Gardasil-Injured Teen in Ireland Gets No Help from Country’s Public Health Service
The newspaper Irish Mirror last month reported the case of 16-year old Rebecca Hollidge of Carrick-on-Shannon in Leitrim County, Ireland, who suffered severe side effects after receiving all three doses of the Gardasil human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine during 2013-2014.1 The vaccine is produced by Merck and Co. of Kenilworth, NJ. The newspaper Irish Mirror last month…
Unraveling the Mystery of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
There are five main causes for infant mortality: birth defects, maternal health complications, unintentional injuries, preterm-related causes of death, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). It is particularly with SIDS, however, that many questions persist and remain unanswered. SIDS is defined as “infant deaths that cannot be explained after a thorough case investigation, including a…
So What About the Other Pregnant Honduran Woman Who Didn’t Have Zika?
A 31-year old pregnant woman from Honduras arrives in the United States for a vacation and a month later gives birth by cesarian section to a premature baby diagnosed with severe microcephaly. The birth occurs at the Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey. The woman tests positive for the Zika virus. Naturally, this quickly becomes a headline news story covered by nearly every major newspaper, magazine, news wire service, and…
Bernadine Healy, MD on the Hypothesis That Vaccines Cause Autism
I think the public health officials have been too quick to dismiss the hypothesis [that vaccines cause autism] as ‘irrational,’ without sufficient studies of causation. I think they’ve been too quick to dismiss studies in the animal laboratory, either in mice, in primates that do show some concern with regard to certain vaccines and also to the mercury preservative in vaccines. I think the public health officials have been too quick to dismiss the hypothesis [that vaccines cause autism] as ‘irrational,’ without…
Pesticides, Birth Defects and Brain Damage in Children
The recent number of articles in the popular press concerning loss of intellect among children exposed to chlorpyrifos is important in the use of this pesticide. Although in-home use of chlorpyrifos was restricted in the U. S in 2000, it is widely used in agriculture, and is a serious risk to health and intellect for people working and living in proximity to fields. Detectable levels…
Here’s Where Aluminum Goes When It’s Injected Into Your Body from a Vaccine
While mercury (Thimerosal) has been removed from most vaccines, it is, unfortunately, still included in some vaccines for children and the elderly, and in some vaccines administered in certain developing nations. There are over 150 studies on organic-mercury used as a preservative in various vaccines, and over a dozen of them found outcomes of death, malformation, autoimmune…