The United States embarked on a “universal” program for hepatitis B vaccination in 1991. As of this month, there have been 47,198 reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System describing complications following the administration of the hepatitis B vaccine alone or with other vaccines. Of these, 23,406 reports — including 795 deaths — have been about children 14 years of age and younger.

For years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been telling anyone who would listen: “Every year in the United States, on average: 5 percent to 20 percent of the population gets the flu, more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu complications, and about 36,000 people die from flu.”

Scientists are expected to discover things. They are applauded when they do and sometimes ostracized when they don’t.
Mainstream researchers investigating the connection between autism and the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, however, seem pleased when they find nothing. They hurry to publish their “findings” to the jubilation of “authorities.”

Early yesterday morning, the Associated Press, quoting France’s Ministry of Health, reported that 1,169 individuals, mostly children and teenagers, in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany had contracted measles.

“Influenza vaccination during all trimesters of pregnancy is now universally recommended in the United States. We critically reviewed the influenza vaccination policy of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP) and the citations that were used to support their recommendations.” Thus began the abstract to a paper by David Ayoub, MD, and me, which was just published in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.

In spite of superior MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccination rates, small epidemics of mumps have occurred in distant areas. During a recent outbreak in the U.S. Midwest, college students did not seem interested in receiving additional doses of MMR vaccine. Mumpsvax, the monovalent mumps vaccine, may have been a better option.