Vaccine Police At Work in New York
by
Barbara Loe Fisher
We
are only a few days into the New Year and,
already, there is another situation brewing
where a militant approach is being taken by
state education and health officials threatening
parents that their children will be suspended
from school for failure to get vaccinated. On
Tuesday, Jan. 8, more than 100 middle school
students in Bellport, NY could be suspended from
school if they do not show proof that have
gotten a Tdap booster shot and chicken pox
vaccine, according to a Suffolk County Health
Department official. Reportedly, a mobile
medical unit is scheduled to come to the school
on Monday to inject students who don't show
proof they have gotten the vaccines.
Last November, the Vaccine Police in Maryland
brought out the dogs at a Prince Georges County
Courthouse to supervise lines of parents, who
had been ordered under threat of jail time and
fines to show up with their children to get the
children injected with chicken pox and hepatitis
B vaccines. That mass round-up generated
national news. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/1
1/17/maryland.vaccines/#cnnSTCVideo
Maryland education and health officials said
that the parents had not responded to letters
informing them that they were being charged
under state truancy laws because their children
had not been attending school after being
suspended for failing to show proof of
vaccination. But many of the parents said they
never received the letters or the schools failed
to keep proper records and lost the paperwork
showing their children had gotten all the
required vaccines. According to parents who
exited the Maryland Courthouse in November with
their children, there was no medical screening
of the children getting shots and no information
about how to monitor for vaccine reactions. http://vaccineawakening.blogsp
ot.com/search?q=police+with+dogs
It appears that the militant approach to
enforcing vaccine use is becoming very
fashionable among state education and health
officials, who are using it whether there is a
disease outbreak or not. The only way for the
people to counteract the nasty impulse of
government officials to flex their muscles
(sometimes with the help of dogs and guns) is to
let government and elected officials know that
intimidation, coercion and other strong-arm
tactics are not an acceptable form of persuasion
in America when it comes to vaccination.
The right to informed consent to use of any
pharmaceutical product, including vaccines,
becomes a human right when that pharmaceutical
product can injure or kill. Defending the human
right to informed consent to vaccine use is
worth standing up for in every state.
The parents in New York are being threatened
that their children will be suspended for
failure to get a Tdap booster or chicken pox
vaccine today. But tomorrow, these parents could
well be summoned to a New York County Courthouse
with their children under the threat of jail
time and fines like the parents in Maryland were
in November.
Parents should be given full information about
the benefits and risks of Tdap and chicken pox
vaccines and full information about the right to
file a medical or religious exemption to
vaccination in accordance with New York laws.
Hopefully, the mobile unit medical personnel
scheduled to vaccinate the children on-site at
schools on Monday will screen the children for
personal and medical histories and previous
vaccine reactions, especially to the
"P" part of the Tdap shot.
The pertussis (whooping cough) portion of the
DPT, DTaP and Tdap vaccines has long been
associated with neurological reactions such as
brain inflammation, convulsions, shock/collapse,
and high pitched screaming. Children who have
had serious reactions to previous vaccinations
containing pertussis vaccine could have more
serious reactions if more pertussis vaccine is
given. The same warnings, precautions and
contraindications which apply to DPT, DTaP, DT
or TD vaccines, apply to receipt of Tdap
vaccine:
· moderate or severe illness on day of
vaccination
· anaphylaxis (shock) or life threatening
allergic reaction after previous doses of DPT,
DtaP, DT or TD vaccine
· encephalopathy (coma, decreased level of
consciousness, prolonged seizure) within 7 days
of administration of a previous dose of
pertussis containing vaccine
· evolving central nervous system (CNS)
disorder, uncontrolled epilepsy, progressive
encephalopathy
· Seizures with or without fever within 72
hours of a previous dose of pertussis containing
vaccine
· temperature over 105 F. within 48 hours of a
previous dose of pertussis containing vaccine
· collapse or shock-like state within 48 hours
of a previous dose of pertussis containing
vaccine
· uncontrollable crying lasting more than 3
hours within 48 hours of a previous dose of
pertussis containing vaccine
· Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) within 6 weeks
of vaccination
· Serious Arthus-type hypersensitivity reaction
after previous receipt of a tetanus containing
vaccine
· serious latex allergy
· severe swelling or severe pain after previous
doses of any vaccine containing tetanus,
diphtheria or pertussis vaccine
An autism advocacy organization, A-CHAMP
(Advocates for Children's Health Affected by
Mercury Poisoning), has issued an Action Alert
advising New York citizens to call Suffolk
County and state education officials to express
concern. http://capwiz.com/a-
champ/issues/alert/?alertid=10740641
New York residents concerned about the right to
make informed, voluntary decisions about
vaccination should contact their elected
representatives and make their voices heard. All
elected officials in America at the state and
federal level should be made aware that militant
enforcement of public health policy which
requires pharmaceutical product use, including
forced vaccine use, violates the ethical
principle of informed consent and will not be
tolerated.
National
Vaccine Information Center
NVIC
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Barbara Loe Fisher, President
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