In today’s society, the fear of germs has reached major proportions.  People are bombarded with messages all their lives which instill this fear.  The U.S. medical healthcare system, based upon the germ theory introduced by French chemist Louis Pasteur in 1862 (1), insists that infectious germs are a dangerous threat to our health.
According to the Center for Disease Control, “The spectrum of infectious disease is changing rapidly in conjunction with dramatic changes in society and environment.  Despite historical predictions to the contrary, people today remain vulnerable to a wide array of new and resurgent diseases” (2).   This germ hysteria is easily discerned by examining the United States immunization policy.  By the time a child reaches 4-6 years of age, if the parents have fallen prey to the germ hysteria, a child will have received a minimum of 19 immunizations against a variety of infectious diseases.  The chart below illustrates the schedule for the administration of these drugs which, ironically,  themselves deliver infectious disease directly into the body.
 
 

Vaccine advocates state that the reason the incidence of infectious diseases has dropped is because of the introduction of immunizations.  Although immunizations for smallpox, rabies and the plague were introduced in the 1700's and 1800's, those diseases still continued to exist after 1900.  And even though diphtheria, pertussis, tuberculosis, and tetanus immunizations were developed and introduced in the late 1920's, their use on a mass scale did not begin until many years later (4), according to the World Health Organization.

Referring to the chart below, the incidence of infectious disease was already falling steadily since 1900, and sharply dropped around 1920,  before diphtheria, pertussis, tuberculosis and tetanus were invented and before any of these immunizations were introduced on a mass scale.  The sharp rise and fall in 1918 and 1919 represents an influenza epidemic which rose and fell on its own and for which there was no vaccination available.   Ignoring the influenza epidemic on the chart, you can see that the incidence of infectious diseases was already following a steady downward progression before diphtheria, pertussis, tuberculosis and tetanus immunizations were invented or introduced (5).
 
 

According to the World Health Organization, “Better-off families who could afford vaccination benefited most - the poor benefited the least. Because of low, irregular coverage, communities continued to be devastated intermittently by outbreaks of these vaccine-preventable diseases throughout the 1930s and 1940s” (6).  So there was low, irregular use of the vaccines during the 30's and 40's, which means they could not possibly have been responsible for the steady decline in infectious disease seen in the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's.

How then can we account for the steady decline in infectious disease we have seen in the last century?  The Center for Disease Control gives us the answer themselves.  They say that “Public health officials do not rely on vaccines alone to control epidemics.  To prevent the spread of disease, it is necessary to provide sanitary water and food supplies; education on hygiene, cleanliness and disease prevention methods; and insect and animal management, as well as prevention of exposure to infected people through quarantine” (7).  Could it just be possible that education in sanitation, nutrition, and hygiene caused this decline on their own?

Today we have a new hysteria: the anthrax bacteria, and the threat of possible biological and chemical warfare and terrorist attacks.  This hysteria has people buying gas masks, stocking up on antibiotics, and becoming fearful once again of being exposed to infectious diseases.  Then there is SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), a virus with flu-like symptoms that seems to have originated in China, and is spreading.  Media reports show pictures of people walking the streets, wearing surgical masks in the hope that it will help protect them from inhaling the virus (IT DOESN'T).  But is the hysteria justified?  And why are we so afraid of disease germs?  Once again, according to the Center for Disease Control, “More than 90 percent of the people who are not immune will get the measles if they are exposed to the virus” (8).  The question remains then, why don’t the other 10% get the disease?

Just because a person is exposed to a germ does not mean that they will contract the disease.  The only reason a person contracts an infectious disease is because the body allows it.  But those other 10%, their bodies did NOT allow it.  There is an internal mechanism which kills foreign microorganisms in the body.  Perhaps you’ve heard of it.  Its called the immune system.  The human immune system is designed to fight off every one of the infectious diseases dreaded by humans today, including anthrax and the AIDS virus.  The fact that the body does NOT fight them off, even though it is designed to do so, shows that a deficiency exists in the body of those who become infected.  If a person finds those deficiencies and eliminates them, they will NOT become infected.

Doesn’t it make more sense to build up the body’s immune system so that it can fight off any disease, rather than try to develop a different drug for every one of the thousands of disease germs out there?  And what about anthrax....why are people so afraid of it?  Is there anything about it that makes it more dangerous than other diseases?  Or is it just another ploy by the pharmaceutical companies to make millions selling antibiotics?

In this publication I hope to show you that:

1.  The germ theory cannot account for why some people do not become infected.
2.  Your body can fight off any disease if it is properly equipped.
3.  The anthrax bacteria is no more dangerous to you than any other common germ.
4.  Why antibiotics and vaccines used to fight the germs are dangerous to your health.
5.  Everything needed to properly equip your body to fight disease exists in nature.
6.  Why you are better off avoiding medical care and treating yourself.
 

Chapter One References:

(1) Columbia University Press.  (2000).  “Pasteur, Louis.”  Encyclopedia.com from
   The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, sixth edition.  Available online:
      [http://www.encyclopedia.com/articlesnew/09893.html].

(2) National Center for Infectious Diseases.  (1994).  "Addressing Emerging Infectious
      Disease Threats: A Prevention Strategy for the United States."  Center for Disease
     Control and Prevention.  Available online: [http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/publications/eid_plan/Default.htm].

(3) "Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule--United States,  January-December, 1998."
   Pediatrics 101:155-156.

(4)   World Health Organization.  (2001).  The History of Vaccination.  Vaccines, Immunizations and
        Biologicals.  Available online: [http://www.who.int/vaccines-diseases/history/history.shtml].

(5)   National Center for Infectious Diseases.  (2001).  "Trends in Deaths Caused by
       Infectious Diseases in the United States, 1900-1994."  Center for Disease Control And Prevention.
       Available online: [http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/emergplan/box01.htm] .

(6)   Same as (4) above.

(7)   National Vaccine Program Office. (2001).  "Immunization Laws."  Center for Disease
       Control and Prevention.  Available online: [http://www.cdc.gov/od/nvpo/law.htm] .