A collection of mainstream news reports and studies exploding the whooping cough vaccine myth

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Mainstream news out of Australia:

Vaccine a dud, says city doctor

http://www.qt.com.au/story/2011/12/02/vaccine-a-dud-says-cit...

2nd December 2011

A WHOOPING cough epidemic is sweeping Australia and according to one Ipswich doctor the current vaccine is the reason why.

Ipswich Medical Centre GP Paul Curson said many of the people he had treated during this epidemic were fully immunised, suggesting the vaccine was failing to protect people.

So far this year 490 cases of Pertussis (whooping cough) have been reported in the West Moreton Health Services District, up from 436 last year but far in excess of the 50 cases in 2007.

Dr Carson, a veteran of 30 years as a GP, said the current vaccine was simply not doing its job.

"The vaccine is no good, we're seeing whooping cough in people that shouldn't really have it," Dr Curson said.

"It is showing up in kids that have been vaccinated."

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"District Dealing With Outbreak Of Whooping Cough In Schools"

http://www.wfmz.com/berksnews/27056051/detail.html

Keifer told 69 News there have been five cases. De Benedictis said most children have been vaccinated against pertussis. "Either it's worn off or there's something defective in the vaccine, but it is an effective vaccine basically," De Benedictis explained.

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Grand Island has whooping cough outbreak

http://www.theindependent.com/articles/2011/03/12/news/local...

All three cases were laboratory-confirmed. All three children were current on vaccines, Vap said. "They all have five doses (of pertussis vaccine), so we are not exactly sure why they contracted the disease," Vap said.

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Number of whooping cough cases on the rise in La Crosse Co.

http://www.wkbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=14310640

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LA CROSSE, Wis.- There's a big jump in the number of whooping cough cases in the La Crosse area and health officials are expecting more as it spreads.

There are 12 confirmed cases so far this year. To put that in perspective, in 2009 there were only 2 cases throughout the entire year.

Health officials say the cases of whooping cough this time around are somewhat unusual.

"Unfortunately the cases that we've had have been immunized and so we're not really sure how it's being spread so well and so fast, but we are investigating that right now," says La Crosse Co. Public Health Nurse Traci Lien.

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Whooping cough in school age children with persistent cough: prospective cohort study in primary care

http://www.bmj.com/content/333/7560/174.abstract

"(85.9%) of these children had been fully immunised."

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Whooping cough outbreak puzzles Lincoln officials

http://articles.centralkynews.com/2011-01-21/news/27043123_1...

"Whooping cough has reached outbreak status in Lincoln County..There have been 25 cases...23 of them coming from the school...Since all students are required to be vaccinated against the disease before they can attend school and even a single case is considered uncommon, health and school officials are baffled by the outbreak at the school."

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Dr. Tenpenny's latest article:

OUTBREAKS PROOF THAT WHOOPING COUGH VACCINES DON'T WORK

http://www.newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri128.htm

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mainstream site:

HOW IS PERTUSSIS SPREAD?

http://www.adacel-locator.com/index.cfm?FA=protect%2Fadacel%...

* It is unknown whether immunizing adolescents and adults against pertussis will reduce the risk of transmission to infants. 3

3. Bisgard KM, Pascual FB, Ehresmann KR, et al. Infant pertussis: Who was the source? Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2004;23:985-989.

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More kids' hospital doctors get whooping cough

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/18/3041031.htm

excerpt:

The hospital says the doctors have contracted the infection despite keeping their vaccinations up to date.

Dr Brian Wheatley, from the hospital, concedes vaccination is not always effective.

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Vaccinated People Getting Whooping Cough In San Diego:

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/sep/07/vaccinated-people-getti...

SAN DIEGO — A KPBS investigation has raised questions about how effective the whooping cough vaccine is in preventing people from getting sick. Nearly two out of three people diagnosed with whooping cough in San Diego County this year, were fully immunized.

California is in the midst of the worst whooping cough epidemic in 50 years. Thirty six hundred people in the state have been diagnosed with the disease. Eight babies have died since January.

KPBS examined data from San Diego County’s Health and Human Services Agency. Of the 332 confirmed cases of whooping cough in the county so far this year, 197 of the people who got sick were up to date with their immunizations. That's nearly 2 out of 3 cases.

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Is Whooping Cough Vaccine Working?

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/sep/07/whooping-cough-vaccine-...

(please see graph at link that goes with info below)

UTD = up-to-date with age appropriate pertussis vaccinations by immunization record review or parent report

NUTD = not up-to-date with age appropriate pertussis vaccinations

PBE = personal belief exemption reported by parent and/or physician

UNK = unknown

TDAP DUE = any child 11-18 years old who had only 5 pertussis containing immunizations with no Tdap noted

(source: San Diego County Health & Human Services Agency)

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Mainstream study out of the Netherlands:

Reemergence of Pertussis in the
Highly Vaccinated Population of
the Netherlands: Observations on
Surveillance Data

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640897/pdf/1090...

"The increase in pertussis incidence was higher among vaccinated than among unvaccinated persons of all ages."

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Many whooping cough victims have been immunized; Experts spar over prospects of new disease strain

http://www.watchdoginstitute.org/2010/12/13/whooping-cough-e...

Check out the pie charts at the bottom of the story from several different counties.

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Whooping cough strain now immune to vaccine

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/whooping-cough-strain-...

The bacteria that causes whooping cough has mutated, eroding the protection provided by the vaccine now given to children, scientists warned yesterday.

Our findings suggest that the use of the acellular vaccine may be one factor contributing to these genetic changes."

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Even those fully vaccinated can still get whooping cough, health official says

http://tribstar.com/news/x1199045212/Even-those-fully-vaccin...
Excerpts:

TERRE HAUTE — Those fully vaccinated for whooping cough can still get the disease, says an epidemiologist with the Indiana State Department of Health.

“We do see cases of kids appropriately vaccinated who still get the disease,” said Angie Cierzniewski, a state vaccine preventable disease epidemiologist.

A Clay County woman knows first-hand that a pertussis vaccination doesn’t eliminate the possibility of someone getting pertussis, also known as whooping cough.

The woman, who did not want her name used, said four children in her family became infected with the disease, and the child that first developed it — her 4-year-old — did have the required doses for her age.

She said two of her children had the required number of doses, a 2-year-old was not vaccinated because of low immunity and other reasons and the oldest, an 8-year-old, was lacking one of the required doses of the vaccination.

The Clay County woman said health authorities had incorrect information that her children contracted the disease because they were not immunized. She wants people to realize they can contract the disease even if they are immunized. “I feel the public may have a false sense of security,” she said.

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Charlotte Observer article ADMITS all 16 whooping cough cases WERE vaccinated

http://www.dailypaul.com/74029/charlotte-obsvr-article-admit...

Rare cough on rise in area

Gaston County public health officials fight outbreak of whooping cough; 16 cases reported since August

Excerpt from article:

So far, all the reported pertussis cases in Gaston have been people who have had the vaccination for the disease, Hawkins said.

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Embarrassing failure in San Diego

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Immunized Teen Exposed to Whooping Cough

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Immunized-Teen--139461...

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The 17-year-old may have exposed her peers at the San Diego Jewish Academy to the disease. The girl came down with the cough despite getting the recommended immunizations. Many of the reported cases of whooping cough appeared in children or teens who were up-to-date with those immunizations.

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FDA admits SIDS cases in study

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http://www.fda.gov/downloads/biologicsbloodvaccines/vaccines...

Excerpt:

"In the German case-control study and US open-label safety study in which 14,971 infants received Tripedia vaccine, 13 deaths in Tripedia vaccine recipients were reported. Causes of deaths included seven SIDS"

(see page 11)

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San Diego vaccine efficacy collapse

Brand new news story proving the whooping cough vaccine is a complete failure and that the unvaccinated have a BIG, BIG apology awaiting them very soon due to all the lies being spread about them. Take a look at the latest headline:

"Three New Whooping Cough Cases Reported"

http://m.nbcsandiego.com/nbcsandiego/db_276463/contentdetail...

(Excerpts)

Health experts said a 13-year-old Innovation Middle School student contracted pertussis even though the teenager was up-to-date with immunizations.

A 3-year-old student who was up-to-date with immunizations contracted pertussis. The child attends Coast Kids Preschool in Carlsbad.

Also, a 6-year-old student at Willow Elementary in San Ysidro reported having whooping cough. The child was due for another immunication according to the health department........ (mostly vaccinated with the failed vaccine....awwwww)
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Austrailian failure - plus Orwellian comments in story

Even though this parent's kids were all vaccinated, they all still got it. But, he STILL blames it on not enough people getting vaccinated.

Then an "expert" speaks-up and makes the false claim that the vaccine lessens the severity.

Family's cough scare

http://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/story/2012/01/17/familys-cou...

(Excerpts):

A LAWRENCE father is urging Clarence Valley residents to consider getting themselves and their children immunised against whooping cough after his three children - all vaccinated - recently contracted the virus, albeit a weaker strain.

"Our daughter Ariana had a cough probably about a month ago and because the whole family had been immunised we really didn't think it could potentially be whooping cough," Mr Smajstr said. "So we put it down to something else...."

"They're all improving now but for me it's scary that so many people are getting it - it seems to be quite rife at the moment, especially among people who are immunised."

(WHERE's THE PROOF !?!?!: Immunisation co-ordinator for the North Coast Public Health Unit, Marianne Trent, said the whooping cough vaccine was effective in preventing the more serious strains of the virus but it was still possible for people immunised to contract a form of the virus but usually with significantly milder symptoms. "What the whooping cough vaccine does is protect against serious disease...

(WHAT THE F !!!!!!!!!!!!!): "At the end of the day, if everyone's immunised, no one gets it. To me it's a no-brainer - if there's a vaccine, it means it can be stamped out and no one gets it but for us to have this situation where people are still catching it, it just seems crazy."

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Mainstream article admitting vaccine a failure

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But they blame all us scaredy-cats for not wanting the OLD-school vaccine (whole cell) that caused more serious side-effects.

Whooping cough returns as vaccine modified to reduce side-effects

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-whooping-vaccine-side-...

(Excerpt): "As long as you can see the disease is really bad, you don't care if there are side effects of the vaccine. You are willing to put up with a little bit," Baxter said. "But once it disappears, and you don't have (whooping cough) anymore, well, forget it, that vaccine better be really safe."

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Yeah, well, here's what the other vaccine was doing on a regular basis - not that the one being used now is safe:

"In an interview with FOX 26 News, Steve Degner says Kristen started having seizures after her second DPT vaccine, then retarded"

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/health/110125-vagus-nerve-st...

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(Another excerpt from original article):

‎ Developing vaccines can be a balancing act, trying to trigger as good an immune response as possible in as many people as possible for as long as possible without also triggering unacceptable side effects. "You can make a safer vaccine and people have better trust in it," said pediatrician Dr. Kathryn Edwards, director of the Vanderbilt University Vaccine Research Program, but the unwanted side effects - like fevers and pain - can be associated with better, longer-lasting protection.

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Fevers and pain? What about the grand mal seizures, severe brain damage and SIDS - you know - junk like that?

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Just

Just wondering how many other problems there are with all the vaccines. We didn't even have any MANDATED ones and yet the boomers are living too long.

I caution any one with children about the blackmail of vaccines vs getting an education. 25 MANDATED in my state or the kid can't go to school.

There are too many hybrid vaccines that none of us knows whats in them. (sound familiar?)

My brothers and sisters had dissease and lived through them. I didn't have any then and have never had them even though exposed. I have a remarkable immune system and I keep it that way.

mickey45

I was vaccinated for pertussis ---

several times in fact --- and yet still contracted it as an adult. And yes, it was BAD --- the coughing was so extreme, and so persistent, that I could not keep down food or water, and ended up dehydrated and delirious.

(Even in my worst delirium, however, I STILL would not have voted for either Romney or the Grinch!)

Florida Failure

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Martin County on alert after second confirmed whooping cough case

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_martin_county/martin-cou...

Excerpt:

The Warfield student diagnosed with whooping cough is home recovering, Rouse said. The child, whose identity, age and grade level is not being released, had been vaccinated against the infection.

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FAILURE ALERT - WISCONSIN !!!

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4 whooping-cough cases reported in northern WI

http://www.wxow.com/story/16390769/4-whooping-cough-cases-re...

"all four had already been immunized."

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Damage-control from pharma pawn

Pertussis outbreaks offer important take-home messages for pediatricians
http://www.pediatricsupersite.com/view.aspx?rid=89890

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Dennis Russo, MD, director of public health emergency preparedness at the Suffolk County Department of Health Services said although New York is seeing increasing numbers, at least in Suffolk County, the outbreak is demonstrating that the vaccine is still effective. “We have 1.5 million people across the county, and about 210 cases,” Russo said. “Data indicate the vaccine is 80% effective, which means that everyone should be vaccinated because it is still a very good vaccine.”

In other words, EVERYone in the county would have whooping cough if it wasn't for the vaccine, is basically what he is saying. Their "logic" never ceases to amaze me. They pull these statements squarely from their hind-end with absolutely no way to back them up - just like the statement that the vaccine makes the symptoms of whooping cough less severe. WHAT? Where is THAT study? That means they would have to actually have a study of the vaccinated vs the unvaccinated - and according to these dumb-dumbs, such a study would be "unethical".

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More failure admitted, and STILL they blame the unvaccinated

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More admitted failure, but they STILL have to blame the unvaccinated !!!!

Whooping Cough Alert On Long Island - - Whooping Cough Outbreak Spreads On Long Island; More Than 200 Cases Reported

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/11/29/whooping-cough-alert-...

(Excerpts): "....or it could be an increase in some parents’ decision to forgo vaccinating their kids. “We like to have everyone vaccinated and create a cocoon effect, so that everyone around them is vaccinated and the disease is milder,” Dr. Russo said.

“I’m not too concerned because my son has the vaccine,” added Maria Sangiorgi of Lindenhurst. (hahahahaha !!!)

The majority of the students who have been infected with whooping cough had been immunized, which health officials said may account for their milder illness.

(end excerpts)

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Another mainstream study to add to the pile-of-failure

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MORE BOOSTERS !!! MORE BOOSTERS !!!

Rapid Rise of Incidence Rates of Pertussis in the Five Years Following Complete DTaP Vaccination: Is Immunity Waning Earlier than Expected?

http://idsa.confex.com/idsa/2011/webprogram/Paper31442.html

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Another news article admits unvaccinated not to blame

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Whooping cough outbreak hits Merrimack schools

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/940149-196/whooping-coug...

(Excerpt): There have been several large outbreaks of whooping cough in the past two years around the country fueled by people avoiding vaccines because of worries about side effects, but that does not appear to be the situation here. Adamski said there was no indication that a lack of vaccines played a role in the Merrimack outbreak.

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That's French for ALLLLLLL of them were vaccinated.

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Caught lying - - or is it just ignorance?

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(HAHAHAHA !!!) (Excerpt): "What is unique about these cases is that the affected children have been vaccinated against the illness."

Taken from:
Whooping cough cases at North Middle School up to nine

http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-20111107-whooping-cough-nin...

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Article first blames the unvaccinated, then admits all vaxed

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Whooping Cough Cases Triple in Suffolk County -
There are already 179 reported cases in the county

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Whooping-Cough-Triple-S...

Excerpts:

One reason for the increase, according to Suffolk Health Commissioner Dr. James L. Tomarken, may be because whooping cough is now better diagnosed and because public awareness is higher.

Another reason may be because more people are opting not to have their children vaccinated.

(and then we read later in article):

According to Suffolk health officials, all those affected had been immunized in the past....

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Better diagnosed?

He's got to be kidding. There is no mistaking whooping cough. What kind of doctor is he????

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Oh my - another failure !!!! (gasp - shock)

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Menomonee Falls School District dealing with whooping cough cases

http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-20111102-whooping-cough,0,2...

Tami Hughes FOX6 Reporter

5:35 p.m. CDT, November 2, 2011
WITI-TV, MENOMONEE FALLS—

North Middle School in Menomonee Falls is dealing with what it calls a "cluster" of Whooping cough cases. Three students are confirmed cases. But all of those affected so far have been vaccinated for the bacterial illness.

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Can I squeeze yet another vax-failure in this compilation?

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Yeah, I can fit a few more in.

5-year-old diagnosed with Whooping Cough at Pink Hill Elementary

http://www2.wnct.com/news/2011/oct/28/9/5-year-old-diagnosed...

"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."

FREAKIN' REALLY !?!?!?

VERY UNLIKELY?

Well, I think this list we are all reading is the obvious comeback to THAT lie.

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Add another failure to the list !!!!

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From NBC San Diego:

New Whooping Cough Cases

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/health/New-Whooping-Cough-Ca...

Two children from different schools, who were both vaccinated, have contracted whooping cough, according to county health officials.

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Mainstream study on PubMed admitting vaccine is useless

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AND that those who have natural immunity enjoy a much longer period of being immune than those vaccinated:

Estimating the duration of pertussis immunity using epidemiological signatures.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19876392

Abstract

Case notifications of pertussis have shown an increase in a number of countries with high rates of routine pediatric immunization. This has led to significant public health concerns over a possible pertussis re-emergence. A leading proposed explanation for the observed increase in incidence is the loss of immunity to pertussis, which is known to occur after both natural infection and vaccination. Little is known, however, about the typical duration of immunity and its epidemiological implications. Here, we analyze a simple mathematical model, exploring specifically the inter-epidemic period and fade-out frequency. These predictions are then contrasted with detailed incidence data for England and Wales. We find model output to be most sensitive to assumptions concerning naturally acquired immunity, which allows us to estimate the average duration of immunity. Our results support a period of natural immunity that is, on average, long-lasting (at least 30 years) but inherently variable.

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Australian failure

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Whooping cough hits south coast

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/10473397/whoop...

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Denmark mother Claire Thompson and her children had the illness despite being vaccinated. "It's just awful," she said. "Both my children have been vaccinated and we've done the right thing and it's disappointing that we've tried to do the right thing and still caught the disease," she said.

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Researcher admits vaccine is failure but keeps blaming unvaxed

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Did Poor Vaccine Response Contribute to California’s Whooping Cough Outbreak?

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/vaccine-response-p...

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"The greatest concern", Witt said, "is that the children who were presumed to be protected, but apparently were not, could have served as a transmitter of infection to others in their families and neighborhoods ..."

After he ADMITS the vaccinated weren't protected - from his own study - he goes on to make the following outrageous statements:

"The further problem, Witt said, is that the lapse of immunity in the vaccinated children punched one more hole in the general “herd immunity” of the local population, which was already undermined by families who refused to vaccinate their children as well as by families who did not strongly oppose vaccines but who vaccinated their children late."

“In California we have ‘personal belief exemptions’ [from mandatory vaccination] of 3 percent to 10 percent per county,” he said. “If you have 10 percent unvaccinated, and the vaccine efficacy is 85 percent, then you’re talking about only 75 percent” of the population at best who are protected, he said.

His own study suggested that the vaccine was - AT BEST - 20% effective. They are STILL trying to blame the unvaccinated after admitting their s^%$t doesn't work !!!!

Where's his advice to get proper nutrition coupled with the need to stop feeding your kids a bunch of Count Chocula and nitrate/nitrite hot dogs? I SMELL A RAT !!!

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Obviously this numbskull is

Obviously this numbskull is still drinking the vaccine Koolaid.

And where is the formal apology to the unvaccinated?

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Victoria, as you well know, the unvaccinated have been unduly vilified for causing various whooping cough outbreaks all over the United States and other nations. Now that this study has come out admitting that the vaccine is a failure - that 80% of those in the study were FULLY vaxed with the pertussis vaccine - where are the retractions by the media? Where are the formal apologies by the doctors, pharmaceutical companies, health officials and experts who have been maligning the innocent unvaccinated for years now regarding this failed vaccine?

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(Headline) Whooping cough vaccine falters

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Whooping cough vaccine falters after just 3 years, less protection than believed

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/childhood-whooping-cough-vaccinatio...

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"Witt said that when he started the study he expected to see the illness concentrated in unvaccinated people. But more than 80 per cent of the children who developed whooping cough in Witt's study were fully vaccinated."

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

(WTF !!) - The shots "are still our best protection against pertussis, and they still protect well against fatal disease," said Dr. Tom Clark, who leads the CDC's epidemiology team focused on vaccine-preventable diseases.

They are going to spin this that we need MORE boosters MORE often instead of admitting the vaccine is ineffective and dangerous and just doing away with it completely.

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"California health officials told doctors last year that they could give the booster to kids as young as seven in an effort to stifle the outbreak. Federal health officials said that they are still studying the issue and that it is too soon to make that a standard practice."

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More whooping cough vaccine failure - out of Maine

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Whooping cough sickens area children and adults

http://bangordailynews.com/2011/09/22/health/whooping-cough-...

All of the children who got whooping cough had been immunized against it when they were younger, he said.

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More vaccine failure - this time in Idaho

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Pertussis becomes a concern in southwest Idaho

http://www.messenger-index.com/news/article_cecc5f3a-d8a6-11...

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"seven cases have been reported among Canyon County residents and five cases have been reported among Washington County residents. More than half of these cases were not current on their immunizations or refused vaccination for pertussis."

So what's their excuse for the OTHER half who WERE current on their vaccines? And you can bet that most of the remainder were already vaccinated, but just not up-to-date with the constant hamster-wheel of boosters they have everyone on.

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Outbreak of pertussis on a college campus (despite vaccination)

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Outbreak of pertussis on a college campus

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17398232?dopt=AbstractPlus

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BACKGROUND:

Pertussis is increasing among adolescents and adults despite universal childhood vaccination. This investigation describes an outbreak of pertussis among undergraduate students and assesses the burden of cough illness on a college campus.

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CDC: Whooping cough cases misdiagnosed

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CDC: Whooping cough cases misdiagnosed

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-08-23-1977629929_x.htm

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Posted 8/23/2007 8:37 PM
By Mike Stobbe, AP Medical Writer

ATLANTA — A reported boom in U.S. whooping cough cases is now being questioned after health officials discovered a regularly used lab test misdiagnosed cases in suspected outbreaks in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Tennessee.

The false test results led thousands of people to take antibiotics unnecessarily and even caused a New Hampshire hospital to limit the number of patients admitted since hospital workers were thought to be infected.

The testing errors were reported Thursday by researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a potentially fatal bacterial respiratory infection. Its name comes from the sound victims make as they try to recover their breath after a coughing fit.

Government health officials say cases have tripled in the United States since 2001, with nearly 26,000 cases reported in 2005. Nearly half of those cases were diagnosed with the testing method now called into question, and that has raised doubts about the true number of cases.

"Are we in fact seeing an increase?" asked Dr. Tom Clark, summarizing what some are wondering. Clark, a CDC epidemiologist, is co-author of the report on the misdiagnoses.

"It's been a roller coaster. Whoa, looks at this big outbreak! Whoa, it wasn't really pertussis!" said Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of Vanderbilt University's department of preventive medicine.

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Whooping cough vaccine not as powerful as thought

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Whooping cough vaccine not as powerful as thought

http://www.ajc.com/health/content/metro/stories/2009/03/22/w...

A cluster of whooping cough cases among Cobb County elementary students is adding to concerns that an important vaccine isn’t as effective as it needs to be to stop the spread of disease. Of the 18 students in the recent Cobb cluster, 17 were properly immunized with five doses of DTaP vaccine, which protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, health officials said.

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