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SOTT Focus: The Health & Wellness Show: Weekly Broadcast - 9 February 2015

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Syringe

Surprised? Whooping cough vaccine failing for many patients

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© Irfan Khan Los Angeles TimesStudents at Huntington Park high school get whooping cough shots on July 6, 2011.
As debate simmers nationwide about whether parents should be forced to vaccinate their children, Elk Grove residents have made their choice: Only 80 of the suburb's 4,500 kindergartners opted out of vaccinations last year, state data show.

Despite those precautions, whooping cough ripped through Elk Grove's classrooms and cul-de-sacs in 2014. Infection rates within the large Sacramento suburb were three to five times higher than rates elsewhere in the county, local health records show.


Comment: Precautions? Vaccines are not effective in preventing disease. In fact, they often lead to the spread of the very disease they are claimed to prevent. See: How vaccinated kids infect the non-vaccinated


The paradox - high infection rates amid high immunization rates - underscores a disturbing truth about the current whooping cough vaccine: It is wearing off after just a few years, and many Californians who thought they were protected instead are catching the disease.

"Children who were vaccinated did not receive the protection desired," said Kate McAuley, program coordinator of communicable disease and immunization at the Sacramento County Public Health Department. "We had many high-school-aged children who had pertussis. They had received vaccines. The vaccine is lasting two to three years."

Comment: It's not just that the pertussis vaccine is ineffective; vaccination itself is ineffective. For more information on how to make an informed decision on vaccination see: America: A Vaxxer-Nation?


Syringe

Best of the Web: How vaccinated kids infect the non-vaccinated

With the thousands of mainstream media articles blaming the non-vaccinated for disease outbreaks, this article will provide a necessary counterbalance by showing the vaccinated can (and do) infect the non-vaccinated...
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A groundbreaking study published in 2013 in the journal Vaccine titled, "Comparison of virus shedding after lived attenuated and ​pentavalent reassortant rotavirus vaccine," referenced the fact that rotavirus vaccines contain live viruses capable of causing infection, shedding and even transmission to non-vaccinated subjects:
"In fact, transmission of these two rotavirus vaccines or vaccine-reassortment strains to unvaccinated contacts has been detected [9 - 13][1], even in the absence of symptoms."
One of the five studies referenced in the passage above confirming that the vaccinated can infect the non-vaccinated, "Sibling transmission of vaccine-derived rotavirus (RotaTeq) associated with rotavirus gastroenteritis," published in 2009, is the first report in the literature to identify the transmission of rotavirus vaccine-derived virus to unvaccinated contacts resulting in symptomatic rotavirus gastroenteritis requiring emergency medical attention:
"We document here the occurrence of vaccine-derived rotavirus (RotaTeq [Merck and Co, Whitehouse Station, NJ]) transmission from a vaccinated infant to an older, unvaccinated sibling, resulting in symptomatic rotavirus gastroenteritis that required emergency department care."

Comment: For more vital information, see our SOTT focus Worshiping at the Altar of Pus: How putrid matter is the alpha and omega of vaccination.


Penis Pump

US military morale a bit flaccid - Pentagon spends $500k on Viagra for troops

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The US Department of Defense (DoD) spent $504,816 on the popular erectile dysfunction drug in 2014, according to government contracts cited by the Washington Free Beacon.

The DoD awarded 60 contracts for the drug to Ohio-based pharmaceutical distribution company Cardinal Health Inc. In 2013, the Pentagon spent some $425,000 to supply the pills to troops, a huge lurch from the previous year, when the Department spent a meager $8,000 on the drug.

In addition to Viagra, the Pentagon also ordered $3,505 worth of Levitra and $14,540 of Cialis, both male enhancement drugs. The contracts are filed under "troop support."

Viagra, which is covered by the military's health insurance policy, TRICARE, was first supplied to troops in 1998. The drug became an instant hit for Pfizer when it was authorized for sale in the US a year prior.

Black Cat 2

Pot for Pets: Helpful or harmful?

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Today I'm chatting with Dr. Rob Silver on the subject of medical marijuana for animal companions. Dr. Silver has been a veterinarian since 1982, and a holistic vet since 1987. He sold his practice in Boulder, Colorado, and is now working full-time educating other veterinarians on the advantages of holistic medicine.

Back in 1982, Dr. Silver was very excited to start using all the conventional medicine tools he'd acquired as a veterinary student, and initially he really enjoyed it. As he explains it, "I'm very scientifically based and I really believe that practicing in conventional medicine is a very important foundation for any kind of medicine you want to practice."

But after he'd been practicing awhile, he began to grow frustrated with the fact that many of his patients had chronic diseases and a variety of difficult-to-treat problems that didn't respond to the treatments and therapies he had learned in school. His frustration drove him to look for other ways to help his patients.


Whistle

William Thompson, CDC vaccine whistleblower, given immunity to testify

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Patrick Howley at The Daily Caller reports that William Thompson, CDC whistleblower, has been given immunity from prosecution, by the federal government, to testify before Congress about vaccine fraud at the CDC.

Cautionary note: so far, The Daily Caller is the sole source on this story.

On August 27, 2014, Thompson, a long-time researcher at the CDC, published a statement through his lawyer, Rick Morgan, admitting that he and colleagues at the CDC violated the protocol in a study on the MMR vaccine's connection to autism.

The study, which was published in the journal Pediatrics in 2004, exonerated the vaccine, when in fact the study omitted vital data on a group of black babies who showed an increased risk for autism after receiving the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine.

Since he released his August 27 statement, whistleblower Thompson has maintained silence and has refused to talk to reporters.

Comment: Read additional articles by Jon Rappoport about 'Medically Caused Death and Destruction':


Nuke

FDA approved additives in our food that are banned in other countries

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You have to ask why the United States still allows proven carcinogens to be added to our foods. Why they allow arsenic in chicken feed, and why it allows companies to lure in children with bright attractive packaging when they know those kids are going to be guzzling flame retardants.
Mountain Dew contains a chemical that also is used to prevent carpets from catching on fire
The list of food additives banned in other countries but still in use in the United States is a long one. Here are a few of the worst to whet your appetite...or not.

Azodicarbonamide is known to induce asthma, and has been banned in Australia, the U.K. and most other European countries. If you were to use it as a food ingredient in Singapore, you could face up to 15 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.

According to the FDA, Azodicarbonamide is 'approved to be a bleaching agent in cereal flour' and is 'permitted for direct addition to food for human consumption.'

Banned in most European countries, Australia, the UK...and Singapore.

Nice.

Beaker

Dr. Chris Shaw: Why Aluminum adjuvants should not be in vaccines

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After Thiomersal (mercury) in vaccines was linked to a number of human health ailments, it was removed from most vaccines that are administered today, but still remains a problem. It seems we might be on the same path when it comes to aluminum, as it has also been linked to several human health ailments such as; autism, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and more (as Dr. Shaw notes).

Below is a clip of Dr. Chris Shaw, a Neuroscientist and professor at the University of British Columbiaexplaining the dangers of putting aluminum into vaccines as an adjuvant. Keep that word in mind: adjuvant.

As pointed out in the video, a common argument from the "pro-vaccine" side when it comes to vaccines that contain aluminum is that aluminum is present everywhere, that we ingest it more from our food (and other things) than we do from vaccines. This argument is completely invalid, because when it is in the form of an adjuvant within a vaccine, as Dr. Shaw explains, the aluminum stays in your body. That's exactly what it's designed to do, that's the purpose of an adjuvant.

On the other hand, when you accumulate aluminum in your body from food, industrial practices, or any other source, our bodies usually do a good job flushing it out. Again, when it's in a vaccine the body does not do this, it stays in the body and this is why vaccines that contain aluminum (and other harmful toxins) should be a cause for concern.

Comment: Additional information on the negative health impacts of aluminum:


Alarm Clock

Corporate crimes and fines by Big Pharma: How they get away with it

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For all those who, in euphemistic terms, "drink the cool aide," there seems to be an indication that either they truly believe what's perpetrated upon them as pharmaceutical medical science or they are downright lost in fear and ignorance. That assessment includes brainwashed medical doctors and healthcare practitioners, who ought to know better, and "cease and desist" from taking Big Pharma's gratuities to push, hawk, or pimp Pharma's products - or else be subject to peer pressure and professional condemnation.

Big Pharma, as an industry, probably is one of the most sinister of criminals! That's quite a statement to make, but legal documents prove it. In 2012, the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark, issued and published the paper "Corporate crime in the pharmaceutical industry is common, serious and repetitive," which was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ 2012;345:e8462 - short version).

That paper was authored by Peter C. Gotzsche, Professor, MD, DrMedSc, MSc.

Comment: Also read Catherine J. Frompovich's article: Bribery, fraud and corruption charges against big pharma


Syringe

Advent of mandatory vaccines? Unvaccinated students now barred from a New Mexico public school district

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One of New Mexico's largest public school districts, spurred by a measles outbreak that has infected about 100 people in California, will start barring unvaccinated students from class unless they have a valid state exemption, the head of the school board said on Friday.

The move by the 14,000-student Santa Fe district came as legislators in California, Oregon and Washington state are considering laws to make it harder for parents legally to opt out of vaccinating school-aged children. Bills in several other states would loosen restrictions.

The Santa Fe district notified parents this week that any students who lack up-to-date vaccinations or bona fide state waivers for medical or religious grounds will be barred from class starting on Feb. 17, board President Steven Carrillo said.

District officials have not determined how many Santa Fe public school children are unvaccinated and how many have already obtained waivers. Some schools are known to be at 100 percent compliance, others at 60 percent, Carrillo said.

The board's action comes as New Mexico has documented a steady rise in the number of vaccine exemptions obtained by school-aged children during the past two years, up 17 percent from 2012 to 2014 to a total of 3,335 waivers.

Comment: Despite the hysteria surrounding the outbreak of measles, it is becoming clear that there is more danger from the vaccine itself than from actually catching the disease. Why then, are governments and the media ramping up the fear and trying so hard to convince everyone of the necessity of vaccination? Could it be that the cat is nearly out of the bag regarding both the dangers and the uselessness of vaccines? Is BigPharma worried that one of their cash cows might meet an untimely death, and thus are pulling out the big guns via their lobbyists and media shills?