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AAPS FACT SHEET ON MANDATORY VACCINES
- AAPS does not oppose vaccines. AAPS has never taken an anti-vaccine
position, although opponents have tried to paint that picture.
AAPS has only attempted to halt government or school districts
from blanket vaccine mandates that violate parental informed consent.
- 42 states have mandatory vaccine policies, and many children
are required 22 shots by first grade.
- According to government statistics, children under the age of
14 are three times more likely to suffer adverse effects -- including
death -- following the hepatitis B vaccine than to catch the disease
itself.
- The Centers for Disease Control admits that the reported number
of adverse effects of vaccines is probably only 10% of actual
adverse effects.
- The Physician's Desk Reference cites adverse reactions to the
hepatitis B in less than 1 percent. However, if more than 70 million
American children receive the vaccine, that means more than 700,000
children are likely to suffer adverse reactions. Children are
a very low risk group for hepatitis B. Primary risk factors are
dependent on lifestyle, i.e. multiple sex partners, drug abuse
or an occupation with exposure to blood.
- Rampant conflicts of interest in the approval process has been
the subject of several Congressional hearings, and a recent Congressional
report concluded that the pharmaceutical industry has indeed exerted
undue influence on mandatory vaccine legislation toward its own
financial interests.
- The vaccine approval process has also been contaminated by flawed
or incomplete clinical trials, and government officials have chosen
to ignore negative results. For example, the CDC was forced to
withdraw its recommendation of the rotavirus vaccine within one
year of approval. Yet public documents obtained by AAPS show that
the CDC was aware of alarmingly high intussuception rates months
before the vaccine was approved and recommended.
- Mandatory vaccines violate the medical ethic of informed consent.
A case could also be made that mandates for vaccines by school
districts and legislatures is the de facto practice of medicine
without a license.
- The CDC's own "Guide to Contraindications to Childhood Vaccination"
warns that when assessing children's common symptoms, "if any
one of them is a contraindication, DO NOT VACCINATE" [caps added].
And yet, under legislated mandates, the vaccines are still required.
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc.
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Tucson, AZ 85716-3450
Phone: (800) 635-1196
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http://www.aapsonline.org/
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