Body Laws

In most countries in the world there exists Immunisation campaigns to convince parents of the safety and necessity of injecting live and killed diseases into their child's immature immune system. The live vaccines include: measles, rubella, BCG (tuberculosis), polio (taken orally), and influenza. The killed vaccines include: cholera, typhoid, pertussis (whooping cough), influenza. In Australia, the National Health and Medical Research Council recommends children begin vaccinations at the age of 2 months unless they are a special case, for example: part of the indigenous population. In which case an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander child is supposed to begin vaccinations at birth. In one state in Australia, Queensland, the "Vaccination is Vital" pamphlet states: "Like anything in life, vaccination has some very small risks. However, these risks are much smaller than the risk of the diseases they protect against." This statement is much too vague for anyone that has no access to more information on the short term and long term affects of vaccination. Under the instructions: what you need to tell your doctor, the possible side effects of certain vaccines are alluded to but certainly not presented as precautions or anything to be concerned about. At 2 month intervals until a child is 6 months old they receive DTP (diptheria tetanus pertussis) and again at 18 months and 5 years old. It is the pertusis component that presents the most problems, often in the form of encephalitis, sometimes causing temporary or permanent brain damage. At 12 months and again at 10 and 16 years old they receive the MMR (measles mumps rubella) vaccine. Each component of this vaccine has caused health problems. The Sabin vaccine for polio is administered at 2, 4 and 6 months and again at 5 and 15 years old. Hib influenza vaccine is given at 2, 4, 6 and 18 months of age. Aboriginal children are given the BCG (tubercolisis) vaccine at birth as well as Hepatitis B vaccine at birth, 1-2 months and 6 months. At 2, 4 and 12 months of age they are given the Hib vaccine along with all the standard vaccinations.

Immunisation is not compulsory in Australia or Britain. It is compulsory in some states inthe U.S.A and heavily encouraged and sponsored in others. In one state each child each child received a McDonalds meal after immunisation as part of one campaign. In Australia at present on buses we see this :::.. "unimmunised children carry disease" ..and a trail of dirty footprints. This statement is quite untrue as an unimmunised child who is not sick carries no disease. Whils immunisation is not law it can be forced upon the population by convincing people that it is necessary: and therefore to not immunise your child would be an irresponsible action. And as 85-95% of Australians are immunising their children those who choose not to are severely disapproved of and even reprimanded by society's health professionals on the whole; although some are beginning to see the dangers in these procedures. In Britain there exists legislation known as the Vaccine Damages Payments Act 1979, put in place to compensate people's children for adverse reactions to immunisation and it lists those ones relevant: diptheria, whooping cough, mumps etc. The U.S.A also has some legislation in place to compensate people while Australia is yet to introduce such a law or even acknowledge the presence of problems with the program.