Employee Vaccine Mandates: Observations of a Vaccine Rights Attorney#Vaccines#Health#iBelieve

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ “Healthy People 2020” initiative states a goal of vaccinating 90% of the nation’s healthcare workers with the influenza vaccine annually by 2020,[1] a goal well underway. A separate DHHS goal aims to vaccinate 80% of all U.S. employees annually with the influenza vaccine by 2020.[2]

There’s no light at the end of this tunnel. With literally hundreds of new vaccines in the works,[3] there will always be another person to get a vaccine, and another vaccine to give each person. Taxpayers, through state and federal governments, pay: 1) Billions of dollars in subsidies to pharmaceutical companies for vaccines,[4] 2) Our state and federal representatives to pass laws mandating more vaccines for children and adults while restricting access to vaccine exemptions,[5] 3) For vaccines purchased by government health agencies,[6] and 4) Over $100 million annually to compensate vaccine injury and death victims and their families.[7] Vaccine manufacturers have no liability, yet these same companies routinely engage in criminal behavior that routinely results in criminal fines in the 100’s of millions of dollars–a billion dollars in some cases.[8]

We can expect more or the same unless and until we become legislatively active and get laws passed giving us the right to make informed vaccine choices. Meanwhile, here’s a look at what’s happening around the country with employee influenza vaccine mandates.

What does the Science Say?

First, are policies mandating flu shots for employees scientifically justified? Multiple peer-reviewed medical studies and other mainstream medical sources tell us that influenza vaccines don’t work. In fact, the research reveals that they may actually lower protection and cause an increase in flu-like illnesses, while studies favoring the vaccine have been shown by independent sources to be fatally flawed.[9] Meanwhile, the very real, serious vaccine-induced injuries and vaccine deaths are downplayed or ignored altogether. Over 60% of recent government vaccine injury and death payouts have been for death and disability caused by influenza vaccines, more than all other vaccines combined,[10] and federal officials have admitted that 90-99% of serious vaccine adverse events never even get reported in the first place.[11] So, the origins of influenza vaccine policies have nothing to do with public health. We should be concerned about any mandate imposing on our personal health choices generally, but especially one aggressively promoted and forcibly applied that is based on a clearly false pretense such as the influenza vaccine campaigns. To understand what’s going on in the vaccine world, you have to understand medical politics. Vaccines are a growing multi-billion dollar international industry. Ironically, concerns about the underlying corruption and politics won’t help healthcare workers get an exemption, because hospital administrators, for example, with respect to healthcare worker influenza vaccine mandates, are just not in a position to debate the science when money is involved. Rather, these are points for our state representatives, in a face-to-face meeting if you want them to actually see or hear and respond to your concerns.

What Does the Law Say?

Several sources have claimed that hospitals must vaccinate 90% of their employees to avoid losing up to 2.5% of Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements, which could be a “make-it-or-break-it” proposition for many hospitals, financially. However, applicable regulations require only that hospitals report healthcare workers influenza vaccine data, they do not have a minimum vaccination rate requirement.[12] This may be why many hospitals have yet to implement strict influenza vaccine mandates, but more have been doing so with each passing year in recent years. Regardless, the implementation of influenza vaccine mandates for healthcare professionals is increasing, and is often pursued aggressively, with many hospitals naively seeking 100% compliance from their employees.

Meanwhile, most state exemption laws apply to students, not employees, so most U.S. employees don’t have a state exemption law they can use to refuse vaccines required for work. But employers are required, in effect, to provide an exemption once one is properly requested, under federal law. Some of the applicable federal law is discussed below.

What’s Really Happening?

Over the past 3-4 years, I’ve helped over 300 healthcare workers from New England to Hawaii avoid mandatory vaccines in the workplace, and that has given me some unique insights. One medical doctor reported having 4 patients that developed Guillaine Barre Syndrome (GBS) from the flu shot; 3 of them died. This is a far cry from some health officials’ “one in a million” claims. Nor is this an isolated case; many doctors report multiple GBS cases in their practices. And death, while perhaps a rare occurrence in terms of the percentage of vaccines administered, is nevertheless a common occurrence.[13] The severe adverse events of influenza vaccines are disturbingly misrepresented by public health officials, and no one can tell you your risk–whether or not you will be the next vaccine victim (unless you refuse the vaccine, which is the only time they can tell you with a high level of certainty that you won’t).

Anecdotal reports suggest that it is difficult for hospital employees to get a vaccine exemption. Nurses from different parts of the country have reported that their hospital systems received over 1,000 exemption requests, more than 1,500 in one instance; yet, hospital administrators bragged about allowing only four exemptions in one instance, and few to none in other cases. So, this is one exemption arena that can be difficult to navigate on your own.

While every situation is ultimately unique, some broad consistencies have stood out amongst my healthcare worker clients and their hospital employers. First, the vast majority of hospitals implement policies that violate federal law; they are overly restrictive in their zealous effort to maximize vaccine rates. Some of the most common unlawful policy provisions include: 1) Requiring a letter from a member of the clergy for religious exemptions, 2) Requiring employees to sign a statement saying they agree with “facts” with which the employee disagrees, 3) Openly identifying unvaccinated employees–for example, with colored dots on their name badges, and 4) Requiring unvaccinated employees to wear a face mask at all times during flu season. How to deal with these unlawful policies is another question, as hospital administrators are not likely to make policy changes based on their employees’ objections or opinions about the law.

Another alarming consistency is the large percentage of hospitals that have either recently been bought out, are in the process or being bought out, or are about to be bought out. That is, there is a rapid consolidation of hospitals going on throughout the country. While the underlying agenda is not entirely clear to this author, one obvious consequence is that decision-making authority is moving up; fewer and fewer people are gaining control of more and more hospital staff and patients. Many other industries have been experiencing rapid consolidations as well, while state and federal governments have been assuming more and more power, stepping over Constitutional boundaries as well. We are in the midst of a rapid restructuring of our society as we once knew it, and the result so far is a diminishing of individual autonomy and control over our lives. We should be very concerned about where this is all heading, and what we can do to reverse this transformation as soon as possible.

One disturbing example of this in the hospital world is that some hospital administrators refuse to revise their policies, to bring them into compliance with federal law, when confronted with the fact that their policies are unlawful, despite at least implicitly admitting that their policies are unlawful by granting my clients the exemption without the client having to comply fully with the unlawful policy. I have never had a hospital attorney argue that the hospital policy is lawful in such instances, but sometimes, hospital administrators will replace one unlawful policy with another unlawful policy in an effort to stave off the “unlawful” claim without actually implementing an unlawful policy that would risk having to allow more vaccine exemptions. But the risk from these shots, which offer little if any protection, is permanent disability and death. So, it’s clear that the nation’s healthcare system is pretty severely dysfunctional. This assertion was profoundly underscored in June of 2014, when the CDC’s vaccine safety research was exposed as flawed and falsified in a peer-reviewed medical journal.[14] This journal article was an amazing step forward toward exposing the truth about vaccines, but it will take a lot more than this to heal the system.

Medical Exemptions

I see a national trend of hospitals moving to more restrictive medical exemption policies. For example, an egg allergy used to be a commonly accepted basis for receiving a medical exemption in the workplace, but the trend is toward allowing medical exemptions only when there is a history of anaphylactic shock from a vaccine or Guillaine Barre Syndrome (GBS) within six weeks of a vaccine. One nurse had letters from three medical doctors each presenting a different medical basis for an exemption, but the employer still said “get the shot or you’re fired.” Equally disturbing, pregnancy is increasingly rejected as a medical basis for refusing a flu vaccine. It may be possible to mount a legal challenge against employers in these situations, but ultimately, medical exemptions may boil down to a battle of the experts–theirs against yours, and with all other things being equal, public policy, which favors vaccines, may determine the outcome.

Religious Exemptions

While state exemption laws usually don’t apply (MD, NH and ME are exceptions), federal civil rights law requires employers to “reasonably accommodate” their employees’ religious beliefs and practices. It is critical to understand that this law is not about “religion” as most of us think of it, but rather, it concerns how the law defines ‘religion’ for legal purposes. A complete explanation is beyond the scope of this article, but in brief, it does not matter whether or not you belong to any religious organization at all, or what your religion is if you do belong to one. In fact, there is even a category of moral and ethical beliefs you could hold as an atheist that are protected religious beliefs. So, you needn’t discount the possibility of a religious exemption just because you’re not a Christian Scientist, for example. However, most employees run into trouble when they write their own statement of religious beliefs opposed to vaccines, because the law on that point is just not consistent with most people’s common sense approach to the task. For example, vaccine safety and effectiveness issues are, legally, matters of science and medicine, and will cause a religious exemption request to be rejected. So while the scope of protected religious beliefs is quite broad, employee religious exemptions are tricky with respect to what specific beliefs qualify. For this reason, getting support from a knowledgeable attorney is advisable. It’s hard to come back later, after your exemption request is rejected, and say, “Oops–what I really meant to say was…”

Where Do We Go From Here?

There are two broad areas of concern on this issue: Current policy and law, and future policy and law. Regarding the latter, while some states such as Colorado mandate vaccines for healthcare workers (though in most states, it’s the employer, and not state law, that mandates employee vaccines), Oregon has a law prohibiting hospitals from mandating influenza vaccines for their employees. Where the rubber meets the road on this issue is primarily in the state legislatures. In recent months, there have been as many as 100 or more vaccine bills pending in over 30 states,[15] and most of those bills, if they become law, would advance a highly questionable pro-vaccine policy. So, if you want the right to make an informed choice, you’ll need to persuade your state representatives to pass laws giving you that right.[16] The more we allow our government to control our healthcare practices, the more opportunity there is for industry to influence that control to its benefit, while our health takes a back seat to those private agendas. Regarding the former–current policy and law–it is critical to get reliable information about your rights and how best to exercise them, and to understand what your options are if you do not get your employer’s cooperation. For example, with federal civil rights law, you can’t sue your employer even if you want to, unless you first file a “charge” with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency tasked with enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the workplace. Since there’s no cost for filing a charge, this option provides a potentially powerful tool for employees to enforce their rights. On a final note, there’s no need to be concerned about being an “at will” employee who can be fired at any time. While such employees may be fired for essentially no reason, they cannot be fired for an unlawful reason. So, requesting an exemption is not at all likely to result in your termination. But getting a vaccine could “terminate” your job if you are among those who experience a severe vaccine reaction, or even your life. Just one of more than 120 U.S. law firms that handle vaccine injury and death cases lists 166 cases over four years that includes nine deaths. Most of them are influenza vaccine GBS and death cases.[17]

Alan Phillips, J.D., is a “Vaccine Rights” Attorney who counsels clients and attorneys nationally on vaccine exemptions and waivers for school, college, work, in the military, for immigration, in child custody disputes, and international travel; and who assists vaccine legislative activists nationally. For more information, see www.vaccinerights.com.
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[1] U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, HealthyPeople.gov, 2020 Topics and Objectives, Objectives, Section IID-12.9, http://www.healthypeople.gov

[2] U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, HealthyPeople.gov, 2020 Topics and Objectives, Objectives, Section IID-12.5, http://www.healthypeople.gov

[3] “More Than 270 Vaccines in Biopharmaceutical Pipeline Offer Hope to Prevent/Treat Wide Array of Diseases,” Yahoo News, http://finance.yahoo.com

[4] See, e.g.,
a) Financing Immunizations, National Network for Immunization Information, http://www.immunizationinfo.org and
b) “Nation’s preparedness for health threats will be reviewed,” The Washington Post, December 2, 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com

[5] For a list of important pending vaccine bills, see the National Vaccine Information Center Advocacy Portal at www.nvicadvocacy.org. For how much we pay our state legislators, see “How much are your legislators paid?” The Washington Post, August 23, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com

[6] See Note [4]a.

[7] U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, Statistics Reports, http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/statisticsreports.html

[8] See, e.g.:
a) “Public Citizen Study: Pharmaceutical Industry Is Biggest Defrauder of the Federal Government Under the False Claims Act,” http://www.pharmpro.com
b) “GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3 billion fine after pleading guilty to healthcare fraud – the biggest in U.S. history,” MailOnline, http://www.dailymail.co.uk and
c) “Johnson & Johnson to pay $2 billion for false marketing,” CNN Money, http://money.cnn.com

[9] See., e.g.:
a) Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults, http://www2.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab001269.html
b) Vaccine News and Commentary from the University of Pennsylvania Centers for Bioethics, http://blog.vaccineethics.org citing 75 Fed. Reg. 35497 (June 10, 2010)
c) “Flu Shots, Fosamax and Pharmaceutical Fakery: The Common Use of Misleading Statistics in the Medical Literature,” Gary G. Kohls, M.D., Dec. 3, 2011, http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org
d) National Vaccine Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes, September 13-14, 2011, APPENDIX B: OSHA Position Statement, as submitted by Mr. Borwegen, representative of the Service Employees International Union, http://www.nvic.org
e) What, in Fact, Is the Evidence That Vaccinating Healthcare Workers against Seasonal Influenza Protects Their Patients? A Critical Review, Int J Family Med. 2012; 2012: 205464, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3502850/.
Influenza: marketing vaccine by marketing disease, BMJ 2013;346:f3037, http://www.beyondconformity.org.nz May 16, 2013
f) Study: Getting flu shot 2 years in a row may lower protection, CIDRAP, March 1, 2013, http://www.cidrap.umn.edu

[10] See, e.g.:
a) “Government Pays Damages to Vaccine Victims: Flu Shot Most Dangers with GBS and Death Settlements,” http://healthimpactnews.com, Health Impact News Daily, August 5, 2014; and
b) Client Compensation for Vaccine Injuries; Maglio, Christopher & Toale, just one of over 120 U.S. law firms that prosecute vaccine injury and death claims, http://www.mctlawyers.com/vaccine-injury/cases/

[11] See, e.g.:
a) Less than 1%, according to Barbara Fisher, citing former FDA Commissioner David Kessler, 1993, JAMA, in the Statement of the NVIC.
b) Less than 10%, according to KM Severyn, R.Ph., Ph.D. in the Dayton Daily News, May 28, 1993. (Vaccine Policy Institute, 251 Ridgeway Dr., Dayton, OH 45459)
c) 10%, according to the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), Fact Sheet on Mandatory Vaccines at http://www.aapsonline.org/testimony/mandvac.htm.

[12] Operational Guidance documents, CMS Resources for NHSN Users, CMS Requirements, National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/cms/. The four listed/linked documents that concern hospital reporting of Healthcare Personnel influenza vaccination data are: a) Operational Guidance for Acute Care Hospitals, b) Operational Guidance for Ambulatory Surgery Centers, c) Operational Guidance for Long-term Acute Care Facilities, and d) Operational Guidance for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities).

[13] See, e.g., footnote 10b, just one U.S. firm’s list of settlements in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), which lists 9 deaths out of 166 cases over a four year period, or 5.4% of the claims.

[14] Methodological Issues and Evidence of Malfeasance in Research Purporting to Show Thimerosal in Vaccines is Safe, BioMed Research International, http://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2014/247218/

[15] See, e.g., the National Vaccine Information Center’s Advocacy Portal at www.nvicadvocacy.org.

[16] I recommend a face-to-face meeting; state officials rarely respond to individual letters and emails. Have a well-referenced, bullet-point list of facts and a clear objective. For help with vaccine legislative activism, contact the author at www.vaccinerights.com and see the NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.nvicadvocacy.org.

[17] See Note [10]b.

About the author:
Alan Phillips, Vaccine Rights Attorney
attorney@vaccinerights.com, 1-828-575-2622
Vaccine Rights (www.vaccinerights.com)

 

Doctors Against Mandated Flu Vaccines#Flu#Vaccines#Health


Health Impact News Editor Comments

Mainstream news media sources (which are heavily funded by Big Pharma) would like everyone to believe that those in the medical field are united in their support of vaccines. However, there are many doctors and healthcare officials questioning the safety and efficacy of vaccines today. Since they often put their careers on the line by speaking out against the status quo regarding vaccines, they are, of course, the minority voice. That voice does exist, nonetheless.

This is especially true regarding the issue of mandatory flu vaccinations for healthcare workers. Doctors, nurses, and others are increasingly speaking out against mandatory flu vaccinations, especially in Canada.

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Proof – Governments Have Known for Over a Century that Vaccinations Cause Allergies and Anaphylaxis!!#Vaccines#Allergies#ASD

By TLB Contributor: Christina England   

I recently attended the annual Allergy & Free from Show in London. The show is the largest show of its kind in the UK, with over three hundred exhibitors, displaying everything from wheat-free biscuits to allergen-free mattresses.

There were a vast number of exhibitors, exhibiting an array of produce for wheat-free, gluten-free, egg-free, dairy-free, soya-free and nut-free diets, and after attending a number of lectures on food allergies, I began to question what was behind the rapidly growing problem of severe food allergies.

The exhibitors informed me that the number of people who suffer from food allergies has grown to an all-time high, with at least one in five people in Britain suffering from a food allergy or food intolerance. Interested in their comments, I asked them what they believed was causing this massive increase. Although many were reluctant to answer my questions, a few people told me that they believed that environmental factors were at the root of the problem.

Intrigued, I asked them whether or not they believed the large number of childhood vaccinations could be to blame for the increase. Although a few did believe that this was a possibility, none of them wanted to be interviewed on the topic…

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Victims Crippled and Killed by the Flu Shot Compensated by US Government#Vaccines#Flu#iBelieve

Health Impact News Editor

The June 2014 report from the Department of Justice on damages paid by the U.S. Government to vaccine victims was recently published on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources website. There were 120 cases of vaccine injuries decided. 78 cases received compensation, while 42 cases were denied.   

Most of the U.S. public is unaware that a U.S. citizen, by law, cannot sue a pharmaceutical company for damages resulting from vaccines. Congress gave them total legal immunity in 1986, and that law was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2011. There is a special “vaccine court” called the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program that is funded through a tax on vaccines. If you are injured or killed by a vaccine, you must hire an attorney and fight tax-funded government attorneys to seek damages, as you cannot sue the drug manufacturers. As you can see from the report below, it takes years to reach a settlement, with the longest case below being settled after 11 years. Therefore, this report probably only represents a tiny fraction of the actual number of people harmed or killed by vaccines, since it is so difficult to fight the government in court to win a settlement.

As in previous reports, the June 15, 2014, report covering a 3-month period shows that the flu vaccine is the most dangerous vaccine in America…

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VACCINATIONS: KNOW THE RISKS#Vaccines#ASD#iBelieve

There is a wide spectrum of vaccine complications, which have been identified and acknowledged in the medical literature and by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), National Academy of Sciences, including:14 

  • Brain Inflammation/Acute Encephalopathy
  • Chronic Nervous System Dysfunction
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Febrile Seizures
  • Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)
  • Brachial Neuritis;
  • Acute and Chronic Arthritis
  • Thrombocytopenia
  • Smallpox, polio, measles and varicella zoster vaccine strain infection
  • Death (smallpox, polio and measles vaccine)
  • Shock and “unusual shock-like state”
  • Protracted, inconsolable crying
  • Syncope
  • Deltoid Bursitis

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Ukraine Swine Flu deaths indicate H1N1 vaccine and biological weapon link#Vaccines#Flu#iBelieve

I am most interested in the facts involved, in regards to vaccines. I have also found mounting concern, and warnings from doctors, and researchers in this area and pollutants in general, the world over.

There have been numerous, questionable incidents surrounding the H1N1 vaccine. It is hard to consider that there could be any group that would design a vaccine to use as a weapon.  It doesn’t hurt to make a mental note, and employ study, and instinct when making informed decisions regarding this vaccine.

Is it possible that H1N1 is a Biological Weapon?


 According to a news article in Russia this week, autopsies on H1N1 victims doctors have confirmed pneumonia was not the cause of death. Cardiopulmonary insufficiency and cardiogenic shock are to blame and antibiotics should not be used.

The virus is said to be a mixture of Para influenza and influenza A/H1N1. It penetrates the mucus membranes, and then enters directly into the lungs causing bleeding.

Ukraine Deaths are not Pneumonia

The Head of the Chernivtsi regional forensic bureau, Professor Victor Bachinsky PhD, makes a strong statement, “All the victims of the virus in Bukovina (22 persons aged 20 to 40 years) died not from bilateral (double) pneumonia, as previously thought, but as a result of viral distress syndrome, i.e. the total destruction of the lungs. In the Chernivtsi region 18 people have died. We studied all the history and evidence from this disease, preclinical, clinical, resuscitation. When we perform an autopsy organs and tissues have histological studies (cell analysis) and we concluded that it was not pneumonia, and has no relation to pneumonia whatsoever.”

Profession Victor Bachinsky, PhD is head of the regional forensic bureau, a group of 5 specialists, morphologists and doctors in Bukovina. This group of professors has established the diagnosis based on autopsies and lab tests.

Professor Bachinsky also stated the severity of the virus depends on a person’s immune system. Those with strong immune systems will overcome it easily, some not even knowing they are ill.

Antibiotics are not an Option

“Antibiotics definitely should not be taken.” Bachinsky further stated, “Antibiotics are the reason we have such a high mortality and infection rate in this country, because people go to the pharmacy, describe their symptoms to the pharmacist and ask for drugs. They buy antibiotics, take them, this lowers their immune system and as a result they become sick. If prescriptions were required to buy these medications, like in other countries, this would not have happened. It is the ability to buy antibiotics over the counter without a prescription which has done so much harm to the State.”

The toxic strain of this virus literally destroys the lungs and is responsible for deaths in Bukovina and throughout the Ukraine. Once the virus enters the lungs, hemorrhaging begins immediately. There is a cardio-pulmonary insufficiency and cardiogenic shock. People die of cardiogenic shock. Baskinsky explains further, “And there is no pneumonia. Pneumonia – an inflammation, which is treated with antibiotics. Antibiotics cannot help at any stage. There should be absolutely different treatment.”

Tami flu is recommended for treatment on the second or third day of the disease, but it can not be used as a preventative medication.

Prevention is the best Medicine for the Swine Flu

Prevention should be the strengthening of the human immune system. Professor Bachinsky recommends, “Garlic, onions, wild rose, viburnum (guelder rose), raspberries, citrus fruit, honey, and other fruits and vegetables – whatever you want. Those with a strong immune system will survive. Those with weaker immune systems will succumb to the disease.”

H1N1 Swine Flu Bio-Weapon Link

Professor Victor Bachinsky, PhD., is a coroner in the Chernivtsi region of Ukraine. He provides evidence which indicates that Para influenza mixed with the H1N1 virus, not pneumonic plague, has caused so much illness in Ukraine. Yet more strains of influenza which have combined, a strong indication that we are dealing with a laboratory developed bio-weapon.

This is not the only claim indicating a link to the H1N1 Vaccine to being a biological weapon.  According to an article from the Netherlands, Joseph Moshe, a former microbiologist with the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, was arrested in
Los Angeles back in August 2009 after making threats against the White House.

After his arrest there were several reports where Moshe called into a radio show warning of the biological weapon being created in the
Ukraine.  These reports accuse the Ukrainian company Baxter International of creating this bio-weapon, that would be transmitted via a flu vaccine.

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Gardasil and Vitamin Deficiency?#Vaccines#Health#Adverse reactions to vaccines

Gardasil and Vitamin Deficiency?

April 22, 201

By Derrick Lonsdale, MD

Dr. Lonsdale: Gardasil and Vitamin Deficiency

Dr. Lonsdale: Gardasil and Vitamin Deficiency?

In July 2013, I received an e-mail from the mother of an adolescent girl who had received Gardasil vaccination some four years previously.  Her many symptoms that had mystified her doctors were eventually diagnosed as Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), published recently as a complication after the administration of this vaccination[1].  The mother had conducted her own research and had come to the unlikely conclusion that her daughter suffered from beriberi.

A better name for this condition would be thiamin deficiency disease since the name beriberi was originally derived from its common occurrence in eastern countries where rice has been the staple diet for centuries.  Outbreaks of the disease were often associated with increased affluence when the peasants could afford to have the rice milled to remove the husks, yielding white rice that looked better when it was served.  The vitamins are in the husks, so this is a historical example of high calorie carbohydrate malnutrition, sometimes known as empty calories.

The question that this mother asked me was, “Does this make any sense and if so can it be proved?”

The idea of a vaccination actually causing a vitamin deficiency disease like this appears, at first sight, to be completely absurd. I reported to her that there was a very accurate blood test available to prove thiamin deficiency and this requires some explanation.

Erythrocyte (red blood cell) transketolase

All of our body and brain cells are chemical micro-factories.  Each cell must create energy in order to perform its specialized function. This energy is provided by “engines” (mitochondria) within each cell.

Using this energy to build complex molecules in the body (e.g. a hormone) is performed in a series of “steps” (chemical reactions), each of which requires an enzyme.  The enzymes, complex proteins, act as catalysts that enable a series of chemical reactions to take place as simpler chemical compounds are gradually made more and more complex.

Each enzyme, however, cannot work efficiently without one or more cofactors, naturally occurring vitamins, most of which, like thiamin, have to be obtained from diet.

Red blood cells, aside from their ability to transport oxygen from the lungs to the tissues, have another vital function involving a series of chemical changes, in which the enzyme transketolase is required.  Cofactors for this enzyme are thiamin (vitamin B1) and magnesium.  Without them, the enzyme is partially crippled.

By taking a blood sample and measuring the speed at which the chemical product of the transketolase enzyme is synthesized, we can ascertain its baseline efficiency.  If, by adding thiamin, this activity accelerates, we know that that is what the enzyme required in order to reach its maximum efficiency. The acceleration can be measured as the percentage increase over the speed of the first reaction before thiamin is added.

Although the so-called gold standard advised by the Mayo Clinic for ascertaining deficiency of thiamin is by measuring its level in the blood, this level may be completely normal in the presence of deficiency.  This is because thiamin is required inside the cell in order to maintain its vital functions.

Measuring the concentration of thiamin in blood when it is outside the cells that require it bears no relationship with its presence or biologic function inside the cell. The same thing applies to measurement of magnesium deficiency.

The enzyme transketolase is also present in brain where it has a vital function. Reduction of its activity from deficiency of thiamin or magnesium causes brain dysfunction, particularly in the lower part of the brain, the limbic system and brainstem that are known to be highly sensitive to these deficiencies.

Because thiamin is so vital to the enzymes involved in energy metabolism involving consumption of oxygen in the brain, thiamin and mild to moderate oxygen deficiency both produce exactly the same changes as recognized by a pathologist using a microscope.

POTS, beriberi and dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system

The courageous mother of this young lady followed through with the transketolase test. It was strongly positive for thiamine deficiency, providing scientific proof that her hunch was right.

Two other girls and a boy, all of whom were known to this mother and who were suffering from post-Gardasil POTS, also had the transketolase test done.  All showed thiamin deficiency.

Another girl, also known to the mother, had P OTS.  Although she had not received the vaccine, her transketolase test showed thiamin deficiency.

Let me explain this source of confusion.  We have two nervous systems.  One is called the voluntary system by which we can act according to will and controlled by the thinking brain.  The other one is called the autonomic nervous system (ANS), controlled by the limbic system and brainstem, the evolutionally more primitive part of the brain.  This computes a given mental or physical environmental situation (stress) by means of our senses and enables us to adapt automatically to what might be called the “stress factors” that we meet on a daily    basis. For example, we sweat when it is hot and shiver when it is cold, both activated as an adaptive response to the “stress” of environmental temperature.

When the function of the autonomic nervous system becomes abnormal it is known as dysautonomia (dys, meaning abnormal; autonomia referring to the ANS).  Because this part of the brain is automatic and acting on a 24 hour basis, its energy requirement is very great and it is highly sensitive to loss of efficiency in oxidative metabolism.

Thiamin plays a part in other enzymes besides transketolase and they all have a role in the fundamental basis of energy metabolism. The union of oxygen with glucose (cellular fuel) is catalyzed by thiamin in oxidation (burning) to provide energy used for function.  It is therefore not surprising that thiamin deficiency severely affects the limbic system and brainstem.

Beriberi in its early stages is exactly like POTS arising from other causes, both being forms of dysautonomia.  By depicting thiamin deficiency, one specific cause of POTS is isolated.

The potential role of stress

It took many years to discover that thiamin deficiency was the cause of beriberi and we can use the history of this discovery to illustrate what might be termed the stress factor.

In the 19th century, factories were built in blocks, separated by corridors.  In the summer months workers would take their lunch in the corridors.  Initially they would be in the shade but when they were exposed to the sun as it began to shine into the corridor, some of the workers would get their first symptoms of beriberi.  It was because of the symptoms being initiated in a group of people at the same time that led to the long held and inaccurate conclusion that it was an infectious disease.

We now know that the ultraviolet component of sunlight imposes a significant stress on the human body and is the reason that we tan to provide a natural form of protection.  Any form of stress imposes a biological burden, requiring energy to meet the adaptive response.  There are in fact several, genetically determined diseases of metabolism that are intermittent in nature.

The affected person may be relatively normal until a stress factor such as a mild infection, an injury or even an inoculation is imposed.  The clinical expression of the disease then becomes manifest.

The stress factor, completely innocuous to a healthy energy metabolism, can initiate symptoms in a person where that energy metabolism is at risk.  The workers that succumbed to their first symptoms of beriberi under these conditions had a degree of thiamin deficiency that was as yet without symptoms or they were trivial, perhaps ascribed to other causes.

Conclusion and hypothesis

Three girls and one boy, all who have suffered the long-term effects of post-Gardasil P OTS, have been shown to be thiamin deficient by means of a transketolase study.

Without going into details, the family history of the boy suggests that genetics may play a part.  Another girl with P OTS had the same test and was thiamin deficient, but had not received the Gardasil vaccine.

All four of the vaccinated individuals were considered to be unusually bright students, athletes, or both, before they received the vaccine.

Thiamine deficiency results in an energy deficit and has been shown to damage mitochondria.  The brain has a high oxygen demand and it would be expected that its use would be proportional to the degree of intelligence.  Hence the intelligent student might be expected to be more at risk from high calorie marginal malnutrition.

I suggest that HPV vaccination acts as a non-specific stress factor, in a marginal state of energy metabolism, although there is another peculiar caveat to the Gardasil vaccine.  It is a yeast based vaccine in its synthesis.  The type of yeast used contains thiaminase II (another enzyme exists called thiaminase I), an enzyme that breaks the thiamin molecule down, making it biologically inert

Thiaminase disease has been described in Japan in conjunction with dietary thiamin deficiency.  The ingestion of sugar in its many different forms in the modern world, particularly in children and adolescents, overloads the capacity of thiamin to process it.  This results in a calorie to vitamin ratio that is abnormal and could be referred to as relative vitamin deficiency.

The HPV vaccination “stress factor” might be the “last straw” in those with a genetically, or dietary determined risk.

 
References:
[1] Blitshteyn S.  Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome following human papilloma virus vaccination. Eur J Neurol 2014;21:135-139.
 
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This simple test that Dr. Lonsdale suggests might save families months of trial and error testing, and place them on the road to healing much earlier.   Thank you Dr. Lonsdale, for your concern and expertise in this area.