Avoid jabs parents warned (From Stroud News and Journal)

Avoid jabs parents warned

A PACKED lecture room of anxious parents were told to avoid all vaccinations by an American health researcher on Friday.

The warning from chiropractor Dr Tim O'Shea, whose talk at Stroud Subscription Rooms, came in the same week scientists predicted a potentially devastating measles epidemic.

Parents came from all over the country aarrived to hear Dr O'Shea speak for two four-hour periods on "The Sanctity of Human Blood".

They were particularly keen to hear his views on the controversial triple MMR vaccine, which many have shunned after it was accused of causing autism.

The most report surrounding the controversy states one in seven children are at risk of catching measles because of the increasing unpopularity of the jab.

Dr O'Shea enlisted the words of famous medics including 19th century Gloucester doctor Walter Hadwen to support his claim that immunising children can do more harm than good.

By 1896 Hadwen had noted that vaccination was no longer simply a medical issue, but a social and political one.

Dr O'Shea asserted that the welfare of British and American children is not in the hands of health care professionals but of money-making pharmaceutical companies.

He also questioned the use of vaccine ingredients such as ethylene, a major component of anti-freeze, aluminium, which has been linked to Alzheimer's and cancer, formaldehyde and attenuated - partly killed - organisms, like polio.

Diane Harris from Uplands, who attended both talks, said: "I think this information is dynamite.

"I just wish I'd known before I got my two daughters vaccinated." One of the most shocking revelations, she said, was Dr O'Shea's claim that cell tissue from aborted foetuses is used to culture vaccinations.

"Personally, I found that quite disgusting," she said. "You could argue that it's irresponsible to make allegations like this, but I think it's more irresponsible to just blindly trust the people who are making these vaccines.

"I don't necessarily believe everything Dr O'Shea said, but it has made me think we need more information.

"I would like to know more before injecting my children."