Disease May Be Only a Plane Ride Away

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If, and in the measles example cited, the problem is in infected passenger returning from countries where a disease is endemic -- then simply quarantine all passengers, do a rapid test for the diseases that are endemic in the country(ies) from which the passengers came, and release those who are disease exposure/infection negative.
Such a program would prevent others from being exposed and could be paid for with higher air fares to include an up-to-5-day quarantine and testing for all rrreturning passengers who have no proof of true immunity.
Such a program would be much cheaper than letting disease carriers into the country without any attempt to keep hem form infecting others and the treating all of those infected and vaccinating thousands more.
Since the perceding is obviously true, the prurpose of the vaccinate-everybody tenor of this piece is more about increasing vaccination (and the profits of those who benefit) than it is about preventing disease.
After all, quarantining the infected from the rest of the propualtion has been repeatedly proven to be more effective than vaccinating everybody.

Paul G. King, PhD of NJ 2:27PM September 06, 2010

We now know that Dr. Leo Kanner, the Johns Hopkins psychiatrist who first diagnosed autism was a fraud. Any seventh grade science student could have looked at the orginal data and history of the patients and figured out the children with expossed to a poison. The first cases were seen at Johns Hopkins in the 1940's by Dr. Kanner, coincided with a mercury based fungicide being used on government properties and public parks in the late 1930's. Many of the parents of the orginal eleven worked with mercury compounds. Since the patients were boys, this should have give another clue to the cause, as it is a known fact of toxicology that boys cannot clear mercury. About 80% of children with autism are male. The pediatricians are not practicing medicine, they are practicing pharmacology. Vaccines and the fallout, have created a cottage industry selling RX's for asthma, ADD/HD/ seizures, digestive problems, and anti-psychotics to children. Over 50% of our children have a learning disability, chronic disease, food allergies, seizures, or an autoimmune disease. All of these can be symptoms of mercury poisoning. Until the medical schools teach toxicology and nutrition instead of the pharmaceutical marketing practices will medicine open their eyes to the truth of what has happened to a generation of children. Parents of today are no longer intimidated or pressured by the pediatricians. The doctors have no answers to the growing population of sick children. Parents are making well thought out decisions of their child's health care. If the doctors don't wake up and start listening to parents, they will not have any patients.

elaine dow of MD 7:49PM September 05, 2010

Lions and tigers and measles oh my! Lions and tigers and measles oh my! Lions and tigers and measles oh my! Lions and tigers and measles oh my! Lions and tigers and measles oh my! Lions and tigers and measles oh my!.............
Thank god people are catching on to this nonsense. Over 50% of parents, a majority, now concerned about vaccine safety. They are already out with the get your mercury saturated flu shot scare. This shot contains the H1N1 virus which was declared dead just 2 weeks ago. Dr. Levine and Rodewald, you're the one's making me sick!

Maggy of MI 3:28PM September 05, 2010

Read stories from parents about what happened to their teenage daughters after being vaccinated with gardasil go to;
truthaboutgardasil.org

Maurine meleck of SC 12:30PM September 05, 2010

The CDC lied !!!
Playing vaccine catch up that number added up is 32,500 ppb of mercury, on one day at one setting.
That is 9 vaccines on one day at one setting, 7 of which contain the Mercury.
When you take into consideration, that the EPA defines Liquid Hazardous Waste
as 200 ppb... again, adding that up you find that number is 160 times what the EPA defines as Liquid Hazardous Waste.
Hence these emails, received through the freedom of information act.
From the health agencies of the CDC and the FDA
This was not rocket science, this was 9th grade math!
(He was referring to the accumulative doses adding up to mercury poisoning and neurological damage.)
Were afraid, the public will perceive us asleep at the switch for decades.
For allowing this dangerous compound to remain in the vaccines.
(Notice he did not say (perceivable dangerous compound)
And it is no longer going to wash, that there is no longer evidence of a risk.
(He is basically stating, that the evidence is there to support a link)
How could the FDA approve a preservative, with out knowing how much mercury
it contains. What else is lurking we know nothing about.
(The history on this one is, they didn't! they grandfathered it in when the FDA was formed. Eli lilly had a Researcher to inject 22 people dieing of meningitis in 1929 with ethyl-Mercury and follow them for one day. They did not die that day, so it was deemed safe by their long term one day study. Are you getting the feeling, that vaccine safety doe's not exist and is a cruel joke???)
From the Manufacturer Safety Data Sheet on Thimerosal the Mercury based preservative in children's vaccines and 90% of all flu vaccines.
MSDS of Thimerosal states;
Thimerosal is accumulative in the body, it targets the organs of the body
in particular the brain and the lining around the brain.
Also Thimerosal is never supposed to be mixed with Aluminum and it is a mutagenic (in other words it mutates genes)
Pregnant women are never supposed to be exposed to Thimerosal according to the MSDS it will cross the placenta and go into the baby and cause mild to severe mental retardation. ( Maybe mild ADD ADHD Speech Delay or severe AUTISM Hence the epidemic.
Some how Thimerosal doe's not sound to safe to me at all, and it makes me wonder. What was it doing in our children's vaccines?? But what do I know. I am not a PHD like the ones that work in vaccine safety, that could not do 9th grade math that it would have took to keep our children safe from. in their words (This dangerous compound)

Joe of TX 3:28AM September 05, 2010

FYI, The children playing the CDC AAP game of vaccine catch up in the 1990's
some had received 9 vaccines 7 of which contained the Mercury on one day at one setting.
Example; Congressman Dan Burtons grandson received 9 vaccines on one day at one setting 7 of which contained the Mercury, in two days after the vaccines he was in full blown autistic behavior. Just like my son, several vaccines on one day at the injection site a knot the size of a grape fruit so hot it could burn you.
FYI it is a well known fact that the Mercury causes the Aluminum to oxidize
with the production of heat. When you mix mercury and Aluminum together they react violently.
The next day three mini seizures, he starts sniffing and chewing everything like a rat ( PICA ) in days a child that was speaking starts slurring his speech,weeks later he starts losing his speech. Months later he loses all speech down to two
sometimes three words.

Joe of TX 3:20AM September 05, 2010

During the Katrina trailers formaldehyde scandal, the CDC or FDA spokes person came forward and said that there is no safe levels what so ever of formaldehyde.
Guess what is in children's vaccines????? Answer, (according to those responsible for vaccine safety) is unsafe levels of formaldehyde.
PBS done an Autism documentary years ago, the CDC or FDA spokes person back then. Said there is no safe levels of heavy metals what so ever.
Guess what is in children's vaccines? according to those responsible for vaccine safety, two kinds of unsafe heavy metals.
FYI, when you mix Aluminum with Mercury you get the synergy effect of the two salts mixed. The Toxin climbs in Toxicity by a factor of 10 times.
Last I heard, when you take something that is considered unsafe and put in something. That something, has then become unsafe also.
It doe's appear if this is all true, and I assure you it is. Children's Vaccines in the current form cannot be safe. It is impossible! according to our own government health agency's.

Joe of TX 1:31AM September 05, 2010

Ample data describe measles as a routine childhood illness that varies for virulence depending on a child's nutrition status. Measles is most dangerous for undernourished children and for children in poor status for vitamin A. The vaccine does not overcome these nutrition deficits, and may work poorly in malnourished children anyway.
The International Journal of Epidemiology reviewed vitamin A and measles vaccine earlier this year, as preventives for measles deaths. Even after unabashedly biasing the evidence in favor of the vaccine (by excluding measles vaccine trials that caused too many deaths), the authors still could not discount that vitamin A programs were probably the most effective tool for reducing global child mortality from measles. See: International Journal of Epidemiology 2010;39:i48–i55 Unless you read the entire paper carefully, it's easy to get the wrong take home message - that the vaccine is reducing measles deaths. What this paper is actually showing is that without vitamin A supplementation, measles vaccine alone may not be doing much at all.
Note: One of the authors of this review, Neal Halsey, is a doctor who has spent his career promoting vaccines. He has enjoyed many years of funding from vaccine manufacturers for his research interests. He also started an "Institute for Vaccine Safety" with start up funds from vaccine makers, and situated it at his employer (John Hopkins University) to further the illusion of its scientific independence; and has received travel funding and honoraria from Merck. Ironically, this review was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has inexplicably devoted itself to promoting vaccines over nutrition interventions for children in the third world. Malnourished children need food and nutrients to fight infections, more than they need more vaccines, in my opinion.
Since measles vaccination was begun, childhood Crohn's disease has tripled, autism has exploded, and we have apparently traded a mostly benign and survivable childhood infection for crushing, costly, and chronic disabilities in children. Is this a good trade? Children who are well nourished get measles, get better, and get permanent immunity. Parents would do well to assure their children are in good status for Vitamins A and D, for iron, and for weight to height ratio as ordinary preventives for poor infectious disease outcomes.

Judy Converse MPH RD LD of CO 8:34PM September 04, 2010

Sir, I am one of those children who had measles-encephalitis. I had received a tetenus shot the end of February when I was seven years old, which contained 25mg. of mercury, two weeks later a had gotten tonsilitis, and was scheduled to have my tonsils out. The third day of the infection (bacterial), I contracted measles and slipped into a coma with encephalitis. The mercury burdon and the bacterial infection was the key reason the infection could not clear. One in ten thousand get encephalitis the doctor stated to my Mother. Now we have about one in 60 boys with autism. When my son received the Pluserix (Urabe) version of the MMR for his second dose, instead of the pedicatrician admitting the vaccine was contaminated with menningitis, the office stated the children were not protected for the mumps and went ahead and gave him the third MMR. Maryland only requires a measles booster, not an MMR booster. I knew right away the vaccine affected him like my experience with measles. He looked like I felt. We have asked Johns Hopkins, the FDA, the CDC, NIH to safety test the mercury in the vaccines and the live viruses. Thimerosal, the mercury based preservative has never been tested since 1929 by the manufacturer. You would never get measles, mumps, rubella on the same day, nature doesn't work that way. I would be curious to know since you are recommending that children get all these vaccines, made with eggs, we just had a recall of millions of eggs, but what about the ones in vaccines? Wouldn't they be contaminated too? How come the health care workers are not getting the flu vaccines. How come the news did not report 1300 miscarriages post H1N1 when given to pregnant women from December 2009 to February 2010? 1300 deaths to unborn babies. The vaccine program is about money, not about saving lives. The federal government gets 75 cents tax on every vaccine sold. That is why they recomment 40 vaccines when the states, who actually make the law require 13 or 14 vaccines to enter school. The news media needs to prove safety if they are joining in on the vaccine promotion. I gaurantee you will not find the answers that you thought. Injecting children with mercury, alluminum, formaldyhide, aborted fetal tissue has nothing to do with health, but with harm.

Elaine Dow of MD 8:09PM September 04, 2010

Though vaccines have been credited with saving countless lives, sadly they are not one-size-fits-all. Medical literature is replete with reports of adverse reactions to vaccines, yet these vaccine injuries largely go unstudied -- and therefore are allowed to continue. Often they are ascribed to coincidence, and the majority go unreported to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database.
A few individuals such as Mayo immunologist Dr. Gregory Poland have suggested prioritizing individualized vaccine tailoring, as per his 2009 journal articles on "Vaccinomics" and "Adversomics." However his concern apparently is not shared by the majority of public health policymakers, who conveniently ignore consumers' adverse event reports and issue constant PR campaigns urging full speed ahead without looking back.
No wonder consumers are skeptical, especially given the absence of financial liability enjoyed by vaccine manufacturers and upon witnessing the abject failure of the confrontational National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. But what other purchased product is more deserving of the highest safety scrutiny than one injected into hundreds of millions of infants, children and adults?
Measles can occasionally be fatal, like vaccines, so it is highly unfair and offensive to hold one tragedy up as morally superior. We can do better, but all too often financial interests block ethical action.

nhokkanen of MN 7:55PM September 04, 2010