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Suzanne Humphries and have been lis- it seems that the naturally convalesced that further inflame.” Suddenly the work
tening to her lectures online and reading provide better herd immunity. And we of Andrew Wakefield and the claims of
her articles and book. don't need to be afraid of naturally ac- parents of autistic children with irritable
Given what I already knew from Dr. quired whooping cough. Dr. Humphries bowel syndrome made complete sense.
Price's teachings, the anti-vaccination has written a great article about treating Tami Berman
position makes complete sense. Healthy whooping cough with lipospheric vita- Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
organisms, whether they are plants, min C, even for babies. It worked great
animals or humans, are naturally free for me. VACCINATIONS AND DIABETES
of disease, and when they do become Interestingly, Dr. Humphries writes In the spring of 1989 there was a
ill, are able to fight off infection. These “I've personally seen, in unvaccinated burst of information about getting sec-
occasional infections are necessary to families, one child have clinical whoop- ond MMRs for your kids. At the time, I
exercise our innate immune system. In ing cough, and the other children did was working at the University of Utah
the meantime, with all these vaccines, not get sick. When those children had Student Health Center as a receptionist.
we are losing maternal immunity and their blood antibodies measured to see I took my two teenage children, a boy
babies are becoming more vulnerable. if they were going to be a risk to their and a girl, to this clinic to receive their
It's really outrageous how the media spin schoolmates, they were measured as second MMR. Within a day both of them
everything. I had to re-educate myself having had experience with pertussis by became ill with fever and swollen glands
completely. IgG and IgM. In retrospect, some moth- similar to mumps, a reaction neither of
The flu shot that is required for my ers could recall a cold-like illness, and them had suffered from prior vaccines.
son to take the EMT course would make others could not. I mention the fact that A few weeks later, my son began
him five or six times more susceptible they were unvaccinated, not because complaining of severe leg pains and con-
to all other respiratory infections due to I believe that is the reason they were stant thirst. He had been rehearsing that
a phenomenon called original antigenic infected, but because I believe that is summer for a community play. Around
sin. This same phenomenon is respon- the reason the children had subclinical midnight one night he was in such pain
sible for the failure of the pertussis infections that went unrecognized, and that we took him to an emergency room
vaccine, which is why we are seeing so they developed immunity.” because he could barely walk. After a
many more whooping cough infections Immunizations disrupt the colo- couple of hours, the room became full
in fully vaccinated populations. The nization of beneficial microflora in the of doctors who wanted to see someone
vaccine is actually why there are so baby’s gut, triggering type 1 diabetes, who could walk into an emergency room
many more infections, because people Crohn's disease, celiac disease, etc. I was with a blood sugar level off the charts.
who are vaccinated walk around a- reading an op-ed called “Who has the At first they thought he had MS. Then
symptomatic but carry the virus in their guts for gluten” by Moises Velasquez- they realized it was type I diabetes. They
airways. Of course the media continue Manoff in The New York Times. In it, put him in the hospital for two days. He
to blame the unvaccinated. the author mostly focuses on the absence insisted on leaving early so he could be
As Suzanne Humphries writes in of beneficial gut bacteria and different in the play. The doctors and nurses asked
reference to an experiment with ba- studies done in different populations. us if he had been ill with a virus within
boons, “Baboons that were previously What was most striking to me was a the last six weeks. We said that he had
vaccinated and immune vaccine-style quote from Dr. Bana Jabri, director of been ill from an MMR shot. They said
became colonized upon later exposure research at the University of Chicago the shot was probably what triggered
for a longer time than naive baboons: Celiac Disease Center. She notes that the diabetes! They also said that my
forty-two days. However unvaccinated “immune disturbances [vaccines?] daughter, who also had been ill from
baboons that recovered naturally and change the microbial ecosystem. Rodent the shot, could possibly come down with
were later exposed to the bacteria did not experiments show that intestinal inflam- diabetes anytime within the next seven
become colonized at all: zero days.” So mation can select for unfriendly bacteria years. Eight years later my daughter also
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