5 in one vaccines

May 23, 2006

After triple vaccines of earlier periods to MMR and DPT later, now the five in one vaccine has been introduced with an eye on the colossal market in India. See the effects of the vaccine!!

Sunday Express May 21 2006 5-in-1 jab 'made baby boy blind' By Lucy Johnston HEALTH EDITOR A baby boy was temporarily blinded after being given the controversial

five-in-one vaccine jab, the Sunday Express can reveal today. Kobi Hampshaw was three months old when he was given the jab and lost hissight two days later. His father Martin, 39, said: " One moment he was smiling up at his mother

while breast feeding and the next his head was moving violently from sideto side and he was trying to look over his shoulder. He was very confusedand upset. " He could no longer fix and follow and couldn't see a light shining in his

eyes. He had been such a smiley baby. After the vaccine he just lay in hiscot not interested in anything. He looked brain damaged. " Kobi was given the first of his three doses of the five-in-one - which is

designed to protect children against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough,Hib influenza and polio - in November 2004. He had to be taken to hospital and over the following weeks had a series oftests, including a brain scan. Doctors could only conclude that the

vaccination caused his blindness. With the support of their doctor andleading eye specialists, the family now believe they have helped tore-stimulate twenty-month-old Kobi's vision. Print firm manager Martin said at the family home in Huddersfield: " We used

ultraviolet toys in a black booth and touchy feely toys. " We never gave up. After two months he started to follow his favouriteblack and white snoopy toy dog. Day by day little things have come back. "

But Martin, and his wife Nicky, a 38-year-old child minder, are stillworried about Kobi's future. Martin said: " He still trips up and his eyes don't look right. This is anew vaccine, no one can tell us what will happen, no one knows. He may stop

learning, he may not come out of nappies until he is seven. Not a day goesby when we are not tortured by what happened. " The Sunday Express can also reveal that doctors have reported 457side-effects linked to the five-in-one jab since it was introduced 18

months ago. These include disorders of the heart, eyes, stomach, immunesystem, nervous system and breathing problems. The doctors' reports, including Kobi's case, were obtained by the SundayExpress from the drug safety watchdog, the Medicines and Healthcare

Products Regulatory Authority, under the " yellow card " adversedrug-reporting scheme. Experts believe the true number of cases could be more than 4,500 becausedoctors only notify an estimated 10 per cent of adverse drug reactions. The

MHRA has reports of up to five children who have experienced sight problemsfollowing the jab, known as Pediacel. Nicholas Kitchen, medical director of the vaccine's manufacturers SanofiPasteur, said all drugs and vaccines had side-effects and those associated

with the five-in-one jab were all in the information leaflet inside eachdose " which parents should know about " . He added that the company logs all adverse reactions in order to spot anypatterns that might emerge. Blindness, he added " is not an expected

reaction to the jab. " Last week the Sunday Express exposed clinical trialswhich showed that babies risk brain damage, convulsions and even deathfollowing the jab. Sunday Express Your Letters 21 May 2006

Tell truth on jabs Congratulations on exposing the dangers of the new 5-in-1 vaccination( " Alert over new 5-in-1 'superdose' baby jabs " , Sunday Express, May 14),based on our report, available on www.wddty.co.uk. All drugs must first prove their safety and parents reasonably assume thesame must apply to vaccinations for their children. A Department of Health spokesman in your article tells readers that an

agency 'thoroughly assesses the evidence on the safety and efficacy of allnew vaccines'. What we aren't told is that vaccines aren't always tested in the UK but incountries with different test criteria.

It's time our health agencies put politics second and the welfare of ourchildren first. Bryan Hubbard