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A Pharmacist Questions Vaccines

 

Kristine M. Severyn, R.Ph., PhD During my pharmacy education I

believed what I was taught- that vaccines work all the time with

extremely rare adverse effects. Since then, my extensive research in

this area indicates that neither is true.

 

In the government's goal to vaccinate all U.S.Children (and many adults), the

medical and public health communities selectively publicize only what they want

us to know about vaccines. The past three and a half years of my researching

state and federal public health information, reading the medical literature, and

attending federal vaccine policy-making meetings have caused me to reverse my

original trust in vaccines.

 

Ohio Department of Health (ODH) officials often bemoan the 2,720 reports of

measles it received in 1989. What the agency fails to mention is that close to

three fourths of the cases occurred in previously vaccinated persons.

 

The U.S. Centers for Disease control and Prevention (CDC) even

reported measles outbreaks in a documented 100 percent vaccinated

population (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).

33(24),6/22/84).

 

Five years later the CDC reported: " Among school-aged children,

(measles)outbreaks have occurred in schools with vaccination

levels of greater than 98 percent. These outbreaks have occurred in

all parts of the country, including areas that had not reported

measles for years. " (MMWR,38 (8-9),12/29/89).

 

To combat the resurgence of measles, the CDC and the American Academy of

Pediatrics recommended a second dose of the MMR(measles, mumps, rubella)vaccine

just before kindergarten, seventh grade, or when entering college. This approach

has failed to solve the problem, as reported in a recent Pediatric Infectious

Disease Journal (13(1),34-38,1994): " Thus even after the recommended two dose

schedule of the current measles vaccine, some adolescents and young adults lack

protective titers of measles-specific antibody..In addition women lacking

protective titers will provide little or no measles-specific antibody

transplacentaly to their infants. These children will be susceptible to measles

infection virtually from birth, and are at much higher risk for complications

when infected at younger ages. "

 

Significant measles morbidity and mortality in infants during the 1980's U.S.

measles resurgence could be blamed on government mass vaccination programs.

Since vaccinated mothers possess only short-term measles immunity, and do no

pass this immunity to their babies, their infants are left defenseless against

measles, which can be quite serious in infancy.

 

In past years when women caught measles as children and acquired strong lifelong

immunity, they passed measles antibodies to their babies during pregnancy,

giving the newborn baby measles immunity for about a

year.

 

In late 1993, several U.S. cities experienced highly publicized

pertussis (whooping cough) epidemics, including Cincinnati, St.Louis,

Chicago, and Philadelphia. The July 7, 1994, New England Journal of

Medicine reported that of the 352 pertusses cases in Cincinnati in

1993 pertussis epidemic in Cincinnati occurred primarily among

children who had been appropriately immunized, it is clear that the

whole-cell pertussisvaccine failed to give full protection against the

disease. " Similarly, of 186 confirmed pertussis cases in Chicago last

fall, the Chicago Department of Health noted, " 72 percent were as up

to date as possible on their immunizations for their age. "

 

Based on past experience with pertussis vaccine, the above vaccine failures were

not unexpected. Half of the reported pertussis cases in Ohio from 1987 to 1991

occurred in vaccination status was known (source: ODH).

 

One study reported a 55 percent failure rate for pertussis vaccine

(Journal of Pediatrics 115(5): 686-693, 1989).However, despite

hundreds of pertussis cases in Ohio and Chicago last year, no one

dies. An infectious disease expert from Cincinnati Children's Hospital

was even quoted in The Cincinnati Enquire, " The disease was very mild,

no one died, and no one went to the intensive care unit. "

 

Mumps vaccine can also be highly ineffective, with outbreaks often occurring in

vaccinated preschooler and school-age children (Journal of Pediatrics 119:

187-193, 1991).Combining poor efficacy of certain vaccines with the risk of

vaccine adverse reactions calls into question the ethics of state mandatory

vaccination laws,and could explain why some parents delay or do not vaccinate

their children.

 

For example, within a 39-month period ending November 1993, the Food and Drug

Administraton's (FDA) Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System collected nearly

32,000 reports of adverse reactions following

vaccination, with more than 700 deaths. DP{t (diphtheria, pertussis,

tetanus) vaccine was associated with more than 12,000 of these

reports, including 471 deaths. The FDA acknowledges that this

voluntary reporting underestimated the actual number of

reactions.Instead of taking these reports of death and injury

seriously, the FDA dismisses them as " coincidental, " so nearly all

reports languish in a governrnent computer data base.

 

FDA's ambivalence, toward vaccine adverse reaction reports has caused

parents to lose faith in our country's vaccination program.To

" compensate " those killed or injured by vaccines, congress passed the

National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 (Public Law

99-660), which established the Vaccine Injury compensation Program

(VICP). As of July 5, 1994, the program has paid $452.5 million for

vaccines injury or death, and is backlogged with more than 2,600

cases, all of which will not be adjudicated for several years.Vaccine

manufacturers enjoy the enviable position of having their products

mandated and their liability costs shouldered by the U.S. Taxpayer

victims of vaccine injury or death are prohibited form suing the drug

companies until they are denied assistance from the VICP.

 

If victims lose in the compensation program (only one out of three petitioners

received compensation), or find this limited compensation inadequate, state and

federal courts tell them that vaccines are " unavoidably unsafe, " absolving the

drug companies of all responsibility (White v. Wyeth(1988),No.8701657, Ohio

Supreme Courts ackley v.Wyeth, (1990),No.89-3821,U.S. court of Appeals, Sixth

Circuit, Ohio: Mazur v. Merck,Third U.S.Circuit Court of Appeals, No91-1613,

1992).

 

Financial care for vaccine victims is then assumed by the affected families, or

other state and federal programs that assist the

handicapped.Congress's stated purpose in passing the NCVIA in 1986 was to give

children safer vaccines. The only real change since 1986 is

that children receive even more vaccines today, often in questionably

safe combinations.Although the FDA is charged by Congress to oversee

vaccine safety, the agency has caved in to political pressures by not

questioning the safety of already licensed vaccines.

 

With the President, Congress, the CDC, and medical profession all promoting

vaccines, it would be unpopular for the FDA to question vaccine safety

issues.The public is repeatedly told that the benefits of vaccines outweighs the

risks. Yet, we do no know what the risks are because our government is not

interested, or perhaps afraid, to find out.

 

It's time for the FDA to do its job of properly monitoring safety and

efficacy of licensed vaccines. Until then children will continue to

suffer needlessly.

 

About the Author:Dr. Kristine M. Severyn is a registered pharmacist in Ohio and

Kentucky, with a Ph.D. in Biopharmaceutics (B.S. Pharmacy, 1975 and Ph.D.

1983,University of Cincinnati). She lives in Dayton, Ohio with her husband and

three children where she heads Ohio Parents for Vaccine Safety (OPVS). Dr

Severyn has testified before the Ohio legislature and before federal vaccine

policy-making meeting and commissions in Washington, D.C.

 

Writing extensively on vaccine issues, her work has appeared in the

Dayton Daily News, Columbus(Ohio) dispatch, The Plain Dealer (

Cleveland),the Cincinnati Enquire, Cincinnati Post, The (Akron) Beacon

Journal, and the Washington Post. OPVS publisheds a quarterly

newsletter covering vaccine safety, efficacy, and legislation in

Washington, D.C., Ohio, and other states. To Obtain the newsletter

write to: Ohio Parents for Vaccine Safety, 251 W. Ridgeway Drive,

Dayton, Ohio 45459. Please include a taxdeductible donation to OPVS

for newsletter requests.Source: The American Chiropractor Nov/Dec 1994

 

 

 

 

 

 

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