The
Dangers of Smallpox Vaccination
Compiled by Gary Krasner
The public is now getting lots of medical propaganda about the
eradication of smallpox through vaccination. But in fact, the
consensus among leading medical historians that have studied the
question have maintained that the eradication of the zymotic, or
"filth" diseases, like cholera, dysentery, typhus, plague, in the
past that are popularly attributed to mass vaccination campaigns,
had actually been due to improvements in diet, hygiene, sanitary
measures, non-medical public health laws, and to a host of new
non-medical technologies, like refrigeration, faster transportation,
removing horse manure from cities, and the like (McKinlay,
1977; McKeown, 1979; Moberg & Cohen, 1991;
Oppenheimer, 1992; Dubos, 1959).
The CDC reported (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,
July 30, 1999, 48:621-628) that improvements in sanitation, water
quality, hygiene had been the most important factors in control of
infectious diseases in the past century. Although vaccines
were mentioned, they were not included among the major factors.
One of the conclusions in Thomas McKeown's seminal work, The
Modern Rise of Populations (1976, also endorsed by a
Lancet editorial, 2/1/75), was that the decline in mortality
in the 18th and 19th centuries was essentially due to the reduction
in deaths from infectious diseases, and that it was not the result
of immunizations. Similar studies by scholars John & Sonia
McKinlay (1977) shows that almost all the increase in human lifespan
since the year 1900 is due to reductions in infectious disease, with
medical intervention (of all kinds) accounting for only about 3
percent of that reduction. According to World Health
Statistics Annual, 1973-76, Vol.2, "there has been a steady
decline of infectious diseases in most developing countries
regardless of the percentage of immunizations administered in these
countries."
Before health agencies and schools of public health were
completely taken over by allopathic medicine, the great legacy of
the sanitary reformers -- Max von Penttenkofer, James T. Briggs, Dr.
John Snow, Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Southwood Smith
-- was that they were able to eradicate cholera, yellow fever,
tuberculosis, typhus, typhoid, scarlet fever, diptheria, whooping
cough, measles, and the bubonic plague long before vaccinations were
developed or routinely used.
Not only had poor sanitation and nutrition lain the foundation
for disease, it was also compulsory smallpox vaccination campaigns
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that played a major role
in decimating the populations of Japan (48,000 deaths), England
& Wales (44,840 deaths, after 97 percent of the population had
been vaccinated), Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, Holland,
Italy, India (3 million -- all vaccinated), Australia, Germany
(124,000 deaths), Prussia (69,000 deaths -- all re-vaccinated), and
the Philippines. The epidemics ended in cities where smallpox
vaccinations were either discontinued or never begun, and also after
sanitary reforms were instituted (most notably in Munich -- 1880,
Leicester -- 1878, Barcelona -- 1804, Alicante -- 1827, India --
1906, etc.).
In many nations, mortalities from smallpox hadn't begun to
decline until the citizenry revolted against compulsory smallpox
vaccination laws. For example, the town of Leicester from 1878
to 1898 stood in stark contrast to the rest of England, where
thousands were dying from the aggressive half-century-old government
mandatory immunization campaigns.
By 1907, the Vaccination Acts of England were repealed, with the
help of some of the world's preeminent scientists who had turned
staunchly against vaccination: Alfred Russell Wallace (one of
the founders of modern evolutionary biology and zoogeography, and
co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the Theory of Natural
Selection), Charles Creighton (Britain's most learned epidemiologist
and medical historian), William Farr (epidemiologist and medical
statistician, first to describe how seasonal epidemics rise and fall
-- known today as Farr's Law"), and the renowned Dr. Edgar M.
Crookshank, Professor of Bacteriology and Comparative Pathology in
King's College, London, and author of the scathing scientific
critique of vaccination, The History and Pathology of
Vaccination (1889). But before the law was amended in 1898
to include a conscientious exemption clause, an average of 2,000
parents per year were jailed and prosecuted-some repeatedly -- for
resisting vaccination. Large numbers went to prison in default
of paying fines. Hundreds had their homes and possessions
seized.
By 1919, England and Wales had become one of the least vaccinated
countries, and had only 28 deaths from smallpox, out of a population
of 37.8 million people. By contrast, during that same year,
out of a population of 10 million -- all triply vaccinated over the
prior 6 years -- the Philippine Islands registered 47,368 deaths
from smallpox. The epidemic came after the culmination of a
ruthless 15-year compulsory vaccination campaign by the U.S., in
which the native population -- young and old -- were forcibly
vaccinated (several times), literally against their will. In a
speech condemning the smallpox vaccine reprinted in the
Congressional Record of 12/21/37, William Howard Hay, M.D.
said, "... the Philippines suffered the worst attack of smallpox,
the worst epidemic three times over, that had ever occurred in the
history of the islands, and it was almost three times as
fatal. The death rate ran as high as 60 percent in certain
areas, where formerly it had been 10 and 15 percent." In the
province of Rizal, for example, smallpox mortalities increased from
an average 3 percent (before vaccination) to 67 percent during 1918
and 1919. All told, after 10 years (1911-1920) of a compulsory
U.S. program which administered 25 million vaccinations to the
Philippine population of 10 million, there had been 170,000 cases,
and more than 75,000 deaths from smallpox.
Inducing the public to clamor for smallpox vaccines for every
American will lead to a repeat of the aforementioned tragic
events. In many additional examples, cases the sickness,
injuries and deaths commonly attributed to the microbe were actually
due, wholly or in part, to the poisoning effects of vaccination
campaigns: from the worldwide influenza epidemic of 1918-19
that killed 20 million following the administration of anti-typhoid
inoculations, to the 1976 Swine flu "epidemic" (among hogs!) that
permanently crippled a "meager" few thousand Americans with
Guillain-Barré syndrome following an ill-advised national
vaccination program. Paralytic diseases have been recorded
hundreds of years ago. But epidemic numbers hadn't appeared
until the latter part of the 19th century, right after compulsory
smallpox vaccination was instituted.
The True History Of Smallpox
By Ian Sinclair
In England, compulsory vaccination against smallpox was first
introduced in 1852, yet in the period 1857 to 1859, a smallpox
epidemic killed 14,244 people. In 1863 to 1865, a second
epidemic claimed 20,059 lives. In 1867, a more stringent
compulsory vaccination law was passed and those who evaded
vaccination were prosecuted. After an intensive four-year
effort to vaccinate the entire population between the ages of 2 and
50, the Chief Medical Officer of England announced in May 1871 that
97.5 percent had been vaccinated. In the following year, 1872,
England experienced its worst-ever smallpox epidemic, which claimed
44,840 lives. Between 1871 and 1880, during the period of
compulsory vaccination, the death rate from smallpox leapt from 28
to 46 per 100,000 population.
Writing in the British Medical Journal (Jan. 21, 1928
p.116), Dr. L. Parry questioned the vaccination statistics, which
revealed a higher death rate amongst the vaccinated than the
unvaccinated, and asked the questions:
"How is it that smallpox is five times as likely to be fatal in
the vaccinated as in the unvaccinated? "How is it that in some
of our highest vaccinated towns -- for example, Bombay and Calcutta
-- smallpox is rife, whilst in some of our poorest vaccinated towns,
such as Leicester, it is almost unknown? How is it that
something like 80 percent of the cases admitted into the
Metropolitan Asylums Board smallpox hospitals have been vaccinated,
whilst only 20 percent have not been vaccinated?"
"How is it that in Germany -- the best vaccinated country in the
world -- there are more deaths in proportion to the population than
in England? For example, in 1919, there were 28 deaths in
England, 707 In Germany; in 1920, 30 deaths In England, 354 In
Germany. In Germany in 1919, there were 5,012 cases of
smallpox with 707 deaths; in England in 1925, there were 5,363
cases of smallpox, with 6 deaths. What is the
explanation?"
In Scotland, between 1855-1875, over 9,000 children under 5 died
of smallpox despite Scotland being, at that time, one of the most
vaccinated countries in the world. In 1907 to 1919, with only
a third of the children vaccinated, only 7 smallpox deaths were
recorded for children under 5 years of age.
In Germany, in the years 1870-1871, over 1,000,000 people had
smallpox, of which 120,000 died. 96 percent of these had been
vaccinated. An address sent to the governments of the various
German states from Bismarck, the Chancellor of Germany, contained
the following comment: "the hopes placed in the efficacy of the
cowpox virus as preventative of smallpox have proved entirely
deceptive."
In the Philippines, prior to U.S. takeover in 1905, case
mortality from smallpox was about 10%. In 1905, following the
commencement of systematic vaccination enforced by the U.S.
government, an epidemic occurred where the case mortality ranged
from 25% to 50% in different parts of the islands. In
1918-1919 with over 95 percent of the population vaccinated, the
worst epidemic in the Philippines’ history occurred resulting in a
case mortality of 65 percent. The highest percentage occurred
in the capital, Manila, the most thoroughly vaccinated place.
The lowest percentage occurred in Mindanao, the least vaccinated
place, owing to religious prejudices. Dr. V. de Jesus,
Director of Health, stated that the 1918-1919 smallpox epidemic
resulted in 60,855 deaths. The 1920 Report of the
Philippines Health Service contains the following indictment of
the vaccination campaign:
"From the time in which smallpox was practically eradicated in
the city of Manila, to the year 1918 (about 9 years) in which the
epidemic appears -- certainly in one of its severest forms --
hundreds after hundreds of thousands of people were yearly
vaccinated, with the most unfortunate result that the 1918 epidemic
looks, prima facie, as a flagrant failure of the classic
immunization towards future epidemics."
In Japan in 1885, 13 years after compulsory vaccination commenced
there in 1872, a law was passed requiring re-vaccination every seven
years. From 1886 to 1892, 25,474,370 revaccinations were
recorded in Japan. Yet during this same period, Japan had
156,175 cases of smallpox with 38,979 deaths, representing a case
mortality of nearly 25 percent. In 1896, the Japanese
Parliament passed another act requiring every Japanese resident to
be vaccinated and re-vaccinated every 5 years. Between 1889
and 1908, there were 171,611 smallpox cases with 47,919 deaths -- a
case mortality of 30 percent. This case mortality exceeds the
smallpox death-rate of the pre-vaccination period when nobody was
vaccinated. It is noteworthy that Australia at this time --
one of the least vaccinated countries in the world for smallpox --
had only three smallpox cases in 15 years, in comparison with
Japan's record of 165,775 cases and 28,979 deaths, in merely a
6-year period of compulsory vaccination and re-vaccination.
In an article, "Vaccination In Italy", which appeared In the
New York Medical Journal, July 1899, Chas. Rauta, Professor
of Hygiene and Material Medical in the University of Perguia, Italy,
wrote:
"Italy is one of the best vaccinated countries in the world, if
not the best of all. For twenty years before 1885, our nation
was vaccinated in the proportion of 98.5 percent.
Notwithstanding, the epidemics of smallpox that we have had have
been something so frightful that nothing before the invention of
vaccination could equal them. During 1887, we had 16,249
deaths from smallpox; in 1888, we had 18,110, and in 1889,
131,413."
"Vaccination is a monstrosity; a misbegotten offspring of
error and ignorance. It should have no place in either hygiene
or medicine. Believe not in vaccination; it is a
world-wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition
with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow without
end."
From his book, The Vaccination Superstition, J.W. Hodge,
M.D., ex-Public Vaccinator of Lockport, New York wrote:
"After a careful consideration of the history of vaccination
gleaned from an impartial and comprehensive study of vital
statistics, and pertinent data from every reliable source, and after
an experience derived from having vaccinated 31,000 subjects, I am
firmly convinced that vaccination cannot be shown to have any
logical relation to the diminution of cases of smallpox."
"Vaccination does not protect; it actually renders its
subjects more susceptible by depressing vital power and diminishing
natural resistance, and millions of people have died of smallpox
which they contracted after being vaccinated."
In the USA, June 25th, 1937, Dr. William Howard Hay addressed the
Medical Freedom Society regarding the Lemke Bill to abolish
compulsory vaccination. He stated:
"l have thought many times of all the insane things we have
advocated in medicine, that one of the most insane was to insist on
the vaccination of children, or anybody else, for the prevention of
smallpox when, as a matter of fact, we are never able to prove that
vaccination saved one man from smallpox."
"I know of one epidemic of smallpox comprising nine hundred and
some cases, in which 95 percent of the infected had been vaccinated,
and most of them recently."
"It is now thirty years since I have been confining myself to the
treatment of chronic disease. I have run across so many
histories of children who had never seen a sick day until they were
vaccinated, and who have never seen a well day since."
"In England, where statistics are kept a little more frankly and
accurately and above-board than in this country (USA), the actual
official records show three times as many deaths directly from
vaccinations, as there were from smallpox for the past twenty-one
years. I will guarantee that there are three times as many
deaths that were not recorded, that are directly traceable to
vaccinations. That doesn't take into account the many many
cases of encephalitis or sleeping sickness, and of this or that form
of degeneration, that occurs as the result of vaccination."
"It is nonsense to think that you can inject pus -- and it is
usually from the pustule end of the dead smallpox victim -- it is
unthinkable that you can inject that into a little child and in any
way improve its health. What is true of vaccination is exactly
as true of all forms of serum immunization, so called, if we could
by any means build up a natural resistance to disease through these
artificial means, I would applaud it to the echo, but we can't do
it."
"The body has its own methods of defense. These depend on
the vitality of the body at the time. If it is vital enough,
it will resist all infections; if it isn't vital enough, it
won't. And you can't change the vitality of the body for the
better by introducing poison of any kind into it."
According to the official figures of the Register General of
England, only 109 children (under 5) in England and Wales died of
smallpox in the twenty-three years ending December 1933. But
270 died of vaccinations in the same period in these two
countries. Between 1934 and 1961, not one smallpox death was
recorded, and yet during this same period, 115 children under 5
years of age died as a result of the smallpox vaccination.
This ultimately forced the government to repeal the Vaccination Act
for smallpox.
The situation was just as bad in the USA. An article in the
July 1969 issue of Prevention Magazine stated that 300
children in the USA died from the complications of smallpox vaccine
since 1948. Yet during that same period there was not one
reported case of smallpox in the country. In October 1971, Dr.
Samuel Katz, Duke University Medical Centre, speaking at the annual
meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said that an average
of six to nine individuals die each year from smallpox
vaccinations. Authorities eventually abandoned the vaccine as
Dr. Archie Kalokerinos of Australia points out:
"About 10 to 15 years ago, some of my colleagues in the United
States gave me some very interesting information. They said
that smallpox vaccination had been stopped, not because smallpox had
been wiped out, but because they were having trouble with the
vaccine. They would vaccinate an individual and that
individual would give active smallpox to a contact. The whole
thing was out of control and they weren't game to use it."
This is probably why Professor Ari Zuckerman, a member of the
World Health Organization's advisory panel on viruses has stated,
"Immunization against smallpox is more hazardous than the disease
itself." Even the British Medical Journal (1/5/1976)
stated: "It is now accepted that the risks of routine smallpox
vaccination outweigh those of natural infection in Britain."
"If humanity is to pass safely through its present crisis on
earth, it will be because a majority of individuals are now doing
their own thinking." -- Buckminster Fuller
Reproduced with permission from Vaccination: The
"Hidden" Facts by Ian Sinclair, 5 Ivy St, Ryde NSW 2112,
Australia. Ph (015) 294 817.
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