Child immunization exemptions spike outbreak fears

Danielle Verbrigghe Cronkite News Service

The percentage of Arizona parents citing personal beliefs in opting out of vaccines required for children has increased steadily since 2000 yet remains relatively low overall: 3.4 percent among kindergartners during the 2011-2012 school year, for example.

But Will Humble, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, looks with worry at other numbers detailing immunizations against diseases such as measles, mumps, whooping cough and chickenpox. Those are ZIP codes around the state with much higher percentages of parents opting out.

Arizona State Vaccine Requirements - National Vaccine Information Center

Arizona State Vaccine Requirements - National Vaccine Information Center

60 Things that Can Go Terribly Wrong with Hepatitis B Vaccination

Posted By Dr. Mercola | July 07 2011

The website Green Med Info has assembled 44 articles which together list 60 diseases or adverse unintended consequences associated with hepatitis B vaccination.

Among the problems the vaccination may cause are:

Autoimmune inflammatory polyneuropathy
Multiple sclerosis
Anaphylactic shock and death in infants
Chronic arthritis
Autism
Bell's palsy
According to one of the studies linked on Green Med Info:

"Evidence ... suggests that hepatitis B vaccine is positively associated with adverse health outcomes in the general population of US children."

For more information, you can click the link below.

Sources:
Green Med Info
Annals of Epidemiology January 2001;11(1):13-21

Dr. Mercola's Comments:

There is no vaccine that gets me more upset than hepatitis B. There are two primary reasons for this. It is given to virtually every newborn in the hospital and many times without parents' consent shortly after the child is born. If the parent chooses not to have their 12-hour-old newborn vaccinated in the newborn nursery, it takes enormous effort on the parent's part to make sure this vaccine is not given without their informed consent before the baby leaves the hospital.

Washington may require doctor's signature to pass on vaccination

By LINDA THOMAS
KIRO Radio

Most parents in our state have been through the tears of watching their kids get poked with a needle for measles, hepatitis and other shots.

But some parents choose not to have their children vaccinated and the state is proposing a change that would make it more difficult for parents to object.

The legislation is widely supported in the house and the senate.

Parents mount backlash to vaccine increases - thestar.com

By Andrea Gordon Living Reporter

Like most parents today, Nadine Silverthorne doesn’t chew over major child-rearing decisions without a heaping side dish of angst. And whether or not to vaccinate her two children is one of her biggest.

The Toronto mother has combed websites, blogged about childhood immunization and canvassed friends and family. She has polled her followers on Twitter and quizzed her doctor and homeopath. She remains torn.

How To Legally Avoid Unwanted Immunizations Of All Kinds

by Dr Mercola,
As you read this work and put its principles into practice, there are two basic axioms you never want to forget. They are the rock upon which all your actions are based.

1. Nobody, anywhere or any time and under any circumstances has the right or power in this country to immunize you or your children against your will and conviction. If they attempt to do so, you can legally charge them with "assault with a deadly weapon" and have the full resources of our laws behind you.

2. At all times in attempting to avoid unwanted immunization, you have the Law of the Land behind you. Those who would try to vaccinate you against your will are on very shaky ground. Into every compulsory immunization law in America are written legal exceptions and waivers which are there specifically to protect you from the attempted tyranny of officialdom. It is not only your right, but your obligation to use them, if this is what your conscience tells you.

Vaccine refusals are on the rise

Amid whooping cough epidemic, health officials are pushing for more inoculations

By Helen Gao, Watchdog Institute

Monday, August 23, 2010 at 4:30 p.m.

Earnie Grafton

Lara Hayes of Cardiff and her children Zalia, 5, and Finnely, 2, go for an outing at the San Diego Zoo. Lara, a former registered nurse from Australia, doesn't agree with immunizing her children.