Whether to vaccinate or not is a difficult decision for many parents to make. Health departments the world over campaign vigorously in favour of vaccination and fear is a frequently used tactic to persuade parents to vaccinate their children. There are many pharmaceutical lobbyists in every country who ensure they influence governments. Vaccination is a lucrative business.

However, there is a growing concern in the community, in the alternative health profession and even within the medical profession itself that vaccination is not all it is professed to be.

The diseases the child has been vaccinated against can still occur, but either in a different form so is not recognised, or it may not be accepted because the child has been vaccinated.

Dr Richard Pitcairn, is an American veterinarian, now veterinary homoeopath. After graduating, he worked for five years in an immunology laboratory. When he decided to move on, he said that ‘vaccination is great in theory, but doesn’t work in practice’. He claimed that the distemper vaccine was the cause of the far more serious dog disease, parvo.

Other concerned medical practitioners are finding similar results.

Homoeopathy has always recognised the link between vaccinations and chronic diseases in later, if not earlier life.

Vaccinations are routinely started at two months old and are repeated at four, six, 12, 18 months and at four or five years old, depending on the vaccine.

At two months of age, the baby’s immune system is very immature, with disease protection coming from the mother’s milk. The immune system cannot efficiently utilise the antigen introduced into the blood. First the immune system must mature naturally.

Many serious diseases are caused by vaccinations; studies in Japan show that vaccinating a child from two years rather than six weeks old has fewer problems and SIDS disappears. This finding is largely rejected by mainstream medicine.

Vaccines are made from toxic substances which are then ‘processed’ through animal tissue (ethical and cross species issues) and ‘stabilised’ with the use of hazardous chemicals (mercury, aluminium, formaldehyde). This is then injected directly into the blood stream, by-passing all the subtle levels of the body’s immune system. Antibodies are then produced, which are claimed to be protective. But antibodies are only produced when the disease has gone to a deep level. Other forms of defense, not medically recognised, keeps the disease at a superficial level.

The effects depend on the vaccine, but range from mild to serious irritation at the site, through various organ disturbances, bleeding abnormalities, inconsolable crying to permanent brain damage - a very real, if small, possibility.

There have been no studies done on the long term side-effects of vaccinations, so they cannot be termed ‘scientific’, as claimed. Short term claims of success tend to be exaggerated and fail to take into consideration the general decline of the disease at the time the vaccines were introduced (increased hygiene, improved diet, etc). I recommend further reading for interested parents. Libraries are a good starting point with books available for loan.

Some books on the subject are:-

Vaccination - a Review of Risks and Alternatives by Isaac Golden.
Vaccine Guide by Randall Neustaedter.
Handbook of Homoeopathic Alternatives to Immunisations by Susan Curtis.
A Shot in the Dark by H Coulter and B Fisher.
Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality: the Medical Assault on the American Brain by H Coulter.

Each country will have an independent organisation created to provide concerned parents with the other side of mainstream vaccination.

Here are some informative websites are, but there are many others. See also under Health Issues in the menu.

Whale
Vaccination Dangers Can Kill You or Ruin Your Life
WAVE World Association on Vaccine Education
Australian Vaccination Network
Truth Seekers Australia
Dr Tenpenny on Vaccines
Shirley’s Wellness Cafe

You may also be interested in the homeopathic alternative to vaccines. Check this website out for research details Natural Immunisation Reserach.

Whilst it is not my intention to persuade you to any point of view, it is my intention to bring your attention to the other side of vaccination, that you will not get from most mainstream practitioners.

You can’t make an informed decision without weighing up all possible points of view.

One of the best principles to work with is:

• trust no-one
• suspect everything
   

Good luck in your search.

For Australian parents, here is the government.exemption form you can download. Scroll to the bottom of the page.