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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You expose yourself to pathogens constantly, unless you live in a bubble. Your children are even more exposed.
*If* the vaccines are shown to be related to the deaths in this case, I would suspect a bad bottle, package, or production lot. There is no evidence to blanketly condemn vaccines or the vaccine regimen here.
I have always gotten my children vaccinated BUT I demand the shots to be spread out. They get one and I make another appointment in about three weeks for the next. I see little babies getting three and four at one time. All that going through one little child is ridiculous. IMHO
That’s what I’ve read at The Vitamin D Council, too.
www.vitamindcouncil.org
What’s shocking is that there are now *some* cases where parents have been accused of child abuse when their child actually was discovered to have rickets.
Feel free to treat your kids & yourelf as you like.
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?
It’s called ‘grab ‘em and stab ‘em’ and it’s a well-known practice in medicine No thought is given to the benefit or harm to the patient, just pump ‘em full of as many vaccines as possible at each visit. Too much time, charting, visits AND you run the risk of the patient not coming back for more. all these vaccine cheerleaders just make me laugh. They actually think the medical system is there to keep people healthy. I’ve got news for them, but they won’t listen, so I’ll just save my breath and let them find out the hard way.
The last thing Japan needs is less children, they have birthrate issues the way it is.
bttt
It’s called ‘grab ‘em and stab ‘em’ and it’s a well-known practice in medicine No thought is given to the benefit or harm to the patient, just pump ‘em full of as many vaccines as possible at each visit. Too much time, charting, visits AND you run the risk of the patient not coming back for more. all these vaccine cheerleaders just make me laugh. They actually think the medical system is there to keep people healthy. I’ve got news for them, but they won’t listen, so I’ll just save my breath and let them find out the hard way.
There are several issues with the vaccination schedules, which are under constant review and research. One particularly vexing issue is that infants develop and die from diseases before they are due to receive the vaccines. They are exposed to older children who have also not received the vaccines due to their parents' misguided belief that somehow, vaccines are more dangerous than the disease they prevent. Furthermore, some pathogens can colonize people without causing disease; Neisseria meningititis, for example, has been shown to colonize about 10% of the population. This is a big source of danger for small infants.
Keep in mind that vaccines only present a small challenge to the immune system. The theory being, that if a small challenge is presented and overcome through a vaccine, then the immune system will be primed and ready to fight the real challenge presented by a virulent pathogen.
I would highly suggest to anyone interested in the subject, to look up Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. It contains many good articles about disease prevalence, and presents the latest recommended vaccine schedules. Since it is written by and for scientists, it bypasses much of the fearmongering that is so prevalent elsewhere. It requires no subscription to access.
Believe me, I'd much rather face the infinitesimal risk of a vaccine reaction than the far larger risk of catching a potentially fatal disease.
I’m not against vaccines
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