2 million -- has a physical or mental disability, according to new figures from the 2000 Census. The figures covered children ages 5 to 20. For people of all ages, the census counted 50 million disabled nationally, and more than 740,000 in the Washington area. Specialists say the census numbers probably understate the disability rate by not including people with mild problems.”[xi]

It is not a far fetched idea that vaccines, which
 have been increasing in number, and given simultaneously
are at the heart of medical catastrophe.

    The greatest oversight of the studies used by medical authorities to assure the public of the safety of multiple vaccinations is their lack of allowance for time. None of the studies used to determine the safety of multiple injections have sufficient time frames factored into their research designs.[xii] The vast majority of published studies of vaccine reactions included a follow-up of up to only 48 hours. This conveniently excludes about 90% of reactions to vaccination. A group of vaccines administered can strongly damage a few within days, but other kids show collateral damages weeks or months afterwards. When it comes to the complicated effects of vaccines on the immune and nervous systems it takes time for the toxins in vaccines to do their damage. Yes it is true that some infants react within minutes or hours and die in their cribs or in their parent’s arms. But the greater and more common effects are slow in their oncoming manifestation. Most vaccine reactions are delayed, many starting only 2-3 weeks after vaccination thus most of the studies used by the vaccine researchers to establish safety do not reflect on the realities of the long term dangers. For medical officials not to measure these effects in their research designs undermines our entire confidence and security in the childhood immunization schedule. More and more doctors are joining in worrying that the present course set by medical officials will succeed in completely destroying confidence in the public health systems.

Current vaccine programs call for repeated, multiple vaccines during infancy,
at a time when the immune system is immature and underdeveloped.
Most harm from vaccine programs is probably indirect,
not having immediate side effects, but lowering the body’s
 resistance through subtle immune malfunction. 
                                                                        Dr. Harold Buttram[xiii]

     The CDC says that simultaneously applied vaccines carry no great risk for adverse side effects. On this issue they present a case that does not stand up to scrutiny. Even the AMA admits that the IOM examined studies looking at multiple vaccinations and their potential to cause allergic diseases that suggested that “certain vaccines increase the risk of developing allergic disorders.”[xiv] It makes medical sense to assume that the risks of each vaccine are compounded in the face of other vaccines when given simultaneously together.

Children that have received multiple vaccines are at risk for autism, attention
deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
It is now estimated that at least two million children in the United States have these disorders,
and by 1995 there were over 1.5 million children taking Ritalin as a treatment for these disorders.
                                                                                     Dr. Garth Nicolson & Dr. Nancy Nicolson
                                                                                                              Institute for Molecular Medicine

    The IOM says, “A review of the possible biological mechanisms for any adverse effects of multiple immunizations on immune function does not support the hypothesis that the infant immune system is inherently incapable of handling the number of vaccines presented during routine immunization scheduling.”[xv] Yet, "Since the beginning of laboratory investigation of vaccines, researchers have known that immune system dysfunction can follow vaccination," says Dr. Harrold Buttram. One of the most important clues to the nature of immune malfunction following vaccines appeared in a report from Vienna entitled, Abnormal T-lymphocyte Subpopulations in Healthy Subjects after Tetanus Booster Immunizations.[xvi] The studies were conducted to determine the effects of booster vaccination with tentanus toxoid on the ratio of the helper-to-suppressor T-lymphocytes of healthy adults. Indirect immunofluroescence evaluations of T- lymphocyte from blood samples taken before and after booster vaccination revealed a temporary drop, in each subject, in the helper/suppressor ratio after vaccination. The largest drop occurred three to fourteen days post vaccination, with four of the eleven subjects demonstrating ratios of 1.0 or less. The report pointed out that similar drops in helper/suppressor ratios, to less than 1.0, are characteristic of acquired immune syndrome (AIDS).[xvii] Though little follow research has been funded in this direction, medical reason could conclude that the more vaccines given in a single day the greater the immune suppression and the greater the possibility for adverse reactions.

     And that’s exactly what other studies tend to suggest. The tolerability of multiple vaccinations in travel medicine, for example, indicates that the above reasoning is correct. Dr. Borner, Muhlberger, and Jelinek at the Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at the University of Munich, Germany, in a study of 1,183 healthy travelers, found that in travelers with double vaccinations, side effects occurred in 36.7% of vaccinees, triple vaccinations in 40.3%, in more than three vaccinations, 50.0%.[xviii] These researchers reported that, “Results showed an increase of the overall frequency of side effects with an increasing number of simultaneously applied vaccines.” It seems the CDC has a short memory for in the early eighties they themselves checked over 700 Peace Corps volunteers who had received the human diploid cell rabies vaccine (HDCV) and found that one-half responded in an immunologically weak way to the vaccine. According to Dr. Buttram, the CDC postulated that a weakened immune system response to HDCV (and thus death to one unfortunate Peace Corps volunteer after rabies exposure) resulted from immunological “interference with a host response by multiple immunizations.”[xix] 

They are giving more and more vaccinations to children
in one session, but they seem to be saying there is no
evidence that this will overwhelm a child’s immune system.
There is no evidence because they have not looked for it.[xx]
                                                                               Dr. Andrew Wakefield

     Dr. Russell Blaylock states, “The timing of the vaccinations determines the clinical picture. Multiple vaccinations are being given to children at one office visit-as many as 9 at a time. This combined antigen-adjuvant overload produces intense brain microglial activation.”[xxi] The time of life that children are hit with multiple numbers of vaccines is critical. The present vaccine schedule in many countries starts at birth and continues at regular intervals through the first and second years of life with increasing numbers of shots administered on the same days because of the increasing number of vaccines added to the basic childhood immunization schedule. “It should be obvious that this period of early infancy is one of extreme susceptibility, with effects far greater than would result in later life when various organ systems are more developed and stabilized,” wrote Dr. Buttram

Receiving multiple vaccines in a short period of time can cause
 immune suppression, and such individuals may be at much higher risk
 for opportunistic infections than a similar un-immunized population.
                                                                  Dr. Garth Nicolson & Dr. Nancy Nicolson

     A doctor or health official would be lying if they said that the typical array of vaccines given together does not collectively consist of many toxic compounds. For instance if we added the basic chemicals used in a common list of vaccines given together we have a list of the following compounds:

DTaP	Each dose (0.5 mL) contains 0.625 mg aluminum; 25 Diphtheria toxoid; 10 tetanus toxoid; 25 m g pertussis toxin; 25 m g filamentous hemagglutinin; 8 m g pertacin; 2.5 mg 2-phenoxyethanol; 4.5 mg sodium chloride; and 0.1 mg formaldehyde.
Hepatitis B (Comvax)	Each dose (0.5 mL) contains 0.25 mg aluminum; 10 m g of hepatitis B antigen; 4.5 mg sodium chloride; 0.49 mg disodium phosphate dihydrate; and 0.35 mg sodium dihydrogen phosphate dihydrate.
Haemophilus Influenzae (Hib)	Each dose (0.5 mL of 0.4% sodium chloride solution) contains 10 m g of purified Haemophilus capsular polysaccharide.
Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV)	Each 0.5 mL dose contains 40 D antigen units of type 1, 8 D antigen units of type 2, and 32 D antigen units of type 3 poliovirus. Also present are 0.5% of 2-phenoxyethanol and 0.02% of formaldehyde (Preservatives), 5 mg neomycin, 200 mg streptomycin, and 25 mg polymyxin.
Pneumococcal vaccine (Prevnar)	Each dose (0.5 mL of vaccine) contains a mixture of purified polysaccharides of 23most prevalent or invasive pneumococcal types of Streptococcus pneumonia dissolved in isotonic saline solution containing 0.25% phenol as preservative.

Chart: Mohammed Al-Bayati Ph.D[xxii]

Until recently in the United States, and still in many parts of the world, several of these vaccines contained strong doses of thimerosal, a highly toxic mercury preservative, besides the above list of other toxic and potentially damaging chemical substances. The presence of thimerosal, even with only trace amounts present, threatens the safety of vaccines. The damaging effects of the mercury in thimerosal (proven by itself to destroy neurons) increases dramatically its effects when mixed with other chemicals especially aluminum. [xxiii]

     Conveniently the CDC, AMA, and IOM information bulletins about the safety of multiple vaccine shots do not mention this list. There are no specific studies that measure the long-term effects of such a chemical cocktail. The nature of individual toxins usually covers a wide spectrum of collateral damages but when mixed together it’s anyone’s guess to what the ill effects will be. Since there are no long-term studies we must look to the open population and ascertain what is actually happening to the children subjected to vaccines given simultaneously. What we run into is autism, which has grown in leaps and bounds as the basic vaccine schedule has expanded. Also we see deterioration in the general health of children as mentioned above, measured, by the increasing incidents of childhood cancer, asthma and diabetes.

     “Few published studies on vaccine effects include before-and-after studies of immune parameters or brain function studies such as electroencephalograms, or long-term safety monitoring. Inadequate consideration has been given to the additive or synergistic adverse effects of multiple simultaneous vaccines, although in the case of toxic chemicals, two compounds together may be 10 times more toxic than either separately, or 3 compounds 100 times more toxic," says Dr. Buttram.[xxiv] What is most obviously dangerous about multiple vaccines is the clear and immanent danger of mercury, in the form of thimerosal, which when given in higher and higher doses because of multiple shots, clearly passes federal safety guidelines for safety. The higher the amount administered the more overloaded the body becomes because of its limited ability to eliminate mercury. Medical authorities have never factored into their safety studies the most recent revelations that indicate that children vary greatly in their capacity to eliminate mercury from the body because of genetic dispositions.

     Many “vaccine adjuvants contain surface-active agents, but the immunological roles played by these components have been essentially ignored,” reports Dr. Y.W. Yang who did studies that demonstrated that vaccine adjuvants have apoptotic and necrotic effects.[xxv] Dr. Russell Blaylock confirms this saying, “Several things can activate microglia, including pesticides, MSG, viruses, mycroplasma, bacteria, stress, aluminum, mercury, and immune adjuvants.”[xxvi] “In the case of multiple vaccinations over a short period of time, something worse happens: the adjuvants activate the nervous system’s special immune cells, the microglia. Microlglia cells are dispersed throughout the nervous system. Normally, they lie dormant. When activated, they can migrate throughout the brain, secreting very powerful toxins, free radicals and immune related chemicals (cytokines)” continues Blaylock.  

  Dr. Neal Halsey of the Institute for Vaccine Safety says, “The risks of serious consequences following vaccines are many hundreds or thousands of times less likely than the risks associated with the diseases that the vaccines protect against.”[xxvii] Dr. Philip Incao says something different. “The present growing distrust of vaccinations by concerned parents nationwide is a grassroots movement that will not go away, because it springs from a very real source: from a frequency of acute and chronic adverse effects of vaccinations far greater than is being officially acknowledged.”[xxviii]

     Every year, between 12,000 and 14,000 reports of adverse vaccine reactions are filed with the FDA. These include hospitalizations, permanent brain damage, and death. The FDA estimates that this figure may represent just 10 percent of the true damage being done.[xxix]

Reported to VAERS from 1999-2002[xxx]

	Adverse Reactions Reported Age 0-6	Hospitalizations reported age 0-6	Deaths reported age 0-6
DPT	16,544	1,631	394
Flu	419	41	11
Hep	13,363	1,840	642
Hib	22463	3,224	843
MMR	18,680	1,736	110
OPV	22,915	2,868	866
Total	94,384	9,604	2,866

     As of the end of 2002, the VAERS system contained 244,424 total reports of possible reactions to vaccines, including 99,145 emergency room visits, 5,149 life-threatening reactions, 27,925 hospitalizations, 5,775 disabilities, and 5,309 deaths[xxxi], according to data compiled by Dr. Mark Geier, a vaccine researcher in Silver Spring, Md. The data represents roughly 1 billion doses of vaccines, according to Geier. Dr. J. Anthony Morris, former Chief Vaccine Control Officer at the US Federal Drug Administration agrees that such evidence has great bearing on the entire vaccination question saying, “There is a great deal of evidence to prove that immunization of children does more harm than good”.[xxxii]

     According to Dr. David Kessler, former head of the Food and Drug Administration, “Only about 10 percent of serious events [adverse drug reactions] are reported to the FDA.”[xxxiii] If we this as a rule of thumb the above table’s numbers would look more like this.

Reported to VAERS from 1999-2002 Multiplied By Ten

	Adverse Reactions Reported Age 0-6	Hospitalizations reported age 0-6	Deaths reported age 0-6
DPT	165,440	16,310	3,940
Flu	4,190	410	110
Hep	133,630	18,400	6,420
Hib	224,630	32,240	8,430
MMR	186,800	17,360	1,100
OPV	229,150

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