A new study published today in the Journal of Human and Experimental Toxology found that countries that administer a higher number of vaccines during the first year of life experience higher infant mortality rates.
The infant mortality rate (IMR) of a country is one of the most accepted and critical indicators of the socioeconomic well being of its citizens. It also reflects public health conditions and whether those conditions are improving or worsening over time.
The United States ranks 34th in infant mortality rate which means that 33 countries outrank the USA in this critical measure of public health. In addition, the United States’ immunization schedule for infants under 1 year of age recommends 26 vaccinations – the highest in the entire world.
To conduct the study, linear regression was used to examine a relationship between the aggressiveness of a country’s vaccination schedule and its corresponding infant mortality rate.
Countries were divided into 5 groups depending on the number of infant vaccines routinely administered in the first year of life: 12-14, 15-17, 18-20, 21-23, and 24-26.
The mean (average) IMR of all the countries within each group was then calculated. Analysis of the unweighted mean IMRs for each group showed a statistically significant relationship between increasing the number of routinely administered infant vaccines during the first year of life and the corresponding infant mortality rate.
The study’s findings are in line with previously observed reductions in the infant mortality rate, specifically in Japan where vaccines were eliminated for children under the age of 2 in 1975. The country’s infant mortality rate subsequently plummeted to the lowest level in the world. Japan changed its infant vaccination schedule again in 1995, but it remains one of the least aggressive in the world with Japan’s IMR remaining low as well (third in 2009).
Mr. Neil Z. Miller and Mr. Gary S. Goldman, the study’s authors, have recommended urgency in further examination of the correlation between administration of vaccines to children under 1 year of age and biochemical or synergistic toxicity.
Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist.com
Source: Journal of Human and Experimental Toxology. Infant mortality rates regressed against number of vaccine doses routinely given: Is there a biochemical or synergistic toxicity?
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I wonder how the pro-vaccine spindoctors will respond to this study?
All vaccines weaken your immune system. And thats a fact, but most people are so brainwashed by the mainstream they refuse to see this as they believe vaccines are the only way to prevent illness. Theres actually many good alternatives to vaccines and if a person is consuming a healthy, nourishing diet to begin with their not nearly as susceptible to illness. But, unfortunately, most people still underestimate the importance of nutrition. They truly believe its a myth. Its especially important for young kids to keep their gut and digestive health healthy so their immune system can function properly. This means avoiding grains and processed, sugary foods. But most people don’t want to bother with a diet overall and simply want a vaccine to fix everything. Typical.
Thanks for the post. There are so many things that need to change about the vaccination program in the US. It is very sad that the children are the ones experimented on. Sounds like we need to try to follow the other countries schedules that are at the top of the list. Sounds like common sense, something the ones with all the money and power seem to lack….
Outbreaks of diseases occur in fully and highly vaccinated populations. Because of incorrect dosing recommendations, waning immunity, and outright vaccine failure, many vaccinated children turn out to be as just unprotected as unvaccinated children. It is essential to remember that just because a child is vaccinated does not mean the child is immunized. It is therefore unfair to exercise prejudice against unvaccinated children as special public health threats when vaccinated children are often just as vulnerable to disease.
I would even go so far as to say that because immunizations weaken a childs immune system, vaccinated children are MORE vulnerable to disease than an unvaccinated child who has access to a healthy diet & getting some vitamin d from the sun.
Prove it. With facts, data, studies. Not your opinion.
My 3 year old nephew is the sickest child I know. He is fully vaccinated (due to criminal level pressure by his pediatrician). He has recently been tested for immunity to the diseases he was vaccinated against and failed to show antibodies to most of them. He also failed to have antibodies for many of the bizarre and rare ilnesses he has been diagnosed with. Genetically, both of his parents are naturally healthy (although nutritionally dead) people. He started out doing very well. He was healthy, chunky from breastfeeding well, eating well, and had no illnesses despite being in daycare full time. At 1 year, when his pediatrician threatened his mother into vaccinating him, he became very ill. He almost immediately contracted rsv which he still has not recovered from. He developed multiple food and “seasonal” allergies. He won’t eat most of the food set in front of him, even things he previously enjoyed. He has terrible eczema, a known auto-immune disorder. He started having asthma attacks after about 60 days. He has been on antihistamines, steroids, and an asthma inhaler ever since as well as numerous rounds of antibiotics. This isn’t a “scientific study” it is just a clear case of a child becoming ill from vaccines. Nothing else changed. Not his diet until several months later, not his routine, not his home, not so much as his laundry detergent.
Vaccination Does Not Equal Immunization
Correlation does not equal causation, but I hope this leads to more studies along these lines. I’ve seen a lot of different information about what might be the cause of the United States’ high infant mortality rate, and it’s likely that vaccination rate might be PART of the picture but not all of it. Our high rate of medical interventions at birth, such as c-section, also plays a decisive role.
I bet a lack of breastfeeding also plays a major part…
I’ll bet it doesn’t. I breastfed my three kiddos til they were two plus years of age and I support breastfeeding mothers, but I doubt very much that breastfeeding has any proven correlation to mortality rates. There are lots of moms out there that would LOVE to breastfeed but cannot for a variety of reasons. So why make those moms feel bad/guilty for making a different choice?
I agree with Jennifer in that there are other factors at play in our comparatively high infant mortality rate. Has anyone ever looked at all the interventions we do for extremely premature infants? We provide tons of medical technology and interventions for infants born at 24-25wks that many other countries can’t or won’t. When extreme preemies have poor outcomes, those are representative in our IMR. I’m not saying this practice is right our wrong, just that the mortality rate may be, in part, due to these sorts of factors as well.
I don’t understand your point, Claire. If a country has the medical technology for a preemie to live, then this would improve the IMR. Countries that don’t have that medical technology, the preemie would die increasing the IMR. It seems with our medical technology to help preemies it would improve the IMR regardless of whether some would have poor outcomes.
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Unfortunately the recording of IMR is not of consistent quality across countries. It should record deaths before age one year per 1000 live births. In some countries the death of a baby in the first day of life, or a baby who is born prematurely and dies before its expected due date is counted as a stillbirth. Japan and Hong Kong are among those with suspiciously high male-to-female ratios of life birth. http://www.jstor.org/pss/987286
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality#Comparing_infant_mortality_rates
Thank you, Sarah. This publication is not on my reading list and I’m grateful it’s on yours! I shared this on Facebook. Really good information!
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I follow a good site at http://www.thedoctorwitin.com He (Tim O’Shea, DC) has also written a book called Vaccination is NOT Immunization. Very good reading, and he often gives excerpts from the book in his sporadic but informative e-newsletters. If you go to the site listed above, click on the chapters section and read the title called Doors of Perception (or click here: http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/doors/Doors-of-Perception/ It goes a long way to explaining why we are so brainwashed.
Here’s a brief excerpt, concerning vaccines, from his May e-newsletter:
[excerpt]
“Here are some of the common falsehoods which most people believe, which can easily be unseated, and which are manifestly detrimental to human health and immunity:
•The child must be vaccinated to attend school
•Outbreaks of old fashioned diseases occur mainly in the unvaccinated
•Vaccines promote immunity in the child
•Vaccines are safe
•Vaccine do not cause brain injury
•If we stop vaccinating, old diseases will return
•Germs cause disease
•The unvaccinated are a reservoir for disease
•The unvaccinated do not contribute to herd immunity
•Herd immunity is conferred by vaccines
•The unvaccinated are getting a free ride
•Vaccine exemption laws weaken the society
Because of ceaseless programming, not only do most people – even semi-intelligent ones – subscribe to the above myths, but worse, they seem willing to have laws passed which will legislate these scientifically untenable positions onto the rest of us.
[end of excerpt]
Thanks for sharing this. There is so much mis-information about vaccines and I’m glad to see more studies like this one coming out!
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Good article!
I was just reading Natural News latest article called The Gullible Mind explained. Sadly so many are believing what they are told is true.
I remember having a heated discussion about vaccines on a mailing list a couple of years ago. Well, I was calm but the others were not and told me I was stupid for believing vaccines are bad ..It was very sad to see a year later that at least 4 of the parents on the list were seeking medical help and had their kids diagnosed for Aspberger’s and ADD/ADHD. Sadly none of them even questioned that the vaccines could have caused it. All of the kids diagnosed got several swine flu shots..
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Do you have any references for the Japan experience you mention? Thanks, great post!
Sure, Amy. Here you go:
http://www.vaclib.org/basic/japanusa.htm
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Thank you for passing this on!
Just curious… are all vaccines to be avoided? Are their any safer vaccine schedules out there anywhere? …
according to Dr. Tenpenny on Vaccines YES avoid them all! Lots of great information there and its comeing from an MD.
My husband and I chose not to vaccinate our children at all, but if you aren’t sure, at least delay until the child is older than 2. This will give you more time to research and contemplate your decision .. vaccinating very young children carries the most risk as you can see from this study.
Cetelia, there was a very good article posted at Safbaby.com on this subject. It is very thorough and worth a read. http://www.safbaby.com/an-alternative-vaccination-schedule-from-dr-donald-miller
Unfortunately, they do give recommendations on how, when, and what to vaccinate with, but due to the current production of vaccines, none of the recommendations are currently being produced in the world (mostly because he recommends a few vaccines given in single doses without thimerosal). But reading the article might help give you and your family some direction on what to do next. I hope that helps!
I’m still up in the air about vaccinations. Reading different info. As in most health issues, there are contradicting reports and studies and expert opinions… it’s hard to know what to believe! Thanks for sharing this.
Hope it helps you with your decision April!
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If you look hard enough, you can find all vaccines individually and without thimerisol. Most doctors will insist they aren’t made that way, but it’s a lie. I’ve been told that by several doctors, yet I know CNMs who offer them all individually and without thimerisol.
I was told that a vaccine “Contained no more mercury *aka thimerasol* than a can of tuna fish”
I thought pregnant women were cautioned against canned tuna due to its high mercury levels!? No more than one can a week even at 39 weeks, yet two weeks later they want to give a newborn 2-4 “cans worth” directly into their blood stream, bypassing any hope that their normal digestion could pass some of it before sending it directly to tiny brains and livers?!?!?!?
Vaccines free of thimerosall are nonexistant. The vaccine may say that it is thimerosal but the filtering process used to take it out is very very ineffective. One group examined a bunch of vials of supposedly thimerosal free vaccines and they ALL contained thimerosal. Don’t be fooled by that scam.
Actually, there are many vaccines that are free of thimerosal (http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/thi-table.htm). It’s actually the ones with thimerosal that are difficult to find. But it’s still good as parents to know which ones to ask for if you are concerned about thimerosal in particular.
And for clarification, the information Sarah references in the above comment actually only looked at four vials of vaccines (I thought I would define the exact number since “bunch” is hardly scientific) . Here is the media post from that group so that you can see for yourself the facts on this examination. http://www.whale.to/a/mercury7.html
I would never call what my midwife does a “scam.”
You may not consider it a scam but it is a scam by Big Pharma. Your midwife is just buying the idea of “thimerosal free” and passing it on.
My friend is 23 and NEVER did she or her sister have vaccinations. The only time she did was a tetnus shot given to her in the emergency room after she was trampled by a horse and was unconcious.
I didnt know about vaccine dangers until 3 years ago, before then my family and I had 9 diff types to go n a years round the world trip. NEVER have we been more ill EVER. Our immune sysems have NEVER been he same.
Annie, many individuals in the healthcare industry do many well meaning things. Just because your midwife is mistaken about vaccines being thimerosal free doesn’t make her a scammer. She is being scammed same as everyone else who thinks these individual dose vials are mercury free. This is the “sit on the fence” approach that I’ve seen so many healthcare professionals try to take to avoid controversy with their patients and it doesn’t work.
What about other preservative types? I hadn’t actually heard about preservative-free vaccinations until today, actually. I hadn’t researched that yet. My daughter is 27 months and hasn’t received a single vaccine, so I am not trying to spread a “scam”. I’m just trying to be wise!
I don’t think anyone was trying to accuse practitioners of scamming their patients…Practitioners trust their educations. But, just like with food, its all about the labeling…the loop holes are large and abundant. Its like a product labeled NO MSG while there is *certainly* MSG in the final product, they just didn’t “personally” put it in there, so they can claim it MSG free. The “no trans fat” label is a second example…it can be put on there as long as there is less than .49 of a gram PER serving….eat the entire box, and you just consumed several grams of trans fat. The LABEL is the scammer!
Andrea, the other concern is that they’ve never proven vaccines to work period, regardless of the other toxic stuff in them. The disease doesn’t enter the body in a natural way…I like to picture it (the vax) like a surprise attack parachuting over the wall rather than the battle it should be entering through the main defenses, the way the body was designed to work. When man tries to reinvent nature they usually mess it up!
Good points, Erica. It’s such a mother dilemma, though. Ugh! I will keep praying about it. So far, I have had NO reason to regret avoiding the vaccines. We both came down with the bird flu this season, but I would much rather take the bug than have our bodies pumped with mercury (mine carrying a little person, hers still just little!), and I’ve heard of many doctors saying that they isolated the wrong strain of flu in their vaccine last year anyway. Such a difficult topic. I do wish, however, that there was a safe way to vaccinate my children against polio and some of the big ones, but I just don’t feel good about any of the options. Maybe they’ll come up with something better when they are older and more likely to travel and be exposed to those kinds of dangers.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6351515212287981735&hl=en# If you are on the fence about vaccinating you should watch this video!
Andrea, for me it came down to this- which outcome would be easier to life with if the worst were to happen….my child die from a disease, or my child die/live with a life long disability from a prevention.
If you are not sure about vaccines, study, study, study! My child got a disease called, “Kawasaki disease”. In the New England Journal of Medicine the Hepatitus B shot has been PROVEN to cause this disease. There is an epidemic of Kawasaki that the media refuses to report. Our leaders take their direction from the WHO (World Health Organzation) who are elites into depopulation. If you don’t believe it, look it up!
Kawasaki is a killer of children who are rendered with severe vasculitus symptoms and aneurysms of the coronary arteries. My child ran a tempreture of 105 for Six Weeks! We know because it is our life. Do NOT vaccinate. Protect your children!
My son also had kawasakis. Why on earth would you let your son run a temp that high for that long?
On day five, we were at our ped’s office for the high fever. At day six, we were admitted to Children’s. At day seven, we were discharged after therapy. At day eight, his temp was 99.6. We followed up with a cardiologist for six months. Our son is fine.
Don’t blame vaccinations (or kawasaki’s, for that matter) for what happened to your son. Blame yourself for not seeking medical treatment sooner.
Holy smokes. This is crazy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ulAX_MLLhY
It is so nice that the pro vaccine types have stayed out of this post. This study speaks for itself, as does common sense and the actual observation of hundreds of thousands of people.
Thank you Sarah, for sharing this.
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Just got a “helpful” reminder from our insurance company today informing us of all the shots a child our son’s age should have had…he’s 27 months old and has not received any vaccines. His older brothers are fully vaccinated…I didn’t know better, but the number of shots they had are so few compared to today’s kids.
Thanks for sharing this. We have not vaccinated our 11-month-old and I actually haven’t taken her to the doctor for several months now because it became obvious that the main purpose of the well-checkups is for the shots. I honestly have avoided going to the doctor because I don’t like the pressure and guilt they put on my regarding not giving her the shots. Does anyone have any tips when visiting the doctor? I need to make an appointment for her 1-year and I’m almost afraid to go. I hate being bullied.
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My advice is to find a Chiropractor, or homeopath, or Dr. of Oriental Medicine, or possibly a family practice Osteopath, or worst case a family practitioner. Stay away from pediatricians!!! Pretty much any of them can help you out in an emergency without forcing you to have vaccines for your child.
Otherwise all you can do is prepare yourself. Spend the day before the appointment knowing they will pressure you, and remembering all the reasons you choose not to vaccinate. You don’t need to rehearse a speech, or know all the scientific arguments. you just take a breath, smile and say, “I have chosen not to vaccinate at this time, thank you” You may have to say it a thousand times. They may get irate (at which point you find a new Dr) they may threaten you, again, time to move on. But generally you can just stand firm and get away with it. If they are really bullying you, then that is not the right place for you or your baby. Consider the consequences. Every time she gets sick you will dread going, you will get blaming looks because they are all convinced you gave her polio or pertussis. That is not the Dr. you want working WITH you on keeping your child well. They aren’t going to listen when you have concerns about immediately prescribing antibiotics, or worse, antivirals. They aren’t going to have the facts when it comes to proper nutrition, ie RAW MILK and BUTTER. You need an advocate, not an adversary.
I am finding that since we breastfeed and avoid vaccinations, there is no reason to go to the doctor. My daughter is never sick with more than a runny nose! I don’t understand why more people don’t stop to think that so many shots couldn’t possibly be good for a child. I didn’t know anything about children or vaccinations before my daughter was born, but my instinct/gut told me that they just weren’t “right”.
Most pediatricians in my area will not accept children without following the standard vaccination schedule. According to them the whole debate is do to the success of vaccines in lowering the death/illness rate ie polio.
I see no point in arguing against anybody since this was posted in May but I am putting this up here for anybody who runs across this article.
This study is just poor science. You can’t compare infant mortality rate across developed countries because they are self reported. The United States is the only country in that 34 that counts ALL children that show any sign of life as a birth. All of the other countries have requirements before they enter official statistics, some of these requirements include:
1. Being alive for more than 24 hours.
2. Being over a certain weight.
3. Being over a certain length.
MOST of the infant deaths in the United States are from babies that don’t meet these standards. When you apply the same standards across countries, the US is actually in the top 5.
The study also considered number of shots not number of antigens in the shot. Many of those countries that are considered “smaller” just put more antigens into a fewer amount of shots. They are not being vaccinated less, they are just being vaccinated more efficiently.