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Statement to the sub-committee on Criminal Justice, Drug
Policy and Human Rresouces of the committee on Government
Reform.
US. House of Representatives
Hepatitis B Vaccine: School Nurse Perspective
This is a school nursing perspective for the congressional
hearings on May 18, 1999 regarding the safety of hepatitis B
vaccine that is being mandated for newborns and now older
children in America.
Our Central District School Nurse Association asks you to
please consider the following information and submit it into
the congressional testimony. We continually see more and
more damaged children entering our schools, and are very
concerned that a major portion of that damage may be due to
the hepatitis B vaccine's assault on the newborn
neurological and immune system.
My name is Patti White, R.N. I am a registered professional
nurse and the district health services coordinator for a
multi-school district. I am writing on behalf of the school
nurses in our district. We have very grave concerns about
the hepatitis B vaccine.
For the past three or four years our school districts have
noted a significant increase in the number of children
entering school with developmental disorders, learning
disabilities, attention deficit disorders and/or serious
chronic illness such as diabetes, asthma and seizure
disorders. Each of the past four years has been worse than
the year before. There is only one common thread we have
been able to identify in these children: they are the
children who received the first trial hepatitis B injections
as newborns in the early 1990s.
As the hepatitis B compliance rate in newborns has gone up
in our community, so has the percentage of damaged children.
This is very alarming. Because of having so many damaged
children we have tried to find the long term clinical trials
that ruled this vaccine "safe and effective". We discovered
through an exhaustive Medline search that the FDA based its
decision to approve hepatitis B vaccine for administration
in the first hours of a newborn baby's life upon clinical
trials and upon post-marketing surveillance studies in which
patients and their doctors were asked to report any adverse
effects they noticed within 4-5 days after each injection [4
days for SmithKline and 5 days for Merck].
The problems being reported in increasing numbers as
occurring after hepatitis B vaccination appear to be
autoimmune and neurological in origin. Such problems take
weeks to months to produce noticeable symptoms, and cannot
be spotted in a 4-5 day observation period. These are the
only clinical studies that have been done by Merck or
SmithKline. There is not one long-term study that we could
find.
The CDC and FDA have no idea what the long term effects will
be on the newly developing neurological and immune systems
of the infants who are injected with this vaccine. They seem
to only be concerned with denying the connection between
these damaged children and the hepatitis B shot they
received within a few hours of birth. The CDC even admits
the lack of study and states they do not even know how long
the vaccine will be effective. We found this amazing since
the vaccine was developed for a population at risk for
hepatitis B: IV drug users, high risk medical professionals
and those who are involved in high risk sexual practices.
In 1950 (before mass immunizations began), the USA had the
third lowest infant mortality rate in the world. By 1986,
the USA dropped to 17th place. In 1995 the USA dropped to
23rd and now the USA has dropped to the appalling position
of 24th in the health of its children (but the USA is now
first in vaccine compliance through government mandates).
Does this make you nervous too?
The elementary grades are overwhelmed with children who have
symptoms of neurological and/or immune system damage:
epilepsy, seizure disorders, various kinds of palsies,
autism, mental retardation, learning disabilities,
juvenile-onset diabetes, asthma, vision /hearing loss, and a
multitude of new conduct/behavior disorders.
We have come to believe the hepatitis B vaccine is an
assault on a newborns developing neurological and immune
system. Vaccines are supposed to be making us healthier,
however, in twenty-five years of nursing I have never seen
so many damaged, sick kids. Something very, very wrong is
happening to our children. The census of ill children seen
in our health rooms each day has increased by 300% in only
four years. It had remained relatively constant in all the
years before.
In our last regional school nurse meeting we discussed
whether the combination of so many viruses at one time
(hepatitis B vaccine at the same time of the DPT, OPV or
MMR) is causing the infants immune system to be overwhelmed
and unable to mount a sufficient defense response. We are
advocating clinical studies to determine: Is the combination
of all these viruses at one time an assault on an infant's
immune and neurological system that increases the chances
for adverse reaction AND what are the long-term neurological
and immune system responses to these vaccines. We are all
continuing to research this issue and will be happy to share
the many resources we have found with you. I hope you will
do the same as you open up this issue.
We (nurses, principals and teachers) have talked many times
about the possible cause(s) of the continuing increase in
pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), such as autism.
From the literature we have found, we should expect a rate
for PDD of about 2-5 in 10,000. In our community the rate in
Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade is more like 1 in 150. The
teaching staff is overwhelmed.
As school nurses, we have had many parents calling and
asking how they can exempt their children from the hepatitis
B vaccination (HPB). Many of them have spent long hours in
study and research perplexed over this issue. For the past
six months we have been studying documents, books and
research articles published by internationally respected
doctors and scientists that cause us grave concern. You must
understand that we began this study to reassure our parents
and show them the truth about how safe vaccines are.
Unfortunately, our sincere, honest, dedicated study has
caused a complete reversal of our once strongly held
beliefs. Instead of being able to reassure the parents, we
have found ourselves being drawn deeper and deeper into this
unbelievable controversy over vaccines that is raging among
physicians, scientists, researchers, parents, and the
government. We pray you will have the courage to shine the
light on this controversy through these hepatitis B
hearings.
My daughter's own experience with the hepatitis B vaccine
made me much more open-minded to the information we have
been receiving from parents, teachers and other nurses in
our community. I personally have had to research this on my
own to determine if I have been enforcing a policy that is
actually harming more children than it will ever help. I
have spent countless hours reading books, vaccine-hearing
testimony, research papers, medical journal articles and
Internet web-sites from around the world. I did not come to
my decision easily or lightly, I assure you. Twenty-five
years of total belief in something does not shake that
easily.
I have repeated the well-rehearsed refrain "Be Wise;
Immunize" thousands of times during those years and
reassured countless parents that they were doing the right
thing by vaccinating their precious children . . . even the
ones who came to me with serious doubts and reservations. I
will now have to live with that.
We are all now faced with a moral dilemma: will we protect
the "sacred cow of conventional vaccine philosophy" or will
we stand up and speak out for the "health and well being of
innocent children"? We choose children. We wonder, which
will our government choose?
Because the hepatitis B vaccine was developed for those at
risk of disease, including IV drug users and sexually
promiscuous individuals, efforts to require administration
of the vaccine to most, if not all of the U.S. population is
very controversial. The increasing number of adverse
reaction reports connected with this vaccine exacerbates the
controversy. The controversy stems to a great extent from
our lack of understanding of the mechanisms of the immune
response to the hepatitis B surface antigen and lack of long
term follow-up of individuals who have received the vaccine.
In a January 27, 1999 press release, the National Vaccine
Information Center (NVIC) released figures which show that
the number of hepatitis B vaccine-associated serious adverse
event and death reports in American children under the age
of 14 outnumber the reported cases of hepatitis B disease.
During our research we discovered a copy of the grant
proposal submitted recently to the National Institute of
Health by Dr. B. S. Dunbar, who has worked in autoimmunity
and vaccine development for over twenty years and was
honored two years ago by the National Institute of Health.
Dr. Dunbar is working with a team of veteran vaccine
researchers from all over the world. Their grant is
requested for the purpose of studying the hypothesis that:
hepatitis B recombinant vaccine does cause adverse
autoimmune reactions in genetically susceptible individuals.
This study will also provide new insights into the
predictability of determining adverse side effects of the
hepatitis B vaccine in individuals at risk as related to
their histocompatability subtypes. Their study of
auto-immune diseases/symptoms caused by the hepatitis B
vaccine include: lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis,
vascular disorders, Guillain Barre syndrome, demyelinating
disorders such as optic neuritis (blindness), Bell's palsy,
demyelinating neuropathy (multiple developmental disorders),
multiple sclerosis, diabetes mellitus and chronic fatigue
syndrome to mention the most common.
This group of internationally respected vaccine researchers
headed up by Dr. Dunbar also point out that, "The studies
(for the approval of HPB) were not designed to assess
serious, rare adverse events; the total number of recipients
were too small; and the follow-up was too short to detect
rare or delayed, serious, adverse reactions." Finally they
point out that "overall the number of examples of adverse
neurologic outcomes following receipt of hepatitis B vaccine
are of concern, particularly those resulting in
demyelinating neurologic disease."
They continue, "In view of these observations. . . it is
medically crucial to evaluate the nature of the autoimmune
reactions (i.e. risks) associated with the hepatitis B
vaccine and to determine if individuals who will have these
adverse reactions can be identified in advance of receiving
the vaccine". There are critical questions that must be
addressed to establish the risk/benefit of the current
hepatitis B vaccines in the United States. These questions
are particularly important in view of recent mandates to
vaccinate all children including newborn infants."
You may read this grant proposal at:
http://webpages.netlink.co.nz/~ias/dunbar.htm
Many groups have called for a moratorium on hepatitis B
vaccination until some of these questions can be answered
adequately. The NVIC reported "Newborn babies are dying
shortly after their shots and their deaths are being written
off as sudden infant death syndrome. Parents should have the
right to give their informed consent to vaccination and
Congress should give emergency, priority funding to
independent scientists, who can take an unbiased look at
this vaccine, instead of leaving the search for truth in the
hands of government officials who have already decided to
force every child to get the vaccine". We agree completely.
The NVIC can be contacted at www.909shot.com for further
information.
In Dr. Coulter's book, "Vaccination, Social Violence, and
Criminality" the thesis is developed that the "sociopathic
personality" which has emerged on a mass scale in recent
decades, and which is responsible for a disproportionate
amount of crime and violence, is causally linked to the
childhood vaccination program. Vaccination frequently causes
encephalitis and neuropathy that in turn leads to these
post-encephalitic states and conditions. In his book, Dr.
Coulter presents a time line of increase in developmental
disability related to vaccine introduction that is indeed
frightening. Dr. Coulter believes about 20% of our children
are suffering from this neurological vaccine damage.
Our own school district's confidential health statistics
show at least 20% of our children (K-3) have significant
neurological damage and/or chronic illness. The last three
years have shown an acceleration in the numbers of children
who are entering our schools with these "developmental
disorders". (Could these be the same infants who received
the first trial doses of hepatitis B as only a few hour-old
newborns?) As school nurses, working with these damaged
children on a daily basis, we pray this is not true. If it
is, the ramification to this generation of children is
unthinkable!
Should we not pause, call for a moratorium on these poorly
tested, rapidly approved vaccines, and allow independent
American physicians and researchers to study them before
blindly injecting an experimental vaccine into an entire
generation? (We have found the only ones declaring the
vaccine's safety are the ones who are making millions of
dollars from its sales, whose employment depends on it or
the ones being supported by the drug companies vast number
of grants and fundings. The independent researchers seem to
be coming up with an entirely different report.)
Vaccine producers have nothing to lose since our U.S.
Congress has made them immune from responsibility or
liability for injuries caused from their vaccines. The push
is on for them to create more and more vaccines. There are
huge amounts of money being made by these people who no
longer worry about the consequences of their inadequate
clinical trials. The United States government has had to pay
out nearly a billion dollars in damages to families who can
prove their children have been damaged or killed by
vaccines, and there are thousands more cases pending.
We believe, as medical professionals, that we are doing a
great disservice to our country by forcing government
mandated vaccines on all children. Please research this and
we pray you have the courage to speak out and tell the
nation what you find.
Sincerely,
Patti White, RN
Missouri Central District School Nurse Association
rpwhitey@iland.net
07-13-00