Re: [AVN] Funding for - Doctors Wrap Babies In Protective Vaccine Cocoons

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So, they've changed the more impersonal sounding term "ring vaccinating" to "cocooning" to give the illusion of nurturing. If the baby doesn't come down with pertussis, then naturally it's because of the vaccine.

However did my unvaxed ones avoid the disease since no one was cocooned in my house??

Winnie [AVN] Funding for - Doctors Wrap Babies In Protective Vaccine "Cocoons"Recipient list suppressed: ;> From a friend............> > C. Healy MD> > http://www.bcm.edu/pediatrics/index.cfm?Realm=99992436 & This_Template=pedi_grantfunding.cfm> > > > > Grant Funding> > Principal Investigator:> Bartlett, MD> Title: Role of the Staphylococcus aureus adhesion molecule SdrD > in > attachment and invasive disease> Funding Agency: NIAID/NIH (K08)> Mentor: Mangnus Hook, Ph.D.> > Principal Investigator:> C. Healy, M.D.> Title:The cocoon strategy: Preventing severe and fatal pertussis > in > infants through family immunization> Funding Agency: Baylor/Methodist Community Health Fund > Children's > Health Fund, County Hospital District> > Principal Investigator:> a G. Hulten, Ph.D.> Title: Toxin expression in community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus> Funding Agency: Curtis & Doris K. Hankamer Foundation> > Principal Investigator:> Shledon L. Kaplan, M.D.> Title: Probing the human virome for the etiology of Kawasaki > Disease > in Children> Funding Agency: Gulf Coast Collaborative Research> Title: The United States Pediatric Multi-Center Pneumococcal > Surveillance Study Group> Funding Agency: Wyeth Pharmaceuticals> Title: Prevention of recurrent CA-Staphylococcus infections in > childrenFunding Agency: Thrasher Foundation> > Principal Investigator:> Pedro A. Piedra, M.D.> Title: Control of epidemic influenza> Funding Agency: MedImmune> > Principal Investigator:> Jesus G. Vallejo, M.D.> Title: Role of toll-like receptors 3 and 4 in viral heart disease> Funding Agency: NHLB/NIH (R01)> Title: Role of TLR3-TRIF variants in host susceptibility to > viral myocarditis> Funding Agency: NHLB/NIH (R21)> > > > > Gag. Isn't this just so special.> a little-known tactic called "cocooning." ?????> > Sheri> > http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/185618.php> > Doctors Wrap Babies In Protective Vaccine "Cocoons"> > Main Category: Immune System / Vaccines> > Article Date: 16 Apr 2010 - 2:00 PDT> > Doctors are wrapping babies in vaccine "security blankets" to > protect > them from disease in a little-known tactic called "cocooning."> > Cocooning is a way of wrapping infants too young to be > vaccinated > against pertussis in a blanket of immunity. Pertussis is > commonly > called whooping cough because of the distinctive "whoop" gasping > sound an infected patient makes when he or she coughs. > Physicians say > if the baby is too young to get vaccinated, the next best thing > is to > ensure the people near the baby are healthy. Cocooning > vaccinates the > baby's mother and other relatives near the child with the > protective > pertussis shot, > explains > Texas Medicine > magazine, > the official publication of the Texas Medical Association (TMA).> > This technique is important, physician experts say, because > infants > are most likely to contract whooping cough, and it can make them > very > ill. Statistics bear that out. The Texas Department of State > Health > Services reports that, as of early December, the only Texans who > died > from pertussis last year were babies younger than three months old.> > Infants are too young to be immunized against pertussis so they > stand > a greater chance of getting sick from it. They cannot receive > their > first pertussis vaccine until they are 2 months old, and are not > fully protected until they receive multiple doses, usually when > they > reach 15 to 18 months old.> > Health officials have begun cocooning infants in the on > County area north of Austin, due to a serious pertussis outbreak > there. Far more on County residents have contracted > whooping > cough than the state average - approximately 185 cases per > 100,000 > residents in 2009, compared with fewer than 10 people per > 100,000 > statewide as of early December.> > "The goal of the cocooning project is that everyone who comes in > contact with a newborn infant receives a Tdap vaccination," says > W. , MD, chief medical officer of St. 's Round > Rock > Medical Center in Round Rock, in the heart of on County. > Tdap > is the > tetanus , > diphtheria, > and > pertussis vaccine for adults. The Centers for Disease Control > and > Prevention recommends infants receive the first three doses of > the > DTaP (child version) vaccine at 2, 4, and 6 months of age. > Children > then should receive the fourth shot between 15 and 18 months of > age, > and a fifth when they enter school, at 4 to 6 years of age.> > In the on County cocooning project, physicians and other > health officials attempt to educate and administer the Tdap shot > to > mothers who come to the Round Rock hospital to deliver their > babies. > The goal is to teach the mother about the importance of > immunization, > and to vaccinate her and others close to the baby.> > "We hope to decrease the number of infants with pertussis as a > result > of the [cocooning] initiative," Dr. says. TMA recently > sponsored a cocooning seminar for physicians and nurses at the > Round > Rock hospital. (TMA created a video of the program as well, as a > teaching tool for physicians.) TMA also sponsors > Be Wise - > ImmunizeSM, an > ongoing public health initiative to vaccinate and educate people > that > vaccines are important, safe, and effective.> > "The response to the cocooning project has been positive. All > health > care professionals realize pertussis is a problem in on > County and want to [reduce it]," says C. Healy, MD, who > presented the TMA seminar. Dr. Healy is director of Vaccinology > and > Maternal Immunization at Houston's Texas Children's Hospital > Center > for Vaccine Awareness and Research. Ben Taub General Hospital in > Houston and Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas also have > implemented cocooning.> > Dr. Healy believes patient education is critical to eliminating > the > spread of whooping cough. "Once people find out how serious > pertussis > can be and how effective the Tdap vaccine is, they're willing to > be > immunized," Dr. Healy says.> > Public health officials in on County are uncertain as to > why > pertussis has struck locally. "We really wonder in on > County > if we're that much worse than the rest of Texas, or if we're > just > looking for it harder," says J. Sherwood, MD, FACP, chair > of > TMA's Committee on Infectious Diseases, and member of TMA's Be > Wise - > Immunize advisory panel. "But the case counts are so big in the > county that I have to believe it's a real outbreak," says the > former > health authority for on County.> > TMA is the largest state medical society in the nation, > representing > nearly 45,000 physician and medical student members. It is > located in > Austin and has 120 component county medical societies around the > state. TMA's key objective since 1853 is to improve the health > of all > Texans. TMA Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the > association > and raises funds to support the public health and science > priority > initiatives of TMA and the family of medicine.> > Source> Texas Medical Association> > Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath> Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA> Vaccines - http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/ Homeopathy > http://homeopathycures.wordpress.com> Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes & Homeopathy > Online/email > courses - next classes start April 28, May 5 & 6> >