Catherine Diodati is a Windsor-based researcher who graduated from the University of Windsor with an MA in biomedical ethics in mass immunization. She is involved in ongoing research in immunization, and she is the author of a new book about vaccinations called Immunization: History, Ethics, Law and Health.
Len Horowitz has a doctorate from Tufts University and a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard. He is the author of more than 100 articles in scientific and lay periodicals and ten books including his best-selling book, Emerging Viruses, AIDS and Ebola: Nature, Accident or Genocide. His latest book is Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse.
Viera Scheibner is a retired principal research scientist with a doctorate in natural sciences. Since the mid-80’s, she has done extensive research into vaccines and vaccinations. She often provides expert reports for court cases involving immunizations and vaccine-damaged individuals throughout the world. During her distinguished career, she has published three books and 90 scientific papers in prestigious scientific journals.
Edda West is from Winlaw, B.C. She is the co-founder and director of the Vaccine Risk Awareness Network. It is the only Canada-wide vaccination network that provides information to parents about the choice of having vaccine-free children.

INFORMED AND VOLUNTARY CONSENT (see article by Edda West) Our health departments aren't applying even the most basic medical ethics to the mass vaccination program, and I feel this is one of the greatest ethical violations. We are told that we and our children have to have these vaccines, and that they are safe and effective. We are not told what our rights are. We are not told that there are exemptions. That is very coercive. These forms are readily available through your city’s public health office. (Diodati)

HARMFUL CONTAMINANTS IN VACCINES Some of the chemical components that are used in vaccines are more toxic to white blood cells than they are to the viruses or bacteria. According to the Merck document, these include mercury, formaldehyde and aluminum for sterility and stability (see Physician’s Desk Reference, 1999). The biological components in the vaccines have also managed to introduce animal diseases into a new human host. The disease is relatively innocuous in the animal that it comes from, but when you introduce this into a human who has never had this disease before, it becomes something quite virulent and dangerous. So the principle of non-malfeasance, "Do no harm", has been clearly violated. (Diodati)

VACCINE RELATED INJURIES OR ADVERSE EVENTS The information that we are generally given about the side effects of vaccines is not complete. This information is usually written by the vaccine manufacturers. The information sheets from the school, say "We are going to give your kids some vaccines and they will have a few minor reactions such as fever, a little fussiness, a little bit of soreness and redness at the injection site, but that's all. Other events are rare.” But go and pick up a vaccine package insert and you are going to see a number of very serious and severe long-term adverse events. (Diodati)

ACUTE REACTIONS AND LONG TERM EFFECTS Fever up to 104 degrees or 105 degrees, inconsolable crying which may go on even for several days, difficulty breathing, unconsciousness, high-pitched screaming, convulsions or seizures. This acute condition represents a type of encephalitis (also called encephalopathy) which sometimes ends in sudden death. There are 9,000 cases of SIDS in the US every year of which probably 6,000 are vaccine-related. Most babies recover from the acute effects, but the long-term effects of the vaccine start to appear after a month or two; in fact these are the long term effects of encephalitis which include seizures, epilepsy, paralysis, cerebral palsy, mental retardation and autism, and other neurological disorders which can result from any vaccine (see Physician’s Desk Reference, 1999 for list of “adverse events” for each vaccine). (Coulter, Vaccine Risk Awareness Network)

The active ingredients are "foreign RNA and DNA". That's a nice way of saying 'carcinogen' or 'mutagen'. The Bible says, “Do not contaminate the blood”; "Do not create hybrid seeds". When you inject yourself with foreign RNA and DNA and let's say the chicken pox vaccine or the other vaccines, go into your blood stream, get into your cells and your children's cells. That DNA causes mutations of your own cells and a weakened immune state, of course weakened worse by the vaccine itself and the contaminants in it. Now you have a potential for that cell becoming a precancerous cell going on to develop full-blown cancers. There is a host of auto-immune system related disorders associated with vaccines, including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, fibromyalgia, lupus, multiple sclerosis, ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), chronic crippling rheumatoid arthritis, adult and juvenile Type I diabetes, asthma, hay fever, allergies, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders and autism in our children. Other vaccine related diseases are cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, AIDS, and Gulf War Syndrome (see Physician’s Desk Reference or vaccine inserts for documentatio). (Horowitz)

VACCINE INDUCED IMMUNE DAMAGE I read a study in which healthy adults were given the tetanus vaccine and then their T-cell levels were checked. T-cells are very important because they are the part of our immune system which identifies foreign materials and activates and matures the other cells so that they can defeat whatever virus or bacteria is in the body. These T-cells in healthy adults became so low that they were the same as active AIDS patients. You will find this sort of negative phase after vaccination with all vaccines. The bacterial vaccines seem to be worse, but maybe that's just because there is more evidence right now. But after the vaccination, you are increasing your chances of becoming ill. (Diodati)

VACCINES AND TYPE I INSULIN-DEPENDANT DIABETES Any vaccine can cause diabetes. It was already established in the 1970's that injections of the DPT vaccine result in increased or decreased insulin production within eight hours, but any vaccine can cause it. In New Zealand, they established that Hepatitis B vaccination of the newborn children resulted in 60% increase in diabetes. (Horowitz)

HEPATITIS B is a blood-borne pathogen acquired through infected blood, an infected mother or sexual contact. In the US, the Clinton administration said that 12-hour-old infants must get the Hepatitis B vaccine, infants whose immune systems aren’t even mature. They are even giving it to one-hour-old neonates. Hepatitis B is soon to be added to the early infant shots in B.C. and the rest of Canada. Authorities tell you that you must be checked and revaccinated with Hepatitis B vaccine every seven to ten years. If you are going to give it to infants, that means you have to check your children again at age seven. If they are not sexually active and they are still not using IV drugs, what good is it? In the teenage years, you have to get it checked again. All you have to do is look at the side effects associated with the Hepatitis B vaccine: starting at 15% who get a little redness at the site of inoculation, to less than 1% who sustain serious injury from the Hepatitis B vaccine (Physician’s Desk Reference lists arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barre, myelitis, other neurological problems, etc.), and when you count the numbers, you are looking at well over 25,000 to 35,000 infants, children, and teenagers, just in the United States, annually, this decade, who will become brain damaged, crippled, or killed from that one vaccine. 35,000 damaged children for the 4,000 people you say you want to save from Hepatitis B? Thirty-five thousand approximates the number of people who died of AIDS last year in the United States. That is how many people are going to get killed, crippled or brain damaged from that one vaccine of over 20 some odd vaccines that they say are essential or highly recommended. (Horowitz)

TUMOURS AND CANCER IN CHILDREN CONTRACTED THROUGH PARENTAL GENES Recent research demonstrates children succumbing to tumours and cancers in which they are now finding the SV40 virus which was one of the contaminants of the early polio vaccines. Now those little children have never been in contact with that virus through a vaccination, but they are apparently somehow getting it through the genetics of their parents. These contaminants are being passed on from one generation to the next. (West)

COMPENSATION FOR VACCINE INDUCED INJURIES In Canada we do not have a compensation system, except for the province of Quebec. People have lost their lives; children have been injured, and some have died. We are not compensating them. And because we are not keeping track of adverse events, we can't estimate how many children are going to end up paralyzed, or predict how many children are going to die from a given vaccine. We need to know, based on previous evidence of adverse reactions, what percent of damage we can expect from a given vaccine, and we do not have this information. We need to encourage our government to mandate the monitoring of these adverse events and we want compensation for our children. (Diodati)

UNVACCINATED HAVE PASSIVE IMMUNITY When you look at statistics, it appears that when vaccination was introduced, the incidence of disease went down. In Canada, the earliest we started recording diseases was 1924. However if you look for a longer period of time, for example in England and some of the European areas, there was always an up and down cycle of disease before vaccines were introduced, There was a significant drop in mortality rates long, long before the vaccines were introduced, and in many cases long before there were any appropriate and adequate treatments for the diseases. Through natural passive immunity, our ancestors caught a disease and passed the antibodies to their children. In their children, the disease was less of a problem and caused fewer complications, and subsequent generations will have even fewer problems. Down through generations we have the ability to reduce the impact of disease. In fact, there is an enormous cost to having the diseases removed or changed artificially. Take measles for example. We don't see measles as much anymore, but we are now seeing it in children less than a year old. Before the vaccine era, the average age of infection was four to five years of age, so something very strange is happening. This is a fairly new phenomenon, and the reason it is happening is that the mothers who are bearing these children are vaccinated and they don't have the antibodies to pass on to their babies, making their babies susceptible. We are also beginning to see that five to 19-year-olds are being hit the hardest, and the age keeps getting higher and higher. When these diseases occur outside of the pediatric range, there is a greater chance of serious complications. So these changes in the epidemiology of disease are very important, and they have to be taken into consideration when we are deciding just how beneficial these vaccines have been. (Diodati)

DO VACCINES ERADICATE OR EVEN REDUCE DISEASE? There is no such thing as disease eradication, and if you speak to scientists about this you are going to enter very quickly into a hot debate. What tends to happen is that these pathogens, these disease-causing agents, will lay dormant for a while, and when the conditions are favourable, they will re-emerge either in the same or a mutated form. In 1979, the World Health Organization declared smallpox to be eradicated. However, in the past few years a new disease called monkeypox has sprung up. The DNA of smallpox and monkey pox were examined together and were found to be greater than 90% homologous. So there is no question that these are the same disease. Smallpox has not been eradicated, nor have measles and polio been eradicated. (Diodati)

VACCINATIONS FOR OVERSEAS TRAVEL Vaccinations for travel are just as bad as any other vaccines. They are not actually compulsory. I bought a booklet published by the British Health Department, and the first sentence is "It's not mandatory, it's your choice." They warned about many side effects, and cautioned that even if you are slightly sick, you shouldn't take them. Also, typhoid, malaria and other vaccines like dysentery are officially ineffective vaccines. They failed repeatedly with malaria vaccine. When you travel, take half a kilo of Vitamin C powder with you. (Scheibner)

RISK OF FEBRILE SEIZURES DUE TO FEVER Vaccinations may cause febrile seizures. The best information on fever that I know that is readily and easily available is in Dr. Robert Mendelsohn's book entitled How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of your Doctor. He has the most fantastic chapter on fevers in that book, and he is very reassuring that febrile seizures do not cause brain damage, that they actually come with the speed with which the fever rises, and that eventually kids grow out of that. I would urge you to get that book. (Diodati) My children have not been vaccinated and my daughter experienced a seizure during an illness. It is a horrible experience if you are a parent holding a child who is in a convulsive seizure and you just pray. Anyway, what we have learned was to break that fever a little bit. See if you can maintain it at 102. My own personal feeling is use cold compresses. That really snapped her out of it almost immediately. I am sure that there are probably also some herbs that you can take, cranial-sacral adjustment, and massage. But when it gets beyond 103, I would be concerned. You want to put your child in an ice bath, in the cold water, something to bring that temperature down. (Horowitz)

MANDATORY SERIES OF HEPATITIS B VACCINES FOR SOCIAL WORKERS, HOSPITAL WORKERS, POLICE OFFICERS, ETC. Educate yourself and then ask for the exemption on philosophical or religious grounds. Say you consider yourself a Jew or a Christian. (Horowitz) It is not mandatory at all. In Australia, a nurse won a major compensation package because she developed arthritis after a Hepatitis B vaccine. Read the product insert for Hepatitis B vaccine. They list multiple sclerosis as one of the observed side effects. Ask them to give you a written guarantee that you will not get these diseases or they must give you five million dollars if you do, and this will solve the problem. (Scheibner) A number of people are running into this problem. You have the vaccine or you lose your job. There is help if you have Internet access. You educate these people and you say, “what you’re telling me is my health or my job. Well, I can't do my job if I don't have my health." In fact, Merck, the Hepatitis B vaccine manufacturers, required all their staff to get the vaccine. Adverse events began to be reported both to Merck and to the LCDC. A doctor who was doing research in this area revealed that quite a number of the Merck staff themselves became permanently disabled, including the nurse who was assigned to administer the vaccines, who is now paralyzed and unable to work. (Diodati)

STEPS YOU MAY TAKE TO PROTECT CHILDREN WHO HAVE ALREADY BEEN VACCINATED: The first thing that I would do is urge you to pray. Secondly, whether they are healthy or sick is to begin with a five-step process. Number one, is detoxification. Step two is de-acidification. Step three is boosting the immune system every way possible, physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, environmentally, and above all, spiritually. Step four is oxygenation therapies, and Step Five involves homeopathics and electromedicine. It is bioelectric therapies. (see Horowitz Vaccines tape or coming newsletter by Len Horowitz) (Horowitz) Homeopathic antidotes to vaccines should start from the latest and then work their way to the earliest. (Scheibner)