Did We Erase a Century of Medical Evidence on Vaccine-Induced Brain Damage

A Midwestern Doctor

Story at-a-glanceNeurological injuries from vaccination have been documented since the smallpox vaccine over two centuries ago, with severe injuries reported throughout medical literatureThe medical profession concealed these injuries, believing public vaccination benefits justified hiding information that might create vaccine hesitancyHistorical injuries like spreading paralysis mirror current “one in a million” vaccine injuries, but toxicity documentation was erased to preserve the “safe and effective” narrativeIn the past, these injuries were widely reported, but now research into them is widely censoredMany of these forgotten reports are critical for understanding modern “inexplicable” conditions like autism

From birth, we are taught that vaccines were one of the most remarkable discoveries in history, and were so safe and effective that many now unimaginable plagues vanished with few to no side effects occurring in the process. In truth, give or take, every part of that mythology is false, and remarkably similar vaccine disasters occur every few decades.

Much of this results from the fact that it is very difficult to produce safe vaccines due to both their mode of action and the methods used in their production. As such, the best “solution” which could be found to this problem was to insist in lockstep that vaccines were safe and erase any memory that vaccine disasters had in fact occurred, thereby making it possible to gaslight anyone who was severely injured by a vaccine and claim their injury was just anecdotal or a product of anti-vaccine hysteria.

For example, recently I discussed how vaccines cause autism, and focused on a central argument used to debunk the link between the two — that the only reason people believe vaccines cause autism is because a disgraced British doctor published a fraudulent 1998 study claiming they did and then made everyone start hallucinating that vaccine injuries were occurring.

This mythology however, ignores that brain injuries were a longstanding problem of vaccination. For example, a 1982 NBC news program (which can be viewed here) revealed that many parents were having children develop “post-pertussis encephalopathy” after taking the DPT vaccine, that most doctors refused to report this, and that:

“Medical knowledge about severe reactions to the whooping cough vaccine goes back to the early 1930s. Report after report has been published in medical journals since then. In 1948,1 two American doctors reported on case histories of many children who had been brain damaged or died from DPT vaccines in Boston. The following year,2 another doctor surveyed pediatricians across the country and found still more. Those studies have been forgotten.”

Likewise, in 1985, one of the most popular talk shows in America (the Donahue show) hosted a segment where doctors from both sides (and neurologically injured members of the audience) debated the risks and benefits of vaccination and the ethics of mandates (which can be viewed here). To the best of my knowledge, this was the last time an open debate of vaccination aired on mainstream television.

Diagnostic Obfuscation

In both of these 1980s TV programs and many of the earlier studies on vaccine injuries, the brain damaged children were described as becoming “mentally retarded” or “severely retarded.” However, in the 1990s, “retarded” began to be phased out due to it being deemed too stigmatizing, with Obama, in 2010 signing a law3 that replaced all instances in Federal statutes of “mentally retarded” and “mental retardation” with “intellectual disability.”

This is important as it is commonly argued that the increase in autism is not due to an environmental toxin (e.g., vaccines) but rather more and more “normal” things being reclassified as autism. One of the primary studies that supported the reclassification argument, is a 2009 study4 from California that actually showed 26.4% of children who had previously been diagnosed as “mentally retarded” became “autistic” (as did another commonly cited study).5

Since autism is deliberately undefined, it encapsulates both profound (severe) autism (25% to 30% of cases) and autistic traits (e.g., having manageable neurological deficits or “being on the spectrum”). This wordplay hence blends them together, making it possible to slander statements on severe autism6 while simultaneously tricking people into believing the increase is actually just in autistic quirks.

However, as the CDC shows, roughly 26.7% of children7 have “profound autism,” and is continually increasing:

Likewise, when the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act8 was passed, it acknowledged a few specific neurological injuries9 that were frequently seen from vaccines, one of which was encephalopathy from MMR (which is now labeled as “autism” and “not caused by vaccines”).

Remarkably, despite twelve new vaccines and decades of science since 1986, almost no additional neurological injuries have been added to the table10 (as there is a massive conflict of interest in acknowledging the injury and thus the government having to pay for it).

In tandem, research into vaccine neurological injuries was systematically prevented. Placebo-controlled trials were deemed “unethical,” while research showing harms was dismissed as “junk science” for lacking placebo controls. When researchers conducted studies anyway, data was blocked from publication and researchers faced retaliation (e.g., an Oregon pediatrician lost his license11). These studies (summarized here) showed massive increases in chronic illness. Our society did too:

Likewise, large databases containing vaccinated and unvaccinated data were withheld from researchers and remarkably when RFK’s team gained access, HHS employees illegally deleted the database.12

The Hazards of Immunization

In 1966, an eminent bacteriologist wrote “The Hazards of Immunization”13 which disclosed a large number of forgotten vaccine disasters he’d collected (both through his team surveying the medical literature and insiders sharing their private files with him) in the hope it could lead to safer vaccines as the same disasters kept on repeating and would likely continue to do so unless his profession acknowledged those risks.

In his compilation of vaccine injuries (which he felt represented less than 1% of them) he highlighted many devastating injuries (many of which happened to soldiers) that we continue to see today. Some of the key themes he covered included:

• How many vaccines have been shown to cause immune suppression and makes latent infections become severe and hence suddenly appear.

• How the mentality behind manufacturing vaccines makes hot lots almost unavoidable and has led to many vaccine disasters throughout history — a problem which was sadly “solved” by simply giving vaccine manufacturers immunity from injury lawsuits.

• That a wide range of autoimmune and neurological injuries were caused by each vaccine and antiserum.

What follows is a small sampling of the forgotten neurologic vaccine injuries Wilson shared:

• Typhoid vaccine — In the pre-antibiotic era, the typhoid vaccine was essential for militaries and tolerated despite its frequent complications. Many of these were of the conditions (i.e., Landry’s paralysis) we now refer to as Guillain-Barré syndrome (e.g., one of Guillain and Barré’s first GBS cases came from a typhoid vaccine).14 Reports included:

◦ Polyneuritis with15 shoulder pain spreading to knees, leading to disturbed sensation, balance problems, and ongoing pain (1916).

◦ A soldier becoming blind16 for 10 days, and another developing convulsions (1919).

◦ 10 cases with severe17 headaches, seizures, paralysis, and one fatal GBS-like case (1920).

◦ Over 50 neurological18 injuries including nerve inflammation and widespread nerve damage (1954).

◦ Numerous other cases of paralysis or GBS, sometimes diagnosed as polio,19,20,21 including one where autopsy showed widespread brain destruction.22

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• Yellow fever — Hot yellow fever vaccines neurologic injuries were reported throughout the literature:

◦ A fatal 1934 case25 began with neurological symptoms, progressing to paralysis and death 14 months later. Autopsy showed extensive myelin degeneration and brain cell changes. Many similar cases were also reported.

◦ A 1936 case26 where vaccination caused acute meningitis, seizures, and mental confusion, with another paper revealing27 the lot caused nervous disturbance in at least three others.

◦ A 1936 report28 found that a third of 5,699 recipients had reactions, including severe neurologic or visceral ones.

◦ A 1943 report29 showed one lot caused 1.65% of recipients to develop encephalitis, while another caused 0.06% along with a 1953 paper30 that found 0.3% to 0.4% did (of whom 40% then died).

◦ A 1953 WHO report31 documented 12 encephalitis cases with 3 deaths in Costa Rica, 83 cases with 32 deaths in Nigeria, and 254 cases in Brazil.

• Rabies — It was not long after the Pasteurian method was taken into routine use that attention was drawn to cases of neuroparalysis. Among the directors of the Pasteur Institutes there was a conspiracy of silence, caused by fear of bringing Pasteur’s method into disrepute.

It was difficult to find a vaccine dose strong enough to prevent rabies but weak enough not to cause paralysis. Rabies vaccine injuries averaged a 10% to 16.85% fatality rate and were one of four types:32

◦ Dorsolumbar myelitis (most common, 5% fatality rate)

◦ Encephalomyelitis (second most common, 5% fatality rate)

◦ GBS (30% fatality rate)

◦ Peripheral neuritis affecting cranial nerves

As these injuries were often underreported, their incidence widely varied between studies:

• Measles — A 1966 case33 occurred in a 14-month-old who developed encephalitis 11 days after vaccination, first showing facial twitching, then fever, stopped eating, and became semi-conscious. By day 15, the child had weakness on the left side and frequent severe seizures. After four months, the child still had left-sided weakness and possible mental impairment.

• Vaccine caused “polio” — Multiple papers from 1950 to 1956 found vaccination significantly increased polio risk. These included a 1950 paper34 (82 cases), another 1950 paper35 (14 cases), a 1952 paper36 (53 cases), and a 1956 report37 (355 cases).

◦ A 1950 statistical analysis38 by the epidemiologist39 who created standards for establishing causality found vaccination links. A 1952 paper40 found vaccination doubled polio risk.

◦ In 1956,41 a committee concluded 13% of paralysis in young children were causally related to vaccines:

• Diphtheria — Most reported diphtheria vaccine injuries came from hot vaccine lots:

◦ A 1919 Dallas incident42 involving several hundred doses where 8.33% died, with third-week paralysis throughout the body

◦ A 1924 Massachusetts incident43 severely injured 43 of 54 recipients

◦ A 1927 U.S.S.R incident44 where 12 of 14 children died from progressive paralytic disorder

• Pertussis — There is no doubt that [the] pertussis vaccine is one of the most toxic vaccines in current general use. In trials45 about 70% suffered reactions. Between 1958 to 1965, seven fatal cases of encephalitis from DPT were recorded. Other key findings include:

◦ The 1933 case46 of an infant seized by convulsions thirty minutes after injection and dying within two minutes

◦ A 1948 report47 detailed 15 cases with convulsions — two died, five had paralysis, two had severe brain damage

◦ A 1949 report48 documented 38 severe reactions, mostly convulsions, with at least two fatal

◦ A 1953 article49 contained 84 brain-related issues with 11 deaths and 24 permanent complications

◦ A 1958 report50 found 1 in 3,000 DPT recipients developed convulsions

◦ A 1958 review51 of 107 cases found 15% died, 30% had long-term complications

◦ A 1961 study52 of 1,700 successive infants where 40 rapidly developed reactions such as severe local/general reactions, generalized eczema (delayed onset), macular rash, persistent vomiting, persistent uncontrollable screaming, or collapse

• Smallpox — Wilson considered smallpox vaccines to have the highest complication rate. Post-vaccinal encephalomyelitis had a 35% mortality rate, with over 50% of infants under two dying on the first day.

Wilson pooled studies from 8 million people finding 0.0015% to 0.0754% developed encephalomyelitis, while 0.0063% of 18 million developed encephalitis. He reviewed 2,398 cases with 34% fatality rates. Notable reports include:

◦ A 1926 report53 of pathology findings from seven deaths

◦ A 1948 report54 documented 222 severe cases including 110 deaths

◦ A 1956 German report55 found animal production methods increased post-vaccine encephalitis 4 to 6 times

◦ A 1961 report56 of 265 autopsy-proven cases found symptoms emerged 4 to 18 days later

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Vaccine Induced Microstrokes

The following qualities stand out in all of Wilson’s reports:

• In many cases, the damage in the brain occurred without a virus being present, yet many of the observed pathological changes mirrored what was seen in certain severe viral infections.

• Frequently edema, and sometimes blood cell congestion were observed.

• Cranial nerve deficits were often observed.

• Congestion was often seen in other parts of the body.60

• Some cell death in the brain appeared to come from a lack of blood flow to the surrounding tissue.

• Small hemorrhages were observed from leaking blood vessels.

Each of these can be explained through vaccine induced microstrokes (triggered by zeta potential changes which cause blood cells to electrically clump together).

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