Smallpox Myths Explored & Exploded

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Nearly every article or news headliner regarding smallpox is designed to instill and continually reinforce fear in the minds of the general public. Apparently the goal is to make everyone demand the vaccine as soon as it is available and/or in the event of an outbreak.

Not too long ago Fox News showed us a picture of a man who was covered with smallpox pustules on his arms, face, legs and abdomen. The pustules were big, black, ugly, scabby and closely compacted. He looked like he was a monster from some other world. It was enough to scare me, were it not for the fact that I know that it was drug treatment that caused that ugly picture and not the disease at all. The cause of those ugly marks was carbolic acid that had been used to kill the supposed germ that caused the eruptive rash-caused by the supposed cure, not the disease itself.

In 1853 English law mandated the administration of an unproven vaccinia vaccine; by 1867 fines and jail sentences awaited those who refused to be vaccinated. Forced smallpox vaccination caused massive epidemics of smallpox and syphilis among British subjects and led to the creation of a Royal Commission in 1889 to study smallpox policy. The commission's findings led to England's mandatory vaccination laws being overturned in 1898. The promulgator of the smallpox vaccination cult mentality was Edward Jenner (1749-1823, England). Jenner lived during the time of King George III, when practicing physicians were not required to pass examinations. Jenner was a country apothecary with a Degree of Medicine purchased from St. Andrew's University in Scotland for the sum of £15

Myth 1: Smallpox is highly contagious and could spread rapidly, killing millions.

False! "Smallpox has a slow transmission and is not highly contagious," stated Joel Kuritsky, MD, director of the National Immunization Program and Early Smallpox Response and Planning at the CDC. Dr. Tom Mack from the University of Southern California, estimated that with a slow transmission rate and an informed public, the total number of smallpox cases in America would be less than 10, a far cry from the millions postulated by the press

This statement is a direct contradiction to nearly everything we have ever heard or read about smallpox. Dr. Kuritsky said at the CDC Public Forum on Smallpox on June 8, 2001 in St. Louis, "Given the slow transmission rate and that people need to be in close contact for nearly a week to spread the infection, the scenario in which a terrorist could infect himself with smallpox and contaminate an entire city by walking through the streets touching people is purely fiction." Even if a person is exposed to a known bioterrorist attack with smallpox, it doesn't mean that he will contract smallpox. The signs and symptoms of the disease will not occur immediately, and there is time to plan

Myth 2: Smallpox is easily spread by casual contact with an infected person.

False! "Transmission of smallpox occurs only after intense personal contact, defined by the CDC as constant exposure, occurring within 6-7 feet, for a minimum of 6-7 days."( ~American Journal of Epidemiology, 1971; 91:316-326) Smallpox will not rapidly disseminate throughout the community. Even after the development of the rash, the infection is slow to spread. "The infection is spread by droplet contamination, yet coughing or sneezing are not generally part of the infection. "Smallpox will not spread like wildfire," said Orenstein. He stated that the spread of smallpox to casual contacts is the exception to the rule." Only 8% of cases in Africa were contracted by accidental contact.

Question: "What do we expect if there was a terrorist introduction [of smallpox]?

Dr. Mack: I would expect a small number of cases...I think airborne spread would be relatively inefficient and I don't think very many cases would occur." ~Dr. Thomas Mack, USC School of Medicine

Dr. Mack stated that in Pakistan, 27% of cases demonstrated no transmission to close associates. Nearly 37% had a transmission of only one generation, meaning that the second person to contract smallpox did not pass it onto the third person. These statistics directly contradict models that predict an exponential spread to millions.

Transmission of smallpox occurs only after intense contact, defined as "constant exposure of a person that is within 6-7 feet for a minimum of 6-7 days."[5] Walter A. Orenstein, M.D., Director of the National Immunization Program (NIP) at the CDC reported that in Africa, 92% of all cases came from close associations and in India, all cases came from prolonged personal contact.

"When people develop the smallpox prodrome, they are sick; they will be in bed and not out walking around [this is the most contagious period]...Transmission through bed clothing contamination is extremely rare. The virus is NOT spread in food or water..." ~Joel Kuritsky, MD, Director, National Immunization Program and Early Smallpox Response and Planning at the CDC

Myth 3: The death rate from smallpox is thought to be 30%

False! In 1900, 21,064 smallpox cases were reported, and 894 patients (4.2%) died. (~Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Achievements in Public Health, 1900-1999, April 02, 1999) Dr. Tom Mack stated that even with poor medical care, the case fatality rate in adults was "much lower than is generally advertised" and thought to be 10-15%. He said that the statistics were "loaded with children that had a much higher fatality," making the average death rate reported to be much higher. Nearly every newspaper and journal article quotes this statistic. However, as pointed out in the presentation by Mack, it appears that the "30% fatality rate" has come from skewed data. Dr. Mack has worked with smallpox extensively and saw more than 120 outbreaks in Pakistan throughout the early 1970s.

Even so, people died. Why? After all, smallpox is a skin disease and "other organs are seldom involved."[6] This question was posed to the committee on two separate occasions. Kathi Williams of the National Vaccine Information Center asked this question at the Institute of Medicine meeting on June 15th. On June 20, an answer was finally forthcoming when a member of the ACIP committee said, "That is a good question. Does anyone know the actual cause of death from smallpox?"

At that point, Dr. D.A. Henderson, from the John Hopkins University Department of Epidemiology volunteered a comment. Dr. Henderson directed the World Health Organization's global smallpox eradication campaign (1966-1977) and helped initiate WHO's global program of immunization in 1974. He approached the microphone and stated, "Well, it appears that the cause of death of smallpox is a 'mystery.'"

He stated that a medical resident had been asked to do a complete review of the literature and "not much information" was found. It is postulated that the people died from a "generalized toxemia" and that those with the most severe forms of smallpox -- the hemorrhagic or confluent malignant types -- died of complications of skin sloughing, similar to a burn. However, he concluded by saying, "it's frustrating, because we don't really know."

Myth #4: There is no treatment for smallpox

False! Recent research by Dr. Peter Havens, MS, MD, from the Medical College of Wisconsin, postulated that death from smallpox was due to multi-system organ failure, a complication of an untreated acute cytokine (inflammatory) response. The treatment of choice for severe free-radical stress is high dose intravenous vitamin C. If conventional medicine would recognize the value of this treatment, it would also be forced to realize mass vaccination is simply not necessary.

Even without medical care, isolation was the best way to stop the spread of smallpox in Third World, population dense areas. The infection has an incubation period of 3 to 17 days,[1] and the first symptom will be the development of a high fever (>101º F), accompanied by nausea, vomiting, headache, severe abdominal cramping and low back pain. The person will be ill and most likely bed-ridden; not out mixing with the general public.

Even with a fever, it is critically important to realize that at this point the person is still not contagious. In fact, the fever may be caused by something else, such as the flu.

However, if a smallpox infection is developing, the characteristic rash will begin to develop within two to four days after the onset of the fever. The person becomes contagious and has the ability to spread the infection only after the development of the rash.

"The characteristic rash of variola major is difficult to misdiagnose," stated Dr. Orenstein. The classic smallpox rash is a round, firm pustule that can spread and become confluent. The lesions are all in the same stage of development over the entire body and appear to be distributed more on the palms, soles and face than on the trunk or extremities.

Take Action!

In the event of an exposure, it is imperative that you do everything you can to improve the functioning of your immune system so that an "exposure" does not have to result in an "outbreak."

a. Stop eating all foods that contain refined white sugar products, since sugar inhibits the functioning of your white blood cells, your first line of defense.

(There are many other health-conscious dietary considerations to consider, but that is beyond the scope of this article.)

b. Start taking large doses of Vitamin C. Vitamin C has been proven in hundreds of studies to be effective in protecting the body from viral infections,[3] including smallpox.[4] For an extensive scientific review on the use of this nutrient and a "dosing recipe", read "Vitamin C, The Master Nutrient, by Sandra Goodman, Ph.D.

c. Several phyto-nutrients have been shown to improve immune response. Echinacea is a powerful Native American remedy made from the roots of a prairie flower. serotonin optimizer is made from the leaves of certain cultivars of corn and grasses. Pycnogenol is made from the bark of certain species of pine trees.

d. If you develop a fever, you still have time to plan. Purchase enough fresh, organic produce and filtered water to last three weeks. Move the kids to grandma's or the neighbor's house.

e. Remember: you may not get the infection and you are not contagious until you get the rash!

Myth 5: The smallpox vaccine is safe and will protect a person from getting the disease.

False! Getting a vaccination does not guarantee immunity. (~CDC, January 28, 1994.) "Neutralizing antibodies are reported to reflect levels of protection, although this has not been validated in the field." (~Journal of the American Medical Association, June 9, 1999, Vol. 281. No. 22) Vaccines made from animal substrate contain animal viruses that are impossible to filter out. By 1961, scientists discovered that animal viruses in vaccines, including smallpox, could act as a carcinogen when given to mice in combination with cancer-causing chemicals, even in amounts too small to induce tumors alone. They concluded that vaccine viruses function as a catalyst for tumor production. (~Science, December 15, 1961.) By the 1920s, several British medical researchers documented that smallpox was not only more common among the VACCINATED, but that the DEATH RATE from smallpox was actually higher among those who had been vaccinated. This indicates that the vaccine was ineffective and predisposed vaccinated persons to more lethal disease. (~Vaccination, Dr. Viera Scheibner, Australia, 1993, pp. 205-220.)

Mass vaccination was halted in Third World countries because it didn't work. In India, villages with an 88% vaccination rate still had outbreaks. After the World Health Organization began a surveillance and containment campaign, actively seeking cases of smallpox, isolating them in their homes, and vaccinating family members and close contacts, outbreaks were virtually eliminated within 2 years.

Villages would apparently have "an importation" every 5-10 years, regardless of vaccination status, and the outbreak could always be predicated by living conditions and social arrangements. There were many small outbreaks and individual cases that never came to the attention of the local authorities.

The CDC and the WHO organization attribute the eradication of smallpox to the ring vaccination of close contacts. However, since the infection runs its course in 3-6 weeks, perhaps ISOLATION ALONE would have effectively accomplished the same thing. Dr. Mack revealed his opinion that even without mass vaccination, "smallpox would have died out anyway. It just would have taken longer." A slight of the hand trick was used to foster the claim that smallpox was eradicated by the vaccination practice. Everyone who had been vaccinated and who developed smallpox was diagnosed as having chicken pox!

"The American Medical Association said .. it was not in favor of an immediate mass U.S. smallpox vaccination program, saying the potential threat of a bioterror attack did not warrant inoculating every American against the disease." (~Reuters, December 12, 2001) For each million people vaccinated with the smallpox vaccine, as many as 250 would suffer serious adverse reactions including death, according to the American Medical Association. Multiply 250 times 285 (millions of Americans) and the estimated serious adverse reactions from universal smallpox vaccination could equal 71,250. (~ Journal of the American Medical Association, June 9, 1999, Vol. 281, No. 22, p. 2132) Repercussions include serious brain and heart diseases, autism, abnormal chromosomal changes, diabetes, various cancers and leukemias, plus demyelination of nerve tissue years after vaccination.

CDC director Jeffrey Koplan has admitted that universal smallpox vaccination could unleash a significant number of side-effects. He said that because many parts of our population do not have a "robust immune system," a fair number of people could have serious reactions. (~Koplan speaking on the PBS special "Bioterror Propaganda" aired by WETA, November 14, 2001) "Researchers have been reluctant to recommend a new vaccination program which would use the smallpox vaccine for the local population because the vaccine can cause disease and death in persons with inadequate immune systems." (~ Science, Vol. 277, July 18, 1997, pp. 312-13)

If the entire nation were to receive a smallpox vaccine, several thousand people would likely develop encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain.(~Washington Post, Dec. 26, 2001)

Roger J. Pomerantz, chief of the infectious disease department at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, said that doctors have no idea what the smallpox vaccine might do to people at the extremes of life--less than 2 and older than 65. He said that an even greater concern would be its effect on people with weakened immune systems from HIV infection, chemotherapy or transplants. (~Washington Post, Dec. 26, 2001) By 1987, scientific evidence indicated that the World Health Organization's 13-year global smallpox vaccination campaign may have awakened dormant HIV infection in many vaccines. (~Times (in London) May 11, 1987)

Doctor Charles A.R. Campbell discovered the cause and cure of smallpox. Through a series of carefully controlled experiments (even using himself as a subject) Dr. Campbell, along with Dr. J. A. Watts, discovered that smallpox was transmitted by an insect, cimex lectularius (Latin for bedbug). Similarly, yellow fever and malaria are spread by mosquitoes. They also discovered that the disease was neither contagious nor infectious and that vaccinations did not prevent it. In fact, Dr. Campbell demonstrated from his own patient records that smallpox vaccination showed an 80 percent failure rate.

Even more importantly, Dr. Campbell discovered that the severity of the disease was directly proportional to the general ill health and malnutrition of the patient. He spoke of "scorbutic cachexia" and related it to scurvy, the "disease caused by lack of green food." He said, "the removal of this perversion of nutrition will so mitigate the virulence of this malady as to positively prevent the pitting or pocking of smallpox" (Bacteria, Inc., Cash Asher, Bruce Humphries, Inc., Boston, MA , 1949).

Even though Drs. Campbell and Watts and possibly others tried to publish their findings, their work was ignored. However, it was Dr. Campbell who first called attention to the bedbug as the carrier of smallpox. I might mention that Dr. Campbell was recognized as an outstanding scientist of his generation, even being nominated for the Nobel Prize for his work on the value of bats as mosquito eradicators. Today he is all but forgotten and smallpox is considered a highly contagious and dangerous disease with no known cure.

When cimex lectularius was exposed as the carrier of smallpox, the manufacturing of serums had grown into a profitable industry and smallpox vaccinations had become a lucrative part of medical practice. The vaccination of every child had become an established practice. Many states had laws making vaccinations compulsory for school entrance requirements. When the cause and control of yellow fever was discovered, the vaccine for it had not been developed (It was developed in 1937).

Perhaps even more economically threatening was Dr. Campbell's assertion that a change in diet, not drugs or vaccines, could prevent the pocking or pitting of smallpox, even mitigating the severity of the disease.

Myth 6: Approval by the FDA demonstrates the safety and efficacy of the smallpox vaccine.

False! The U.S. government apparently intends to conduct NO double blind studies on the safety and efficacy of the new smallpox vaccine. It has ordered 286 million doses, one for every man, woman and child in America at a cost of $428 million. At least half of this vaccine will be delivered by Acambis PLC of Great Britain.

Vaccine manufacturers do not always deliver safe, uncontaminated vaccines. The British vaccine manufacturer Medeva has a horrendous record of contamination and blunders. In 2000, the FDA found that Medeva was making vaccines in conditions of filth, resulting in contaminated products. Medeva had been illegally using bovine medium to culture its polio vaccines, then lied about it. Medeva also used the blood of a Creutzfeldt-Jakob victim (mad cow) to manufacture 83,000 doses of polio vaccine used for (against?) Irish children. Nevertheless, the FDA allowed the USA to accept Medeva's flu vaccine (Fluvirin) for the year 2000. (London Observer series: October 20-26, 2000)

In 1915, Raggedy Ann was designed by writer/illustrator Johnny Gruelle after his daughter Marcella Delight became feverish, lethargic, stopped eating, stopped playing and lost muscle control after being vaccinated a second time for smallpox in school without her parent's knowledge or consent. She suffered enormously and was comforted by her father's magical tales of the little rag doll. On November 8, 1915, Marcella Gruelle died limp as a rag doll in her father's arms at age 13. Gruelle had applied for a patent and trademark on Raggedy Ann earlier that year, thinking that someday he might want to write down the stories he had whispered to his daughter late at night. Three years later, Gruelle wrote Raggedy Ann Stories in her memory. . Gruelle designed a limp, lifeless doll with a cheerful face as a sad tribute to his daughter who suffered such a painful, untimely, smallpox vaccination-related death.

Regardless that WHO declared the world "smallpox free" in 1980, it wasn't. And the public health gurus know it. So why were smallpox shots discontinued in 1977? By 1977 the March of Dimes kids and Jerry's kids had been connected to the smallpox vaccine by published, peer-reviewable science. Doctors now accept that Vaccinia can activate other viruses. (The Times (In London), Pierce Wright, science editor, "Smallpox Vaccine Triggered the AIDS Virus, " May 11, 1987)

References to those reports, as published in the world's leading (primarily foreign) medical journals between 1960 and 1978 are available at www.vaclib.org/basic/smallpoxindex.htm.
Science was linking the smallpox vaccine to autism, diabetes, neuromyelitis (polio [March of Dimes]), neurological diseases (Jerry's kids), tuberculosis, chromosome damage and sudden infant death. So, rather than admit the smallpox vaccine was causing so much misery, the internationalists declared the world free of smallpox after changing its name to any other pox and then attributed the eradication of the disease to vaccination.

Myth 7: At the minimum we must immunize "First Responders" to protect our health care system.

False! This has the potential to be a major disaster. In addition to rescue workers and police, health care providers or first responders, including medical doctors, nurses, paramedics, and other hospital personnel could be potential "Smallpox Mary's" carrying the infection to those with weakened immune systems in their care. The smallpox virus would be released back into the general population -- as a preemptive move based only on a perceived threat of potential terrorism.

The CDC is suggesting "ring vaccination" as a means of containment in the event of an attack, but here is a caveat: 100% mandatory compliance is necessary to make it work...meaning, that even those with medical contraindications will most likely be vaccinated even though this has the potential for deadly consequences, according to Dr. Mike Lane, former director of the CDC's smallpox eradication program in the 1970s. "Medical contraindications would not apply...there would be NO exceptions. I would rather vaccinate them and take my chances treating the potential complications. In India, we vaccinated everyone. The only medical contraindication was leprosy, and we sometimes vaccinated them. I'm sure that we killed a few people, but we did the best that we could." That means that all people with medical contraindications--organ transplants, cancer, HIV, eczema and other skin conditions would be vaccinated, even if it was against their will and with the use of force, if necessary.

Once the virus is released, no one really knows what will happen. And the risk of spreading it around the world is nearly 100%. Reintroducing this vaccine has the potential for having greatest adverse effect on the health of Americans in our history. According to National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci, fifty million Americans may be at high risk of vaccine consequences.

Henry Valentine Knaggs, author of The Truth About Vaccination (1914) wrote, "All authorities are agreed that cow-pox affects only cows that are yielding milk, and therefore, need milking. It does not attack cows that are left alone with their calves, and bulls are exempt from it. The fact that cow-pox owed its origin to a milker's hand seems to have been the strongest point raised by Jenner, for he has repeatedly asserted that "the only genuine cow-pox was that which was conveyed to the cow's teats by the hands of milkers." Dr. Charles Creighton, professor of Microscopic Anatomy at Cambridge and author of "Epidemics of Great Britain" said, "The real affinity of cow-pox is not to smallpox, but to the great pox (syphilis). The vaccinal ulcer of everyday practice is to all intents and purposes, a chancre (syphilitic ulcer)." People with weak immune systems are at high risk for serious complications from smallpox vaccine.

CDC's official list of persons at high risk includes:

• Children under 18, especially infants, due to high risk of brain inflammation
• Pregnant women (an infected fetus can be either stillborn or die at birth)
• Millions of people with eczema or other acute skin conditions
• Those who are immuno-suppressed from cancer, AIDS, herpes, chronic
  fatigue, MS, diabetes and organ transplants
• Those allergic to vaccine chemicals and antibiotics

Because the smallpox vaccine is so dangerous, leading medical organizations recommend against universal smallpox vaccination. These include:

• American Medical Association,
• Association of American Physicians and Surgeons,
• American Academy of Pediatrics,
• American Academy of Family Physicians.

Both old and new smallpox vaccines are experimental. The outdated Wyeth (Dryvax) and Aventis stocks dredged up by the CDC were made decades ago, using obsolete techniques and diseased cow (mad cow?) lymph. The new vaccines, to be made from human fetal tissue or monkey serum, will be recombinant at a time when many scientists believe that genetically engineered vaccines may be responsible for our nationwide epidemic of auto-immune and neurological conditions including autism, diabetes, chronic fatigue, rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus and MS-like illnesses.

Commercial vaccines are often contaminated with cancer viruses, bacteria and mycoplasma which escape the filtering process. For example, the cancer-causing Simian Virus 40, which contaminated early polio vaccines 40 years ago, is now being found in bone and brain tumors, as well as Hodgkin 's disease. Although dozens of recent studies reveal equally serious contamination of modern vaccines, the CDC admits that there is no funding available for determining which vaccines are contaminated. Especially worrisome are reports that the European consortium manufacturing the new smallpox vaccine knowingly sold AIDS-tainted blood products to hemophiliacs in the 1980s.

Myth 8: The Government has a responsibility to mandate vaccinations and immunizations for the general well-being of all of its citizens.

False! The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that vaccination must not be forced on persons whose physical condition would make such vaccination "cruel and inhuman." In other words, the state has no right to command that an individual sacrifice his life in the name of public health. (Jacobsen V. Massachusettes, 197 U.S. 11 (1905).)

A mass smallpox campaign could prove as disastrous as the government's recent anthrax vaccine disaster. Dr. Garth Nicolson, a world-renowned cancer researcher and Nobel Prize nominee, told Congress in 2002 that contaminated anthrax vaccines administered to Armed Forces personnel are partially responsible for debilitating chronic illnesses now suffered by tens of thousands of them. .Dr. Nicolson confirms that commercial vaccines are often contaminated with mycoplasma, causing symptoms associated with Gulf War Syndrome. When Dr. Nicolson examined the mycoplasma infecting sick Gulf War vets, he discovered that some strains had been genetically engineered with a portion of the HIV virus! Apparently this HIV-implanted mycoplasma was placed in Department of Defense vaccines for experimental purposes.

Myth 9: People who die or are disabled or injured by vaccination will be compensated.

False! Under provisions of the Homeland Security Act, technicians who administer the smallpox vaccine are protected from liability. Only one in four vaccine-damaged children is compensated by the federal government's vaccine compensation program. And Dr. Nicolson told Congress that sick Gulf War vets are still waiting for adequate medical and financial compensation for their illnesses. 8,000 have died and nearly 200,000 have been disabled or injured by the vaccine administered while in uniform.