Vaccines

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I have a bad habit of copying things to a note pad, when something catches my attention, and then not posting it for a while. When I read mblack's remark about the formaldehyde allergy, and I think, another poster mentioned an allergy or sensitivity to bakers yeast recently, I thought it would be a good idea to remind everyone of what the ingredients are in the vaccines

 

Vaccine Excipient & Media Summary, Part 2

Excipients Included in U.S. Vaccines, by Vaccine

 

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:21r3W...;cd=2&gl=us

 

This was some alarming reading (as far as I'm concerned) especially since one of our Mom's has pointed out how chron's disease is on the rise too. These are kind of in a random order, as it was one of those saved note pads.

 

 

Antibodies to the baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (ASCA), recently proposed as a serological marker of Crohn's disease, have also been detected in other autoimmune disorders. The aim of this study was to determine prevalence and clinical significance of ASCA in autoimmune liver disease. The presence of IgG and IgA ASCA was evaluated using a commercially available immunoassay in 215 patients with autoimmune liver disease (primary biliary cirrhosis, PBC, 123 cases; autoimmune hepatitis, AIH, 67 cases; primary sclerosing cholangitis, PSC, 25 cases), 48 with inflammatory bowel disease and 19 healthy blood donors

 

Google scholar articles

 

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=link:h...2F33%2F8%2F1071

 

Hep B info

 

http://www.vaccinetruth.org/page_11.htm

 

The antigen is harvested and purified from fermentation cultures of a recombinant strain of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae containing the gene for the adw subtype of HBsAg. The fermentation process involves growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae on a complex fermentation medium which consists of an extract of yeast, soy peptone, dextrose, amino acids and mineral salts. The HBsAg protein is released from the yeast cells by cell disruption and purified by a series of physical and chemical methods. The purified protein is treated in phosphate buffer with formaldehyde and then coprecipitated with alum (potassium aluminum sulfate) to form bulk vaccine adjuvanted with amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate. The vaccine contains no detectable yeast DNA but may contain not more than 1% yeast protein. The vaccine produced by the Merck method has been shown to be comparable to the plasma-derived vaccine in terms of animal potency (mouse, monkey, and chimpanzee) and protective efficacy (chimpanzee and human).

 

 

Concurrent HLA-related response factors mediate recombinant hepatitis B vaccine major adverse events.

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?c...p;dopt=Abstract

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I don't have girls (although it is being said that this will soon be reqired or recommended for boys also) but if any of you are facing the vax decisions with back to school season here, thought I would post these, as I come across them.

 

I also looked up Boostrix the REQUIRED Tdap that both of the boys are due for. All three components... Tetanus Diptheria and Pertussis are all absorbed on aluminum.

 

The RECOMMENDED but not required for school attendance (adolescence schedule), in our area, are Menactra (meningitis) Gardasil (HPV) Hep A and a second dose of Varecella(chicenpox) along with the required Tdap (if ten years from the last Dtap which the boys both had in 97).

 

One of my friends has a young daughter who was flipping out because two of her friends got 4 and 5 shots, and she only got one (her Mom declined all but the Tdap), she told her Mom that these were serious diseases and she was afraid she would catch them. Ughhhhhh. How do you explain to an 11 year old, the potential dangers of getting all of these vaccines and how much is really unknown?

 

.http://www.nvic.org/PressReleases/PR081507HPV.htm

 

 

Analysis Shows Greater Risk of GBS Reports When HPV Vaccine Is Given with Meningococcal and Other Vaccines

 

Washington, August 15, 2007 – The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) today issued a new report on HPV vaccine (Gardasil®) safety analyzing adverse event reports to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). The analysis gives evidence for a reported association in VAERS between Gardasil and Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), with a statistically significant increased risk of GBS and other serious adverse event reports when Gardasil is co-administered with other vaccines, especially meningococcal vaccine (Menactra®).

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Errrrrrrr.....From the statement below, where are the safety studies on kids with an existing neuro conditions??????? Where are the safety studies on aluminum????? there aren't any. Where's the tipping point? They failed to add up the cummulative effect where thimerosal was concerned, but we are just supposed to trust that these experiments with our kids can continue indefinitely, and when bad consequences occur, they will just say it was a coincidence and had nothing to do with all of this bull*****. Sorry, as you can tell, I have a bit of negative passion on this subject.

 

I'm really tired of TS/tic syndromes NOT being included in conditions like what's listed in the in the second bolded statement! It's like it's an invisable disorder, when these things are discussed. Why is that?

 

 

 

An unprecedented amount of protection has beenn passed to protect pharma companies from law suits assoc. with vaccine damage. So all is clear now. Let the profits roll.

 

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Equally concerning is the lack of scientific evidence supporting the safety of giving children entering puberty multiple vaccines, such as Tdap, meningococcal, HPV and chicken pox vaccine and others without long term studies evaluating the impact of pre-adolescent vaccination on brain and immune function. Today, the CDC recommends that, by age 11, children should have received 53-56 doses of 15 or 16 vaccines depending upon if the child is a boy or girl. Where are the safety studies that demonstrate this much vaccination leads to greater long term good health?

 

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America's highly vaccinated children are in the midst of a chronic disease and disability epidemic, with millions of them suffering with learning disabilities, ADHD, autism, asthma, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disorder, severe food allergies and other kinds of brain and immune dysfunction that affected far fewer children in the past when far fewer vaccines were given to them. The last thing our sick children need now is one more vaccine.

 

 

August 29, 2007

 

National Vaccine Information Center

A young boy on the beach was throwing the washed-up starfish back into the ocean. A stranger passing by told him not to bother, because it would not make any difference, there were thousands of beaches and millions of starfish, and it would not be possible to save all of them. The boy reached down, picked up a starfish, threw it back into the ocean and said, smiling softly, " I made a difference for that one!"

 

NVIC E-news

"While there are a few exceptions, students who begin school without this [Tdap] vaccination will have two weeks from September 1 to get it or, legally, the schools will be obligated to exclude them from attending school, according to Claire Pospisil, spokesperson for the New York State Department of Health.....The reason for the new vaccine is simple: to protect the health of children and adults, Pospisil said. "We have had a widespread outbreak of pertussis or whooping cough in New York State throughout the previous year, 2006, and because of this, there will be a protective benefit against whooping cough if people are vaccinated," she explained....."The drug manufacturers have just approved a pertussis [vaccine] for adults," she noted....But according to Dr. Lawrence Palevsky, a holistic pediatrician at the Northport Wellness Center, the new immunization requirement, especially for pertussis, may be a bit premature...."I don't think true due diligence has been done to evaluate the potential neurological complications in children above seven years old who are given this vaccine"....According to Dr. Alan Sherr, chiropractor and director at the Northport Wellness Center, individuals who have not received any vaccinations may have a natural immunity to a particular virus. However, the case may be different for those who already have participated in routine vaccinations since infancy." - Michelle Gabrielle Centamore, Suffolk Life (August 22, 2007)

 

"A reported boom in U.S. whooping cough cases is now being questioned after health officials discovered a regularly used lab test misdiagnosed cases in suspected outbreaks in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Tennessee. The false test results led thousands of people to take antibiotics unnecessarily and even caused a New Hampshire hospital to limit the number of patients admitted since hospital workers were thought to be infected....Government health officials say cases have tripled in the United States since 2001, with nearly 26,000 cases reported in 2005. Nearly half of those cases were diagnosed with the testing method now called into question, and that has raised doubts about the true number of cases......"It's been a roller coaster. Whoa, look at this big outbreak! Whoa, it wasn't really pertussis!" said Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of Vanderbilt University's department of preventive medicine." - Mike Stobbe, Associated Press (August 23, 2007)

 

Barbara Loe Fisher Commentary:

 

When public health authorities choose to scare us by hyping the dangers of infectious disease, like whooping cough (pertussis), the least we can expect is that they have gotten their scientific facts straight. The Keystone Cops act is not very reassuring: "Whoa, look at this big outbreak! Whoa, it wasn't really pertussis!".

 

For the last several years, public health officials have been beating the drums, warning us that whooping cough is on the rise despite a more than 95 percent uptake of pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine by all children entering kindergarten, who are required by most states to have 3-5 doses of DTaP (diphtheria- tetanus-acellular pertussis) vaccine before they can attend school. The CDC's solution has been to recommend yet another dose of pertussis vaccine via a booster Tdap shot for all 11-12 year old children. New York and other state health officials are in the process of persuading politicians to add Tdap to state mandatory vaccination laws. That "more is better" solution, say federal health officials, will finally stamp out whooping cough.

 

But now, we find out that many of the whooping cough cases reported in the "outbreaks" around the country, such as in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Tennessee, were bogus cases because some "speedy" lab tests to confirm whooping cough give a false positive the majority of the time. So the reported tripling of whooping cough cases in the past five years may be a total fabrication and the push for children to get another booster dose of Tdap at 11-12 years old may not make any difference at all.

 

There are other infectious organisms, such as parapertussis, which cause respiratory disease that can mimic whooping cough and they are not covered in the Tdap vaccine. Lab diagnosis is critical to accurately confirming and treating whooping cough and it is unfortunate that it has taken so long to uncover the ineffectiveness of the lab test used to confirm many suspected whooping cough cases today.

 

But more importantly, the rush by federal health officials to add yet another booster dose of vaccine without carefully investigating why whooping cough is apparently occurring in a highly vaccinated child population does not inspire confidence in the evidence with which the CDC supports vaccine recommendations. Assumptions are a poor replacement for scientific evidence.

 

Equally concerning is the lack of scientific evidence supporting the safety of giving children entering puberty multiple vaccines, such as Tdap, meningococcal, HPV and chicken pox vaccine and others without long term studies evaluating the impact of pre-adolescent vaccination on brain and immune function. Today, the CDC recommends that, by age 11, children should have received 53-56 doses of 15 or 16 vaccines depending upon if the child is a boy or girl. Where are the safety studies that demonstrate this much vaccination leads to greater long term good health?

 

America's highly vaccinated children are in the midst of a chronic disease and disability epidemic, with millions of them suffering with learning disabilities, ADHD, autism, asthma, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disorder, severe food allergies and other kinds of brain and immune dysfunction that affected far fewer children in the past when far fewer vaccines were given to them. The last thing our sick children need now is one more vaccine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Motives Behind Vaccine Requirements Questioned

 

Suffolk Life

August 22, 2007

 

by Michelle Gabrielle Centamore

 

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The New York State Department of Health has announced a change in the immunization requirements for school entry. Students who are entering sixth grade on or after September 1, 2007 and who are 11 years of age or older are now required to receive a combination vaccination called Tdap, related to diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis, or whooping cough.

 

While there are a few exceptions, students who begin school without this vaccination will have two weeks from September 1 to get it or, legally, the schools will be obligated to exclude them from attending school, according to Claire Pospisil, spokesperson for the New York State Department of Health. In addition, Pospisil said, "we anticipate that there will be a new requirement regarding a booster dose for varicella - chicken pox - in the near future."

 

Although notice of the new immunization requirements was announced in spring 2007, time is running out for those students who have not updated their immunizations to meet the new requirements by the state.

 

Prior to the new requirement, Pospisil said, "students would have received a 'booster' with tetanus and diphtheria, which has been recommended every 10 years - most sixth-graders would have originally received their first diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine in infancy - so the pertussis bundled in with the other two is an opportunity for them to get immunity for all of them at the same time."

 

Students who have received a Td, DT, or DTaP vaccination within the past two years, may defer their Tdap for another two years, said Pospisil. Students who are 10 years old and are entering sixth grade may also wait until they turn 11 before they receive the vaccination, Pospisil said, but they will be expected to follow through with the vaccinations once they turn 11. Regarding children entering grades above sixth, Pospisil added, "We recommend an eighth-grader, for example, who has not had a booster in two years, consult with their healthcare provider regarding the Tdap."

 

The reason for the new vaccine is simple: to protect the health of children and adults, Pospisil said. "We have had a widespread outbreak of pertussis or whooping cough in New York State throughout the previous year, 2006, and because of this, there will be a protective benefit against whooping cough if people are vaccinated," she explained. Until recently, she added, a vaccine for pertussis was only available for children, not adults. "The drug manufacturers have just approved a pertussis [vaccine] for adults," she noted. "One is good for [those] ages 11 to 65, called Adacel, and the other, for children ages 10 to 18, [is] called Boostrix."

 

"In infancy, children receive DTP - diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis - but the pertussis only lasts about seven years and then that child, as well as all adults, would not be protected against pertussis or whooping cough," explained Donna McPartlan, a school nurse at Elwood Middle School. Requiring 11-year-olds to receive this vaccine, said McPartlan, assures a greater protection for not just children, but adults and infants, as well.

 

"How many adults go for shots?" McPartlan said. "Nobody. How am I going to immunize my brand new mothers bringing home infant babies? I don't see them before they are pregnant. So wouldn't it be great if I could immunize them while they are in school so it would last," she said, adding that all of her students and their families have been reminded several times since the initial announcement by the state DOH.

 

"We support anything that is going to provide good health for children," stated Adrienne Robb-Fund, assistant superintendent for elementary education in Commack. "If the department of health thinks this is important, we support it." Moreover, Robb-Fund noted that, like most schools, Commack sent notification of the new immunization requirements to students and their families back in spring. "We haven't mandated it ... it's the law, and technically, after 14 days, we are supposed to not have the child in school, and that is what we want to avoid," she said.

 

But according to Dr. Lawrence Palevsky, a holistic pediatrician at the Northport Wellness Center, the new immunization requirement, especially for pertussis, may be a bit premature. While Pospisil said that a pertussis vaccine was not given to older children (versus infants) because there was not one available for them, Palevsky said it is more a matter of health and safety.

 

Regarding the DPT, Palevsky said, "Every single study that has been done in the past on the DPT has clearly shown that it is not safe to give it to children above the age of seven because of neurological complications. But now all of a sudden what they are saying is that the new studies show that there is no worry about neurological complications for children above seven years old. It is a huge leap to go from 'there may be severe neurological complications if children above the age of seven are getting the vaccine' to 'it's now safe to give it to children at 11 years old.' I don't think true due diligence has been done to evaluate the potential neurological complications in children above seven years old who are given this vaccine."

 

There is not enough evidence to support the safety of the new vaccine or effectiveness in reducing the incidence of pertussis, according to Palevsky. "We need to explore how an outbreak of an illness really occurs, to understand why vaccination may not reduce the incidence of an infectious illness like pertussis," he said.

 

According to Dr. Alan Sherr, chiropractor and director at the Northport Wellness Center, individuals who have not received any vaccinations may have a natural immunity to a particular virus. However, the case may be different for those who already have participated in routine vaccinations since infancy. "There is a dilemma in the argument when you are looking at a population that has already received all of their vaccines to this point and do not carry any natural immunity on their own," Sherr said. This dilemma, he said, may raise the question: "Is it then appropriate to vaccinate that population because they are already immune deficient? Should we? Maybe .... Those children never had the opportunity of getting these conditions on their own; by receiving them artificially, they don't have them naturally."

 

"The medical community believes that having the illness is bad for the child. I don't believe it is," said Palevsky. "In reality, experiencing the natural illness has immune-boosting effects on the body." And as for the viruses in the required vaccines, if contracted, Palevsky said, "most people can make a full recovery."

 

But what about a second chicken pox vaccine, which according to Pospisil, may be the next new immunization requirement imposed by the DOH on middle-school-aged children?

 

According to McPartlan, an 11-year-old child who gets the chicken pox may experience discomfort, a fever, itchiness and scarring. This child, she said, will be excluded from school or day care. It also impacts the child's mother or father economically and socially, she added, and could even pose a greater health risk on other individuals, a pregnant aunt, for example. "The virus could cause problems to the fetus .... if you spread it to someone who is immuno-compromised, it can cause death," she said.

 

But Palevsky argues that the main reason for giving children the varicella vaccine is purely economic. "It is to keep parents from having to miss work by having to stay home for a week when their kids get the chicken pox and stay out of school," he said. "It is more of an economical reason to give the vaccine versus, 'a child has a great likelihood of suffering a bad outcome from getting the chicken pox.'"

 

The new Tdap vaccine requirement has left some parents and caregivers feeling more confident that their children will be further protected against disease, and others feeling frustrated, questioning the intent of the DOH, as well as the effectiveness and safety of the vaccine.

 

Jackie Carbone, a Centereach resident and an educator at a preschool in Sayville, said that she is in full support of the new vaccine, as well as others required by the DOH. "I think that it helps to protect children and their immune systems against diseases that we could previously not protect against, diseases that, if contracted, are debilitating or possibly life- threatening."

 

Deer Park resident Alayna Becker recently took her 13- year-old daughter to be immunized with the Tdap. "I'm sure there is a good reason to have it - protecting her health and that of others - that is why I got it for her," she said. But still, Becker questions the vaccine's effectiveness, since it still is new. "They could change it along the way because, like other new drugs, they may find it is not accurate," Becker added. "I am always leery when there are new requirements for vaccinations."

 

"I am very concerned about another vaccine for our kids," said Irene Schmidt, a Huntington resident and mother of two children, ages three and five. "How many more vaccines will be required when my children enter sixth grade? I fear both the accumulating effects of additives like mercury and also the unnatural influence that more vaccines will have on our children's immune systems." As a parent to a child on the autism spectrum, added Schmidt, "I feel that the rise in the rate of autism needs to be definitively explained before any new vaccines are mandated for our kids."

 

According to the state DOH, by grade 12, students are required to receive one to four doses of up to 10 different vaccines. Pospisil noted that, as with any of the vaccines, exemptions for Tdap are made for those who have proof of antibodies for the virus, valid religious justifications or valid medical reasons explained by a child's physician.

 

For more information on the current state immunization requirements, visit www.health.state. ny.us

 

CDC: Whooping cough cases misdiagnosed

 

Associated Press

August 23, 2007

 

By Mike Stobbe

 

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A reported boom in U.S. whooping cough cases is now being questioned after health officials discovered a regularly used lab test misdiagnosed cases in suspected outbreaks in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Tennessee.

 

The false test results led thousands of people to take antibiotics unnecessarily and even caused a New Hampshire hospital to limit the number of patients admitted since hospital workers were thought to be infected.

 

The testing errors were reported Thursday by researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

 

Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a potentially fatal bacterial respiratory infection. Its name comes from the sound victims make as they try to recover their breath after a coughing fit.

 

Government health officials say cases have tripled in the United States since 2001, with nearly 26,000 cases reported in 2005. Nearly half of those cases were diagnosed with the testing method now called into question, and that has raised doubts about the true number of cases.

 

"Are we in fact seeing an increase?" asked Dr. Tom Clark, summarizing what some are wondering. Clark, a CDC epidemiologist, is co-author of the report on the misdiagnoses.

 

The most accurate diagnostic testing for whooping cough requires a week or more to grow the pertussis bacteria from a sample from a patient's nose or throat. Sometimes that's too long for health authorities to take action to prevent the disease from spreading.

 

Increasingly, doctors have depended on a faster, but less accurate test. Different labs do the tests differently, leading to uneven results, experts say.

 

Last October, the less accurate method was used to diagnose a 20-month-old child with whooping cough at Children's Hospital Boston. Three dozen specimens from hospital workers also tested positive as well. But those results were wrong, according to the more reliable bacteria culture test results, the CDC reported.

 

The same situation occurred in March 2006, when a lab worker at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., was diagnosed with the illness. Nearly 1,000 hospital workers were tested, treated and furloughed to prevent infecting patients. Thousands were given antibiotics and vaccinations. The precautions affected staffing levels, and the hospital had to close off some beds. About 100 employees were diagnosed with pertussis using the speedy test, results later found to be wrong.

 

In April 2004, a 5-week-old infant in one Tennessee community, which CDC wouldn't identify, was diagnosed with whooping cough. Health officials began looking for the illness in other residents. Ultimately nearly 1,500 people were checked or offered antibiotics; 43 tested positive at first. But the more reliable test turned up negative results for all except the baby, the CDC said.

 

"It's been a roller coaster. Whoa, looks at this big outbreak! Whoa, it wasn't really pertussis!" said Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of Vanderbilt University's department of preventive medicine.

 

It's not clear why so many errors were detected in each incident, Clark said. Contamination of samples does not appear to be the explanation, he added.

 

The CDC is planning a study to improve and standardize the method of faster testing. In the meantime, people should still get recommended pertussis vaccinations, Clark said.

 

Clark said he believes there is a real increase in cases, and that many are going undiagnosed. Two states, Minnesota and Massachusetts, have beefed up their case-finding and testing and have both seen whooping cough increases, he said.

 

 

On the Net:

 

The CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: http://www.cdc.gov/m mwr

 

 

 

 

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