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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 1, 2003

 

DATA REVEALS THREAT OF SHINGLES EPIDEMIC FROM VACCINE USE

Health Officials Threaten Legal Action Against Researcher

 

Pearblossom, California – Three different analyses of reported cases of

shingles and chickenpox were published today in the October 2003 issue of

Vaccine and suggest the threat of a shingles epidemic in the US due to mass

vaccination with varicella (chickenpox) vaccine. Data collected under the

CDC-funded Varicella Active Surveillance Project (VASP) of the Los Angeles

County Department of Health Services Acute Communicable Disease Control Unit

revealed that when chickenpox disease was significantly reduced in a population,

there was an unexpectedly high number of shingles cases among unvaccinated

children with a previous history of chickenpox. Shingles is usually mild in

children and can be severe in adults. Complications from shingles, which is

caused by the reactivation of the chickenpox virus that lies dormant in the

body, result in about three times the number of hospitalizations and five times

the number of deaths as those from chickenpox disease.

 

The analyses were authored by Gary Goldman, Ph.D., a former research analyst

with the VASP, using capture-recapture methods. Goldman worked from 1995 through

late 2002 at one of three projects in the nation assigned to actively study the

effects of chickenpox vaccine and received reports from three hundred different

public and private schools, day cares, and healthcare facilities. He observed

that because the vaccine is eliminating chickenpox disease, children and adults

no longer receive the natural boost to their immune systems that they received

from periodic exposures to the disease. Due to the dramatic decline in

chickenpox, children are now experiencing a higher incidence of shingles and

Goldman predicts that a large scale increase in shingles incidence will soon

become manifest among adults—a group more susceptible to serious

complications.

 

Vaccine manufacturers plan to license a booster “shingles†vaccine to

substitute for the boosting that naturally occurred when chickenpox disease was

previously circulating in the population. “This will likely lead to endless

disease-and-cure cycles,†says Goldman. “Varicella vaccination would have

been less problematic if all children had the opportunity to gain natural

immunity and only those still susceptible at twelve years old were

vaccinated.â€

 

Goldman also reports that shortly after communicating on authorship issues with

health officials associated with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

concerning the shingles data and analysis, he was threatened with legal action

if he published the manuscript in the medical literature. He said, “Whenever

research data and information concerning potential adverse effects associated

with a vaccine used in a human population are suppressed and/or misrepresented

by health authorities, not only is this most disturbing, it goes against all

accepted scientific norms and dangerously compromises professional ethics.â€

 

Between 1995 and 2000, shingles was not being studied, and positive aspects of

vaccination contributed by Goldman were published in the Journal of the American

Medical Association (JAMA) and other medical journals. In 2000, after hearing

reports that school nurses were seeing cases of shingles in children for the

first time, Goldman suggested shingles be added to the active surveillance

project. After two years of shingles data collection, Goldman documented the

adverse effects that might well be associated with the universal varicella

vaccination program. Currently, varicella immunization is mandated in

thirty-eight states.

 

The European journal, Vaccine (Volume 21, Issue 27/28) has devoted eighteen

pages to Goldman’s three reports.

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