SIDS AND VACCINES

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ken and meryl dorey wrote:

>

> Hello,

>

> This is a section that I am copying out of Dr. Viera Scheibner's book,

> Vaccination:

>

> Deaths of infants after whooping cough vaccination were described as

> early as 1933, when Madsen published an article reporting on death of

> 2 infants within hours of being injected with the vaccine.

>

> Werne and Garrow (1946) described deaths of identical twins within

> hours of their second shots. Doctors then recommended that vaccines

> should not be administered to newborn babies.

>

> People have short memories.

>

> One 9 March, 1979, the Tennessee Dept. of Health reported to the CDC

> that 4 sudden and unexplained deaths occurred since November 1978, in

> infants who had been vaccinated during the 24-hour period prior to

> death. All four deaths were classified as SIDS, and all had received

> their first vaccination of DPT vaccine and oral polio vaccine [bernier

> et al(1982), Diphtheria-tetanus toxoids-pertussis vaccination and

> sudden infant deaths in Tennessee]. Altogether, 52 cot deaths and/or

> " deaths resulting from unknown causes " were recorded in Tennessee

> between August 1977 and March 1978, and from August 1978 to 15 March

> 1979.

>

> Bernier et al (1982) concluded that the evidence was adequate to

> indicate " an unusual temporal association between DPT vaccination with

> lot A and SIDS " . However, they also stated that " Whether or not this

> temporal association reflects a causal relationship remains

> undetermined; we found no evidence to support such a causal

> relationship. "

>

> C. Torch presented a paper at the Thirey-Fourth Annual Meeting

> of the American Acadamy of Neurology in 1982, referring to the

> Tennessee deaths and to over 200 randomly reported SIDS cases. In his

> published abstract, Torch (1982) wrote that preliminary data on the

> first 70 cases studied showed that two thirds had been immunised prior

> to death. On the average, DPT one, two and three were administered at

> 2, 4 and 6 months of age. In the DPT SIDS group, 6.5% died within 12

> hours of DPT injections, 13% within 24 hours, 26% within 3 days and

> 37%, 61% and 70% within 1, 2 and 3 weeks respectively. There was a

> significant clustering of deaths within the first two to three weeks

> of DPT injections. He also wrote that deaths frequencies peaked at 2

> months of age in the non-DPT group and had a biphasic peak occuring at

> 2 and 4 months in the DPT group.

>

> Cot deaths occurred maximally in the autumn/winter season in the non

> DPT grroup, but was nonseasonal in the DPT group. Deaths occurred

> mostly in sleep in healthy allergy-free infants after a brief period

> of irritability, crying, lethargy, upper respiratory tract symptoms

> and sleep disturbance. Pathology findings were typical of cot deaths:

> petechiae of lung, pleura, pericardium and thymus; vascular

> congestion, pulmonary and brain oedema and pneumonitis.

>

> His conclusion was that: " DPT vaccination may be a generally

> unrecognized major cause of sudden infant and early childhood death,

> and that the risks of immunization may outweigh its potential

> benefits. A need for re-evaluation and possible modification of

> vaccination procedure is indicated by this study. "

[Guest guest]

>Parents should take their babies to their health care provider for regular well

baby check-ups and routine immunizations. Claims that immunizations increase

the risk of SIDS are not supported by data, and babies who receive their

scheduled immunizations are less likely to die of SIDS. <

This was from an article at this site:

http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/welcome/conditions/sids.html

They list anything and everything that causes SIDS but then say go get your

vaccinations, data doesn't support a link. It infuriates me.