From the cover:
Five years ago, internist and emergency specialist Matt Rutledge returned to his West Virginia home to marry his high-school sweetheart and open a practice. He also had a score to settle. His father died while working for the Belinda Coal and Coke Company, and Matt swore to expose the mine's health and safety violations. When his beloved Ginny succumbed to an unusual cancer, his campaign became even more bitterly personal. Now Matt has identified two bizarre cases of what he has dubbed the Belinda Syndrome - caused, he is certain, by the mine's careless disposal of toxic chemicals. All he needs is proof.
Along with the views on chemical and toxic dumping by big companies, the novel also looks into the dangers of vaccines and inoculating children with a barrage of "shots" at a young age. One of the characters is fighting for change after her granddaughter became autistic following a childhood vaccination.
Note: a large number of vaccines include mercury as a stabilizer.
Michael Palmer gives a helpful list at the end of his novel of places to contact for more information on controversial vaccines. Here are a few:
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (information on adverse affects) hrsa.gov
National Institute of Health (responsible for scientific research into medical issues) www.nih.gov
Immunization Action Coalition (private organization promoting mass vaccination) www.immunize.org
National Vaccine Information Center (private organization by parents of vaccine-injured children with a vaccine reaction registry) www.909shot.com
Note: The flu vaccine is one that seems to me to be no more than a money making scheme for drug companies. Even those advocating the flu shot state that it may possibly reduce the chances of getting the flu in 9 out of 1,000 people
Here are some of the side effects possible from the influenza vaccine - Flu Vaccine Side Effects. Sounds the same as flu symptoms to me!!!!
From www.vaccineinfo.net
Health authorities in other countries do not share the U.S. public health community's enthusiasm for influenza vaccine. At one CDC-sponsored influenza symposium a British researcher stated: "The [influenza vaccine] recommendations are strong in certain countries, but weak in others, since not all authorities are convinced of the benefit of immunization."
He deplored the "unsatisfactory situation" of poor influenza vaccine efficacy which "compares unfavorably with other influenza vaccines." Even CDC officials confessed that "influenza vaccines are still among the least effective immunizing agents available, and this seems to be particularly true for elderly recipients."
Congress and the American taxpayer have been defrauded about the alleged advantages of flu shots.
Instead of being an effective prevention, evidence indicates that flu shots may be useless. Although endorsed and funded by federal and state governments the shots seem only to benefit the companies that make them, public health bureaucrats who promote them, and medical personnel who administer them.
