My suspicion, which is shared by others in my profession, is that the nearly 10,000 SIDS deaths that occur in the United States each year are related to one or more of the vaccines that are routinely given children. The pertussis vaccine is the most likely villain, but it could also be one or more of the others." Dr Mendelsohn, M.D.

"The evidence for indicting immunisations for SIDS is circumstantial, but compelling. However, the keepers of the keys to medical-research funds are not interested in researching this very important lead to the cause of an ongoing, and possibly preventable, tragedy. Anything that implies that immunisations are not the greatest medical advance in the history of public health is ignored or ridiculed. Can you imagine the economic and political import of discovering that immunisations are killing thousands of babies?" Dr William C. Douglass, M.D. (Honored twice as America's 'Doctor of the Year')

"Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates. The worst vaccine of all is the whooping cough vaccine... it is responsible for a lot of deaths and for a lot of infants suffering irreversible brain damage. In susceptible infants, it knocks their immune systems about, leading to irreparable brain damage, or severe attacks or even deaths from diseases like pneumonia or gastro-enteritis and so on". Dr Kalokerinos, M.D.

"It was similar with the measles vaccination. They went through Africa, South America and elsewhere, and vaccinated sick and starving children...They thought they were wiping out measles, but most of those susceptible to measles died from some other disease that they developed as a result of being vaccinated. The vaccination reduced their immune levels and acted like an infection. Many got septicaemia, gastro-enteritis, etcetera, or made their nutritional status worse and they died from malnutrition. So there were very few susceptible infants left alive to get measles. It's one way to get good statistics, kill all those that are susceptible, which is what they literally did." Dr Kalokerinos, M.D.

"Crib death" was so infrequent in the pre-vaccination era that it was not even mentioned in the statistics, but it started to climb in the 1950s with the spread of mass vaccination against diseases of childhood. Harris L. Coulter, PhD.

"These data show that DPT vaccination may be a generally unrecognised major cause of sudden infant and early childhood death, and that the risks of immunisation may outweigh its potential benefits. A need for re-evaluation and possible modification of current vaccination procedures is indicated by this study." William C. Torch, M.D., Director of Child Neurology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Nevada School of Medicine

Fred Griffith, an army medical officer, made the first attempt to develop a vaccine against Streptococcus Pneumoniae (the lung disease, pneumonia).  Though unsuccessful, his experiments lead me to believe that the risk of inoculating the human body with bacterium have been known for at at least over 8 decades.   He used only two strains of the bacterium labeling them as "S" and "R".  Using them in four experiments, he came up with the following results:

S cells were killed by exposure to high temperature.   He could only come up with one explanation.  Even though heat killed the pathogenic cells, it didn't damage the chemical substance which contained the hereditary information-including the part he specified as "how to cause infection."   It appeared that the substance were "liberated" from the dead cells making their way into the living cells of the harmless strain.  Other experiments revealed that the living cells picked up "instructions" for causing infection   permanently transforming into pathogens.  What literally happened was the hundreds of generations of bacteria descended from the transformed cells were also causing infections.  Here we see the infections literally causing death.  Could this be the explanation of the thousands of infant deaths after inoculation? 

In witnessing the steady rise in SIDS incidences, information of this rising epidemic is radically suppressed in literature put out by the "professionals".  Many parents tend to believe that there is a vaccine safety net for children.  I will be one of many to tell you, there IS NO SAFETY NET WITH VACCINES.   I don't dismiss the fact that some infants die on account of their physical immaturity.  However, immaturity can also be brought on by the toxic substances contained in vaccines.  There's certainly no doubt in my mind that vaccines largely contribute to SIDS and even Shaken Baby Syndrome.  Common sense says that long-term studies should be conducted.  This is widely assumed to already be taking place.  Yet, this is not the case.  There are several known harmful effects from vaccines and research shows that children die at a rate eight times greater than normal within three days after receiving the DTP vaccine.  Refusing vaccinations certainly reduce the risks.  I have known of babies to die in their crib while sleeping on their backs and some in their parents' arms.

According to Dr. Harris Coulter, a typical SIDS post-vaccination case would be when an infant acquires a "slight" bacterial or viral infection, that's been vaccinated and dies due to the infection.  These cases are not classified by physicians, or anyone else who holds inquest as to the causes of accidental or suspicious deaths, as a result of an infection.  Especially since vaccines are known to suppress the immune system's ability to fight.  It is in this state that infants are made more vulnerable to death by infection.  If infants are left alone and acquire infections without direct assault to their bloodstream, such infections would be considered harmless.  Thus, most of these babies would not have died in the absence of vaccines.  This was confirmed by my pediatrician when I asked him what the Pertussis symptoms of a non-vaccinated child would be.  His reply, "a minor cold."  He changed his tune when I said, "Well, that's what I want for my children.  Just a minor Pertussis cold."  CDC makes the statement that, without intervention, there is a 98.8% recovery rate from Pertussis.   In his desperate attempt to discourage any confidence I have in the natural immunity of my children, he stated, "I hope you're in the 98%."

A Danish physician in 1933 was first to point out the connection of the whooping-cough vaccine to the death of children.  In 1946 two Americans claimed  the DTP shot was responsible for the death of twins two hours after the vaccination.  In 1982, Dr. William Torche, Director of Child Neurology, Department of of Pediatrics, University of Nevada, did a study on 103 children that died of SIDS.  His study linked the deaths of these infants to the DPT vaccine.   6.5 percent died within 12 hours of vaccination, 13 percent within 24 hours, 26 percent within three days; 35, 61, and 70 percent within one, two and three weeks. 

Dr. Daniel Shannon, director of Pediatric Pulmonary Unit  at the Massachusetts General Hospital, spoke at a 1979 FDA meeting on "The Relation between DPT Vaccines and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, he described 200 infants with severe breathing difficulties after a DPT shot requiring resuscitation. 

Dr. Mary Megons states that the vaccination-SIDS association needs to be explored in detail because the DTP contains some toxins that make some children genetically vulnerable to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.  CDC states, "Recent reports and studies, combined with the decrease in SIDS rate despite the increase in vaccinations, support the conclusion that routine childhood vaccinations do not contribute to SIDS."  Yet, there's no data on the incidence of SIDS prior to the smallpox and DPT vaccinations.  Thus, how can it be known the incidence of SIDS prior to vaccination?  In order for CDC's claim to have validity, there needs to be verifiable data/evidence the shows the incidence of SIDS prior to small pox and DTP vaccinations identical to the historical incidence of SIDS post-whole cell DPT vaccination. 

Larry J. Baraff, Wendy J Ablon, and Robert C Weiss wrote an article, "Possible Temporal Association Between Diphtheria-Tetanus Toxoid-Pertussis Vaccination and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome." for the Pediatric Infectious Diseases 2:1 [January, 1983], 7-11 issue).  In their investigation study, they interviewed parents of 145 of SIDS cases in person or by phone between January 1979 and August 1980.  They asked the following questions:

1. The baby's sex
2. The age of death
3. The last visit to the physician or nurse prior to death
4. Date of the last vaccination
5. name and phone number of physicians or nurse
6. Type of inoculation given 

They found a significant excess of deaths in the first day and first week after vaccination.

Another study was conducted by Alexander M. Waler, Hershel Jick, David R. Perera, Robert S. Thomas and Thomas A. Kanuss published in the American Journal of Public Heath 77:8 [August, 1987], 945-951.  This supports the link between the DPT and SIDS.  The authors found the SIDS mortality rate in the period of 0-3 days following DTP to be 7.3 times that in the period beginning 30 days after immunization.

Doug Payne wrote an article on adverse drug events causing hundreds of infant deaths annually.  (If you find the link no-longer in use, click here).  "Reported Adverse Drug Events in Infants and Children Under 2 Years of Age," was published in the November issue of Pediatrics and is based on reports received by the FDA from November 1997 to December 2000.  After analyzing the outcome of these reports (i.e. death, hospitalization and congenital anomaly), the highly suspected were drugs and the route of exposure which entailed direct administration or through the mother in prenatal period.  There were 1,902 therapeutic drugs identified along with non-therapeutic chemicals, biological products, vaccines...etc.  After overviewing the results of their study, the researchers make a profoundly careless conclusion in support of the drugs and pharmaceutical companies that adverse effects don't necessarily mean the medicine was at fault.  But "these results underscore the need for additional drug testing in the youngest pediatric patients and for carefully weighing the risks versus benefits of medication.  In other words, though they disliked the onset of adverse reactions caused by the experimentation they deny the potentially fatal risks and continue experimenting.

In 1993, CDC did a publication on infant mortality.   (You can also read it here) According to their statistics, there were a total of 33,466 deaths of which 4,669 were diagnosed as SIDS; 1,815 were diagnosed as Respiratory Distress Syndrome; 898 diagnosed as Accidents and adverse effects; and 530 diagnosed as Pneumonia and influenza.   These deaths took place before these children hit the highly celebrated one year mark of their lives.  According to a 1996 publication, less than 1% of adverse effects are reported due to gross under reporting.  So, by CDC's words, lets take the adverse effects number and multiply that by 100 and we have 89,800 adverse effects reported among children under one years old.    I am highly suspicious of the respiratory distress syndrome diagnosis as it is a common reaction to vaccines with the knowledge that the DTP alters breathing patterns in infants.  In light of other mentioned articles, I'm also suspicious of the SIDS diagnosis.  One would have to wonder if the respiratory distress diagnosis should be included in the SIDS category.  Should the SIDS numbers also be multiplied to 100% to get a more accurate calculation?  This type of data is incredibly hard to judge because of the different methods of diagnosis by countless physicians across the country. 

In his Article, "Why You Should Avoid Taking Vaccines", Dr. James Howenstine mentions that after the  administering of the diphtheria vaccine in England and Wales, in 1894, the number of deaths from diphtheria rose by 20 percent in the subsequent 15 years.  The incidence of SIDS has grown from .55 per 1,000 live births in 1953 to 12.8 per 1,00 in 1992 in Olmestead Country, Minnesota.  He observed the peak incidence of SIDS at ages 2 to 4 months, as did Dr. Torche.  85% of the cases occurring in the first 6 months of a child's life.  He also observed the rise of SIDS from 2.5 per 100 tin 1953 to 17.9 per 1,00 in 1992.  This was occurring a period when almost every childhood disease was declining to do better sanitation practices.   The increase is also at a time when childhood immunizations are raised to 36 per child.

In the last diphtheria epidemic in Russia, most of the deaths were among the immunized homeless alcoholics.

Dr. Geraghty, Bay Area Physician for the Study of Pertussis Vaccines states, "I'm convinced in my heart of hearts that 100 American infants a year are dying and another 250 are brain-damaged from DPT.  I would be prepared to clinically defend that to scientists.

Connaught Laborites is one of the manufacturers of the Pertussis vaccine.  In their 1986 package insert for Pertussis vaccine, they state SIDS has occurred after the inoculation.  That along with  persistent inconsolable crying lasting three hours or more, unusual high-pitched screaming, collapse, convulsions...etc.  They state that any of these symptoms are indicative of some degree of brain damage.

Australia's Dr. Viera Scheibner, Ph.D. and her husband (an electrochemical engineer, Leif Karlsson invented a Cot Watch breathing monitor for babies diagnosed as "at risk" for SIDS or "Cot Death", which is the term used in Australia.  Over a period of three years, they monitored and studied these infants.  The concluded in 1988 that vaccines are the common assault to the littler vulnerable SIDS babies.  Their proofs were carefully analyzed and documented and their flawless work submitted  for peer review.  There was no attempt to duplicate their work or alter public health policy to protect children.  Instead, those of the medical community opted to protect the financial interests of vaccine manufacturers.  Dr. Scheibner's work gives a strong implication that the powers that be responsible for designing and implementing immunization policies are doing so in the full knowledge that vaccines are causing the continuing rise in infant mortality every year. 

Vaccine advocates  have absolutely no irrefutable basis for debating Dr. Scheibner's findings and lack the ability to defend their motives because popular scientific journals (i.e. The Journal of the American Medical Association, the Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine...etc) have reports which back up her findings.

It was in 1988 that the Japanese government started recommending that vaccinations be held off until children reach their second birthday.   Japan saw a decline in SIDS.  However, not having really learned from this, the government went back to recommending vaccinations at 3 months of age.  Once again SIDS was rearing it's ugly head.  Following the same type of behavior, England dropped in their vaccinations rates 30% in the 70's.  As a result, a drop in the Pertussis deaths was observed.  However, not learning still, England has increased the dosage and their vaccination rate.

The National Vaccine Information Center conducted its own investigations in New York.  They found that only one out of 40 doctor's offices confirmed reporting of death or injury following vaccinations.  In other words,  97.5% vaccine related deaths and disabilities go unreported in New York every year.  An obviously strong suggestion that the occurrence of vaccine induced deaths and injuries may be 10 to 100 times greater than what's actually reported in New York alone.   The death toll due to vaccination is potentially catastrophic considering that New York is only one of over 50 states in the entire United States.  When factoring this astounding example of under-reporting, I can't help but conclude that vaccines may be 100 times more deadly than the disease they are claimed to keep away from our children.  

MMR vaccine VAERS reports 7 deaths per year (1990-1994):
"From July 1990 though April 1994, 5799 ADRs following MMR vaccination were reported to US Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS); including 3063 cases requiring emergency medical treatment, 616 hospitalizations, 309 who did not recover, 54 children left disabled and 30 deaths."--- John P Heptonstall

For Hep b vaccine there were VAERS reports of 54 deaths per year (1990-98)
"The total 24,775 VAERS hepatitis B reports from July 1990 to October 31, 1998 show 439 deaths and 9673 serious reactions involving emergency room visits, hospitalization, disablement or death."--Michael Belkin http://www.whale.to/vaccines/belkin1.html

For OPV vaccine there were VAERS reports of 108 deaths per year over a 5 year period.
"We commissioned an OPV Vaccine Report and started making all kinds of other inquires. The OPV Vaccine report that we received was a shocking report. It covered a recent period a little less than 5 years and the following is the summary for that period: The number of Vaccine Associated events that occurred: 13,641 ..The number of events resulting in death 540"--The Polio Connection of America & Polio vaccine victims: http://village.ios.com/~w1066/poliov6.html

"Since July 1990, 17,497 cases of hospitalizations, injuries and deaths in America following hepatitis B vaccination have been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) of the U.S. government. This figure includes 146 deaths in individuals after receiving only hepatitis B vaccine without any other vaccines, including 73 deaths in children under 14 years old.   In 1996 alone there were 872 serious adverse events in children under 14 years old reported to VAERS. 658 of those injuries were following hepatitis B vaccination in combination with other vaccinations and 214 of these injuries were after hepatitis B vaccination alone. In these children under 14 years old, there were 35 deaths after hepatitis B vaccination in combination and 13 deaths after hepatitis B vaccination alone, for a total of 48 deaths. Compare these statistics with the total number of hepatitis B cases nationwide reported that same year (1996) in children under 14, just 279, and the conclusion is obvious that the risks of hepatitis B vaccination far outweigh its benefits."---Incao's Hepatitis B Vaccination Testimony

For smallpox vaccine from 1924-1963 it was 20 deaths per year http://www.whale.to/m/encephalitis.html

• Of 297 death claims filed with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) with SIDS listed as cause of death, 93 have been compensated up to $250,000 because the court felt that the death was really vaccine induced. 28 have not been adjudicated at this point; the remaining 176 were thrown out.
• Of 471 Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) death reports covering a 4 year period, roughly 60% have the term "SIDS" somewhere in the report along with descriptions like "high pitched screaming from time vaccinated until death".
• "These SIDS deaths were significantly more than expected were there no association between DTP immunization and SIDS. These deaths were also significantly more than expected. These data suggest a temporal association between DTP immunization, physician visits without DTP immunization and SIDS." (Pediatric Infectious Disease - "Possible temporal association between diphtheria-tetanus-toxoid-pertussis vaccination and sudden infant death syndrome" , Larry J. Baraff, MD, et. al. Vol2, No 1, 1983 p7-11)
• "…we found the SIDS mortality rate in the period zero to three days following DTP to be 7.3 times that in the period beginning 30 days after immunization." (From American Journal of Public Health - "Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Immunization and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome", Alexander M. Walker, MD, et. al., Vol77, No 8, 1987 p945-950.
  
• "Causality between DPT, NMS, and SIDS is indicated by the brief intervals, atypical age for SIDS or NMS in some, similar SIDS pathology and symptoms in DPT postvaccinal deaths in the literature, reports of DPT-triggered apnea by Shannon, and experimental SIDS animal models by Steinman and Torch (1985)". (From Neurology - "Diphtheria-Pertussis-Tetanus (DPT) May Be an Unrecognized Cause of Sudden Infant Death (SIDS) and Near-miss Syndrome (NMS): 12 Case Reports", William C. Torch, April 1986, p149)

  View   annual VAERS-DEATH/SIDS reports accompanied by detailed comments from each diagnosed death

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Going back even further:

DIPHTHERIA VACCINE DEATHS 1919-1948

Vaccine	Incident	Number affected	Number of deaths
TAM	Dallas, TX 1919	120+	10
TAM	Belgium 1922	1	1
TAM	Concord & Bridgewater, Mass 1924	43	0
TAM	Baden 1924	17	7
Anatoxin	Tashkent 1926	14	12
Anatoxin	Medellin, Colombia 1930	48	16
Anatoxin	Itally 1933	several hundred	30+
APT	Kyoto, Japan 1948	606	68

"Between December 10, 1929 and April 30, 1930, 251 of 412 infants born in the Old Hanseatic town of Lubeck received three doses of BCG vaccine by the mouth during the first ten days of life.  Of these 251, 72 died of tuberculosis, most of them in two to five months and all but one before the end of the first year.  In addtition, 135 suffered from clinical tuberculosis but eventually recovered; and 44 became tuberculin-positive but remained well."-Sr Graham Wilson (Hazards of Immunization p66)

Manufacturers and government agencies have failed to show in any capacity that they err on the side of caution.  Instead, they choose denial and continue to plague global populations  with fear of diseases and the potentially fatal consequences that follow compliance to this reckless and dangerous practice.  It appears that in the wisdom of government agencies and the medical establishment, they've decided that 7,000 to 9,000 cases of SIDS every year is the necessary price to pay for the sake of public health.   Unsuspecting families are denied to make a thoroughly informed choice and pay the price unaware of the dangers.  The admissions of the FDA and CDC of the lack of adverse events reporting strongly suggests the numbers are actually in the millions.

France stopped allowing for the Hepatitis B vaccination because of too many adverse reactions.  America needs to follow.   Japan stopped the MMR immunizations for the same reasons.  Japan appears to have the reputation of showing more concern for their children.  America's government and medical community...how far does their concern go?  While some countries abroad take more precaution to what's allowed to be injected into their population, America continues to push with the propaganda and lies.  Our government and medical community use fear to make parents prove their love for their children.  You see signs of various forms posted in various places, "For the love of our children, immunize."  Some are worded differently, yet the message is still the same.   How about, "For the love of our children delay vaccines until you find all the facts"? 

It's time parents use that fear to research vaccines for what they really are without the distraction of sugar coated words from the pediatrician's office which rants and raves, "Vaccines are safe and save the lives of millions of children."  On the contrary, vaccines are NOT saving lives.  They continue to claim more lives every year and our government and needle happy physicians should be held accountable.  After all, who has to pay for when a child suddenly looses interest in social interaction after a series of vaccines?  Who has to pay when your child develops seizures?  Who will pay when your child goes into cardiac arrest?   Who will be held liable when your child stops breathing?  The Government? No!   Your physician? No!  Your child does.  You do.  And all you will hear from your physician and government is, "It wasn't the vaccine" or "I'm sorry...these things happen."  

If your pediatrician were to view the flawless work of Dr. Scheibner and the supporting publications by the popular medical journals previously listed, yet continue to insist on vaccinating your child there's one question they must answer: 

"Why should I not prosecute you for recklessly endangering my child's life?"

The Vaccination By Patricia Crutchfield His trusting eyes looked up at me He smiled his sweetest smile What a precious gift from God he was My son my first born child, The nurse came in and weighed him Put a thermometer briefly in his ear Then she told me to take off his diaper And expose his plump little rear. I did as I was instructed For I knew the procedure by now Its time for his next vaccination This time I won't flinch, I vow. The syringes and vial of the serums Lay benignly on her sterile steel tray And though I try to watch her, I find myself turning away. His scream at the prick of the needle Sends a bolt of pure terror through me Its animal like pitch was not normal And I tuned around quickly to see. His beautiful body went rigid Then spasmed again and again What's happening to my poor baby? And what can I do to help him? I could sense the nurse's pure panic As she called out to the doctor to come The seconds that passed seems like hours And where is that screaming coming from? I open my eyes in a room filled with light The silence a deafening roar My husband is standing beside me He says everything fine, but his tears tell me more I try to sit up, but I'm weary Another needle pierces my arm I drift off once again into darkness But my mind beats a steady alarm. Two days and two nights I am sedated Until now no one tells me why Then the doctor appears with my husband And immediately I start to cry My most precious gift has been taken He'll never again be mine to hold His body once so warm and loving Now lays on a slab icy cold I'm sorry says the good doctor A reaction we couldn't foresee Please accept my sincerest condolence I guess it was just meant to be Our son now plays with the angels And my heart breaks anew everyday Its the angels who tickle his tummy And it's in their arms not mine, he will lay A statistic, one in seventeen hundred That's what they say of my son But I say one child is too many To die from a vaccination So mothers do not be so trusting Hear me before it's to late Don't lose your child to the “program” Investigate before you vaccinate