Do Vaccines
Work-Meningitis
Meningococcal meningitis
(also known as aseptic meningitis) is an infection caused by the bacterium Neisseria
meningitidis (also known as meningococcus) that causes inflammation of the membranes
(meninges) that cover the brain, brain stem, and spinal cord and are caused by bacterial
or viral infections.
Only 5%-20% of the
population has the menigococcus bacteria. Infections are very rare. Especially that of the C strain that is targeted by
the vaccine.
Viral meningitis is
sometimes called aseptic meningitis to indicate it is not the result of bacterial
infection and cannot be treated with antibiotics. Symptoms of meningitis,
which may appear suddenly, often include high fever, severe and persistent headache, stiff
neck, nausea, and vomiting. Changes in behavior such as confusion, sleepiness, and
difficulty waking up may also occur. In infants, symptoms of meningitis may include
irritability or fatigue, lack of appetite, and fever. Viral meningitis usually resolves in
10 days or less, but other types of meningitis can be deadly if not treated promptly.
Anyone experiencing symptoms of meningitis or encephalitis should see a doctor
immediately.
There are three
meningitis pathogens targeted by vaccination: Hemophilus influenzae, Pneumococcal meningitis , and Meningitis
due to N. meningitidis. None of
which have been scientifically proven safe or effective.

Hemophilus Infuenzae is said to be the most common form of bacterial
meningitis in the USA targeted by the hemophilus
influenzae type b vaccination. The term "Hib disease" does
not necessarily mean "meningitis". It is used for any disease where the
Hib is found through laboratory testing. It is not defined by symptoms but the lab
results only. The clinical definition is unclear.
There are eight biotypes in all but the vaccine
only has one. Hemophilus Influenzae type b supposedly accounts for 95% of the
hemophilus Influenzae diseases in children and 50% of the hemophilus influenzae diseases
in adults. These strains cause mucosal infections, including otitis media,
conjunctivitis, sinusitis, bronchitis, and pneumonia. The
frequency of Hib infections in patients with asplenia, splenectomy, sickle cell disease,
malignancies, and congenital or acquired immunodeficiencies is higher than in individuals
without these conditions. Most strains (80%) colonize in the nasopharynx behind the
nose.
Transmission
is acquired by inhalation of respiratory tract droplets that can be sneezed, coughed up
and simply breathed out by the infected. The incubation period is unknown.
Before vaccinations the hemophilus disease was uncommon only found in 2-5% of
children. The incidence rate in the USA is
0.00% at approximately 1 in every 1, 042, 145. The CDC's numbers are 260 average
cases annually and 625 deaths from hemophilus infuenzae annually. For a 300 million
population, that's only 2%. Is that enough to merit the a mass vaccination?
In 1987, Minnesota state
epidemiologist, Michael Osterhom reported that the vaccine was actually increasing Hib
infections instead of decreasing them. To the NIH he reported that in a study the
Hib vaccine showed a five fold increase. The study showed the vaccine inability to
"prevent" infection by -86%. Yes, that's negative 86%.
In a 2000 publication
from CDC cites a 25% increase in insulin dependent diabetes in vaccine recipients
receiving Hib vaccinations. This during a study done in Finland. (Data from
New Zealand and Italy showed a 50% increase from the Hepatitis b vaccination). CDC's
data showed that a child vaccinated after two months of life had an even greater risk of
developing diabetes at 60%.
One of the
Australian vaccine information sheets specifically states that brain damage can occur.
These can later manifest in behavioral, developmental and neurological disorders.
Some have experienced so much regression that they are unresponsive. This
sounds very similar to symptoms of autism.
CDC suspected failure in 1993 when 30-50 cases are reported after adequate
vaccination. Failure of the vaccine had already been established in a 1992
publication of the American Family Physician.
The vaccine, though
invented and "recommended" to target meningitis, is not measured for
success in disease elimination but Hib bacteria are found in laboratory tests.
Children are less likely
to develop natural immunity from being exposed to vaccinated children

There are two vaccines used to
supposedly fight against the Pneumococcal
meningitis for which there are over 90
serotypes:
Pnu-Imune
23 (PPV23) - against S. Pneumoniae (primarily for pneumococcal pneumonia)
for adults contains 23 serotypes and Prevnar (PCV)
- against S. pneumoniae (primarily for pneumococcal meningitis)
used on infants contains 7 serotypes. Scientists, in a New England Journal of
Medicine 2000 article, concluded that bacterial meningitis in the USA is primarily in
adults, not in small children as previously stated. Like many vaccines, the results
of the prelicensure studies of Prevnar were reported and published before they were even
complete. That goes against international rules of reporting clinical trials.
The foundation of the trials was to establish
merit in vaccinating newborns with the vaccine. However, the 38,000 infants used in
the trial were not included in NEJM publication supporting the idea. Did something
go wrong that would have led to suspicion against it's claims of efficacy for small
infants? Another factor in the studies, which were conducted by both Wyeth and
Kaiser Permanente, is that the children were also given the more reactive DPT vaccination
instead of the DTaP known to bring on less adverse reactions. In doing so, they put
these children in even greater risk for traumatically serious adverse reactions during the
course of five years. The two companies were given write off privileges for such
reactions as seizures, high fevers, irritability....etc as having anything to do with the
Prevnar. With the simple stroke of their pens, they were allowed to dismiss such
reactions as having anything to do with the Prevnar and then blamed it all on the reactive
DPT vaccination. Where's the science in that?
The Prevnar is a four shots series at $60/shot and only
cover 7 of the serotypes. The big price tag insures big profits for the
manufacturer. In 2000 there were only
1,500 reported cases of pneumococcal meningitis among infants. In comparative
average of 3 million (at the least) babies born in America every year, that is not even a
1% case rate for the year. That's less than one percent at 0.0005%. However,
with the marketed argument passed down to Pediatricians from CDC and on to parents being
ear infections, profits for this unmerited vaccine are guaranteed. Prevnar is hailed as the vaccine to reduce
and/or prevent ear infections. However, when it was licensed, that is not what it
was necessarily licensed for use against. In Pre-licensure studies the vaccine was
found to decrease ear infections by only 6% as compared to the unvaccinated
population. The case of preventing ear
infections with the Prevnar vaccine is also on shaky ground after licensure. 60% of
ear infections are actually viral. Less than 40% are bacterial and only 25% of ear
infections may have anything to do with the pneumococcus. So, over 60% of ear infections are unaffected by antibiotics. Dr. Van Heerbeek, in a 2006 Reuters publication,
confirms the vaccines inability to prevent or reduce ear infections.
Indeed there are some ethical issues that need to
be addressed in the trial of Prevnar. Many of the doctors involved in the testing
and approval process have conflict of interests. Safety testing was inadequate.
Of the chronic and debilitating disease seen in the vaccine, studies were only
conducted for 5 years.
In a
Dallas investigative report, Dr. Erdem Cantekin quotes "It is an ineffective and
toxic vaccine" and that "the alleged benefits of this new vaccine are greatly
exaggerated and the risks are significant." Soon after it's license in the U.S.
there were 117 deaths reported shortly after vaccination.
Mother
Nature Fights Back
A
September 2007 publication points out the unfortunate effect of the Prevnar vaccine
causing the drug resistant dominance of a bacteria not included in Prevnar. "The best way to prevent these resistant
infections from spreading is to be careful about how we use antibiotics," said Dr.
Cynthia Whitney, chief of respiratory diseases at the federal Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. The 19A strain has been resistant to all pediatric medication.
While some of the infected children had to undergo surgery for tubes to help drain
the infections, others were subjected to a strong antibiotic not yet tested for safety in
children. 21,000 of 19A bacterial samples have been tested in the USA and are
becoming a great concern as they increase. From 4% in the three previous years,
between 2005-2006 there was a 15% increase amongst children 2 years old and under.
The 19A was also found to be in 40% of cases resistant to medical treatment. 35%
were found to be resistant to penicillin between 2004-2005. The year before Prevnar
vaccine was licensed and recommended there was only 2% of them to be resistant to
penicillin. Because these bacteria easily swap gene components to become even more
hardy, "new types may emerge that can both escape containment by vaccine and spread
throughout the world," says Dr. Daniel Musher of Baylor College of Medicine wrote in
the New England Journal of Medicine.
October of 2007 yet another "super bug"
has been identified and given the name MRSA for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus. MRSA is a strain of the ubiquitous bacterium that usually causes staph
infections that are easily treated with common, or first-line, antibiotics in the
penicillin family, such as methicillin and amoxicillin. Resistant strains of the organism,
however, have been increasingly turning up in hospitals and in small outbreaks outside of
heath-care settings, such as among athletes, prison inmates and children. MRSA, which is spread by casual contact, rapidly turns
minor abscesses and other skin infections into serious health problems, including painful,
disfiguring "necrotizing" abscesses that eat away tissue. The infections can
often still be treated by lancing and draining sores and quickly administering other
antibiotics, such as bactrim. But in some cases the microbe gets into the lungs, causing
unusually serious pneumonia, or spreads into bone, vital organs and the bloodstream,
triggering life-threatening complications. Those patients must be hospitalized and given
intensive care, including intravenous antibiotics such as vancomycin. For the year 2005
researches calculated that MRSA
strikes over 31 out of
every 100,000 Americans. With a population of 300 million that equals to a
disturbing number of over 930,000 Americans infected and 18,000 MRSA associated deaths. In paper, Michael E. Pichichero and Janet
R. Casey of The University of Rochester, NY document another growing strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Researchers attributed this to the
vaccine (Prevnar) used against ear
infections. "The use of the vaccine created an ecological vacuum, and that combined
with excessive use of antibiotics to create this new superbug," Pichichero
said. America, we most definitely have a problem.
"The most frequent type of drug- resistant skin
infections among people going to emergency rooms is about three times more prevalent than
U.S. health officials thought, according to new research. There were 31.8 cases of
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, for every 100,000 persons in the
U.S. in 2005... All of the children in the study were vaccinated with Prevnar
(pneumococcal vaccine) . The researchers found that the strains not included in the
Prevnar vaccine were becoming more numerous and more resistant to standard antibiotics.
"
On the VAERS
database the Prevnar vaccine has been associated with over 217 deaths since
2000. One example is that of 9 month old Hayley Graves who developed seizures 40
hours after her second dose that the hospital staff couldn't stop. For the
next 45 days she slipped in and out of a coma before she breathed her last breath.
However, this is not old news. While the question still remains as to whether the
vaccine is the direct cause of those deaths listed on the VAERS database, it is still
unexplained. In it's prelicensure study against an experimental meningitis
vaccine, Prevnar was associated with 12 deaths while the experimental Meningococcal group C conjugate vaccine [MnCC])
vaccine in the controlled group was associated with 21 deaths. Also in the study, Prevnar was found
to increase seizures by 4%. Yet the FDA and CDC dismissed the seizures as having
anything to do with the vaccinations.
The
Prevnar vaccines shows failure almost
immediately in the USA. The Minnesota
State Health Department admits that infections after vaccination should be expected.
You read it right. They refused to go into the number of cases amongst the
vaccinated children they had experienced. In 2004 JAMA published the failure of the
vaccine submitted to the VAERS database for the years 2000-2002. In those two years
there were 4,154 reports of adverse reactions associated with Prevnar. The database
had submissions of 23 positive rechallenges and 34 cases of invasive pneumococcal
infections. They confirmed the submission of 117 deaths as well. there were 393 seizure with 94 of them being febrile seizures.
The World Health Organization admits in 2008 that the Pneumococcal
Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) is completely useless in preventing pneumonia.
Therefore it doesn't justify the cost the government is putting out for it.
It was found that incidents of asthma is doubled by the vaccine. The typical
reaction of the manufacturer (Wyeth) is that the Indian article contains innacurate and
misleading statements.

The efficacy study for Menactra (with 4 serotypes) against Meningitis due to N. meningitidis was compared with the efficacy of Menomune (with 4
serotypes). The Menomune brought on a greater response in antibody production.
While the manufacturer's product insert for Menactra states that the vaccine has
not been tested for it's immune response for individuals with compromised immune systems,
the CDC recommends it's use on such individuals. No indication is given on the
package insert for safety studies conducted on those with compromised immune systems and
Menactra. Another caution put out by the manufacturer is the use of th vaccine on
pregnant mothers. CDC simply makes a move of negligence and assumes safety of the
vaccine, anyway, for pregnant mothers.
There were 6 clinical
studies for Menactra with 7,642 participants 11-55 years old who received the Menactra and
only 3,041 that received the Menomune vaccine. One must remember that it is all
together difficult to obtain accurate comparative safety analysis with such a difference
in participation numbers between the two groups. Once again, these studies did not
include a group with an inert substance such as a saline solution. The lack
thereof makes it even more difficult to achieve accurate comparative analysis on the
safety of vaccines.
The most commonly
reported adverse reactions were local pain, headache and fatigue. Most of these
reactions were after the administration of Menactra. The number of severity was also
higher after the use of Menactra. Guillain-Barre was reported after the
administration of Menactra during the studies. The FDA put out an the alert
September 30, 2005 on 5 GB cases. The CDC and FDA reported a total of 15 cases of
Guillain-Barre in vaccine recipients of the Menactra in October. The FDA also
admitted that "Also, vaccine adverse events are not always
reported to FDA so there may be additional cases of which we are unaware at this time."
There have been over
1,160 reports of adverse reactions after Menactra vaccination.

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST
Vaccination
against Meningococcal infections can now be added to the long list of vaccine failures.
Britain was the first European country to introduce the vaccine against meningitis.
In 2000, after a year of vaccinations, cover ups are uncovered in Britain.
There were over 16,000 serious adverse reactions reported. (The Ministry of Health
admits that only 10-15% reactions are ever reported). Despite the eleven
deaths experienced by vaccinated individuals, the MOH insisted that the vaccine was safe.
Britain's Justice Awareness Basic Support Group received daily calls of children
with serious reactions. Thus, the government assurance of safety was on seriously
shaky ground. Dr. Jayne Donegan witnessed an increase of serious reactions and
testified to the government branding of vaccine refusal amongst parents as an act of
irresponsibility.
The Australian
government publishes several in 2005. In one case a three year old was vaccinated
with Menjugate months prior to his diagnosis. His 16
month old sibling had also been vaccinated four months prior. Four days later his 7
year old sibling (who had not been vaccinated) developed symptoms and was hospitalized and
treated. They were given the same disease diagnosis. Nine days later the 9
year old sibling also developed symptoms and was hospitalized. The Monjugate is no
exception when it comes to serious adverse reactions. 50%
of infants receiving the vaccine will become irritable. Other
symptoms include nausea, vomiting, minor skin rashes, dizziness and tiredness and some may
faint at the time of the injection.
Infants also experienced high pitched crying
during the trials.
With the use of the MeNZB vaccine in New Zealand,
the Ministry of Health declares vaccine failure after the death of a fully vaccinated 2
year old in 2006. According to the Ministry of Health, their published research
shows that less than 13% of older infants have "protected levels of antibodies within
7 months of the third vaccine dose. Despite this information, they insist on a 4th
dose for infants. So, the third dose does nothing to give prevention (doesn't
work). Obviously, had the 1st and second doses brought on "protective
levels" the third dose would not have been suggested or recommended. All this to equal vaccine failure. The following day the Ministry of
Health discloses more deaths that took place after vaccination with the same vaccine.
Only this time it comes out the MeNZB vaccine is a " medical experiment on one
million healthy New Zealand children". Between 2005 and 2006 there are 4
published deaths after vaccination in New Zealand. The following stats that clearly
indicate an already decline prior to vaccination in New Zealand were provided with the New
Zealand article. More cases of infection despite vaccination have been published.
The United Kingdom
witness an increase of meningitis related deaths after the introduction of the Meningitis
C vaccine by about 17%. In 2000 the London Obersever publishes 11 deaths said to be
blamed on the same vaccine. The government was accused of covering up the safety
issues of the vaccine.
10% or more of vaccine
recipients experience "Crying (infants), irritability, sleepiness, change in eating
habits, diarrhea and vomiting (toddlers), and headache, myalgia, and arthralgia in
adults" according to the product insert. Seizures have also been reported. Irritability is in 50% of vaccinated infants. The safety studies were compared with another vaccine,
MenBvac, which was supposedly more reactive. No
Efficacy trials have been performed with MeNZB so there is 0% guarantee that it
will either work. This
should explain it's failures in New Zealand.

Failure continues into 2007. The
New Zealand medical officer was disappointed to see the vaccine failure continue. So
if the mass experimentation continues, should this be considered an efficacy trial gone
down? Logically speaking, of course.
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