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Michael Belkin wrote:
Today, five years after its licensure by the FDA, the varicella (chickenpox) vaccine is recommended by all major vaccine policy-making
organizations in the U.S., and is required for school and/or day care
entry in 22 states, with others pending. Yet,
the national vaccination rate reported for chickenpox in 1998 was only 43 percent, far below that of other childhood vaccine-preventable
diseases. ``The chickenpox vaccine has been shown to be just as effective in the field as it was in clinical trials, yet many children
in the US remain unvaccinated,'' said Barbara Watson, MD, Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist at Albert Einstein Medical Center,
Philadelphia. ``We need to increase coverage to the point where all of our children are protected against this highly infectious disease that
can have potentially serious consequences.''
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000317/pa_merck_c_1.html
Tratto da "VIA" del 17.03.2000
MMR VACCINE AND MENINGITIS LINK
Prominent medical journal just published a
link between MMR vaccine and aseptic meningitis. Note how the authors carefully pay homage to the
vaccine police in order to defend their careers against retaliation. They say the issue is not
that kids were injured by the vaccine, but that an outraged public might turn against the vaccine police. The same
homage to the vaccine police was paid by authors in an earlier Lancet article that defended the now-discredited rotavirus vaccine, which
needlessly injury numerous infants and even killed at least one.
Aseptic Meningitis Outbreak Linked to Widespread MMR Vaccination WESTPORT, Mar 03
An outbreak of aseptic meningitis in northeastern Brazil has been linked to a MMR vaccine used in a national immunization program. Such
outbreaks could have an impact on public health by influencing the public's willingness to undergo vaccination, researchers point out in
the March 1st issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. "The issue is not simply whether or not a specific vaccine is associated
with an adverse event, but the extent to which a specific vaccination strategy influences the visibility of the adverse event despite its
confirmed relative rarity, and hence affects public confidence," writes
a multicenter team of researchers led by Dr. Ines Dourado, of the Universidade Federal da Bahia in Salvador, Brazil. Dr. Dourado's team
found that there was a sharp increase in the number of cases of aseptic meningitis 3 weeks after August 16, 1997, the highly publicized
"national vaccination day" and the start of a mass MMR immunization campaign. The number remained high over the following 3
weeks, then gradually declined, "returning to prevaccination figures by
the 40th epidemiologic week."
The researchers "conservatively estimated" that the risk of aseptic meningitis is about 1 in 14,000 MMR
vaccine doses. Even though there was no virologic confirmation, the findings "suggest a causal link between the MMR mass immunization
campaign and the aseptic meningitis outbreak," Dr. Dourado and associates state.
Am J Epidemiol 2000;151:524-530.
- (su "VIA" del 16.03.2000)
REVAHB:
FRENCH HEPATITIS B
VACCINE VICTIM'S WEBSITE
Michael Belkin wrote:
This is the web site of Revahb (loosely translated "Reverb"), which isthe French
hepatitis B vaccine victim's association headed by a doctor
who got a MS like disease from the hep B vaccine. Revahb hepatitis B vaccine victims are pursuing CRIMINAL charges in the French legal system
against the perpetrators (not the kind of lawsuit that gets you a monetary settlement -- the kind that puts doctors and vaccine
manufacturers behind bars).
Let's look forward to the day when those responsible for the US hep B vaccine plague of deaths, autism and neurological damage are convicted
and in prison, not that it will help any of those who are dead or are the living victims. But if the
perpetrators of the US hep B vaccine scandal are behind bars, other lives will surely be saved or not
destroyed.
The Revahb website is (of course) in French. You can translate it (roughly and amusingly) if you don't speak French
and get the general idea, using the AltaVista translator at
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate
(specify French to English and use the URL at the top of this page or the URL of the section of the Revahb website you click on).
http://www.multimania.com/revahb/sommaire.htm
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