K Paul Stoller, MD, FACHM

On May 31, 2009, the last surviving passenger of the RMS Titanic, Millvina Dean, passed away in her sleep at the age of 97. She was an infant of only nine weeks when her family boarded third class to steam to a new life in the USA. After her father lost his life on that fateful night, her mother and older sister returned to England.

Millvina, like the rest of the ship's passengers, never knew the steel used to construct the ship's hull contained contaminants that made it especially brittle at low temperatures and that the Titanic was not constructed to withstand the stress of the collision that awaited her on April 15, 1912. She did now know the ship itself had design flaws. She didn't know that when warnings of ice bergs ahead were conveyed to the captain, he would respond, "full speed ahead." Millvina didn't know the ship had an inadequate number of life boats in case something should go wrong. The marvel and tragedy that was the RMS Titanic was a short-lived monument to ego.

Meryl Nass, MD

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). 2003 ;290:2123-4.
November 3, 2003

The government's hasty and ill-advised smallpox vaccination policy for US civilians was roundly rejected by scientists and the public alike. Scientists agreed that public concerns about the vaccine's adverse effects were valid. Military personnel, however, were given no choice--500,000 were inoculated. Surely their reactions to the vaccine are not appreciably different from what civilians might have experienced--unless it is claimed they are of a different species.

Meryl Nass, MD

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, Volume 13, Number 1

March 1999

Anthrax in nature is a usually fatal zoonotic disease that was a scourge of livestock until vaccines were developed in the 1880s. Animals acquire the disease from consuming contaminated soil in which pre-existing anthrax spores are likely to have germinated, then resporulated under appropriate soil and weather conditions, increasing their concentration in soil to infectious levels. [60] [91] Human disease results from exposure to contaminated animal products. Cutaneous disease is most common. The mortality is neglible if treated, and has been 15% due to septic complications when untreated. Gastrointestinal and meningeal cases are rarely seen. Inhalation anthrax (woolsorters' disease) results from inhaling spores, most often in poorly ventilated areas. It is about 90% fatal. Antibiotics and standard interventions begun after symptoms develop rarely prevent a fatal outcome. The human infectious dose is unknown, but is estimated to be between 100,000 and 100,000,000 spores. [54] [78] In animals the infectious dose is highly strain dependent, and this is likely to be true in humans as well. The high infectious dose probably accounts for the rarity of human cases.

Michel Odent, MB

Primal Health Research
Autumn 2008 Vol 16. No2

Studies detecting in the pre- and perinatal periods risk factors for a great diversity of medical conditions predominate in The Primal Health Research Database. This is why one can conclude today that our health is to a great extent shaped in the womb and that ‘womb ecology' is the most vital aspect of human ecology.

However, our definition of the ‘Primal period' also includes the year following birth: we had assumed originally that any event occurring between birth and the age of one year might also have life-long consequences, although occurring comparatively late in the formation of a human being.1 This is why we must raise questions about possible life-long effects of early vaccinations.