Coming Soon: 5-in-1 vaccine fo Indian Kids.

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Dear Friends

 

It is very unfortunate that a very dangerous combination of Diptheria, Whooping Cough, Tetanus, Hep-B and Pneumoccal vaccine will now be given to Indian children. The DPT is one of the most toxic vaccines ever devised. The teatanus vaccine contains both mercury and aluminum, the Hep-B vaccine that is for a sexually transmitted disease has no business to be administered to infants, the pneumococcal vaccine will induce asthma in children. What will this combination do?

 

I can only pray you don't give it to your own child to find out.

 

And remember the usual Hep-B vaccine and the DPT booster shot will also be given. Truly we are returning to the middle ages when the high priests used to decide the fate of our children ruled as they were by cruel hearts, greed for power and dark superstitions.

 

Give science a chance!

 

Regards,

Jagannath.

 

 

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Coming soon: Five-in-one vaccination shot for kidsKounteya Sinha , TNN 15 July 2009, 02:27am IST

 

 

 

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NEW DELHI: A single shot will soon protect children against five diseases.

 

 

The health ministry will soon take to the Cabinet for final approval the proposal to introduce a pentavalent vaccine (5X1) in its national immunization programme. The vaccine, that received a go-ahead from the ministry's Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) in June, will combine DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus) with Hepatitis B and Haemophilus Influenza Type B (Hib) that causes pneumonia and meningitis. The ministry will first launch the vaccine in five states - Himachal

Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir and Karnataka - all of which have high routine immunization rates (80%-90%). An estimated 90.63 lakh children will be vaccinated with this five-in-one shot in the five states between 2009 and 2011. This will cost nearly Rs 408 crore. In case India manages to get external funding from the Global Alliance for Vaccine Immunization (GAVI), the project will be extended to five more states - Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh - which will then cost Rs 1,405 crore. Sources said GAVI has already promised assistance to the tune of Rs 709 crore for the year 2009-10. The vaccine is expected to cost the government a little less than $2 per dose. A single child will be administered three doses of the vaccine at 6, 10 and 14 weeks. The birth dose of Hep B and booster dose of DPT at 16-24 months will be given as per the immunization schedule. At present, 85

countries across the world are using pentavalent vaccines. A ministry official told TOI, "The pentavalent vaccine will greatly reduce chances of dropout, will need no additional cold chain space as vaccine viles will reduce and the number of syringes used will also fall from 9 to 3. In 2009-10, 29 lakh children are expected to receive the vaccine." Around 2.7 crore children are born every year in India. Unfortunately, India leads the world in under-five mortality, with 20 lakh children dying every year. Of these, four lakh deaths

are due to pneumonia. According to Unicef, the routine immunization rate in India is at present 65%. However, the National Family Health Survey-III puts it at 47%. "Once the cabinet clears the project, an open tender system will choose the company that will supply the vaccine. We expect the vaccine price to fall after its introduction in the routine immunization programme," another official said. India at present uses a tetravalent vaccine in the national immunization programme. The introduction of a pentavalent

vaccine was recommended by the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) on June 16, 2008. "We will review the vaccine's use before the beginning of the next financial year. We will look at its cost effectiveness, efficacy, how well it is accepted by people and how much of the disease burden is reduced by it," ministry officials said.

"Vaccination wastes resources, gives false hope and distracts attention from what needs to be done." - Dr Surinder Bakshi, Consultant Communicable Diseases, UK, the Sunday Times,15 April 2001.

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