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In a new research paper published in the journal Toxicology Reports, author Neil Z. Miller found that out of a total of 2,605 infant deaths reported to VAERS between 1990 and 2019, 58% occurred within three days of vaccination, and 78% occurred within seven days of vaccination.
In a new research paper published in the journal Toxicology Reports, author Neil Z. Miller reports on the relationship between sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) death and the timing of vaccination, based on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database.
SIDS is defined as the sudden and unexpected death of an infant that remains unexplained after a thorough investigation. Although there are no specific symptoms associated with SIDS, an autopsy often reveals congestion and edema of the lungs and inflammatory changes in the respiratory system, according to the National Center for Health Statistics Vital Statistics of the United States 1988, Volume II, Mortality, Part A, Public Health Service, 1991.
Prior to contemporary vaccination programs, SIDS — sometimes referred to as “crib death” — was so infrequent it was not mentioned in infant mortality statistics.
After the national immunization campaigns were initiated in the U.S. in the 1960s, for the first time in history, most U.S. infants were required to receive several doses of DPT, polio, measles, mumps and rubella vaccines.
Shortly after, in 1969, medical certifiers presented a new medical term — sudden infant death syndrome.
In 1973, the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics added a new cause-of-death category — SIDS — to the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD).
By 1980, SIDS had become the leading cause of postneonatal mortality (deaths of infants from 28 days to one year old) in the U.S.
As Miller points out in his article, the ICD category for vaccine-related death, or cause of death as “prophylactic inoculation and vaccination,” was eliminated when the ICD was revised in 1979 — despite the fact that this information would be useful in trying to understand the relationship between vaccination and death.
But Miller, a medical research journalist and the director of the Thinktwice Global Vaccine Institute, provides an alternative route for establishing such a correlation — by observing the temporal relationship between vaccines and reported infant deaths, including SIDS deaths, in the CDC’s VAERS database.
Miller found that out of a total of 2,605 infant deaths reported to VAERS from 1990 through 2019, the majority “clustered” in close temporal proximity to vaccination — 58% occurred within three days of vaccination, and 78% occurred within seven days of vaccination.
Miller found the excess deaths within these ranges were statistically significant (p<0.00001), meaning the chance that this result is random is less than 0.001%.
The same type of clustering was present in the 1,048 reports of infant deaths (out of the total 2,605) reported to VAERS specifically as SIDS.
According to Miller, if there were no correlation between vaccination and infant deaths, one would expect to see an even spacing of deaths within the time range reported prior to vaccination —- not a clustering of deaths as Miller found.
Miller included a comprehensive literature review in his paper refuting the “official” claim that the SIDS epidemic was curtailed by having infants sleep on their backs — as recommended by the “Back to Sleep” campaign, initiated in 1992 by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The subsequent rate of SIDS dropped by an annual average of 8.6% between 1992 and 2001. However, the neonatal mortality rate due to “suffocation in bed” increased during that same time at an average annual rate of 11.2%.
Other similar causes of infant death also increased significantly during this period, as reported by Miller. Further, from 1999 through 2015, the U.S. SIDS rate declined 35.8%. while infant deaths due to accidental suffocation increased 183.8 %.
Miller also affirms his main results from the paper (i.e., the temporal clustering of SIDS deaths with vaccination) through the discussion of seven additional peer-reviewed studies and two confidential reports.
On average, these authors found that substantial proportions of infant deaths occurred within one day (mean = 25%), three days (mean = 49%) and seven days (mean = 71%) post-vaccination, matching the results of the present study.
Mechanistically, vaccine injury has been tied to SIDS multiple times. Matturri et al. (2014) examined 13 SIDS deaths occurring within seven days of a hexavalent vaccine. Analysis of the brainstem and cerebellum of the deceased infants showed brain edema and congestion in all victims.
The authors hypothesized that “several compounds and immuno-potentiation adjuvants of the hexavalent vaccine might easily go beyond the blood-brain barrier, which in the first year of life is still immature and quite permeable, inducing neuronal molecular alterations in DNA, RNA and proteins of brainstem neurons regulating vital functions, with consequent fatal disorganization of respiratory control in particularly predisposed infants.”
Specifically, these authors implicated aluminum-based adjuvants in the dysregulation of respiratory control.
Scheibner and Karlsson (1991) monitored infant breathing during sleep before and after the DPT vaccination, revealing an increase in episodes where breathing nearly ceased or stopped completely. These episodes, which continued for several weeks post-vaccination, were not seen prior to vaccination.
Despite the official insistence that SIDS deaths are not caused by vaccination, as Miller points out, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation (NVICP) is set up to compensate families of individuals who are injured and/or die from vaccine administration.
Death from vaccination is compensated with $250,000 for “pain and suffering” to family members of the deceased victim. Conditions typically leading to death that are considered “table injuries” to be compensated under the NVICP include anaphylaxis and encephalopathy or encephalitis.
‘Healthy babies just don’t die for no apparent reason’
Kari Bundy, who lost her son after his four-month vaccinations, said she’s always been “flabbergasted” at the denial of the medical community of the link between SIDS and vaccines. “For me, it was too obvious to even attempt to ignore,” Bundy said.
Bundy lost her third-born child, Mason, in 2011.
“A few days after his routine four-month vaccinations, my husband and I discovered his dead body in the middle of the night, laying on his side, his body still warm,” Bundy said
Mason’s autopsy came back “unremarkable,” aside from some thymic petechiae, which is the most common gross finding in SIDS cases at autopsy.
“I was assured time and time again that he had not suffocated,” Bundy said.
When Mason died, Bundy learned if you can’t pay for a funeral, you can’t have one. So a few months after Mason’s death, she founded a nonprofit called Mason’s Cause, to provide grants to cover funeral costs for families who had experienced the loss of a child under the age of 1.
“I never wanted any parent to experience this devastating loss and not be able to bury their child,” Bundy said. She continued running the charity for just under 2 years, during which time she worked with 94 different families who experienced the death of a child under age 1.
Of those 94 infant deaths, 87 died from SIDS, or from causes “unknown.” Of the SIDS cases, 81 — or 93% — died within seven days of routine vaccinations.
“When I realized SIDS seemed to be undeniably related to vaccines, I realized I could no longer dedicate my life to running a charity that would help bury babies,” Bundy said. “That’s when I realized I wanted to save babies by speaking out about the real risks of vaccination.”
Bundy, who works for Children’s Health Defense as translations coordinator, said she’s grateful for research like Miller’s because it shows what she and all SIDS parents already knew — healthy babies don’t just die for no apparent reason.
This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Please consider subscribing to The Defender or donating to Children’s Health Defense.
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And, yes, the government knows they do
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Our friend and colleague, J.B. Handley, a graduate of Stanford University, a successful investor, and a father of three, has a young adult son with nonverbal autism.
As he details in his book, How to End the Autism Epidemic, Handley–like literally hundreds of thousands of other parents (including this one, this one, this one, this one, and this one)–watched firsthand how the vaccines given to his boy at every “well baby” visit caused his son Jamison to slip away into autism.
At the same time, the connection between vaccines and autism has been soundly dismissed by the CDC and the vaccine manufacturers. They insist that vaccines are “safe and effective” and that the idea that vaccines may cause autism–or any other health issue, for that matter–is nothing but “conspiracy theory.”
This blanket dismissal is nonsensical. Many excellent books have been written about why. For those of you who are new to thinking about vaccine safety issues, I’ll give you a few highlights.
Not a Conspiracy Theory
Despite the pharmaceutically-funded pseudo-science that claims otherwise, over-vaccination is likely a causative if not the causative factor in the rise in autism in the United States. In other words, yes, vaccines cause autism.
Our government knows about it and has purposefully kept this information from the public.
The truth is that our autism rates should be 1 in 10,000, which is what they were in the 1970s. Which implies that the vast majority of cases of severe autism can be prevented. There are safe and effective ways to help prevent your child from suffering from toxicant-induced brain and immunological damage. There are also safe and effective ways to recover your child from environmentally induced autism.
Some Backstory
In the late 1990s in the United States, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration began calculating the amount of mercury infants were receiving via intramuscular injection courtesy of childhood vaccines.
At that time, mercury, in the form of thimerosal, was added to vaccines as a preservative. But since in the United States, vaccines are approved on a vaccine-by-vaccine basis, no government agency had ever calculated the cumulative amounts of mercury exposure American babies were being subjected to.
The math yielded worrisome results. Government officials realized that the amount of mercury the average child was receiving far exceeded maximum safety levels. As David Kirby details in his 2005 bestseller, Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy, many parents believed that their children with autism were exhibiting symptoms of mercury poisoning.
To test whether the mercury in vaccines was causing brain damage, the CDC commissioned Thomas Verstraeten, M.D., to compare health outcomes in children who had received high doses of mercury early in their lives with children who hadn’t received any mercury.
When he crunched the numbers, Verstraeten found large statistically significant correlations between high doses of mercury and outcomes like autism, ADHD, tics, and speech disorders. He redid the numbers the next month and found an even higher correlation for autism. In fact, autism was more than 11 times as common in the high early exposure group than the non-exposure group.
These first calculations were nicknamed “Generation Zero” by the people at SafeMinds, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending the autism epidemic by supporting environmental research and effective treatments. SafeMinds, which was co-founded by Sallie Bernard and Lyn Redwood (a nurse married to a medical doctor), received the information through a Freedom of Information Act request.
So what did the CDC do with that information? First, they tried to make the signal go away. Then, when they couldn’t, they called a closed-doors secret meeting in June of 2000 at the Simpsonwood Retreat Center in Norcross, Georgia, to which they also invited vaccine manufacturers.
SafeMinds also received the transcript of the meeting in that same FOIA request.
Nothing To Worry About, Nothing At All
One doctor at that meeting insisted he didn’t want his new grandson to be injected with any thimerosal-containing vaccines. But, true to form, the Simpsonwood participants still managed to convince themselves there was nothing to worry about.
In fact, what they were most concerned about was the damage this information could do to the overall childhood vaccine program, not the damage that the vaccines were actually doing to the brains and bodies of America’s children. So, presumably with clear consciences, they decided not to make any of the worrisome findings available to the public.
Verstraeten massaged the numbers a few more times. Three years after the secret meeting at Simpsonwood, he finally managed to make enough of the signal go away that what remained was statistically insignificant–except for the connection between mercury-containing vaccines and tics. The end result was a neutral study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics in 2003, with no consistent findings. The authors reported “conflicting results” and could not make any definitive statements or reach any conclusions about whether thimerosal in vaccines caused brain damage.
The data was so inconclusive and the water so muddy, in fact, that all the scientists concluded was: “For resolving the conflicting findings, studies with uniform neurodevelopmental assessments of children with a range of cumulative thimerosal exposures are needed.”
But that wasn’t how the press reported it. Verstraeten’s “neutral” study was touted as “proof” that vaccines didn’t cause autism, even though the good folks at the CDC knew that it was anything but.
Without ever admitting a causal link between thimerosal and brain damage, vaccine manufacturers began a voluntary phase-out of mercury in vaccines.
While mercury is now used as an ingredient in only three brands of vaccines for influenza as well as one brand of tetanus-diphtheria vaccine, the problem of environmentally-induced autism continues.
Our public health officials continue turning a blind eye to the damages caused by the cumulative exposure to harmful vaccine ingredients.
Many of the world’s experts on aluminum–a known neurotoxin which is present in many of the childhood vaccines as an adjuvant–believe this ingredient is also causing brain damage and immunological damage to children born today.
One such expert is Dr. Christopher Exley, author of the book, Imagine You Are an Aluminum Atom. In a 2017 study, Exley and his team found high levels of aluminum in the brain tissue of autistic subjects. The sample study was small but the findings were significant. The location of this stored aluminum, inside inflammatory cells in brain tissue, led the researchers to speculate that aluminum could penetrate the blood–brain barrier through these inflammatory cells from a vaccine injection site.
These findings, however, did not seem to interest or concern public health officials. The response, as expected, has been to simply declare aluminum-adjuvant containing vaccines “safe.”
His research on aluminum in vaccines has had repercussions for Exley’s career, however. First, Keele University stopped sending press releases about his work. Then they silenced him and stopped his research by forbidding him from accepting any outside funding and shutting down his website, thus forcing him out of his job.
What About the MMR Vaccine and Autism?
If vaccines didn’t cause autism, we would no longer be talking about this issue. But hundreds of thousands of parents continue to witness severe health declines in their children after following their mainstream doctors’ orders. In the late 1990s, a group of these parents begged British gastroenterologists to help them.
A group of Britain’s best medical doctors at the Royal Free Hospital in London teamed up to figure out what was going on with these children.
Their extensive research led to the publication of a now infamous scientific paper whose lead author was a young gastroenterologist named Andrew Wakefield.
The now-retracted scientific paper mentioned that parents of children suffering from regressive brain disorders along with unusual intestinal problems reported that both conditions began shortly after their children received the live virus MMR vaccine (given to children to help protect them against measles, mumps, and rubella).
The MMR vaccine is a live-virus vaccine. It has never contained thimerosal or aluminum.
Vaccine apologists have criticized vaccine safety advocates for investigating different vaccines and analyzing the toxicity of different ingredients in their quest to better understand vaccine-induced brain damage.
Apologists complain that this is “moving the bar.” But the truth is autism rates keep going up and parents continue to report severe immune, gastrointestinal, and cerebral damage after vaccines. That is a clinical signal that should be investigated–not dismissed or ignored.
We can’t blame Andrew Wakefield or Jenny McCarthy. Most of today’s young parents have no idea who they are. Vaccine hesitancy does not continue because of an obscure now retracted paper published by a team of 13 scientists and retracted over a decade later.
That’s one of the many myths perpetuated by the industry.
No, vaccine hesitancy continues because parents continue to see poor health outcomes post-vaccination.
Vaccine apologists should be the most eager to champion and fund more vaccine safety research. Since they are sure that vaccines don’t cause autism, this research should exonerate vaccines once and for all.
The truth is we cannot say vaccines don’t cause autism until we have investigated every ingredient and every vaccine, as well as the potential for synergistic toxic effects of so many vaccines given to such young children.
It may be that the timing of the MMR vaccine–usually given between twelve and fifteen months–coincides coincidentally with the onset of autism symptoms, as some vaccine apologists have argued.
But it is also possible that the strong immune response provoked by the MMR vaccine plays a causative role in disrupting the brain.
The only accurate thing we can say about the connection between the MMR vaccines and autism is that parents have noticed a temporal association that scientists have not been able to adequately explain.
More Malfeasance at the CDC
A group of CDC researchers sought to get to the bottom of the MMR autism connection. They wanted to avoid the “irregularities” associated with the Verstraeten study by setting out a rigid protocol ahead of time. The problem was that when they did the study, they found that African-American boys who received the MMR “on time” (that is, before 36 months) were three and a half times more likely to develop autism than African-American boys who got the MMR vaccine after 36 months of age.
What did the CDC do this time? As Del Bigtree shows in his film, “Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe,” instead of publishing the data, the CDC again massaged it. They changed the study’s protocol. They dropped subjects who didn’t have Georgia birth certificates.
Since parents had to pay for those birth certificates, the children who were dropped were generally from poorer families who were disproportionately African-American. This change in the study protocol allowed the researchers to dump 40% of their data showing the connection between early vaccination with MMR and autism in African-American boys. Once again, the signal almost went away. And, again, the pharmaceutical-funded mainstream media jumped on the published study to crow that it proved that the MMR vaccine does not cause autism.
A Whistleblower Comes Forward
But there was a glitch. One senior scientist at the CDC, William Thompson, Ph.D., who participated in manipulating the study’s data in order to hide the clear connection between the MMR vaccine and autism felt guilty about what he and his colleagues had done.
He reached out to Brian Hooker, Ph.D., a Professor of Biology at Simpson University in Redding, California, who is also a data analyst and autism dad, to assuage that guilt. Hooker recorded their phone conversations. What Thompson told Hooker was documented in the 2016 film “Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe.”
The deliberate malfeasance in order to cover up the connection between vaccines and autism is devastating.
Given the CDC’s history of obfuscation on this subject, it shouldn’t be surprising that they utterly refuse to do the one type of study that could potentially settle the question forever: comparing health outcomes of a large number of randomly selected children who are fully vaccinated with the health outcomes of a large number of children who have never been vaccinated.
Every small study done to date has shown that unvaccinated children have less autism and enjoy better health than vaccinated children, as Dr. William Gaunt discusses in this article and this one. When Dr. Paul Thomas, M.D., hired an independent medical researcher to analyze the data in his practice, they found that children born into his practice who were exposed to the least amount of aluminum and the fewest vaccines also had the best health outcomes. However, this information is so threatening to the status quo that one of Dr. Paul’s two peer-reviewed scientific studies was retracted.
Retraction is an effective way to silence and discredit independent researchers whose publications threaten Big Medicine. Like data massage, it is a tool wielded by the pharmaceutical industry and the government entities they fund to keep information from you that they don’t want you to know.
It is imperative for the medical industrial complex to keep parents from knowing the truth about vaccine safety. The pharmaceutical industry and the American public “health” program that receives millions of dollars in funding from the pharmaceutical industry has too much to lose if the word gets out.
Are vaccines the sole cause of autism? No. Are there several other environmental factors that may be contributing to brain damage among America’s children, perhaps including over-exposure to ultrasound and over-exposure to toxic herbicides like glyphosate? Yes. Are some cases of autism simply genetic? Of course.
But there is no question that the CDC, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the vaccine manufacturers have colluded–and continue to collude–to hide data that indicate that vaccines can and do cause autism.
About the Authors:
Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., is an award-winning science journalist. She has been researching and writing about vaccine safety for almost twenty years. A regular contributor to The Epoch Times, she earned her B.A. from Cornell University, her M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and her Ph.D. from Emory University. She has worked on a child survival campaign in Niger, West Africa; championed the end of child slavery on live prime-time TV in Paris, France; and taught post-colonial literature to non-traditional students in inner city Atlanta, Georgia. She maintains a popular Substack channel, where a version of this article first appeared, and she is also the author/editor of eight books. Learn more about her at her website, www.JenniferMargulis.net.
Zoey O’Toole is a writer and editor currently working as the publisher liaison at Children’s Health Defense. A mother of two children who faced neurological challenges that were greatly alleviated by “alternative health” treatments, she served for many years as the Vice President for Communications for the Thinking Moms’ Revolution, where she was known by the nickname “Professor.” She has also edited a comprehensive series of 15 videos focusing on vaccine science for the website VaccineCourse.org, the launch of which has been delayed due to COVID. In addition, she worked on the English translation of the vaccine safety book, Turtles All the Way Down.
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