What are the Benefits and Concerns Regarding Vaccinations?

Rabies has been known for at least 4000 years. Rabies is the most lethal infectious disease known to humans. ¹

Vaccination has been very successful in helping to control this deadly disease.

At least five old Mesopotamian “dog incantations” from 1900–1600 BCE, indicate the awareness that it was caused by something in the saliva of the afflicted animal.

Clay tablets unearthed by H.V. Hilprecht in 1889 at the Nippur site (3rd dynasty of Ur III, 21st- 20th-century BCE) of what is now Nuffar in Iraq display Akkadian incantations, to which healers resorted when medicine failed.

Rabies continued to concern populations and medical writers of the Renaissance. Julien Le Paulmier (1520–1588) wrote seven medical textbooks in all, one specifically on rabies. ² ~ ³

The preventive practices at Saint-Hubert were condemned by the Sorbonne as superstitious in June 1671 but remained in use in the Ardennes well into the 19th century.

Although circulation of rabies had reportedly increased, especially in Europe, great progress was being made in the prevention of dog bites in European cities.

The protective effect of washing the wound was described in a publication dated 1796 was widely practiced.

The successful prevention of rabies virus by vaccination was first achieved by Louis Pasteur in 1884 following the survival of people that were infected by rabies.

This successful attempt was repeated in late October 1885 in a second case, that of a 15-year-old shepherd, Jean-Baptiste Jupille from Villers-Farlay, Jura, who sustained on October 14 a deep bite to the left and right hands after an attack by a furious dog. ⁴

Jupille was referred to Pasteur by the town mayor and received rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) in Paris from 20 to 30 October, 1885. Following Grancher’s accidental exposure to the attenuated vaccine during Jupille’s PEP, Adrien Loir and Eugène Viala became the two first humans to receive pre-exposure rabies vaccination.

Doctors had an effective means of preventing rabies. Pasteur reported 3 (0.2%) deaths among 1235 vaccine recipients.

Another group showed 21 (1.0%) deaths among 1986 recipients by 22 August 1886.

In 1887, 12 (0.7%) deaths was reported for 1726 vaccine recipients. A death rate of 15.3% was expected if the vaccine had not been administered.

The effects of the devastating Ebola haemorrhaging disease has been greatly mitigated with the administration of the vaccine with mild side-effects.

Not all vaccination programs are as successful – some having serious consequences.

Paul Offit and Whooping Cough Vaccinations

Paul Offit, a mandatory vaccination advocate wrote a book, Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All. ⁵

In this book he states,

He states that before the vaccine for pertussis was introduced in the mid 1940s, pertussis was responsible for 7,000 deaths each year. This is the average deaths for the years 1926-1930. The average deaths for the next 5 years was 5,000 and the 5 years after that was 3,200 – all prior to the “vaccination era”. Offit defines “vaccination era” as the period beginning in 1963, which is when the first licensed measles vaccine became available in the USA.

In 1926, there was 10,096 pertussis deaths with a mortality rate of 8.6 per 100,000. By 1940, deaths were reduced to 3,219 with a mortality rate of 1.9 – a reduction of 4.5 times in 15 years, achieved before vaccinations for pertussis were introduced in the mid-1940s.

Offit is being dishonest in his selection of the period that he uses to claim that prior to vaccinations, 7,000 deaths were caused by whooping cough each and every year.

Decrease in Death Rate – Australia 1905 to Present

The coefficient of determination (R^2) indicates how well observed data is approximated by the trend line. In the case below the trend line is an exponential function. A coefficient of determination is usually considered a very good approcimation.

The inflection point is a point on a trend line where the direction of curvature changes. In this case from a downward trend to a horizontal trend.

The inflection point in the graphs below is 1970.

It is only a conincidence that the measles vaccination was available in Australia in November 1969. ⁶

Aluminium Toxicity

Christopher Exley, a chemist from Keele University, has 242 publications recorded across 38 years, from 1988 to 2025. He has written extensively on the detrimental health effects of aluminium exposure. Aluminum is a non-essential metal to human life and is an environmental toxin. Aluminium triggers immune responses which contribute to chronic systemic inflammation development.

Exley states, ⁷ ~ ⁸ ~ ⁹

Exley and colleagues have also found an association with aluminium toxicity and Alzheimer’s disease. ¹⁰

Notes Regarding Vaccinations

Last updated on Monday 9 November 2026 at 19:36 by administrators

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