Whooping Cough from Vaccine??

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Sherri Tenpenny

At 2.5 months my (now 14 month old) daughter

received the DTP, polio and HiB vaccines. A week later, she developed a

mild, but nagging cough which lasted at least 10 days, culminating in

periodic frightening " gasps " for air. Around the same time, she also

had a petit mal seizure and developed some eczema. She is now 14 months

old, and has recently had episodes of wheezing without a cold. Neither

the nurse nor doctor knew if the pertussis portion of the DTP was

acellular or not. I still don’t know the answer to that. Could she have

had a mild whooping cough? Could she have contracted it from the

vaccine?

It

is possible that the contents in the pertussis vaccine could have

induced the symptoms of pertussis in your daughter. Pertussis vaccines

contain components of the three disease-causing antigens: pertussis

toxin (PT), filamentous hemagglutinin (FHA), and pertactin. Whole cell

pertussis vaccines contain the active form of all three antigens. The

antigens in the acellular pertussis vaccine have been chemically

inactived with formaldehyde.

The most severe symptoms of whooping cough are caused by the PT

antigen. Even though you are uncertain which vaccine was given to your

daughter, she could have:20a) received a large dose of PT antigen if

given the whole cell; received PT antigen that was not completely

inactived. In either instance, there is a possibility that the

pertussis symptoms could have been caused by the vaccine.

The other possibility is that that your daughter actually

contracted pertussis from the vaccine if the vaccine was contaminated

with the bacteria that causes pertussis, B. pertussis. Even though this

may be “highly unlikely,†that is not the same as “impossible.â€

Contamination has happened in other vaccines.

For example, last

year, 48 million doses of flu vaccine were scrapped after the lots were

found to be contaminated with the bacteria, Serratia marcescens

(Washington Post Foreign Service, October 9, 2004; Page A01). In

addition, a rabies vaccine for humans was recalled in the United States

and 23 other countries because a live strain of the virus was found in

different lots made at the same time. (Orlando Sentinel, April 8,

2004). Ensuring that all of the active viruses and/or bacteria have

been removed from a vaccine is virtually impossible.

As for the development of seizures after vaccination, pertussis

toxin (PT) is also known to itself be a neurotoxin. For a good review

on complications associated with the pertussis vaccine, see The Story of

Whole-Cell DPT by Dr. Mark Geier and Geier found at

http://www.attorneyaccess.net/AppF.pdf