>"Sad, isn't it."<
Yes it's sad that some folks will choose to ignore the following information, as vaccines are a sacred cow to them.
Response to:
“Addressing Parents’ Concerns’ Do Multiple Vaccines Overwhelm or Weaken the Infant’s Immune System"
by Dr. Paul Offit, et. al.
Pediatrics, Vol. 109 No. 1, Jan. 2002
by Sherri Tenpenny, DO
"...Vaccine-specific antibody protection is considered to be the cornerstone of vaccination success. In all studies published on vaccines, “efficacy” is considered to be the development antibodies. When vaccines are given together, the combination is considered “effective” if both antigens generate an antibody response at least equal to the response seen if a single antigen vaccine is given alone.
However, is this an antibody response a valid presumption of disease protection? Even experts in the field admit that they don’t know. During a discussion regarding the approval of yet another acellular pertussis vaccine, a panel member said, “…A basic question is: Is antibody correlated with protection? In the year 2000, we don’t really know which antibodies protect, let alone exactly what level of an antibody protects.” Another panelist went on to say, “The protective mechanisms [of the immune system] are not understood. Is it antibody or is it cell mediated or some assessment of memory that can occur in response to infection?”
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) discloses this regarding the pertussis vaccine, “The findings of efficacy studies have not demonstrated a direct correlation between antibody response and protection against pertussis disease.”
Antibody studies are only useful to compare immune responses elicited between similar vaccines. Efficacy studies to measure clinical protection conferred by each pertussis vaccine have not been done. Therefore, antibodies apparently mean nothing.
The H. flu vaccine has been found to have high avidity in vitro. This means that there is a high affinity of attachment between the antigen and the antibody. However, “the contribution [of this] to clinical protection is unknown.”
Again, “efficacy” as defined by the development of antibodies apparently means nothing in relation to disease protection. Therefore, using the antigen binding capacity of the immune system and its ability to create an antibody response as a measure of safety, also means nothing.
The concept that 10,000 antigens could theoretically be deposited uneventfully into the blood stream of either an infant or an adult defies logic and is a blatant disregard for mechanisms of human physiology.
By injecting a vaccine into the body, the first four lines of normal immune defense are by-passed: the skin, the mucous membranes, the gut lymphoid tissue and lymphatic neutralization. This abnormal introduction of pathogens and adjuvants into the blood stream does not “trick” the immune system: it contaminates it.
And contaminate it we do. Children now receive 52 vaccines, in the form of 15 shots, buy the time they are 6 months of age if they receive all the recommend shots, including the Prevnar® (the pediatric pneumonia shot.) That is because each viral or bacterial particle contained in the vaccine elicits an immune response. So, the measles, mumps and rubella vaccines are three separate vaccines.
The injectable polio vaccine (IPV) contains three strains of polio, thus it is three vaccines. And this overwhelming amount of biological material does not include the adjuvants, which can included MSG, aluminum, formaldehyde, sucrose and phenoxyethanol, which is antifreeze, among many others.
The potential for disaster looms as multiple live and attenuated viruses are combined during multiple vaccinations on the same day. In a study reported in Science Magazine, two avirulent herpes viruses were simultaneously injected in the footpads of mice. Many (62%) of the mice that had received equal doses of each virus died while none died that had received up to 100 times the diluted dose of just one virus. Eleven recominant viruses were isolated from the dead mice. Three of these isolates were lethal when injected into the next set of mice. This study demonstrates that in vivo, two avirulent viruses can recombine with deadly results. If two vaccine antigens can cause a serious outcome when given simultaneously, then what about “only 123-126”? Or 10,000?.
Once again, a “ground breaking” medical study has drawn media attention by posting conclusions that are not supported by facts. Stating that an infant has a large capacity to respond to antigens, i.e. create an antibody response, does nothing to allay reasonable fears and doubts by investigative parents. Any “thinking doctor” should recognize this “study” for what it is: another opportunity to spread the mantra of “safe and effective” vaccines. Perhaps in this way we won’t question the more than 200 vaccines that are currently in development or resist the more than 20 that are anticipated to become part of the childhood vaccination schedule by 2010..."
-Dr Sherri Tenpenny
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