Vaccinate Or Else

CHILDCARE centres will face fines for enrolling unvaccinated children, in tough new measures by the government raise the NSW vaccination rate.

New laws to strengthen the public health act passed through cabinet last night, and it is understood the coalition joint party room approved the changes.

The laws are a big win for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph’s “No Jab No Play” campaign which was started to protect children from preventable diseases.

The amendments to the Public Health Act include allowing childcare centres and preschools to ban unvaccinated children and obliging centres to formally report any unvaccinated children. It is understood centres who enrol unvaccinated children may be fined.

If a parent has a “genuine objection” to vaccination, they can apply for exemptions, but they would have to provide proof from their GP or immunisation nurse.

It is understood genuine objections could include religious reasons or doctor’s advice that child would have a severe reaction to the vaccine.

The government will introduce the legislation today and it is expected to be fully endorsed by the opposition.

The campaign has two specific aims: first, to demand the NSW government amend the Public Health Act 2010 to allow childcare centres to ban unvaccinated children if they so wish.

Second, for the federal government to close a loophole enabling parents to claim they are "conscientious objectors" to avoid the rule that only vaccinated children are eligible for the 50 per cent childcare rebate.

NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner said the government had no plans to toughen laws. "Additional measures could be considered in future to maximise rates of vaccination in children, however the NSW government has no current plans to legislate compulsory immunisation," she said.

The federal government instituted financial penalties in July with the new Family Tax Benefit A supplement of $726 reliant on a child being fully immunised. But the carrot-and-stick approach does not affect wealthy parents in the identified areas who do not qualify for the benefit.

Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek has replaced the term "conscientious objectors" in government communications with "vaccine refusers". There is also a move to make the same change in legislation.

Ms Plibersek rubbished fear campaigns about the risks of immunisation.

"As a mother of three, I support immunisation and my children are fully immunised," she said.

"No vaccine or medicine can be guaranteed to be without side-effects, but these are infrequent and in the main are very mild.

"The alleged link between autism and immunisation has been disproved. It is absolutely 100 per cent not true. Unfounded allegations regarding adverse events from vaccines lead to downturns in immunisation rates and outbreak of disease."

WHO and Pharmaceutical Company Links Discovered

Several Danish journalists have been examining the links between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. These pharmaceutical companies are reporting great profits by selling vaccines and medications to counter the H1N1 Swine Flu virus. This may not be all that much of a shock, but what is shocking is the fact that many of the scientists who sit on various committees of WHO, have been concealing the fact that they receive money and other incentives from the pharmaceutical giants around the globe.

JP Morgan, the international investment bank, has reported the pharmaceutical industry will make between seven and ten billion euros this year on the sale of A/H1N1 vaccines.