Jayne Donegan, MBBS, DRCOG, DCH, MRCGP (medical doctor)

Exposure to a disease does not guarantee infection. If one has a good immune system one can expel or have mild forms of many diseases. Most of the diseases that are routinely vaccinated against have been our fellow travellers through many millennia. It is not in the interest of a disease to wipe out the population it infects. This is the reason that most of the previously, extremely virulent diseases, have evolved to a milder childhood form which does not kill or cause large ill effects, so that the children can grow up and produce more children that may be infected.

These diseases occurring in childhood actually prime the developing immune system of a child so that it becomes a strong, healthy adult who can completely throw off or certainly survive most infection.

A well known saying in the science of immunology is that "Autoimmunity is the price that one pays for the eradication of infectious diseases". When the immune system has not been primed by these, extremely useful, childhood illnesses, it goes awry and may attack its own body.

Joseph Mercola, DO (medical doctor)

A 1992 study published in The American Journal of Epidemiology shows that children die at a rate 8 times greater than normal within three days after getting a DPT vaccination.

A preliminary study by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) found children who received the HiB vaccine ... were found to be 5 times more likely to contract the disease than children who had not received the vaccine.

In the New England Journal of Medicine July 1994 issue a study found that over 80% of children under 5 years of age who had contracted whooping cough had been fully vaccinated.

Russell L. Blaylock, MD (medical doctor) Neurologist, brain surgeon

After 30 years of intensive research, much has been learned about how brain cells work and what goes wrong when disease arises. One of the great enigmas has been the connection between vaccinations and certain brain disorders such as:

• Autism
• ADD
• ADHD
• Gulf War Syndrome
• More common neurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s dementia and ALS)

As we learned more and more about how brain cells should work, we discovered that often normal processes, such as metabolism, could result in the accumulation of powerful chemical byproducts, called free radicals, that have the capacity to destroy these cells.

Joseph Mercola, DO

July 4, 2009

Specialty drug maker Baxter International Inc. says it's in "full scale" production of a swine flu vaccine. The vaccine will be commercially available in July. The company made its announcement one day after the World Health Organization declared swine flu a global pandemic. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 45 swine flu deaths nationwide.

The National Vaccine Information Center will hold its 4th conference in Washington DC October 2-4 of this year. I will be speaking there as will some of the leading experts in vaccines in the world. Clearly the best vaccine conference in the world and it is only held every few years. If this is of any interest to you I would strongly encourage you to attend.