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- WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Association
of
American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has advised the U.S. Congress
and the Department Of Health and Human Services to reverse its policy of
recommending mandatory vaccines.
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- In recent years the several
states, in an attempt to
comply with federal vaccination
"recommendations" and therefore
avail their constituents of
federal vaccination program monies, have adopted
compulsory vaccine
laws and have statutorially created vaccine tracking
registries.
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- In an letter sent to Health and Human Services (HHS)
Secretary
Donna Shalala August 3, 1999, and signed by AAPS Executive Director
Jane M. Orient, MD, HHS has been asked to ask state health departments
to place an immediate moratorium on mandatory vaccines, citing concerns
over safety and ill-informed consent.
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- "We are hearing concerns
from many parents about
the number of vaccines that their children are
receiving to comply with
state or school districts mandates based on
recommendations from the Centers
for Disease Control. The Association
of American Physicians and Surgeons
is deeply concerned that federal
vaccine policy results in the violation
of informed consent, and is
based on incomplete studies of efficacy and
potential adverse effects
of the vaccines...
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- "In many venues, these principles are being violated.
'Recommendations' by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices are
often transformed into mandates by state health departments, with or
without
the specific agreement by the legislature, and in turn, by
school districts
that require this medical treatment as a condition of
attendance. If children
do not receive all the mandated vaccines,
because of their beliefs or individual
medical circumstances, they may
be deprived of their liberty to associate
with others or of their
supposed 'right' to a public education. Parents
may give 'consent' to
the vaccine under duress, such as the threat of having
their children
taken from them....
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- "There is also increasing concern about the safety
and efficacy of the vaccines so mandated. The rotavirus vaccine is a case
in point. One day it was considered a 'must,' and the main issue for
discussion
was how to force HMOs to pay for it. Then, on July 16, CDC
spokesman Barbara
Reynolds told The New York Times that 'no one should
now be giving this
vaccine to anyone.' Despite the occurrence of
intussuception in clinical
trials, at a rate about 30 times that
previously reported by the CDC, physicians
were not warned to watch for
this complication, which can be fatal in the
absence of prompt
treatment...
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- "Many questions have been raised about the use of
hepatitis B vaccine in groups at low risk for the disease, including
newborns
and young schoolchildren...For example, serious adverse
effects after receiving
the vaccine -- including 48 deaths -- are
reported three times as frequently
as cases of hepatitis B in children
under the age of 14... stated the letter
signed by Dr. Orient.
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- In recent months,
many states have reconsidered their
mandatory vaccine policies. Last
week, all but two of Connecticut's birthing
hospitals suspended routine
hepatitis B vaccines for newborns. Conversely,
Idaho Governor Dirk
Kempthorne has made good his state of the state address
to use the
power of his office to make sure that Idaho's children are properly
vaccinated. With the approval of the first-term governor, Idaho passed
vaccine tracking laws which made it more difficult for informed parents
to avoid compulsory vaccinations.
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- The... "decision" [to
vaccinate] must be made
by the patient (or parent) in consultation with
their physician -- not
through coercion by a government agency or
school district, the letter
stated.
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- AAPS, an association
independent of the American Medical
Association which still advocates
mass vaccinations, was founded in 1943
to protect the sanctity of the
patient-physician relationship. By assessing
the available data and
coming out in opposition to the federal/AMA vaccination
agenda, The
AAPS appears to still maintain its dedication to the Oath of
Hippocrates and represents physicians in all disciplines
nationwide.
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- The annual AAPS conference will be held in Coeur d' Alene
this
October 14-16. Among the list of scheduled speakers is Ohio Pharmacist
Dr. Kristine Severyn of the Vaccine Policy Institute who will be speaking
to the national gathering of conference attendees regarding what has
finally
become the controversial topic of compulsory vaccinations and
state-mandated
tracking registries. Dr. Severyn's research on the
international vaccine
tracking registry agenda was published in the
April, 1999 edition of The
Idaho Observer.
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- The AAPS letter to Dr. Shalala
and AAPS' August 3, 1999
testimony before Congress can be found at:
aapsonline.org
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