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| KNOW. . .The Alan Yurko Story |
| Who is Alan Yurko? |
Baby Alan Joe Yurko died tragically at the tender age of 10 weeks in Orlando, Florida on November 27, 1997.
The baby's father, Alan Yurko, was charged with shaking the baby to death and is now serving a life sentence without parole.
Baby Alan Joe Yurko was born five weeks premature on September 16, 1997.
In spite of on-going respiratory distress since his premature birth, Baby Alan received six vaccines at eight weeks of age (including DTaP, HIB, OPV, HEP B).
His true gestational age at the time was 43 weeks.
Within 24 hours, he developed intermittent diarrhea, fever and irritability, a pattern that progressed into terminal illness.
Ten days later, the baby developed a high-pitched cry followed by increased lethargy and reluctance to eat.
On the morning of November 24, twelve days after his vaccinations, Baby Alan stopped breathing.
He was pronounced dead after 75 hours in the hospital.
The medical examiner concluded that Baby Alan died from Shaken Baby Syndrome.
The medical evidence that Alan Yurko has since compiled from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System database (VAERS) shows conclusively that his son died as a result of an adverse reaction to a vaccine.
Unfortunately this information was not available at his trial.
Today, however, hundreds of doctors and scientists from 15 countries agree that Alan Yurko was falsely accused and convicted based on a mistaken diagnosis.
Baby Alan was vaccinated despite several contra-indications, including being born premature, the mother's pregnancy complications of gestational diabetes and streptococcal infections, and the baby's post birth bilateral pneumonia, respiratory distress syndrome, and failure to thrive.
The Physicians' Desk Reference provides precautionary warnings to practitioners for all vaccines to inquire into the health of the recipient before their administration.
For the DPT vaccine, there is a warning that vaccinations should be deferred during an acute infection, which clearly implies that there are heightened risks of reactions in the presence of infection or serious illness.
Pre-maturity has also been listed as a contraindication to vaccines in early infancy (New Complete Medical and Health Encyclopedia, Vol I, Ferguson Publ.:157).
Upon admittance to the hospital, Baby Alan's initial laboratory tests showed, among other things, an elevated white blood count of 20,900, 61% of which were lymphocytes, a hallmark of a pertussis reaction.
Vaccine reaction, however, was never mentioned by any witness as a possible factor in Baby Alan's death.
Alan Yurko discovered in the VAERS files that the DPaT vaccine that Baby Alan received came from a "hot-lot".
A "hot-lot" is a vaccine lot that receives 10 or more reports of adverse reactions and/or two reports of seizures as well as one or two reports of death.
Baby Alan's lot (Connaught Labs, DTaP 7H81507) belongs to the "hottest" DTaP lot on record with the most deaths reported according to VAERS files from July 1, 1990 through August 21, 1999 for Connaught Labs.
Noted Australian researcher Vera Scheibner, after reviewing Baby Alan's medical records and other well-documented data on Shaken Baby Syndrome, concludes that many of the cases attributed to this cause have actually been vaccine-related injuries or deaths.
The majority of SBS symptoms occur after the administration of vaccines whereas a minority of cases is due to documented birth injuries and pre-eclamptic and eclamptic states of the mothers.
Researchers familiar with the biomechanics/effects of both adverse effects of vaccination and the symptoms that describe SBS note that within a period of approximately 12 days, the interactions of highly potent vaccines given in combination may bring about brain edema, hypercoagulability of the blood, and inflammation of blood vessels.
These reactions, in turn, result in a shearing effect on subdural blood vessels and subdural hematomas, which mimick what is now thought to be Shaken Baby Syndrome.
Other facts of interest in this matter include:
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Vaccines like pertussis are actually used to induce encephalitis in laboratory animals.
There are thousands of pages of data on individual lots and "hot-lots" reported to VAERS.
Vaccine reactions and injury are chronically under-reported.
Less than 10% of events are reported to VAERS.
Shaken Baby Syndrome was not reported until 1974.
Prior to 1970, vaccines were not routinely given or mandated.
After a 1979 Tennessee incident where numerous babies suffered severe reactions and death in association with a "hot-lot", vaccine manufacturers altered their distribution practices of vaccine lots by not allowing one lot to be geographically specific, or "clustered", thereby avoiding public notice when a lot becomes "hot".
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A partial compendium of medical/health related publications that have featured Alan Yurko's case include the following:
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The Journal of Neonatology-Perinatology 2000:13(1); 6 &66
The Journal of Degenerative Diseases 2001:3(1)
The Journal of the American Assn. Of Physicians and Surgeons 2001:6(3); 82-90
The Journal of the International Council for Health Freedom 2001:5(2); 5-9
The Journal of the Australian Vaccination Network 2000: 6(3); 46-54. et al
Health Freedom News 2001:20(3); 7-30
Mothering Magazine 2001:105 & 107: 14-16
The Idaho Observer (February) 2001:8-9, et al
Synapse 2001:4(4); 2-8, et al
The Townsend Letter For Doctors And Patients 2001:Sept/Oct; pg 101
Nexus Magazine 2000:7(6) 33-37, 72,73
CTVIA Newsletter 2001:2(1) 2 & 6
VRAN Newsletter 2000: Apr/June pg 30-37, et al
Waves 2001:13(1); 18-26
Pave Fact 2000:4(5);6, 2001:5(1)7, et al
LeCourrier D'Association Liberte Information Sante 2000:30; 25-28
Vaclib Letter 2001:2(4)2, et al
SHOTS The Vaccination Newsletter 2001:20;2 et al
The Informed Parent 2001:3;14 et al
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For The Story of Baby Alan and other scientific articles about Shaken Baby Syndrome, and to offer support to the Yurko family as they appeal this conviction, please refer to www.freeyurko.bizland.com.
Orlando Sentinel Article, March 27, 2003
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