Children of vaccine deniers found shooting up across the country

Rebellion, seeking relief from crippling diseases, cited as reasons.

New York - On an otherwise normal urban street corner several youths gather. This is an upperclass area of the city, not the sort of place where drug deals go down in the open. But several youths, some as young as four or five, gather waiting for their delivery. Then a man in a black van drives up.

"Got the money?" he asks.

"Sure," says one boy "Steve" who hands the collected money to the dealer.

The dealer hands a cardboard box over to "Steve".

"Everything thing you need, the vials, needles, alcohol wipes. Oh, yeah, don't forget..."

The man hands a red plastic medical waste container. He tells them to be safe and drives off.

While this is illicit, this is no deal of illegal drugs. From Park Avenue to Hartford, Connecticut affluent areas across the country are seeing a spike in youth self-medication of vaccines. Fear of vaccines driven by celebrity anti-vaccine advocates ane by an affluent arrogance that they know what's best, have several rich parents across the country denying their children the basic vaccines recommended by the medical establishment. Psychologist Andy Veritas has studied the vaccine denial and is exploring a few hypothesis of the cause.

"Jenny McCarthy is not representatives of science, but she represents the shallow dreams and desires of their fans. Added to Suzanne Somers's anti-chemotherapy campaign it causes otherwise intelligent people to doubt years of medical science. Well reasoned but non-famous scientists cannot hope to fight against it," Veritas said.

That anti-vaccine mania has led to children from the affluent families to buy vaccines from dealers. Many of the dealers are regular doctors who work in private practice. Steve said he know a network of them that distribute up and down the East Coast.

"The East Coast is run by the Hippocrates gang, know as the Hips. The West Coast is the American Red Cross, known as the Bloods. They run the illicit vaccine trade that supplies all of us with our stuff," Steve said.

Steve describes his role as a "pusher". He finds unvaccinated children and "pushes" the rubber stopper on the syringe to vaccinate them.On this night he has several vials of polio, rubella and seasonal flu vaccine.

"I've gotten plenty of regular flu vaccine to go around, but the shortage of swine flu vaccine is making my job hard." he says.

Several anti-vaccine advocates are aware of the activities and are launching a campaign to stop the trade.

"It's time we take back our well maintained streets," declared Cheryl O'Shaughnessy of Long Island, president of a local anti-vaccine protest group, "These Bloods and Hips are pushing dangerous drugs and turning our children from bright young snowflakes to autistic shells. Soon they'll do nothing but stare into their own little world instead of caring about school and their responsibilities."

While some predict an upcoming battle between the medical community and  the anti-science groups, sociologist Gerald Hansen says historical trends show that medical science will win in the end.

"The anti-medicine quacks will go the way of the thigh master, into the basements and yard sales of history," Hansen proclaimed.