Study: Febrile Seizure Risk Higher When Childhood Vaccines Given Simultaneously
The link between febrile seizures—seizures associated with a fever in a child—and vaccines may be old news, but a new study published in the June 2016 issue of the journal Pediatrics confirms what parents have suspected for a long time: the risk of seizures is higher for children when doctors give them many vaccines at the same time. Public health officials at the U.S. Centers…
Gardasil Devastation is NO Coincidence
Fifteen-year-old Caitlin Grace is my hero. Once a green belt in karate, walking over 10 miles per day, she is now physically debilitated from a vaccine that was supposed to prevent her from getting cancer. This is her story. Caitlin received the full series of three Gardasil shots between September 2012 and July 2013. In hindsight, I should have trusted my mother’s intuition and…
Our Children at Risk—Aluminum, Vaccine Schedules, and Stifled Debate
When health officials assure us that almost all children should receive the full schedule of vaccinations, you would think that rigorous safety testing has repeatedly proven vaccines, their ingredients, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) schedule to be completely safe. The sobering truth is, however, that this safety testing has been conspicuously lacking and in…
“Direct Order” Documentary—Soldiers Ordered to Take Anthrax Vaccine
“Direct Order”: An award-winning documentary tells the story of members of the military who were ordered against their will to take the controversial anthrax vaccine. Federal regulators approved a plan by biotechnology company, VaxGen to test its experimental anthrax vaccine on about 100 people. The human volunteers were injected with the experimental vaccine to see if it’s […]
HPV Vaccine Mandate Rejected by Allegheny County Board of Health
A proposed controversial mandate to require students in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania to be injected with all three doses of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine by seventh grade was rejected by the Allegheny County Board of Health on July 13, 2016, The Allegheny County Health Department introduced the idea of the mandate at a public forum in Pittsburgh on June 22.
Symptom-Free Vaccinated Individuals May Be Spreading Pertussis
There has been an increase in the numbers of reported cases of B. pertussis (whooping cough) in the United States in recent decades, especially in the past few years. Reported outbreaks of the highly contagious disease have commonly been attributed to waning protection of the pertussis vaccine and low vaccine coverage. Additionally, researchers have been arguing about…