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Whooping Cough
« on: June 24, 2010, 07:36:37 PM »
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  • Whooping cough is declared an epidemic in California.
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    After 910 cases of whooping cough that have left five babies dead, California has officially declared the outbreak an epidemic. If that isn’t bad enough, the case load is 400 percent higher this year than last, putting the state on track to break a 50-year record. With an additional 600 pertussis cases currently under investigation, officials believe things are about to get worse. Those most at risk? Unimmunized or incompletely immunized babies, whose lungs are still developing.

    "Children should be vaccinated against the disease and parents, family members and caregivers of infants need a booster shot," California Department of Public Health director Dr. Mark Horton said Wednesday. A full regimen of pertussis vaccines includes shots at 15-18 months, along with a last round between 4-6 years. Additionally, health officials recommend additional booster shots at age 10 to 11.

    According to Santa Clara Public Health Officer Marty Fenstersheib, the disease, which is a highly contagious infection of the respiratory system, poses a significant risk to young children, whose parents mistake its symptoms for common colds. How do you know if your kid has whooping cough? First signs include runny nose, sneezing, mild coughing and low-grade fever, which evolve after 1-2 weeks into a dry irritating coughing spells. Spells sometimes, but not always, end with the distinctive “whooping” sound.

    Of course, this recent outbreak calls into question whether parents who choose not to vaccinate children could be to blame. According to Kidshealth.org, the advent of the pertussis vaccine reduced the annual whooping-cough deaths in the U.S. from between 5,000 and 10,000 people to just 30 a year. Now, like the measles resurgence in 2008, which targeted children whose parents had refused to have their kids inoculated, whooping cough is back on the rise. Last year, the number of whooping cough cases spiked past 25,000, the highest level it's been since the 1950s.

    The debate around vaccinations has been especially contentious in the U.S in the last few years, as parent groups have rallied around the belief that vaccines can be linked to numerous ailments, including autism (a belief based on a study which has since been entirely retracted by the medical journal which first published it). Despite any hard proof, these groups persist in choosing not to vaccinate their children, a process which, Dr. Paul Offit says poses its own dangers, as detailed in last October’s issue of WIRED.

    “The choice not to get a vaccine is not a choice to take no risk,” he says. “It’s just a choice to take a different risk, and we need to be better about saying, ‘Here’s what that different risk looks like.’ Dying of Hib meningitis is a horrible, ugly way to die.”



    In the meantime, what can parents do?

    •If you are worried that your kid might have whooping cough, see your pediatrician immediately.
    •While neither getting vaccinated nor surviving the illness provides lifetime immunity, kids from ages 11-18, whose immunity may have faded, can be given booster shots.
    •Because the disease is highly contagious (experts believe that 80 percent of non-immunized family members will develop whooping cough if they live in the same house as someone who has the infection) anyone who comes into close contact with someone who has pertussis should receive antibiotics to prevent spread of the disease.
    •In addition, young kids who were given an incomplete immunization might require a booster dose if exposed to an infected family member.


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    Whooping Cough
    « Reply #1 on: June 25, 2010, 03:11:16 AM »
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    “The choice not to get a vaccine is not a choice to take no risk,” he says. “It’s just a choice to take a different risk, ..."


    And the corollary of that is...?

    Here's an interesting article:

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    ‘Bad Genes’ Blamed for Fragile Link to Autism: Don’t Mention the Vaccines!
    By Neil Foster, 24th June 2010.

    For those of you with enough of the ‘thinking for yourselves’ genes left in our heads, it’s clear that when the Irish Times starts putting out articles like the one below then we know that this has nothing to do with having any sympathy for parents or their children who suffer from a new made up condition called ‘Fragile X’.
    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2010/0622/1224273021249.html

    This is a condition which apparently affects 1 in 130 females and 1 in 775 males although the suggestion is that it could be under diagnosed. It is described as a form of autism.
    Well let’s call a spade a spade; it’s a form of autism thus it is AUTISM!

    This spurious article attempts to mask real autism figures by basically following the lead of so called ‘researchers’ who have decided that it’s not autism although it shares many of the same symptoms. In other words it’s a pack of lies.
    This is similar to the lies put out that polio was eradication by a vaccination which itself was responsible for spreading cancer amongst people who were injected with it regardless of the fact that the manufacturers were well aware of the cancer viruses contained in it. It was then declared and propagandised by the charlatans and prostitutes of the media and ‘scientific’ community that polio had been eradicated, despite the FACT that it had all but disappeared prior to any ‘vaccine’ being used.

    When polio started to reappear, particularly in areas of hunger and poor hygiene, it was blamed on people who hadn’t been vaccinated even although there were many cases induced by so called vaccines themselves. To mask the true extent of cases of polio appearing and to cover up the FACT that the ‘vaccine’ was useless, they simply renamed polio ‘aseptic meningitis’. Not surprisingly cases of aseptic meningitis skyrocketed whilst cases of ‘polio declined thus allowing the ‘vaccine’ manufacturers of the drug to proclaim that this proved that vaccination worked.
    Let’s call this what it is…OUTRIGHT LIES AND FRAUD!

    The same applies to this current new phenomenon known as Fragile X syndrome.
    Apparently you don’t know your child has it until the symptoms suddenly appear. I wonder what ‘vaccines’ they’ve taken prior to this happening?

    We all know that autism has exploded in our communities and there have been many claims that vaccination, particularly the MMR (Measles/Mumps/Rubella) vaccine have been blamed, famously by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, whose evidence was originally accepted and published by The Lancet before vaccine manufacturers put pressure on the powers that be to have his evidence discredited and further to have him struck off the medical register, all this despite massive support and agreement with his evidence by parents whose children had become autistic after receiving vaccinations.

    So what is going on now in terms of assessing cases of autism? The manipulation of statistics is a well known method of hiding what’s really going on about anything, whether this be the economy or in this case, real autism figures.

    You see, the children don’t have autism, no, they have this new made up condition called Fragile X. So these figures are simply deducted from the autism figures and hey presto, autism figures drop and although Fragile X figures rise they’ll tell us that vaccines aren’t to blame for autism because figures are dropping whilst vaccines are still being administered to children.

    Again, let’s call it what it is…OUTRIGHT LIES AND FRAUD!

    So what’s the solution for parents? It’s recommended that they have blood tests to see if they’ve got ‘bad genes’. Well I don’t know about you dear reader but this sounds like a further move towards EUGENICS.

    If you’ve got bad genes, abort the child. That way, the mass murderers of the eugenics movement can increase the number of children being aborted. Of course, sterilisation will also be the ‘recommendation’ to ensure that you don’t bring any offspring into the world with the wrong kind of genes. You know the ones that ordinary people have as opposed to those the super wealthy have  know as psychopathic genes.

    In the future if you’re told you have ‘defective’ or ‘bad’ genes you’ll be ‘advised’ not to have children I’m sure.
    Who decides you’ve got bad genes? I’m sure there will be a number of tests made up to ascertain whether or not you’re susceptible to this phenomenon.

    As mentioned in the article, it is already stated that this syndrome is under diagnosed. What does that tell you? It tells you that more cases will appear and more children will be aborted, right in line with eugenics policies currently doing the rounds at the UN who want us all to be like China. I guess that includes the one child policy and forced abortions too.
    Of course you can guarantee that this is just one of many new syndromes which will appear in the coming years to make us all think that we shouldn’t be bringing anymore ‘defective’ human beings into the world.

    You’ll be told to ‘trust the experts’ because they care about you of course, as you trot off to the abortion clinic to dispose of your perfectly normal child, totally oblivious to the lies you’ve been told by those in the medical profession who are nothing short of insane.

    When will people put two and two together and realise that all these new diseases, cancers, syndromes and ‘defects’ were unheard of prior to mass vaccination campaigns? What does it take for people to wake up and do 1 hour of independent, free thinking research for themselves before taking the word of some prostitute GP or ‘specialist’ before they come to their own conclusion that what they’ve been led to believe regarding autism and vaccinations are a pack of lies?

    Do people really care so little about the children they bring into the world that they are prepared to risk the very lives of those they love most on the word of someone else who may indeed be as ignorant of the facts surrounding vaccinations as they themselves are?

    Why take the risk?

    Your children DO NOT need to be vaccinated for anything. The human body is an amazing biological machine which has survived hundreds of thousands of years and indeed flourished before any modern medicine whatsoever was available.

    In the realm of human health, history speaks volumes.