Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy: A Very Bad Idea

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Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy: A Very Bad Idea

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/165/3/351.pdf

Letters to the Editor

RE: ‘‘DELIVERING INFLUENZA VACCINE TO PREGNANT WOMEN’’

M. Ayoub1 and F. Yazbak2

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1 Prairie Collaborative, Springfield, IL 62704

2 TL Autism Research, Falmouth, MA 02540

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Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy: A Very Bad Idea

By F. Yazbak, MD, FAAP |Health Views : Vaccines : Safety :

Vaccines : Thimerosal : |Columnists : Yazbak

F. E. Yazbak, a pediatrician, now devotes his time to the research of

autoimmune regressive autism and vaccine injury.

“Influenza vaccination during all trimesters of pregnancy is now

universally recommended in the United States. We critically reviewed the

influenza vaccination policy of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on

Immunization Practice (ACIP) and the citations that were used to support

their recommendations.” Thus began the abstract to a paper by

Ayoub, MD, and me, which was just published in the summer issue of the

Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.

It continued, “The ACIP’s citations and the current literature indicate

that influenza infection is rarely a threat to a normal pregnancy. There

is no convincing evidence of the effectiveness of influenza vaccination

during this critical period. No studies have adequately assessed the risk

of influenza vaccination during pregnancy and animal safety testing is

lacking. Thimerosal, a mercury based preservative present in most

inactivated formulations of the vaccine has been implicated in human

neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism, and a broad range of

animal and experimental reproductive toxicities including teratogenicity,

mutagenicity and fetal death. Thimerosal is classified as a human

teratogen.

“Conclusions: The ACIP policy recommendation of routinely administering

influenza vaccine during pregnancy is ill advised, unsupported by current

scientific literature and should be withdrawn. Use of thimerosal during

pregnancy should be contraindicated.”

This major review — “Influenza Vaccination during Pregnancy: A Critical

Assessment of the Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on

Immunization Practices” — is the first and only review of the subject

that was not financed by the vaccine manufacturers or instigated by the

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to justify its

recommendation to inject pregnant women with a vaccine of unproven

efficacy and safety and that, to date, still contains thimerosal, a

mercury preservative.

Recently, I had the pleasure of co-writing with Ayoub, “The Battle Of The

States: What Happened In Illinois?” In that report, we exposed the

incredible shenanigans that went on in Illinois, when a law banning the

use of thimerosal in vaccines was passed almost unanimously — one

dissenting vote — by both Houses of the Legislature only to be cleverly

circumvented by a joint effort of the State Department of Health, the

Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the

CDC.

Our Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons article critically

examines all information available to the Advisory Committee on

Immunization Practices (ACIP) and all other data available in the medical

press worldwide. It also cites 60 references.

The following represents a very limited review of reports that were filed

with the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), following

influenza vaccination during pregnancy.

It should be pointed out that the CDC and the Food and Drug

Administration (FDA), who created VAERS, like to stress that filing a

report with VAERS does not necessarily mean the administered vaccine

actually caused the adverse event reported.

The following four VAERS reports — all filed on December 28, 2005 — may

suggest otherwise. All four patients were from North Carolina, all

received the same brand of injectable influenza vaccine and two received

doses from the same lot.

See webpage for further article and better formatting of

graphs

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

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