Whooping cough

"Thirty percent of the people who catch whooping cough have already been vaccinated against it."
- New Scientist, Vol. 95, No. 1323, 1982, page 749. (Animal Aid)

"The effectiveness of the whooping cough vaccine is hotly debated all over the world: the possibility of high fevers, convulsions and brain damage is too high to ignore."
- Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D., Confessions of a Medical Heretic, page 232.

Diphtheria

"During a 1969 outbreak of diphtheria in Chicago, four of the sixteen victims had been 'fully immunised against the disease'."
- Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D., Confessions of a Medical Heretic, page 232.

Rubella

"Vaccination for Rubella may do more harm than good, since there is a risk of arthritis arising from the drug..."
- Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D., Confessions of a Medical Heretic.

Dr Mendelsohn is Chairman of the Medical Licensing Committee for the State of Illinois, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health in the School of Medicine of the University of Illinois and the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in medicine and medical instruction. He has been for 25 years a practicing physician.

As the Department of Health and Social Security prepares its campaign on rubella vaccination, the Spastics Society maintains that the nine-year-old rubella prevention programming has not yet made any great impact on the number of women whose babies may be affected by maternal rubella in early pregnancy has remained essentially unaltered.

The Society's report says:

"There is no evidence that fewer congenital rubella babies are being born now than ten years ago, and there are still large numbers of women who are vulnerable to rubella. The programme has failed and the future does not look hopeful."
- The Lancet, 5 May 1979.

Polio

"There is crushing evidence that polio has not been eliminated by vaccination, but on the contrary has experienced a resurgence or an initial increase wherever mass inoculation was introduced - notably in Brazil, where vaccination unleashed the severest polio epidemic the world had ever known..."

... The overwhelming majority of people vaccinated all over the world against polio have been inoculated with potentially carcinogenic substances i.e. theoretically capable of producing cancer."
- Hans Ruesch, Slaughter of the Innocent