I hope I have been clear in my points and I hope their significance will resonate with my readers, but the vaccine issue is so complicated and controversial that surely I won’t be able to reach everybody. Here I will present vaccine injury stories that transcend any debate on policy or research. I hope that keeping the stories these tragedies alive will prevent us from taking the risks of vaccination for granted.
Bear in mind, these stories are painful to tell, and many readers will find them difficult to read.
Vaccine Injury Stories
Twelve year old James Severn suffered from arthritis four weeks after vaccination12. This former football player had swollen knees and was unable to walk, and he was later diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder, IgA nephropathy, an incurable condition that slowly destroys the kidney12.
George Corrigan was diagnosed with“idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura,” or ITP, at the age of one12. ITP is a disease where victims bleed easily and bruise excessively, and the cause is unknown12. Here’s how his mother tells the story: “On Christmas Day, 10 days after he had the MMR, I found his nappy fully of blood. His nose then started bleeding. The roof his mouth was dark mauve. His skin was covered in spots. It was really frightening. He was 2 weeks in the hospital and still is not fully recovered”12.
A six year old girl in Colorado given a flu vaccine in January 2008 and almost immediately “became weak with multiple episodes of falling to the ground”7. She battled over the next few months, weak, feverish, acting “as if drunk,” requiring surgery, and ultimately passing away on April 5th, 20087.
Nine year old Hannah Poling became autistic after receiving numerous vaccinations in 20087.
One month after rubella vaccination, Francis Hamlys came down with what is a known side effect of the vaccine, juvenile arthritis12. Now, Francis can hardly walk, and can no longer play the trombone he formerly played12.
David Powell, five, also developed juvenile arthritis subsequent to a rubella vaccination12. He is currently in remission, but has spent many nights screaming in agony from the pain of his condition12. The disease could return any time.
Alan Yurko was released in 2004 after serving six years in prison on the charge of murdering his son of the same name in a case of “shaken baby syndrome”28. Numerous medical doctors, reviewing the case, have concluded that the death came in reaction to a DTaP vaccine the boy received at the age of two months28. The vaccine, severe vitamin and mineral deficiencies, and an overdose of the drug Heparin all may be implicated28. This story was featured in the journal of the International Chiropractical Association in 200028.
These are just a few of many sad stories. There are dozens more to be found at the International Memorial for Vaccine Victims at http://www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Memorial.aspx.
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At 5am on Wednesday April the 20th my two week old daughter began gasping for air. MY wife and I frantically attempted to get her to cough and breath better, but it was not working. I grabbed my little girl and jumped into our car and drove to the hospital. I was driving and holding her trying to keep her crying so I would know she was breathing. She continued to struggle and then felt limp. She didn’t cry. I squeezed her. She didn’t cry. There was a policeman in a patrol car at a stop light. I rolled my window down and screamed at him, “she’s not breathing I needed to get to the hospital!!” He turned on his lights and we sped to the hospital emergency room. Thank God, she is fine now.
The reason I wanted to tell this story is so you could feel some of the fear that my wife and I felt.
Two weeks before this happened my daughter was born. She was perfect. She was Beautiful. In less than two hours of being born the Ottumwa Regional Health Center took our rights as parents to protect our daughter away from us.
My wife and I signed a form stating that we did not want a Hepatitis B vaccine given to our newborn daughter. It was indicated to us that they would honor that. They did not, she was born at 8:15am and at
10:00am she was given the shot. I was told that the Pediatrician thought that all children should be given the vaccine. Apparently she was not aware of the medical research that is being done, possibly linking the
vaccine to sudden infant death syndrome and autism.
Most importantly, the risk factors for having an adverse reaction to the vaccine are 100 times greater than ever contracting the disease. They infected my daughter with something that primarily only IV drug users
and prostitutes get.
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