MB Comment: The medical establishment is stooping to new lows in defining vaccine adverse reactions as normal childhood events. This latest American Medical Association-published study on the pertussis vaccine (DTaP) admits that 2% of toddlers have seizures before the age of 1 1/2. The risk is six times higher on the day of the first DTaP vaccine and four times higher on the day of the second shot.
The CDC states that 10% of kids that have a first seizure develop epilepsy. This article attempts to whitewash that fact.
Anyone who studies the FDA Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) will find numerous cases of seizures reported after vaccination. Seizures are a symptom of encephalitis (the classic vaccine adverse reaction), which is consistently stated as a diagnosis in VAERS reports. Encephalitis leaves a spectrum of neurological damage in its wake (aka autism). Parents of autistic kids report a much higher incidence of epilepsy and seizures.
So if medical morons think they are reassuring parents about seizures caused by vaccines in the dumbed-down study, they are making a mistake. Parents should do their own homework on the risk of seizures after vaccination before sacrificing their children to vaccine pushers.
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Combined vaccine tied to fever-related seizures
(Reuters Health) – Babies who got a single shot that included vaccines against tetanus and whooping cough were at higher risk of having a fever-related seizure on the same day in a new study from Denmark.
However, researchers found the chance of having a seizure was still small after the shots, and kids who got them weren’t any more likely to go on to develop epilepsy than those who weren’t vaccinated, as some evidence had suggested.
The finding is not a reason for parents to avoid the combined vaccine, and is actually “reassuring,” said one expert not involved in the study.
According to the National Institutes of Health, about one in every 25 kids will have at least one fever-related seizure — short-lasting convulsions that don’t cause permanent damage. The seizures are especially common in toddlers …
She and her colleagues found that about 7,800 kids, or just over two percent, were diagnosed with a fever-related seizure by the time they were one and a half …
On the day of the first shot, that risk was about six times higher than would be expected, based on other babies who hadn’t recently been vaccinated, and it was four times higher after the second shot …
“This is definitely not a reason to not get this vaccine. On the contrary, this should be reassuring.”
I was looking at this New England Journal of Medicine article which found an increased risk of febrile seizures after the DPT and MMR vaccines. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa003077#t=articleDiscussion But they said that this is nothing to worry about. “As compared with other children with febrile seizures that were not associated with vaccination, the children who had febrile seizures after vaccination were not found to be at higher risk for subsequent seizures or neurodevelopmental disabilities.” “It would not be appropriate to compare children who had febrile seizures with children who had never had a febrile seizure, since the former group may have a higher risk of febrile seizure that is unrelated to vaccination.” So they compare these children who have seizures due to the vaccine with children who have seizures for some other reason, and say that there’s no problem. But what if some of these children never would have had a seizure at all but for the vaccines? Their long-term health outcomes should be compared to children who never had a seizure.
It’s kind of like saying, “Well we compared these people who had pianos fall on their heads with people who had boulders fall on their heads, and the injuries from the pianos were no worse than the injuries from boulders, so there’s no need to worry about pianos.”