Whooping cough still prevalent in school-age children, even after vaccination

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

DPT is the vaccine that has caused so much trouble in the past and indeed one of my relations was damaged by it (epilepsy and mental retardation and poor coordination). When so many of the vaccinated kids still get the whooping cough, what is logical conclusion?

THIS VACCINE IS UNSAFE AND HAS POOR EFFICACY!

And the question arises, does the vaccine actually bring about the persistent cough?

Soroush

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/20007073.ar ... 6qtcoF3Kjk

Whooping cough still prevalent in school-age children, even after vaccination
GPs should consider pertussis as a cause of persistent cough even in children who have been immunised, suggests a study that has found a fifth of school-age children presenting to the GP with persistent cough may be infected.

Experts say that the study published in the BMJ shows that GPs should not assume that vaccination gives ‘absolute protection’ and reopens the debate on whether a additional adolescent booster programme should be introduced.

The study found that 20% of children presenting to GPs with persistent cough had evidence of recent pertussis infection, of whom 39 (70%) had been fully vaccinated with both primary vaccinations and the pre-school booster.

The study’s authors said this shows whooping cough in school-age children remains a concern several years after the introduction of the pre-school pertussis booster vaccination.

Researchers led by Dr Kay Wang, academic clinical lecturer in primary care at the University of Oxford, studied 279 children in the Thames Valley area who visited the GP with a persistent cough, over 90% of whom had received all their primary school vaccinations and around 80% the preschool booster.

They study found the prevalance of whooping cough was lower than around the time the preschool booster was first introduced in 2001 – when a similar study found pertussis in 37% of children with persistent cough - but that there was still a ‘significant burden of illness’.

The rate of pertussis infection was 40% in children who had received the preschool booster more than seven years before presentation - over three times higher than in children who had received the preschool jab more recently, for whom the rate of infection was 12%.
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The researchers wrote: ‘Our findings show that a significant burden of illness associated with pertussis remains among school-age children who present in UK primary care with persistent cough, even after implementation of the preschool pertussis booster vaccination and despite high levels of vaccination coverage.’

Dr Wang told Pulse: ‘The message for GPs is that whooping cough is still prevalent among school-age children who see them with a persistent cough, even after the introduction of the preschool booster.’

She added: ‘In terms of vaccination policy, it is still too early for us to tell whether an adolescent booster should be introduced in the UK. Although our findings highlight that whooping cough is still prevalent in this particular group, still more evidence is needed about the burden disease – we need to consider whether or not introducing an adolescent booster would be cost-effective.’

Dr Richard Vautrey, GPC deputy chair and lead on immunisation, said the study highlighted the importance of keeping up awareness of whooping cough and for GPs to keep encouraging pregnant women to have the pertussis booster.

Dr Vautrey said: ‘It is important for GPs to be aware of this as a possible cause for persistent cough even when children have been fully immunised – not to assume that that’s going to provide absolute protection. We need to be aware the infection is still around and ensure that those who are vulnerable are protected – and that’s particularly the case for pregnant women and newborn babies.’

He added: ‘There hasn’t been as much focus or publicity around that [pregnant women campaign] recently and yet we are aware that it continues to be a concern. It is important that pregnant women are encouraged do get themselves immunised so they protect not only themselves but also their baby and the more we can publicise and promote that the better.’

Public Health England (PHE) introduced the temporary booster vaccination for pregnant women to help protect newborn infants from whooping cough, following a major outbreak in 2012 . Since then, surveillance data has shown a 51% reduction in cases of whooping cough in England between 2012 and 2013, but GPs are still being encouraged to keep promoting the vaccine to pregnant women .

In addition, Government advisors on the Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisations (JCVI) are in ongoing discussions about the potential introduction of an adolescent programme , but PHE said the pertussis vaccination programme in pregnant women remained the priority for controlling whooping cough, while other booster programmes are ‘being kept under review’.

Dr Mary Ramsay, PHE’s head of immunisation said: ‘Although we have seen a significant decrease in cases there are still high numbers of older children and adults becoming infected and can risk exposing very young babies.

‘When the JCVI recently considered several options for improving the control of whooping cough in the UK the vaccination programme for pregnant women was considered to be the highest priority.

‘However, the committee regularly reviews updated scientific analysis and the introduction of additional whooping cough boosters is being kept under review. Any new programmes or amendments to the existing programme will be announced at the earliest possible date.’

[Irene de Villiers]

One important conclusoion is that it makes big bucks for drug companies and that all the research universities are scared of drug companies, from whence their research money comes.

In 1972 I did research at Creighton University that showed how dangerous pertussis vaccine is and by the way, also a lesser known effect I also found, is that it causes 40% of the population to become atopic.
(ie TO have serious allergic constitution...hence all this peanut allergy and other issues not invented before pertussis vaccine). Atopy involves thymus damage we now also know, so that predisposes all chronic diseases, not just the atopy that I actually measured.

I was not allowed to publish my work in case it upset the drug companies who providedd big bucks for cancer research, that the university did not want to lose. It was considered a relatively insignificant research compared to getting money for cancer research.
SO it is not unknown that these dangers have always been there - it has just been suppressed knowledge.

As to efficacy, I had that vaccine more than once but also got Pertussis more than once, first at 18 months then at 4 years. Useless except to make you sicker when you get sick.
Hard to say whether it causes a cough directly or via producing atopy which we KNOW it does, and which would predispose chronic cough.
Only a fifth? 40%, or two fifths, become atopic. Maybe the problem is less evident in another fifth.
Typical allopathy!
It causes harm so let's do more of it.

Not THAT relates to atopy and thymus involution - removing the resistance - and the 40% is the exact number I found atopic.
It is still suppressed. GIve it time
THIS is disaster.
Animal research shows that ANY vaccine for as pregnant individual causes permanent thymus involution of the the fetus!!!!!!!
ANd that IS published research.

Thymus involution will cause chronic disease - not acutes like pertusis - and no doubt they are not measuring THAT.

The world western population - the one using allopathy - keeps getting sicker and sicker, especially with chronic dieases that result from thymus atrophy, and still they do not see the correlation.

How tunnel vision distorts the view.
Heaven forbid anyone look at the big picture.

Namaste,
Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."

[Tanya Marquette]

Irene--I assume you still have the study and your data. Have you thought to try and get it published
online with say Green Medicine? They would carry articles such as the one you describe. And people
like Sherry Tenpenny, Joseph Mercola and Mayer Eisenstein are always pushing for real vaccine information.
Also, the NVIC should be interested. Today we have numerous organizations and individuals including MDs and
DOs who argue against/caution about vaccines.

I, personally, would like more information on your studies.

tanya

[Irene de Villiers]

Tanya,
Unfortunately no, I have no data. That was the property of Creighton University for whom I worked at the time.
The way it works in research is that I get credit for doing it, and paid for doing it, but do not own the data, which is property of the place where one is employed.

Lately my research has been funded and done by me as a self-emplyed researcher. And you can see what hot water that has me in I am still fighting for the right to present it on my website. ANY research that does not put money in drug company pockets is squashed.
It was at Creighton University that agar gel electrophoresis was first discovered and developed in early 1970 (by Dr Villacorte from the Phillipine Islands - we had twelve researchers from almost as many countries at Creighton on various immunology research projects, two Americans included. I saw why the mix was great - you got the expertise of multiple countries and universities combined, it made a great think-tank. ).
I started there Jan that year. (Before that we had cellulose acetate membrane electrophoresis only). Gel electrophoreseis is now the way all DNA results are separated out into genes all over the planet, it is wat you see when you see a row of gene blobs in any genetic work. But it has maybe a million uses. It is the basic system for any separation of mixtures by molecular weight, to separate and measure each component based on molecular weight and molecular shape.
Heavy molecules adn odd shape ones move slower than small ones so you run an electric current through the gel via a cathode-anode system with say a point two microliter amount at one end, very accurately measured so as to know total quantity, and the molecules move in a straight line in the direction of the current, each one depositing in a specific place when you stop the current after a specific time when you know all components will have separated out. You then pass the separated components through a densitometer which measures how much there is in each blob, of the two microliter (or other known amount) you started with.
My use of it then was in testing blood samples and saliva samples (saliva electrophoresis was also new and developed then/there) to separate the molecules of a mixture so as to identify and quantify each component. For the atopy testing, either blood or saliva could be used to measure the Gamma E (present in minute amount in blood) and Gamma E quantity is essentially a way to measure atopy. Also alpha one antitrypsin and some other measurements were taken for other studies.
(Exampe of another one: The alpha one antitrypsin quantity is abnormal in people with inherited late onset emphysema, which has symptoms only about age 40, but the electrophoresis result could tell at any age before that if the problem was present, and steps could be taken not to let it get bad as damage then, by allopathy, could be halted but not reversed. The idea was to halt it at the start by knowing it was latently present.)
So I gathered samples of blood if available, else saliva, from all consenting patients/parents and families of same, plus data on vaccinations and any atopic/respiratory/allergic data, at St Joseph's Hospital attached to Creighton University - followed by collecting samples from other centres....all run for Gamma E to confirm atopy or lack thereof - and correlated with data collected re vaccination and allergy history.
The statistics were vast and overwhelmingly clear. I spent two years between all other work, keeping maximum agar plates busy in Beckman analysis machines and densitometers. Assistants collected blood, saliva, and data. And I found an old Olivetti computer in the basement, dusted it off and programmed it to help the process. Not at all exciting to do actually, quite a slog, but the data was a real eye opener back then.
The new technology allowed simultaneous study of several things one could measure with great accuracy and in statistically significant quantity, in blood or saliva.

Namaste,
Irene
--
Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."