Vaccine Alert

[P_Mom]

We were sent the following information by New Yorkers for Vaccination

Information and Choice (NYVIC). They have called for an ALERT on proposed

NY legislation affecting vaccine mandates for students and others.

According to them, this is a major crisis that will take away your right to

choose what vaccines to give your children and when. It also involves

mandated vaccines for adults. If you choose, it is your chance to be

involved. I am sending this to all our subscribers nationwide, because

although you may live in California, you may have relatives and friends in

New York. Moreover, what happens in New York may well be repeated in every

other state over the next few months or years. I don't want to leave you

out.

 

A new bill, A10942, was introduced into the State Assembly and referred to

the Assembly Health Committee on May 7, 2008. It will be used to amend many

of the existing vaccination laws.

 

You can see more information at http://nyvic.org/nyvic/ and at

http://www.mykidsmychoice.com/ (click on Albany Rally link).

 

You may read the bill summary here:

http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A10942

 

Be aware that the bill is carefully worded to sound much less dramatic than

it actually is. I had to read it several times to "get" what they were

saying.

 

 

BACKGROUND

Assembly Bill 10942 would make all vaccines the Center for Disease Control &

Prevention (CDC) recommends MANDATORY for all children in order to attend

school, and for the first time vaccines would become MANDATORY for infants

and toddlers.

 

Alternative proposed legislation, called A5468/S3031, would give individuals

a right to a philosophical exemption from vaccine mandates.

 

Here are a few more features of the proposed bill:

 

* Elected New York representatives would no longer determine the schedule of

vaccines to attend school; decisions made by the federal Advisory Committee

on Immunization Practices (ACIP) would automatically become mandatory.

 

* All children - infants and toddlers included - in New York would be

required to get all vaccines recommended by the ACIP and according to the

ACIP schedule.

 

* All children in New York up to age 18 would be required to get annual flu

shots.

 

* All girls in New York would be required to get a human papilloma virus

shot.

 

* All junior high school children and college students would be required to

get meningococcal shots.

 

* Vaccines would be provided WITHOUT parental consent being required.

 

* Doctors would be required to issue certificates for every shot given and

parents would be required to maintain the records and provide them to school

and other authorities.

 

It was not mentioned in the Alert, but upon reading the Summary it was clear

that vaccines would also be required for all adults in healthcare and

long-term care facilities - both the personnel and the residents. And,

again, their vaccination status would be reported and tracked.

 

IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED:

 

This bill is fast tracked for a vote on TUESDAY, JUNE 10, so the NYVIC asks

you to please take two minutes of your time MONDAY to make a phone call to

each of the following:

 

Governor David Paterson (518) 474-8390

 

Speaker Sheldon Silver (518) 455-3791

 

Your message:

 

'I AM OPPOSED TO ASSEMBLY BILL 10942 AND

IN FAVOR OF A5468/S3031'

 

(A5468/S3031 is the one allowing philosophical exemption).

 

 

FURTHER ACTION:

 

If you wish, please write your Assembly Member and members of the Assembly

Health Committee, urging them to vote AGAINST bill A10942.

 

Find your assembly representatives here:

http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/mem/

 

Some 'talking points' are:

 

* This is an un-funded mandate for a never-ending list of vaccines. In other

words, the state (you, the taxpayer) will have to come up with the money for

the vaccines when state social service agencies provide them to patients

unable to pay.

 

* The bill would take the power to make decisions about vaccine mandates

away from the state legislature and give it to the federal government. Ask

your legislators if they want to surrender their responsibilities to an

agency of the federal government.

 

* In the future, there may be controversial or objectionable vaccines that

they, the legislators, would not want to give their children - if they

approve this bill, how would they be able to protect their own child from

such a vaccine?

 

* Critics of vaccine mandates argue that federal health agencies do not use

appropriate criteria for making vaccine recommendations, that the different

sources of recommendations are not uniform nor in agreement, and that

vaccine recommendations were never intended to be mandated by law.

 

* If bill A10942 passes, the day may come when a new vaccine will be so

risky and controversial that the majority of NY parents will be opposed to

it, but there will be nothing they can do to stop it from being mandated for

their children

[kim]

Pmom,

 

Do you find the timing of this bill just a little ironic?

 

The audacity of them trying to pull this right now, of all times, sickens me. They're trying to fast track this hau? Why would that be? Do we have a pending epidemic in HPV or rotovirus? How about a rise in meningitis? Why the rush? The thing that I see that's on the rise, which vaccines have been at least partially implicated in, is MRSA staph.

 

 

Here is an excerpt of what the former head of the NIH has to say on the vaccine subject. Bolding mine

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/12/...in4086809.shtml

 

Dr. Bernadine Healy is the former head of the National Institutes of Health, and the most well-known medical voice yet to break with her colleagues on the vaccine-autism question.

In an exclusive interview with CBS News, Healy said the question is still open.

 

"I think that the public health officials have been too quick to dismiss the hypothesis as irrational," Healy said.

 

"But public health officials have been saying they know, they've been implying to the public there's enough evidence and they know it's not causal," Attkisson said.

 

"I think you can't say that," Healy said. "You can't say that."

 

Healy goes on to say public health officials have intentionally avoided researching whether subsets of children are “susceptible” to vaccine side effects - afraid the answer will scare the public.

"You're saying that public health officials have turned their back on a viable area of research largely because they're afraid of what might be found?" Attkisson asked.

 

Healy said: "There is a completely expressed concern that they don't want to pursue a hypothesis because that hypothesis could be damaging to the public health community at large by scaring people. "First of all," Healy said, "I think the public’s smarter than that. The public values vaccines. But more importantly, I don’t think you should ever turn your back on any scientific hypothesis because you’re afraid of what it might show."

[kim]

Wanted to add that I just hung up from calling both of these offices.

 

It is very simple to use the language in the above message that Pmom posted saying "I AM OPPOSED TO ASSEMBLY BILL 10942 AND

IN FAVOR OF A5468/S3031"

 

The 2nd office of sheldon Silver...I was asked for name and address, which i gladly gave. First office just said a note would be made of the call. It took 30 seconds total for both calls. Please, anyone concerned about this issue CALL!

 

 

Governor David Paterson (518) 474-8390

 

Speaker Sheldon Silver (518) 455-3791

 

Your message:

 

'I AM OPPOSED TO ASSEMBLY BILL 10942 AND

IN FAVOR OF A5468/S3031'

 

(A5468/S3031 is the one allowing philosophical exemption).

[P_Mom]

Thanks, Kim. I called too. I know it is sometimes easy to read these things and then think... "why call, it won't matter." Well, I believe if we all do call, it WILL matter. Even though it is in NY, I don't want ANY parent to be forced to vaccinate their child...it is unbelieveable to me that parents with susceptible children would have to vaccinate......I just can't even wrap my brain around that one. I guess it is...... "sacrifice the minority to save the majority".... well, not when the minority is my child. The majority can still vaccinate if they wish, but, IF THEY WISH! Leave the option open to us, if we chose not to vaccinate, well, then whatever happens (or DOESN'T happen!!!) would be the result of our CHOICE!!

 

Thanks again, Kim.

 

Kelly

[P_Mom]

Just want to stress again that if you are concerned about this topic...PLEASE CALL!!! It does just take 30 seconds...I was asked the bill number (posted above) and then whether I was against it or not. That is all! Oh, I was asked my zip code, guess they are keeping track of where the calls come from. There is not much time on this...call today!!!!

[P_Mom]

Just wanted to add that the alert was sent to me from The Feingold Association...I did not write the post, I did the copy and paste thing.

[Chemar]

added my vote and also told them why I am opposed

[kim]

http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/06/news-from-the-f.html

 

NEWS FROM THE FRONT: THE NEW YORK RALLY

 

By An Observer

 

Hundreds of parents converged on Albany, the capital of New York, on Tuesday to demand a philosophical exemption to mandated vaccines and to protest a group of bills that would radically expand the number of vaccines required by children, and shift authority over vaccine rules from the state government to an obscure federal committee.

[kim]

Bolding mine...Kim

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/...n_b_108398.html

 

CDC officials conducted at least five separate analyses of the data over

a four-year period from 1999-2003. The first analysis showed that

children exposed to the most thimerosal by one month of age had

extremely high relative risks for a number of outcomes, compared with

children who got little or no mercury: The relative risk for ADHD was

8.29 times higher; for autism, it was 7.62 times higher; ADD, 6.38 times

higher; tics, 5.65 times; and speech and language delays were 2.09 more

likely among kids who got the most mercury.

 

Over time, however, all of these risks declined into statistical

insignificance, statistical inconsistency or else outright oblivion: The

relative risk for autism plummeted from 7.62 in the first analysis, to

2.48 in the second version, to 1.69 in the third round, to 1.52 in the

fourth, and down to nothing at all in the fifth, final, and published

analysis printed in the Journal Pediatrics in November of 2003.

 

Vaccine officials attributed the steady drop to the elimination of

"statistical noise" from the data through due diligence and the endeavor

for excellence in governmental statistical analysis.

 

Indeed, the VSD study was the main pillar of a hugely influential 2004

report by the Institute of Medicine, which also concluded that there was

no evidence of link between mercury, vaccines and autism.

 

To this day, public health officials routinely point to five "large

epidemiological studies" representing the "highest quality science,"

none of which found any link to thimerosal.

 

AND

 

 

"CDC concurs," Dr. Gerberding wrote again, "that conducting an ecologic

analysis using VSD administrative data to address potential associations

between thimerosal exposure and risk of ASD is not useful."

 

Read that sentence one more time. The head of the CDC is saying that its

most powerful and convincing piece of exonerating evidence for

thimerosal is, in effect, "useless."

 

 

 

 

http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/06/sick-hamsters-m.html

 

SICK HAMSTERS: MORE EVIDENCE THAT THIMEROSAL HARMS INFANTS

 

June 17, 2008

 

By Mark F. Blaxill

 

In his best-selling book Evidence of Harm, our Age of Autism colleague David Kirby saved his "final note" for a comment

on the global legacy of thimerosal exposure in vaccines. In the book's closing passage, he wrote:

 

"If thimerosal is one day proven to be a contributing factor to autism, and if U.S. made vaccines containing the

preservative are now being supplied the world over, the scope of this potential tragedy becomes unthinkable

 

 

http://www.vitalitymagazine.com/apr_08_helke

 

Shiv Chopra, former Health Canada Scientist on the Vaccine and Antibiotic Controversy

 

by Helke Ferrie

 

 

“From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.” Sandra Steingraber

 

Dr. Shiv Chopra, PhD, must be fire-proof. As a vaccine and drug regulator for Health Canada for nearly forty years, he evaluated every red-hot topic in public health and tried to protect us from unsafe drugs, vaccines, and agricultural practices. Over the years, he tried (sometimes successfully) to stop our government from allowing Canadians to be exposed to ineffective and harmful vaccines, genetically modified foods, pesticides, carcinogenic antibiotics and hormones used in food-producing animals, and agricultural practices that promote Mad Cow Disease. He even went public with his findings, supported by Canada’s public service union, which resulted in legal battles initiated against him by a government determined to shut him up. The courts, however, tended to find in favour of Dr. Chopra, and instead ordered the government to shape up.

[kim]

http://vaccineawakening.blogspot.com/2008/...up-15b-for.html

 

. . If the State can tag, track down and force citizens against their will to be injected with biologicals of unknown toxicity today, there will be no limit on which individual freedoms the State can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow."

 

 

Exactly two years ago, NVIC sounded the first public warning about GARDASIL risks pointing out that Merck had not adequately proven the vaccine was safe and effective to give to girls under age 16. NVIC pointed out that pre- licensure trials were flawed because they used an aluminum containing placebo that may have masked the true reactivity of GARDASIL, which also contains 225 mcg of aluminum. Like mercury, aluminum can cause inflammation in the body and kill brain cells

.

[kim]

http://www.naturalnews.com/024774.html

 

Gardasil Linked to Seventy-Eight Outbreaks of Genital Warts

 

excerpt

 

Deaths, Miscarriages and Other Adverse Events

 

While genital warts are certainly disgusting, parents who think that genital warts are the worst possible adverse reaction to the vaccine should think again. According to Ragogo, as of August 14th, including the 78 outbreaks of genital warts, there have been 9,748 adverse events reported as per Judicial Watch, a non-profit watchdog group. Judicial Watch also reports that there have been 21 deaths, not including the deaths (by miscarriage) of 10 unborn babies.

 

Vaccine No Guarantee Against Cell Abnormalities

 

"Hundreds of thousands of women who are vaccinated with Gardasil and get yearly pap testing will still get high-grade dysplasia (cell abnormalities)," Ragogo reports. It's not a cancer vaccine, as media hype may lead some people to believe. Ragogo also points out, "Gardasil has been shown to prevent precancerous lesions, but it has been impossible to ascertain whether it will actually prevent cancer because the testing period has been so short."

[lynsey]

Here in Ontario they have started giving the HEP B vaccine to all the Gr. 7 students as a matter of

public health, and now in Gr. 8, the meningitis vaccine...they keep adding more.

 

I think I may have been the only parent who bothered to even research the horrendous

potential side effects (some permanent), of these vaccines. I amassed a folder an inch thick on it. I showed every

one I knew (including, most especially, my friends whose kids had TS) and every one thought I

was nuts....even the other TS moms. Ended up, I was the only one who refused the vaccines for my kids,

even my TS doctor said he thought they should get it, but I still refused...and it wasn't an "uninformed"

refusal, I really did my research. I venture to say even the doctor didn't know one percent of what I

learned about the risks of these vaccines.

(My friend's son with TS had a huge spike in tics following the Hep B vaccine....it is given in 2 separate

injections).

 

I'm appalled at the lack of interest here by parents about vaccines...they just follow blindly like

a bunch of sheep....I could go on and on about it, but what's the use, no one seems to listen around

here

[lynsey]

Here in Ontario they have started giving the HEP B vaccine to all the Gr. 7 students as a matter of

public health, and now in Gr. 8, the meningitis vaccine...they keep adding more.

 

I think I may have been the only parent who bothered to even research the horrendous

potential side effects (some permanent), of these vaccines. I amassed a folder an inch thick on it. I showed every

one I knew (including, most especially, my friends whose kids had TS) and every one thought I

was nuts....even the other TS moms. Ended up, I was the only one who refused the vaccines for my kids,

even my TS doctor said he thought they should get it, but I still refused...and it wasn't an "uninformed"

refusal, I really did my research. I venture to say even the doctor didn't know one percent of what I

learned about the risks of these vaccines.

(My friend's son with TS had a huge spike in tics following the Hep B vaccine....it is given in 2 separate

injections).

 

I'm appalled at the lack of interest here by parents about vaccines...they just follow blindly like

a bunch of sheep....I could go on and on about it, but what's the use, no one seems to listen around

here

 

 

 

 

.........and by "no one seems to listen around here", I don't mean the wonderful people at this forum!

The people on this forum are the most informed group of people I think I have ever met.

 

I mean, the people who live in my area/city/province.....I don't see a groundswell of opposition to

vaccines here. If I had known then what I know now, I wouldn't even have allowed some of the baby

vaccines my kids had.....

 

lynsey

 

 

 

lynsey