Child Health Safety, 10 June 2014
A new study in the Canadian Medical Association
Journal confirms combining two common childhood vaccines into one rather than
administering them separately doubles the risk of febrile seizures in children:
Combined vaccine doubles seizure
risk in children The Vancouver Sun
By Elizabeth Payne, Ottawa Citizen June 9, 2014.
This is the study concerned: Risk of febrile
seizures after first dose of measles–mumps–rubella–varicella vaccine: a
population-based cohort study CMAJ June 9,
2014. It compared MMR and MMRV vaccines, which is MMR combined with
chickenpox [varicella] vaccine.
The study does not suggest the risk of autism is
increased but people are no longer so gullible as to not make the
connection. A risk of seizures brings the risk of a brain injury and a
consequent autistic condition: MMR Causes Autism – Another Win In US Federal Court and Vaccination Causes Autism – Say US
Government & Merck’s Director of Vaccines.
What is particularly troubling is the clear admission
that the ordinary MMR vaccine causes seizures. The excess absolute risk
for MMRV [the combined MMR with chickenpox vaccine] is claimed to be 3.52
seizures per 10,000 doses. In other words, for every 7.04 children
suffering a seizure for MMRV 3.52 children suffered a seizure for MMR vaccine
with a separate dose of chickenpox vaccine.
However, the authors make no claim to adjusting the
figures for under-reporting of adverse vaccine reactions.
The authors only took into account “Seizure events
that involve presentation to the health care system in Alberta“. As
infants can spend a great deal of time asleep unattended, any child suffering a
seizure in their sleep may go unreported. Children who suffer seizures
without significant external signs may also not be reported.
Additionally, if it is assumed the rate of autism in Canada is similar to the
USA and UK which is at least 1 in 100 children, then under-reporting does not
have to be very high across each dose of all vaccines administered [ie. not
just MMR but every shot including each dose of DTP] to achieve a figure of 1 in
100.
Adverse reactions to any drug can be under reported by
98 cases in every 100, which is extremely high. If that rate were to be
applied to the figures in this study it is necessary to multiply the figures
given out by at least 50 times for any adverse drug reactions as a rule of
thumb as adverse reactions to all drugs are ignored 98 times out of a hundred: Spontaneous adverse drug reaction
reporting vs event monitoring: a comparison: Journal of the
Royal Society of Medicine Volume 84 June 1991 341. That would make the
number of seizure events 350 in 10,000 doses or 1 in every 28 doses, including
mild cases of which may have few external signs of occurring and no permanent
or longer term effects.
So this report is unfortunately not particularly
reassuring even though the authors go on to claim that the numbers of children
whose parents took them to be seen under the health care system of Alberta:
can be ascertained from 3 administrative
databases: the physician claims database, an electronic fee-for-service system
to which all physicians submit billing information; the ambulatory care
reporting system, which includes emergency department visits; and the hospital
discharge abstracts database. Previous epidemiologic studies have found that
these data sources have a high level of completeness and validity.”
What these people also seem to fail to appreciate is
that not only is the medical journal published evidence-base extremely
unreliable with all kinds of junk studies and just plain drug industry
falsified ones amongst the genuine [but possibly also flawed] research but also
parents are repeatedly lied to by some public health offficials about the
hazards of vaccines. So there is good reason to treat such claims with
considerable scepticism.
Source:
Child Health Safety
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