VACCINATIONS: PART I - MEDICAL RESEARCH ON SIDS AND EPIDEMICS
by Scheibner, Viera, Ph.D.
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Viera Scheibner is a retired principal research scientist with a doctorate in
natural sciences. During her distinguished career, she has published three books
and 90 scientific papers in prestigious scientific journals. Since the mid-80's,
she has done extensive research into vaccines and vaccinations. Her first
research was in the area of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). She wasn't even
studying vaccinations, but she stumbled onto a relationship between SIDS and
vaccinations that lead to a very deep study into vaccination literature in
medical journals. In 1983, she published her book on the results of her research
Vaccination: The Medical Assault on the Immune System. She often provides expert
reports for court cases involving immunizations and vaccine-damaged individuals
throughout the world.
SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME (SIDS)
In 1985, I was introduced into the world of vaccinations through a breathing
monitor invented by my husband, Leif Karlsson, who was a bio-medical engineer
specializing in patient monitoring systems. Leif developed a computerized
breathing monitor for babies which we called "Cotwatch", short for 'watching the
cot'. Our monitor gives computer print-outs, and you can monitor for weeks on
end, because Cotwatch is a non-touch medical technology. The sensor pad goes
under the mattress; nothing is attached to the baby and the baby can roll all
over the cot while the breathing is monitored. In 1986, pediatric researchers
studying Crib Death Syndrome or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) believed
babies were dying because of an inborn fault in the breathing control center in
the brain. So they concentrated their studies on breathing. Many parents opted
for monitoring their newborn babies' breathing at home, and we collected
feedback from all parents who used our monitor in this research.
OUR FIRST CASE HISTORY
This baby was put on our monitor before he was vaccinated, and for more than
three weeks, there were hardly any alarms at all. Then suddenly, the mother
recorded a whole series of alarms. We thought there was a defect in the monitor,
and I sent a different unit, but the alarms continued. After one night when they
had six alarms in 24 hours their pediatrician advised them to stop monitoring.
But if you have alarms on certain days and no alarms on other days, it is not
the equipment malfunctioning; there is good reason for alarms like that. I
transferred the baby's forms onto a graph, but did not understand it at the
time. Five years later, I telephoned the mother and asked her when the child was
vaccinated. The first injection was given one day before these alarms started.
The child hadn't even recovered before the second injection was given. So there
was a high level of stress caused by vaccines even when the child was not dying.
There were no alarms before vaccination, and then a series of alarms. The alarms
sound to tell you that your child is under stress when their breathing is
shallow (hypopneas) or when their breathing ceases temporily (apneas).
We then informed the pediatric and SIDS researchers that the babies were having
alarms after vaccinations. We were not critical of vaccines and we didn't even
know about the raging controversy surrounding vaccinations. At this point, the
Crib Death Management Center pediatricians stopped sending parents to get our
monitor. They didn't want parents to know that vaccines were stressing their
children. Until that time, I was actually pro-vaccination.
SIDS RESEARCH IGNORES THE STRESS ALARMS
SIDS researchers call all the alarms which occur when the child is breathing
very shallowly, but not dying, 'false alarms'. Their notion of 'false alarms'
actually prevents them from having any results. Instead of throwing these alarms
into the garbage bin as false alarms we studied them, and did our own research
using the computerized breathing monitor, recording the babies' breathing
longitudinally over weeks on end. Overnight six to eight hour studies are often
used in SIDS research, but they are very misleading.
COT RESEARCH RESULTS
Our computer printouts of babies' breathing showed non-stop hour by hour
recording of the babies' breathing whenever the child was in the cot. Again, the
events are called apneas (pauses in breathing) and hypopneas (a stress-induced
shallow, low volume breathing pattern). The graphs all showed increased stress
patterns after vaccinations. For instance, after a baby was given his third
triple antigen (DPT - diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus) the record of breathing
changed and produced peaks in the graph, which indicated increased stress
levels.
PATTERN OF FLARE-UPS
The graphs showed day by day summaries of events in breathing and the higher
the vertical column (or the peak), the higher the stress levels in breathing.
There are individual differences, and some children react more than others, but
the pattern of flare-ups of stressed breathing follow the same pattern of
critical days. The graphs show a number of days where there is no stress level
in breathing; then comes day zero when the vaccine was administered. We see the
effect of the vaccine within one hour, and the child's stress level begins to go
up and down. In all cases there was a 48 hour reaction after vaccination with a
flare-up. Then the stress level went down through the following days until
around days five to seven when they had an increased stress level. One child had
a reaction on day 7; one on day 5 and 6, so there are individual differences,
but the general pattern of these reactions is the same. The stress level again
went down; then there was another flare-up at day 16. Of course, we continued to
record the babies' breathing after the sixteenth day. The stress level went
down, and there was only a slight increase in the stress level towards the 24th
day. These are the critical days. Even the onset of reactions like convulsions
occur on these critical days. Even babies whose mothers recorded no fever or
crying, had slightly increased stress level, on the same critical days as those
babies who had stronger reactions. Two out of ten randomly picked babies had to
be admitted to the hospital with serious breathing problems on these critical
days.
ALARM PATTERN
Our next step was to explain the up and down dynamics of the flare-ups. A
Canadian medical doctor, Dr Hans Selye studied the stress response in mammals to
any noxious substance or injury of any kind. Selye established that when the
animal is exposed to any stressor, it will first elicit an alarm reaction within
48 hours when the body is mobilizing its strength to deal with the insult. Then
the body seemingly stops reacting, which he called 'the stage of resistance'.
And then there was another alarm-like reaction, which he called the stage of
exhaustion. And I think that you will agree with me, that that is exactly what
we see in the breathing of babies after vaccinations. You have the alarm
reaction within one to two days, which may be biphasic, then you have the stage
of resistance around day 5 to 7, and then you have the stage of exhaustion
around day 16.
CONTROLS
You can justly say, "Where are your controls?" In our research every child is
its own control, because the stress level in breathing is measured before
vaccination and after vaccination in each child.
LITERATURE SEARCH ON SIDS
Then I asked myself, are we the only people who stumbled over the dangers of
vaccines? Does the medical profession know about all this? Is there anything
published in the medical literature? I began to do research in medical
libraries, and to my absolute astonishment, there is no end to it. For my book,
Vaccination, I studied more than 30,000 pages of data published in medical
journals about Crib Deaths after vaccinations. In one study, there were 41
babies who died within 21 days of their first Triple Antigen injection, and
there was a clustering of these deaths along those critical days we recorded in
the babies' breathing after vaccination. This is the ultimate evidence of the
causal link between the administration of those vaccines and these deaths. In
the so-called "Tennessee Deaths", hundreds of babies died there, after their DPT
injections. We soon established that the vaccines are killing babies, and Crib
Deaths (SIDS) are 95% vaccine deaths.
SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME
No doubt, you have heard about the 'shaken baby syndrome'. Only about ten
days ago I was in the United States at a court case testifying about shaken baby
syndrome. These are often vaccine deaths. This information was published in
Nexus, Aug/Sep Issue, 1998 which resulted in cases of shaken baby syndrome being
thrown out of court.
MEDICAL LITERATURE ON EPIDEMICS DEMONSTRATES THE INEFFECTIVENESS OF VACCINES
(The research referred to below is done by pro-vaccination researchers. This
is not anti-vaccination literature.)
(a) U.S. EPIDEMICS IN THE VACCINATED POPULATIONS There is not a single study
which can demonstrate that when there is an epidemic it only affects the
unvaccinated. Quite the contrary, the country that mandates vaccination, the
United States, has huge outbreaks of so-called 'vaccine preventable diseases' in
fully vaccinated populations, and they truly mandate vaccination. Vaccination
actually increased the incidence of infectious diseases in the United States.
(b) U.S. INFANT MORTALITY RATES The United States is the most developed country
in the world with all kinds of money for medical research and advanced medical
technology. How is their infant mortality? Before mass vaccination started (in
1955 with the polio vaccine), United States had the sixth best infant mortality
in the world. By 1990, they were on the twentieth place. Only a year later they
were on the twenty-fourth place. Today, maybe thirtieth place. And most of these
deaths are vaccine deaths. So you can camouflage all sorts of things, but you
can't lie about infant deaths.
(c) In Pediatrics - Supplement, p.939-984, 1988, James D. Cherry et al, reported
the side effects of vaccinations in a 40-page report on pertussis immunization.
Cherry sits on all committees in the United States that mandate all vaccines
that are ever introduced.
(d) JAPAN In 1975, about 37 Crib Sudden Deaths were linked to vaccination in
Japan. Doctors in one prefecture boycotted vaccinations, and refused to
vaccinate. The Japanese government paid attention and stopped vaccinating
children below the age of two years. When immunization was delayed until a child
was 24 months of age, Sudden Infant Death cases and claims for vaccine related
deaths disappeared. Japan zoomed from a high 17th place in infant mortality rate
to the lowest infant mortality rate in the world when they stopped vaccinating.
Japan didn't vaccinate any children below the age of two years between 1975 and
1988, for thirteen years. But then in 1988, Japanese parents were given the
choice to start vaccinating anywhere between three months and 48 months. The
Ministry study group studied 2,720 SIDS cases occurring between 1980 and 1992
and they established that their very low SIDS rate quadrupled.
(e) AUSTRALIA Health authorities must reveal the vaccination status of children
in epidemics. In the last 18 months, 84% of Australian children who got whooping
cough were fully vaccinated, and 78% who got measles had record of measles
vaccination. So where is the effectiveness of the vaccines?
(f) BRITISH INFANT MORTALITY RATES A British study dealt with infant deaths four
weeks after birth. They don't mention vaccination at all. Between 1975 to 1977
in England, when the vaccination compliance fell to between 10% and 30%, the
infant mortality went down. But people have short memories. The vaccination
compliance started climbing up after 1977 and so did the infant mortality rate.
(g) In Neurology, 1982, William C. Torch, pediatric neurologist, published
"Diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) immunization: a potential cause of the
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)". Torch looked at over 200 randomly selected
SIDS cases, and in the preliminary data, on the first 70 cases studied, showed
that two-thirds had been vaccinated within three weeks of death. He also
established that there were ever increasing numbers of deaths with the
increasing interval from the injection.
(h) SWEDEN There was a normal worldwide epidemic of whooping cough (pertussis),
in which of the Swedish children who got whooping cough, 84% were vaccinated, so
the government read the statistics correctly and discontinued whooping cough
vaccination. A ten-year follow up of the incidence of whooping cough in the
unvaccinated children showed no incidence of whooping cough below the age of six
months when the whooping cough is supposed to be dangerous, and actually very
little below the age of two years. That is the vulnerable age group. So Swedes
achieved, with no vaccination, what the Americans could not achieve with
mandatory vaccination.
(i) In the Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1994, "Age Specific Incidence of
Bacteriologically Confirmed Pertussis, between 1981 and 1991 - ten year
follow-up". The majority of cases occurred in the most vulnerable age group
below the age of one year in the most vaccinated children. Actually the majority
of cases happened within the first four months. The vaccine is causing whooping
cough. A lot of children develop whooping cough from the vaccine, but if they
are vaccinated, it will be diagnosed as 'croup'.
(j) There was a steady downward trend in the incidence and mortality from
whooping cough between 1922 and 1978, and then in 1978, there was a sudden
upswing in the incidence. What happened in 1978? You already know. They mandated
vaccination. In 1978 a nationwide childhood immunization initiative was begun.
Individual states passed legislation requiring proof of immunization for school
entry at five and six years of age. The vaccine is causing whooping cough. So
where is the benefit? There is no benefit. I see these naive young parents who
try to do their level best and they think " My little baby, I don't want him to
get whooping cough". Well, don't look in the direction of the vaccine because
the vaccine is not going to stop your child from getting whooping cough. It is
going to give your child whooping cough. The only way to stop whooping cough,
particularly in small babies, is to stop vaccinating.
INCIDENCE OF DISEASE IN EARLY MONTHS DUE TO MOTHER'S VACCINATIONS
There is a high incidence of whooping cough in the first month of life,
before children are well and truly vaccinated. These are babies born to mothers
who were vaccinated in childhood, and the vaccinated mothers have poor or no
transplacentally transmitted immunity, which normally is there to protect small
children against any infectious disease for the first one or two years of life.
So vaccination is causing whooping cough, and it is pushing the disease into the
most vulnerable age group. There is no benefit whatsoever.
For complete scientific references to research discussed in this article, please
see Vaccination: 100 Years of Orthodox Research Shows that Vaccines Represent a
Medical Assault on the Immune System by Viera Scheibner.