Recently, I received a refrigerator magnet in the mail from a local pediatrician’s office. This magnet contained your typical routine immunization schedule alongside an adorable little bumblebee with the words “Bee wise, Immunize.”
My first (sarcastic) thought was “How cute.”
Then I looked over at the vaccination schedule to the right of the bumblebee. To say I was appalled was an understatement.
See, I forget to realize that millions of people get their kids vaccinated, and it is according to this very schedule. My kids have never had a single shot. I can’t imagine them ever getting just one shot, let alone every single one on this recommended schedule.
If you look at this picture, you will notice that by the age of 6 months old, a child should have a total of 18 shots: 3 HepB, 3 RV, 3 DTap, 3 Hib, 3 IPV, and 3 PCV. After that, only a total of 14 shots are recommended from ages 1 year to 16 years.
A Good Reason Why
Public officials, the AMA, pharmaceutical companies, and so many others deny any link to vaccines and conditions like autism and ADD/ADHD, just to name a few.
They can get away with it partly because so many of their vaccines are given at such an early age.
With 18 rounds of shots by 6 months, it’s extremely difficult to prove that vaccines are the culprit for any health deficiency. It’s a slick marketing tool for sure.
Vaccines, Ingredients, and Manufacturing Companies
In researching this topic, I thought I would post some info about the various vaccines. Below, under each virus name, is the brand name, manufacturing info, and list of ingredients for each vaccine.
Hepatitis B (HepB)
Energix-B
SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals
1-800-633-8900 ext. 5231
produced using aluminum hydroxide, thimerosal
medium: yeast (possibly 5% residual)
Recombivax
Vaccine Recombinant
Merck & Co., Inc.
1-800-672-6372
produced using thimerosal, aluminum hydroxide
medium: yeast (residual < 1% yeast protein)
Rotavirus (RV)
RotaShield
Live, Oral, Tetravalent
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories
1-800-934-5556
produced using 1 rhesus monkey rotavirus, 3 rhesus-human reassortant viruses, sucrose, monosodium glutamate (MSG), potassium monophosphate, potassium diphosphate, fetal bovine serum, neomycin sulfate, amphotericin B
medium: fetal rhesus diploid cell line
Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis (DTaP)
Acel-Immune
Lederle Laboratories
1-800-934-5556
produced using formaldehyde, thimerosal, aluminum hydroxide, aluminum phosphate, polysorbate 80, gelatin (animal parts/bovine)
DTP
SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals
1-800-366-8900 ext. 5231
produced using aluminum phosphate, formaldehyde, ammonium sulfate, washed sheep red blood cells, glycerol, sodium chloride, thimerosal
medium: porcine (pig) pancreatic hydrolysate of casein
Haemophilus Influenzae Type B (Hib)
Act HIB
Connaught Laboratories
1-800-822-2463
produced using ammonium sulfate, formalin, sucrose, thimerosal
medium: semi-synthetic
HibTiter
Lederle Laboratories
1-800-934-5556
produced using polyribosylribitol, ammonium sulfate, thimerosal
medium: chemically defined, yeast based
Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV)
IPOL
Connaught Laboratories
1-800-822-2463
produced using 3 types of polio virus, formaldehyde, phenoxyethanol, neomycin, streptomycin, polymyxin B
medium: VERO cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells
Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV)
Pneumovax
Merck & Co., Inc.
1-800-672-6372
produced using phenol and capsular polysaccharides from the 23 most prevalent pneumococcal types
As you can see, there is nothing healthy about injecting any of these concoctions into a baby. How this has become accepted without any scrutiny in our nation, and across the world, is a testament to the power the pharmaceutical companies wield.
Louis Pasteur developed the widely accepted “germ theory of disease,” but later denounced it on his deathbed. “The microbe is nothing,” he said. “The environment is all-important.”
The environment IS all-important, but vaccines do nothing to improve YOUR environment. Things like specific chiropractic care, eating a healthy diet full of raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds, good sleep, and regular exercise are ways to improve your environment.
Part 2 of this series will cover the remaining vaccines on the “recommended” immunization schedule.
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Awesome post my Brother! It is pretty appalling how people will not take the time to educate themselves when their child’s life is truly at risk for TAKING a vaccine instead of being protected. Now we just need to get them on the other side of the health spectrum and show them their options and get their brainstem free of interference!
I think people really do want what’s best for their babies and their doctors, the media and commercials tell them that if they really care about their babies they will vaccinate them. It is hard for people to want to admit that it is not the truth. That vaccinating is actually harmful. People don’t want to believe there is aborted fetal tissue, mercury, antifreeze and more being injected right into their baby’s body. I don’t know what it’s going to take for people to WAKE UP. To be ok with trusting the human body and to let go of the fear placed on our society.
Polio, rubella, hepatitis, diptheria, pertussis…I’ll spare the rambling of the rest of the diseases that run rampid in third world countries (and here a short time ago). The theory of “we don’t even see these diseases anymore” is what I keep hearing, hmmmm I wonder, could it be??? noooo, it’s not from the bombardment of tv, computer images and video games racing through our children’s heads at the speed of light during their most developmental ages… then expecting them to sit in a classroom while a teacher rambles on about nothing that they find as exciting as that video they just watched at 11pm the night before. Nope, can’t be that…it HAS to be vaccines, because THAT is the universal link of america’s youth. Seriously? You believe it’s the vaccines? Turn off the tv, set some boundaries, talk to your kids and eat dinner with them at a table EVERY DAY! and let me know if that ADD doesn’t go away. …but, alas, that’s probably too much work, so lets just blame something else. and, we will all just HOPE that these diseases don’t start popping back up in record numbers.
You make good points and I agree with half of them. How about when people do those things you just talked about i.e. turn off tv, set boundaries, eat dinner with the kids, change their diets, etc. and the kids are still sick or having difficult times mentally, that’s just random chance?
If you can prove to me that’s the case, and prove to me that vaccines aren’t responsible in any way whatsoever, and actually prove to me that vaccines do work (I’m talking about randomized, double-blind, clinically controlled studies, not statistics of diseases declining over a certain period of time) then I’ll retract everything I said in this post.
“Old Habits Die Hard”, which makes it especially difficult to convince older patients about the perils of immunizations and over the counter and prescribed drugs and that they shouldn’t necessarily follow the advice of their medical doctor. After 35 years, I have FINALLY convinced my 86 year-old mother-in-law NOT to get an annual flu shot. She works out at the gym 5 days week, chooses organic food and is adjusted at least twice a week, but for whatever reason, immunizations were a sticking point. Until now. She FINALLY gets it! It has been a long process, but sometimes that is how progress it made, one patient at a time.
I’m not sure why this wasn’t addressed before, but “Losing My Minds” comments about how it HAS to be the vaccines that are responsible for the decrease in polio, rubella, hepatitis, diptheria, pertussis, etcetera are ludicrous!
Of course it’s not because the kids sit around watching TV and playing computer games, but I guess s/he is simply unaware that these diseases were on the decline in our country WAY before computers and televisions came into play. As a matter of fact, they were on the decline before vaccines were widely used.
What is responsible for the fact that we hardly ever see those diseases? Sanitation and access to good food and clean water. Not the injection of diseases or disease particles directly into the bodies of our most vulnerable members of society. Injections which, by the way, circumvent the majority our our immune systems and challenge the “last ditch” aspect of immunity. Unlike being actually exposed naturally to a disease.
And it doesn’t always work. Our bodies don’t always produce the desired antibodies. Sometimes they produce antibodies to other ingredients (ie: eggs) instead or as well as. Now, isn’t that useful. Now you have an allergy to eggs.
In my opinion, the choices are: 1. DEFINITELY expose your child to the dangers of vaccine reactions, and poisoning from the components of the vaccines (okay, so I don’t get reamed for it- they MAY have a reaction, but the poisonous components ARE there). or 2. Take the chance that your child MAY be exposed to a vaccine-preventable illness (most of which are mild with modern sanitation), and MAY develop the illness, and MAY have a bad case, and MAY have problems that can’t be solved via (homeopathic or otherwise) means.