Freedom in Governor Brown's Hands...YIKES!

  Governor Brown signed another chunk of our freedom away on September 30.

I suppose Brown thinks that parents of non-vaccinated children don't know how to read and so need to be forced by a law to go to a doctor to have him or her teach us about vaccinations.  

 

Never have I heard a doctor admit some children have been killed or maimed by vaccinations.  

 

We are to expect that doctors will happily sign a waiver for us when we get turned away by doctors who won't see kids who are not vaccinated.  

 

Warning: the next vaccination law will cut away at your freedoms even more.

Have You Asked Governor Brown To Veto AB2109 TODAY?

Dear California NVIC Advocacy Team Members,

Even if you’ve called or written the governor before to urge Governor Jerry Brown to Veto AB2109, we need EVERYONE calling, faxing, and emailing him today! There still has not been any action on the AB2109 by the governor and we only have until Sunday to get Governor Brown to Veto AB2109!  If everyone on this list makes a veto request today, maybe the Governor’s office will notice and do the right thing!

Governor Jerry Brown
Phone: (916) 445-2841
Fax: (916) 558-3160
Webmail: http://govnews.ca.gov/gov39mail/mail.php

Below is NVIC’s one page veto request to Governor Brown.  Feel free to use any points you like from it. If you receive any feedback, please let your California NVIC State Co-Directors, Dawn Winkler and Michelle Gutierrez, know at CADirector@NVICAdvocacy.org.  Thank you!

VETO AB2109 GOVERNOR BROWN

Plain and simply put, AB2109 will prohibit a child from attending school if their parent is unable to secure the additional burdensome requirement of a medical office visit and medical signature on their exemption form to mandatory vaccination. This can lead to truancy charges and damaging lapses in the child’s education.  It is very important to note that the vaccination status of the child will not change as a result of this bill becoming law, but the door to a free and public education for some children whose parents choose to delay or decline some vaccines will be closed forever.  

It is well documented that many physicians throw families out of their practice who don’t fully vaccinate (perform any internet search you like regarding doctors refusing to treat unvaccinated children to find numerous articles and studies).  Nothing in AB2109 compels a physician to accept an appointment with a partially vaccinated or unvaccinated child or sign the form if asked. Also, parents who cannot find a willing physician will be denied their right to exercise their religious beliefs in opposition to vaccination since Californians are reliant on the personal belief exemption to take an exemption to vaccine mandates for religious reasons. The state of California should not be putting medical personnel in charge as the gatekeepers of the free exercise of religion.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, vaccine refusals and disease importation are not to blame for pertussis outbreaks as bill supporters have tried to falsely imply.  (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/08/whooping-cough-outbreak-top-10-things-you-should-know.html) Most cases are in the vaccinated and are due to lower levels of vaccine effectiveness and more rapidly waning protection than previously understood.  Further restricting current vaccine exemptions will not change this fact, it will only promote distrust in and resentment of public health programs by well-educated parents and health care providers who already know this.

AB2109 also creates an additional expense for an office visit with a practitioner that the family may not use.  Many parents cannot afford the time off from work or money for a new doctor visit and signature especially if they have multiple children.

The following is a list of vaccines in use or in current development: AIDS , Asthma, Botulism, Brucellosis, Chlamydia, Cocaine Addiction, Cytomegalovirus, Diabetes, Diphtheria, E-Coli (Shiga toxin), Genital Herpes, Giardiasis, Gonorrhea, Haemophilus influenza, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Heroin Addiction, High Blood Pressure, Human Papillomavirus, Influenza, Legionellosis, Lyme Disease, Malaria, Measles, Meningoccocal, Mumps, Novel H1N1 Influenza, Obesity, Pertussis, Polio,  Rubella, Salmonellosis, Shigellosis, Streptococcal group A, Streptococcus pneumonia, Syphilis, Tetanus, Tuberculosis, Typhoid Fever, Varicella (chickenpox), West Nile Virus.  

It is unreasonable to require a family to have a medical appointment and medical provider signature for wanting to delay or decline any of these vaccines. As more vaccines are added to the already fully packed mandatory schedule, this debate will only intensify unless the right to exercise informed consent to vaccination without medical harassment is upheld and respected. 

VETO AB2109

Sincerely,

Dawn Richardson, Director of Advocacy
National Vaccine Information Center
http://NVIC.org and http://NVICAdvocacy.org
Dawn@NVICAdvocacy.org 

FINAL PUSH: Request CA Legislators Who Opposed AAB2109 During Session to ask Governor Brown for his VETO

Also Attend Veto Rally Friday from 12-2 pm in Sacramento, State Capitol West Steps

Dear California NVIC Advocacy Team Members,

AB2109, the bill that would restrict the personal belief exemption to mandated vaccines making it impossible for a child to attend school unless their parent obtains a medical visit and signature on the vaccine exemption form, was passed by the legislature on August 27^th, 2012.

Governor Brown holds the bill now, and if he does nothing with it, or signs it on or before September 30th, the bill becomes law.  However, if he Vetoes the bill, the vaccine exemption could be saved.

AB2109 received opposition from both political parties. Many legislators stepped up and offered oral arguments against the bill at various steps throughout the legislative process.  Some legislators are now contacting Governor Brown and urging his Veto on AB2109. 

We need for all of the legislators who took a stand against AB2109 to contact Governor Brown immediately to request he veto AB2109. 

If your Senator or Assemblyman ever voted “NO” on AB2109, we are counting on you to make a QUICK ONE MINUTE PHONE CALL to your legislator’s office to thank them for their opposition and ask them to contact Governor Brown to ask him to VETO AB2109!

This needs to be done right away! We need Governor Brown to Veto AB2109 on or before September 30^th otherwise AB2109 becomes law.

Here is what you can do to help:

1)    Look on this list of Senators and Assembly Members.  Did either of your legislators vote NO on AB2109 during the legislative process?

California State Senators who voted no on AB 2109: Anderson, Berryhill, Cannella, De León, DeSaulnier, Dutton, Emmerson, Fuller, Gaines, Huff, La Malfa, Runner, Strickland, Walters, Wyland.

California Assembly Members who voted no on AB 2109: Achadjian, Beth Gaines, Bill Berryhill, Conway, Cook, Donnelly, Garrick, Gatto, Gorell, Grove, Hagman, Halderman, Harkey, Huber, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Logue, Mansoor , Miller, Morrell, Nestande, Nielsen, Norby, Olsen, Silva, Smyth, Valadao, Wagner.Don’t know who your legislators are? Legislative Lookup and Contact Information can be obtained by clicking on http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html and entering your zip code to lookup who your legsislators are or you can log into the NVIC Advocacy Portal at http://NVICAdvocacy.org, select your California State Team Page,  and click on your legislators names automatically displayed on the right side.

2)    If you have a Senator or Assembly Member on the lists above who voted “NO” on AB2109 at any time during the legislative process, call them or fax them and thank them for their NO Vote on AB2109 and ask them to PLEASE contact Governor Brown to ask him to VETO AB2109. Assembly Member Tim Donnelly has written an excellent open request to the Governor to Veto AB2109.  You can read it here: http://arc.asm.ca.gov/member/59/?p=article&sid=427&id=253064

3)    Keep calling and faxing Governor Brown himself to VETO AB2109.http://govnews.ca.gov/gov39mail/mail.php
Governor Jerry Brown
c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 445-2841
Fax: (916) 558-3160

4)    If you can make time to attend and support the AB2109 VETO Rally this Friday, September 28^th from 12 pm – 2pm on the west steps of the Capitol, please go!  Your NVIC California State Directors Dawn Winkler and Michelle Gutierrez will be there, along with comedian/actor Rob Schneider, Assembly member Tim Donnelly, and others! Here is a personal request from NVIC CA State Director Dawn Winkler: “If you can make it, bring signs!!! Be creative! They were great last time. We need every single person possible to attend, this is the final stand. Media will undoubtedly be there and this should be quite the event. Should the bill be signed before then, the event will be a protest. Should the bill be vetoed before then, the event will be a HUGE CELEBRATION! The Governor often waits until the very last couple of days when it comes to controversial bills, so there is a chance he will have done nothing with the bill by then. This is a chance to really make some noise. No matter what, anyone who can come should try to be there! Updates and details regarding the rally can be found on the Californians Against AB2109 Facebook page.”

5)    If you need to contact NVIC California State Directors Dawn Winkler or Michelle Gutierrez about the rally or if you want to share information about your call to your legislators, they can be reached at CADirector@NVICAdvocacy.org.     

Sincerely,

Dawn Richardson, Director of Advocacy
National Vaccine Information Center
http://NVIC.org and http://NVICAdvocacy.org
Dawn@NVICAdvocacy.org

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) works diligently to prepare and disseminate our legislative advocacy action alerts and supporting materials.  We request that organizations and members of the public forward our alerts in their original form to assure consistent and accurate messaging and effective action. Please acknowledge NVIC as originators of this work when forwarding to members of the public and like-minded organizations. To receive alerts immediately, register  at http://NVICAdvocacy.org, a website dedicated to this sole purpose and provided as a free public service by NVIC.

Please Help to Stop AB 2109

 Dr. Pan has amended his AB2109 brain-child.  He has included nurses in his short list of who will be able to sign a vaccination waiver allowing a child to be exempt from having vaccines.  I cannot even imagine asking a school nurse to sign my vaccination waiver.  Dr. Pan obviously has had no experience with schools.  For one thing, he is unaware of the constant phone calls that go out stating that our children will not be allowed in school without their shots.  A friend told me she had to escort a kid to the nurse on the first day of school because he did not have his Tdap.  Schools do not inform parents that they can sign a waiver right now and opt out of shots.  Instead, they make it seem mandatory already.  What makes Dr. Pan think a nurse would gladly sign the paper when they are calling home saying, "Sorry.  Your child is not allowed in school until you show me proof that he had his shots."? 

When my daughter started kindergarten, her school staff claimed they could not find the present waiver.  What kind of tricks and lies will occur if waiver-signing is placed in the nurse's hands?  Dr. Pan, how about allowing licensed health care practitioners for the state of California sign them.  Acupuncturists should be included.  You know why we are not included in the amendment?  Because many of us would not only sign it for free, we would advertise that shots are not REALLY mandatory if you know how to play the game. 

It is positive for us that he feels AB 2109 will not pass without an amendment.  Let us keep the pressure on.  The following is a call for help from Dawn Richardson, the director of the Advocacy Portal.  Please call the Assembly members as Ms. Richardson recommends.  Thank-you.

8/22/2012 UPDATE
Don’t Be Fooled by Dr. Pan’s Amendment Adding School Nurses
California Bill to Restrict Vaccine Exemptions ReScheduled for Senate 3^rd Reading Today

ACTION: Contact Senators NOW to OPPOSE AB2109 and Tell Your Senator Dr. Pan’s School Nurse Amendment DOES NOT FIX THIS!

Dear California NVIC Advocacy Team Members,

AB2109, was amended by Dr. Pan to add school nurses to the short restricted list of providers allowed to sign off on the exemption form.  This does not address the problems with this bill and ignores the fact that with over 10,000 schools in California, less than one out of four (2,474) have school nurses. 

This new version is scheduled to be voted on by the California Senate today. 

Even if you have already contacted your senator before, we need your calls and faxes AGAIN now asking  that they vote NO on AB2109

Senator Contact Information can be obtained by clicking on http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html and entering your zip code to lookup who your senator is and then finding their contact information on http://senate.ca.gov/senators or you can log into the NVIC Advocacy Portal at http://NVICAdvocacy.org, select your California State Team Page,  and click on your senator’s name displayed on the right side.

Ask Your Senator to Vote NO on AB2109 because

·         There is no language in AB2109 compelling a provider to sign the form and most won’t based on their current behavior of already denying care to families using vaccine exemptions.

·         Too many medical offices already deny medical care, harass and bully, and even dismiss patients for making informed and educated vaccination decisions.  It is extremely difficult if not impossible for many families to find medical providers who will even see their children if they are electing to delay or decline a vaccine. 

·         Dr. Pan’s recent amendment adding school nurses DOES NOT fix the access problem that concerned parents and the Senate Health Committee.  There are approximately 10,000 public schools in California and there are only 2,474 school nurses.  School nurses don’t have time to have lengthy conversations about vaccines.  Three out of four schools don’t have a school nurse. Also, what about day care, private schools, pre-school, and home schools?  In committee, Dr. Pan opposed including pharmacists who give vaccines - there are over 300,000 in California  - because this is not about vaccine education, it is about how to remove access to the exemption by only including who is more likely to refuse to sign the form.   

·        Dr. Pan has misled the legislature by giving false information about Washington State’s new exemption law. In testimony he has claimed a hotline set up to take complaints about a provider required signature has not received many calls.  That is because that hotline does not exist according the Washington Department of Health. In a personal email note to NVIC dated June 28^th, 2012, the Washington Department of Health Immunization Department stated, “I’m not aware of an 1-800 number to call in to report providers not willing to sign an exemption. As far as I know there is no number to do this.”  Also, Washington has a religious exemption that DOES NOT require a doctor signature, and California Law DOES NOT have a religious exemption at all.

Also, if this bill passes it will go back to the Assembly and that could happen today. PLEASE CALL AND FAX YOUR ASSEMBLY MEMBER after you’ve contacted your Senator stressing that Dr. Pan’s school nurse amendment does not fix the problems with this bill and they NEED TO VOTE NO ON AB2109.  You can look up your Assembly member, obtain their contact information and determine who they are with your address at http://assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers.  Or you can just log into the NVIC Advocacy Portal at http://NVICAdvocacy.org and your legislators are displayed automatically on the California State Team Page for our members.

Please let us know what you learn from your calls and faxes by sending a quick email to myself Dawn Richardson and our California State directors Dawn Winkler and Michelle Gutierrez by writing to CADirector@NVICAdvocacy.org.

Sincerely,

Dawn Richardson, Director of Advocacy
National Vaccine Information Center
http://NVIC.org and http://NVICAdvocacy.org
Dawn@NVICAdvocacy.org

AB 2109 Manipulation

The National Vaccination Information Center (NVIC) is always searching for pending legislation that interferes with a parent’s right to decide medical directions for their children.  Each state seems to be aware of this fact, for they constantly try to “fly under the radar,” making it too late to be stopped before the NVIC becomes aware of the pending legislation.

This is exactly what happened yesterday.  Like me, I am certain the NVIC has been on the look-out for what happened since the senators voted recently on AB 2109, the legislation that will make it harder to get a waiver for non-vaccinated kids.  Suddenly, the NVIC became aware that AB 2109 was to go before the whole California Senate for a final decision.  This could have happened yesterday.   I do not know for sure.  We had very little time to get our calls in before they were supposedly meeting. 

My question is, why the manipulation?  Why are the legislators so secretive with what they are doing?  The biggest question of all is, since this law will impact California’s citizens, why was this not put on a ballot so we could do the voting?  Many citizens showed up in Sacramento to speak out against this legislation prior to yesterday.  These politicians are bent on not listening to us.  Should we ask them to step down if they are through representing us and instead promoting their own agendas?

If…no, let us be realistic, for it was their plan all along…When AB 2109 passes the senate vote and after it moves on to the governor for his signature, the ball will start rolling to take away all our rights where our children are concerned.  Right now they assure us that this law being in place will not change anything.  They say that we can simply go to any doctor and they will gladly sign a vaccination waiver so our children can attend schools without having been vaccinated.  (Let me point out that right now, it costs me nothing to sign the waiver myself.  If AB 2109 passes, I have to fork out cash to a doctor to get the signature!)  All they want is the opportunity to educate parents on the necessity of vaccinations.  Does this sound realistic to you?  Most parents who have chosen not to vaccinate their kids have done so either after extensive research, like me, or after a vaccine killed or maimed their kid, like quite a few I have come to know.  We do not want a white-coated-god to “educate” us, thank-you very much.  It is a complete conflict of interest, because doctors profit in so many ways from Big Pharma.

AB 499 was the first step in taking away parental rights.  Our Assembly members, senators, and governor saw to it that a twelve-year-old could make certain medical decisions without their parents consent or knowledge.  Now, if AB 2109 is signed into law, parents will eventually run into resistance getting the waiver signed by medical doctors.  For now, we can keep our kids out of school rather than to subject them to the insults of vaccines; but, how long is it until our politicians straight out mandate everyone to receive the shots if they simply reside here?

Could they possibly have another agenda, a really important reason to make sure you and your children receive these shots?  Could there be something in the needle that makes all of this legislation imperative for “the They’s” overall agenda?  Susan Reed, who “accidentally” drowned prior to her book being published, wrote about how the whole world is to be implanted, so as we humans can be electrocuted “via the implant” (Reed, Susan, BSC.  The Body Snatchers: A True Story of Body Snatching by Reptilians A Real Alien Conspiracy.  Frankston: Hidden Mysteries TCS Publishers, 2006, p. 67).  Vaccinations were not the mode of implanting to which Reed referred.  I am simply pointing out that since the 1990’s with Hepatitis B vaccines being given to two day old, non-sexually active, non-drug using babies, definitely an ulterior motive has to be present.  As James Bartley wrote in his book review of Reed’s book, “The Global Elite’s plan to cull the Earth’s human population by at least 80% is a documented fact”
(http://www.whale./b/bartley_reed.html).  An implant that can cause illness or death at the push of a button, or a micro-chip to follow our every move, or some other wacko agenda could be in place.  

 It should be our choice to not allow something into our bodies or into our children’s bodies, especially when we are taking someone’s word on its efficacy and necessity.  Let me also point out that fluoride was put into your water with an ulterior motive as was aspartame into your food and drinks.  Do you really trust the Powers That Be with vaccinations?  Why are they being so manipulative and secretive if they did not really NEED this legislation to pass?

Please start now asking Governor Brown NOT to sign AB 2109 into law.

Let's Stop AB 2109

This is an e-mail from NVIC asking for your help.

Hearing Set on AB 2109 – Tuesday April17th at 1:30 pm Room 4202 – Be There!

Dear California NVIC Advocacy Team Members,

We recently sent an alert informing you of a dangerous bill in the California Assembly, AB 2109, which seeks to place significant barriers on your access and use of a personal belief exemption to mandatory vaccination in California. The bill specifically would make the use of a personal belief exemption dependent on a very limited set of medical care providers providing you with “vaccine education” and their signature attesting to this fact on your exemption form.

This bill, if passed, would effectively make the personal belief exemption another type of medical exemption. Because there is no religious exemption in CA, this would make the only exemption option in California one in which a parent has to go through a medical provider.

We all know of doctors who bully, harass, and even fire their patients for even questioning a vaccine, never mind making an informed and educated decision to delay or decline one. It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see what will happen to accessibility of the exemption if AB 2109 becomes law.

We wanted to give you an update and let you know that a public hearing on AB 2109 has been scheduled in The Assembly Committee on Health on Tuesday April 17^th at 1:30 p.m. in Room 4202, at the State Capitol. We are asking all of you to seriously think about what the freedom to be in control of the vaccination decisions for your children means to you now and what it will mean to you in the future and to make a commitment to attend the hearing and write to the committee members.

The address for the Capitol is 1301 10^th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814 and the committee hearing agenda is posted at http://ahea.assembly.ca.gov/hearings.

Please contact your California NVIC State Directors Dawn Winkler and Michelle Gutierrez at CADirector@NVICadvocacy.org if you are able to attend the hearing or give oral testimony at the hearing. You can also call Dawn Winkler at 530-283-1018.

In order to have written letters of opposition reflected in the committee analysis performed before the hearing and the vote, they must be received by 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 11^th. Letters must be signed and on official letterhead if submitted on behalf of an organization or association.

Faxed letters will be accepted. Electronic versions are subject to the discretion of the committee, so it is best to fax your letter or mail it.

Send letters addressed to the California Assembly Health Committee Members to the attention of:

Assembly Member Bill Monning

Chair, Assembly Health Committee

Capitol Office:
State Capitol
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0027
Tel: (916) 319-2027
Fax: (916) 319-2127

http://asmdc.org/members/a27/

Please also send a copy to your letter to your NVIC California State Directors at CADirector@NVICadvocacy.org .

For more information on AB 2109 and the reasons why it must be opposed, see our previous alert: http://nvicadvocacy.org/members/Resources/CAOPPOSEAB2109RestrictingVaccineExemptions.aspx

If you would like to read a wonderful blog entry from Dr. Bob Sears about the problems with this bill, please link to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-bob-sears/california-vaccination-bill_b_1355370.html to read “California Bill AB2109 Threatens Vaccine Freedom of Choice.”

Sincerely,

Dawn Richardson, Director of Advocacy
National Vaccine Information Center
http://NVIC.org and http://NVICAdvocacy.org
Dawn@NVICAdvocacy.org

Assembly Bill 354: Recent Vaccination Law for California

California’s Assembly Bill 354 states that beginning July 1, 2011, all seventh through twelfth grade students must have had the pertussis shot with all appropriate boosters. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has decided that the original series of pertussis shots loose potency between five and ten years after being administered; therefore, a booster is necessary. According to this bill, in 2005 a pertussis booster was licensed in the U.S. in the form of a Tdap vaccination specifically intended for teens and adults. Not only were threatening flyers sent to the parents of at least one LAUSD school warning them to give the booster to their tweens and teens or else, but the whole bill seems to be an attempt to manipulate parents because there is a lack of proof of the booster’s efficacy during an actual pertussis outbreak.

The memo that went out to all public and private school’s administrators from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) indicates that if children received the Tdap vaccine after their seventh birthday, they would not need a booster. Administrators also were asked to post information from the CDPH’s memo for families to read and to become informed. The information asked to be sent to families was as follows:

Pertussis is widespread. If your child is 10 years and older has not yet receivedthe ‘Tdap’ pertussis booster shot, please contact your doctor or health department. Getting a booster shot now will protect your child against the ongoing threat of pertussis and meet a new school requirement that begins in the 2011-2012 school year (California law ─ Assembly Bill 354). Adults are also advised to get a pertussis booster shot, if they haven’t already, to protect themselves, their families, and their students.

The information memo sent to administrators from the CDPH also states, after the first paragraph, that parents can exempt their children from taking the booster “for verified medical conditions or personal beliefs.” Despite the offering of an exemption, at least one middle school in LAUSD sent the information about the new requirements in a very threatening manner. In no place, not even in the most minute print, did this flyer sent to parents state that a waiver for exemption would be accepted. This flyer says, “For the 2011-12 school year all students entering or advancing to 7^th through 12^th grade will need proof of the Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) booster shot before entering school,” followed by information on where to obtain a shot. The flyer then states, “You must present written evidence to the school from your physician or clinic that your child has received the Tdap booster before THE FIRST DAY OF THE 2011-12 SCHOOL YEAR or your child will be EXCLUDED FROM SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.” The CDPH had made all the information about the new law of September 30, 2010, Assembly Bill 354, available to the administrators, yet this school never mentioned the law by name in the flyer that went out to parents. From the parent’s point of view, this could have been simply a school requirement. These parents also were not informed about their right to refuse the vaccination, as was clearly stated on the CDPH’s memo to the school’s administrators. Please be aware that certain states do allow parents to sign a waiver refusing vaccinations for children due to the beliefs of the parents. Get informed. Do not be bullied by administrators and school nurses.

The California Department of Public Health wants every child in California to dose up with Tdap, asserting all the while that the shot “will protect your child against the ongoing threat of pertussis.” This recommendation is made despite the last sentence in “Chapter 10: Pertussis” of the Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (VPD) Surveillance Manual 4th Edition which states, “The efficacy of Tdap vaccination in controlling school or institutional outbreaks has not been evaluated.” This Tdap booster shot was manufactured in 2005. For its part, the CDC uses an information collection form to document vaccination history, doses, dates of doses, etc., of all patients identified as having pertussis, as mentioned in the VPD Surveillance Manual 4^th Edition. Consequently, the CDC does have all the facts as to whether this booster has worked so far or not because right in front of their eyes they can see if this child had the booster and when. If the booster has in fact not been given to any suffers of pertussis, the CDC are easily privy to that information and can state that the reason they cannot evaluate the efficacy of the booster is because all the sufferers had not had the shot. If the truth is there were some tweens and teens with pertussis who had received the booster, then it would be understood why they would wish to keep that quiet; nevertheless, the CDC could still evaluate the booster’s efficacy. If all the kids who have had the booster did not get pertussis when others in their school did, that too could lend credibility to the booster’s efficacy. The information could very easily have been gathered by various school nurses where at least one child was reported as suffering from pertussis. Surely, after six years, some report on the actual effectiveness of the pertussis booster is available for the CDC and the public to evaluate. If not, why has the use of something not thoroughly evaluated for its effectiveness been made into a law?

The CDC’s National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System states that since the 1980’s, pertussis cases have been slowly increasing amongst teens. They further state that possibilities for the increase could be due to more cases of pertussis, or quite possibly to better detecting and reporting of the disease. Nevertheless, the CDC feels the booster is important.

According to a CDC article titled “Outbreaks,” ten infant deaths occurred in California in 2010 from pertussis, and 9 out of 10 of the infants were of Latin background. Details from an investigation surrounding these 10 would be very interesting, especially in regard to the people around the infants and their vaccination histories. One of the babies had the first dose of the pertussis vaccination just 15 days before he died of pertussis, and most of these babies were younger than 3 months. Because of the recent outbreak, the CDC recommends an accelerated immunization schedule for infants, and the CDC encourages the booster shot for individuals who are around babies. The updated regulations state that the first pertussis shot is to be given when the baby is just six weeks old, with one shot to follow every four weeks until five have been given.

The 2004 outbreak of pertussis was not nearly as widespread as the 2010-2011 outbreak. Looking at one group of children who were documented as having pertussis from October 2003 through December 2004, we can see that there really was not much difference between the numbers in the not vaccinated group, the not vaccinated sufficiently group, and the vaccinated sufficiently group, using 2004 criteria of three doses. Of the 115 children documented on a chart, 10 had no known vaccination history. Looking at the 105 remaining, 23 were unvaccinated, 37 were not vaccinated sufficiently, and 45 were vaccinated sufficiently. The surveillance paper states, “Cases among infants younger than six months of age are not preventable by vaccination because these infants are too young to have received three doses of pertussis vaccine, the minimum needed to confer protection.” Of these 105 children, 31 with a known vaccination history were infants, all with insufficient vaccination histories due to their age. The CDC has since increased the required number of shots to five, plus the booster around 10-11 years of age. By the way, 12 of these kids had received five doses. Perhaps the CDC could look for the vulnerability of diseases elsewhere, such as consumption of too much junk food, extreme stress levels,insufficient sleep…and too many vaccinations.

Interestingly, the Immunization Branch of the Communicable Disease Control states that to satisfy this new law, tweens and teens only need to have the pertussis shot, even though a vaccine just for pertussis (without being in cocktail form) is not available in the U.S. In short, by making pertussis vaccination a requirement, this age group is forced to receive the tetanus and diphtheria vaccinations as well.

Parents are cautioned to research the issue and CDC findings, so they can make an informed decision on this matter.

For more information, Please read Dr. Allsup’s article, “Alert-Assembly Bill 354 Passes” at www.naturalnews.com (May 26) and visit www.nvic.org.

References:

Notification “Tdap Immunization Due” flyer on file with author from a CA LAUSD school.

ftp://leginfo.public.ca.gov/.../bill/.../ab.../ab_354_cfa_20100817_190745_ sen_floor.html

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5503al.htm

www.cdc.gov/osels/ph_surveillance/nndss/annsum/2008/08graphs.htm, #41, #42

www.cdc.gov/pertussis/outbreaks.html

www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/immunize/Documents/EarlyAlertToSchools-AB354.pdf

www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/immunize/Documents/Pertussis%20report%209- 14-2010%20- %20For%20Release.pdf

Vaccination Education

According to…vaccination educator Fisher on the video entitled, “Dr. Mercola Interviews Barbara Loe Fisher on Forced Vaccinations,” some insurance companies are denying coverage to individuals who refuse to be vaccinated. Fisher says, “We get reports at NVIC (National Vaccination Information Center) that families are being thrown off of health care plans; they’re being denied health insurance if they can’t prove they received a certain number of vaccines.” It makes me wonder, has required health insurance been pushed through as a law in order to force families to become vaccinated? After all, if companies refuse you and you have to have coverage, then will you be forced to be the perfect citizen and allow those vaccines to be put into your body in order to comply with the law? Of course, not all insurance companies have this stipulation…yet. It’s just food for thought.

As it stands, many states allow you to choose not to vaccinate your children. Of course, propaganda is so strong that I still meet Californians who are under the impression that their children cannot go to public school unless the children are vaccinated. Please get educated. It’s time for humanity to not be manipulated by another’s fear. We need to stand up and surround politicians with pinky-rose light so that they, like Senator Judith Zaffirini of Texas, won’t try to strip parents of their rights. She filed Senate Bill 56. Her plan is to have the government automatically collect people’s vaccination histories from doctors without the consent of the individuals. Authorities could use this information to figure out who is not getting vaccinated and harass the families or, worse, have them on some list for later reference. The current Texas law requires parental consent in order for their children’s vaccination histories to be collected. Whatever your state, or even your country for that matter, something is always brewing on the pro-vaccination front. Please get educated so that you may continue being the one making decisions for yourself and for your children.

Fisher and NVIC have been my source for information on vaccines for about twenty-three years. Please visit www.nvic.org and www.vaccineinfo.net for more information.