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The truth about the measles, natural immunity, and the vaccine

Shawn Siegel – Great Mothers Questioning Vaccines

Catch as catch can

But my kids never caught anything from being vaccinated, said a mom on Dr. Tenpenny’s page.

It’s far from a matter of simply not catching anything – it’s a matter of what that means. It’s been shown that once vaccinated for whooping cough, if you’re exposed to pertussis you can carry an asymptomatic infection, display no sickness, but infect those around you for six weeks. You’ve caught the disease, but because of the vaccination can’t mount a proper immune response.

A Boston University study showed that most kids who’ve been vaccinated for measles can still develop a measles infection, with some respiratory symptoms, but without the rash. Measles is spread through respiration, so it’s possible, once again, that you could infect others. But there’s a deeper consequence, as well, aptly described by the title of the study pictured below: Measles Virus Infection Without Rash In Childhood Is Related To Disease In Adult Life. The referenced diseases are serious – degenerative diseases of the bone and cartilage, certain tumors, and others.

Another study showed a definitive association between mumps and a lowered probability of ovarian cancer.

The symptoms of disease are the immune system at work eliminating the infection – making you well. The National Institutes of Health describes fever, for instance, as working *for*, not against the person – emphasis theirs. Infectious disease is a detox process, and nothing to fear. The focus should simply be on establishing and maintaining a robust immune system, to assure the integrity of the recovery, with the added typical benefit of lifelong immunity. Once you stop to think about it, it’s perfectly natural that Nature, or God – call that force what you will – would use that process to cleanse deeply, personally, on a level science can’t even hope to achieve, to prepare you for successful adolescence and adulthood. In artificially triggering the production of antibodies, bypassing the lion’s share of the natural immune response, we’re not doing ourselves any favors – we’re setting ourselves – our kids – up for potential serious, chronic problems. When we add known neurotoxins to the mix, it morphs vaccination from simply foolish and self-defeating to insane.

References:

In the below study, this baboon study; pertussis vaccine was shown to not prevent transmission of the pertussis pathogen, in the vaccinated; even though being challenged and remaining non symptomatic. So then, how is it possible that the claim is true that vaccination protects the unvaccinated, or those that can not be vaccinated? Obviously it does not. Why did they not do that kind of a study years ago, and as well in regard to all vaccines given? You see some of the most important issues have been overlooked; and but yet you people all present with that you are the purveyors of the needed vaccine safety and effectiveness science.

Acellular pertussis vaccines protect against disease but fail to prevent infection and transmission in a nonhuman primate model

Significance

Pertussis has reemerged as an important public health concern since current acellular pertussis vaccines (aP) replaced older whole-cell vaccines (wP). In this study, we show nonhuman primates vaccinated with aP were protected from severe symptoms but not infection and readily transmitted Bordetella pertussis to contacts. Vaccination with wP and previous infection induced a more rapid clearance compared with naïve and aP-vaccinated animals. While all groups possessed robust antibody responses, key differences in T-cell memory suggest that aP vaccination induces a suboptimal immune response that is unable to prevent infection. These data provide a plausible explanation for pertussis resurgence and suggest that attaining herd immunity will require the development of improved vaccination strategies that prevent B. pertussis colonization and transmission.

Abstract
Pertussis is a highly contagious respiratory illness caused by the bacterial pathogen Bordetella pertussis. Pertussis rates in the United States have been rising and reached a 50-y high of 42,000 cases in 2012. Although pertussis resurgence is not completely understood, we hypothesize that current acellular pertussis (aP) vaccines fail to prevent colonization and transmission. To test our hypothesis, infant baboons were vaccinated at 2, 4, and 6 mo of age with aP or whole-cell pertussis (wP) vaccines and challenged with B. pertussis at 7 mo. Infection was followed by quantifying colonization in nasopharyngeal washes and monitoring leukocytosis and symptoms. Baboons vaccinated with aP were protected from severe pertussis-associated symptoms but not from colonization, did not clear the infection faster than naïve animals, and readily transmitted B. pertussis to unvaccinated contacts. Vaccination with wP induced a more rapid clearance compared with naïve and aP-vaccinated animals. By comparison, previously infected animals were not colonized upon secondary infection. Although all vaccinated and previously infected animals had robust serum antibody responses, we found key differences in T-cell immunity. Previously infected animals and wP-vaccinated animals possess strong B. pertussis-specific T helper 17 (Th17) memory and Th1 memory, whereas aP vaccination induced a Th1/Th2 response instead. The observation that aP, which induces an immune response mismatched to that induced by natural infection, fails to prevent colonization or transmission provides a plausible explanation for the resurgence of pertussis and suggests that optimal control of pertussis will require the development of improved vaccines.

The Current Failure of Pertussis and Measles Vaccine
http://www.vacfacts.info/the-current-failure-of-pertussis-and-measles-vaccine.html

These below and recently new articles, and this (their) said study, amounts to nothing more than false and misleading information, and as well nothing more than a large smoke screen of deception and desperation, to keep promoting the very dangerous and becoming more and more ineffective, MMR vaccine.

Measles vaccine may protect against other diseases
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/measles-vaccine-may-protect-against-other-diseases/

Measles Vaccine Reduces Death From Other Infections Too — By Preventing ‘Immune Amnesia’
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml

The already long existing and the real study science has already long since, shown us what the REAL truth is.

Measles jab reduces inherited immunity

A recent study found that women vaccinated with the measles vaccine pass on far less immunity to their offspring than women who are not vaccinated. Measles jab reduces inherited immunity

Waning of Maternal Antibodies Against Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella in Communities With Contrasting Vaccination Coverage

Conclusions. Children of mothers vaccinated against measles and, possibly, rubella have lower concentrations of maternal antibodies and lose protection by maternal antibodies at an earlier age than children of mothers in communities that oppose vaccination. This increases the risk of disease transmission in highly vaccinated populations.

http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/04/29/infdis.jit143.long

Protective Effect of Childhood Measles Against Degenerative Diseases in Later Life

The above study indicates that a lack of rash in measles is associated with an increased incidence of autoimmune and degenerative diseases in later life. As the rash is the means through which the toxin is expelled from the body, its absence leads to the measles virus remaining in the body. The widespread use of vaccination has led to the appearance of “atypical measles” and “mild measles” where no rash develops. This can expose children to diseases in later life.

Measles Virus Infection Without Rash In Childhood Is Related To Disease In Adult Life.
The Lancet, January 5 1985

Abstract
The presence of measles specific antibodies is usually taken as evidence of typical measles in the past; in the present study it was regarded as evidence of infection with measles virus, but not necessarily of the common disease accompanied by a typical rash. The association between a negative history of measles in childhood and certain diseases later in life was investigated by a historical prospective method, based on school health records combined with self-reporting in adulthood, and tests for specific IgG measles antibody. There was evidence of association between a negative history of measles, exposure in early life (possibly injection of immune serum globulin after exposure), and development of immunoreactive diseases, sebaceous skin diseases, degenerative diseases of bone and cartilage, and certain tumours. It is suggested that the presence of measles virus specific antibodies at the time of acute infection interferes with development of specific cytolytic reactions, and enables intracellular measles virus to survive the acute infection. If this hypothesis is verified, use of immune serum globulin after measles exposure has to be reconsidered.

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1995 Jul;149(7):774-8.
Mumps outbreak in a highly vaccinated school population. Evidence for large-scale vaccination failure.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7795768

Public Health Officials Know: Recently Vaccinated Individuals Spread Disease

Washington, D.C., March 3, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Physicians and public health officials know that recently vaccinated individuals can spread disease and that contact with the immunocompromised can be especially dangerous. For example, the Johns Hopkins Patient Guide warns the immunocompromised to “Avoid contact with children who are recently vaccinated,” and to “Tell friends and family who are sick, or have recently had a live vaccine (such as chicken pox, measles, rubella, intranasal influenza, polio or smallpox) not to visit.”1

A statement on the website of St. Jude’s Hospital warns parents not to allow people to visit children undergoing cancer treatment if they have received oral polio or smallpox vaccines within four weeks, have received the nasal flu vaccine within one week, or have rashes after receiving the chickenpox vaccine or MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine.2

“The public health community is blaming unvaccinated children for the outbreak of measles at Disneyland, but the illnesses could just as easily have occurred due to contact with a recently vaccinated individual,” says Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation. The Foundation promotes a healthy diet, non-toxic lifestyle and freedom of medical choice for parents and their children. “Evidence indicates that recently vaccinated individuals should be quarantined in order to protect the public.”

Scientific evidence demonstrates that individuals vaccinated with live virus vaccines such as MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), rotavirus, chicken pox, shingles and influenza can shed the virus for many weeks or months afterwards and infect the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike. 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.11.12

Furthermore, vaccine recipients can carry diseases in the back of their throat and infect others while displaying no symptoms of a disease.13,14,15

Both unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals are at risk from exposure to those recently vaccinated. Vaccine failure is widespread; vaccine-induced immunity is not permanent and recent outbreaks of diseases such as whooping cough, mumps and measles have occurred in fully vaccinated populations.16,17 Flu vaccine recipients become more susceptible to future infection after repeated vaccination.18,19

Adults have contracted polio from recently vaccinated infants. A father from Staten Island ended up in a wheel chair after contracting polio while changing his daughter’s diaper. He received a 22.5 million dollar award in 2009. 20,21

“Vaccine failure and failure to acknowledge that live virus vaccines can spread disease have resulted in an increase in outbreaks of infectious disease in both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals,” says Leslie Manookian, producer of The Greater Good. “CDC should instruct physicians who administer vaccinations to inform their patients about the risks posed to others by those who’ve been recently vaccinated.”

According to the Weston A. Price Foundation, the best protection against infectious disease is a healthy immune system, supported by adequate vitamin A and vitamin C. Well-nourished children easily recover from infectious disease and rarely suffer complications.

And do you know how the pro-vaccine side has always maintained that vaccines do not shed, and that there is no existing significant issue with that? They claim that the un-vaccinated are a risk to the vaccinated? How could that be if vaccines work? They as well spout the term of and the needed for vaccine derived herd immunity, for vaccines to work; and no matter how unscientific that claim is and/or may be. Clearly none of those claims have any merit!

Avoid live virus vaccines and people who have received one

Some vaccines are made from live viruses. Currently, these include oral polio, smallpox, MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella), and nasal flu vaccines.

These vaccines may pose a threat to your child’s health. Any person with a weakened immune system, including patients with cancer or HIV infection should not receive live virus vaccines.

Do not allow people to visit your child if:

They have received oral polio or smallpox vaccines within 4 weeks;

They have received the nasal flu vaccine within one (1) week; or

They have rashes after receiving the chickenpox (varicella) vaccine or MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine.

Looks like St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital did not take the page down, but rather, they changed the URL (website address). So, those who kept the old link could not find it, although it is still on cached.

Previously it stated:

Page 113
Revised / Reviewed 6/12

Can I have visitors?

• Tell friends and family who are sick, or have recently had a live vaccine (such as chicken pox, measles, rubella, intranasal influenza, polio or smallpox) not to visit.

• It may be a good idea to have visitors call first.

• Avoid contact with children who were recently vaccinated.

Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children (Google eBook)

National polls show that Americans are increasingly concerned about vaccine safety and the right to make individual, informed choices together with their healthcare practitioners. Vaccine Epidemic focuses on the searing debate surrounding individual and parental vaccination choice in the United States. Featuring more than twenty experts from the fields of ethics, law, science, medicine, business, and history, Vaccine Epidemic urgently calls for reform. It is the essential handbook for the vaccination choice movement and required reading for all people contemplating vaccination for themselves and their children. Louise Kuo Habakus and Mary Holland edit and introduce a diverse array of interrelated topics concerning the explosive vaccine controversy, including:

• The human right to vaccination choice
• The ethics and constitutionality of vaccination mandates
• Personal narratives of parents, children, and soldiers who have suffered vaccine injury
• Vaccine safety science and evidence-based medicine
• Corrupting conflicts of interest in the national vaccine program
• What should parents do? A review of eight advice books on vaccines that span the gamut.

More science and information.

Vaccine. 2008 Mar 25;26(14):1725-30. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.01.041. Epub 2008 Feb 13.
Kinetics of asthma- and allergy-associated immune response gene expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from vaccinated infants after in vitro re-stimulation with vaccine antigen.
Lahdenperä AI1, Nilsson LJ, Regnström K.

Abstract

The global expression of immune response genes in infants after vaccination and their role in asthma and allergy is not clearly understood. Pharmacogenomics is ideally suited to study the involved cellular responses, since the expression of thousands of genes can be assessed simultaneously. Here, array technology was used to assess the expression kinetics of immune response genes with association to asthma and allergy in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of five healthy infants after vaccination with Infanrix-Polio+Hib. At 12h after in vitro re-stimulation of the PBMC with pertussis toxin (PT) antigen, 14 immune response pathways, 33 allergy-related and 66 asthma-related genes were found activated.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18336961

Is Infant Immunization a Risk Factor for Childhood Asthma or Allergy?

Epidemiology. 1997 Nov;8(6):678-80.
Is infant immunization a risk factor for childhood asthma or allergy?
Kemp T1, Pearce N, Fitzharris P, Crane J, Fergusson D, St George I, Wickens K, Beasley R.

Abstract
The Christchurch Health and Development Study comprises 1,265 children born in 1977. The 23 children who received no diphtheria/pertussis/tetanus (DPT) and polio immunizations had no recorded asthma episodes or consultations for asthma or other allergic illness before age 10 years; in the immunized children, 23.1% had asthma episodes, 22.5% asthma consultations, and 30.0% consultations for other allergic illness. Similar differences were observed at ages 5 and 16 years. These findings do not appear to be due to differential use of health services (although this possibility cannot be excluded) or con-founding by ethnicity, socioeconomic status, parental atopy, or parental smoking.

Measles outbreaks can occur in highly vaccinated populations, even when there is a 100% vaccination rate.

“We found 18 reports of measles outbreaks in very highly immunized school populations where 71% to 99.8% of students were immunized against measles. Despite these high rates of immunization, 30% to 100% (mean, 77%) of all measles cases in these outbreaks occurred in previously immunized students.”

Arch Intern Med. 1994 Aug 22;154(16):1815-20.
Failure to reach the goal of measles elimination. Apparent paradox of measles infections in immunized persons.
Poland GA1, Jacobson RM.

The apparent paradox is that as measles immunization rates rise to high levels in a population, measles becomes a disease of immunized persons. Because of the failure rate of the vaccine and the unique transmissibility of the measles virus, the currently available measles vaccine, used in a single-dose strategy, is unlikely to completely eliminate measles. The long-term success of a two-dose strategy to eliminate measles remains to be determined.

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Abstract

Is Infant Immunization a Risk Factor for Childhood Asthma or Allergy?

Epidemiology. 1997 Nov;8(6):678-80.
Is infant immunization a risk factor for childhood asthma or allergy?
Kemp T1, Pearce N, Fitzharris P, Crane J, Fergusson D, St George I, Wickens K, Beasley R.

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Immunological findings in autism.
Review article
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/16512356/

Comments on and regarding this study:

“MMR antibodies are significantly higher in autistic children as compared to normal children, supporting a role of MMR in autism.”

This also fits with the recent study showing higher antibodies to MMR in children of African descent, which means they would be more likely to develop autism, which in turn is supported by the 2004 CDC study where the data indicated a higher risk of autism in African American males.

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This study looked at measles antibody titers in college students before and after an outbreak in a highly-vaccinated population. (Boston College had just done a blood drive, so blood samples prior to the outbreak were available for 80 students.) The study shows the following:

(1) about 10% of the students had antibody titers too low to prevent infections, and 7 out of 8 students with low titers actually got the measles with spots;
(2) about 10% of the students had subclinical measles with increased antibodies so would have been able to spread the virus;
(3) over 50% of the students had at least one symptom of the measles, even without full clinical presentation, so might have been able to spread the virus.

“The study suggests that PRN titers less than or equal to 120 were not protective against measles disease and illness without rash due to measles may occur in persons with PRN titers above this level.”

J Infect Dis. 1990 Nov;162(5):1036-42.
Measles antibody: reevaluation of protective titers.

Abstract

A school blood drive before a measles outbreak permitted correlation of preexposure measles antibody titers with clinical protection using the plaque reduction neutralization (PRN) test and an EIA. Of 9 donors with detectable preexposure PRN titer less than or equal to 120, 8 met the clinical criteria for measles (7 seroconfirmed) compared with none of 71 with preexposure PRN titers greater than 120 (P less than .0001). Seven of 11 donors with preexposure PRN titers of 216-874 had a greater than or equal to 4-fold rise in antibody titer (mean, 43-fold) compared with none of 7 with a preexposure PRN titer greater than or equal to 1052 (P less than .02). Of 37 noncases with preexposure PRN titer less than 1052, 26 (70%) reported one or more symptoms compared with 11 (31%) of 35 donors with preexposure PRN titers greater than or equal to 1052 (P less than .002). By EIA, no case had detectable preexposure antibody; the preexposure geometric mean titer of asymptomatic donors (220) was not significantly higher than that of symptomatic donors who did not meet the clinical criteria for measles (153) (P = .10). The study suggests that PRN titers less than or equal to 120 were not protective against measles disease and illness without rash due to measles may occur in persons with PRN titers above this level.

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This peer-reviewed research predicts measles epidemics in fully-vaccinated populations, starting about 50 years after the start of mass vaccination (in other words, right about now). The problem with vaccination is that (1) infants are too young to vaccinate, (2) not all vaccinated people acquire immunity, and (3) immunity wanes over time. The result over time is a larger and larger population of susceptible individuals, and the likelihood of outbreaks.

There is a genetic basis for the response to vaccination. Not all children respond the same way, some have a much higher risk of injury. Shouldn’t we understand these issues and test children before we vaccinate them?
“Genetic polymorphisms in genes expressing an enzyme previously associated with adverse reactions to a variety of pharmacologic agents (MTHFR) and an immunological transcription factor (IRF1) were associated with AEs [Adverse Events] after smallpox vaccination in 2 independent study samples.”

Two radical changes to the diagnosis of polio were made by the CDC in 1955 – right after the vaccine was licensed – which had the immediate effect of eliminating 85% of the cases of polio that would thenceforth be reported annually to the American public. That’s not disease eradication; it’s a con game. A million cases of what would have been diagnosed as polio pre-vaccine – same symptoms – have been given different labels over the last sixty years.

Despite Exuberance Many Vaccines Do Far More Harm Than Good

Excerpted: Things, however, may be be far worse than reported…

A highly concerning paper published in the April-June issue of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics discusses the possibility that the 47,500 new cases of “non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP)” in children reported in 2011, which is clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis but twice as deadly, were directly proportional [i.e. casually linked] to doses of oral polio received. According to the authors of this paper: “Though this data was collected within the polio surveillance system, it was not investigated. The principle of primum-non-nocere [First, do no harm] was violated.” In other words, instead of acknowledging the high prevalence of vaccine-associated polio paralysis (VAPP), those administering the vaccines and doing surveillance on adverse events simply reclassified the symptoms of injury from polio vaccine to non-vaccine related by coining a new disease terminology, i.e. “non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP),” which describes essentially the same symptoms. When one considers the scale of Indian eradication campaign, 47,500 cases of NPAFP, while immense, are within the realm of feasibility. According to the article:

The government of India used 2.3 million vaccinators, who visited over 200 million households to ensure that the nearly 170 million children (under five years in age) were repeatedly immunised with oral polio vaccine.

If the 47,500 case figure for NPAFP is correct, the actual scale of vaccine-related adverse effects associated with oral polio vaccine are probably 2-3 orders of magnitude higher than officially reported by the governmental and non-governmental agencies promoting their use, and by those agencies who are responsible for monitoring and reporting their adverse effects.

Cases like this illustrate how important it is that we all take a critical look at the first-hand vaccine statistics and research itself, reading between the lines when the lines have been intentionally manipulated and the truth obfuscated. For several years, our ongoing project has dedicated itself to providing the research community an alternative medical and toxicological resource for ascertaining the true risks and/or unintended consequences of conventional medical interventions such as vaccinations.

Regarding the article:

Int J Health Serv. 1989;19(2):181-208.
A review of the evidence concerning the impact of medical measures on recent mortality and morbidity in the United States.

In this article we examine the contribution of medical measures to recent mortality changes in coronary heart disease, cancer, and stroke, which together account for two-thirds of total U.S. mortality and consume the vast majority of available resources. Morbidity changes are also examined and found to be not declining in a manner congruent with mortality and, in fact, increasing for some subgroups. Using a combined measure of mortality and morbidity (the probability of a life free of disability), it is demonstrated that although overall life expectancy has increased over several decades, most of this increase is in years of disability.

So if vaccinations did not eliminate infectious diseases, what did? The answer is modern sanitation, with clean water, toilets, and closed sewage systems, plus better nutrition. As living conditions improved, mortality rates for all infectious diseases dropped dramatically, typically before any vaccine was introduced. Many diseases, such as scarlet fever, disappeared without any mass vaccination program.

For smallpox specifically, Dr Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk’s write:
“…compulsory vaccination did nothing to curb the problem of smallpox. …more people died in the 20 years after the strict Massachusetts vaccination compulsory laws than in the 20 years before.”

For a fascinating history of vaccination, read Dr Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk’s excellent book, Dissolving Illusions.

Paul Offit’s vaccine lies deconstructed: A mind-blowing interview with Dr. Suzanne Humphries
http://www.naturalnews.com/049320_Suzanne_Humphries_Paul_Offit_vaccine_lies.html#ixzz3Z7X1N4aG

Implications of vaccination and waning immunity
J.M. Heffernan , M.J. Keeling
Published 23 April 2009

Abstract

For infectious diseases where immunization can offer lifelong protection, a variety of simple models can be used to explain the utility of vaccination as a control method. However, for many diseases, immunity wanes over time and is subsequently enhanced (boosted) by asymptomatic encounters with the infection. The study of this type of epidemiological process requires a model formulation that can capture both the within-host dynamics of the pathogen and immune system as well as the associated population-level transmission dynamics. Here, we parametrize such a model for measles and show how vaccination can have a range of unexpected consequences as it reduces the natural boosting of immunity as well as reducing the number of naive susceptibles. In particular, we show that moderate waning times (40–80 years) and high levels of vaccination (greater than 70%) can induce large-scale oscillations with substantial numbers of symptomatic cases being generated at the peak. In addition, we predict that, after a long disease-free period, the introduction of infection will lead to far larger epidemics than that predicted by standard models. These results have clear implications for the long-term success of any vaccination campaign and highlight the need for a sound understanding of the immunological mechanisms of immunity and vaccination.

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[Morbidity changes are also examined and found to be not declining in a manner congruent with mortality and, in fact, increasing for some subgroups. Using a combined measure of mortality and morbidity (the probability of a life free of disability), it is demonstrated that although overall life expectancy has increased over several decades, most of this increase is in years of disability.]

Int J Health Serv. 1989;19(2):181-208.
A review of the evidence concerning the impact of medical measures on recent mortality and morbidity in the United States.
McKinlay JB1, McKinlay SM, Beaglehole R.

Abstract

Abstract
Because it still is widely believed that one deadly disease after another is being eliminated, or diminished, largely because of medical interventions, there is little commitment to social change and even resistance to a reordering of national priorities. In this article we examine the contribution of medical measures to recent mortality changes in coronary heart disease, cancer, and stroke, which together account for two-thirds of total U.S. mortality and consume the vast majority of available resources. Morbidity changes are also examined and found to be not declining in a manner congruent with mortality and, in fact, increasing for some subgroups. Using a combined measure of mortality and morbidity (the probability of a life free of disability), it is demonstrated that although overall life expectancy has increased over several decades, most of this increase is in years of disability. Our late 20th century approach to the emerging AIDS pandemic (the frantic search for a “magic bullet”–either a treatment or a vaccine) belies any suggestion that the arguments and data presented concerning the modest contribution of medical measures are now passé.

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Prog Health Sci 2012, Vol 2 , No1 Neurologic adverse events vaccination
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Neurologic adverse events following vaccination
Sienkiewicz D.*, Kułak W., Okurowska-Zawada B., Paszko-Patej G.
Department of Pediatric Rehabilitation of the Medical University of Bialystok, Poland

ABSTRACT

The present review summarizes data on
neurological adverse events following vaccination
in the relation to intensity, time of onset, taking into
account the immunological and non-immunological
mechanisms. The authors described the physiological
development of the immune system and the
possible immune system responses following
vaccination. Toxic property of thimerosal – a
mercury-containing preservative used in some
vaccines was presented. The neurological complications
after vaccination were described. The role
of vaccination in the natural course of infectious
diseases and the current immunizations schedule in
Poland was discussed.

Professor Majewska – a neurobiologist,
Director of the Marie Curie Chairs Program at the
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the
Nervous System in Warsaw – together with
pediatricians, drafted a proposal for changes to the
vaccination program in Poland, which is based on
an analysis of programs in other European Union
countries. The propositions are as follows:

1. Eliminate thimerosal from all vaccines.

2. Discontinue the immunization of infants with
the hepatitis B vaccine (vaccinate only
newborns at high risk, i.e. of infected
mothers).

3. Discontinue BCG vaccination of neonates (use
only in children from regions where the

percentage of TB patients is over 40 per 100
thousand).

4. Begin vaccination from 4 months old in the
remaining group of children.

5. Discontinue the whole cell pertussis vaccine.
6. Give a maximum of three types of vaccines in
one day.

7. Discontinue the administration of live virus
vaccines or give them one at a time at safe
intervals.

8. Make monovalent vaccines accessible.

9. Commitment of the doctor administering the
vaccine to conduct a preliminary interview
with the parents about allergies, asthma and
other autoimmune diseases and postvaccinal
complications in family members, allowing
them to predict whether a given child may
experience severe postvaccinal reactions. Such
a child should have an individual, very careful
vaccination program developed.

10. Monitor the health status of children after
vaccination in order to notice life- or healththreatening
conditions in time.

11. Create a national program for compulsory
registration of postvaccinal complications and
deaths. These data should be reported to the
WHO and information about complications
should be provided in the child’s health record
book [51].

CONCLUSIONS

Despite the assurances of the necessity and
safety of vaccinations, there are more and more
questions and doubts, which both physicians and
parents are waiting to be clarified. This paper
describes several aspects of the immunization
program of children. It includes: the physiological
development of the immune system, the
immunization schedule adopted in Poland in
comparison with other countries, adverse reactions
and complications following vaccination described
in scientific publications, the natural course of
infectious diseases in conjunction with the
vaccination programs implemented and the problem
of reporting adverse reactions following
vaccination by medical personnel and parents. The
proposal for changes in vaccination in Poland cited
at the end of this paper is, according to the authors,
part of the answer to the concerns and doubts. A
second part would be extensive neuroimmunological
research confirming or excluding
the relationship of vaccines with the reported
adverse events (early, late/long-term) and chronic
diseases whose upward trend has been observed in
recent decades in children.

It seems that it would be worthwhile to
apply the precautionary principle – the ethical
principle (from 1988) according to which if there is
a probable, although poorly known, risk of adverse
effects of new technology, it is better not to
implement it rather than risk uncertain but
potentially very harmful consequences.

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