Crib death or sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) kills more than 10,000
babies each year and is the second largest cause of infant deaths in the U.S.
(congenital malformations are first).
Its cause is unknown. Or is it?
In 1985 in Australia, Viera Scheibner, Ph.D. a retired principal research
scientist with more than 90 published scientific papers in refereed journals
to her credit, met Leif Karlsson, a biomedical electronics engineer
specializing in patient monitoring systems. They developed the Cotwatch,
a breathing monitor used for babies thought to be at risk of crib death or
SIDS.
Their findings surprised them. "Without endeavoring to do so... [we found
that] the babies' breathing was affected in a certain characteristic manner
and over a long period of time [40-65 days] following DPT injections.... We
also learned from the parents of crib death infants that most commonly the
child had died after DPT injection," said Dr. Scheibner.
As she continued her research, the link between crib death and vaccination
became painfully obvious -- and undeniable. "There was a significant and clear
clustering of these (crib) deaths" around the time of vaccination."
Yet when approaching pediatricians with her findings, she was shocked at
their reaction. "We realized that we had touched a very serious and
contentious issue.... The resistance we encountered in pursuing this
research... became the best and most effective goad to us to continue. So I
wish to thank those who would not speak out against the silent killer of
babies," said Scheibner.
According to medical historian Harris Coulter, Ph.D., "There is no way that
a pathologist can tell the difference between crib death and death from
vaccination.... I called attention to this fact at a vaccination committee
meeting in Washington, D.C., where they had a panel of people from about ten
countries and I asked, 'How can you tell the difference between sudden infant
death syndrome and death from vaccination?'
"The Americans simply could not answer the question. They waffled and
couldn't state any guidelines. But the European representatives were more
honest and said, 'Indeed, there is no way in the world that we can tell the
difference between them and it is a very big problem for us.' It appears
that M.D's invented the term sudden infant death syndrome to explain away the
'coincidence' that babies die about the same time they receive vaccines," says
Dr. Coulter.
Coulter estimates that about two-thirds of the 10,000 annual cases of crib
death are vaccine related but he may be conservative. Childhood vaccination
rates in Australia dropped by 50% when they became non-mandatory (as it is
becoming in many European countries) and SIDS dropped by 50%! In 1975, when
Japan moved the vaccination age to two years (American babies receive their
first shot at two months) crib death and infantile convulsions virtually
disappeared (Cherry et al. 1988, Pediatrics Supplement, p.973). Japan
then recorded the lowest incidence of infant mortality in the world.
Coulter, in his book "Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality,"
studied the long-term effects of vaccination and he found them related to a
single neurological disturbance caused by vaccination: "Autism and SIDS appear
to be generated in the same way -- by an encephalitis most commonly caused by
vaccination.... The child who would have grown up autistic dies instead of
'sudden infant death syndrome.'"
Coulter discusses the mechanism of crib death: "Vaccination affects in
particular the top of the spine and the back of the skull through which the
cranial nerves pass and has the effect of weakening the cranial nerves. Sudden
infant death syndrome is probably caused by an effect of vaccination on the
vagus nerve, which provides the neural impulse to the lungs which cause us to
breathe. If the nerve is palsied by the vaccination the impulse doesn't pass
through and the baby simply stops breathing. Parents who have witnessed this
in their child have told me, 'The child was lying there and all of a sudden I
heard no breathing...' In these cases the parents have rushed up, given the
baby a shake and the baby starts breathing again. If the parent hadn't been
there the baby wouldn't have started breathing again."
According to Coulter, "When the cranial nerves are affected, the result is
weakness of the eyes, ears, voice, and respiratory system [i.e. asthma], the
latter condition being responsible for the cases of 'sudden infant death'
following upon vaccination."
This observation is not limited to the above authors. For decades,
independent researchers in different countries have commented on the
vaccination-crib death link. Further, the National Vaccine Compensation Office
in Washington has already awarded approximately $500 million to families for
vaccine damaged children, about half to parents of children killed by the
shots that were originally labeled "sudden infant death syndrome of unknown
origin" on the death certificate (doctors are loathe to write "vaccine
death"). There are about 4,000 more cases in the pipeline with total
compensation in the several billions of dollars.
How do these findings relate to the work of Abraham Towbin, M.D., and
others that show a relationship between cervical spinal damage and crib death?
Towbin dealt with gross trauma, while it appears that subtler chemical vaccine
trauma creates meningeal irritation that subluxates the atlanto-occipital
spine, affecting the vagus nerve.
Scheibner, incidentally, did not stop with crib death. In a daunting
display of determination, she studied more than 35,000 pages of medical papers
dealing with vaccination and discovered that in all that material there was no
evidence of effectiveness and safety of vaccines.
Her years of study culminated in her book: "Vaccination, The Medical
Assault on the Immune System," which led her to conclude: "Immunizations,
including those practiced on babies, not only did not prevent any infectious
diseases, they caused more suffering and more deaths than has any other human
activity in the entire history of medical intervention. It will be decades
before the mopping-up after the disasters caused by childhood vaccination will
be completed. All vaccination should cease forthwith and all victims of the
side-effects should be appropriately compensated."
In a personal correspondence to this author, Scheibner restated this
conclusion. "Cot (crib) death is caused by vaccines. Vaccines are noxious
substances. Serum of SIDS babies is so poisonous that all mice injected minute
amounts of it die."
(Quotes of Dr. Scheibner are from: "Vaccination, The Medical Assault on the
Immune System." All quotes of Dr. Coulter are from: "Vaccination, Social
Violence and Criminality" and his talk of the same name at the International
Chiropractors Association in La Quinta, CA, May 1993.)
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