Who are the Australian Vaccination Network (AVN)
The AVN is a very active group who freely dispense information and advice on diseases and vaccinations. The AVN’s activities include a magazine “Living Wisdom”, a quarterly newsletter “The Inside Edition,” a website, email newsletters, public meetings and seminars, Internet Web Seminars, production and sale of videos DVDs and CDs, and appearances on radio and television. In all of these, Meryl Dorey features very prominently. The AVN’s magazine “Living Wisdom” claims to have a circulation of over 2,500 to subscribers and 5,000 via newsagents.
They purport to be a Pro-Choice organisation simply advising Australian consumers on the dangers of Vaccination. While members may be anti-vaccination(including President Meryl Dorey) supporters say that this is not the stance of the AVN as a whole. Which is why I find the screenshot of this merchandise below very odd indeed(the picture is from Living Wisdom’s Redbubble store):
The Anti Australian Vaccination Network (AVN) has recently been brought under very close scrutiny, a complaint(download here) has been made to the New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) regarding it’s activities as a health educator.
Dick Smith and Australian Skeptics recently teamed up to take out an advertisement in the Australian Newspaper (text to be found here) promoting immunisation and warning of the misinformation spread by the AVN.
The AVN or at least major players in the organisation appear to promote a number of conspiracy theories. Meryl Dorey, listed as President of the AVN appears in this list of 2000 odd Aids/HIV denialists. I advise you to CTRL F and type in Meryl, scanning through the list of teachers, bank tellers, bar tenders, will give you a migraine( their are some actual scientists on the list, some even have relevant degrees).
Meryl Dorey also recently cut and pasted text plagerised( here) from David Icke of Reptillian Conspiracy Fame on her No Compulsory Vaccination Blog.
Okay so Meryl’s a Conspiracy Theorist but the AVN…
is anti-vaccination. If they were really a pro-choice organisation then the slogan should be
“Vaccination – It’s your choice!”
not
“Love them, protect them…”
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Your kids can either grow up healthy and happy on organic vegetables and ultra-safe homeopathy or they can be injected with deadly toxins and subjected to compulsory indoctrination into child work camps run by giant lizards that breath hell fire and brimstone as they manipulate the sponge-like minds of the next generation of slaves for the illuminati…
…but it's your choice.
I wonder does meryl think that this is a documentary[youtube LQoSCEMzJYE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQoSCEMzJYE youtube]
I wonder if it's too late to get my own vaccines now? I never had them as a child…
My kid gets them
Angie, I would consult your doctor
. Depends on what risks you are going to be exposed to
Hey Angie, if you are planning to have more children or be around infants doctors now recomend adults be vaccinated or re vaccinated for whoping cough (pertussis). The disease is making a comeback, as immunity decreases slowly as we age and with many older parents nowadays, even if you were vaccinated as a child it may no longer be effective. So, many parents are catching it (it can be very mild in adults, you might just think you have a bit of a cough) and then unknowingly passing it to babies.
In babies it is a VERY serious disease with a mortality rate of 3%
It is one of the leading causes of vaccine preventable deaths worldwide.
Babies cannot be vaccinated for it untill at least 2 months old and need at least 2 of the scheduled vaccines to have immunity, so are at risk for several months after birth.
Type in pertussis and have a look at some you tube video of a child with this disease, its awful.
You should also have rubella (German measles) immunisation, because contracting it during pregnancy causes birth defects.
Hope this helps,
Bye, Leesa
Oh. Well, getting insurance is a must first but that sounds like something I should pursue. Although I am emphatically NOT planning on any more children
AAhh WHAT? You mean you cannot access vaccination without insurance. Crazy.
We have Federally run Medicare in Australia, you have all your schedule vaccinations free, plus others you may wish to have, like meningococcal C, and seasonal flu if you are vulnerable eg old, young, asthmatic.
I can visit the doctor any time I wish and all they want is my signature.. Drugs are limited to $5.40 per script as i am a low income earner, and max around $30 otherwise.
Any urgent treatment is provided free on the spot at hospital.
My son has had 3 ear operations, all free. (you may have to go on a waiting list as a public patient though)
The American health"care" model sucks!
Not according to the republicans
Well, my son has Medicaid now (supposed to be healthcare for poor people, but now it's basically limited only to children) but there was a 2 month gap between coverage and an ER trip for an ear infection cost me $1400.
Medications can be up to a couple hundred dollars per script, depending on what you're getting. If I actually took all the medication I'm supposed to it would cost around $200 per month, but I can't afford them so I just make do without out.
The current US health care is inhumane and unethical, but it's got the support of our Christian right wing so I'm not sure if we'll actually get something better.
And the right criticizes the NHS and other countries public health systems. I don'y know how you manage Angie? You get sick in the states without insurance and you are basically stuffed eh?
Pretty much. I know people who've done DIY surgery for minor things. I couldn't afford a cast when I broke my ankle, so i just hopped around without one. A couple years ago, I got flesh-eating bacteria and, if not for a $500 loan to go to a Doc-in-a-Box walk in clinic, I'd be a goner. Wow, that would've meant I'd never have lived long enough to be an atheist. (Wonder if I should mention that to my Christian mother who lent me the money, lol.)
wooo but as of today it should all get better right?! the Healthcare reform passed?
Christ, you have them down under, too? I thought anti-vaccination was purely an American blight.
Yeah we have an expat Amercian nutbag mounting a 15 year campaign to promote homeopathy over vaccinations. The National media have covered it.
as Sean said- she's an expat… would you like her back?
I think they might do an exchange deal with Ken Ham 6 of 1, half a dozen of the other
who cares who we exchange with (no idea who that is btw lol
)- just take her back ppllllleeeeeeaaaasssseeeee???
You need to find out about Ken Ham to know how lucky we arexD
that'd be right, make me research
lol *off to google…*
beware…the stupid, it will burn^_^