Thread: New Childhood Vaccines Schedules Released

New Childhood Vaccines Schedules Released
HealthDay Reporter by Serena Gordon
Mon Jan 4, 7:03 pm ET

MONDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Boys should get the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to protect them against genital warts, and all children should receive the H1N1 vaccine to guard against swine flu, according to updated guidelines on childhood and teen vaccines.


The new vaccine schedules -- issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Family Physicians -- also recommend using combination vaccines whenever possible.


"These are life-threatening illness that vaccines prevent, and if you have a combination vaccine that's safe and effective and requires one less stick for your child and one less trip to the doctor, it makes sense to me -- as a father -- to think about that," said Dr. David W. Kimberlin, a professor of pediatrics and co-director of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Kimberlin is a member of the committee that created the new immunization schedules.


The new vaccine schedules are published in the January issue of Pediatrics and online on Jan. 4.


The most significant changes are:

A recommendation that children older than 6 months receive the H1N1 influenza vaccine.
A newly licensed HPV vaccine for girls, known as HPV2, to protect them from cervical cancer, which can be caused by certain strains of HPV. Girls should get their first dose of either the HPV2 or the earlier HPV4 vaccine, which is still considered effective, around age 11 or 12.
A suggestion that a three-dose series of the HPV4 vaccine can be given to boys between 9 and 18 years old to prevent genital warts.
A statement that the use of combination vaccines are generally preferred over separate injections.
The need to revaccinate some high-risk children who have already received the meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4). Kids at high risk tend to be those with immune system disorders. Booster shots aren't recommended for those whose only risk factor is living in a dormitory setting, according to the new vaccine schedules.

Overall, Kimberlin said he thinks most parents are following these recommended schedules and protecting their children against what can be life-threatening illnesses. However, "parents are inundated with misinformation or incomplete information about vaccinations," he noted. "And, with all the noise out there, people start thinking there might be something to what they're hearing."


Dr. Michael Green, an infectious disease specialist at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, said that although most children are vaccinated, "there is a fairly large cohort of kids who don't receive optimal immunizations either for religious reasons, or their parents don't believe in immunizations because of health concerns, such as a fear of autism."


But the data has consistently shown that the measles vaccine doesn't cause autism, he said. Measles, on the other hand, can cause brain damage, or even kill children, explained Green. And, while some parents may think that they don't have to worry about these diseases because most U.S. children are vaccinated, an outbreak for unvaccinated children might be only a plane ride away. Last spring, said Green, someone visiting from another country brought measles with them. They were in close proximity to an unvaccinated American family who then contracted the measles. The outbreak ended quickly and without any serious consequences, but others might be more severe, he warned.


"People forget that when there used to be measles that kids died, or they ended up with brain damage. The risk-to-benefit ratios with today's vaccines are tremendously slanted to the benefit side. And, yet between every one to three months, I see a child with a vaccine-preventable illness," said Green.


"The vaccines we have today are the safest vaccines we've ever had, and I hope that parents recognize that it is a matter of life and death, and that they choose to do everything they can to protect their children," said Kimberlin. "Time and time again, when immunization rates fall, diseases come back, and then the immunization rates go up again."


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Learn more about childhood vaccines from the Nemours Foundation's KidsHealth Web site. http://kidshealth.org/parent/infecti...s/vaccine.html

More than 1 in 10 parents skip, delay kids' shots
By LINDSEY TANNER - AP Medical Writer | AP – 4 hrs ago

CHICAGO (AP) — By age 6, children should have vaccinations against 14 diseases, in at least two dozen separate doses, the U.S. government advises. More than 1 in 10 parents reject that, refusing some shots or delaying others mainly because of safety concerns, a national survey found.

Worries about vaccine safety were common even among parents whose kids were fully vaccinated: 1 in 5 among that group said they think delaying shots is safer than the recommended schedule. The results suggest that more than 2 million infants and young children may not be fully protected against preventable diseases, including some that can be deadly or disabling.

The nationally representative online survey of roughly 750 parents of kids age 6 and younger was done last year and results were released online Monday in the journal Pediatrics. They are in line with a larger federal survey released last month, showing that at least 1 in 10 toddlers and preschoolers lagged on vaccines that included chickenpox and the measles-mumps-rubella combination shots. That survey, also for 2010, included more than 17,000 households.

The Pediatrics survey follows other recent news raising concerns among infectious disease specialists, including a study showing the whooping cough vaccine seems to lose much of its effectiveness after just three years — faster than doctors have thought — perhaps contributing to recent major outbreaks, most notably in California. Also, data reported in September show that a record number of kindergartners' parents in California last year used a personal belief exemption to avoid vaccination requirements.

Kandace O'Neill is a Lakeville, Minn., mom whose views are shared by many parents who don't follow federal vaccine advice. Her 5-year-old son has had no vaccinations since he turned 1, and her 7-month-old daughter has received none of the recommended shots.

"I have to make sure that my child is healthy, and I do not want to put medications in my child that I think are going to harm them," said O'Neill, who was not involved in the survey appearing in Pediatrics.

O'Neill said she's not an extreme anti-vaccine zealot. She just thinks that parents — not doctors or schools — should make medical decisions for their children.

Study author Dr. Amanda Dempsey, a pediatrician and researcher at the University of Michigan, said vaccine skepticism is fueled by erroneous information online and media reports that sensationalize misconceptions. These include the persistent belief among some parents about an autism-vaccine link despite scientific evidence to the contrary and the debunking of one of the most publicized studies that first fueled vaccine fears years ago.

Some parents also dismiss the severity of vaccine-preventable diseases because they've never seen a child seriously ill with those illnesses.

But vaccine-preventable diseases including flu and whooping cough can be deadly, especially in infants, said Dr. Buddy Creech, associate director of Vanderbilt University's Vaccine Research Program. Creech has two school-aged children who are fully vaccinated and a newborn he said will be given all the recommended vaccinations.

"From being someone in the trenches seeing children die every year from influenza and its complications ... I would not do a single thing to risk the health of my kids," he said. Creech has served on advisory boards for vaccine makers and has accepted their research money.

Dempsey, the survey's lead author, has been a paid adviser to Merck on issues regarding a vaccine for older children but said that company made no contributions to the survey research.

Knowledge Networks conducted the survey, which had an error margin of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

Dr. Larry Pickering, an infectious disease specialist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the new survey is important and well done, and indicates that doctors need to do a better job of communicating vaccine information to patients.

Pickering said he supports the idea of parents being actively involved in medical care for their children, but cautioned: "If they're going to do that, they need to be fully informed about the risks and benefits of vaccines and need to obtain the information from a valid source."

The CDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family Physicians are among groups that provide online vaccine information based on medical research.

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Online: American Academy of Pediatrics: http://www.aap.org

CDC: http://www.cdc.gov

American Academy of Family Physicians: http://www.aafp.org

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If vaccines are so safe, why do pharmaceutical companies receive protection againt civil law suits when their vaccines kill people?

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I want my kids to be vaccinated. But there has been a recent trend in combining vaccines. They give kids vaccines that contain 4 different diseases in them (or given them multiple shots at once), and I've read literature about how it's better to stagger them. It makes sense -- you are effectively infecting your children with weakened diseases, and asking their immune system to fight them. Why ask it to fight 4 at a time instead of 1 at a time? I don't think this is irresponsible, and I do think it's up to the parents. My kids will end up with the same vaccine coverage as everyone else by the time they go into kindergarten. Plus I always feel uneasy being the "first on the block" to try out the new medical breakthrough (i.e. combining vaccines).

The one vaccine which I have trouble accepting is chicken pox. When I was young, everyone got chicken pox, lived through it, and had lifetime immunity. With the vaccine, you have temporary immunity (must have boosters), and chicken pox is much more dangerous if you get it when older. I know there are extreme cases where chicken pox can kill or cause disability, but are these really so common that we need to have a vaccine? Not to mention they now bundle it with the MMR shot...

I think the autism link is crap. The recent increase in autism diagnoses is scary, but it's also something whose cause is unknown. Any time you have something like that, people grasp for reasons to explain it. I think science has already proven that vaccines prevent diseases, and it's been shown that the studies linking autism with vaccines were fraudulent. Can we have some common sense on both sides here?

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Pharmas pay huge money to Universities to research new medicine. There needs to be a pay out for that expenditure. Early release of new drugs intot the population is the target so they can recover any expenses. The government has softened regulations regarding new drugs so severely that we read monthly of drug recalls and the deaths and other side effects. Watch any new drug commercial and ALWAYS one of the side effects is DEATH, ALWAYS! The human body's mechanisms of immunity are poorly understood as any real scientist admits. Most researchers recommend follow up research after a drug is released, but NO PHARMA pays for that sort of research, leaving us all as test tubes to see what really happens down the road. Then when a drug is found to be flawed, all H e l l breaks loose as the Pharmas point fingers, blame researchers, destroy documents and play cover-up. Sound familiar? Know this, the MMR vaccines today are completely different than those of 10 yrs ago when the problems started becoming evident. No explanations whatsoever, just silently changed the recipe...

Why more parents are rejecting vaccinations: 4 theories
By The Week Editorial Staff | The Week – 7 hrs ago

A new study claims that 13 percent of parents don't follow the recommended vaccination schedule for their kids. What are they thinking?

More than one in 10 parents (13 percent) don't follow the recommended vaccination schedule for their children, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics. And even among parents who do adhere to the vaccination guidelines, one in four say they're not sure it's good for their kids. These kinds of statistics are fueling worry among doctors and experts, who say that if this trend continues, the risk of preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough could increase. Why are parents increasingly skeptical of potentially life-saving needles? Here, four theories:

1. Parents still believe the autism myth

A thoroughly debunked study claiming that the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine could cause autism has left parents with "lingering skepticism," says TIME's Alice Park. Please remember, that study has been revealed as a fraud, and the authoring physician disbarred. Nevertheless, many parents still wait until their children pass the age of 4 — autism typically takes hold before then — to vaccinate their kids. "Fears of autism have been cited as the number one concern among parents when considering vaccinations," says Jessica King at Imperfect Parent.


2. Parents are in denial about the risks

The new study featured in Pediatrics found that 81 percent of the parents who skipped or delayed vaccinations didn't agree with doctors that this posed a risk to their kids, says Lauren Cox at MSNBC. "That's wrong," says Dr. Paul Offit, the chief of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "Those decisions are being made not only on false beliefs on vaccine safety, but also false beliefs on contagious disease and transmission."

3. Parents aren't familiar with these diseases

Dr. William Schaffner, who chairs the department of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University, tells CNN that the "main problem" is that parents don't know much about the diseases their children are being inoculated against. This is unsurprising: Parents hear less about these conditions because vaccines have largely eradicated them. But don't be fooled: These diseases "can spring back if enough of the population goes unvaccinated." For instance, the U.S. saw 198 confirmed cases of measles this year, the highest since 1996. In most of the cases, the patients were unvaccinated.

4. Parents think they're smarter than doctors

"The days when people obeyed doctors' orders without question are over," says Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center. That's largely a reflection of "the higher education level of young parents," who have greater access to health care information that ever before, and know that "vaccines are like prescription drugs, and carry risks that can be greater for some children than others because, biologically, children are not all the same." To convince such parents, doctors are going to have to work a little harder at "a relationship that involves shared decision-making."

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The real question here, is who has control over minority children -- the parents, or the State?

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Now that health care is an openly for-profit business, including pharmacuetical companies and their billion-dollar "cures", how can anyone trust any member of the medical profession? These million-dollar-education doctors are still dumb enough to be swayed by short-skirted Big Pharma bimbos into proscribing medicine not because it works, but because they get kick-backs. I'm supposed to trust that the treatment I'm giving my kids works without negative effect when the doctor only agreed to use it because he had some cleavage shoved in his face by the sales rep from Merck or Bristol-Meyers?

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The other reason is that parents just do not TRUST the doctors and more specifically pharmaceutical companies!! Let's create new vaccines so we can make more money! Lets's create new medical conditions so we can sell more drugs. Let's get the schools and governement pushing these vaccines and drugs and medicate kids It is a TRUST issue.

See also http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-inf...vaccine-2.html


Witch Hunting Jenny McCarthy for Vaccine Talking
Published on Jul 24, 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvWTupZK6ek

View selected media reports highlighting journalistic bias against Jenny McCarthy for voicing vaccine safety concerns. NVIC's Barbara Loe Fisher's commentary reveals journalistic bias about vaccines in the media.

Courts quietly confirm MMR Vaccine causes Autism
August 10, 2013

After decades of passionate debate, parents probably missed the repeated admissions by drug companies and governments alike that vaccines do in fact cause autism. For concerned parents seeking the truth, it’s worth remembering that the exact same people who own the world’s drug companies also own America’s news outlets. Finding propaganda-free information has been difficult, until now.

At the center of the fifteen-year controversy is Dr. Andrew Wakefield of Austin, Texas. It was Dr. Wakefield that first publicized the link between stomach disorders and autism, and taking the findings one step further, the link between stomach disorders, autism and the Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) vaccine.

For that discovery way back in 1996, and a subsequent research paper published by the doctor in 1998, Andrew Wakefield has found himself the victim of a world-wide smear campaign by drug corporations, governments and media companies. And while Dr. Wakefield has been persecuted and prosecuted to the extent of being unable to legally practice medicine because of his discovery, he has instead become a best-selling author, the founder of the Strategic Autism Initiative, and the Director of the Autism Media Channel.

But in recent months, courts, governments and vaccine manufacturers have quietly conceded the fact that the Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) vaccine most likely does cause autism and stomach diseases. Pharmaceutical companies have even gone so far as to pay out massive monetary awards, totaling in the millions, to the victims in an attempt to compensate them for damages and to buy their silence.

Grassroots outcry

It was a regular reader named Kathleen that brought this ongoing story to our attention here at Whiteout Press. When asked what her connection to the vaccine-autism battle was, the young reader replied, “I just researched it for a school project a while back and then I stayed on top of it, until I couldn’t stand it anymore. I’m not a parent, nor do I belong to any organization – a mere outside observer.”

This reader isn’t alone. The news that vaccines cause autism has spread across the US despite a coordinated media black-out. She takes her concerns one step further explaining, “All I want is to see this information where the public can access it. I’ve looked everywhere, and no one gives this dire Wakefield situation even ONE small mention.” She goes on to give us another motivation for her activism, “In Washington State, where I’m from, vaccines have become mandatory for school children, which is very frightening!”

Landmark rulings

In December 2012, two landmark decisions were announced that confirmed Dr. Wakefield’s original concern that there is a link between the MMR vaccine, autism and stomach disorders. The news went mostly unreported, but independent outlets like The Liberty Beacon finally began publishing the groundbreaking news.

The website wrote last month, ‘In a recently published December 13, 2012 vaccine court ruling, hundreds of thousands of dollars were awarded to Ryan Mojabi, whose parents described how “MMR vaccinations” caused a “severe and debilitating injury to his brain, diagnosed as Autism Spectrum Disorder (‘ASD’).”’

The Liberty Beacon went on to describe the second court ruling that month, as well as similar previous verdicts writing, ‘Later the same month, the government suffered a second major defeat when young Emily Moller from Houston won compensation following vaccine-related brain injury that, once again, involved MMR and resulted in autism. The cases follow similar successful petitions in the Italian and US courts (including Hannah Poling, Bailey Banks, Misty Hyatt, Kienan Freeman, Valentino Bocca, and Julia Grimes) in which the governments conceded or the court ruled that vaccines had caused brain injury. In turn, this injury led to an ASD diagnosis. MMR vaccine was the common denominator in these cases.’

The report echoes the exact same sentiment that our reader conveyed – Dr. Wakefield has had his career and reputation destroyed over the past 15 years, but has just been vindicated. The account reports, ‘While repeated studies from around the world confirmed Wakefield’s bowel disease in autistic children and his position that safety studies of the MMR are inadequate, Dr. Wakefield ’s career has been destroyed by false allegations. Despite this he continues to work tirelessly to help solve the autism catastrophe.’

The article from The Liberty Beacon closes with a direct quote from Dr. Wakefield himself to the independent grassroots outlet, “There can be very little doubt that vaccines can and do cause autism. In these children, the evidence for an adverse reaction involving brain injury following the MMR that progresses to an autism diagnosis is compelling. It’s now a question of the body count. The parents’ story was right all along. Governments must stop playing with words while children continue to be damaged. My hope is that recognition of the intestinal disease in these children will lead to the relief of their suffering. This is long, long overdue.”

Wakefield attacked again

Since the world has slowly become aware of the dangers of the MMR vaccine, parents around the globe have refused to get their children vaccinated. Earlier this year, the UK government singled out Dr. Wakefield and blamed him for the rising number of measles outbreaks in the country. In an April 2013 interview, he responded publicly.

The website TheRefusers.com published both the video, as well as the written transcript, of Dr. Wakefield’s public response. Below are some excerpts of the doctor’s remarks:

“The important thing to say is that back in 1996-1997 I was made aware of children developing autism, regressive autism, following exposure in many cases to the measles mumps rubella vaccine. Such was my concern about the safety of that vaccine that I went back and reviewed every safety study, every pre-licensing study of the MMR vaccine and other measles-containing vaccines before they were put into children and after. And I was appalled with the quality of that science. It really was totally below par and that has been reiterated by other authoritative sources since.

All I could do as a parent was to say, ‘what would I do for my child?’ That was the only honest answer I could give. My position on that has not changed. So, what happened subsequently? At that time the single measles vaccines were available freely on the National Health Service. Otherwise, I would not have suggested that option. So parents, if they were legitimately concerned about the safety of MMR could go and get the single vaccines. Six months later, the British government unilaterally withdrew the importation license for the single vaccines, therefore depriving parents of having these on the NHS; depriving parents who had legitimate concerns about the safety of MMR from a choice; denying them the opportunity to protect their children in the way that they saw fit.

The news shouldn’t be left wing or right wing, conservative or liberal. It should be the news. It should be independent – Whiteout Press

And I was astonished by this and I said to Dr Elizabeth Miller of the Health Protection Agency, ‘why would you do this, if your principal concern is to protect children from serious infectious disease? Why would you remove an option from parents who are legitimately concerned about the safety of MMR?’ And her answer was extraordinary. She said to me, ‘if we allow parents the option of single vaccines, it would destroy our MMR program.’ In other words, her principal concern seemed to be full protection of the MMR program and not protection of children.”

Dr. Wakefield himself reiterates the final conclusion of the courts in various countries, but censored by the world’s media outlets saying:

“Now this question has been answered not by me, but by the courts, by the vaccine courts in Italy and in the United States of America where it appears that many children over the last thirty years have been awarded millions of dollars for the fact that they have been brain-damaged by MMR vaccine and other vaccines and that brain damage has led to autism. That is a fact.”

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Breaking News: The Vaccine/Autism Link

Ever since the now debunked 1998 study that linked childhood vaccines with the development of autism, medical professionals and scientists have been waging a long-term battle against the pop-culture belief that the study was actually true.

There’s been at least a dozen major studies that have found that early childhood vaccines do not cause autism. Supporters of the anti-vaccination movement have often pointed to one flaw in the research data to date: that immunizations might cause autism in those children already predisposed to develop the disorder.

A study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association surveyed nearly 100,000 children has finally addressed that issue as well.
It found that exposure to the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine had no correlation with the diagnosis of autism among toddlers who had an elevated risk for the condition. The study focused on children who had siblings who were on the autism spectrum since autism tends to run in families and made those children more high-risk for autism. But the study found that even among these high-risk little siblings, there was no link between their exposure to the (MMR) vaccine and a diagnosis of autism.


This is a major breakthrough for parents who fear their child’s predisposition for autism could be exacerbated by the (MMR) vaccine. The study proves that parents should feel safe vaccinating kids, even if they have a child on the autism spectrum.

You can read the full study here. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article....&resultClick=3

http://blog.theautismsite.com/mmr-va...IEKgOhY3Uzu.99

Penn and Teller on Vaccinations

DANGERS OF MULTIPLE VACCINE DOSES---YES...there HAVE been STUDIES!!!!



In many cases, doctors and nurses administer half a dozen or more vaccines all at once during a single visit to make sure children get all these shots and to SAVE TIME. But according to data compiled from the government's Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), as many as 145,000 children or more have DIED throughout the past 20 years as a result of this multiple vaccine dose approach, and few parents are aware of this shocking fact.

In a study recently published in the journal Human & Experimental Toxicology, researchers evaluated the overall number of hospitalizations and deaths associated with vaccines administered between 1990 and 2010, and compared this data to the number of vaccines given at one time to individual children.

Hospitalizations and deaths resulting from one vaccine dose were compared to those of two vaccine doses, in other words, and the same all the way up to eight vaccine doses. Researchers also evaluated overall hospitalization and death rates associated with getting one to four combined vaccine doses, five to eight combined vaccine doses, and one to eight combined vaccine doses.

Upon analysis, the team found that the more vaccines a child receives during a single doctor visit, the more likely he or she is to suffer a severe reaction or even die. According to Heidi Stevenson from Gaia Health, for each additional vaccine a child receives, his or her chance of death increases by an astounding 50 percent -- and with each additional vaccine dose, chances of having to be hospitalized for severe complications increase two-fold. To sum it all up, the overall size of the vaccine load was found to be directly associated with hospitalization and death risk.

Interestingly, the total number of reported hospitalizations and deaths from getting just one vaccine was higher than the number reported for getting two, three, or even four vaccines. Though the precise reason for this is unknown, it is believed that newborns mostly fall into the one vaccine category, and those that are injured by a single vaccine tend not to get any more vaccines, hence the immediate decrease observed among children who received only two vaccines. Once a child reaches five vaccinations; however, the hospitalization and death rate jumps dramatically, the reason for which was not investigated as part of the study.

"Our findings show a positive correlation between the number of vaccine doses administered and the percentage of hospitalizations and deaths reports to VAERS," wrote the authors in their conclusion. "In addition, younger infants were significantly more likely than older infants to be hospitalized or die after receiving vaccines. Since vaccines are administered to millions of infants every year, it is imperative that health authorities have scientific data from synergistic toxicity studies on all combinations of vaccines that infants are likely to receive."

You can view the complete results of the study in their entirety here: http://gaia-health.com

Vaccine shedding is also some thing to research. And also look at the all the lawsuits in other countries against drug companies. You can't sue in the US. The companies are protected, thanks to Bill Clinton.

Public Health Officials Know: Recently Vaccinated Individuals Spread Disease
Tuesday, 3 Mar 2015 | 2:41 PM ET

Washington, D.C., March 3, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Physicians and public health officials know that recently vaccinated individuals can spread disease and that contact with the immunocompromised can be especially dangerous. For example, the Johns Hopkins Patient Guide warns the immunocompromised to "Avoid contact with children who are recently vaccinated," and to "Tell friends and family who are sick, or have recently had a live vaccine (such as chicken pox, measles, rubella, intranasal influenza, polio or smallpox) not to visit."1

A statement on the website of St. Jude's Hospital warns parents not to allow people to visit children undergoing cancer treatment if they have received oral polio or smallpox vaccines within four weeks, have received the nasal flu vaccine within one week, or have rashes after receiving the chickenpox vaccine or MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine.2

"The public health community is blaming unvaccinated children for the outbreak of measles at Disneyland, but the illnesses could just as easily have occurred due to contact with a recently vaccinated individual," says Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation. The Foundation promotes a healthy diet, non-toxic lifestyle and freedom of medical choice for parents and their children. "Evidence indicates that recently vaccinated individuals should be quarantined in order to protect the public."

Scientific evidence demonstrates that individuals vaccinated with live virus vaccines such as MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), rotavirus, chicken pox, shingles and influenza can shed the virus for many weeks or months afterwards and infect the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike. 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.11.12

Furthermore, vaccine recipients can carry diseases in the back of their throat and infect others while displaying no symptoms of a disease.13,14,15

Both unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals are at risk from exposure to those recently vaccinated. Vaccine failure is widespread; vaccine-induced immunity is not permanent and recent outbreaks of diseases such as whooping cough, mumps and measles have occurred in fully vaccinated populations.16,17 Flu vaccine recipients become more susceptible to future infection after repeated vaccination.18,19

Adults have contracted polio from recently vaccinated infants. A father from Staten Island ended up in a wheel chair after contracting polio while changing his daughter's diaper. He received a 22.5 million dollar award in 2009. 20,21

"Vaccine failure and failure to acknowledge that live virus vaccines can spread disease have resulted in an increase in outbreaks of infectious disease in both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals," says Leslie Manookian, producer of The Greater Good. "CDC should instruct physicians who administer vaccinations to inform their patients about the risks posed to others by those who've been recently vaccinated."

According to the Weston A. Price Foundation, the best protection against infectious disease is a healthy immune system, supported by adequate vitamin A and vitamin C. Well-nourished children easily recover from infectious disease and rarely suffer complications.

The number of measles deaths declined from 7575 in 1920 (10,000 per year in many years in the 1910s) to an average of 432 each year from 1958-1962.22 The vaccine was introduced in 1963. Between 2005 and 2014, there have been no deaths from measles in the U.S. and 108 deaths reported after the MMR vaccine.23

The Weston A. Price Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nutrition education foundation with the mission of disseminating accurate, science-based information on diet and health. Named after nutrition pioneer Weston A. Price, DDS, author of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, the Washington, DC-based Foundation publishes a quarterly journal for its 15,000 members, supports 600 local chapters worldwide and hosts a yearly international conference. The Foundation phone number is (202) 363-4394(202) 363-4394, www.westonaprice.org, [email protected].


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23. http://vaccineimpact.com/2015/zero-u...aths-reported/

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OFFICIAL 2016 CDC VACCINATION SCHEDULE: CLEARING UP THE CONFUSION***

The Centers for Disease Control just released updated guidelines for vaccination, as they do every year. And, once again, there has been some difficulty interpreting the new information. The biggest area of confusion is the difference between the recommendations which apply only to CERTAIN HIGH-RISK GROUPS and what is recommended for ALL children. In fact, there is not a single change in the schedule that applies to all kids this year compared to last. The entire schedule is exactly the same.

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What has changed is some vaccine doses for certain high-risk groups:

1. HPV vaccine was NOT changed to 9 years of age. This nine-year-old schedule is only advised for children who have been sexually abused or assaulted. The CDC says that the series may be started at age 9 for any child if anyone so chooses, but still holds to the standard 11-12 year old recommendation.

2. Meningococcal B vaccine was added to the schedule, but only for high-risk kids with certain medical or immune problems. This is a different vaccine than the current Meningococcal A,C, W, Y-strain vaccine given at 11-12 and 16 years.
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Misinterpretations can be clarified by understanding the color codes on the schedule and reading the footnotes underneath. There are four levels of recommendation:

1. Routine vaccines for ALL children
2. Catch-up schedules
3. Doses which may be given at the doctor’s discretion
4. Vaccines only for certain high-risk groups.

It is the first level (the routine vaccines) that makes up the standard CDC vaccine schedule.

This image is the updated Immunity Education Group infographic, originally created last year by one of our own. This document accurately reflects the CDC’s 2016 recommendations and how they compare to 1983, and it can also be viewed on our website at: http://immunityeducationgroup.org/of...the-confusion/