I can’t even let this one go by. I have been studying both sides of this debate for the last 25 years. I would ask you to consider the facts of just one of the, “life saving vaccines”, for Pertussis aka whooping cough. Between 1900 and 1935, mortality rates due to whooping cough dropped by 79 percent in the United States. Yet, the vaccine (DTP and DTaP) wasn’t introduced until 1940.
Today, those who have been “immunized” are the most susceptible to whooping cough. Researchers with the CDC publicly stated in 2002 that, “the number of infants dying from whooping cough is rising, despite record high vaccination levels.” In 2009, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recognized the trend too. In the article titled, “Whooping Cough Vaccine not as Powerful as Thought,” the publication highlighted a recent cluster of 18 whooping cough-infected students. Seventeen of those students – 95% of those infected – had been immunized with five doses of DTaP vaccine.”
This is repeated vaccine after vaccine. The most damaging as of late is the HPV. The horror stories of this vaccine are terrifying. The benefits minimal. The lead researcher for Merck on this vaccine turned against the vaccine when she saw the outcomes. Please do your due diligence before immunizing those you love. I have MD friends who do not immunize their children, they aren’t drinking the kool aid the government is giving them.
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Don’t mistake a lowered death rate for lowered incidence of a disease. Mortality rates declined because health care improved between those years, but the disease itself did not go away. Children still got whooping cough, many of them still died, and many others were permanently brain damaged by the disease.
The original whooping cough vaccine, made from killed Bordatella pertussis was extremely effective and induced long-lasting immunity. However, it caused some very uncomfortable side-effects, such as fever. Because of the side-effects, a new “acellular” pertussis vaccine was introduced in the 1990s, containing only a few proteins extracted from the bacteria. It does not cause the side-effects, but it only induces immunity for a few years. In order to keep the immunity active, boosters need to be administered periodically. Right now, pregnant women are advised to get a pertussis booster every time they are pregnant, in order to protect their newborns. Anyone anticipating being around a newborn is also recommended to get a pertussis booster. Whooping cough is most fatal in newborns, since they are born with a very undeveloped immune system and cannot fight off the bacteria.
Also, there are no credible horror stories for the HPV vaccine. It has only been around for about a decade, but studies show that the incidence of HPV is already dropping. In other words, it is a public health success.