By Muriel Sluyter

Our granddaughter Cheryl, who reacted badly to vaccinations, is autistic and "profoundly" retarded. Why? We’ll never know, though this may shed light on the subject.

Today’s quotes are from "Vaccination: The Medical Assault on the Immune System," by Viera Scheibner, Ph.D., and "Vaccination: Social Violence and Criminality" by Harris Coulter, Ph.D.

Dr. Scheibner met Leif Karlsson, biomedical electronics engineer, specializing in patient-monitoring systems, and the two developed "Cotwatch," a breathing monitor for babies at risk of . . . sudden infant death syndrome.

Dr. Scheibner: "Without endeavoring to do so . . . (we found that) the babies’ breathing was affected in a certain characteristic manner and over a long period of time (40-65 days) following DPT injection. . . We also learned from the parents of crib-death infants that most commonly the child died after a DPT injection."

As she continued her research, the link between crib death and vaccination became painfully obvious and undeniable. "There was a significant and clear clustering of these (crib) deaths around the time of vaccination." When approaching pediatricians with her findings, she was shocked at their reaction. "We realized that we had touched a very serious and contentious issue. . . . The resistance we encountered in pursuing this research. . . became the best and most effective goal to us to continue."

Dr. Coulter: "There is no way that a pathologist can tell the difference between crib death and death from vaccination. . . . (A)t a vaccination committee meeting. . . where they had a panel of people from about 10 countries, I asked, ‘How can you tell the difference between sudden infant death syndrome and death from vaccination?’

"The Amer-icans simply could not answer the question. They waffled and couldn’t state any guidelines. But the European representatives were more honest and said, ‘Indeed, there is no way in the world we can tell the difference between them and it is a very big problem with us.’ It appears that MDs invented the term ‘sudden infant death syndrome’ to explain away the ‘coincidence’ that babies die about the same time they receive vaccines."

Dr. Coulter estimates that about two-thirds of the 10,000 cases of crib deaths are vaccine-related, but he "may be conservative" When childhood vaccination rates in Australia dropped by 50 percent, having ceased to be mandatory, SIDS also dropped by 50 percent. When Japan moved the vaccinations forward to two years in 1975, crib deaths and infantile convulsions virtually disappeared. Japan then went from 17th in infant-mortality rate to the lowest in the world. America, where immunization is mandatory, is 20th.

Dr. Coulter: "Autism and SIDS appear to be generated in the same way, by an encephalitis most commonly caused by vaccination. . . . The child who would have grown up autistic dies instead of SIDS. . . . Vaccination affects in particular the top of the spine and the cranial nerves. If the nerve is palsied by vaccination, the impulse doesn’t pass through and the baby simply stops breathing. Parents who have witnessed this in their child have told me, ‘The child was lying there and all of a sudden I heard no breathing.’ They gave the baby a shake, and it started breathing again."