MB comment: Here is a clear measure of medical insanity and the threat it represents to the health and life of your children: UK authorities are considering giving the pertussis vaccine to newborns, even though there are no safety studies to support vaccination of newborns.
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and autism are listed on the pertussis vaccine package insert (filed with the FDA) under serious adverse events reported during post-approval use. ‘Events were included in this list because of the seriousness or frequency of reporting.’
Vaccine zealots would kill your newborn child or cause permanent neurological damage (as defined in a medical textbook) using the ineffective and dangerous pertussis vaccine – and dismiss it as a coincidence. It wouldn’t even be a footnote in their war on germs.
Wake up people, vaccine adverse reactions are a threat to your children – and the beancounters who decide vaccine policy don’t read the package inserts or count the victims of their lunatic vaccine recommendations.
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Newborn babies could get whooping cough vaccination – BBC News
Consideration is being given to vaccinating newborn babies against whooping cough because of this year’s dramatic increase in cases.
It is one option being looked at by the Department of Health’s joint committee on vaccination and immunisation.
The number of cases in England and Wales this year is already three times higher than for the whole of 2011.
The Department of Health said any decision to expand the vaccination programme would not be taken lightly.
Babies are currently offered a whooping cough vaccine at two, three and four months of age.
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said on Friday that it was very concerned about the surge and warned parents to be on the look-out for symptoms of whooping cough and to ensure their children were vaccinated on time.
Booster doses
The condition is characterised by severe coughing, followed by a gasp or “whoop”.
There have been 235 cases this year among babies aged under three months, which is double the number recorded in the last peak in 2008.
Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is more dangerous for young babies because they do not get the benefits from vaccination until about four months.
The Department of Health’s committee is considering whether to vaccinate more people to help tackle the outbreak.
This could mean booster doses for teenagers, and jabs for pregnant women and newborn babies and their families.
The HPA said there had been 1,047 whooping cough cases reported in July, bringing the total this year to 3,513. Surges are seen every three to four years.
A Department of Health spokesman said: “We continue to see high uptake of vaccination against whooping cough and are investigating the recent increase in cases. This highlights the importance of vaccination against this and other illnesses.
“The joint committee on vaccination and immunisation is looking at whether more people need to be vaccinated. Careful consideration is always needed around expanding any programme.
“Parents should make sure their children are up to date with all vaccinations, and should speak to their GP if they need advice.”
Dr. Michaela Glockler, in A Guide to Child Health, p. 157, says: “An existing study proves that infants at the age of two months do not develop antibodies after the first injection but lose much of the remaining immunity conferred by their mothers’ antibodies. Antibody formation still remains inadequate after the second vaccination at four months; effective antibody levels generally develop only after the third vaccination at age six months.” (Miller, M.S., et al, “Safety and Immunogenicity of PRP-T combined with DPT. Pediatrics 1995, 4) The famous Manitoba study, “Delay in Diphtheria, Pertussis Tetanus Vaccination is Associated with a Reduced Risk of Childhood Asthma,” McDonal KL, et al, J Allergy Clin Immonol. 2008 Mar;121(3):626-31, studies 11,531 Canadian children and found that children who started the vaccine series with at least a two-month delay more than halved their chance of having asthma at age seven.
11% of children vaccinated on the current schedule have asthma at seven, about 5% of those who delay starting the series do, and only 2% of unvaccinated children have asthma at seven.
Why do authorities worldwide pointedly ignore the scientific evidence that the pertussis vaccine causes asthma, more often the earlier it is given, in addition to causing allergies, autsim, seizure disorders, and SIDS? The only way to protect young infants from a disease often dangerous to them, and usually only to them, being wearing but harmless in most of those over three months old, is to quarantine them at home. Even if you vaccinated every single person who comes into contact with them, the fact that 80-90% of those getting pertussis in the U.S. this year had been appropriately vaccinated for it, means that a huge number of people are still capable of catching and transmitting the disease to vulnerable newborns. Why isn’t this information given to parents?
Except there is no “whooping cough vaccine”. What they are really proposing is a tri-valent diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTaP) vaccine at birth. Even if one can make the case the pertussis vaccine makes sense at birth from a risk/benefit standpoint (highly doubtful), diphtheria and tetanus can not pass that threshold as there is no outbreak of either disease. There is no justification whatsoever for these at birth, administration will result in an unknown risk with zero tangible benefits.
Funny how the article doesn’t bother mentioning that inconvenient fact.
Highly dangerous, reactive vaccine completely ineffective among newborns, the only group at risk from the disease. Why bother? Oh yeah, I forgot about all the money the medical industry gets from producing it and pushing its use.