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3 infants died from same Dr.s office...............

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3 infants died from same Dr.s

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Posted by: " lois noland " jlois loisnoland

Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:09 pm (PST)

David Waddel Died Sept. 4, 2007

Vance Walker Died Sept. 15, 2007

Paiytu Ames Died Oct. 10, 2007

 

All from the same pediatricians office.

 

 

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=12892

 

Spokane

Shot in the dark

Heartbroken woman wonders if vaccines killed her

infant son

 

By JoNel Aleccia

Staff writer

December 23, 2007

 

Federal health officials are reviewing whether

routine immunizations contributed to the deaths of as

many as three North Idaho babies this fall, a

spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention said this week.

 

The agency has requested autopsy reports and

medical records for at least two children and could

seek them for a third Kootenai County infant, all of

whom died in September and October, apparently within

days of receiving recommended vaccines.

 

There's no clear link between the vaccines and the

deaths, which were classified as Sudden Infant Death

Syndrome, or SIDS, said Curtis Allen, a spokesman for

the CDC. " There is nothing so far to indicate that

there is a particular problem other than these

children died in the same city, " Allen said.

 

But the mother of one of the children said it's no

coincidence that her 4-month-old son died within days

of receiving injections to prevent serious

childhood illnesses, including diphtheria,

tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B, polio, rotavirus and

invasive pneumococcal disease.

 

" My baby was so healthy, " said Shelly Walker, 39,

of Hayden. " He was extremely full of life, energy and

vitality. "

 

Nevertheless, early on the morning of Sept. 15,

less than three days after Vance Vernon Walker

received a round of vaccines at Lakeside Pediatric and

Adolescent Medicine in Coeur d'Alene, his mother awoke

to a nightmare.

 

" It was about 5:15 a.m. I woke up and thought,

'He's not making any noise! " Walker recalled. " I went

to pick him up and then I screamed. "

 

Her 16 1/2-pound boy was warm and his lips were

still pink, but he wasn't moving. Blood was crusted

beneath his eyes, and his clothes and toys were

covered with a bloody froth.

 

As her husband, Brian, 46, called 911, Walker

worked frantically to resuscitate their child. But in

the emergency room at Kootenai Medical

Center, doctors said Vance had been dead for

several hours.

 

" I grabbed my baby in my arms and held him up and

I screamed, 'How in the hell did this happen?' "

Walker said. " Was it the vaccines? "

 

Medical officials from the CDC and the federal

Food and Drug Administration are working to answer

that question for the Walkers and for families of two

other babies who died within six weeks of each other.

 

Two of the deaths have been logged in the

voluntary Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System

–VAERS – jointly operated by the CDC and FDA, agency

officials said. But Dr. Robert West, the Kootenai

County coroner, confirmed that three infants died this

fall within days of immunization.

 

Parents of the other babies could not be reached

for comment.

 

Autopsies failed to detect any specific vaccine

reactions, West said, forcing a determination of SIDS

– a " diagnosis of exclusion, " he noted.

 

He said he welcomes the federal review. " It is a

little bit unusual but not totally unheard of, " West

said. " It deserves the investigative clout of the

CDC. "

 

Walker confirmed that her son's death was one of

the Idaho cases reported to VAERS. The other reported

child likely was also under the care of the

Coeur d'Alene pediatric group, Allen said. That

raises the possibility the children received vaccines

from the same batch.

 

If the CDC receives three reports of deaths or 10

reports of serious non-fatal injuries related to the

same lot of a vaccine, it launches a review, Allen

said.

 

In Vance Walker's case, the immunizations included

a dose of Pediarix, a combined vaccine that contains

DTaP, hepatitis B and inactivated polio vaccines. His

mother's records indicate the lot number of the

vaccine

manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline was AC21B124B.

He also received a dose of Prevnar, lot number

B54007C, a vaccine manufactured by Wyeth

Pharmaceuticals.

 

Allen, of the CDC, said it would be up to the

medical practice to decide whether to suspend use of

the vaccine. Dr. Brian Hickok, the pediatrician for

Walker's son, did not return calls about the issue. A

representative for the medical practice declined to

comment.

 

Those two vaccines are the most likely to be

implicated in any adverse events, said David Terzian,

a Virginia lawyer who specializes in vaccine injury

cases. Terzian said the Walkers have a good chance of

receiving

compensation for their son's death through a

federal program because it occurred so soon after

immunization, well within the 72 hours required by

federal rules.

 

Information provided by drug manufacturers and

attached to the vaccines reports low numbers of

associated deaths. In 14 clinical trials of Pediarix,

five deaths were reported among 8,088 recipients of

the vaccine, including two cases of SIDS.

 

In a study of more than 34,000 children in which

about half received Prevnar and half received a

control vaccine, a dozen deaths, including five SIDS

deaths, occurred in the Prevnar group. By contrast, 21

deaths occurred in the control group, including four

SIDS deaths, according to manufacturer data.

 

Immunization specialists acknowledge that any

death following vaccination is a tragedy. But they

emphasize that far more children died or fell ill in

the era before vaccinations.

 

" For the most part, disease is always going to be

more risky than getting a vaccine, " said Nicole

Pender, health educator for the immunization program

at the Washington state Department of Health.

 

That is no comfort to Shelly Walker. She hopes her

experience inspires parents to educate themselves

about the risks of vaccines and prompts them to

monitor any reaction, however slight. She plans to

file a claim through the National Vaccine Injury

Compensation Program, which provides a maximum of

$250,000 after a vaccine-related death.

 

In return, all records related to her son's injury

and death will be sealed by the drug manufacturers.

Walker is optimistic that they'll use the data to

improve product safety so other families won't

experience her tragedy.

 

" My hope is they're compiling data and statistics

to make things better, " she said. " I'm trying to

believe in the inherent goodness of something here. "

 

David Waddel Died Sept. 4, 2007

Vance Walker Died Sept. 15, 2007

Paiytu Ames Died Oct. 10, 2007

 

All from the same pediatricians office.

 

 

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Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada

City CA & Wales UK

Vaccines - http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccine.htm

Vaccine Dangers &

Childhood Disease & Homeopathy Email classes start

in March

 

Lois Noland

Always in search for the " cure "

 

Lois Noland

 

I don't give in

I don't give up

And I don't take no for an answer

Always looking for the " Cure "

 

I don't give in

I don't give up

And I don't take NO for an answer.

 

If God Brings you to it,

He will Bring you though it.

 

 

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was possible... "

 

In my heart, I believe that too!

 

 

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