WHO Reports Two Cases of Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus in Ukraine
The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed two cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1) in the Ukraine. The cases involved a four-year old child and a 10-month old child in the Zakarpatskaya region of southwestern Ukraine. The onset of paralysis occurred on June 30 and July 7, 2015. According to the WHO, the emergence of cVDPV1 was due…
JAMA Study Highlights Vaccination Risks in Low Birth Weight Infants
A new study published in Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics (JAMA) provides evidence that extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants run a higher risk of suffering from adverse events such as fever, breathing problems (apnea), abnormally slow heart rates (bradycardia), and fever soon after being vaccinated. An even more serious and potentially deadly complication detected was sepsis, which is an overwhelming immune…
DHHS Withholds Vaccine Injury Data and Rolls Out Vaccine Confidence Plan
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) regularly monitors meetings held by federal vaccine advisory committees, including the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV) and the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC). Both ACCV and NVAC were created under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 and committee members are…
Russell Blaylock, MD on Vaccinating Pregnant Women
Right now there is a lot of concern in the field of neurology and neuroscience of the observation that women who develop the flu during the second trimester of their pregnancy, there’s a very high incidence of their child growing up to develop schizophrenia or autism… and so that led to this idea, well, we should vaccinate all pregnant women against the flu. Well, what I discovered in the research was that, in fact, the virus does not transfer from the mother into the baby’s brain…
The Religion of Anti-Science Fanaticism
I’ve said it before and will say it again. We all need to work together to call people out when they toss around the term “anti-science” or when they claim they “believe in the science.” For too long, we have accepted the misapplication of this anti-science term instead of rightly questioning those throwing it around. Employees in the health field (licensed doctors, nurses…
Despite High Child Vaccination Rates, CDC Calls for Shaming Schools
With military precision, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced at an Aug. 27, 2015 press conference that national vaccination rates among young children in the U.S. continue to be very high but that more must be done to tag and track down children without every government recommended vaccine and publicly shame schools that fail to maintain a 95% plus vaccine coverage rate. Assistant Surgeon General Anne Schuchat, MD (RADM, USPHS) made the siren call to all states to require public and private schools to publicly post vaccine coverage and exemption rates.