Dear Mr. Howard:

The October 20th 60 Minutes II segment on vaccines was alarming in its obvious intent to protect the pharmaceutical industry at the expense of the countless lives devastated by use of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal.

Vaccine/SIDS Causal Link
From the November 2000 Idaho Observer

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), Autism and “Shaken Baby Syndrome” (and and many other physiological and neurological complications) are currently epidemic throughout the world. Australia's Viera Scheibner, Ph.D., gave a presentation at Templin's Resort here October 21 which gave an explanation as to why this is happening to us. “Our breathing monitor scientifically established the causal link between vaccines and sudden infant death,” said Dr. Scheibner.

Setting the Record Straight on Anti-Vaccination Stance
by Barry Forbes

In the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, February, 2000, you can read that the history of asthma is twice as great in the vaccinated as the unvaccinated. Then check out Immunology Today, March, 1998. Read about vaccines and allergies, how natural measles infection actually protects against some allergies, and how the vaccines themselves cause allergies. Quite obviously we are trading disease control for a wide range of escalating chronic illnesses and disorders, now being termed the "new epidemics."

Link Between Autism Increase And Vaccination

Responding to a new report released yesterday by the California Health and Human Services Agency revealing a 273 percent increase in California children diagnosed with autism during the past decade, the National Vaccine Information Center and three other advocacy organizations representing parents of autistic children are calling for independent scientific research into whether increased vaccination in early childhood is a contributing co-factor to the development of autism.