The HANS office received this bulletin on December 9 from Edda West, coordinator at the Vaccination Risk Awareness Network (VRAN):
Kate Lunau, a writer with
Maclean's magazine, based in Toronto, is writing a story about vaccination. Her article will look at vaccination coverage across Canada. She's looking to find out whether vaccination rates are going up or down and the reasons and implications of this. She plans on obtaining many different perspectives, and hopes to include people from our VRAN network who hold alternative views to the standard vaccine policies promoted by mainstream medicine.
She is also looking into the measles outbreak in Quebec, and the massive vaccination campaign about to begin there in January. This is in response to the discovery that, at one Quebec high school, 52 of 98 teens who contracted measles were fully vaccinated. Health officials are speculating that the discovery of as many cases among fully vaccinated teens as unvaccinated ones, "raises a serious question about whether the timing of the delivery of the first dose of measles vaccine is undermining the efficacy of the prevention program." Read the full story here:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/20/measl...
When Ms. Lunau asked for VRAN contacts, I cautioned her that, "You need to know that people with vaccine concerns have been marginalized by the popular media--even demonized for putting others at risk for making a 'no-vaccines' choice. There is a general waryness and mistrust of the media which historically has leaned toward reporting medical dogma rather than the reality on the ground. The reality on the ground today is the precipitous decline in children's health amongst highly vaccinated populations."
I suggested she read the following:
http://vran.org/about-vaccines/vaccine-essentials/va.../ and here:
http://vran.org/health-risks/decline-of-childrens-he.../ and here:
http://www.ageofautism.com/2011/12/dr-lisa-morris-on...
Ms. Lunau's response: "The best I can do is offer to check facts and details from our conversation with them before publication, which is my general practice, to make sure quotes and details are accurate ... so if they would like to speak with me, this week or early next would be ideal. They can also contact me to learn more about my work before agreeing to an interview if they would rather."
Kate Lunau's contact information is: 416-764-4159 or email:Kate.lunau@macleans.rogers.com
If you decide to proceed with an interview with Ms. Lunau, we'd love to hear about your experience and the vaccine concerns/perspective you shared with her for possible publication in
Maclean's.
Edda West - Co-ordinator,
VRAN - Vaccination Risk Awareness Network
info@vran.org
www.vran.org