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Whooping Cough
The recent deaths due to whooping cough in California has got me thinking.
For those who haven't heard, there is currently an epidemic in California, with over 4,000 confirmed infections and 10 infant deaths. All of the deaths occurred in babies too young to be fully immunized against the illness.
Whooping Cough is a highly contagious, cyclical illness that peaks in number of infections every five years. This is a peak year, and has almost exceeded the record 4,949 cases reported in 1955.
Symptoms appear similar to a common cold or persistent cough in adults, but with small infants it can be fatal, making vaccination in older children and adults essential. Doctors are concerned that the rise in cases is a result of parents refusing to vaccinate their children. The Anti-Vaccination Movement has increased quite a bit in recent years thanks in part to Jenny McCarthy and her very public anti-vaccination stance. While the infants who have died are too young to be vaccinated, herd protection would greatly reduce cases. In order for herd protection to exist, over 90% of the population needs to be immunized, to minimize the number of carriers and the chance of exposure.
Vaccination for whooping cough begins when a child is two months old, with a series of three shots, to be completed by six months,in order to achieve the necessary for adequate protection. These shots do not last a lifetime but usually wear off by the end of middle school. The CDC is currently recommending that adults get a booster shot.
Should this be mandatory? Should the greater good of society be more important than an individual’s concern about vaccine side effects? While I am against mandating anything medical-related, I know that if I was the mother of one of these babies that died, I would be speaking out loudly and often about the importance of vaccinating against preventable diseases.
How about you? Where do you stand on vaccinating your children?
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Found an interesting site to an allergist who discusses his view of the vaccination debate.
http://kaoallergyasthma.blogspot.com/2010/09/can-vaccines-cause-autism.html
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it is very important to vaccinate. Adults and children. I am an expecting mother for the 1st time. When i went to my 1st appt my dr said that they suggest ALL PREGNANT WOMEN to get the vaccine. I didnt hesitate because as a mother, its natural to want to do everything possible 2protect our children. its natural instint. Please dont let your selfishness be the reason stopping u frm takin every precaution!! TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AND VACCINATE!
Here are some interesting facts that you didn’t write in your article:
” Vaccinated adolescents and adults may serve as reservoirs for silent infection and become potential transmitters to unprotected infants (3-11). The whole-cell vaccine for pertussis is protective only against clinical disease, not against infection (15-17). Therefore, even young, recently vaccinated children may serve as reservoirs and potential transmitters of infection.” “Our results indicate that children ages 5-6 years and possibly younger, ages 2-3 years, play a role as silent reservoirs in the transmission of pertussis in the community.” http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/6/5/00-0512_article.htm
“An acellular whooping cough vaccine actually enhances the colonization of Bordetella parapertussis in mice; pointing towards a rise in B. parapertussis incidence resulting from acellular vaccination, which may have contributed to the observed increase in whooping cough over the last decade.” http://www.cidd.psu.edu/research/synopses/acellular-vaccine-enhancement-b.-parapertussis
“Conclusions For school age children presenting to primary care with a cough lasting two weeks or more, a diagnosis of whooping cough should be considered even if the child has been immunised. ” http://www.bmj.com/content/333/7560/174.abstract
“A spike in whooping cough cases may have been caused by a new strain of the bacteria that is resistant to existing vaccines, new research suggests.” http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/13222569/whooping-cough-strain-breaking-through-vaccines/
“Ipswich Medical Centre GP Paul Curson said many of the people he had treated during this epidemic were fully immunised, suggesting the vaccine was failing to protect people.” http://www.qt.com.au/story/2011/12/02/vaccine-a-dud-says-city-doctor/
“THE bacteria that causes whooping cough has mutated, eroding the protection provided by the vaccine now given to children, scientists warned yesterday. “http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/whooping-cough-strain-now-immune-to-vaccine/story-e6freuy9-1225828959714
More cases of the illness go unreported or undiagnosed than those that are reported or diagnosed, this according to the CDC. In many cases, the doctor checked the child and sent them home as having a cold. The parents treated it at home and the child is fine. This really tells you just how deadly this illness is. It can and has been treated with high doses of Vitamin C.
” Risk of Febrile Seizures and Epilepsy After Vaccination With Diphtheria, Tetanus, Acellular Pertussis, Inactivated Poliovirus, and Haemophilus Influenzae Type b ” http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/307/8/823
***“The tendency of a mass vaccination program is to herd people. People are not cattle or sheep. They should not be herded. A mass vaccination program carries a built-in temptation to oversimplify the problem; to exaggerate the benefits; to minimize or completely ignore the hazards; to discourage or silence scholarly, thoughtful and cautious opposition; to create an urgency where none exists; to whip up an enthusiasm among citizens that can carry with it the seeds of impatience, if not intolerance; to extend the concept of the police power of the state in quarantine far beyond its proper limitation; to assume simplicity when there is actually great complexity; to continue to support a vaccine long after it has been discredited;… to ridicule honest and informed consent.”
Statement from Clinton R. Miller, Intensive Immunization Programs, May 15th and 16th, 1962. Hearings before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce House of Representatives, 87th congress, second session on H.R. 10541.
Epidemics Regularly Occur in Highly Vaccinated Population: FDA. “FDA workshop to review warnings, use instructions, and precautionary information (on vaccines).” (Rockland, Maryland: FDA, September 18, 1992, p 27.
A mouse model for encephalopathy induced by pertussis immunization has been described; it has features that closely resemble some of the severe reactions, including seizures and a shock-like state leading to death, occasionally seen after administration of Bordetella pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine. Pertussis toxin is required for pertussis vaccine encephalopathy, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 82, pp. 8733-8736, December 1985. http://www.pnas.org/content/82/24/8733.full.pdf
As US infants got 5 DPT shots, this translates to a 1 in 62000 risk of permanent brain damage.
A hypotonic–hyporesponsive episode (HHE) is the sudden onset of hypotonia, hyporesponsiveness, and pallor or cyanosis that occurs within 48 hours after childhood immunizations. This syndrome has been primarily associated with pertussis-containing vaccines administered to children <2 years of age, and has been estimated to occur once every 1750 diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTwP) vaccinations.
Hypotonic–Hyporesponsive Episodes Reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), 1996–1998, Pediatrics Vol. 106 No. 4 October 1, 2000, http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/106/4/e52.abstract
WHO Information on Rates of Collapse after DPT Vaccine
http://www.who.int/vaccines-documents/DocsPDF05/815.pdf
The pertussis vaccine component of diphtheria-pertussis- tetanus (DPT) vaccine is associated with convulsions in one of 1750 doses, while severe and permanent neurologic damage has been calculated to occur with one of every 310,000 doses.
Collapse(hypotonic-hyporesponsive episode)- 1/1,750 doses.
Convulsions(with or without fever)-1/1,750 doses.
They also say in this document that persistant, inconsolable crying occured 1 in every 100 doses. This type of crying is indicative of cerebral irritation.
This link is a bit strange because on firefox internet server it goes to the information I described but on microsoft internet explorer it goes to an updated page that doesn't contain this information. If this happens to you, go to this WHO document: http://www.who.int/immunization_safety/publications/aefi/en/AEFI_WPRO.pdf
The above document also says that persistant inconsolable screaming (cri-encephalique) can occur in up to 1 in 15 doses, seizures in 1 in 1750 doses, collapse in 1 in 1000 doses, anaphylaxis in 1 in every 50,000 doses.
VACCINATION AGAINST WHOOPING-COUGH: Efficacy versus Risks
The Lancet, Volume 309, Issue 8005, 29 January 1977, Pages 234-237.
Calculations based on the mortality of whooping-cough before 1957 predict accurately the subsequent decline and the present low mortality. Notifications of incidence, though variable and incomplete, follow the same pattern of steady decline in the United Kingdom and are unaffected either by small-scale vaccination beginning about 1948 or by nationwide vaccination beginning in 1957. When valid comparisons can be made, attack-rates may be lower and complications fewer in vaccinated children, but allowance has to be made for overcrowding and socioeconomic differences which may be more important as determinants of attack-rates. No protection by vaccination is demonstrable in infants. Adverse reactions and neurotoxicity following vaccinations were studied in 160 cases. In 79, the relationship to pertussis vaccine was strong. In 14 of these cases, reaction was transient but characteristic of a syndrome of shock and cerebral disturbance, which, in the other 65 cases, was followed by convulsions, hyperkinesis, and severe mental defect. It seems likely that most adverse reactions are unreported and that many are overlooked. Precise information about the efficacy and safety of this vaccine is lacking, because existing provisions, national and international, for epidemiological surveillance and evaluation are inadequate. The claim by official bodies that the risks of whooping-cough exceed those of vaccination is questionable, at least in the U.K.
Here is an article from the British Medical Journal, it is what the medical professionals would call a credible publication: http://www.bmj.com/content/333/7560/174.full These children in this study were vaccinated with the vaccine that is supposed to protect them from the type of pertussis they got. "A substantial proportion of immunised school age children presenting to UK primary care with a persistent cough had evidence of a recent infection with Bordetella pertussis." "Our results show that a substantial proportion of school age children with persistent cough who present in primary care have evidence of a recent Bordetella pertussis infection. Despite this, general practitioners rarely diagnose and notify whooping cough in this age group. Most of the children in our study had received a full set of primary immunisations." Bordetella pertussis is the strain that the children are vaccinated for, and yet here they are infected with the illness.
Vaccines and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Reports of severe neurologic damage and death associated with the administration of DTP date back many years. To most physicians during the early years of pertussis vaccine these reported events were probably deemed to be a small price to pay for protection from a disease of high mortality and morbidity. Only as the disease has nearly disappeared in the United States and other developed countries, largely because of the vaccine, have these untoward reactions loomed larger in importance.
The occasional untoward events temporally associated with DTP that have been of greatest concern are acute encephalopathy with permanent brain damage and the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/cgi/reprint/77/8/925.pdf (American Journal of Public Health)
Michael Belkin Testimony to Congress "SIDS is a diagnosis of exclusion .. "it wasn't this, it wasn't that, everything has been ruled out and we don't know what it was." A swollen brain is not SIDS. Through conversations with other experienced pathologists, I subsequently discovered that brain inflammation is a classic adverse reaction to vaccination (with any vaccine) in the medical literature."
***"It has been researched that 80% of all sudden infant death syndromes occurred within 7 days of a whooping cough vaccination (Torch, W.C., 1982; Miller, C.L. und Fletcher, N.B. 1976, Br MedJ 17 Jan.117-119)"
***“The likelihood is huge that many of the materials have a potential to cause injury to the developing brain to produce neurodevelopmental disorders, possibly autism among them.” “A massive toxicological experiment with our children.” Landrigan P. Mnt. Sanai Hospital.
Profile page of Dr. Landrigan http://www.mssm.edu/profiles/philip-j-landrigan
http://www.mountsinai.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/philip-landrigan-md-msc-receives-2010-heart-of-green-%E2%80%9Cprotector%E2%80%9D-award Philip Landrigan, MD, MSc, a world-renowned leader in children’s environmental health, has been recognized by TheDailyGreen.com with the 2010 Heart of Green “Protector” award for his pioneering work in the study of the effects of environmental pollutants on chronic childhood diseases.
—The Centers for Disease Control reports that in the United States, cases of whooping cough (pertussis) have increased approximately 10-fold in the last 20 years, despite an increase in infant vaccination rates from 61 percent getting at least three doses of the pertussis vaccine in 1991 to 96.2 percent getting at least three doses in 2008.
—“The rise in pertussis doesn’t seem to be related to parents’ refusing to have their children vaccinated for fear of potential side effects. In California, pertussis rates are about the same in counties with high childhood vaccination rates and low ones,” the New York Times reported last year.
It is unknown whether immunizing adolescents and adults against pertussis will reduce the risk of transmission to infants.
Bisgard KM, Pascual FB, Ehresmann KR, et al. Infant pertussis: Who was the source? Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2004;23:985-989.
Pertussis (DTP vaccine): There have been 3 outbreaks in the last 19 years. In 1993 there was an outbreak in Ohio, where 82% of the cases occurred in people who had already received the vaccine. In 1996 there was an outbreak in Vermont, where 74% of the cases occurred in people who had already received the vaccine. In 2003 there was an outbreak in Cyprus, where 79% of the cases occurred in people who had already received the vaccine. So, how well is this vaccine actually working AND then take into consideration the damage the actual vaccine is doing. For instance, "70% of children who have died of SIDS received the pertussis vaccine within 3 weeks before death." Within this 3 week time period after receiving the vaccine, children's breathing patterns became stress induced, wreaking havoc on their respiratory systems, suggesting that some of these cases label as SIDS have a known cause, vaccination side effects. (Miller 120 and 121).
(Article first blames the unvaccinated, then admits all vaxed): One reason for the increase, according to Suffolk Health Commissioner Dr. James L. Tomarken, … may be because more people are opting not to have their children vaccinated….(and then we read later in article): According to Suffolk health officials, all those affected had been immunized in the past…. http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Whooping-Cough-Triple-Suffolk-County-Long-Island-132659533.html?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150370350412500_19430267_10150380172037500#faaec3247de63
If you actually look at the statistics for all the outbreaks, not just whooping cough but others such as measles and mumps, you will find that the majority of the cases are in the vaccinated persons not the unvaccinated.
I suggest that you actually do your research before you start spouting the propoganda that is in the media, CDC and the pharmaceutical companies.
As I showed before, even the CDC says that the vaccinated individuals are the reservior for the illness, thus spreading it to the infants.
Also, as I shown you above, the vaccine itself is spreading the illnesss.
Stop blaming it on the unvaccinated kids. Our kids are not the carriers of all these illnesses. Research vaccine shedding, vaccines changing the illness so that new atypical illnesses are now invading, not only harming those who are not vaccinated but those who were vaccinated with the wrong strain and those who had the natural wild versions but are not immune to the vaccine induced strains.
Do your own research. Learn all sides to the story before you start spouting the trash that the unvaccinated are at fault.
@Marilyn
Huge post, only read the first article then realized that it was propaganda and moved on to reply.
Your first link to the cdc article, you seem to be using that pretty out of context. This article is not saying that the vaccine is spreading the illness as you indicate. Honey, the illness spreads itself. The difference is that vaccinated people may end up carrying the disease later in life after the immunity has worn off, carry the disease….instead of dying. Both the vaccinated and unvaccinated can be infected. The difference is, my children that are vacinated won’t die, and a person that doesn’t vacinate opens their children up to the risk of dying.
I would rather have a teenager carrying the infection rather than a dead child, but I guess that’s just me. The article itself suggests the opposite of what you are suggesting, instead of no vaccine, they suggest a booster to keep immunity up and hopefully eradicate the disease.
Anyone with the ability to google can trivially look up a whooping cough mortality chart and they probably don’t need to do a lot of research beyond that.
If you want to spread propaganda that convinces a parent not to immunize their kid, then I hope the ghosts of the children your words may kill haunt you.
Just saying