shingles/varicella vaccine - epidemics

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I thought you might find this interesting link to vaccine after effect.

 

Louise

 

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2003/10/prweb82645.htm

 

DATA REVEALS THREAT OF SHINGLES EPIDEMIC FROM VACCINE USE Health

Officials Threaten Legal Action Against Researcher

 

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.

 

Contact: Gary S. Goldman, Ph.D.

Phone: 661-944-5661

Fax: 661-944-4483

Email: pearblossominc

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (PRWEB October 1, 2003

 

DATA REVEALS THREAT OF SHINGLES EPIDEMIC FROM VACCINE USE

Health Officials Threaten Legal Action Against Researcher

 

Pearblossom, California (PRWEB) October 1 2003-- 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.”

 

     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.”

 

     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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