from Ben's mom
Iowa is up-in-arms over an outbreak, no, "an epidemic" of mumps. Amidst questions of "How could this happen, my child was immunized?" comes this fantastic statement from Iowa state epidemiologist Dr. Patricia Quinlisk:
"The vaccine is working," Quinlisk said. "The vaccine certainly was made to cover this particular strain, because it's a fairly common strain of mumps." Quinlisk said the vaccine overall is considered about 95 percent effective.
This statement immediately followed that of the Public Health Department which stated that of the 245 cases, 66% had received the full two-dose recommendation of the vaccine. An additional 14% had received one dose. For the whole article, go here.
So, Dr. Quinlisk can confidently say that while 80% of those who've come down with the disease were vaccinated against it, that the vaccine is working.
When are people going to wake up and start asking major questions of the vaccine industry? Not only do their products cause widespread adverse reactions (that continue to go unreported and undocumented), but they don't even work in 80% of cases in an epidemic!
I continue to appreciate one of Ben's doctors stating that the polio vaccine is the only way that anyone in this country has contracted polio in the last 30 years and that the current vaccine is so watered down it wouldn't actually prevent polio if we had an outbreak. So why do we blindly keep giving these vaccines to our children? Particularly when they weaken their own natural immunity to fight childhood illnesses? Maybe because it is a multi-million (some say billion) dollar industry that many of our politicians have personal investments in? When are doctors going to start asking hard questions of the CDC and the vaccine industry about the reactions their young patients are having and their weakened immune systems following vaccination? Thank goodness for a few who are starting to stand up.
5 comments:
Did you have Ben immunized? Stephen and I debated it for Nora and finally decided to go ahead because we were unsure about the "risks"of not doing it.
We started with two when he was 2 months old and he reacted to polio. Polio is really hard to react to; it is pretty weak. Then I was told about www.909shot.com and I read about the risks and realized Ben had four risk factors. Since then I have read lot more. For an old post on some of my research, go here: http://bensmom.blogspot.com/2005/07/ben-goes-to-doctor.html.
Today at our lunch after class (8 of us were there) we were discussing vaccinations and I shared your blog. One of the ladies' said she lost her sister to the DPT vaccine... Thanks for sharing. My prayer is that it will save some babies and their parents from the stress that you've experienced with "our" little Ben.
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We've decided not to immunize Meredith, at least for now. My family has some history of auto-immune disorders, including Lupus, Crohn's Disease, and some mild but long-term reactions to immunizations. Fortunately, our pediatrician was also supportive of our decision to at least wait on immunizations.
Our first son was born in 1982. When it was time for vaccinations, we thought nothing of the risks. When his leg almost immediately turned red and swelled up with a high fever, pain, and lots of crying, we assumed that was the normal process and didn’t think to question the medical reasons for it. Our second son had similar reactions. Our 3rd son, however, was different. After his DPT, I detected a slight quivering of the head just before he fell asleep. I had no idea if that were something related to the shot or if it could be anything important, so I forgot about it, as it seemed to subside. After the next DPT, it occurred again, in a more definite way, and so I asked the doctor about it. Without batting an eye, his immediate response was, “Oh, that’s the pertussis in the DPT. It affects the nervous system.” Thus began my quest to find out more about pertussis and immunizations in general. I mentioned the episode to my sister in law who lives in Germany, and she said that pertussis had been outlawed in her country. I learned that pertussis, the name for whooping cough, was considered serious enough to require vaccination, because it was often fatal for a child under 2 months of age. And yet, the vaccine was not given until after that crucial time period.
Our doctor graciously volunteered not to administer any more DPT to our son, so we opted just for the tetanus for a time after that. However, being disillusioned about the ingredients, risks, and medical policies behind the growing number of required vaccines for children, we eventually discontinued them and have had no regrets.
Our 3rd son was very precocious and began talking early, even before 1 year of age. Then, he slowly began to regress. He no longer made varied sounds, just grunting noises, and this went on until age 2 ½ when we began to receive advice from well-meaning family members that he needed to see a professional. We realized something was not quite right, but didn’t know exactly what to do. Soon after that, I saw a photo in a pamphlet of a little boy with autism. He had the same expression on his face, that I had so often seen on our son, an inexpressive open mouth and large disconnected eyes. It shook me enough to realize that our son needed help. We checked out speech therapy books from the library and I called a friend who was a speech therapist. She explained that the nerves to the brain were damaged and had to heal by rerouting themselves and reconnecting. She gave us ideas for helping this to occur and we began playing games with sounds, trying to help our son to talk. After about 6 months, we could see some progress, and he does seem to have fully recovered, for which we are more than grateful!
I write this in the hope that other parents will be aware of the dangerous risks of vaccines and do the much needed research before submitting their child to them.
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