For All the Promises, It is the Baby Taking the Risk

JABS is a support group for parents of vaccine-damaged children and is not anti-vaccine.

However, we do have concerns about multiple vaccinations, particularly in light of news over the weekend of 18 deaths over the last four years from different vaccinations.

We are also concerned about the series of combinations, in an already congested schedule, going ahead without any information on whether pre-licence trials have been undertaken in the UK using the proposed schedule.

Children will now receive 26 separate components by the age of 13 months.

Babies have never been given so many vaccines so close together in the UK and we are calling on the Government to provide the UK research evidence that this schedule is safe and effective.

Last week, we heard our chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, state: “Science shows that a baby’s immune system can cope with thousands of vaccines.” We have challenged him to show us that science. Thousands of vaccinations have never been given to an individual, let alone a baby that we know of.

Therefore, we want to know over what period of time these vaccinations were given, what the results were, and how the babies were afterwards.

The senior vaccine policymakers introduce new vaccines, claiming they are going to save lives, but fail to take any responsibility when a child has been damaged.

The types of damage reported to us following other vaccines are severe – reactions that have changed the course of the child’s life.

We know of cases of brain damage, epilepsy, loss of speech or communication, visual problems, deafness and autism.

There is a whole range of side effects.

Vaccine policy-makers are aware the vaccinations can sometimes cause severe adverse reactions. Manufacturers provide product information which is enclosed in every box of vaccine.

This is not normally shown to the parents, but they should request to see it.

The Department of Health aims to vaccinate around half a million children per year. We fear they are losing sight of the individual as they aim for “herd immunity”.

Past experience shows that pre-licence trials are too low in numbers and too short in duration to show up the rare events.

If the Department of Health is relying on inadequate pre-licence trials, the only safety mechanism in place to identify a serious adverse event is the post-vaccine surveillance system. This is where a health professional is supposed to submit a form to the Medicines Control Agency if someone reacts to a drug.

My understanding is that only 10% of adverse reactions get put forward in the correct way.

We need to remember that although vaccine policy makers make claims that the whole system works, they are not taking any risks at all. It is the baby taking the risk.

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Jackie Fletcher, national co-ordinator of Warrington-based Jabs (Justice Awareness and Basic Support)