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New Software Tool Keeps Kids’ Vaccinations on Schedule

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Medical guidelines in the United States call for each child to receive about 27 doses of vaccine before turning two.  Booster shots are often recommended until the child turns six.  These vaccines protect the child against 15 diseases that are preventable with a proper vaccination schedule.

A lot of the time and for many reasons, however, that vaccination schedule isn’t maintained adequately and vaccines get missed or delayed.  Until now, a very complicated set of calculations needed to be made before administering any missed or late vaccine doses.  Many factors, including the child’s age, time since last vaccine, and which other vaccines, if any, are to be administered at the same time, must all be taken into consideration before continuing the vaccine schedule.

At the Georgia Institute of Technology, researchers have developed an online tool that helps parents and pediatricians stay on schedule.  After routine data is entered, the tool quickly structures an immunization schedule based on the child’s age, previous vaccination history, and time elapsed since the last vaccine.  In the case of missed or late vaccinations, the software program can devise the optimum time to resume the vaccination schedule.

The Georgia research team, led by Pinar Keskinocak, associate professor for the school’s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, demonstrated a beta version of the vaccine-scheduling software tool at the October meeting of the AAP National Conference and Exhibition, where it was presented to the Committee on Infectious Diseases.  Demonstrations were also presented to various pediatric clinics in the Atlanta area, including Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

A recent report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says 28% of American toddlers have not been adequately vaccinated.  An additional survey identified only 9% of US children do receive the full spectrum of recommended vaccinations in the time frame advocated and only about half of all American children receive the full regimen of vaccinations by age two.

Diseases prevented by proper childhood immunization procedures include Hepatitis A and B, Haemophilus influenzae type B, rotavirus, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, meningitis, measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella.  The software tool contains data for each of these diseases but not for influenza vaccines, although influenza vaccines are recommended for young children.

Source: Georgia Institute of Technology

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  • dave says:

    by Guylaine Lanctot, M.D.

    What is the objective of the world authorities in destroying people’s
    health, both in industrialized countries and in the Third World? It is
    always difficult to presume the intentions of others, particularly
    when one is not close to them. And this is true in this instance. But
    there are certainly advantages for someone, somewhere, to so doggedly
    keep-up the campaign for vaccinations, by any and all means possible.
    They must profit someone, somewhere. One thing is certain. It is not
    to our advantage. In order to determine what these advantages are, and
    for whom, let us stop and look at the CONSEQUENCES of these massive
    vaccination programs and draw our own conclusions.

    1. Vaccination is expensive and represents a cost of one billion
    dollars annually. It therefore benefits the industry; most notably,
    the multinational manufacturers. One sells the vaccines. The other
    then provides the arsenal of medications to respond to the numerous
    complications that follow. Their profits increase while our expenses
    go through the roof. To the point where we have simply had it up to
    here and are ready to accept the unacceptable, such as socialized
    medicine in the United States, for example.

    2. Vaccination stimulates the immune system, the body’s defense
    mechanism. Repeated, vaccination exhausts the immune system. It gives
    a false sense of security and, in doing so, it opens the door wide to
    all kinds of illnesses. Notably, to those related to AIDS, which can
    only develop on ripe ground, where the immune system has been
    disturbed. It causes AIDS to explode. It ensures that the illness
    flourishes perpetually.

    3. Vaccination leads to social violence and crime. What better way to
    destabilize a country than to disarm its inhabitants, and reinforce
    police and military control? The authorities subtly create situations
    of panic and fear among the population which, in turn, necessitate the
    reinforcement of “protection measures”, including forbidding citizens
    from owning weapons. The authorities then come across as saviours and
    strengthen their control. It is certain that, in order to impose a
    single world army, one must first disarm the citizens of every
    country. One must therefore create violence, if they are to achieve
    this disarmament, particularly in the United States where the right to
    bear arms is guaranteed by the Constitution.

    4. Vaccination encourages medical dependence and reinforces belief in
    the inefficiency of the body. It creates people who need permanent
    assistance. It replaces the confidence one has in oneself with a blind
    confidence in others, outside ourselves. It leads to loss of personal
    dignity, in addition to making us financially dependent. It draws us
    into the vicious circle of sickness (fear - poverty - submission) and,
    in this way, ensures the submission of the herd so as to better
    dominate and exploit it. And then lead them to the abattoir. To
    slaughter.

    Vaccination also encourages the moral and financial dependence of
    Third World countries. It perpetuates the social and economic control
    of Western countries over them.

    5. Vaccination camouflages the real socio-political problems of
    poverty of some due to exploitation by others, and results in
    techno-scientific pseudo-solutions that are so complicated and
    sophisticated that patients cannot understand them. In addition,
    vaccination diverts funds which should be used to help improve living
    conditions, and channels them into the banks of the multinationals. It
    widens the gap between the dominant rich and the exploited poor.

    6. Vaccination decimates populations. Drastically in Third World
    countries. Chronically in industrialized countries. In this regard,
    the former President of the World Bank, former Secretary of State in
    the United States, who ordered massive bombing of Vietnam, and member
    of the Expanded Program on Immunization, Robert McNamara, made some
    very interesting remarks. As reported by a French publication, “j’ai
    tout compris”, he was quoted as stating:

    “One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against
    the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be
    impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality
    rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness.” (Translation)

    7. Vaccination enables the selection of populations to be decimated.
    It facilitates targeted genocide. It permits one to kill people of a
    certain race, a certain group, a certain country. And to leave others
    untouched. In the name of health and well-being, of course.

    Take Africa, for example. We have witnessed the almost total
    disappearance of certain groups. Some 50% dead, estimate the most
    optimistic. Some 70% dead, according to the less optimistic. As if by
    chance, many were in the same region, such as Zaire, Uganda, the
    extreme south of the Sudan. In 1967, at Marburg in Germany, seven
    researchers, working with green African monkeys, died of an unknown
    hemorrhagic fever. In 1969, also by chance, the same sickness killed
    one thousand people in Uganda. In 1976, a new unknown hemorrhagic
    fever killed in the south of Sudan. Then in Zaire.

    It is noteworthy that sincel968, virologists (virus specialists) have
    installed their sophisticated equipment in certain hospitals in Zaire.

    At a CIA hearing, Dr. Gotlieb, a cancerologist, admitted having
    dispersed, in 1960, a large quantity of viruses in the Congo River (in
    Zaire) to pollute it and contaminate all the people who used the river
    as their source of water. Dr. Gotlieb was named to head up the
    National Cancer Institute!

    A couple of years ago, Reuters reported: ‘An illness similar to AIDS
    has killed 60,000 in the south of Sudan. They call the illness, the
    killer. Families, whole villages, have disappeared This illness, the
    Kala-azar, takes the form of a fever and toss of weight. The symptoms
    are the same as those of AIDS The immune system is deficient and one
    dies of other infections.”

    It is obvious that Africa, particularly those countries in the center
    and to the south, contain fabulous resources that have always incited
    westerners to crush their inhabitants to take over their riches. And
    beware anyone who stands in their way. The colonies have disappeared.
    But not colonialism.

    8. Vaccination serves as a form of experimentation, to test new
    products on a great sampling of a population. Under the guise of
    health and the well being of the population, people are vaccinated
    against a pseudo-epidemic with products that one wants to study. The
    vaccine of hepatitis B seems to be the choice of authorities to
    accomplish this goal. Yet, this vaccine is manufactured by a process
    of genetic manipulation. And it is much more dangerous than the
    traditional vaccine because it inoculates into the body cells that are
    foreign to its genetic code. Moreover; this vaccine is produced from
    virus cultivated on the ovaries of Chinese hamsters. One can only
    imagine what future generations will look like! But there is more. It
    is also reported to cause cancer of the liver. Despite all that, it
    enjoys great popularity among the authorities, who impose it first on
    all those who work in the health field, and then on the rest of the
    population.

    *

    In 1986, the medical authorities administered the vaccine
    against hepatitis B to Native Indian children in Alaska, without any
    explanation or the consent of their parents. Many children fell ill.
    And several died. It seems there was a virus called RSV (Rous Sarcoma
    Virus) in the vaccine. (1)

    American Indian tribes have been subjected to many vaccinations. Let
    us be aware that they are difficult to beat into submission, and they
    own vast tracts of land which the authorities would like to have for
    their own benefit.

    Recently when I met a group of Native women to chat about health with
    them, the subject of vaccinations cropped up. I was giving them some
    information on the topic when, suddenly, the group’s nurse confided in
    me that the federal government had given her complete freedom in the
    management of their health, but on one strict condition. That every
    vaccination had to be scrupulously applied to all. The silence was
    deafening. We all understood.

    *

    In 1988, the Ambassador of Senegal gave a radio interview
    reporting on the ravages of AIDS in his country where entire villages
    were being decimated. A few years earlier, scientific and medical
    teams had come to vaccinate their inhabitants against hepatitis B.
    *

    In 1978, a new vaccine was tested on homosexuals in New York.
    And in 1980, on those in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago,
    and St-Louis. Officially, this “new vaccine” was against hepatitis B
    and, as we now know, it caused many of them to die from AIDS. It
    sounded the “official” beginning of the AIDS epidemic in 1981.

    The vaccination program of homosexuals against hepatitis B was led by
    Saint W.H.O. and the National Institute of Health . There are reports
    of collaboration between these two organizations in 1970 to study the
    consequences of certain viruses and bacteria introduced to children
    during vaccination campaigns. In 1972, they transformed this study to
    focus on the viruses which provoked a drop in the immune mechanism.

    Wolf Szmuness directed the anti-hepatitis B experiments undertaken in
    New York. He had very close links with the Blood Centre where he had
    his laboratory, the National Institute of Health, the National Cancer
    Institute, the FDA., the W.H.O., and the Schools of Public Health of
    Cornell, Yale, and Harvard.

    In 1994 a vast vaccination campaign against hepatitis B was undertaken
    in Canada. It is both useless, dangerous and costly. And what for? Is
    there a hidden agenda? I note that the Province of Quebec is a
    particular target, over the course of three years.

    - 1992: vaccination against meningitis
    - 1993: re-vaccination against meningitis
    - 1994: vaccination against hepatitis B.

    I was there in 1993. It troubled me to see that it was aimed at a
    whole generation (1 to 20 years), in only one province. Since when do
    viruses respect borders, and specially provincial ones at that? The
    facts are:

    - There was no epidemic, nor risk of one. Epidemiologists confirmed it.
    - Not one but three different vaccines were administered, each in a
    designated area.
    - Certain nurses were selected and trained to administer a special vaccine.
    - All children were entered into a computerized data bank.
    - The pressure to vaccinate the children was enormous. Schools were
    turned into clinics. Those who did not want to be vaccinated were
    pointed out and treated as social outcasts.
    - Nurses chased down parents at home who did not want their pre-school
    children vaccinated.

    I had a direct account of one of these kids. The mother did not want
    her child vaccinated The nurse who came to the house made her believe
    that it was compulsory. The mother gave in… The child is now
    handicapped: physically and mentally (paralyzed spastic).

    - The vaccination cost $30 million.

    Why was there such a murderous will. Like Native peoples, the people
    of Quebec are also a “bother”. They believe in their cultural identity
    and in sovereignty. What is more, Quebec with its Native territories,
    encompasses huge reservoirs of water which many a multinational have
    their eyes on. As an acquaintance of mine who sits on the California
    water management board said, “Water today is gold.” Could one think of
    a more appropriate biological weapon to possibly remove any
    impediments to accessing that resource?

    9. Vaccinations permit epidemiological studies of populations to
    collect data on the resistance of different ethnic groups to different
    illnesses. It permits one to study the reactions of the immune systems
    of large numbers of the population to an antigen (virus, microbe)
    injected by vaccination. Should it be within the framework of the
    fight against an existing illness, or one that has been provoked.

    *

    In 1987, certain American laboratories and the Department of
    Biotechnology of India signed an agreement authorizing the testing of
    genetically manufactured vaccines on the people of India. This
    agreement was met with fierce opposition because it gave access to
    epidemiological and immunity profiles of a population. This data is
    extremely important from a military standpoint. It is even more
    valuable because India has never experienced yellow fever. And, at
    time of writing this book, it had known only a handful case of AIDS.
    Over and above all that, the private American laboratories proposed to
    test products on the Indian population for which they had no right to
    test in the United States! And the Indian authorities acquiesced!

    10. Vaccination is a biological weapon at the service of biological
    warfare. It permits the targeting of people of a certain race, and
    leaves the others who are close by more or less untouched. It makes it
    possible to intervene in the hereditary lineage of anyone selected. A
    new speciality is born. Genetic engineering. It is flourishing, enjoys
    much prestige, and is receiving substantial research hinds. The
    challenge is staggering. To find a vaccine which gives an illness
    against which we already have the vaccine! In this way, we would be
    able to send in troops who have already been vaccinated against the
    killer vaccine, which they would then spread among the enemy. It is
    absolutely crazy and insane!

    Meanwhile, industrial theft is in full swing. Captain and biologist of
    the US Navy at Fort Detrick, Neil Levitt, reported the disappearance
    of 2.35 liters of an experimental vaccine. A dose sufficient to
    contaminate the entire world. Fort Detrick is a research laboratory
    which manufactures vaccines. It is located quite close to Washington,
    in Maryland, and it is attached to the National Cancer Institute at
    Bethesda, a suburb of the capital.

    It is hardly astonishing that, in every major vaccination campaign,
    one finds the same tangled web. Government, the military, Saint
    W.H.O., financiers, researchers, laboratories, universities, the CIA,
    and the World Bank.

    Let us not lose sight of the fact that:

    In the name of the defense of our countries, we manufacture the most
    murderous of weapons. War; whether it be biological or not, is war.
    And weapons kill. Biological warfare is a giant business, largely
    financed BY OUR FUNDS, through the medium of the military, research,
    and our donations. It is also financed, and without our knowledge, BY
    OUR LIVES. Those of our children and of millions of innocents who have
    been sacrificed. It is we, those who live in the Western world, who
    are responsible for all the illnesses and acts of genocide in the
    world. By our acceptance of vaccinations, both at home and abroad.

    Extracted with permission from The Medical Mafia by Guylaine Lanctot,
    M.D. ISBN 0964412608 (p.126-131)

  • mesothelioma says:

    Interesting. Thanks!

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