#68 March/April 2004
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REGULARS

READER MAIL
Immigration, ads, environment, attorney retainers, kucinich, prison

MEDIA BEAT by Norman Solomon
UN spying and the evasions of US media

NATURE DOC by Dr. John Ruhland, ND
Let's have a pox party!

BOB'S RANDOM LEGAL WISDOM by Bob Anderton
Dog Law

RAD VIDEOS by Dr. John Ruhland
Racism and corruption in the FBI/CIA/Police

GOOD IDEAS FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES by Doug Collins
The Netherlands: Reliability

FREE THOUGHTS

Ten Everyday Things You Can Do To Fix Your Country
by Alicia Elliott

Take a Quack At Our Ongoing Rubber Ducky Essay Contest

Overheard...
by Styx Mundstock

Who the heck reads this paper?
by Doug Collins

POLITICS

Lootocracy
by Paul Rogat Loeb

We Need Reforms for Presidential Nominations
opinion by Rob Richie and Steven Hill

MEDIA

Billboards for the People
Local girl makes good
by Alicia Elliott

The Perils of Progressive Publishing

NATURE

THE FOREST OR THE TREES?
Back on the chopping block
by Eric de Place

WORKPLACE

Illegal Immigration: A World Concern
by Domenico Maceri

Workplace News Summaries
compiled by Paul Schafer

HEALTH

Vaccination Decisions: part 3 of a series
A Parent's Personal Judgements on Specific Vaccines
opinion by Doug Collins

LAW

I Almost Killed My Son
by T. G.

Legal Briefs
by various writers

Settlement On Jefferson County Jail Conditions
from the ACLU of WA

WAR

FBI Infiltrating Peace Groups
from the ACLU

Expendable Pawns, Collateral Damage
by Donald Torrence

CORPORATIONS

Multiple Corporate Personality Disorder
The Ten Worst Corporations of 2003
by Paul Schafer

CULTURE

Poets of the Non-Existent City: Los Angeles in the McCarthy Era
review by Robert Pavlik

name of regular

Medical opinion by John F. Ruhland, ND

Let's Have a Pox Party!

Chickenpox, mumps, rubella, and even measles are generally benign diseases for normally healthy children above one year old. Children can benefit from catching the natural disease, because it confers lifelong immunity, protecting them when they become elderly. For public reference, here's a letter I sent my friends, to try to help revive the tradition of Chickenpox parties. Parents should of course do independent reading on vaccinations and the diseases to become fully informed. I suggest some references below.

Dear Friends,

We are trying to find children with the common childhood illnesses (like chickenpox) so our child may develop the natural form of the disease. This gives a much better immunity than vaccination, and has a very important extra benefit: it will protect the future children of a female when she breastfeeds her own children, by conferring temporary passive immunity as long as she breastfeeds. Vaccinated kids are not protected from these diseases by their mother's breastmilk if the mother was vaccinated and never had the natural form of the disease. If you are interested, please let me know. We would love it if you would allow us to have a party with your child if (s)he gets one of the common childhood illnesses, even if you prefer not to participate as a recipient. Please also circulate this to your other friends with young children.

Sincerely,
John Ruhland

For further reference:

Mothering Magazine is the foremost parenting magazine for people interested in holistic health. They have taken a stance against most immunization. I posted a similar request on their website (see Mothering.com).

For further discussion on vaccinations, please see the Washington Free Press webpage for back issues: www.wafreepress.org/back.html. The Free Press has published an excellent series of articles on vaccinations in the past year, beginning with my NatureDoc column in the September/October 2002 issue. It usually takes about two months for the current issue to be posted.

Lastly, members of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) voted two years ago in October for an end to mandatory childhood vaccines. The resolution and mandatory vaccine fact sheet are posted on their website: www.aapsonline.org.

An excellent source for a balanced view of vaccination, is the National Vaccine Information Center: www.909shot.com.

I will soon be adding links to all the WA Free Press articles, as well as to other important vaccination sites, on my website: www.drruhland.com.

Dr. John F. Ruhland practices at the Natural Health Medical Clinic, 4002--25th Avenue S, Seattle, WA 98108, 206-723-4891, www.drruhland.com.


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