Apart from potentially preventing a particular disease, vaccines may cause persistent nonspecific effects that can affect a person’s lifetime survival.
In a review published on Dec. 26 in Vaccine, researchers found that non-live vaccines like influenza, COVID-19, hepatitis B, and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTaP) tend to cause adverse nonspecific effects (NSE), increasing a person’s risks of all-cause mortality and the potential risk of infections from diseases they are meant to protect against.
A live vaccine contains a weakened form of the pathogen, which is less virulent but capable of replicating in the body, thus mimicking the actual disease progression. Non-live vaccines use inactivated viruses, fragments, or genes of the pathogen to trigger an immune response without pathogen replication.
Live vaccines elicit a much stronger immune defense, typically requiring only one shot, while non-live vaccines result in a weaker response, often necessitating multiple shots.
So far, research has identified several non-live vaccines that cause adverse nonspecific effects, namely DTaP and Tdap, influenza H1N1, malaria, hepatitis B, inactivated polio, and COVID mRNA vaccines.
The Vaccine study singled out DTaP, influenza, malaria, hepatitis B, and COVID mRNA vaccines. (See link for article)
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Important points:
- The innate immune system can be trained as it learns from its previous battles.
- The article quotes an author of the study (Dr. Christine Stabell Benn) who states that while non-live vaccines cause negative NSEs, administering a live vaccine after a non-live one neutralizes negative NSEs. She uses studies evaluating measles vaccine safety for this rationale and the fact that when the measles vaccine is given after the DTP, there is an overall positive effect, whereas if the order is reversed there is a negative effect.
- Demonstrating that girls are at a greater risk of adverse nonspecific effects: Girls who took the DTaP vaccine had a 50 percent higher risk of dying than boys who got it. Compared to girls who were DTaP-unvaccinated, vaccinated girls’ risk of dying was over 2.5 times higher.
- Benn states substituting live vaccines with non-live vaccines poses a risk to general immunity as it becomes less trained and “lazy.”
- Benn believes that the “risk of getting the real disease with the live vaccines has been seen as a bigger threat than I think it deserves.” (I completely disagree with this as well as the continued insistence that everyone should be vaccinated)
- Benn’s research has been largely unacknowledged by academia. She feels this is due to the fact that it shows some vaccines may sometimes be harmful.
- Benn argues further that these live vaccines are no longer patented, making them very cheap to make.
- Immunologists now largely agree that some vaccines cause nonspecific effects, but how these effects should be quantified remains controversial. (Tell that to the CDC, FDA, and NIH!)
- At the end of the article Benn mentions that live vaccines may induce the actual disease they were intended to eradicate. (Polio and measles come to mind). Go here to learn important history rarely mentioned today.
- COVID vaccines are associated with adverse events due to the presence of highly toxic spike proteins, which studies now link to long COVID and vaccine injuries.
In the medical textbook “The Immune Response,”
the authors wrote that, in isolated cases, live viral strains administered to individuals can regain virulence, causing disease in recipients. Additionally, there is a risk of contamination with other viral strains during manufacturing.