Hepatitis
B vaccination and CFS
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Dr. Byron Hyde (testimony before the Quebec College of Physicians Medical
Board)
Dr. Hyde,
a medical doctor. after listing his credentials, is recognized as an expert in
the field of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
Dr. Hyde
begins his testimony by recalling his twelve years of research into CFS and
brain dysfunctions as well as his work as Chairman of the non-profit
Nightingale Research Foundation. The latter generates awareness and
disseminates information on little known diseases as such as post-polio,
fibromyalgia and CFS. He tells the Committee that he got involved in this
research after his daughter fell ill with a disease process which was only
subsequently recognized as being infectious and which became known as CFS. His
search for answers, he adds, has taken him around the world.
He defines
CFS as an epidemic illness, one which occurs primarily in the late summer and
fall. It is typified by an acute onset of symptoms which vary from malaise to
severe non-stop headaches and body pains now known in the US as fibromyalgia or
myalgias. It is also accompanied by muscle weakness
which develop alongside the pain symptoms and changes in brain function. The
change in brain function is in several areas with one, a measurable decrease in
the expected IQ, and, two, major cognitive losses that is, loss of sensory
abilities to define one’s environment. which is very traumatic for the
patients. Physicians have found very few physical modalities of the disease to
help them to further diagnose the disease.
The
disease process, he adds, very much resembles poliomyelitis in its incubation
period. Prior to 1962, before polio immunization became generalized. epidemics
of CFS like disease occurred concurrently with polio epidemics. A lot of people
at that time felt that there may be a type of poliomyelitis-type injury without
the paralytic dysfunction.
"My
supposed expertise with hep B immunisation. And I say "supposed"
because we know almost nothing….We know very little about hep B disease. We
have no statistics in Canada, serious statistics. We don’t know, for instance,
how many children in Canada die of it every year. There are no statistics. We
don’t know who the people who fall ill with hep B are. Are they Haitian
immigrants? Are they people who have just arrived from China? There are no
government statistics on this information….
Why are
we, in a time of major economic, medical and financial difficulty, spending
literally a billion dollars, because that is what it would cost to immunise
everybody in Canada against hepatitis B, for something in which we have the
lowest risk in the world, for which we have no statistics, and for which there
is no serious investigation on the side effects?
I would
not for a minute say not to take hep B immunisation if you work in a hospital
dealing with blood products….We have to know what we are doing in medicine
before we go and immunise tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of
children…Because if they develop brain dysfunction after hep B immunisation
when they’re in kindergarten, who in the world will know the reason if they
fail grades one, two, three and four? Was it because they were stupid, not
motivated, not intellectually able, or on drugs? Who is going to know if it is
that or if they were brain dysfunctions due to immunisations that, we know,
occur to minor degrees in many types of immunisations?
I did have
a chance to spend a couple of evenings with the man in charge of getting the
American soldiers ready for the Gulf (in Baton Rouge). He was in charge of
anti-chemical, anti-germ warfare. He told me that many of the Gulf War Syndrom people were hospitalised immediately after massive
immunisations and never got to the Gulf. I have never seen that written up. It
is very interesting to note that hep B immunisation was only given to those
people sent to the Gulf who were mediacl personnel,
because they did not feel there was a risk for the regular soldier. Now, if the
American government did not feel it was a risk to people in combat, it makes us
wonder why we are giving it to our children today.
We looked
at hep B immunisation in Quebec province because one nurse phoned us saying she
had CFS after having hep B immunization.....About a month later the same nurse
called again, she now had 5 other nurses in the area who had fallen ill with
CFS-like symptoms after the vaccine, all were unable to return to work. I told
her to phone the maker, Merck. She told me she did and they said the 6 nurses
were the only persons in the whole world that had ever had a serious side
effect and therefore there couldn't possibly be a link. And, they told her that
she was the only person who had ever phoned....she said that when her doctor
phoned, he too was told he was the only person in the world that had ever
called, and when each of the doctors of the other nurses called in, each was
told the same thing.
I also
called Merck...and they said.."Oh Dr Hyde, you are the only doctor in all
of Canada that has ever contacted us with such a complaint."
This same
nurse....(had) amassed 20 or 30 names of individuals, all post hep B
immunisation cases...We received close to 120 calls from nurses and health care
workers in the Quebec area with problems...many were severely disabled."
Dr Hyde.
Dr Hyde
mentioned that the investigation into the hep B vaccine raised after his
efforts was funded, organised and run by a pharmaceutical company. He was not
invited.
"Nor
was Dr. Phaneuf who has over 100 cases of
post-hepatitis B immunisation in Quebec…Nobody who had ever published a paper
on post-hepatitis immunisation adverse reaction was invited (to the Toronto
conference on hepatitis B). So it was a very one sided meeting."
All paid for
by Merck. When he asked the government for a copy of the research they said
they had completed using the list of hepatitis B "victims" he had
provided, he was told that it had been destroyed for lack of space!
Reproduced
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Selected
extracts taken from The Trial of the Medical Mafia by Jochim
Schafer ISBN 2921783029.Available from: Whale Books, UK. Tel: 01981 240 125.
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