Immunization Comments Due July 17th

July 12, 2013

HEALTH ACTION ALERT:

Send your vaccine safety information to Minnesota judge by July 17 PM deadline

The Minnesota Department of Health wants to add even more vaccines to the already-overcrowded shot schedules for infants and children. Infants and children already are given up to 69 vaccines, whose combined and potential ill effects over time receive inadequate study.

New vaccines proposed include:

Hepatitis B and Hepatitis A for infants in child care;
Meningococcal and Pertussis vaccines for 7th graders;
Chickenpox vaccine at an earlier age.

At a June 27 hearing in St. Paul, Administrative Law Judge Eric Lipman heard testimony for and against adding the proposed vaccines. He must determine if the proposed changes are reasonable and necessary. Here is MDH’s SONAR document:

http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/immunize/immrule/sonar.pdf

To learn about the vaccine rule hearing, read this article by Patti Carroll of the Vaccine Safety Council of Minnesota and view the videotaped testimony:

http://www.ageofautism.com/2013/07/call-to-action-as-minnesota-vaccine-safety-advocates-fight-proposed-rule-changes.html

Until July 17 at 4:30 pm Central Time, anyone can submit further information on vaccine safety issues – comments, studies or testimony to Judge Lipman. He has promised to read it all.

Everything that has been submitted up until that point will be put on the MDH website for everyone to see. Anyone can comment – you do not need to live in Minnesota, or even in the U.S.

Feel free to send your thoughts, or send research or studies, or simply tell

your story. If a friend or family member has been harmed by a vaccine,

please write up a short summary and send that in. Not only the judge but

staffers at MDH will see all of these submissions. This is an opportunity

for this information to be heard.

Then we have 5 business days to rebut anything submitted. From July 17 at 4:30 CT through July 24 at 4:30 CT all comments must be in reference to testimony, comments or studies already submitted by either side. No new arguments can be introduced during the final rebuttal period.

Send your testimony to:

Judge Eric L. Lipman – Assistant Chief Administrative Law Judge

Email: rulecomments.oah@state.mn.us (updated address)

Subject line: Docket# 8-0900-30570

Because of a previous technical error with one email address, please also send your comments to Patti Carroll at pcarroll8@msn.com, who will make sure the judge receives your information.

If you want to mail, deliver or fax your testimony, contact Judge Lipman at:

Office of Administrative Hearings

Street Address: 600 North Robert Street, St. Paul, MN 55101

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 64620, St. Paul, MN 55164-0620

Telephone: (651) 361-7842

Facsimile: (651) 361-7936

Your comments must reach the judge no later than

4:30 pm CT on Wednesday, July 17, 2013.

Your rebuttals must reach the judge no later than

4:30 pm CT on Wednesday, July 24, 2013.

Points to emphasize:

More children ages 0-4 are reported being injured or killed by the Hepatitis B vaccine than who actually get the disease itself.
The incidence of Hepatitis A is decreasing.
The CDC vaccination schedule has never been proven safe, and is under scrutiny by members of Congress.
Kris Ehresmann, MDH Director of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Prevention and Control Division (and ACIP member) says children receive fewer antigens in today’s vaccines, but failed to mention ful vaccine ingredients such as mercury-containing preservatives, aluminum and squalene adjuvants, formaldehyde, fetal DNA, and other harm.
Dr. Robert Jacobson said “babies still die from the measles” but failed to mention that the last known death in Minnesota was caused by a measles VACCINE, and that was 22 years ago.
Dr. Jacobson claims diseases are being spread by unvaccinated people, though in 2011 between 23% and 38% of Minnesota measles cases were in people who’d received the measles vaccine.
Dr. Jacobson did not disclose his financial interest in the proposed meningococcal vaccine he recommends for all Minnesota seventh graders.
Public and independent researchers cannot access the Vaccine Safety Datalink to confirm safety claims by CDC/industry collaborators.

At the hearing was Dr. Robert Jacobson, the American Academy of Pediatrics state president, an employee of the Mayo Clinic – and also employed by the Merck pharmaceutical company. Dr. Jacobson described a child he treated who had contracted HIB (Haemophilus Influenza type B), a serious disease:

“[H]igh fevers, inconsolable, and not completely with it. Their skin was blotchy and discolored, and they could not feed.”

One walking, talking toddler became “an inconsolable terror”:

“His mother could not comfort him, he did not seem to hear her voice, and her touch seemed to burn his skin,” Dr. Jacobson said. “The child never spoke again, never heard his mother’s voice again.”

However that also describes what has happened to infants after being given multiple vaccines in one visit. Why do doctors show such tremendous concern for rare cases when babies contract a disease, but are shockingly dismissive and indifferent when a child exhibits the same symptoms from a vaccine adverse reaction?

Once again, send your testimony to: