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Vaccines: Risks, Benefits, Choices
Information You Need Before You Vaccinate
Vaccine Failures: Having an antibody does not gaurantee protection from infection.
NOTE: The medical journal, Vaccine, states, "It is known that, in many instances, antigen-specific antibody titers do not correlate with protection." PMID: 11587808
NOTE: "The findings of efficacy studies have not demonstrated a direct correlation between antibody response and protection against pertussis disease. Antibody studies are useful to compare amount of response elicited by different vaccines under different conditions or in different groups. Thus, efficacy studies are required to measure clinical protection conferred by each pertussis vaccine. MMWR March 28, 1997/Vol.46/No. RR-7
- Australia, July 28, 2007: Two of the five cases of bacterial meningitis were within the same family, the other three seem unrelated. Dr. Margot McLean, the Medical Officer of Health, reports that two of the children were completely immunized against meningococci while others ere partially vaccinated.
- 2007: Connecticut: State health experts are investigating an outbreak of chicken pox in Colchester. Sixty-five students at the Jack Jackter Elementary School got chicken pox last year. It was one of the largest outbreaks in the state. The chicken pox vaccine has a known 20-percent failure rate.
- Oklahoma: February 20, 2006: Elgin ISD Experiencing Chicken Pox Outbreak. More than 40 kids were out of school today in Elgin after an outbreak of chicken pox. School officials at Elgin Independent School District say on Friday they had 61 cases of chicken pox and strangely, school records show most of the kids have already been immunized.
- Wisconsin: Jan. 20, 2006: Health officials are looking into an outbreak of chickenpox in the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District in which all except two of the 44 affected children had been vaccinated against the illness.
- Alabama: Dec. 15, 2005: Chickenpox outbreak zeroes in on school. Hazel Green kids discover vaccine is no guarantee.
- Multistate Outbreak of Mumps --- United States, January 1--May 2, 2006: In Iowa, preliminary vaccination data were reported through May 3, 2006. Among 1,192 patients, 94% were vaccinated, 141 (12%) had received 1 dose of MMR vaccine, and 607 (51%) had received 2 doses. The vaccination status of 375 (31%) patients, the majority of whom were adults who did not have vaccination records, was unknown.
- Mumps outbreak, 2006: Report from Julie Gerberding: "In addition, although this is a very good vaccine, it is not perfect. About 10 percent of people who get both doses of the vaccine still remain [susceptible] to mumps. So if you are in a community of 10,000 people and 10 percent of the people who got both doses of the vaccine are susceptible, once you get a little outbreak going in that community, that means that up to 1,000 people in the community would actually come down with mumps even though they were properly immunized with what we know is a very good vaccine."
- Oregon: October 2001. Chickenpox Outbreak in a Highly Vaccinated School Population. A chickenpox outbreak occurred in a school in which 97% of students without a prior history of chickenpox were vaccinated. Students vaccinated >5 years before the outbreak were at risk for breakthrough disease. PEDIATRICS Vol. 113 No. 3 March 2004, pp. 455-459
- 1995: Between October 3 and November 23, 1990, clinical mumps developed in 54 students; 53 had been vaccinated. Cheek et al. "Mumps outbreak in a highly vaccinated school population". Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med; 149: 774-778
- 1991 Tennessee: mumps outbreak, 99.6 percent of schoolchildren in Maury County, Tennessee met vaccination requirements for mumps.
- 1987: An outbreak of measles in secondary school with more than 99 percent vaccination rate and more than 95 percent of students have measles antibody (vaccine immunity.) Gustafson et al. "Measles outbreak in a fully immunized secondary-school population", NEJM; 3216: 771-774
- 1987: Nknowane BM et al. Measles outbreak in a vaccinated (70%) school population: epidemiology, chains of transmission and the role of vaccine failure": Am J Pub Health;77:434-438.1987
- 1972: Twenty-four cases of measles occurred in a school in which 89% of children were immunized or had had natural disease; 19 of these cases were vaccine failures. Cherry JD et al. "Urban measles in the vaccine era: a clinical, epidemiologic, and serologic study". J Pediatrics; 81(2): 217- 230
Around the world:
- Pertussis Infection in Fully Vaccinated Children in Day-Care Centers, Israel. (REF: Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 6, No. 5; Sep-Oct 2000)
- Pertussis in the Highly Vaccinated Population, The Netherlands (REF: Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 6, No. 4 Jul-Aug 2000)
- Pertussis in North-West Western Australia in 1999; All vaccinated. (REF: Communicable Diseases Intelligence 2000 Vol 24 No 12)
- Measles epidemic occurred in Hungary during 1988-1989 despite over 93% of people born during 1970-1973 and over 98% born since 1973 had been vaccinated. Agocs et al."The 1988-1999 measles epidemic in Hungary: assessment of vaccine failure". International J Epidemiology; 21(5): 1007- 1013. 1992.
- Mumps outbreak occurred in a group of vaccinated children aged 3-4 years in San Sebastian (Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain) in 2000
Today, children receive nearly 100 vaccines before kindergarten.
Disclaimer: The entire contents of this website are based upon the opinions of Dr. Sherri Tenpenny unless otherwise noted. The information on this website is not intended to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified health care professional and is not intended as medical advice. It is intended as a sharing of knowledge and information from the research and experience of Dr. Sherri Tenpenny. You are encouraged to make decisions about your health and the health care of your family based upon your personal research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional.
Seventeen articles that have appeared in the medical literature between 1983 through 1998 that document adverse reactions after the Hepatitis B vaccine.
Journal Suggested Adverse Reaction
NEJM 1983; 309:614-15......................Polyneuropathy
Lancet 1987; 2:631-32........................Uveitis
AMJ Epid. 1988; 127:337-52...............Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Arch Int. Med 1988; 148:2685............Myesthemia Gravis
NEJM 1989; 321:1198-99 ....................Erythema Nodosum
Inf. Dis. News 1992; 5:2.....................CNS Demyelination
Lancet 1991; 338:1174-75 ..................CNS Demyelination
J. Hepatol 1993; 19:317-8 ..................Transverse Myelitis
Clin. Infect. Dis. 1993; 17:928-29 ........CNS Demyelination
BMJ 1990; 301:1281 ............................Vasculitis
Lancet 1993; 342:563-4...........................Visual Loss
Br. J. Rheumatol 1994; 33:991 ............Rheumatoid Arthritis
BMJ 1994; 309:94 ..............................Reiter Syndrome and Arthritis
Lancet 1988; 351:637-41 .................Autism & Colitis
JAMA 1997; 278:1176-78 ....................Hair Loss
World Health Organization Adverse Drug Reaction Bulletin August 1990.........Optic Neuritis
J. Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1995 ; 58:758-59............CNS Demyelination
NOTE: Vaccine failures are continually updated.
Vaccine Information
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