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Fixation on Zika

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A transmission electron micrograph (TEM) provided by the Centers For Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia shows the Zika virus. (CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith/Reuters)

http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2016/03/our-fixation-with-polio-and-zika-7/

“Imagine 100 people who have symptoms of severe paralysis somewhere on their body… say, their legs. They are all permanently paralyzed, but some of the people have one or more of the following conditions which can produce paralysis similar to polio:

Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP); Arsenic Poisoning; Bilious Remittent Fever; Chinese Paralytic Syndrome; Cholera Morbus virus; Coxsackie virus; DDT Poisoning; ECHO; Enteroviral Encephalopathy; Epidemic Cholera; Ergotism; Famine Fever; Guillain-Barré Syndrome; Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease; Inhibitory Palsy; Intermittent Fever; Lead Poisoning; Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome); Post-Polio Syndrome; Reye’s Syndrome; Spinal Apoplexy; Spinal Meningitis; Transverse Myelitis; Traumatic Neuritis; Undiagnosed Congenital Syphilis; Viral or Aseptic Meningitis; Worm Fever… and “provocation of limb paralysis by intramuscular injections of many types, including a variety of vaccines.”1 2

Remember; however, it is possible – highly possible – that those testing positive for polio may NOT have been paralyzed by polio.  Scientists STILL don’t know why some become paralyzed and some do not, and it is completely harmless or mild in more than 99% of polio carriers.  Did you know that?  Just as Zika is a mild virus that’s been around for over 40 years and has never caused an issue before. https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/zika-sexually-transmitted/

I was always told that assuming something makes an ass out of u and mi.

And yet, today, “scientists” are stating that tissue samples from two fetuses containing Zika proves Zika caused microcephaly in these children, and before long, the way things are going,

“Zika will become synonymous with microcephaly – much like polio has become synonymous with severe paralysis.” 

Global health officials have said, however, that as many as 80% of people exposed to the virus have little to no symptoms. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only about 1 out of every five infected will become ill with mild symptoms such as fever, rash, joint pain, or conjunctivitis, lasting for several days to a week. http://www.cdc.gov/zika/symptoms/ and https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/zika-sexually-transmitted/

For two possible causes of the increase in microcephaly please read:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.wordpress.com/2016/03/04/health-policy-recap/

https://jameslyonsweiler.com/2016/02/29/vaccine-safety-research-reform/  Also worth noting:  Brazil has been using WHOLE-CELL pertussis on impoverished pregnant women.  Microcephaly is concentrated in the slums of Brazil.  Interestingly, there is no sign of Zika in many cases of microcephaly, and the Zika virus has spread to over 40 countries with no sign of increased micrcoephaly.  And while microcephaly started to increase in 2012, Zika increases came on the scene in July 2014.

http://kellybroganmd.com/pregnancy-friendly-protection-truth-about-whooping-cough-vaccine-pertussis/

“Pertussis incidence was waning on its own until a 1980 mandate to vaccinate in 42 states. Since this time, and since the introduction of the seemingly “less dangerous” acellular pertussis or whooping cough vaccine (the whole cell vaccine was so clearly toxic that seizure activity and fevers drove parents away from vaccination, and it still took almost 50 years to change the product) was introduced in 1996, ten years after pharmaceutical companies were granted immunity through the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (i.e. ten years after there stopped being any incentive to produce safe vaccines).”  Dr. Kelly Brogan

http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2016/06/so-what-about-the-other-pregnant-honduran-woman-who-didnt-have-zika-2/  And while one pregnant Honduran woman vacationing in the US who tested positive for the virus and gave birth to a child with microcephaly made headline news, another Honduran woman who gave birth to a child with microcephaly and tested negative was barely mentioned.  Why this extreme bias?

https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/01/31/busted-25000-cases-of-microcephaly-in-the-us-per-year/  The US has 25,000 cases of microcephaly each year, but has nothing to do with Zika infection.  Mosquitos here in the states can’t even carry the virus.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-zika-who-idUSKCN0V61JB

“No one has the $500 million on hand to take it (a vaccine) all the way to human trials. Somewhere along the course we hope to have big pockets join us,” Bogoch said.

And in the end, it’s all about vaccines.

As MSIDS patients we are infected with God knows what.  A literal hodgepodge of infections that testing can’t pick up.  Doctors don’t take us seriously, insurance won’t cover our treatment, and we have symptoms that make Zika look like a walk in the park.  

But, this fixation on rare tropical diseases such as Zika, West Nile, and others is bizarre when there are far worse pathogens debilitating and killing thousands of people.  Researchers, doctors, professionals – they don’t seem to want to touch MSIDS (multi systemic infectious disease syndrome – or Lyme with friends) with a ten-foot pole.

And, I think I know why.

Besides digging up some inconvenient historical facts about pathogens that have been tweaked in a lab somewhere for questionable purposes, there’s the vaccine issue.  Seems it’s always about vaccines these days.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/28/business/sole-lyme-vaccine-is-pulled-off-market.html  Did you know that the LYMERIX vaccine which was pulled off the market due to “poor sales” caused 640 emergency room visits, 34 life threatening reactions, 77 hospitalizations, 198 disabilities, and 6 deaths?  In a vile cesspool of conflicts of interest are university patent holders, drug companies, and the FDA itself as another patent holder.  It generated 40 million dollars before it was yanked. (2008, Drymon)

http://www.yourlawyer.com/topics/overview/lymerix  One doctor stated that 21 patients developed severe arthritis after receiving the LYMERIX vaccine.

http://www.lymediseaseassociation.org/index.php/about-lyme/controversy/vaccine/261-lymerix-meeting

“Given that Dr. Marks lead the clinical trials for Lymerix’s competitor, the OspA vaccine produced and then abandoned by Aventis Pasteur, his conclusions mean a lot. “In my opinion,” he told FDA officials, “there is sufficient evidence that Lymerix is causally related to severe rheumatologic, neurologic, autoimmune, and other adverse events in some individuals. This evidence is such as to warrant a significantly heightened degree of warnings and possible limitations or removal from marketing of Lymerix.”

Since the public is now wary of the Lyme (borrelia) vaccine, they’ve changed their approach to focus on wildlife and pets, despite the fact that hamsters developed arthritic joints when infected with Bb (borrelia) or the Osp A vaccine! http://www.lymenet.de/literatur/12tbdconference/day1/day1.htm#OspA%20Induces%20Lyme%20Arthritis%20in%20Hamsters

It is convenient that these poor creatures can’t complain or sue drug producers and that all these products and animal vaccines will bring in a tsunami of money that so far hasn’t found a gold standard diagnostic test or created any benefit to MSIDS patients in any way, shape, or form.  Infection rates climb higher and higher while the CDC and IDSA sit idly by.

So when you call your local pharmacy and have to listen to vaccine scare tactics for 10 minutes which tempt you to get that flu vaccine or any other vaccine being pushed on you, please read up on the facts first and be informed.  It’s your body and you are already in a war with a pathogen invasion.  Don’t let anyone bully you into injecting something into your body that has every potential of making your health worse.

For more information read:

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/a-word-on-vaccines/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.wordpress.com/2015/07/15/vaccines-continued/

While the world has elevated Zika to rock star status, there is a gigantic white elephant still standing in the room.

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mosquitoes, vaccines, Viruses, Zika

Health Policy Recap

Recap of the Evidence Based Health Policy Project held at the Wisconsin Capital yesterday:

Dr. Osorio, Associate Professor and Researcher, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, UW Madison spoke on Zika. If you are unfamiliar with this virus, please read: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/zika-sexually-transmitted/  The most important take aways from his slide show was : 1)  80% of those infected with Zika don’t even know they have it.  2)  1 in 5 will have mild symptoms (fever, rash, joint pain, or conjunctivitis) lasting up to a week, and while those in Africa and South America are experiencing high infection rates, WI isn’t even on the radar (my words). One of the most important things he emphatically stated was that Zika caused the deaths of two babies due to two tissue samples that had Zika in them. (please hold this thought, I will deal with this later)

Next, Susan Paskewitz, Professor and Researcher, Medical Entomology Laboratory, UW Madison spoke primarily on West Nile Virus and Lyme Disease – with an emphasis on ticks and mosquitos. They have found some West Nile in mosquitos in WI but that the Northern mosquitos can not even carry Zika. She also stated that in regards to Lyme (borrelia), the two notorious carriers are the Dog tick (wood tick) and the deer tick (black legged tick), and that there is between 30,000 and 40,000 reported cases of Lyme (borrelia) in Wisconsin. She also stated that Wisconsin is a hot spot for Anaplasma with over 500 cases. She affirmed that ticks in WI are everywhere and on the move and that due to this, the disease has expanded as well.  There is a nifty website where you can check out great information on ticks here: labs.russell.wisc.edu/wisconsin-ticks/.

After the slide shows they gave time for questions.

These are the things I spoke about:

*Since the EBHPP’s purpose and goals are to give timely, high quality information for evidence based decision making to increase UW research and teaching in topical issues of state public policy, I asked if it wasn’t perhaps more beneficial to discuss and act on something that Wisconsinites can get in their backyard, bedroom, and can spread congenitally?

*In regards to Zika I pointed out the statistics mentioned above as well as the fact that results of 2 tissue samples showing Zika is NOT evidence that the virus caused microcephaly that that we have viruses all over us, some good, some bad, but that doesn’t mean we are experiencing symptoms or active infection. Correlation is simply not the same as causality. There needs to be in depth studies on thousands of babies – those with and those without microcephaly, with pregnant women enrolled prospectively being monitored throughout the pregnancy with conclusive laboratory evidence.

*I also proposed two events that happened in the past year that more probably could have caused this microcephaly: 1) Brazil’s National Vaccine Schedule with DTap for Pregnant women to be given in the 27th week, 36th week, and up to 20 days prior to the expected date of birth – regardless of the lack of safety or effectiveness of Boostrix being established in pregnant women and that the Brazilian government has been vaccinating perhaps hundreds of thousands of pregnant women.

Published on Mar 29, 2016 Published on Mar 29, 2016 (15 min)
NVIC’s Barbara Loe Fisher reviews the medical literature that reveals that pertussis vaccines are not effectively preventing pertussis infection. To learn more continue to watch this commentary or read the fully referenced version at www.NVIC.org.  Join NVIC’s Advocacy Portal to protect vaccine choice at www.NVICadvocacy.org.

2) A report published by the Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Villages of Argentina that discounts the theory that the increase in microcephaly is due to Zika and that a chemical known as pyriproxyfen (C20 H19 NO3), a pyridine-based pesticide to eradicate mosquitoes has been applied by the State on drinking water used by the affected population for 18 months. Then I reminded them of our own experience of using DDT which caused birth defects and even deaths. Both of these events were about the length of the gestational period – just in time to see microcephaly. (Zika has been around for over 40 years and never caused problems before)

http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2016/05/new-york-aerial-sprays-altosid-and-vectobac-pesticides-to-combat-zika/ Yet, despite Médicos de Pueblos Fumigados arguing that an insect growth regulator used in Brazil might actually be the reason for the microcephaly, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is releasing similar growth regulators, Altosid and VectoBac, in pellet form from low-flying helicopters in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and The Bronx.

*I also spent considerable time discussing the plight of Lyme patients. That we are co-infected with numerous pathogens which make our cases far more complex than most realize. I spoke of borrelia, alone, and that it is pleomorphic with three shapes it can change into at will and that proper treatment needs to address this complexity and that 21 days of doxycycline, the current CDC standard of care is like throwing sand into the ocean. I spoke of 3 generations of Wisconsinites living under the same roof – all infected with MSIDS (multi systemic infectious disease syndrome). I explained that the myth that Lyme (borrelia) only causes a little joint pain and fatigue needs to be dispelled and that there is significant cognitive and psychological impairment with some suffering with severe anxiety, rage, confusion, depression, and memory loss.

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http://lymestats.org

Let’s stop talking about exotic tropical diseases and focus on what’s keeping Wisconsinites sick!

 

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Activism, Lyme, research, Ticks, Uncategorized, vaccines, Viruses

Powassan Virus

http://www.cmaj.ca/content/161/11/1419.short  The Powassan Virus was discovered in Powassan, Ontario in 1958 when a 5-year-old boy died of severe encephalitis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gKNa6JBeH8  A brief explanation by Dr. Michael Smith.  (approx. 1 min)

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/10/12-0621_article   POW is a single-stranded RNA virus in the genus Flavivirus of the Flaviviridae family. There is substantial serologic cross-reaction with other flaviviruses (dengue, St. Louis encephalitis, yellow fever, Japanese B encephalitis, West Nile virus). RNA viruses generally have high mutation rates. Both prototypic (POWV) and deer tick virus (DTV) genotypes exist and are cousins to the tick-borne encephalitis virus causing significant illness in Europe. All sequenced strains in Minnesota are of the DTV genotype.

https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/tickborne/powa-april-2010-wmj.pdf  Presence of POW-lineage viruses has been well documented in at least 38 mammal species including small and medium sized wild animals (rodents, woodchucks, skunks) and domestic animals (dogs, cats), with several species of ticks proven to be vectors at this time. Human infection with Powassan Virus has been documented in North America and Russia.

Selection bias in identifying the infection may exist, diminishing the reported incidence to only patients with severe disease.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5035a4.htm   Because of the lack of awareness and the need for specialized laboratory tests to confirm diagnosis, the frequency of POW encephalitis may be greater than previously suspected. POW encephalitis should be included in the differential diagnosis of all encephalitis cases occurring in the northern United States, especially the Northeast. Laboratory tests for POW virus infection are not commercially available but can be requested through state public health laboratories for testing at CDC; however, Coppe Laboratories, right here in Waukesha, Wisconsin, has a direct and indirect test for Powassan virus. It requires a simple blood draw.   http://wisconsinwoodlands.org/study-of-wisconsin-ticks/  In this article Coppe Lab collected more than 2,000 ticks and found borrelia (the causative agent in Lyme Disease) in more than half as well as a high number of POW/deer tick viruses in ticks of hyper-endemic regions of NW Wisconsin, and that ticks carrying disease are in almost every county in WI.

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Graph taken from:

https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/tickborne/powassan.htm

The virus is becoming more common in humans and appears to differ from Lyme Disease (borrelia) in that it is transmitted much more quickly (within minutes) and fatally (10-15% of cases), with 60% of patients who survive have permanent neurological dysfunction; however, please know that there is disagreement in the medical community on transmission times and much remains unclear. It is warned that only a single strain of POW has been used to determine vector competence or transmission time or viral amount to cause clinical illness. http://labs.russell.wisc.edu/wisconsin-ticks/powassan-virus/

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/8/16-1971_article  A study in Marshfield, WI showed that when 95 patients were tested for suspected tick-borne disease, 66% showed evidence of current or prior Lyme infection.  Of those patients, 17% had serologic evidence of acute POWV infection, demonstrating that POWV may affect more patients than we know.

The biggest challenge in addressing the Powassan infection will be distinguishing it from Lyme disease. The similarity of their etiology and symptomatology is extraordinary. If symptoms exacerbate rapidly, then that may be the critical sign that a Powassan virus is present.  

http://naturalsociety.com/powassan-virus-ticks-now-carrying-virus-worse-than-lyme-disease/  The Powassan virus attacks the nervous system and can infect the brain causing inflammation (encephalitis). It can also affect the lining of the brain (meningitis). Symptoms vary widely from none to death. http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/10/12-0621_article  Patients with POW infection typically exhibit encephalitis after an incubation period of 1–4 weeks. Fever and headache are common.  Mental status changes, cerebellar symptoms (trouble with motor control, attention, and language), and weakness or paralysis in half of the body (reported in 50% of cases) are also common and may be severe. Results of CSF testing and brain imaging are generally consistent with viral encephalitis. Reverse transcription PCR of CSF, serologic testing of CSF, and serologic testing of serum are the preferred diagnostic tests, but they are not widely available. Pathogenesis is due to lymphocytic infiltration of perivascular neuronal tissue with a predilection for gray matter, including thalamus, midbrain, and cerebellum. Other symptoms include but are not limited to:  fever, headache, vomiting, weakness, and memory loss.

http://www.caryinstitute.org/newsroom/more-tickborne-diseases-other-lyme-maybe-just-don-t-go-outside  In this case a high school student was mildly ill for several weeks with a cough, but then collapsed and died.

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/10/12-0621_article
Case Report:  On May 30, 2011 a 67-year-old woman from Aitkin, Minnesota checked into the Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, complaining of dizziness, high fever, chills, nausea and malaise, as well as intermittent confusion with slurred speech.  As an avid gardener and hiker, the woman had been exposed to a number of vectors endemic to her area, such as deer ticks and mosquitos. She also had a long history of medical issues, including colon cancer, hypertension, cutaneous lupus, and a remote cerebral aneurysm, which was treated surgically.  Although the patient was alert upon arrival at the medical facility, by the next day her condition severely deteriorated. Within hours she became unresponsive. Over night her breathing stopped completely and she required intubation. The patient remained in her comatose state for nearly two weeks before the medical ventilator was removed and she died. It was not until after the patient’s death that serological testing was able to identify Powassan Virus (POWV) as the disease agent.

https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-sci-powassan-update/  Powassan Virus put North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan into a 43-day coma, and while recovering she has difficulty speaking and is still unable to walk.

Arbovirus Infection MnLA Jan 2016-3  Very informative slide presentation by Dr. David Baewer, Chief Medical Officer, Coppe Laboratories, Waukesha, Wisconsin.

For an excellent article on how viruses work:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/cellular-microscopic/virus-human.htm

Please discuss all treatment options with your health care professional

Antibiotics are not effective against viruses, and no effective anti-viral drugs have been discovered for POW, hence there is no specific treatment; however, there is much that can be done to improve the immune system, thereby, lessoning the effects of the virus, as well as taking medications to reduce brain swelling, respiratory support, and IV fluids. 

http://health-truth.com/our-program/health-articles/chronic-fatigue-syndrome/how-to-conquer-the-viral-bacterial-syndrome/  According to Michael Biamonte, C.C.D., the immune system uses nutrients from food to manufacture substances that attack and kill viruses. Viruses help bacteria by invading the cells in an area, and if the immune system is too weak, bacteria begin to swarm the damaged cells invaded by the virus. As the virus begins to die having gone through its life cycle, the bacteria then start a secondary infection. For an MSIDS (multi systemic infectious disease syndrome) patient, they might be fighting borrelia (Lyme), Babesia, Bartonella, and many more pathogens, on top of viruses. This makes their disease much more complex.

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Biomonte says to avoid sugar as it reduces the number of white bloods cells which fight off infection. He states that garlic is the most effective food against all infections as well as Echinacea, Zinc, water-soluble vitamin A, protein (stimulates the adrenal and thyroid), and eggs (contain large quantities of lecithin).

http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/cellular-microscopic/light-virus.htm  Interestingly, a study done at Arizona State and Johns Hopkins shows strong, quick blasts of purple light from a low power laser can kill viruses by vibrating and damaging their outer shells, but unlike other treatments doesn’t cause mutatations leading to viral resistance. Blood UV radiation, similarly to the laser, also kills viruses by breaking down their cell walls.

Anti-virals:

Green Tea
Licorice (glycyrrhizin)
Pau D-Arco
Olive Leaf
Elderberry
Zinc
Garlic
Echinacea
St. John’s Wort
Coconut oil
Eucalyptus oil
Vitamin C

Monolaurin

More on Powassan:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/06/28/powassan-can-kill/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/05/05/powassan-another-reason-to-avoid-ticks/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/04/20/first-case-of-powassan-in-connecticut-in-a-five-month-old-baby/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/05/18/powassan-and-bb-infection-in-wisconsin-and-u-s-tick-populations/

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Herbs, research, Ticks, Treatment, Uncategorized, Viruses

Zika Sexually Transmitted

http://www.selfreliancecentral.com/2016/02/03/5564/?utm_source=160203SRCAPNSA2&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=160203SRCAPNSA2

The CDC is now stating Zika under certain conditions may be sexually transmitted, as well as through breast milk.  According to the Associated Press: “Health officials say a person in Texas has become infected with the Zika virus through sex, in the first case of the illness being transmitted within the United States amid the current outbreak in Latin America.”

Now that’s a head scratcher.

So, all it takes is one case with Zika while thousands of cases of borrelia infected couples are told by the same CDC that it isn’t an STD and it isn’t congenital, even though it’s a spirochete very similar to Syphilis and researchers have found it in semen and vaginal secretions?  Reference: The Journal of Investigative Medicine 2014; 62:280-281.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mothers-may-pass-lyme-disease-to-children-in-the-womb/

Am I missing something?

Zika, associated with a serious birth defect in which babies are born with abnormally small heads (microcephaly), is a zoonotic disease similar to Lyme Disease and is transmitted from animals to humans through mosquitoes.  Global health officials have said, however, that as many as 80% of people exposed to the virus have little to no symptoms.

So why is there such a big scare?  One word: vaccines.

According to the CDC, 95% of people with the poliovirus have no symptoms.  http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/details.asp?pid=1952  Less than 1% will develop any sort of paralysis, and of those less than 10% result in death.  http://www.globalhealth.gov/global-health-topics/communicable-diseases/polio/

But, have you ever heard those statistics before?

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has already publicly declared war on Zika and the mosquitoes that carry the virus.  And yet, 80% of people with Zika will not have symptoms.  According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only about 1 out of every five infected will become ill with mild symptoms such as fever, rash, joint pain, or conjunctivitis, lasting for several days to a week. http://www.cdc.gov/zika/symptoms/

Is that what you’ve been reading?

According to Marilyn Roossinck, PhD, professor of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology and Biology at Penn State at University Park, we have loads of viruses within us and they don’t harm us at all, in fact they can be beneficial.  http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2016/02/viruses-always-the-easy-scapegoat/  In this link, Marco Caceres makes a valid point, “Why are we assuming that Zika is any threat to us at all?” and “What other things going on in Brazil could be causing the epidemic of microcephaly there?”

A very probable answer is that Tdap vaccines were mandated for all pregnant women in Brazil in late 2014.  http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2016/02/tdap-vaccinations-for-all-pregnant-women-in-brazil-mandated-in-late-2014/  In 2011, with little evidence proving safety, the CDC instituted a similar universal vaccine policy for all pregnant women here in the U.S.

The CVE report listed the following ingredients in the GSK/Butantan Institute Tdap vaccine:
Diphtheria toxoid—not less than 2 International Units (IU)
Tetanus toxoid—not less than 20 International Units (IU)
Bordetella pertussis antigen
Pertussis toxoid—8 mcg
Filamentous haemagglutinin—8 mcg
Pertactin—2.5 mcg
Adsorbed hydrated aluminum hydroxide (Al (OH ) 3) and aluminum phosphate (AlPO4)
Excipients: aluminum hydroxide , aluminum phosphate , sodium chloride and water for injection. Contains formaldehyde residues, polysorbate 80 and glycine  http://www.cve.saude.sp.gov.br/htm/imuni/pdf/IF14_VAC_DTpa.pdf

GSK’s Tdap product is internationally known under the brand name Refortrix® or, more commonly, Boostrix®), and it has been licensed in Brazil for more than a decade.7 In addition to the ingredients listed above for Boostrix, the following growth medium and process ingredients are used in manufacturing the vaccine:
modified Latham medium derived from bovine casein
Fenton medium containing bovine extract
formaldehyde
Stainer-Scholte liquid medium
glutaraldehyde
aluminum hydroxide  http://vaccines.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=005206#header_tdap

Anybody notice all the aluminum?

According to GSK, neither the safety nor effectiveness of Boostrix have been established in pregnant women.  The package insert for Boostrix reads:  A developmental toxicity study has been performed in female rats at a dose approximately 40 times the human dose (on a mL/kg basis) and revealed no evidence of harm to the fetus due to BOOSTRIX. Animal fertility studies have not been conducted with BOOSTRIX. There are no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women. Because animal reproduction studies are not always predictive of human response, BOOSTRIX should be given to a pregnant woman only if clearly needed.  And yet the Brazilian government has been vaccinating tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of pregnant women in its country during the past year. A large portion of these pregnancies are occurring in Brazil’s northeastern region, notably in the state of Pernambuco—the country’s fastest growing population center.  https://www.gsksource.com/pharma/content/dam/GlaxoSmithKline/US/en/Prescribing_Information/Boostrix/pdf/BOOSTRIX.PDF

https://youtu.be/VoY6vXEMsU8  Warning to Pregnant Mothers – Toxic Dose of Aluminum in the Tdap (11 minutes long WEB-SITE: http://drpaul.md, Crisis of toxins being injected into children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1FkOj1nJWk Barbara Loe Fisher of NVIC (Approx 8 min)  “Even with super high pertussis vaccine coverage in America and other countries like the Netherlands, Australia, Finland and Canada, whooping cough disease cannot be prevented. There are two main reasons for this fact.

First, pertussis vaccines widely used since the 1950’s have not prevented whooping cough disease from circulating in vaccinated populations. Unknown numbers of children and adults, who have gotten all government recommended pertussis shots, can and do develop whooping cough or are carriers without symptoms.

Because pertussis vaccine immunity is only temporary and does not last, health officials are now telling teenagers and adults to get more booster shots. But that is not going to matter if scientific evidence that B. pertussis organisms have mutated and become vaccine-resistant turns out to be correct.

A second important reason is that another Bordetella organism — parapertussis — also can cause whooping cough. B. parapertussis symptoms, while often milder, can look exactly like B. pertussis. But doctors rarely recognize or test for parapertussis. And there is NO vaccine for parapertussis.

The DTaP vaccine given 5 times to children under age 6 and booster doses for teenagers and adults does not protect against whooping cough caused by B. parapertussis. In highly vaccinated countries like the U.S., parpertussis is on the rise and it is estimated that perhaps 30 percent or more of whooping cough disease is actually caused by parapertussis!”

So, back to Zika.  Could this outbreak of microcephaly have more to do with vaccinating vulnerable pregnant women with the DTap vaccine than the Zika virus.  I think so, considering Zika has been around for decades but the Brazilian mandated vaccine has been around for about as long as the gestational period.  Food for thought.

 

 

 

Category:

vaccines, Viruses, Zika