Read this if you really care, it's from the same source as the above article
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17207144

My son had one DPT shot at 3 months of age before we had made the decision to stop all vaccines. At the time we did not have a CLUE that he would be diagnosed as GDD (globally developmentally delayed) which has now, just recently, been rediagnosed as Aspergers. I can't imagine what his life would have been like had we continued his vaccination schedule, even back in the late 80's!! At almost 5 years old he did not have functional language... and he kept getting further behind. He would babble like a 1 year old and only use words from time to time and he kept getting further behind.

He is 24 now and due to a program called NACD (National Association for Child Development - www.nacd.org) that we started when he was almost 5, he has come a long way... but still somewhat impacted.

I've told lots of people... stay AWAY from vaccinations!! Know your RIGHTS!

Concerned mom

The BBC actually did an amazing series of broadcasts about Peter Aaby and his work (he is the lead author here), ironically the same week that they were dragging Wakefield through the mud in January. I was dumbfounded at what leading vaccine experts will say on air when not talking about kids in the developed world. The head of the WHO Vaccine Safety Advisory Committee even said that given the choice between an effective vaccine and the potential serious adverse reaction, that's a tough public health policy question and not easily answered. They also interviewed a woman researching how the vaccines effect the immune systems of boys and girls differently by looking at blood samples. I'm telling you, this is amazing stuff! There are links to listen on my blog here:
http://roosclues.blogspot.com/2011/02/dr-peter-aaby-and-long-term-vaccination.html

The death numbers after DTaP and DTP vaccinations recorded in VAERS are nearly identical: 779 after DTaP and 739 after DTP, hence no way anybody can claim that DTaP is safer than DTP. Both are nearly equally toxic and deadly.

The recorded (in VAERS) numbers of serious adverse reactions after both these vaccines are 10,760, which means the real numbers are well over 100,000 of seriously injured children. If we add to this hundreds of thousands of injuries resulting from other pediatric vaccines, the real numbers of seriously vaccine injured children will be close to half million. Autism cases are among these numbers.

The VAERS database shows 1512 reported deaths after DTP or DTaP vaccinations. Assuming that the reported cases represent only 10% of all cases, the true numbers would be over 15 thousands, but if only 1 or a few % of postvaccination adverse effects are reported (as a former FDA Commissioner dr. David Kessler stated), than the real death numbers in the US after DTP/DTaP vaccinations would be many tens of thousands during the past 20 years. These vaccine casualties are in the order of American losses from WWI or Vietnam war.

In western EU countries, where vaccinations are mostly voluntary, the vaccination rates are much lower than in the US (perhaps 1/3 of the population is fully immunized according to recommended vaccination schedules). The “side effects” of this are much lower mortality rates of infants and young children in the EU countries than in the US (2-3 in the EU, but about 7 in the US). The US has the most intensive, early and insane vaccination program in the whole world and also the most damaged population of children. The truth is that in developed countries mortality from “vaccine preventable diseases” is very low now, even though many people (mostly previously vaccinated) get sick from these diseases (this refers particularly to pertussis, measles, rubella, and mumps). The mortality may be somewhat higher in the US than in EU, because in the US millions of people are without medical help. Nonetheless, the casualties of these diseases are clearly much lower than the casualties of vaccinations.

The US future seems bleak with a whole generation physically and neurologically damaged children. The US program of coerced vaccinations with toxic, “unavoidably unsafe” vaccines, which kill and injure thousands of children, deprives Americans of their basic human rights and can be compared to the experiments on humans conducted by Nazis or Japanese during the WWII. The reason why the vaccine establishment refuses to conduct the study of vac-unvac children in the US or in other developed countries is that they know very well, that the results of such study would be devastating for their big money making vaccination programs. However, the results of such study can be easily inferred from the existing real life data.

The numbers may be far worse. One such study also in Guinea-Bissau using the MMR vaccine revealed that the vaccine was only given to the strongest, healthiest babies while the weakest, most sickly one's were not given the vaccine. Guess what - the one's given the vaccine had lower mortality. I wrote a letter the BMJ on-line discussing the "selection bias" of the study and how it invalidated the findings. My comments were even published and commented upon (favorably) by some MDs.

Why do I saw the numbers may be far worse? The authors may have used the same selection bias.

Tedd

Tedd Koren, DC

This appears to be the whole-cell pertussis vaccine (DTP) as opposed to the acellular vaccine (DTaP) approved for use in the US in 1992 and phased in after that. DTP is still used in poor countries as it is much cheaper that DTaP. That being said, DTP was widely used in the US despite a known link to encephalitis. As usual, the justification was the standard “benefits far outweigh the risks” mantra.

The usual suspects will dismiss this as not relevant since the US no longer uses DTP. The fact that several generations of children did receive DTP from their pediatricians will be conveniently ignored. So will the fact that DTaP still contains an aluminum adjudavant.

Let's go ahead and interpret this for them:
"This, in no way, is comparable to the "findings" in the U.S. The mortality/morbities are NOT likely to be causal, or in any way directly associated with inoculation."

(sorry for being so pessimistic today.)

"Further epidemiological and immunological studies should clarify the impact of DTP and polio vaccinations. BCG stimulates a Th1 type immune response4 and is associated with reduced mortality.2,,8 However, DTP promotes a Th2 type immune response23 and we have found DTP vaccinated children to be more atopic [allergic].5 It may be important that the adjuvant of DTP vaccine, aluminium hydroxide, is a strong promoter of a Th2 type immune profile in mice and has enhanced susceptibility to tuberculosis rather than prevented infection in animal experiments.24 In animal studies of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and measles virus, live vaccine promotes a Th1 cytokine response and the animals have mild disease upon challenge. However, inactivated RSV or measles vaccine as well as pertussis toxin and DTP induce a Th2 cytokine profile and increase mortality after challenge with RSV or measles virus.25–27"