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Vaccination Dilemma


The scientists measured the levels of antitoxins produced in the blood of various people in response to vaccination. They expected to find an inverse correlation between the levels of antitoxins and the risk of contracting diphtheria- in other words, that those with high levels of antitoxins should never be acquiring the disease. What they surprisingly found instead was that many people with high antitoxin levels later contracted the disease anyways, that people with very low antitoxin levels never contracted the disease despite exposure to it, and that people who were never vaccinated also remained healthy (Murphy, 1995). The vaccination was clearly not the factor determining the immunity of any of those three groups of people to diphtheria.
             This reality is also seen in the case of the rubella vaccine. If the vaccine were to truly provide immunity, people receiving the vaccine would never contract the disease. However, one study found that as many as 80% of a group of vaccinated individuals subsequently contracted rubella, even though they had antibodies on their bloodstream induced by the vaccine. The vaccine was not preventing future infection as it claimed to, and was therefore essentially a worthless endeavor (Allen, 1988). Studies on the effectiveness of many other vaccines have also been done, and all they all seem to indicate that presence of antibodies induced by vaccination does not indicate foolproof protection against infection, re-infection, or disease, nor does it denote immunity. Under close scrutiny, the scientific principles behind immunization simply do not stand up.
             Another area of concern is vaccine manufacture. Many of the chemicals used in vaccine production are extremely toxic and are known carcinogens. For example, tests were run on thimersol, an organic mercury compound commonly used as a vaccine preservative. The results were astounding- the compound was shown to completely inhibit the action of the immune system's white blood cells.


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