Prior to reading this book I believed that vaccines were one of the best medical advances in modern times. I was interested in gaining a different perspective on vaccines to see what the other side had to offer. Most of the information on the CDC website basically just states how great vaccines are and how the benefits outweigh any perceived risks. Reading this book has shown me that the science is much more complicated than that. Let me give you a few facts taken from this book that will make you wonder about the validity of mandatory vaccines for children.
1. Epidemics such as polio, measles, mumps, and whooping cough were in great decline (as much as 90%) far before any vaccines were ever developed for these diseases. In fact, many diseases have been eradicated to which modern medicine has never developed any vaccines for such as, scarlet fever and the plague. The most important reason for the decline in disease is not vaccination, but advances in sanitation, hygiene and better nutrition.
2. Many of the diseases we vaccinate for are typically mild childhood diseases that the immune system can fight off if given proper nutrition. Many people fight off disease with few symptoms. For example, fewer than 1% of those exposed to polio ever develop symptoms.
3. Vaccines are not even close to being as effective as I had previously believed. There are many documented cases of diseases like whooping cough and measles breaking out in Counties across the US where as many as 98% of children have been vaccinated according to schedule. Also, vaccines do not necessarily protect against a person being a carrier of the disease. Pertussis was found in throat swabs of many who had been vaccinated, yet did not show symptoms of disease. Far from creating herd immunity, these vaccinated people could have been inadvertently spreading the disease.
5. Vaccines do not provide lifetime immunity like actually getting the actual disease does. You will need constant boosters throughout your adult life if you believe the reason you are healthy is because you were vaccinated. Also, just because a person develops antibodies against disease does not necessarily confer immunity. There are many documented cases of people with high antibody titers yet still contracting the disease. Immunity is more than just developing antibodies, there is something more to immunity that modern medicine hasn't been able figure out yet. Contract a disease and you get immunity for life, vaccinate and maybe get immunity for a short time, or you may even become more susceptible to contracting the disease, an immunologic process known as "original antigenic sin".
6. The adverse effects of vaccines are real and need a more thorough examination. In 1986 the US Government created a program to help compensate victims of vaccine reactions known as the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The program has become a joke that rarely compensates individuals and takes away liability from vaccine manufacturers. The author shares one story of a man's infant daughter who died within hours of receiving the Hep B vaccine. She swelled up and had an obvious reaction to the vaccine. The tragedy is that his daughter was vaccinated against an illness to which his she had nearly zero chance of coming in contact with. Hep B is transmitted through needles and sexual intercourse. Does anyone think a newborn would need to take a risk of having a reaction to be protected against such a disease?
This book challenged me to think in new ways about vaccines and disease in general. The body is a complex, dynamic system, and simply attempting to "trick" the body into developing immunity with no unintended consequences now seems to me rather base and naive. I continue to learn that there is rarely such a thing in life as a free lunch and vaccines seem to be no exception.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2015
Dr. Tetyana Obukhanych is an immunologist. Despite her PhD credentials from Rockefeller Univ in NYC, and post-doctoral credentials from Harvard and Stanford, she speaks very clearly, even lucidly to the everyday reader. Admittedly, she states that immunology is an ". . . ivory tower" discipline, but she moves beyond that candid and honest statement, by showing HOW the 21st century populace became "married" to the concept of Vaccines, and then shows the fallacy in the concept, itself, and the inability of the concept to produce on its own promises. This is because of Primary and Secondary Vaccine failure, and the inherent ingredients which pose a Genuine Threat to the Life and Health of vaccine recipients of the 21st century.Additiionally, in this 50+pp brief tome, Dr Tetyana shows the failure of Vaccine Immunity v. Natural Immunity, and the inherent dangers which come with the CURRENT Vaccine Schedule: the Mercury [as a preservative] in many vaccines [especially Flu vaccines]. One thing the reader notices about Dr. Tetyana is that like Dr. Andy Wakefield (UK), Dr. Russell Blaylock (Ret. Pediatric Neuro-Surgeon), Dr. Suzanne Humphries, and Dr. Kelly Brogan (NYC physician), is that THESE academicians are ASKING Questions. Dr. Tetyana wants Truth to prevail, especially when an adult or child's life and health are at stake.Dr. Tetyana advocates FULLY-INFORMED CONSENT on the part of parents, especially and by patients in general. Much of the mainstream Medical Community and Mainline-Media BALK at much of what Dr. Tetyana advocates in this book, but of course they have good reason: PROFITS. Like few physicians and PhDs, Dr. Tetyana is honest and money is never FIRST, as it tends to be the case among the majority within the Gargantuan Pharmaceutical field. The pharmaceutical field is a morass where Clarity of Information has become increasingly obfuscated and even esoteric.Point: This book is not for those who want to feel GOOD about the current state of medical-affairs within the USA-Medical Community. This book is for those COURAGEOUS Readers who want the Truth ... the unvarnished, honest and Naked Truth. Sad to say, most people do not want to be Confused by the FACTS. Accordingly, this book is NOT for them.I LIKE this book because there are still SOME good physicians and academicians who want TRUTH at all costs, and CARE about their patients more than ACCOLADES and PROFITS. This book will appeal for those who want CANDOUR and Helpful, but sometimes disturbing Data about the Medical World in the West, as it currently stands. Dr. Tetyana is on the patient's side, on the Parents' side, and especially on the children's side. This book exudes Honesty, which is refreshing, and real honesty gets Specific, which was her motive all along.
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2015
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