Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Vaccines

Written by The Conservative Woman on June 13, 2025. Posted in Current News

Between 1990 and 2019, around 75 percent of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) occurred within seven days of vaccination

Around 12 percent of those deaths were recorded on day one and just over 25 percent on day two.

Toddler twins died of SIDS a week after receiving three vaccines containing neurotoxins.

The police immediately suspected the parents and launched a murder investigation, despite a family history of adverse reactions to vaccination.

On April 23, Dallas Shaw and her brother, Tyson, 18 months old, received shots for flu, hepatitis A and the combined diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine (DTaP).

Their mother, Andrea Shaw, and Andrea’s mother-in-law both told the doctor that her husband’s family had a history of adverse reactions to the flu vaccine. They were assured by the doctor that all would be well.

The twins, from Payette, Idaho, woke the next morning with blue lips and were lethargic. They were taken to the ER and sent home.

A week later, on May 1, their mother found them unresponsive. Paramedics could not revive them. The distraught parents immediately came under suspicion and were interrogated by police.

Studies show temporal link between vaccinations and infant deaths

Parents are told vaccines are safe, but critical care specialist Dr. Pierre Kory has said that “many studies show a temporal link between vaccinations and infant deaths.”

One was published in 2021 by the Institute of Medical and Scientific Inquiry, New Mexico, whose team trawled the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database for SIDS cases and unearthed alarming statistics.

Kory said:

“Some studies found that 90 percent of all deaths occur within seven days of vaccines.”

In 1983, at the request of the U.K.’s chief scientist, Dr. Gordon Stewart, emeritus professor of public health at the University of Glasgow and a world authority on vaccine safety, wrote a 150-page report stating the pertussis (whooping cough) element of the DTaP vaccine could cause permanent brain damage and death.

It was submitted to the Department of Health but remains unpublished, despite updates in 1998 and 2006.

When you look at vaccine ingredients, a side effect of SIDS is perhaps not surprising, although denied by the manufacturers and healthcare regulators.

Brian Hooker, Ph.D., Children’s Health Defense chief scientific officer, and emeritus professor at Simpson University, Redding, California said:

“They got the DTaP, which contains at least 300 micrograms of aluminum and Polysorbate 80 … Then the Hepatitis A has more aluminum, about 600 micrograms of aluminum [and] again, Polysorbate 80.”

Polysorbate 80 can cause anaphylaxis and cognitive decline. It is used as a delivery system that disrupts the blood-brain barrier, allowing the aluminium, a neurotoxin that can cause seizures, directly into the brain.

Pediatricians rarely consider these as culprits, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says these limits are safe.

The World Health Organization says babies ingest more aluminium through breast milk than they receive in vaccines and that aluminium is excreted through the kidneys.

Toxic ingredients ignored, parents demonized

How did we get to a place where toxic ingredients are ignored while loving parents are demonized? We know there are abusive parents, but SIDS babies show no signs of physical distress or deliberate asphyxiation.

Although the diphtheria vaccine was introduced in 1942 and offered free and the polio vaccine in 1956. 1959 marks a turning point where the U.K. moved from ad-hoc or local vaccination efforts to a nationally organized, National Health Service-supported childhood immunization program.

Just 11 years later, SIDS became a registrable cause of death. It was thought to be a “coincidence” that babies suffered unexplained cot death around the time they received their first round of vaccines.

In the U.K., that is currently at two, three and four months old, and there are around 200 SIDS deaths per year.

SIDS charities such as the Lullaby Trust dismiss any connection, although Lullaby recognizes that:

“The peak age for SIDS is 1-2 months; 91 percent of SIDS deaths happen when babies are six months old or less.”

Retired research scientist Dr. Viera Scheibner was one of the first to publicly make a connection. She monitored hundreds of infants post-vaccination with apnoea monitors and noticed an increased pattern of breathing irregularities.

She said babies became most distressed 48 hours post vaccination, which tallies with the VAERS reports. Authorities quickly moved to discredit her, and her research was dismissed by public health bodies, including the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the WHO.

In the 1980s and 1990s, two British doctors pushed the hypothesis that “abusive parents were getting away with murder,” further deflecting the spotlight from vaccines and other environmental hazards as a cause of SIDS.

They also pushed Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP), the mental health issue where a parent fabricates illnesses in their children to get attention for themselves. They blamed the majority of SIDS on “harassed, low-income young mothers,” and their theory landed innocent mothers with life prison sentences.

It was 1982, at the International Research Conference on The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Baltimore, that Dr. David Southall, consultant pediatrician at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, advanced his murder theory to 250 scientists and health professionals from America and 12 other countries.

Professor Sir Roy Meadow, consultant pediatrician at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, London, who testified in child protection cases, published a paper on MSBP in 1977, a theory that Southall helped to promote.

That same year, he coined “Meadow’s Law” and stated that “one sudden infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious, and three is murder, until proved otherwise.” This statistic was later debunked by the epidemiologist professor Sir Richard Doll.

Both Meadow and Southall were struck off by the General Medical Council for serious professional misconduct, but not before their hypotheses took hold and landed innocent mothers in prison, as in the 1999 and 2002 cases of Sally Clark and Angela Cannings.

In 1999, Clark, a solicitor from Cheshire, was convicted of murdering her two sons, 11-week-old Christopher and eight-week-old Harry. Meadow’s Law was used to convict her.

They died a year apart, and Clark was sentenced to life, but the jury never heard that Harry died just five hours after receiving his DTaP vaccine and Christopher 23 days after receiving his. The family made no connection either, although their GP did.

The Clarks had a third child, Tom (not his real name), born before his mother’s trial. In the book “Stolen Innocence,” Clark tells how their general practitioner, Dr. Case, recommended against vaccinating Tom but would give no reason.

Clark’s husband, Steve, challenged Case and she said that, given the family history, she did not want to take responsibility for vaccinating Tom. Their consultant suggested a blood test to check Tom’s health.

It found he had a low white-blood-cell count and that his immune system was not working.

The GP’s instinct was right. Tom was not fit enough for a vaccine. How many other babies who later die of SIDS are vaccinated when they are under par?

Cannings, a former supermarket worker, lost three children to SIDS. In 1989, her first child, Gemma, died at 13 weeks. In 1991, Jason died at seven weeks, and in 1999, Matthew died at 18 weeks.

Matthew had been vaccinated shortly before his death, but again, the jury at Cannings’s trial was not told. She was convicted of murder and handed a life sentence.

Both women appealed and were freed. Harry Clark was found to have had a severe staphylococcal infection in his spinal fluid, indicating sepsis or meningitis. In Cannings’s case, the appeal court ruled that there was no evidence of foul play and Meadow’s evidence was discredited.

But the women’s lives were destroyed. Clark died of alcoholism in 2007 at the age of 42, and Cannings’s marriage to her husband, Terry, failed.

Meadow was struck off in 2005 for giving misleading statistical evidence at Clark’s trial. Southall was struck off in 2007 after he wrongly accused Mr. Clark of murdering their children based on his appearance in a television documentary, and for moving confidential records from one hospital to another without permission.

Both appealed and, disappointingly, were reinstated.

Lack of scientific evidence behind shaken baby syndrome

Around the same time as SIDS, shaken baby syndrome (SBS) was highlighted in the British Medical Journal in a paper published in 1971 by British pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Norman Guthkelch of the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.

SBS has a triad of symptoms, Guthkelch said: bleeding around the brain, in the eyes and swelling of the brain. He hypothesised that this was caused by whiplash. In frustration at a crying baby, instead of comforting it, a parent would shake it so hard the brain would bang the sides of the skull and begin to swell and bleed.

There was just one problem: these babies showed no neck trauma, a fact identified by pediatric neuropathologist and expert witness Dr. Waney Squier, from John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.

For years, Squier had accepted this diagnosis and testified against parents at numerous trials, until she noticed these babies had no neck trauma. She sounded the alarm and said publicly that SBS had not been rigorously validated, especially in courtrooms.

“Science is not a belief system. You don’t believe in shaken baby syndrome any more than you believe in gravity,” she said.

She was struck off by the General Medical Council in 2016 “for being dishonest in her dealings with six cases in the family court which brought the reputation of the medical profession into disrepute.”

She was reinstated on appeal later that year.

Meanwhile, Southall and Meadow’s legacies prevail and prevent other causes from being investigated. On day two of the Shaws’ interrogation, police told Andrea that the deaths of Dallas and Tyson were not medical and that “they figured asphyxiation.”

She said:

“They said that I had supposedly had a postpartum overwhelming blackout and done it to my children.”

Nathaniel Shaw told detectives he was angry they thought his wife had the capacity to murder their only children, “as she was such a loving and caring mother to the point where even new foods, she would go through everything that was in it as an ingredient to make sure that nothing was toxic.”

Andrea, who is “beyond devastated,” said:

“They were just normal, perfect, happy little babies. They had already learned to crawl, walk and say some words, including ‘mamma’ and ‘dadda.’ We cannot come to terms with this tragedy.”

The criminal investigation into the Shaws’ case is continuing.

See more here childrenshealthdefense

Header image: The Times

Some bold emphasis added

Please Donate Below To Support Our Ongoing Work To Defend The Scientific Method

PRINCIPIA SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL, legally registered in the UK as a company incorporated for charitable purposes. Head Office: 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX. 

Trackback from your site.