In what may be the most comprehensive review to date on adverse vaccine reactions, neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock has compiled a mass of evidence that repeated stimulation of the brain’s immune system causes it to break down with each successive series of vaccinations. The primary cause of this is vaccine adjuvants which are ironically added for just this purpose.
Harold E Buttram, MD and Catherine J Frompovich state the following:
“The human newborn comes into the world with residual antibodies from the maternal blood stream which, in the absence of breast feeding, would provide overall immunologic protection for about six months, and for measles up to 12 months. For those who do choose or are mandated to vaccinate, why not to vaccinate at five or six months of age rather than compromise and endanger an evolutionary system already in place? Otherwise the newborn immune system is largely rudimentary, requiring a series of microbe challenges to become fully functional, a process requiring two or three years. Without these natural challenges the immune system remains relatively weak and vestigial. This may be the reason that babies are always putting things in their mouths as an instinctive evolutionary trait similar to mammals in the wild.”
Vets regularly recommend vaccinating for Parvo at 6 to 8 weeks, an age when maternal antibodies are more likely to block the vaccine effectiveness than not. Ironically, the more susceptible the puppy, the earlier and more often it is vaccinated.
How Vaccines Damage the Immune System
The immune system is divided into two major classes: cellular immunity, located in the mucous membranes of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts and their respective lymph nodes, and humoral immunity, with production of antigen-specific antibodies by plasma cells in the bone marrow. The mucous membranes of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts are the primary sites of microbe exposure and entry into the body, so that cellular immunity has evolved as the primary immune defense system of the body, with humoral immunity playing a secondary or backup role.
Cellular immunity acts through the process of phagocytosis, which involves engulfing and destroying microorganisms and cellular debris, while the antibody-producing humoral system produces antibodies to fight disease. The cellular immune system normally plays a governing role in control of viral and fungal infections.
In general, the cellular and antibody-producing systems are complementary and interdependent. Now for a little science:
Both cellular and humoral immunities are governed by thymus-helper- lymphocytes (TH lymphocytes), the “T” referring to the thymus gland from which they are derived and the “H” referring to helper activity. Early in life, uncommitted or “naïve” TH lymphocytes are differentiated into either armed TH1 cells, which govern in cellular immunity, or TH2 cells, which govern in humoral immunity. It has been found that this differentiation has been profoundly affected by cytokines, which are produced by lymphocytes and which serve as chemical messengers.
The two cytokines, interleukin 12 and interferon gamma, promote and govern TH1 cells of cellular immunity, while interleukins 4, 5, 6, and 10 promote and govern TH2 cells of humoral immunity. Once one subset becomes dominant, it is difficult to shift the response to the other subset, as the cytokines from one tend to dominate the other.
What this means is that when vaccines are injected, they bypass the cellular immune system and instead stimulate the humoral system. This will tend to establish the humoral system in relative dominance over the cellular system, entirely the reverse of the natural immunologic scheme. This in turn results in a viral suppression of interleukin 12, on which the cellular system is largely dependent.
Consequently, current vaccine programs when practiced in young puppies may, in a sense, be turning immune systems inside out, with the humoral system being thrown into a dominant position for which it is physiologically unsuited.
Vaccine Efficacy and Safety
Due to widespread vaccination programs, the cellular immune system may be going through progressive atrophy from the lack of use of normal physiological processes. In humans, measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox of former pre-vaccine times challenged and therefore strengthened the immunity of both epithelial and endothelial tissues of the body and their associated organs.
Like coronovirus in dogs, vaccinations for chickenpox and mumps were totally uncalled for, as they were almost always benign illnesses that likely were serving a useful and positive role in priming and strengthening cellular immunity and response mechanisms.
Moreover, there is little support for the mass vaccination programs in humans. According to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, from 1911 to 1935 the four leading causes of childhood deaths from infectious diseases in the USA were diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), scarlet fever, and measles. Yet, by 1945 ,the combined death rates from these causes had declined by 95 percent before implementation of mass vaccine programs. According to a report in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, July 30, 1999, improvements in sanitation, water quality, hygiene, and the introduction of antibiotics have been the most important factors in control of infectious disease in the past century. Although vaccines were mentioned, they were not included among the major factors.
Interestingly, research data indicate certain infectious diseases, e.g., pertussis, measles, and tuberculosis, had declined dramatically BEFORE the introduction of those specific vaccines.
Additional research data indicate 90 percent of those vaccinated for pertussis (1993, Ohio) contracted pertussis, whereas only 10 percent of those not vaccinated contracted pertussis.
For measles, 99 percent of those vaccinated against measles contracted the disease, whereas only 1 percent of the non-vaccinated contracted measles (1985, Texas).
Chickenpox generally was considered as a customary, non-life-threatening benign childhood disease up until the advent of vaccines. Nevertheless, data indicate that 97 percent of those vaccinated against chickenpox contracted it, whereas as only 3 percent of the unvaccinated contracted chickenpox (2001, Oregon).
Measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines were administered separately for a number of years in the U.S.A. with only slight increases in the incidence of childhood autism prior to the introduction of the MMR vaccine in 1978. It was only following the introduction of this triple vaccine that the incidence of childhood autism showed a sharp and dramatic increase
Dr. Harold Buttram states: “It was during the U.S. Congressional Hearings on vaccine safety (1999-December 2004) that gross deficiencies in vaccine safety tests were revealed, when officials of the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), CDC (Centers for disease Control and Prevention), and other government health agencies were unable to provide a single vaccine safety test that would meet with scientific standards, [23] a pattern that has changed little if any today.”
“It cannot be denied that today’s mandatory childhood vaccine programs are little more than blind experiments with the possibility of unthinkable and irreversible consequences for our children’s physical, mental, and emotional health in the future. The time is long overdue for a complete reevaluation of the current vaccine formulations and programs.”
Of course, the same concerns regarding childhood vaccination programs apply to animal vaccinations. Not only do vaccines disregulate the immune system, there are few studies on safety and efficacy (and even fewer in animals), and, in many cases, vaccination actually increases the risk of disease.
Dr. Buttram discusses the immune system and the impact vaccines have upon it in his book, A Commentary on Current Childhood Vaccine Programs, (ISBN: 1-891485-30-X), published in 2010 by the Philosophical Publishing Company, PO Box 77, Quakertown, PA. 18951.
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The more we learn about our past errors the better off both humans and our canine companions will be. Great article.
In the UK we had a Doctor (since disbarred from practice) who maintained that the triple MMR vaccine produced autism in childhood. Funnily enough a large number of the population subsequently stopped using the vaccine through fear and love for their child. The result has been a resurgence in all these diseases, resulting in lifetime harm and death for those children, who their parents thought that they were protecting. Vaccination does not work unless a large number of the population is done. The Doctor was disbarred because his research had NO real data and he was really trying to sell a quack cure. There is NO evidence that the triple MMR causes autism. There is fact that Measles causes blindness and deafness.
It is always wise to listen to people who want to kick over the traces of established practice – we should always listen to the other side. But I urge you to question their reasons for doing so and the reason that the vast majority of Scientists/Doctors consider something to be established fact. Don’t bet your Children/dog’s health on one man’s word.
I am old enough to remember a world where distemper was rife amongst the dog population and the horrible results it caused – IT WOULD BREAK YOUR HEART. Don’t go back to that, please.
Robin J Castree
Canine Parvovirus also broke the hearts of thousands of dog owners – and it was a man-made disease, created by widespread vaccination.
Everybody needs to make their own vaccine decisions, but since many vets are either incapable or unwilling to provide informed consent to dog owners, we will continue to publish the research that shows the darker side of vaccines so people can make a truly informed decision.
It is easy to hide the truth behind facts…the Pharmaceutical companies are very good at producing Tobacco Science and it is up to us to see through it. So when you mention that a certain disbarred doctor had something to gain from his research, consider who is doing most of the vaccine research – and who is reviewing it – and the billions of dollars they make from vaccinations.
Wow – that’s a new one on me – Parvovirus contracted through vaccination!
robin j castree
If it were a naturally occurring virus, it wouldn’t have hit round the world the way it did. It was likely that the Canine Distemper vaccine, which was cultured on cat kidney cells, containted cells from infected cats. In fact, the first vaccines they used for Canine Parvovirus during the outbreak were Feline Leukopenia vaccines. Even today, vaccines are regularly infected with retroviruses. Regardless of the vehicle, virologists and immunologists agree that Parvo is a man-made virus…not unlike the Avian and Swine Flu.
So in the lab, it may appear that vaccines are effective. In the field however, we still have much to learn about the long term consequences of vaccines, especially now that we are genetically engineering them and splicing viruses such as Rabies and Small Pox together. As an example, when they vaccinated village dogs for Rabies in the Africa Serengeti, in an attempt to prevent the spread of Rabies to wildlife, it caused a Distemper outbreak in the village dogs…and then lions and wild dogs began dropping dead from Distemper. Moreover, after the Parvo outbreak, when they began combining the Distemper and Parvo vaccines together, the incidence of Distemper increased.
The question of whether vaccines ‘protect’ long term or not is a very loaded question, and one which nobody seems to have a good answer for yet.
I would agree with you, scaring people with pseudo science to forward your own agenda is a very dangerous practice.
As an example, CPV2 is widely held to have mutated from the Cat variant of the parvovirus family of viruses. This family contains a large number of variants usually specific to, but not necessarily restricted to, certain species. As we know from a large body of research, viruses mutate on a regular basis and cross species boundaries (Avian Flu and Swine Flu being good examples). Since it was recognised in 1978, CPV2 has mutated considerably and now has its original form plus variants CP2a and CPV2b. The only treatment is palliative and relies on the animals own immune system to fight it. It can however be prevented by vaccination.
At no time has it been recognised as “man-made”; its detection is man-made, similarly to the detection of Avian Flu. Viruses mutate – its what they do! At no time is it transmissable by vaccination. It is transmitted through animal faeces where it can live up to a year outside of the host.
I didn’t realise when I first posted on this site that there was an “agenda”, after examining the rest of the site I can see that I was wrong to post here.
If anyone is paranoid enough to think that I’m an Industry Geek, planted to tell the other side, then not so; I simply did five minutes research on Wikipedia to find out what hard facts could tell me about Parvovirus.
Want to lose your pet? want to kill your neighbour’s dog too? want to kill your families’ dogs? then don’t vaccinate. Simple.
Robin J Castree
You weren’t wrong to post here – you have as much right as anyone to express your opinion.
We do have an agenda here – that is to present the side of vaccines that nobody else does. There is plenty of information about the safety and efficacy of vaccine but very little about the dangers – so we present the dangers and this allow our readers to make their own vaccine decisions based on information from both sides of the fence.
As for dogs dying of Parvo – the original strain of Parvo is still around, the CPV-1 strain. The fact is, dogs don’t get sick from it and the reason is natural immunity. The CPV-1 virus is no longer contained in vaccinations, yet it is no longer a threat to our dogs. Dogs are perfectly capable of developing immunity on their own.
It is the CPV-2a, 2b and 2c strains that are wreaking havoc these days. The use of Tamiflu and Modified Live vaccination is part of the problem in that it not only keeps Parvo in the environment, but it can create a more lethal form.
Let’s take a look at Polio as an example of how the vaccine used to prevent disease has actually caused a mutation in the virus that is immune from the vaccine.
When the vaccine-induced Polio outbreak occurred in Africa, WHO said the vaccine-linked outbreak would be swiftly overcome — yet years later, cases continue to mount.
In 2009, the number of polio cases in Africa caused by the vaccine doubled: 124 children were paralyzed, compared to 62 in 2008, out of about 42 million children vaccinated. For every case of paralysis, there are hundreds of other children who don’t develop symptoms, but pass on the disease.
Experts have long believed epidemics unleashed by a vaccine’s mutated virus wouldn’t last since the vaccine only contains a weakened virus strain — but that assumption is coming under pressure.
Some experts now say that once viruses from vaccines start circulating they can become just as dangerous as wild viruses.
“The only difference is that this virus was originally in a vaccine vial,” said Olen Kew, a virologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The funny thing about Polio vaccination, as with most infectious disease, is that the disease was already in serious decline before the vaccination was introduced (see J.B. and S.M. McKinlay).
Again I am old enough to remember Polio – one of our famous pop singer/poets (Ian Dury) was a victim of the disease. I went to school with a polio victim, he had to wear leg braces because his legs had been atrophied by the disease. It was wiped out in the UK through a universal vaccination programme. Now the only incidents we get of polio are introduced by people who come from a country where there is NO vaccination programme.
You claim the CPV2 virus was man-made in order to sell us vaccinations and in the same breath admit that there are two further derivations which have occurred through natural mutation in less than 20 years. Viruses mutate – that there only reason for existence and they bring the side beneficial effect of natural selection and mutation in their host population. In the bad old days we had to die with this – now thanks to Science we no longer have to see people and pets dying because of a dumb virus.
I know that sometimes Science can be a frightening thing when you don’t have control, but Vaccination only works when a large percentage of the population has been treated – please don’t condemn us all to the bad old dying days.
Robin J Castree
Ooh, wait a minute – you are taking a leap of logic here. I did not say Parvovirus was made in order to sell vaccines. What I did say is that without vaccine intervention, meaning inadvertently culturing kidney cells from cats infected with Feline Leukopenia and making distemper vaccines from them and hence infecting dogs, Canine Parvovirus would likely not be here today. This is what makes it a man-made vaccine – at no point did I say that anybody purposely created this virus in a lab to make money.
The CDC reported (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, July 30, 1999, 48:621-628) that improvements in sanitation, water quality, and hygiene had been the most important factors in control of infectious diseases in the past century. Although vaccines were mentioned, they were not included among the major factors.
John and Sonia McKinlay (1977) show that almost all the increase in human lifespan since the year 1900 is due to reductions in infectious disease, with medical intervention (of all kinds) accounting for only about 3 percent of that reduction. According to World Health Statistics Annual, 1973-76, Vol.2, “there has been a steady decline of infectious diseases in most developing countries regardless of the percentage of immunizations administered in these countries.”
Not only had poor sanitation and nutrition set the foundation for disease, it was also compulsory smallpox vaccination campaigns in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that played a major role in decimating the populations of Japan (48,000 deaths), England and Wales (44,840 deaths, after 97 percent of the population had been vaccinated), Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, Holland, Italy, India (3 million — all vaccinated), Australia, Germany (124,000 deaths), Prussia (69,000 deaths — all re-vaccinated), and the Philippines. The epidemics ended in cities where smallpox vaccinations were either discontinued or never begun, and also after sanitary reforms were instituted (most notably in Munich — 1880, Leicester — 1878, Barcelona — 1804, Alicante — 1827, India — 1906, etc).
In many nations, mortalities from smallpox hadn’t begun to decline until the citizenry revolted against compulsory smallpox vaccination laws. For example, the town of Leicester from 1878 to 1898 stood in stark contrast to the rest of England, where thousands were dying from the aggressive half-century-old government mandatory immunization campaigns.
From Catherine O’Driscoll…
As you may know, many vaccines are cultivated on animal tissue. Dogs, cats, birds, hamsters, monkeys (their organs and brains), cow blood products, and even aborted human embryos, are used in vaccine development. There is a problem with this: it is not possible to screen all pathogens such as retroviruses from the resulting vaccines. If a cat, for example, is carrying the feline panleukopenia virus when it is ‘sacrificed’ for vaccine development, that virus could easily mutate and, when injected into dogs, become a new disease called canine parvovirus. When a monkey who is used for vaccine cultivation carries a retrovirus called SV40, and this is injected into humans, cancer could easily be the end result.
The following scientific information essentially means that human prostate tumours and ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome were likely caused by virologists in laboratories who failed to screen retrovirus contamination from the vaccine process. This is particularly pertinent to dog owners now, since a paper published last April showed that several canine and feline vaccines are currently contaminated with a feline retrovirus (RD-114) which has the potential to cause cancer in our dogs around five years after they are injected with the contaminated vaccine. This, of course, enables the perpetrators of the cancer epidemic to get off scot-free, since few are likely to suspect the link five years down the line. The British Veterinary Medicines Directorate, being alerted to this research by Canine Health Concern, held a meeting at European level and it was decided that, since they don’t know for sure that this retrovirus could cause cancer in our dogs, they wouldn’t bother doing much about it. However, the science clearly shows that retroviruses are associated with lymphoma and leukaemia, as well as other autoimmune diseases.
Please take a look at CHC’s Stop the Shots campaign website at http://www.petvaccine.weebly.com. Click on ‘Part One’ for the full details of vaccine contaminants.
Smallpox – one of the most virulent and persistent pathogenic disease in the human population was declared eradicated in 1977 by the World Health Organization through a persistent Vaccination programme. Humanity was finally freed from the vicious chains of this disease.
No-one would dispute that cleanliness in our environment was not effective in preventing diseases, but it doesn’t matter how clean you are when you’ve contracted any virus and natural immunity occurs only through selection. Selection means that a large majority of the population dies, leaving only those who have some mutation which mitigates against the virus. Thank our ancestors for their natural defences against Black Death which killed over 80% of the European population – that’s your “natural immunity”. That is what you would have us depend upon, the luck of the genetic roulette wheel.
Vaccination protects the majority of the population, “natural immunity” is a lottery ticket for the lucky few of the population.
Robin J Castree
Robin, Wikipedia?? Wikipedia as your research tool?? ANYONE can write for Wikipedia (I’ll bet you didn’t research that!) I can write for Wikipedia as long as I meet a few guidelines, credibility not being one of them. As someone who has been working professionally with dogs and vets for 46 years I can tell you there is the AVMA Party Line (viewed on their website) and the truth. I cannot put my faith in an organization who recommends vaccinating cats in the rear leg or tail so when they contract Vaccine
Site Sarcomas the vets can just amputate the appendage (please look that up).