Posted on 03/07/2011 4:10:57 AM PST by nuconvert
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's health ministry has halted the use of vaccines made by Pfizer Inc and Sanofi-Aventis SA to prevent meningitis and pneumonia following the deaths of four children.
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Three of the children that died in Japan were administered Prevenar together with ActHIB. In addition, three of the children also received a mixed vaccine against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus on the same day they received the other vaccines.
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That is indeed a lot of vaccine in one day. Don’t they pay doctors to think about things like that?
I understand your comment, and the vaccines separately may very well have been safe.
But giving all of these at once sounds foolish.
I'm not saying every vaccine is safe, but it's difficult to understand why a person would badmouth them. How many millions of people are alive and healthy because of them?
Guess not. Dr’s are told that each vaccine is safe, so they figure it shouldn’t be a problem to give a bunch at once.
Personally, I wouldn’t allow that many on myself.
The vaccines your kids received and those which children are given today are not the same. Children today are receiving almost double the vaccines at younger ages.
I forgot to add - one other significant difference is that in the older generations children were outside every day and obtaining sufficient Vitamin D, which supports immunity. Children today are almost all deficient in D due to the fears of skin cancer and the fact that sun blocks are used whenever anyone goes outside.
Nobody is badmouthing vaccines in general. It’s just that pumping so much foreign material into a tiny child all at once is unnecessary and possibly dangerous.
All my children got their vaccinations too, on time, but there were far fewer vaccinations required for them.
And my dad and 2 aunts had polio before there was any treatment for the disease and lived with the results (stunted limbs) the rest of their lives.
And exactly when do you think the polio epidemic occurred? My relatives were sickened in the 1890s and in 1913. In the 1950s, Milwaukee recommended building “polio fences” — fencing off your backyard so that children did not mingle. Not all ideas promoted for your health are sound.
“Don’t they pay doctors to think about things like that?”
They do little or any research for groups of vaccines, just certify a single vaccine then throw it in the batch. To my knowledge there are no studies about groups of vaccines upon the health of a child.
The well being of many outweighs the well being of a few. It’s the classic Faustian contract of health professionals. If they didn’t follow it the little ‘disease resevoirs’ would inflict cholera, small pox, polio, diptheria and all the rest upon us. Why it would be the 19th century all over agin!!!
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Children years ago used to get about a dozen vaccines.
Now they may get as many as thirty—and these are not spread
out over time.
That’s likely too many all at once.
Vaccines, like everything else, may need to be administered in moderation.
The article says nothing about what killed the children. All we know is that they died shortly after receiving the vaccines. Did they all die of the same cause, or of different causes? The workings of chance say that there is a certain proportion of individuals who will die immediately after receiving a vaccine, although the death is unrelated. Furthermore, unusual events may be clustered in such a way as to make them look related when they really aren’t.
Correlation =/= causation.
There’s no reason to jump to conclusions here.
I’m not jumping to conclusions.
The deaths may turn out to have nothing do with the combination of vaccines, but I still think it’s a lot for a little body to handle & not something I’d do to myself.
bfl
Vaccine are generally safe...but a reasonable question to ask is:
Is earlier (than they used to be given) timing regime and administration of groups of vaccines used because that regime is KNOWN to be optimum for the child’s immune system OR... is it used because of convenient as per offcie visits and compliance?
The issue is that few people alive today in developed countries have seen the horrors of infectious diseases. So, when certain people (with their own motives) start bad-mouthing vaccines, they can truthfully point out the 1 in a million (or whatever) chance of an adverse reaction leading to death, while omitting that without the vaccine, the disease it prevents has a 1 in 3 chance of causing death.
I read recently that infectious disease still causes over 50% of all deaths worldwide. We’re just too insulated from that reality.
I realize you put the sarc tag at the end, but you're more correct than you maybe realize on this. One of the reasons that schools insist on vaccines for all of the students is that studies have established that there is a certain minimum number within the population that must be vaccinated in order to provide "herd immunity." E.g., 95% must be vaccinated against polio in order to prevent the remaining 5% from catching and spreading polio. (Do not quote me on the numbers! They are for illustrative purposes only.) Without sufficient numbers of immunized individuals, the disease can spread even among those who were immunized.
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