There has been much talk lately about pertussis (whopping cough) outbreaks given the tens of thousands of cases in recent years. Although we are told vaccines don't cause any of the neurological complications many parents report after vaccines and that the pertussis outbreaks are due low rates of … [Read more...]
What’s the scoop on the shingles vaccine?
Recently we've received many questions about whether to get the shingles (herpes zoster) vaccine. As always, the issue is not as black and white as some would have us believe, so here we discuss what you may not read in the mainstream about the shingles vaccine. The US Centers for Disease Control … [Read more...]
Civil Rights and Vaccines
January is civil rights month and January 21st is not only Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's birthday and Federal holiday but also inauguration day. January, a month to celebrate rights and freedoms, it would seem an inspiring way to start off the year. But that is not the way the year started out for … [Read more...]
Vaccinations: Knowing versus Feeling
Wow what a story. Yes, all parents want what is best for their children, just like this mom. It can be very difficult to make the decision whether to vaccinate in today's world where government agencies and medical professionals and other authorities have so much at stake and therefore have a … [Read more...]
Does vaccination overstimulate the immune system?
Let's talk about nature. Nature has incredible ways of regulating itself. When any one species multiplies beyond the systems ability to sustain it, there is not enough food and the species in question begins to decline. But what happens when humans mess with this balance in nature? I spent some … [Read more...]
A Vote for Prop 37 is a Vote for Freedom
Many of you have probably heard about Proposition 37, a California ballot initiative that would require Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) or products made from them to be labeled. While you might not think Prop 37 has anything to do with vaccinations, it does. Here's why. The folks fighting … [Read more...]
Vaccine Injury After Gardasil – Are Higher Rates of Adverse Reactions Real?
Yesterday The Daily American newspaper published a heartbreaking letter to the editor from mom Kelly Sotomayor. Ms. Sotomayor describes the story of how her perfectly healthy 13 year old daughter received the Gardasil vaccine and ended up unable to walk for 2 years, with widespread muscle pain and … [Read more...]
Breaking News: Gardasil Linked to Two Deaths – Full Study Out
Death after quadrivalent human papillomavirus (qHPV) vaccination: causal or coincidental? A couple of weeks ago we blogged about a new study examining the brain tissue of a girl who died after her second dose of the Gardasil vaccine. Yesterday, the entire study was published. It turns out that … [Read more...]