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[size="3"][url="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/09/27/vaccines-are-dangerous-says-the-government.aspx"]Vaccines Have Serious Side Effects - The Institute of Medicine Says So![/url]: September 27 2011



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[/size][indent][size="3"] As I have long stated, and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) now admits:



"Vaccines are not free from side effects, or "adverse effects""



This admission came after a review of more than 1,000 vaccine studies, which was intended to assess the scientific evidence in the medical literature about specific adverse events associated with eight vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella (MMR); varicella (chickenpox); influenza; hepatitis A; hepatitis B; HPV; diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis (DtaP); and meningococcal. The adverse events selected for IOM review were ones for which people had submitted vaccine injury claims to the federal [url="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/12/13/why-vaccine-injured-kids-are-rarely-compensated.aspx"]Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)[/url]. A convincing causal relationship was found for 14 adverse events and certain vaccines.



[/size] [/indent][size="3"]14 Dangerous Side Effects Linked to Vaccination, IOM Report Says



[/size][indent][size="3"] In the first comprehensive safety review in nearly two decades, the Institute of Medicine found convincing scientic evidence for a causal relationship between certain vaccines and serious adverse health outcomes. This includes:



Chickenpox Vaccine

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• [size="3"]Vaccine strain varicella zoster infection after vaccination without other organ involvement;[/size]
• [size="3"]Vaccine strain varicella zoster infection and subsequent infection resulting in pneumonia, encephalitis, meningitis or hepatitis in individuals with demonstrated immunodeficiences;[/size]

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Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) Vaccine

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• [size="3"]Measles inclusion body encephalitis[/size]
• [size="3"]Febrile seizures, a type of seizure that occurs in infants and young children in association with fever[/size]
• [size="3"]Short-term joint pain (arthralgia) in children and women[/size]

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Other findings revealed:

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• [size="3"]Six types of vaccines -- MMR, varicella zoster (chickenpox), influenza, hepatitis B, meningococcal, and tetanus-containing vaccines -- are linked to anaphylaxis (severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction). The HPV vaccine was also linked to anaphylaxis in yeast-sensitive individuals.[/size]

• [size="3"]Injection of any vaccine in general can lead to sudden fainting (syncope) and symptoms of deltoid bursitis, or shoulder inflammation[/size]

• [size="3"]Two Canadian flu vaccines were linked to oculo-respiratory syndrome characterized by conjunctivitis, facial swelling, and mild respiratory symptoms.[/size]

• [size="3"]Scientific research suggests that many people, who experience an adverse reaction to vaccines, have individual susceptibility that can make them at higher risk for experiencing acute and chronic health problems after vaccination due to biodiversity (genetic variations) within populations; age at the time of vaccination; immune deficiencies; coinciding infections/illnesses; and other environmental exposures, (such as toxins, traumas).[/size]

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Too Little Evidence Available to Effectively Evaluate Most Side Effects



[/size][indent][size="3"] Despite conclusive findings by IOM linking certain vaccines to brain inflammation, febrile seizures and potentially life-threatening infections like pneumonia and meningitis in susceptible individuals, most of the media headlines about the IOM’s 600-page report are spinning the reports conclusions and stating that “few adverse effects are caused by the vaccines reviewed in this report.”



The truth is that the IOM Committee came to this startling conclusion, which they admitted openly and that is:



[/size] [indent] [size="3"]"For the vast majority, (135 vaccine-adverse event pairs), the evidence is inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship."



[/size] [/indent][size="3"] In other words, for the majority of side effects and health conditions that have occurred in conjunction with vaccinations, they simply have no idea whether the vaccine caused the problem or not. In fact, the IOM Committee warned that there should be no misinterpretation of the fact that they DO NOT KNOW whether or not more than 100 very serious reported health problems linked to the eight vaccines they studied are caused by those vaccines. In most cases, the Committee was unable to come to a conclusion because there are no or very few scientific studies investigating the reported vaccine-related adverse event or the studies, which are published in the medical literature, are methodologically flawed in some way.



And isn’t this precisely the problem? The current vaccination schedule is a one-size-fits-all approach that has never been proven safe!



As [url="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/08/24/the-real-scoop-on-california-whooping-cough--using-fear-and-prejudice-to-attack-vaccine-exemption.aspx"]Barbara Loe Fisher[/url], founder of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), stated:



[/size] [indent] [size="3"]"The truth is, nobody knows how many vaccine victims there are in America, how many of the 1 in 6 learning disabled children; or the 1 in 9 with asthma; or the 1 in 100 who develop autism; or the 1 in 450 who become diabetic, can trace their chronic inflammation, disease and disability back to vaccine reactions that have been dismissed by public health officials and doctors for the past century as just "a coincidence.""



[/size] [/indent][size="3"] Or, if they aren’t dismissed as coincidence, they are dismissed on the grounds that there’s not enough data available to establish a “causal relationship.” This is exactly the reason why unbiased vaccine safety studies are so desperately and urgently need.



[url="http://www.nvic.org/PDFs/IOM/NVIC-Stmt-2011-AEFI-Rpt.aspx"]NVIC recently issued a statement[/url] regarding IOM's new report, noting this very fact:



[/size] [indent] [size="3"]"The [IOM] Committee was hampered by the same gaps in knowledge regarding vaccine adverse effects that hampered IOM Committees undertaking the same task in 1991 and 1994. For the majority of potential vaccine adverse effects reported to be associated with vaccines, this IOM Committee like those before, came to the conclusion that the biological mechanism and epidemiological evidence published in the medical literature is simply inadequate to accept or reject a causation finding.



This is a very important conclusion, because the current state of science holds no answers for parents and doctors, who for many years have reported multiple vaccine injuries to the government's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).



Insufficient scientific evidence to make a call about whether certain vaccines do or do not cause a wide range of serious health conditions, such as encephalitis, encephalopathy, stroke, asthma, autism, SIDS, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, lupus, and blood disorders, is problematical when these vaccines are mandated by law to be used by every child and recommended for many adults.



The Committee's clear acknowledgement that there is a lack of adequate scientific understanding about the way that vaccines act in the human body, including how, when, why and for whom they are harmful, is confirmation that more and higher quality vaccine safety science is urgently needed."



[/size] [/indent][/indent][size="3"]Why Are So Many Children Receiving Extra Vaccines?



[/size][indent][size="3"] Adding insult to injury, a separate review by independent researchers looking at the 1999-2003 National Immunization Survey data found that nearly [url="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21812169"]10 percent of children aged 19-35 months have received extra vaccinations[/url] and the rate was highest for children who received vaccines at more than one facility or from more than one provider. This is the last thing that kids need, considering that just about every year one or more “new” vaccines are added to the already overloaded schedule.



As it stands, children are expected to get 48 doses of 14 vaccines by the time they’re just 6 years old – starting with the first vaccine given on the day of birth in the newborn nursery! By age 18, federal public health officials say they should have gotten a total of 69 doses of 16 vaccines.



This “prescription” is the same for every U.S. child, even though it’s well known that all children are not the same biologically – as the recent Institute of Medicine report clearly points out - and some children will not be able to survive the currently recommended vaccine schedule without suffering serious harm to their health. And if you take your child to multiple health care providers or facilities, the odds are high that they may be mistakenly given “extra” vaccines on top of the recommended schedule.



To avoid this, if you do decide to vaccinate, be sure you keep a detailed record of which vaccinations your child has received, and when – do not rely on your doctor’s office to do that for you. It is also a good idea to have your child’s vaccination history on hand in the event there is a vaccine reaction.



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