Diseases in the Vaccinated - Page 3

All UC Berkeley mumps patients had two vaccinations

Hundreds of UC Berkeley students and employees lined up outside the campus health center Thursday for free vaccinations after a mumps outbreak infected up to 20 students.

A spokeswoman for the health center said the university and state public-health officials expected to vaccinate more than 1,000 people by the time the clinic closed at 6 p.m. The university will hold another free clinic from noon to 6 p.m. Oct. 14.

The state Department of Public Health was monitoring the rare outbreak this week. A department spokesman said he had no update on the number of students infected. Seven cases had been confirmed and 13 other students were being tested.

Although health officials initially wondered whether the outbreak started with students who had not been vaccinated, a spokeswoman for the city of Berkeley said all the patients had received the two recommended doses before becoming ill.

Source: Contra-Costa Times, 7th October 2011.

VAN UK's Comment: That makes sense, they're already vaccinated, an outbreak happens so they line up to get vaccinated??

Vaccine-Derived Poliomyelitis 12 Years after Infection

DeVries et al. (June 16 issue)1 describe a patient with vaccine-derived poliomyelitis. We were unable to clear chronic, asymptomatic, neurovirulent poliovirus infection in a similarly antibody-deficient patient despite the use of antiviral therapy, breast milk, and oral immune globulin.2 In our patient, the mean IgG trough levels were 1000 mg per deciliter, and paralysis did not develop during an estimated 29 years of poliovirus infection. Neutralizing antibodies against his own poliovirus isolates were detected in his replacement immune globulin by the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control.3 In the patient described by DeVries et al., the IgG trough levels were 438 and 648 mg per deciliter before the onset of paralysis, and the immune globulin–replacement product had recently been changed. Since immunity to enteroviruses is primarily antibody-mediated,4 adequate immune globulin replacement is key for the prevention of paralysis in immunodeficient poliovirus carriers. Where possible, replacement immune globulin should be tested for antiviral activity against poliovirus isolates from such carriers until new antiviral agents that can cure this condition are available.5

Source: N Engl J Med 2011; 365:1355October 6, 2011. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1108814

Mumps epidemic forces French to postpone games

he rough and tumble of macho French league rugby has been curtailed by an unexpected source -- an epidemic of mumps.

The virus, normally associated with children, has forced the French rugby union league (LNR) to postpone next weekend's Basque derby between Biarritz and Bayonne after another Top 14 game was called off for the same reason.

"Because of an epidemic of mumps within the Lyon squad (...) the LNR has decided, as a precaution, to postpone the Biarritz v Bayonne game," the LNR said in a statement on Monday.

The LNR explained it made the decision to avoid possible contamination by the Biarritz players as they faced Lyon on Oct. 22.

The Bordeaux v Lyon game was postponed last week because Lyon players were suffering from mumps.

Source: Reuters, 31st October 2011.

VAN UK's Comment: If they'd just had mumps as kids instead of the vaccine, they would have avoided this, and the heightened risk of testicular swelling and encephalitis in adult men.

New victim raises doubts about polio vaccine

Exposing the inefficacy of oral polio vaccine (OPV), a Swabi child has tested positive for polio despite being administered seven doses of vaccines over a period of time, health officials said here on Tuesday.

Official sources told Dawn that the National Institute of Health, Islamabad had found poliovirus in the blood of Asif Khan, 27-month-old son of Azeem Shah, a resident Narangi in Razar tehsil of Swabi district.

According to them, also in the day, reported another new polio case in North Waziristan agency, taking the number of children hit by the crippling disease this year to 12 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 38 in Fata and 136 in the country.

The officials said nearly half of the new cases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata had contracted polio despite receiving OPV raising doubts in the people`s minds about its efficacy.

They feared that the people living in the areas where such cases were reported might turn vaccinators away.

Officials said only five of the seven new polio cases in the province couldn`t be given polio drops due to their parents` refusal for one reason or the other, adding that the remaining received up to seven doses of vaccines.

A few years ago, a Peshawar lawyer questioned OPV efficacy but the health department didn`t heed it.

When contacted, Dr Imtiaz Ali Shah, focal person for polio eradication in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, told Dawn that OPV should be administered to children in every immunisation campaign until they reached the age of five years.

He said despite vaccination, children were at the risk of contracting polio as OPV was administered to increase their immunity to the crippling disease and that there was no guarantee in presence of other viruses that they won`t contract polio.

Dr Imtiaz said OPV remained didn`t produce intended effects if the child suffered from diarrhoea, low mineral level or low immunity.

Source: Dawn.com, 2nd November 2011.

VAN UK's Comment: They say vaccines don't work if you have low immunity but vaccines are supposed to give immunity.

5 Year old Vaccinated Child got Whooping Cough

Health officials confirm a student at Pink Hill Elementary School in Lenoir County has been diagnosed with Whooping Cough.

The Lenoir County Health Department tells Nine On Your Side a 5-year-old boy was diagnosed with Whooping Cough, or pertusiss - a highly contagious bacterial infection. No word on when the child first became ill. Officials say the boy was previously vaccinated, and that chances of getting Whooping Cough with immunization is very unlikely.

They say he didn't get all the doses due to vaccine reactions. Number of doses needed for immunity varies by country.

Source: Eyewitness News, 31st October 2011.

Measles among vaccinated Quebec kids questioned - 50% of Cases were Vaccinated

An investigation into an outbreak in a high school in a town that was heavily hit by the virus found that about half of the cases were in teens who had received the recommended two doses of vaccine in childhood — in other words, teens whom authorities would have expected to have been protected from the measles virus.

It's generally assumed that the measles vaccine, when given in a two-dose schedule in early childhood, should protect against measles infection about 99 per cent of the time. So the discovery that 52 of the 98 teens who caught measles were fully vaccinated came as a shock to the researchers who conducted the investigation.

"That's the real question. How could that have happened?" said Dr. Gaston De Serres, an infectious diseases expert with Quebec's public health agency and one of the authors of the study.

Source: CBC News, 20th October 2011.

Measles outbreak continues in Canada, even among immunized population (50% of Cases Vaccinated).

The measles outbreak in Canada continues to occur in both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals and is causing concern over vaccine effectiveness, according to a presentation here during the IDSA 49th Annual Meeting.

“While this still ongoing outbreak feeds largely on unvaccinated individuals, the high proportion of cases who received two doses raises concerns on vaccine effectiveness,” Philippe Belanger, MSc, Ministère de la santé et des services sociaux du Québec, Montréal, told Infectious Diseases in Children. “However, the take-home message is still to get vaccinated.”

Source: Pediatric Supersite, 23rd October 2011.

VAN UK's Comment: That really makes me want to go out and get a measles vaccine (NOT). Effective advertising, there!

Hepatitis B in Three Vaccinated Children

In the recent past, we encountered 3 cases with jaundice, who were investigated for HBsAg and turned out to be positive. All the three had received the 3 doses of hepatitis B vaccine within 5 years of presentation (presented after 1 year, 1½ years and 6 months after 3rd dose). There was a mixed opinion among pediatricians that the HBsAg was positive because of vaccine, vaccine failure, or reinfection. In this context I seek the following clarifications:

Does the Hepatitis B vaccine result in positive HBsAg in a child, if so for how long after immunization.

Does seroconversion after vaccination mean the conversion of HBsAg positive (positivity due to vaccination) to negative as the antibody tests are not available all the time.

After the 3rd dose, if a patient comes with jaundice and is positive for HBsAg on investigation, should it be taken as vaccine failure due to the vaccine per se, or a new infection.

Source: Indian Pediatrics 2000;37: 1388-1389. http://www.indianpediatrics.net/dec2000/dec-1388-1389.htm

Hep B Virus is in the Blood of Vaccinated Children

In his reply to the above questions, a medical scientist says this:

1. Does HB vaccination make a child HBsAg positive?

The HB vaccine consists of purified HBsAg, which is injected into the child’s tissues. Therefore, the child’s body now contains HBsAg. However, since the injected dose is minute, in the range of 10 micrograms, the antigen will not be picked up in an HBsAg ELISA (or another test) of the peripheral blood specimen.

VAN UK's Comment: His argument is, the amount of Hep B is too small to cause infection, but all this says is, the current tests cannot pick it up in the blood. That doesn't mean it can't cause infection.

Whooping Cough Vaccine Fades after 3 Years

The whooping cough vaccine given to babies and toddlers loses much of its effectiveness after just three years -- a lot faster than doctors believed -- and that could help explain a recent series of U.S. outbreaks among children who were fully vaccinated, a study suggests.

The study is small and preliminary, and its authors said the results need to be confirmed through more research. Nevertheless, the findings are likely to stir debate over whether children should get a booster shot earlier than now recommended.

"I was disturbed to find maybe we had a little more confidence in the vaccine than it might deserve," said the lead researcher, David Witt, chief of infectious disease at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Rafael, Calif. Dr. Witt presented his findings Monday at a conference in Chicago.

The study was done in California, where whooping cough vaccinations are a hot-button issue. The state had a huge spike in whooping cough cases last year, during which more than 9,100 people fell ill and 10 babies died. California schools have turned away thousands of middle and high school students this fall who haven't gotten their booster shot.

Government health officials recommend that children get vaccinated against whooping cough in five doses, with the first shot at age 2 months and the final one between 4 and 6 years. Then youngsters are supposed to get a booster shot around 11 or 12. That means a gap of five to eight years.

Dr. Witt's study looked at roughly 15,000 children in Marin County, Calif., including 132 who got whooping cough last year. He found that youngsters who had gone three years or more since the last of their five original shots were as much as 20 times more likely to become infected than children who had been more recently vaccinated.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11263/1176014-114-0.stm#ixzz1dKvC1AXN

Complicated Pneumococcal Meningitis in a Fully Vaccinated Child

We present a unique case of life-threatening pneumococcal meningitis complicated by vasculitis in a fully vaccinated 4-year-old female with the heptavalent conjugate vaccine for Streptococcus pneumoniae (PCV7). Serotype 23F was isolated in both blood and cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) samples. Pulses of methylprednisolone were promptly initiated in addition to antibiotics leading to a good recovery. CSF studies and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain were used for diagnosis and monitoring the response to corticoid therapy. We report the investigations of a child with failure of PCV7 vaccine to protect against vaccine-serotype invasive disease. Use of corticosteroids and temporal association with changes in brain imaging are described for the first time in literature.

Source: Neuropediatrics. 2011 Nov 14. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22083882

Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis in a child vaccinated with pneumococcal heptavalent conjugate vaccine

Pneumococcal meningitis is still today a life threatening disease among children under-5 worldwide. Although the heptavalent vaccine has demonstrated its ability to reduce the incidence of pneumococcal disease its efficacy is limited due to the restricted number of serotypes included. We report a case of a child with a Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis despite the use of heptavalent conjugate vaccine.

Source: New Microbiol. 2009 Jul;32(3):317-8. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19845117

13 Kids Get Whooping Cough, ALL were Vaccinated

Thirteen kids in the Smithtown School District has contracted pertussis, a highly contagious bacterial infection also known as whooping cough, Suffolk County Health Commissioner James L. Tomarken announced Tuesday.

Cases were confirmed in St. James Elementary School, Tackan Elementary School and Nesaquake Middle School, and the health department has advised school officials to begin infection control measures.

According to the health department, all the infected children had been immunized, which explains why they only came down with mild cases of the infection.

Source: SmithtownPatch, 21 June 2011. http://smithtown.patch.com/articles/13-kids-contract-whooping-cough-at-smithtown-schools

VAN UK's Comment: My 2nd daughter had whooping cough 14 years ago. Hers was a mild case and she was unvaccinated. That is just an excuse they use to explain why the vaccine doesn't work.

Chemical exposure may compromise vaccine response - More Excuses Why Vaccines Don't Work

Children exposed to chemicals called PFCs — used in some non-stick cookware, stain-resistant coatings, fast-food packaging and microwave popcorn bags — have a reduced response to vaccines, raising the possibility that the compounds could prevent children from being adequately protected against disease, a new study shows.

The study, published today's Journal of the American Medical Association, focused on perfluorinated compounds, hundreds of which are in use, says study author Philippe Grandjean of the Harvard School of Public Health. Children can be exposed prenatally as well as environmentally.

Because the compounds are water- and grease-resistant, they are used as coatings on paper plates, rainwear, upholstery and other uses. They can be absorbed through food, water and the dust from treated textiles. A 2011 report found that six of 10 paper bags and cardboard boxes used for food packaging contained PFCs.

Scientists measured children's exposure by taking blood samples from their mothers during pregnancy, and from the children at ages 5 and 7.
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At age 5, just before receiving a scheduled booster shot, 26% had antibody concentrations too low to protect them from tetanus; 37% had levels too low to protect from diptheria. Researchers gave them booster shots to provide additional protection, Grandjean says.

Children with the highest prenatal PFC exposure had the lowest response to vaccinations, as measured by the antibodies produced after they received the shots, the study says. Doubling a child's PFC exposure cut immune response in half.

"That's a pretty impressive effect, and one that deserves attention," says Peter Hotez, director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, who wasn't involved in the study. It "gives us pause for concern."

Source: USA Today, 24th January 2012. http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/story/2012-01-24/Chemical-exposure-may-compromise-vaccine-response/52774114/1

11 Year Old Vaccinated Boy Dies of Rare Measles Complication

Then, about a month ago, doctors at Doernbecher Children's Hospital at OHSU diagnosed it: Sean had Dawson Disease; a rare, neurological condition caused by the measles virus. Less than 10 people in the United States are reported to have it each year.

"He actually had the vaccine itself, the first dose, but it didn't protect him," Alpapara told KOIN. She says when Sean was a baby he got the measles virus in the Philippines, after he had been vaccinated. Alpapara says that often times, vaccines in other countries are not as strong as they are in the United States.

She thought when he had the measles and survived, that would be the worst of it.

"He almost died then. But I never thought there was some kind of disease that just laid dormant in his brain for 10 years," she said.

Source: Koinlocal6, 17th February 2012.

82 People Get Whooping Cough, All were Vaccinated. Authorities Say 'Still Get Your Vaccine!' (Yes, that is such a good sales pitch, makes me want to get 10!).

Thursday, the Alamance County Health Department said they now have 82 confirmed cases. The Health Department also said all of those cases had previously received the pertussis vaccine.

The vaccination for whooping cough, also known as pertussis, has changed. Back in 1991, doctors reformulated the vaccine because some children were having severe reactions to the original vaccine.

"What we're finding is that this vaccine is safer. But, the downside is that it's not producing antibodies that are as protective as the old, cellular pertussis vaccine. The answer to everyone is...look, you still get the vaccine," Guilford County Health Department Medical Director Ward Robinson said.

Source: Digtriad.com, 24th February 2012.

30 Children in Wales Get Measles, All had One Dose of MMR

Thirty children have been diagnosed with measles at an outbreak connected to the Ysgol Eifionydd School in Porthmadog, North Wales.

Of the 30 children affected by the outbreak, none of them have received more than one dose of the MMR vaccine. Two doses of the vaccine are required to protect against measles, mumps and rubella.

Source: Vaccine News Daily, 2nd March 2012.

VAN UK's Comment: Actually, the 2nd dose is only given to supposedly catch the 10% of people who fail to respond to the first vaccine, meaning that 90% of those vaccinated with one dose should still be 'immunized'.

Pertussis on Rise Especially in Countries with HIGH VACCINATION

Although pertussis has been supposed to be a vaccine-preventable disease ever since the widespread vaccination of children against pertussis was started, since the 1990s, cases of pertussis and related fatalities are on the rise, especially in countries with high vaccination coverage - Quote from
Korean J Pediatr. 2010 May; 53(5): 629–633.

VAN UK's Comment: Notice they say pertussis is 'supposed' to be vaccine preventable. Although they say that the rise is in the countries with the most vaccinations, they say most deaths are in unvaccinated third world kids (most kids in the third world

are actually vaccinated, often repeatedly, with whole cell DPT and records on jabs are often not kept or destroyed).

http://www.vaccineriskawareness.com/Skewed-Statistics?r=1335574907 - vaccine reports on dead third world children destroyed.

http://blog.unicef.org.nz/2010/02/04/unicef%E2%80%99s-child-immunization-campaign-in-haiti-kicked-off-today/ - an example of vaccination campaigns in a poor country.

More kids in California Pertussis Epidemic Vaccinated

During a whooping cough outbreak in California in 2010, immunized children between eight and 12 years old were more likely to catch the bacterial disease than kids of other ages, suggesting that the childhood vaccine wears off as kids get older, according to new research.

"We have a real belief that the durability (of the vaccine) is not what was imagined," said Dr. David Witt, an infectious disease specialist at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Rafael, California, and senior author of the study.

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is caused by Bordetella pertussis bacteria. The infection produces an intense cough that lasts weeks and can lead to pneumonia, an inability to breathe or death -- although most cases don't reach such extremes.

In early 2010, a spike in cases appeared at Kaiser Permanente in San Rafael, and it was soon determined to be an outbreak of whooping cough -- the largest seen in California in more than 50 years.

Witt had expected to see the illnesses center around unvaccinated kids, knowing they are more vulnerable to the disease.

"We started dissecting the data. What was very surprising was the majority of cases were in fully vaccinated children. That's what started catching our attention," said Witt.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/03/us-whoopingcough-idUSBRE8320TM20120403