WHOLESALE INFECTION, SLAUGHTER AND SACRIFICE OF CATTLE CAUSED
BY VACCINATION
_From Pamphlet “Open Your Eyes” by Chas. M. Higgins--1912_
The photograph on preceding page is taken from the Report of
the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry for 1902 on the great
epidemic of Cattle Plague, or Foot and Mouth Disease, in
Massachusetts in 1902, caused by vaccine virus, which cost
the U. S. Government $130,000 to suppress and caused the
slaughter of 4316 animals. In this impressive picture you
will note the bodies of hundreds of cattle resting on a pile
of fire-wood in a trench on the snow covered ground ready for
burning to destroy the infection caused by the vaccine virus.
Look carefully, as the picture is much reduced, and you will
see a man at the left in the trench setting fire to the pile.
Note the horns, heads, and hoofs of the cattle bristling from
all sides of the funeral pile. Soon you will see the smoke of
sacrifice rise from these victims of vaccination on the altar
of Medical Barbarism--a Holocaust to the Demon Vaccine!
In 1908 there was a second epidemic of the same disease which
raged in several States, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Maryland
and New York, caused by the vaccine virus used by two of the
largest manufacturers of vaccine virus in the United States.
(See Report of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry for 1908.)
In this second epidemic 3636 animals were slaughtered at a cost
to the U. S. Government of $300,000. In both epidemics there
occurred outbreaks of similar disease among vaccinated persons
in the infected States, from which many deaths resulted. What
do you now think of any medical scheme for the alleged benefit
of “public health” which is capable of causing such disasters
to animal and human life as this peculiar and extraordinary
scheme of bovine vaccination? Do you think, Mr. President, that
any medical device capable of causing such disasters should
be made compulsory by law, in our Army or Navy, on our public
school children or on any one else in any shape or form? And
do you not think that all compulsion should be now abolished
and Medical Freedom from inflicted disease established as an
absolute American and Hygienic Right?
Fig. 10 shows a map of the second epidemic of foot and mouth disease
in 1908, taken from the Report of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry
for 1908. The shaded counties in the four States of Michigan, New
York, Pennsylvania and Maryland show where the epidemic of that year
spread and how it originated and travelled. This epidemic was caused
by manufacturers of vaccine virus and originated from the virus
of two large American manufacturers, one in Detroit, the other in
Philadelphia. This strain of virus is said to have come originally from
Japan, the much-vaccinated country, and contained the infection of foot
and mouth disease, and it was used apparently for years without any
knowledge that it carried this dangerous disease, which was probably
conveyed to many vaccinated children and adults in that time with
a horrible eruptive effect in many cases,--how many will never be
known. This infection of the vaccine virus was not known or discovered
until 1908 because the Philadelphia company killed their calves after
getting the virus from them and thus prevented the vaccinated calves
from mixing with and infecting healthy cattle, but confined the
infection to vaccinated human beings. In 1908, however, the Detroit
company got some of this “seed virus” from the Philadelphia company to
“strengthen” their product. The Detroit method was not to finally kill
the vaccinated calves, but to hire unvaccinated calves from farmers or
stock dealers and after they were infected, and the virus taken from
them, to return the calves to the farmers or stockmen, where they thus
mixed with healthy cattle which were afterwards shipped to different
States and thus spread the great plague of foot and mouth disease in
that year, as shown by the official map annexed and by the official
reports cited below.
[Illustration: FIG. 10. Map of Epidemic of 1908 caused by Vaccine
Virus.]
OFFICIAL REPORTS PROVING VACCINATION TO BE THE CAUSE OF FOOT AND MOUTH
DISEASE
For expert proof that vaccination is responsible for epidemics of Foot
and Mouth Disease, see the annual reports of the U. S. Bureau of Animal
Industry, already cited, for 1902 and 1908, and also the Year Book
of the U. S. Department of Agriculture for 1914, page 21. See also
Farmers’ Bulletin No. 666, issued by the Department of Agriculture. See
particularly the first official report on the epidemics of Foot and
Mouth Disease in 1902 and 1908, issued by the U. S. Bureau of Animal
Industry. This first report is not now in print but is on record in the
Bureau and it was first given to the press and released for publication
on May 17, 1909; and from a copy of this report obtained from the said
Bureau, I now give the following extracts which will clearly show that
it was the vaccine virus used by two of our largest manufacturers
of virus in the United States that was responsible for causing the
epidemic of foot and mouth disease in 1908, and was also probably the
cause of the previous epidemic of the same disease in 1902 and 1903.
“COPY OF STATEMENT GIVEN TO THE PRESS BY THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY,
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION, MAY 17, 1909
“ORIGIN OF THE RECENT OUTBREAK OF FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE
“The recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Michigan,
New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland started from calves used
in the propagation of smallpox vaccine virus which had been
contaminated with the virus of foot and mouth disease, and the
contaminated strain of vaccine originally came from a foreign
country.
“The main facts regarding the outbreak ... are as follows:
The H. K. Mulford Company of Glen Olden, Pa., imported
certain smallpox vaccine virus which was contaminated with
the infection of foot and mouth disease. In May, 1908, some
vaccine of this strain was procured by Parke, Davis & Co. of
Detroit. Calves used by the latter firm in propagating vaccine
were sent, October 16, to the Detroit stock yards and thence
on the same day to a farm near Detroit. On October 20, three
carloads of cattle from points in Michigan reached the Detroit
stock yards and were put into the pens that had been occupied
by the vaccine calves four days previously. Some were sold
for slaughter at Detroit, while the remainder were shipped to
Buffalo and some were reshipped to Danville and Watsontown,
Pa., where the disease was first observed some days later. The
disease spread to various places in Pennsylvania and New York
and to one locality in Maryland. [See Map, page 98.]
“Three separate series of experiments were made by Doctors
Mohler and Rosenau. Young cattle and sheep were inoculated with
vaccine virus obtained from both firms. Foot and mouth disease
was produced in experimental animals by the use of vaccine of
the same strain obtained from both sources, while other strains
of vaccine tested gave negative results. The disease was also
transmitted from one animal to another through several series,
in two instances by natural modes of infection.
“The investigation also indicates that the outbreaks of foot
and mouth disease in New England in 1902-3 were probably due
to contaminated vaccine of Japanese origin from the Mulford
Company....
“The fact that the infection was present in the vaccine virus
of the Mulford Company for so long a period, but was not
transmitted to outside cattle, was doubtless due to this firm’s
practice of killing its calves after taking the vaccine virus.
Parke, Davis & Co., on the other hand, rented their calves and
placed them again on the market a short time after the vaccine
material was taken. In this way the disease spread from the
vaccine stables of Parke, Davis & Co., but not from those of
the Mulford Company, although it was the vaccine virus from the
latter establishment that infected the former’s cattle....
“As soon as the facts regarding the contamination of vaccine
became known, the licenses of the two firms involved were
at once suspended, all the suspected vaccine virus on hand
was destroyed and that upon the market withdrawn, and other
measures of a radical nature were taken. The report commends
the intelligent and prompt coöperation of the Mulford Company
and Parke, Davis & Co. in accomplishing this end. After an
examination of every strain of vaccine upon the market, it is
stated that there is now (1909) upon the market no vaccine
contaminated with the virus of foot and mouth disease.
Regulations have been formulated with a view to preventing
hereafter the propagation of contaminated vaccine virus. No
instance of the transmission of foot and mouth disease to man
through vaccine virus has been recorded, and it is considered
doubtful, in view of the tests made, if it is possible to
reproduce the disease in him by the cutaneous inoculation
commonly used in the process of vaccination.”