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 August 2012

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Whooping cough vaccine failure drives resurgence of the disease

The recent unfortunate death of a young Alberta infant due to

complications from whooping cough (pertussis) has sparked a

media frenzy over disease increase in highly vaccinated populations.

Rather than provide factual information about

pertussis vaccine ineffectiveness, changing epidemiology of

the disease, and shifting genetics of the organism, health officials

prefer blaming the unvaccinated as they ramp up fear factor to get you

lining up for more shots.

Despite vaccination rates of up to 95%, the incidence of whooping cough

and mortality from the disease in developed countries

has been

increasing since 1990 “When exposed to pertussis infection, over

50% of vaccinated people develop asymptomatic, mild disease and become a

source of infection for infants in whom pertussis may result in

hospitalization and deathâ€, say researchers.

The call to intensify vaccine coverage will not result in more protection

for vulnerable babies because the pertussis vaccine does NOT prevent

transmission of the disease. Fully vaccinated people can remain

infectious and act as silent carriers transmitting the disease to infants

without themselves displaying clinical symptoms.

An

Israeli study concluded, “Vaccinated adolescents and adults may

serve as reservoirs for silent infection and become potential

transmitters to unprotected infants…..even young, reccently vaccinated

children may serve as reservoirs and potential transmitter of

infection.†So much for the widely touted theory of “herd

immunity†which assumes that if you are vaccinated you can

neither catch nor spread the disease in question.

Australian

researchers warned last year that the bacteria that causes whooping

cough has mutated, eroding ‘protection’ provided by the

vaccine. Another strain of the organism, parapertussis can also

cause whooping cough. A

recent study found that “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.â€

On examining the

health records of thousands of California children, infectious

disease specialist Dr. Witt, was very surprised to find that the

majority of cases of whooping cough were in fully vaccinated children.

Witt’s report published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases

concluded that, “the vaccine is effective about half of the time for

all kids, and just 24 percent of the time in the eight to 12 year old age

groupâ€.

The death of a young child is always a profound tragedy whether it occurs

in the vaccinated or unvaccinated. Infants in the first year of life have

always been at highest risk of serious injury from both pertussis disease

and its vaccine. Well documented in the

medical literature,

pertussis vaccine is notorious for its ineffectiveness and for causing

neurological injuries and death in young children.

A 1989

multidisciplinary

workshop led by experts in pediatric neurology considered the

neurologic complications of whooping cough and whole cell pertussis

vaccine. “The most carefully conducted retrospective case-control

study reported that the relative risk of a previously normal infant

for the onset of an illness leading to encephalopathy with permanent

subsequent disability was 4.2 times greater during the first 72 hours

following DPT vaccination than in controls.â€

In 1991 the

Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on Adverse Effects of Pertussis

and Rubella Vaccines concluded that “evidence is consistent with

a causal relation between DPT vaccine and acute encephalopathy (brain

inflammation) and “unusual shock-like stateâ€

(hypotonic/hyporesponsive episode): and that “evidence indicates a

causal relation between DPT vaccine and shock (anaphylaxis) and

protracted, inconsolable crying.â€

Medical officials know full well that an acute brain inflammation

can lead to death or a diagnosis of mental retardation, medication

resistant seizure disorders, learning disabilities, attention deficit

disorder, autism and other chronic neurological and health problems.

Since the inception of mass vaccination programs, many families have lost

their children to vaccine injuries because they trusted and believed

their doctors’ assurance that the vaccine was safe.

And even earlier, in 1980, Gordon T. M.D Emeritus professor of

Public Health in the U.K. and principal investigator of the disease

wrote that the

vaccine “has never been proved to be adequate in protecting

infants below one year of age… [in the U.K.]]…. the marginal

advantages of the vaccine in children over one year of age have to be

offset against adverse effects of the vaccine itself….â€

Dr. Yazbak’s

2003 review of death and disabilities reported to the Vaccine Adverse

Events Reporting System (VAERS) which records approximately 1 to 10% of

vaccine reactions and injuries in the U.S., found that, “of 253

infant deaths cases awarded more than 61 million dollars by the US Court

of Federal Claims in the 1990s, 224, or 86%, were attributed to

vaccination with DTP.†He writes, “Even without factoring in any

under-reporting to VAERS, the number of infants reported to have died

by the day following DTaP vaccination in 1998 is still more than the

number who died as a result of whooping cough in the year

2000.â€

The National Vaccine Information Center’s (NVIC)

recent analysis of the whooping cough surge in the highly vaccinated

U.S. population confirms that increased uptake of pertussis vaccine

“has not translated into decreased mortality among

infants.â€

Health officials who advocate for “cocooning†infants against

pertussis, a strategy of vaccinating family members in contact with

babies, are stabbing in the dark. Australia has recently abandoned the

“cocooning†strategy in place since 2009, because the clinical

evidence shows that cocooning is “not effective in protecting

newborns from the potentially deadly illness.â€

Alongside the call for “cocooning†is the push to vaccinate

pregnant women with Tdap, the triple antigen, diphtheria, tetanus and

acellular pertussis vaccine. In late 2011 the CDC’s federal advisory

committee on immunization recommended injection of pregnant women at 20

weeks gestation. According to the

NVIC report, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rates Tdap

vaccine as a Category C drug, meaning: “Animal reproduction studies

have shown an adverse effect on the fetus and there are no adequate and

well-controlled studies in humans… ¦â€

NVIC points out that, “Animal fertility studies have not been

conducted, nor have human studies on the potential for fetal harm as

disclosed in manufacturer product inserts for Tdap

(

Sanofi Pasteur - Adacel,Â

GlaxoKline - Boostrix). Many pregnant women are likely

unaware that Tdap is licensed as a Category C drug, or that safety data

is being gathered from passive mechanisms as the vaccine is used on them.

Most pregnant women would assume that when their doctor recommends that

they receive the Tdap vaccine that it has been proven safe.â€

NVIC is very concerned that “vaccine injuries, reactions and

deaths arising from the administration of Tdap in pregnant women is

likely to be underreported, as is already acknowledged with VAERS and

vaccine reactions in general, all the while exposing mother and child to

unknown risks associated with the vaccine.†They ask, “Exactly where

is the sound SCIENCE that demonstrates that the benefits of giving Tdap

during pregnancy outweighs the risks?........the lack of transparency in

terms of what the public at large is told in relation to pertussis

incidence, cocooning, and Tdap use in pregnancy is stunning.â€

Attack articles such as recently published in the

Globe & Mail denigrate families who choose to shield their

children from the top heavy “one-size-fits-all†vaccine schedule

which includes up to 41 doses of 14 vaccines by the time a baby is

18 months old. Depending on where you live in Canada, a two month old

baby can receive up to 9 vaccines on the same day. We ask, where are the

studies proving it is safe to inject infants with this many vaccines?

Answer – there are none!

Rife with misinformation and distortions, the Globe & Mail piece in

sympathizing with DTaP vaccine as “the victim of unscientific

claims that it caused neurological damage†is nothing less than

‘medical revisionism’. It attempts to sanitize the dark history of

pertussis vaccine while demonizing those who refuse vaccines. Vaccine

awareness groups like VRAN are accused of being “quacks and

charlatans†for encouraging parents and individuals to educate

themselves prior to making a vaccine decision. The hostility and

ignorance evident in this piece fuels the ongoing decline of public trust

in vaccines.

We ask the medical profession and media why they believe the life a child

who is injured or killed by a vaccine has less value than that of a child

who has succumbed to the disease? Curiously, they are uncurious about the

children who have been

injured by this

vaccine and have paid the ultimate price.

It is precisely because so many children were injured by the DPT whole

cell pertussis vaccine that public information and support groups have

sprung up around the world to document and study health injuries caused

by mass vaccination programs. It was the parents of children injured and

killed by DPT vaccine who spearheaded the U.S. Congressional initiative

25 years ago to create a vaccine injury compensation program in that

country. Canada has no comparable system of compensating vaccine injury

victims.

 As of June, 2010, over half of the 2,480 awards for vaccine injury and

death

totaling $2 billion dollars awarded under the U.S. 1986 National

Childhood Vaccine Injury Act involve pertussis vaccine. Thousands of

vaccine injury victims wait in the wings to have their cases heard by the

U.S. Vaccine Court.

Canadian health officials should take a cue from their American

counterparts who are venturing towards more transparency about the

ineffectiveness of pertussis vaccine.

CDC spokesperson Tom Skinner concedes that, “the outbreaks are

probably not the result of the increase in the number of parents choosing

not to vaccinate their children from certain diseases….[and] “It’s

not likely that vaccine refusal is having a large role in this,†he

said. “Pertussis is a bacterium that’s cyclical in nature. We see

these outbreaks from time to time as immunity wanes in our

populationsâ€. Dr. Cieslak, Medical Director of the Oregon

Immunization Program observed that,“The vaccine is not going to

eradicate pertussis. “It isn’t good enough to wipe out the disease,

and it’s going to be around indefinitelyâ€.

We challenge health officials to show us the science proving it is

safe to inject so many vaccines simultaneously into small babies. Parents

of vaccine injured children wonder why independently conducted

risk/benefit analyses have never done to compare long term health

outcomes in both vaccinated and unvaccinated children. For decades,

parents of vaccine injured children have been calling for such studies to

understand whether children subjected to the intensive

“one-size-fits-all†vaccine schedule are more or less healthy than

children shielded by their families from mass vaccination

programs.

Long lasting Immunity Derived from the disease vs. Temporary Vaccine

Immunity:

A

study

estimating the duration of pertussis immunity after recovery from the

disease published in PLoS Pathogens in 2009, states: " Our results

support a period of natural immunity that is , on average, long-lasting

(at least 30 years)... " although, " some individuals would lose

immunity quite rapidly. "

Compare that to a

study concerning

duration of immunity to DTaP vaccine which found a 36% increased risk of

acquiring pertussis with each year that follows vaccination. Lead author,

Baxter MD, told Medscape Medical News: " If you look over time,

this means that whatever your DTaP vaccine was worth to begin with, at 3

years it's 32% and at 5 years it's 16% of your initial

effectiveness. "

It's incongruous that, although pertussis vaccine has been used widely

since the late 1940s we still have pertussis epidemics and a few

pertussis deaths. Yet, well before that time and the introduction of

antibiotics, the pertussis death rate was steadily declining. In fact,

a July 31, 2012 ABC News report indicates that the disease itself may

have declined so much by the late 1940s that its rate was no worse than

today's. The

report states " The United States might see the highest number

of cases of whooping cough in more than five decades this

year... "

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Additional Resources:

The True

Story of Pertussis Vaccination: A Sordid Legacy? By & Mark

Geier

Review of neurological complications of pertussis vaccination reported in

the medical literature

Fully

vaccinated hospital worker develops whooping cough - exposes other

workers

Acellular pertussis vaccination facilitates Bordetella parapertussis

infection in rodent model of bordertellosis

Effectiveness of

DTaP wanes substantially over time:Â " Each year that

elapses after vaccination is associated with a 36% increased risk of

acquiring pertussis, he said. If you look over time, this means that

whatever your DTaP vaccine was worth to begin with, at 3 years it's 32%

and at 5 years it's 16% of your initial effectiveness, " Dr. Baxter

told meeting attendees.

CDC

Pertussis Epidemic 2012: Pertussis is endemic in the United States.

Although cyclical in nature, a gradual and sustained increase has been

observed in the United States after reaching historic lows in the 1970s.

In 2010, 27,550 pertussis cases were reported. The high rates of

pertussis among adolescents aged 13-14 years in Washington reflect

national trends and provide observational data suggesting early waning

of immunity from acellular vaccines

Media articles on pertussis vaccine failure

Whooping cough vaccine is making matters worse

DTP or tetanus

vaccination appears to increase the risk of allergies and related

respiratory symptoms in children and adolescents

Childhood asthma

is reduced by half when the first dose of diphtheria, pertussis, and

tetanus (DPT) is delayed by more than 2 months

Suzanne Humphries MD; Special Report on the Vitamin C Treatment of

Whooping Cough

Suzanne Humphries MD; Why is nobody studying vitamin C in whooping cough?

– Conventional medicine’s hypocrisy

on Whooping Cough Treatment

Australia ends free parent whooping cough vaccine: " the national

Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) had determined

vaccinating parents was not effective in protecting newborns.....and have

determined that there is no clinical effectiveness of this strategy. PBAC

which is totally independent and very expert, has determined that there

is no clinical effectiveness of this strategy, Professor Brook

said. "

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