When Healing Becomes Educating, Vol. 6 - Waldorf Research Institute

Fig. 6. Tetanus mortality according to age and sex (FRG.), 1968–1978
supervision at the end of the second or third year. One should remember
that the DPT vaccine contains 122 million whooping cough bacteria, 50 JE
diphtheria antitoxin and 50 times the lethal amount of detoxified tetanus
toxin.
One gets a similar picture from polio vaccinations. A steep decline in
this disease is noticeable from about 4500 cases in 1961 to zero today. As in
tetanus, this can no doubt be regarded as the result of vaccinations, and not
as a natural tendency. According to Buchwald no German child has had polio
in the last 12 years—only children from other countries. The Federal Bureau
of Statistics in Wiesbaden reported only one case of polio in 1988. Panics
about vaccination loopholes are unfounded since one can quickly control
these (Buchwald). It is disconcerting that this vaccination is also included in
the program from the third month, and since this is given as an oral vaccine,
one might think that the immunologically taxing aspect is reduced since
the intestine’s mucous membrane can act as a boundary-protector. But is
this membrane sufficiently developed at this time? Isn’t it more likely that
the vaccine will bring about a weakening or a chaotization of the immune
processes which are just beginning to function? For instance, opponents to
vaccination interpret the enormous increase in neurodermatitis in children
in this way.
And even the greatest vaccination adherent would have to admit that
there is no danger of an infection at that time. A polio vaccination at the
end of the child’s second year would seem to be sufficient, and if one took
the necessary precautions one could even do it in the third year without
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