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SMALLPOX AND FORCED VACCINATION:
WHAT EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO KNOW

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Barbara Loe Fisher is co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center. She is co-author of DPT: A Shot in the Dark (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985; Warner, 1986; Avery, 1991), a book which made an important contribution to public support for development of the purified pertussis vaccine licensed by the FDA for American babies in 1996. She is author of The Consumer's Guide to Childhood Vaccines (NVIC, 1997) and editor of THE VACCINE REACTION and The Vaccine Hotline newsletters.

During the 1980's, she helped lead a national grassroots effort to bring the issue of vaccine safety to public attention, including leading demonstrations at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and at the White House in 1986. Later that year, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.

She served on the National Vaccine Advisory Committee for four years, where she was chair of the subcommittee on adverse events. She was appointed to the Vaccine Safety Forum at the Institute of Medicine in 1995, where she helped to coordinate five public workshops on vaccine safety. She has served as the consumer voting member of the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee since 1999. She is a frequent public speaker at educational health conferences, where she defends the right to informed consent to medical interventions which can cause injury or death, including vaccination.

The mother of three children, in 1980 her two and a half year old son reacted within four hours of his fourth DPT and polio vaccinations with a convulsion, collapse shock and six hour state of unconsciousness. He was left with minimal brain dysfunction, including multiple learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder.

About the National Vaccine Information Center

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), founded in 1982 by parents of vaccine injured children, is a non-profit, educational organization (501C3) dedicated to preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education. NVIC promotes scientific research into the biological causes of vaccine injury and death in order to identify biomarkers which place individuals at high risk for suffering vaccine reactions. NVIC advocates the institution of informed consent protections in mass vaccination laws and serves as a watchdog on vaccine research, development, regulation and promotion activities of public health agencies.

After launching the vaccine safety and informed consent movement in the U.S. in the early 1980's, NVIC's co-founders worked with Congress to create the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. This historic law set up a vaccine injury compensation program and included vaccine safety provisions, such as mandatory reporting of hospitalizations, injuries and deaths following vaccination.

In 1989, NVIC sponsored an International Scientific Workshop on Pertussis and Pertussis Vaccines and, in 1996, one of NVIC's major goals was realized when a purified pertussis vaccine was licensed for American babies after a decade and a half of advocacy work. In 1997, NVIC held the First International Public Conference on Vaccination and sponsored the Second International Public Conference on Vaccination on Sept. 8-10, 2000 in Washington, D.C. The Third International Public Conference on Vaccination will be held on November 7-10, 2002 in Arlington, Virginia.

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Something Else to Consider?
by Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.

Soon after your child became ill you reached out to leaders in the "vaccine risk awareness" movement to report your grief and horror. They touched your hand, or told you they empathized. They asked for donations. Then they professed that most vaccines were "pretty safe." "Only some vaccines have problems that require our ongoing vigilance," they assured.

They informed you to beware of those of people like me in the "anti-vaccination" camp. They labeled us "radicals". They effectively character assassinated our messengers rather than refuting the messages. You shook your head as if to say "how could these 'radicals' be so stupid." Then you gave these leaders and their organizations more money and your volunteered time in support of their outstanding efforts.

One such leader and group comes to mind as an exquisite example. I adequately exposed the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) directed by Barbara Loe Fisher and Kathy Williams in previous writings. This leading "vaccine risk awareness" group's developmental history shows financial and administrative ties to drug industrialists and pharmaceutical lobbyists. When my colleagues and I pointed this out to you, you told us to "Stop it! We all need to work together."

When I then relayed NVIC's large investment in sponsoring the passage of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, which gave precedent to the Homeland Security Bill's drug industry indemnity clause, you still would not listen. The "superfund" that was set up for injured families through NVIC collusion with vaccine-makers' "was a good idea," you said somewhat unconvinced. The fact that the vast majority of the hundreds of thousands of vaccine-victimized families got nothing more than a bureaucratic shuffle and legal nightmare didn't alter your optimism toward these "political moderates." "They put out good information too, from time to time," you defended.

Comment from Don Bennett -

There are many organizations that disseminate both truthful information that serves the public interest, and false information (that they know to be false), which is self-serving and/or serves other interests. Although this is very frustrating, it is also, unfortunately, part of human-nature. If you "follow the money", you very often can get to the truth of the matter, though following the money isn't always easy (and this is so by design). My research on the vaccination issue puts me squarely in the anti-vaccination camp. There is no such thing as an "effective" vaccine, nor a safe vaccine; they do more harm than good, and the good that they supposedly do, can be attained from doing other things that have no detrimental effects whatsoever, unlike vaccines.

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