The Role of Osteopaths and their support of Immunisation

A response to Mr. Podmore 1999 BOJ
Mr. Philip Aarons BSc(Ost) M.R.O A.COH Clinic Tutor BSO and Lecturer in Historical Perspectives of Medicine. BSO

Abstract
Mr. Will Podmore recently published a paper on immunisation and the osteopathic role, which I feel not only  misses the point of Osteopathy but threatens to sway the ignorant to promote unfounded truths. In this article I intend to put forward some information that not only gives a slightly different angle on health care, but lays to ground the fear that by not vaccinating one is inducing children to a life of exclusion and potential illness. Indeed I hope to show the opposite to be true. Lastly it should be noted that the Osteopathic profession is in an envious position of non pharmaceutical education giving it the ability to seek and publish information without sponsorship from drug companies.

The history of vaccination dates back to the late eighteenth and nineteenth century when Edward Jenner noticed that those dairy maids with cow pox seemed secure from the infection of smallpox. It is quoted that in 1796 one fifth of all deaths were caused by smallpox and smallpox is probably the most well known example of the “success” of immunisation. In 1796 Jenner took some fluid from a cowpox pustule and gave it to a healthy young boy who was later inoculated with matter from a small pox wound. No disease followed. Vaccination (Vacca from the Latin cow) became known. It is time to examine his true achievement. There were no accurate records kept before the eighteenth and earlier centuries. Looking at the graph (1) one can see that by 1910 there were few deaths within the British Isles. The peak of smallpox occurred after compulsory vaccination enforcement in 1872-1887. There was an objection clause to forced vaccination and more and more parents were making the decision not to immunise. (McKeown). By 1910 the disease had almost disappeared but it was not until 1971 that immunisation was no longer enforced.

It is hard to determine what effect the vaccine had although examination of the graph is not in its favour. It is worth wondering in retrospect weather the vaccine was as much of a success as we were led to believe. What is also worth considering is from this one experiment of questionable accomplishment a chain reaction occurred that to this day appears unstoppable.





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Graph 1.
Louis Pasteur (1822-95) while working to help the French preserve their wine, later isolated many bacteria which he thought caused particular diseases and as a result later science got "serums" (extracts from the blood of a person with a particular disease), which would be used for vaccinations.
In 1888 the Pasture Institute was built in his honour and one of his first pupils was Robert Koch, the bacteriologist who isolated tuberculosis, anthrax and cholera . These were indeed wonderful experiments and amazing breakthroughs, but on inspection of decreased disease statistics their relevance to public health seem doubtful. What do the public now spend on “amazing breakthroughs ?”

In the year 1950 the National Health Service expenditure was 300 million pounds, by 1994 this figure had increased to 35000 million pounds. Four billion of which were on drugs alone. (BAVA 1996) This figure is seven times monetary inflation. Is this acceptable or even expected in these times of continuing medical advancement ? What would Mr. Andrew Taylor Still say about this ? I would hope he would chuckle to himself and chuckle at our ignorance. As a profession we should be asking questions why the drug bill is so high. Mr Podmore our chief librarian points out vaccines are "Osteopathically acceptable," and in this he opens a debate. Let us as Osteopaths be aware of our principles and what we build our practices on be aware of the facts, and only then decide.

The fact is infectious diseases had decreased steadily for decades before mass immunisation occurred, see graphs 1-5. (McKeown 79)(Overall 1996) Historically, childhood diseases decreased by 90% from 1850-1940 associated with an increase in hygiene and sanitation. Mortality of measles decreased by 97%, tubuculosis by 90% all before the vaccination programme was introduced. Further more the Netherlands, where there had never been a BCG vaccination programme, the death rate for respiratory tuberculosis was the lowest in any European country. Graph (5.1) Death rate from Whooping cough decreased by 82% by 1860.(Chaitow) Polio in Great Britain peaked in 1950 but had decreased by 82% by 1956.

The vaccine was introduced in 1956. The World Health Organisation (WHO) agrees and reports disease and mortality in the third world countries have no direct correlation with immunisation procedure or medical treatment, but associated with standards of diet and hygiene.

The fact is, fully vaccinated populations have experienced epidemics. Measles, mumps and rubella have all occurred in vaccinated populations.(Briss et al)(Yaun). A report in the May 1996 Clinical  Immunology and Immunopathology points out the measles vaccination "produces immune suppression which contributes to an increased susceptibility to other infections.”

So is immunisation counterproductive ? 72% of pertussis cases in 1993 in Chicago were fully up to date with their vaccinations.(Chicago Dept Health). The New England Journal of Medicine reports in March 1987 that the 1986 outbreak of measles in Corpus Christi, Texas, showed 99 % of children were vaccinated. In 1989, the country of Oman experienced a wide spread polio outbreak six months after achieving complete vaccination (98%) It  should be noted that Oman had "a model vaccination programme" and the poliomyelitis spread in "rural and sparsely populated areas"(Sutter et al)  In 1986 90% of the 1300 pertussis cases in Kansas were " adequately vaccinated". The list could go on.

Researchers attribute dozens of immunological and neurological conditions to mass immunisations. Thousands of serious vaccine reactions are reported each year. The Food and Drug Administration Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System (F.D.A`s VAERS) receives about 11000 serious adverse reactions to vaccines a year. 1% are deaths(Scheibner). Most are linked to pertussis (whooping cough vaccine). However the F.D.A estimates only 10 % of cases are reported.

This figure is supported by the National  Vaccine Information Centre. A study revealed 1 in 175 children who completed the full diphtheria, pertussis tetanus  series suffered "severe reactions" and one G.P`s report for an attorney stated that 1 in 300 DPT immunisations results in a seizure.(Fresno) Dr Anthony  Morris reports seizures increase three times above the norm within the first day a child receives a DPT shot and 2.7 times within four to seven days of the triple measles mumps and rubella shot. The implications are there may be over 1000 children dying each year from vaccination in the USA. Let us not be fooled by death, we as Osteopaths should be worried about the grey areas as well. Research continually points to the body acting as a whole,(the basis of Osteopathy), close associations between the brain, nervous system and immune cell receptors are now fact. Remember treating one part of the body effects the rest. If a vaccine can injure the immune system it is likely to disturb the brain and nervous system as well.

The British government showed that both diptheria-tetenus-pertussis (DPT) and measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccines can increase the risk of an epileptic seizure five times (Couldwell). Research by H. Coulter Ph.D explains " immunisation may be causing a low grade encephalitis in well over 15 % of the population". The sequel could be causing neuro-behavorial problems (Coulter). There are other effects ranging from sleeping disorders to seizures, sexual disorders to obesity, impulsive violence, muscular weakness and asthma (Mendelsohn). A German study found correlation`s between vaccinations and 22 neurological conditions including attention deficiency and epilepsy. It is surprising the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA ) reports diptheria,pertussis and tetanus vaccine (DPT) does not increase neurological illnesses after vaccination when followed up for seven days. One more study, by the British National Children Encephalitic Society in 1983 did show a connection between acute reactions and Whooping cough vaccine interestingly within seven days. This study led to a follow up, ten years later which was published by The British Medical Journal 1993 (Miller et al) concluding children who suffer an acute reaction to vaccines may suffer permanent neurological damage in later life, a causal link was defiantly found between DTP and acute encepalopathy..  The link is too huge for even the doubters to ignore.

Financially the US Federal Government National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) has paid out over $650.6 million to parents of injured children since it was set up, which works out at $90 million per year (BAVA) The pharmaceutical industry have helped make it legally mandatory in over fifty US States to have vaccinations and have "gag orders" to prevent information leaking from court cases to the public. It is of note that insurance companies now refuse to cover vaccine adverse reactions. If it is as safe as the drug companies inform us or Mr. Podmores article implies why isn`t it an acceptable insurance risk ?


National and International studies have shown vaccination to be a cause of SIDS (Sudden Infant death Syndrome). Vera Scheibernova  Ph.D., in her book `Vaccinations 100 years of Orthodox Research` reports that half of all SIDS are caused by vaccines (2500- 5000 a year). Dr Torch found two thirds of cot deaths were babies who had been vaccinated hours, days or weeks before their death.(Torch)

In 1975, Japan who has the lowest mortality rate in the world, increased their age of vaccination to two years old and found SIDS (Sudden infant death syndrome) fell dramatically.  Fine and Chen (1992) reports in the American Journal of Epidermology, a plethora of research that surrounds these cases.

Osteopathically we are unlikely to spend a lot of time dealing with the most severe cases but what is our patients history. In Britain there has been a 46 % increase in nation-wide deaths from asthma between 1977 - 1991. Common ear, nose and throat infections are increased. A lot of children have had or are taking antibiotics. Myalgic Encephamyelitis (M.E) and Auto immune diseases are increasing. Something is crippling our immune system.
When a child is born he or she has an immature and underdeveloped system which does not become fully operational until they are 12 years old. Maturity requires a series of natural infections and one Paediatric text suggests this is one every six weeks, often not shown as external illnesses(Mercola)

Vaccines are not as well spaced as once every six weeks. They are mostly given all within a few months and injected, thus bypassing the bodies natural mucosal immune system as well as the respiratory and gastrointestinal system. This immediate strain, uncushioned on the delicate human form, can lead to over stimulation and thus leave it open to possible other infections (McTaggart). Viral vaccines decrease cellular immunity which serve as the bodies first line of defence. In the tetanus vaccine four out of eleven volunteers were found to have their T Helper lymphocytes temporary cells dropping to levels seen in active AIDS patients. (Mercola).
This was in adults, imagine what harm it could do on a baby and its tiny system. Every Osteopath knows we can over treat as well as under treat and this basic principle again supports non immunisation. One famous Osteopathic phrase is "Find it, Fix it and LEAVE IT ALONE." The Osteopath is supposed to ask what is there to fix before we agree try to fix it. Is it possible that we are arrogant enough to say the bodies natural immune system needs fixing before it is even formed ? Other questions that need asking is what a live virus vaccine is and how is it made ?

Live virus vaccines are incubated in e.g. monkey kidneys (oral polio), or  in chick embryos (Measles, mumps and rubella). These purely genetic material can " gene jump" i.e. incorporate genes from the host. It is possible that these `new` genes later introduce themselves into children. The question stands, could this effect their immunity ?

I cannot dispute that serum / immunisation stimulate antibody production. But one could argue that this does not constitute immunity. The British Medical Council (BMC)  in 1950 during a diphtheria epidemic concluded there was no relationship between antibody count and disease incidence. A Minnesota state epidemiologist concluded that the Hib vaccine increased the risk of illness as a vaccinated children was five times more likely to contract meningitis then non vaccinated children. The Centre of Disease Control (CDC) adds, measles now seems to be a disease of immunised people. McTaggart (1991) furthermore points out that measles, mumps and rubella used to be called minor childhood diseases,  so what are we worried about ? I would now like to take individual vaccines and use them to exemplify the point.

Whooping Cough
The death rate for whooping cough has declined in England and Wales since the 1870’s.  Mortality had fallen to a low level before immunisation. The notification of disease shows an increase about the time of the war but a steady fall from the 1950’s.

The immunisation was available from that time but it is not certain when it was used extensively. In Germany where the incidence of notification also decreased in the1950’s immunisation was not used nationally. The graphs show that both mortality and notification were decreasing before the vaccine. see graph 2 below.  Like most other diseases it is benign and self limiting.







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Graph 2
World-wide 600,000 deaths occur annually and this figure is strongly used by the Public health service to promote vaccination. Little is said that Sweden who has the second lowest mortality rate in the world banned the vaccine in 1979. In 1970 after a ten year absence of the disease and despite 84 % of children being fully vaccinated pertussis returned (Trollfors). The effect was enough to lead the government to ban the drug. Although the cases of the disease has risen the death toll has fallen and it is now considered a mild illness. The CDC statistics for pertussis in 1992-1994 indicate a 99.8 % recovery rate. Dr Dudley Jenkinson studied 500 Patients between 1977-1992 who had been diagnosed with whooping cough. Reactions varied, 250 suffered vomiting, 242 had whoops during their cough. 5 developed pneumonia and 3 were admitted to hospital. He concluded only rarely does it become serious.

Professor Steward who led the research team on this vaccine concluded the risk of developing permanent damage as a result of whooping cough was 1in 38000, compared to the risk of brain damage after a jab 1 in 25000.(Stewart).

Professor Stewart also reports a third to a half of all children in Canada who had caught whooping cough between 1974-1978 had been vaccinated. In the U.K a drop in pertussis death occurred when vaccinations dropped from 80 - 30 % in the mid seventies. Petussis vaccine is supposed to prevent whooping cough.!

The effectiveness of the Whopping cough vaccine is supposed to be 40 -45 % (Halperin). The side effects are glue ear, pain, diarrhoea, brain damage and seizures. The making of the virus combines it with diphtheria and tetanus in a stable formaldehyde. It is of note that the poisons information centre in Australia says there are no safe limits of formaldehyde, a known carcinogenic. The mixture is combined  with Thimerosal a mercury derivative (also a poison) and this is injected directly into the blood.

A survey in the Journal of American Medical Association reports children receiving pertussis vaccinations are six times more likely to develop asthma than those not vaccinated (Mercola). Note that a six time increase of chance for an atopic disease occurs with the pertussis vaccine without the benefit of increasing your resistance to whooping cough.

Measles
Excluding the timing, the history of measles is somewhat similar to whooping cough. The death rate has fallen considerable from the early twentieth century. Treatment was available from 1935 and mortality was at a low rate before immunisation. Notification of the disease was also decreasing and by 1960 was declining rapidly. (See graphs 3-4 below) It was not until mid 1968 that vaccination was employed nationally and less than a quarter of children were immunised by the end of 1972. The questions a natural health practitioner should ask is “What than did the immunisation programme do and why was it implemented.” 

In 1994 a measles epidemic was supposed to hit the UK, despite already having implemented a nation-wide vaccine campaign years before incorparating a triple jab of measles mumps and rubella (MMR).  Twenty million pounds were spent on an immunisation campaign. Edwina Currie talking of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in October 1988 said, “ life long protection against all three infections with a single jab”
Three hundred children are now claiming permanent damage and 80 parents are seeking legal aid. Five hundred and thirty yellow card warning slips from G.P’s were sent to the adverse reaction centre. Is that a life time of protection.?

The government admitted that jabs previous to 1994 of Measles, mumps and rubella caused meningitis in 1 in 11000 children. The Lancet reports in June 94 that one in 34000 will develop thrombocypto purpura. In Japan however it caused meningitis in 1 in 500 (Kohjiu et al).

The British Government withdraw two versions of the measles jabs in England (also containing the Urabe mumps strain) after this association. This is18 months later than Canada but welcomed none the less. SmithKline Beecham the manufactories continued producing the vaccines adding that in areas where no alternative mumps vaccine was available the immunisation programme should continue. In other words, in some countries it was considered better to inject a known danger into a baby rather than let the child obtain a relative benign illness. (McTaggart 1996).
A WHO study of measles reported that vaccinated children were more likely to develop measles than the non vaccinated. The CDC reported in 1985-86 more than three quarters of all measles cases occurred in those who had been properly vaccinated. All the vaccine can claim to do, bar its horrific side effects, is transform what was once an exclusive childhood illness into an adult one.

Pre vaccine 90% of measles sufferers were five to nine years old. Since the vaccine 55-64% are over ten. About half the measles cases in the mid 80`s were adolescents and adults most of whom were vaccinated as children (McTaggart). Boosters may protect for less than six month (Mercola).















Graphs 3-4
Research has also shown in African children, that those that have had measles naturally tend to suffer less allergic reactions e.g.. eczema, asthma and hay fever. Thoughts are that measles may provide natural de-sensitisation against atopy. This could link with the pertussis vaccine as well. Southampton General Hospital studied 162 children from Guinea Bissau. All had measles;. 12 % were atopic compared to 16 % of another group who had the Measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.(McTaggart 96) The side effects of measles vaccines include deterioration of muscle control, learning difficulties, Guillain Barre syndrome and juvenile diabetes. 
Since 1968 when the vaccine was introduced, Scotland has seen a three fold increase in children`s Crohn`s (Thompson et al).
In Great Britain Crohn`s disease has increased, especially noticeable in East Indian children who have had the Measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.

The Lancet reports the susceptibility of Crohn`s Disease increases three times and the likelihood of developing Ulcerative Colitis by  two and a half times.

The new chickenpox vaccine has an effect for 6-10 years. If effective it would postpone the child`s vulnerability until adulthood and than death rates increase by 20 times.

Polio
In 1962 Dr Bernard Greenberg head of the Dept. of Biosatistics for the North Carolina Public Health testified that not only did polio increase after mandatory vaccination (from 50% increase in 1957-58, 80% increase between 1958-1959) but the statistics were manipulated by the Public Health service to give the opposite impression (BAVA 96). In 1976 John Salk inventor of the IPV testified before a Senate subcommittee that the " Live Virus" polio vaccine was " The principle if the sole cause of all reported polio cases in America since 1961" Are these the people you thought you could trust ?

In 1976, Brazil, the polio Vaccination " unleashed the severest polio epidemic the world had ever known"(Reush). Six new England states reported increases in polio after the Salk vaccine was introduced. Vermont doubled its cases and Massachusetts increased by 642%. In 1959 77.5% of Massachysetts paralytic cases had received three doses of IPV (Injected Polio Vaccine). Chinese Paralytic Syndrome strikes young children and adults and is often diagnosed as Guillain Barre syndrome, it is thought to be a variation of polio. Previous to the introduction of polio vaccine in China the number of cases of polio was high and the number of cases of Guillain Barre was low. After 1971 polio decreased and Guillain Barre increased by ten times. Statistically a three fold decrease of polio diagnosis has led to a three fold increase of Guillain Barre diagnosis. (McTaggart 95).

Dr Wyatt at the University of Manchester points out multiple injections may be responsible for 25% of paralysis during epidemics of polio and make children 25% more susceptible to the disease during non epidemic periods.
He says a single injection increases the risk of paralysis five times and could turn a non paralytic attack to a paralytic one. Between 1923 -1953 polio dropped by 55 % in the UK. Within one year of mass vaccination in both the USA and the UK polio had increased,  in fact in one US state by 300 %.
BCG

Mortality from tuberculosis decreased sharply from the time it was first recorded. See Graph 5. In Nov. 1979 New Scientist Magazine published the World Health Organisation (WHO) largest ever trial on the effectiveness of the BCG in India. They concluded the vaccine does not give any protection against the bacillary forms of tuberculosis. The Lancet in 1990 12th Jan reports slightly more Tuberculosis appeared among the vaccinated. Another study, studied 83000 individuals in Malawi who had been vaccinated and found half were protected against leprosy but no statistical protection against Tuberculosis.  They concluded that the BCG was more effective against Leprosy than Tuberculosis (Ponnignaus J et al).














Graph 5+5a
Medical Monitor in 1992 conducted 10 random controls around the world with BCG. They show its efficiency to be from 0 - 80%. BCG limits the spread of Tuberculosis it does not stop you becoming infected. Complication rates from the vaccine varied from 0.3 -0.6 % i.e. 3 - 6 in every one thousand children will suffer a reaction. remember what H Coulter pointed out earlier.(See above)

What are the Arguments?
The idea and component of the vaccine theory is the idea of "Herd Immunity" which states when enough people in the community are immunised all are protected, as the many examples I have shown illustrates, this is not the case.

Advocates ignore that the babies immune system is not the same as an adult. Lastly they assume that all recipients regardless of age, sex, culture, diet or geographical location will respond the same. The native aborigines of Northern Australia were proof to that when after an immunisation campaign there infant mortality increased 50%(Kalolerinos)       

The 2nd National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine (IOM) reporting on vaccines, concluded that virtually all vaccines given to children have proven to cause damage.

IOM reports causen damage associated with diphtheria, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella, polio, hepatitis B and hib vaccines. The report follows the 1991 meeting which found adverse reactions especially with pertussis and tetanus (McTaggart 1994).

So why does the thought still occur to certain Osteopaths and chief librarians that we should vaccinate. Could it be the £30000 spent per G.P by the drugs companies on advertising and marketing has filtered down to Osteopaths ? Could the WHO be wrong in their assumption that there is greater association with hygiene and sanitation than with vaccination ?
Is it possible that these microbes work as all other species on cyclic rhythms, regardless of our endeavours to change them? Perhaps it is the apathy of the profession in finding its principles and knowing the history and philosophy that may encourage us to willingly accept what we are told ?
Osteopathy can spearhead the complementary / alternative route to good health and yet even some of us would pollute our bodies, our profession and our children. An Osteopathic colleague after reading Mr. Podmores article of prevention jokingly pointed out that perhaps we should also fuse all spinal joints at birth to prevent the possibility of slipped discs and Osteopathic lesions, or take aspirin with any alcoholic beverages to prevent headaches. I hope four years of  Osteopathic education hasn`t led us to this !
Not only does immunisation directly oppose our principles, it is a key point on how our principles supersede others. Immunisation is a slow poison. Mr Podmores points out "continued opposition to immunisation ... could hinder osteopathic acceptance", well I would say the contrary. It is opposition that advances medicine not just the acceptance of advertisements and unquestioned dogma. As a profession we should be strong enough to state what our principles are and educated enough to justify them.

Let us not forget we are in good company, other complimentary medicines and there researchers agree with us, as well as all the authors and thousands more listed below. Find the facts and make your decision. There are alternatives to Immunisation, some will seem obvious some need research, homeopathy, acupuncture,  nutrition, Osteopathy can all play a part.
In Mr Andrew Taylor Still own words " Keep it pure boys,   keep it pure."

Reply To:        Philip@theosteopathichouse.com

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