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Dr. Vojdani appeared before the US Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs on November 16, 1993 to provide testimony relative to immunological studies on blood samples of Persian Gulf War veterans and controls. His findings indicated that some of the veterans who had been exposed to chemical agents while serving in that war had neuroimmunological disorders. This testimony was instrumental in winning the passage of a law, initiated by Chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, Senator J. D. Rockefeller on November 22, 1993 that would provide free medical care to Persian Gulf War veterans.
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How to Administer Vaccines Safely
Delaying to a Safe Age
Vaccines, What Age is Safe to begin?
Vaccines, Safe Age Depends on Countries/Hygiene, 1 to 2 years
Vaccines, Need to be Given so Early? Pt1 Which Work? 58s
Delaying Vaccines, Danger of Epidemics? Hygiene Hypothesis
At Risk & Ill Infants, Contraindications, SIDS & SBS
Vaccines, at Risk Infants, Pre Screening, Delays, Single Virus
Vaccines, How Long Should you Delay After Illness?
Vaccines, Unsafe with Asthma, Allergies
Vaccines, Infant Health & History, Cord Blood Screening. SIDS, SBS
Safe Formulations & Testing Antibodies
Vaccines, Why do Outbreaks Occur in the Vaccinated? Need to test Antibodies 1m 19s
Current Vaccines, Can Any be Safely Given to Children? 2m 02s
Pro Vaccines, but Safe Vaccines, Single Virus, No Toxic Chemicals 1m 47s
Safe Vaccines, Single Virus, Mature & Healthy Immunity, Test Antibodies
Vaccines, Need to test Antibodies. His Family as an Example
Can Antigens or Peptides Provoke Antibodies? Lyme Disease, Borrelia
Safe Vaccines, Conclusion
Pre Screen Cord Blood, Delay, Single Virus, Test Antibodies 1m 23s
Vaccines, Vitamin C & A Prior to and After Minimize Damage 1m 04s
Videos & Transcripts Part 2
How to Administer Vaccines Safely
Delaying to a Safe Age
Vaccines, What Age is Safe to begin?
TRANSCRIPT:
“I go one step even further down that we know that the immune system is in the process of maturation and that is why nature gave us passive immunity.
Why did nature give us passive immunity? Another meaning, the antibody from the mother, the IgG are transmitted to the fetus. When the fetus is born, for six months, it is protected against viruses and bacteria and everything. So, when the child is born and we are getting exposed to environmental factors, to build the immune system, to build the immune system and then I believe at least it takes about one year in order the immune system to build itself and to become mature.”
Vaccines, Safe Age Depends on Countries/Hygiene, 1 to 2 years
TRANSCRIPT:
“Children in Africa and Middle East and South America, their immune system is much stronger because prior exposure to many, many bacterial antigens.
In America and Europe, and again because we are so much hygiene oriented, we try to keep them in a clean environment, their body is not exposed to bacterial and viral antigens in the environment. Therefore the immune system is not mature enough and therefore my argument is that if our children’s immune system is not developed very well in first six months or a year, we should not give them immunization right away. We should wait until their immune system is completely mature and then give them the viral antigens in the form of vaccines in order to hopefully to be able to handle that level.
– And at what age does a child really reach maturity level for immunity.
I believe about 1 year to two, and that is based on some of the immune functions we are doing in our laboratory.”
Vaccines, Need to be Given so Early? Pt1 Which Work?
TRANSCRIPT:
“I think the MMR are protecting against diseases. Hepatitis B is given very early, very, very early I don’t know why they are so much in rush. They can give it at one year, two year, three year just before kindergarten when they get exposed, children get exposed to so many other children.
So, therefore I am first of all against giving hepatitis B at first day and we should postpone that to a year or two.
In relation to MMR, definitely I believe it does protect sub population of children against many diseases, but the other sub population which is a small percentage are suffering from the current schedule and therefore I believe we should separate the viral antigens and give them one at a time at a later age another three months.”
Vaccines , Need to be Given so Early? Pt2, Japan 0 Deaths for 10 years, Replace 70 year old Preparations with Safer ones
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“ – I read a study that in Japan between 1975 and 1985 they didn’t have one single occurrence of sudden infant death syndrome and they attributed to the fact that the vaccine schedule for children was pushed back to two years of age. No vaccines were administered until two years of age. Do you have information about it or comment on that. Is there any reason why we can’t just do that kind of experiment and try putting off the vaccinations for children? What kind of danger is there to the population if we would hold off on these vaccines?
Yeah, that information by itself is very valuable and speaking for itself, and I don’t understand why in America we are so resistant to change. This procedure of viral vaccine or bacterial vaccine preparations were developed almost 70 year ago.
Now we are at 2005, we have many advancement in many, many other fields, computer science and so forth but you know in the field of vaccine preparation unfortunately we are sticking to the methodology of 70 to 80 years ago,
so we should change and I don’t understand why medical community is so much resistant for changes. I read many, many articles that there are now very safe adjuvants. Adjuvants meaning you know you add some kind of material to enhance the antigenic capacity of the vaccine, That are plant based.
Why should we not change our vaccine preparation and add to them adjuvants which are plant based for example and why we should not eliminate completely the mercury which we know is very toxic from the vaccines, and again I don’t understand why we have so much resistance and we should just be open minded and say if this is a toxic material, we should remove it and have safe vaccines to replace the existing ones.”
Delaying Vaccines, Danger of Epidemics? Hygiene Hypothesis
TRANSCRIPT:
“I think we should separate between developed countries versus developing countries. That is you know analogy or something of a expression that is used for countries like America and Europe versus Africa and Middle East or South America. I am sure you know that there are many diseases in the Western world that we do not have them or in developed versus developing countries, and that is all when we examine goes back to hygiene hypothesis.
The hygiene hypothesis is a new chapter in immunology is telling us that if a child after birth is exposed to many bacterial antigens in the environment, the immune system is going to be developed in such a way that will not have allergies and asthma, and if those kids like in America and Europe, they are not exposed to environmental bacteria and antigens and so forth, their immune system is going to be developed in such a way they are going to have more allergy and asthma and that is a clear-cut evidence that we know that in Africa and South America and Middle East children have less asthma, less allergy, but in America and Europe we have more allergy and asthma due to development of the immune system.
In America, we keep the children more probably clean and we are more hygiene oriented. We do not let their immune system to be developed in such a way naturally to protect themselves and therefore they develop allergy and asthma. So, back to the vaccines,
nothing is going to happen if we postpone 3 to 6 months or a year to do the immunizations. I am not against the vaccines, but I am saying that we should postpone it for few months or a year, let the immune system to be developed similar to developed countries where the immune system of children because of exposure to bacteria and viruses, it is mature enough to handle vaccines and therefore we cannot say, okay the whole world should not be immunized. We never said that, what I am saying that children in America and Europe are different from children in Africa and Middle East and South America. Therefore,
we should let the immune system to be developed to a level that they can handle the viral antigens and therefore can handle the vaccines.”
At Risk & Ill Infants, Contraindications, SIDS & SBS
Vaccines, at Risk Infants, Pre Screening, Delays, Single Virus
TRANSCRIPT:
“I think the only way the system works that the pyramid, it goes from the top to the bottom, if pediatrician is here and from pediatrician goes to the baby, right, so from the top National Institute of Health or the government for me is the top of the pyramid. Every change, any change should come from the top the bottom, so if they will recommend so kind of research that will have preimmune screening in place, based on that we can classify children as you know good immune system versus no good immune system, then that information or that prescreening will be recommended from the government to organization of the pediatricians in American College of Pediatrics and then American College of Pediatrics will their members to do these prescreening, only in that situation everything will be in place. Otherwise, pediatricians by themselves cannot do it. So, our choice is to educate the public, the public will go to the government and influence the government to fund some kind of research to do this prescreening of the immune system and based on that hopefully one day five years from now, 10 years from now, we will have prescreening in place which pediatricians will do them in their offices or send them to other laboratories who have the capacity to measure the immune system. That is the only way we can prevent this.
– So in fact we would need to devise a difference set of the mandated schedule based on the immunity level, that the classifications of the immunity level of these children. We need separate mandated schedules.
Yes absolutely, absolutely. Otherwise, you know, at least if they cannot do that, I believe they should separate the viral antigens. They should not given all three at the same time, hepatitis B should not be the first day, they should wait at least six months and from six months and on they give each viral antigen, you know, one at a time.”
Vaccines, How Long Should you Delay After Illness?
TRANSCRIPT:
“I think you know if the child is having weight loss or is not gaining weight, absolutely you do not do immunization until the child’s immune system is back to normal and having good diet, eating well, and gaining weight and that level can handle the viral antigens, but when it is losing weight meaning the immune system is not functioning. That is the best indication that the immune system is not ready to handle vaccines. So, they should wait until all that is over, so we cannot put a time limit of a month or two or six months, in this case you have to wait until the child’s immune system is so strong that he is able to handle those viral antigens, but not all at the same time, one at a time.
-So, even for an infant a four week lapse would be satisfactory?
I believe so. It is much better than to just give all of them mixed together and give them to that child.
– And on the weight gain factor, okay, but what about symptoms of illness or cold, how much time should we give an infant before we could safely administer vaccines.
I think if there is any cold or flu, about two months.
– Two months from the end of the symptoms?
Yes.”
Vaccines, Unsafe with Asthma, Allergies
TRANSCRIPT:
“I think patients with tendency to allergy in general and asthma, it is not safe to give them immunization.
– At all?
At all or should be given very, very carefully at least you know one at a time, not multi doses.
– I see some pretty scary pictures of eczema babies that were administered the smallpox vaccines. Is there anything that could be done if this kind of a reaction occurs or is it…..
I don’t know. That is…..
– I guess not.
Again, you have to get to the bottom of that. For example, I know that children who have milk allergy, they develop significant amount of eczema. So, if you put them on milk-free diet and they improve, two months or three months later they may be able to handle the immunization.
– Some more similar studies would have to be done basically to..
Right.
– To determine if it is safe.
Right, exactly.”
Vaccines, Infant Health & History, Cord Blood Screening. SIDS, SBS
TRANSCRIPT:
“– the administration of vaccines is contradictory in case of complications with infants such as premature babies, underweight babies, genetic predisposition to diseases, to seizures; meanwhile, I am being told that no prescreening is really made and across the board most infants are being vaccinated coming into the whole issue of shaken baby syndrome and sudden infant death, a lot of these babies after the fact we find out that their family history should not have predisposed so early to vaccination, what are the guidelines. Why isn’t screening done. What should we avoid?
I think, again, firmly believe that when immune system is not developed we should postpone the immunization, and exactly your question, right now you said that certain underdeveloped children or some with some type of diseases which their immune system is not mature, those individuals, that is why they recommend no immunization,
but I have also experienced with pediatrician which I sent my own niece to the pediatrician and asked her not to immunize at age 3 months, wait and immunize at age 6. Her answer was that if I will not do that, the State of California will put me in jail.
So, another meaning that the pediatricians they don’t have a choice. They have to go according to their books. They don’t have a means to screen the children to see whether or not they have a good immune system or not a good immune system, whether they can handle the vaccines or not handle the vaccines, so pediatricians are going according to the books and recommending immunization.
Now, as an immunologist I am sure there is a way and this is where research could come in play, and for example take cord blood. When a child is born, take some cord blood and test for some markers of the immune system in it. If you find some of those markers are in place, you can say, yes this child’s immune system is more mature relatively and can handle immunization. Another child if it does not have those immune markers in the cord blood, then we can say well at least in this case wait three months or six months. This is something that should happen at the national level and research should be done at least with cord blood. It is so easy to obtain. Do some immune system analysis on those and follow to see which children are developing autism versus those who are not developing autism and that is going to solve the problem in the future and that is the only way we can do prescreening.
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A: So, systematically every infant should have the immunity level checked.
O: That is (my???) opinion, yes. At least in states such as California which children are so much prone to autism.”
Safe Formulations & Testing Antibodies
Vaccines, Why do Outbreaks Occur in the Vaccinated? Need to test Antibodies
TRANSCRIPT:
“I don’t think so the vaccines induce epidemics. That shows the failure of vaccination. If a vaccine was given to a child which the immune system was not working and the pediatrician wrote in the file, yes immunization is given and that is it, and they don’t have even a way to measure, or there is a way, but they never follow to see really if the child made antibodies against that vaccine, to see if that child has indeed antibodies and protected in the future against measles infection,
so what happened, that is a failure of the system. They give the immunization, they don’t check to see whether or not they make antibodies in order to protect it. So, I believe that you know those epidemics is due to failure of the vaccines to induce antibody in the individuals getting the vaccines and therefore we think they are protected, but they are not protected because the vaccines in the first place did not work and the immune system did not respond against it and therefore they are prone to measles infection.”
Current Vaccines, Can Any be Safely Given to Children?
TRANSCRIPT:
“With the current schedule for sub population of children, none of those vaccines could be safe and what I mean by that, I am an immunologist, some children their immune systems gets matured later than other children.
So those children which their immune system is not mature first day you know after birth and they give them hepatitis B obviously will have significant side effects from it.
Furthermore, when then give them at three months I believe the MMR and later on other vaccines, if their immune system is not mature enough, will not be able to handle all those viral antigens plus preservatives, so therefore for those sub group of children which their immune system is not mature I believe we should postpone the immunization.
I am not saying that do not immunize, I am saying that postpone the immunization by six months or a year and believe me nothing is going to happen in those six months or a year of delaying immunization because the body is victorious.
The antibodies from the mother can protect the child at least for six months so therefore easily we can postpone the immunization for six months and then give opportunity for the immune system to get matured and then give them the vaccines.
Furthermore, I am personally against giving three viral antigens simultaneously. Why we cannot separate them? Give one viral antigen at three months, the next one give at four months, and the next one at six months or so forth to separate them because the immune system when it is bombarded by three different viral antigens it is going to break at a certain level. So, therefore again I am not against vaccination but I am against the current protocol of vaccinations.”
Pro Vaccines, but Safe Vaccines, Single Virus, No Toxic Chemicals
TRANSCRIPT:
“I am not opponent of the vaccines. I am proponent of vaccines, but safe vaccines. What are safe vaccines? Okay, the safe vaccines are those who do not have toxic material as a part of their components and merthiolate is a toxic material and should be removed and I don’t understand why it is so difficult, why people cannot accept that something which is toxic should not be in the vaccines and simultaneously should not be given to children which their immune system is not mature with three different viral antigens.
So, again I am trying to emphasize that or reemphasizing that when we give injection or giving oral vaccines, we are talking about one or two or three different viral antigens plus the preservatives plus the adjuvant given to a child which in some cases the immune system is not mature enough
and we are already, I started my discussion that we know these two factors, infections and toxic chemicals are behind many, many complex diseases in our society.
Yes, the vaccines prevented many infectious diseases, many infectious agents disappeared from our society, but that doesn’t mean that we have to give unsafe vaccines to the children which their immune system is not mature.”
Safe Vaccines, Single Virus, Mature & Healthy Immunity, Test Antibodies
TRANSCRIPT:
“Again, I am not against immunization. I am saying that let us do immunization, but do it correctly. Also, in those countries who do not do immunization and the numbers which you are quoting may be correct. They should be immunized, but they should be immunized correctly, not you know three or five different viral antigens at the same time.
– So you agree that an unvaccinated population would be more so under constant threat of these kind of widespread epidemics that we used to see.
Oh that is correct. Let us say if a child right now is in kindergarten and was immunized or was not immunized, suddenly he is getting measles infection and goes to school, the other children will be in danger of developing the disease because I did demonstrate to you that not every child which has been immunized is having enough or high levels of antibodies to be protected against that and that is why from time-to-time we seen even in Los Angeles I have seen children are developing measles.
– So it would probably be in our interests to just clean up the vaccines and make sure people are….
Exactly, that is really my… Really the overall message from my you know interview today is that I am not against immunization, let’s do the immunization, but first make sure the child’s immune system is mature enough that it can handle it. If not, then you have to postpone it until the immune system is mature and then do the immunization.
– But meanwhile the entire fabrication procedure of vaccines should probably be a little bit revised.
Right absolutely, and then pediatricians also should have some way to do followups. You did immunization, make sure the child made antibodies against the vaccines. That is you know a test they can do it every laboratory right now and they can measure antibodies, production of antibodies against it.
So, you know the problem is this, that pediatricians are doing the immunizations, they don’t follow the child to see if the child made ample amount of antibodies in order to be protected against disease in the future.
To do that is a simple blood test, just remove a few drops of blood, send it to a laboratory and ask for hepatitis B antibodies, ask for measles, mumps, and rubella antibodies, two to three months after giving the immunization you can draw blood and check for that. If the antibodies are produced, then the child is protected. If it is not produced in ample amount, may be you need to repeat the immunization. So, it should be a way to do a followup. That is really the message which pediatricians are not doing it right now and they should do that.”
Vaccines, Need to test Antibodies. His Family as an Example
TRANSCRIPT:
“if the immune system is working properly and that person is administered with viral antigen whether from vaccinia or the human measles.
-Smallpox?
Yeah, yeah, it is going to be protected against them if the immune system is working properly, but the problem is that we are giving the vaccines and we think everybody is having perfect immune system.
That is not the case and those do not have perfect immune system are not going to make the antibodies and therefore they are not protected, simple as that.
Believe me, I have measured antibodies against measles in let us say 100 people. Out of 100, only about 50 to 60 had good levels of antibodies, 20-30 they didn’t have any levels of antibodies. So, therefore we cannot ??? immunization is going to protect us against measles infection for the rest of our life.
Depends how much antibody we made in the first place.
Let me give you another example. I was measuring antibodies against measles in my own blood which I am 60 years old and my three kids which were born in America and they tell us that when we grow older and older levels of antibodies disappear right and therefore when we are very old we get all these viral infections,
but believe me this is the exact fact what we found, levels of measles antibody in my blood was 780 units, my son who is a 21-year-old was only 280, the two daughters one of them is 20 now and the other one is 17, their levels were less than 100, okay, so the younger they had lower levels of antibodies,
so we are fooling ourselves by thinking that by just going to pediatrician and getting injected by the vaccine we are going to make so much antibodies which is going to protect against this infection forever.
Yes, I was born in middle east, I was exposed several times, I was immunized and also I was exposed so many times to this virus, that is why I had the level of 780 at age 60, therefore I am going to be protected against that virus for the rest of my life, but not my children who are born in America.
– Is that possibly because of this dilution factor of the antibody production because of the multiple viral load?
Exactly, yes.”
Can Antigens or Peptides Provoke Antibodies? Lyme Disease, Borrelia
TRANSCRIPT:
“I believe that sometimes that you can choose small antigen from the whole cell wall of the microorganism, then antigen or peptide can give you protection against the whole bacteria.
I have personal experience with Lyme disease, that I took just a simple peptide from the membrane and injected to the rabbit and that rabbit made antibodies against all the antigens of the microorganism, Borrelia, so by removing some of the bacterial antigens and introducing peptides or pure antigens, I think it is not wrong if they have the science behind it that after injections the individuals producing antibodies against you know the whole microorganism, “
Safe Vaccines, Conclusion
Pre Screen Cord Blood, Delay, Single Virus, Test Antibodies
TRANSCRIPT:
“Absolutely, I think you if the greatest message I have today in here that you can take it to the highest level, we should develop free screening for the immune system and to determine whether or not a child can handle multi-viral vaccination. Is it feasible? As an immunologist I am telling you, absolutely yes. Those methodologies are in place, we can take a drop of blood or a few drops of blood from the cord blood and test some of those cytokines, lymphocytes and so forth and see whether or not the immune system is mature enough which in the future can handle the viruses, so we need to do something. That is the message that I would like to be delivered, hopefully from here, to the highest level which hopefully in the future that message will go back to the pediatricians to give them the tools to do prescreening and then vaccination.
– And I guess a followup to make sure the antibodies…
And followups to see if they make antibodies, absolutely, none of them are doing this.
– Now, if, okay that would be your advice to congress. Now, since knowing that all this will take time and money, what about advice to the parents, the public, what can they do right now to protect their kids from this, 1 in 150 roulette shot at their child for autism and all these diseases. What can they do if the pediatrician doesn’t have time to evaluate their case histories, what do they need to look for, what should they avoid and how could they protect their infants until there are these changes.
I think you know, if, first of all let me say that public are really very smart, really I have the chance to work with the parents with children with autism and other type of diseases, they are very smart, they read the literature, they understand it, if they can take the information
and convince their child’s pediatrician to postpone at least for three months will be great help and can save some of these children from developing immune abnormalities in the future including autism. Now that is a big if.
I told you my own story that the pediatrician was completely opposing the fact that not to immunize or even postponing the immunization because she was saying that she will go to jail. I don’t think that is the right answer.
Pediatricians are not going to go to jail if they will postpone the immunizations. So, the parents should be smart, look at the health of their babies, and if they see the child is healthy enough, eating well, smiling, then can take the child to pediatrician and do their immunization. Otherwise, wait three months and then take it to pediatrician.
I am going against the will of the pediatricians in here, but I think that is the only way we can help many children’s immune system to be developed, so when they are immunized not to develop some of these immune abnormalities.
And what about the cases of these multi-viral loads, the MMR vaccines, the DPT vaccines, I have heard actually quite a bit about the DPTs being very dangerous since postponement will not resolve this issue what can the parents do about….
The multi-viral could be, absolutely the answer is now, the virus should be divided to virus 1, 2, 3, and 4 and should be given number 1 first, wait if it possible one month or two months and then given number 2 and then wait another two months, give number 3, wait another two months give number 4, number 5, and number 6. That will be the most ideal way of immunization.
– But since the vaccinations…
Presently I am talking about because we don’t have the way of prescreening right now.
– Is it possible to ask for these shots in individual…
Absolutely it is possible. How did they make them in the first place? They made antigen 1, antigen 2, they made antigen number 3 and mixed them together.
– Oh right, but I mean is it available on the market?
If you know the parents will demand that, yes it will be available and is available.
– So it is currently manufactured individually. They can if we request it, if it is demanded it could be done immediately.
Absolutely!”
Vaccines, Vitamin C & A Prior to and After Minimize Damage
TRANSCRIPT:
“What can we do in order to improve the immune function, in particular if a mother has a child and would like to immunize,
if would like to enhance the immune function of that child before immunization, the best way to do that is to supplement with antioxidants,
in particular vitamin A which enhances the mucosal immune system plus vitamin C not only enhancing the mucosal immune system, also enhancing the immune system in general.
So, imagine that for a week you put that child which you think the immune system is not working in the child very well with some of these anti-oxidants chewable whatever and then you build the immune system and take to the pediatrician and get the immunization.
I think that way you can help a lot your child to minimize the side effects of the immunization or the vaccines.”