7 inconvenient truths about Smallpox

7 INCONVENIENT TRUTHS ABOUT SMALLPOX

From Kate William

Vaccines saved us from smallpox, they said! But even a brief foray into historical statistics and medical writings reveal that to be a lie. Here's why:

1) Vaccination did not prevent smallpox. Jenner originally declared that one vaccination would protect for life. When it became obvious that vaccinees were still getting smallpox, it was changed to TWO vaccinations would protect for life.

But still, vaccinated individuals continued to fall victim to smallpox, so it was decided that immunity only lasted fourteen years, after all! When the error of that calculation became evident, it was then reduced even further to seven years, then five years.

Unfortunately, vaccination every six weeks didn’t even seem to be enough to confer immunity…

The American Army in the Phillipines were some of the most frequently vaccinated individuals, and yet, in the five years from 1898 to 1902, smallpox ravaged the army, with a 35% fatality rate.

When the first Compulsory Vaccination Bill went before parliament in England, in 1853, the Lancet medical journal noted “In the public mind, extensively, and in the profession itself, doubts are known to exist as to the efficacy and eligibility of vaccination—the failures of the operation have been numerous and discouraging”.

2) The vaccine caused serious side effects, including death. Doctors raised concerns in medical journals about the vaccine causing convulsions, but worse than that were the deaths caused by the vaccine.

Consider the unfortunate gentleman reported on by the Leicester Times during the years of compulsory vaccination in England. He had already suffered the death of one child, fourteen days after vaccination, and refused to vaccinate his remaining child. He was hauled before the magistrate and forced to comply, and within three weeks his remaining child was also dead.

There were so many more stories like his, and this is the reason why thousands of parents faced jail-time and lost their homes, rather than vaccinate their remaining children.

3) Smallpox epidemics became even more deadly after widespread vaccination.

During the late 1800's, Japan enforced a strict vaccination program for all infants, children, and adolescents with additional vaccines during outbreaks, or upon entry into the armed forces. The scourge of smallpox was declared "all but unknown"…

Alas and alack though, several years later, the "unknown" smallpox returns with more vengeance than ever before. Between 1889 and 1908, there are 171,500 cases of polio, with 48,000 deaths - a mortality rate of 28%.

Following the Philippine-American war, the US Army embarked on an ambitious vaccination program beginning from around 1905, conducting 30 million vaccinations on a population of just 10 million over the course of 6 years. Many of those living in urban areas were vaccinated 5 or 6 times, while many in mountainous rural areas were not vaccinated at all.

Several years afterwards, in 1918, the Philippines suffered their worst ever epidemic of smallpox, with a mortality rate as high as 65% in some areas. The highest incidence and mortality rates were in urban areas, which happened to be the most highly-vaccinated areas...

Other countries also experienced similar.

4) Vaccination spread other diseases.

Syphilis was one, and many doctors around the world suspected that arm-to-arm vaccinations also spread leprosy.

Dr Roger S Chew spent six years in the Medical Department of the British Army in India, and fourteen years studying leprosy. Of the 1034 leprosy cases treated under his care, he attributed 105 cases to insanitation, 148 cases to vaccination, and 72 cases due to other forms of inoculation.

Extracts from his case book contain examples such as:

"Jahoorie, aged twenty - eight. Married; no children. Duration of leprosy, twenty years. "There is no history of syphilis, either with himself or his relatives. - When he was about seven years old, he was vaccinated on his right arm. About six months after he- noticed a white patch over vaccine site; a similar patch appeared on his right buttock, and he soon after lost sensation in his left foot. The marks gradually faded away, broke out afresh in - other portions of his body, and again disappeared to reappear, et seq.; but wherever these marks appeared, they were accompanied by loss of sensation, which remained permanent throughout. About sixteen years ago he suffered from enlarged spleen, for which he was fired (i.e., burned with hot iron). Ten years ago the fingers of both hands began to be flexed on themselves.”

Foot and mouth disease, and tetanus were also linked to vaccination.

5) Mortality from other diseases increased after smallpox vaccination began.

The Registrar General's Report from 1865 shows mortality from measles and scarlet fever increased in the decade following the introduction of widespread vaccination in England.

In 1865 the highest mortality in England was due to tuberculosis (then known as consumption, because it appeared to 'consume' its victim). Tragically, the young boy that Edward Jenner first experimented on, later died of tuberculosis. So did Jenner's son. And his wife. And two of his sisters. Could there be a link?

Charles Pearce's 1868 Essay on Vaccination recounts the following story: "My brother and I are the only survivors of a family of ten children. Five of the eight who are dead, died in childhood, two at puberty, and one, at eighteen years of age, of consumption. My brother and I had small-pox; we had neither of us been vaccinated, for it was not much in fashion in the country when we were children, but the eight younger ones born after me were all vaccinated, and my poor mother always attributed their deaths to vaccination; there had been no consumption in the family until then"

6) The true statistics on smallpox were skewed by misdiagnosis.

Writing in 1941, Dr. Herbert Shelton says “Just as before the time of Sydenham (Thomas Sydenham was an eminent English physician who lived in the 1600’s), all cases of measles, chickenpox and scarlet fever were diagnosed as smallpox. Today if a case of chickenpox has no vaccination scar, it is smallpox; if a case of smallpox has a vaccination scar, it is chickenpox”.

The misdiagnosis was still occurring as late as 1941!

The famous Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw, writing in the British Medical Journal in 1931, had this to say: "I was vaccinated in infancy and had ‘good marks’ of it. In the great epidemic of 1881 (I was born in 1856) I caught smallpox. During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the re-vaccinated cases as pustular eczema, varioloid, or what-not “” except smallpox"...

7) Smallpox was a mild disease made deadly by bad medicine.

As early as the 1600's, eminent physician Thomas Sydenham declared smallpox to be the most safe and slight of all diseases...IF no mischief is done by physician or nurse.

What mischief was he referring to?

A Textbook of Medicine, from 1927 details how smallpox should be treated: 

“The eruption is usually treated by applying gauze immersed in various antiseptic solutions such as *** phenol or bichloride of mercury***...The fever is treated by coal-tar drugs and by cold sponges. The diet is the usual light diet of fever with plenty of water. When the patient is delirious, morphine or bromides are given. During convalescence oil, glycerin or antiseptic ointments are applied to soften the crusts”

Well, let's see.

Phenol, also known as carbolic acid, is highly corrosive, and skin contact results in INFLAMMATION AND BLISTERING, according to the MSDS.

Bichloride of MERCURY...do we even need to go there?

The side effects of bromides include nausea, fever, skin rashes - usually starting on the face, ***pustular eruptions on the skin***, lethargy, musculoskeletal pain, anorexia, muscular weakness and central nervous system problems.

Is it just me, or do the side-effects of smallpox treatment sound remarkably similar to what smallpox is blamed for...?