Recently Vaccinated Individuals
Found to Spread Disease
March 24, 2015
Story at-a-glance
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You can shed live virus in body fluids whether you have a
viral infection or have gotten a live attenuated viral
vaccine
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The Johns Hopkins Patient Guide for immunocompromised
patients used to mention avoiding “contact with children who
are recently vaccinated”
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You can be an asymptomatic carrier of a viral infection
(acquired naturally or via vaccination), so while you may
show no symptoms, you may still be able to transmit the
virus to others
By Dr. Mercola
Even as the US measles "outbreak" has slowed, the vaccination
debate rages on. It has become increasingly heated, at times
inappropriate and oftentimes personal, as parents attack one another
about their beliefs.
One of the "facts" commonly cited by vaccine supporters is that
the non-vaccinated pose a risk to their communities. By choosing not
to get their children vaccinated, parents are putting other children
at risk of those diseases, particularly children who are not old
enough or not able to get vaccinated.
Most likely you've seen this propaganda being circulated widely
in the media. Some parents of children who are immunocompromised and
therefore unable to receive the vaccines themselves, for instance,
have targeted non-vaxing parents, calling them irresponsible and
even killers.
It is sad to see so many lies and misinformation being spread,
including those about herd immunity. Another important factor that
isn't widely appreciated is that recently vaccinated individuals may
actually spread disease.
This is why, in the Johns Hopkins Patient Guide for
immunocompromised patients, it makes no mention about avoiding
non-vaccinated individuals… but it does mention avoiding "contact
with children who are recently vaccinated."
It also stated to "Tell friends and family who are sick, or have
recently had a live vaccine (such as chicken pox, measles, rubella,
intranasal influenza, polio, or smallpox) not to visit.1
At least, it used to state this. As of March 2015, the
guide has been revised and this language has been removed, likely
because of all the press it's been receiving. Still, the fact
remains that recently vaccinated individuals can and do
spread disease.
Recently Vaccinated Individuals Can Spread Disease
Barbara Loe Fisher is the co-founder and president of the
National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a non-profit charity
dedicated to preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public
education and defending the legal right for everyone to make vaccine
choices.
She explains how you can shed live virus in body fluids whether
you have a viral infection or have gotten a
live attenuated viral vaccine:
"Live attenuated viral vaccines (LAV) that use live
viruses try to, in essence, fool your immune system into
believing that you've come into contact with a real virus,
thereby stimulating the antibody response that, theoretically,
will protect you," she says.
"When you get these live viral vaccines, you shed live
virus in your body fluids. Just like when you get a viral
infection, you shed live virus. That's how viral infections are
transmitted.
Because viruses, unlike bacteria, need a living host...
in order to multiply. What these viruses do is they try to
disable the immune system and evade immune responses."
Barbara has compiled a special report, "The Emerging Risks of
Live Virus and Viral Vectored Vaccines" containing over 200
references, which delves into virus shedding and vaccine virus
shedding.
In it, she raises valid questions about whether or not
scientists, public health officials, and vaccine manufacturers truly
understand the impact live attenuated viral vaccines and vaccines
using viruses as vaccine vectors, have on our immune function,
genetic integrity, and the environment.
Are Non-Vaccinated Children Being Unfairly Blamed?
Live-virus vaccine shedding and transmission may also affect the
evolution of viruses that infect humans and animals because vaccine
strain viruses are released into the environment, where
recombinations and further mutations can occur.
Smallpox, for example, is transmitted by contact with body
fluids. And, when you get a live attenuated smallpox vaccine, which
contains live attenuated vaccinia virus, you can develop vaccinia
virus (VACV or VV) strain infection, which you can then transmit to
others. The same is true for polio and the live oral polio vaccine
(OPV).
Measles virus RNA was also detected in the urine of 10 of 12
children, and all young adults tested, following
measles vaccination.2
As Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation,
said:
"The public health community is blaming unvaccinated
children for the outbreak of measles at Disneyland, but the
illnesses could just as easily have occurred due to contact with
a recently vaccinated individual… Evidence indicates that
recently vaccinated individuals should be quarantined in order
to protect the public."
Have You Heard of Vaccine-Related Measles?
It is possible to come down with measles after receiving
an MMR vaccine. In 2013, for instance, a 2-year-old fell ill with
vaccine-related measles 37 days after receiving the
measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine.
This was well beyond the typical incubation period for measles
transmission, and it occurred in the context of an outbreak
investigation of measles cluster. So at first it was assumed to be a
wild-type measles infection, when in fact it was vaccine-related. We
have no statistics about how often this assumption is made when it
may actually be inaccurate.
As reported in Eurosurveillance:3
"The incubation period of measles is typically eight to
12 days from exposure to rash onset, with a range from seven to
21 days. Public health interventions are based on this
established incubation period for determining the
epidemiological links between cases and for estimating periods
of exclusion for contacts in high risk settings.
Based on our review of the literature, this report
documents the first case of MMR vaccine-associated measles, 37
days post-immunization, well beyond 21 days and the routine 30
days post-MMR immunization period used by the Canadian adverse
event following immunization (AEFI) surveillance system.
…Although this is the first such reported case,
it likely represents the existence of additional, but
unidentified, exceptions to the typical timeframe for
measles vaccine virus shedding and illness."
Measles Outbreaks Can Occur Even in 'Highly Immunized Societies'
Another factor not being addressed by most media or public health
agencies is that the vaccine provides absolutely no assurance of
long-lasting immunity and even two doses of MMR vaccine will fail to
provide long-term protection.
Like B. pertussis whooping cough and other infectious diseases,
measles has natural cyclical increases and decreases every few years
in populations. These may occur even in highly vaccinated
populations.
Public health agencies have been reporting measles outbreaks in
the US for the past few years, which they often blame on
unvaccinated individuals, despite the fact that in 2012, 95 percent
of children entering kindergarten had gotten two
MMR shots and so had more than 90 percent of high school
students.
With this high degree of compliance with a supposedly effective
measles vaccine, many people have been wondering why the US is
seeing a resurgence of measles cases.4
The answer may lie in an ineffective vaccine.
In the medical journal Vaccine, Dr. Gregory Poland, the
journal's editor-in-chief, professor of medicine and founder and
leader of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group, made public
statements about the poor effectiveness of measles vaccine in the
MMR shot.5
According to Dr. Poland, who is conducting research at Mayo Clinic
to develop new measles, mumps and rubella vaccines:6
"…the immune response to measles vaccine varies
substantially in actual field use. Multiple studies demonstrate
that 2–10% of those immunized with two doses of measles vaccine
fail to develop protective antibody levels, and that immunity
can wane over time and result in infection (so-called secondary
vaccine failure) when the individual is exposed to measles.
For example, during the 1989–1991 U.S. measles outbreaks
20–40% of the individuals affected had been
previously immunized with one to two doses of
vaccine. In an October 2011 outbreak in Canada,
over 50% of the 98 individuals had received two doses of measles
vaccine… this phenomenon continues to play a role
in measles outbreaks.
Thus, measles outbreaks also occur even among highly
vaccinated populations because of primary and secondary vaccine
failure, which results in gradually larger pools of susceptible
persons and outbreaks once measles is introduced. This
leads to a paradoxical situation whereby measles in
highly immunized societies occurs primarily among those
previously immunized."
Vaccinated Individuals Can Be Asymptomatic Carriers of Disease
One of the dangers of any viral disease outbreak is that people
often fail to realize is that you can be an asymptomatic carrier
of a viral infection; so while you show no symptoms or only mild
symptoms, you may still be able to transmit the virus to others.
Even fewer people understand that this is also true for live-virus
vaccines! Yet, government health officials do not conduct routine
active surveillance of vaccinated people to find out if they are
experiencing asymptomatic or atypical measles and transmitting it to
others.
For instance, in an animal study, while whole cell DPT and
acellular-pertussis-vaccinated baboons did not develop serious
clinical disease symptoms—such as loss of appetite and cough—when
they were exposed to the
B. pertussis bacteria, they still colonized B.
pertussis in their throats and were capable of transmitting
the infection to other baboons.7
The study's lead author Tod Merkel also explained that when exposed
to B. pertussis after recently getting vaccinated, you
could be an asymptomatic carrier and infect others, saying:8 "When
you're newly vaccinated, you are an asymptomatic carrier, which is
good for you, but not for the population."
The Truth About Herd Immunity
The issue of "herd immunity" as it pertains to
vaccinations is a widely
misunderstood subject. As reported by Barbara Loe Fisher:
"According to Dr. [James] Cherry, [a prominent UCLA
pediatrician and infectious disease expert],
measles-vaccine-acquired herd immunity is in effect with a
measles vaccination rate of more than 90 percent. Well, that has
been true in America since 1981 with one dose of MMR vaccine and
since 2000 for two doses of MMR vaccine, which is one reason why
the CDC declared measles eradicated from the U.S. in 2000.
But, clearly, measles virus has not been eradicated from
the U.S., just like measles has not been eradicated from any
other country and emerging scientific evidence suggests it never
will be—no matter how many doses of MMR vaccine are mandated for
every man, woman and child in the world."
The science clearly shows that there's a big difference between
naturally acquired herd immunity and vaccine-acquired herd immunity,
even as scientific knowledge about the biological mechanisms
involved in naturally acquired and vaccine acquired immunity is
incomplete. For instance, most Americans born before 1957
experienced measles and have naturally acquired life-long permanent
immunity to measles, which allowed women to pass antibodies on to
their babies to protect them from measles during the first year of
life.
Things have definitely changed in the past 60 years. Because
vaccine antibodies are different from naturally acquired measles
antibodies, young vaccinated moms today cannot give longer lasting
naturally acquired measles antibodies to their newborns.9
Vaccines simply do not confer the same kind of
long-lasting immunity that is obtained from experiencing and
recovering from the natural disease. This is why booster shots are
necessary, and why some are recommending that a
third MMR vaccine to the US vaccine schedule. The
vaccine simply cannot provide life-long immunity the way getting a
naturally acquired infection can. So, what many people don't realize
is that there is such a thing as natural herd immunity.
However, vaccines do not confer the same kind of
immunity as experiencing and recovering from the natural disease.
Your Human Right to Make Voluntary Health Care Decisions Is Under
Attack
Earlier this month, a Chicago mother signed a consent form for
her 16-year-old daughter to get a sports physical at school. During
the physical, a nurse also administered four vaccines -- chicken
pox, hepatitis A, meningitis, and the HPV vaccine. The mother states
she did not give consent for three of the vaccines, which were given
without her consent and without her daughter's knowledge.10
She has taken the issue to the school and school board, but they are
fighting back.
Do you want to live in a world where your child can be given a
vaccination, a medical procedure that carries risks of side effects,
without your knowledge or consent? Do you believe in the right to
make voluntary decisions about which vaccines you receive and which
you choose to give to your children? This is one of the biggest
public health issues of our time, and in light of the gaps in
vaccine science, having the legal right to know and freedom to make
an individual, voluntary choice about vaccination is essential.
You can't simply assume that they are safe. There's gross
underreporting of vaccine reactions, injuries, and deaths to the
Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), even though it's
been a matter of federal law since 1986. Any doctor or other vaccine
provider who gives a vaccine is supposed to monitor the person they
vaccinated and report any subsequent injuries, hospitalization, or
death to VAERS. But there's no enforcement or penalties for failure
to comply with the vaccine safety informing, reporting, and
recording provisions in the 1986 law.
"What's happening is a lot of the providers of vaccines,
the doctors, are determining that when something bad happens
after vaccination, it's not the fault of the vaccine; it's just
a coincidence. You have less than 10 percent, or perhaps less
than one percent of all vaccine providers actually reporting to
the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System," Barbara says.
Adding insult to injury, there's also an attempt to censor public
conversation about all these vaccines that we're using, and the
hundreds of vaccines in the research pipeline – including live-virus
vaccines and
genetically engineered viral vectored experimental vaccines for
Ebola and HIV. Already, we've traded longer lasting naturally
acquired immunity for a temporary, artificial vaccine acquired
immunity against an entire array of infectious diseases—most of
which never led to mass casualties in the first place.
In the last 30 years, the US has tripled the number of vaccines
given to infants and children during their most critical period of
development—the first three years of life. Could the ramifications
of this be reflected in the current abysmal chronic disease and
disability statistics in the US?
"We do not understand the impact we've had on the immune
function of several generations of children, whose immune
systems have been atypically manipulated over and over again
with inactivated bacterial vaccines and live virus vaccines,"
Barbara says. "We don't know the impact on their
epigenetics, on their DNA, and on their immune function."
Protect Your Right to Informed Consent and Defend Vaccine Exemptions
With all the uncertainty surrounding the safety and efficacy of
vaccines, it's critical to protect your right to make independent
health choices and exercise voluntary informed consent to
vaccination. It is urgent that everyone in America stand up and
fight to protect and expand vaccine informed consent protections in
state public health and employment laws. The best way to do this is
to get personally involved with your state legislators and educating
the leaders in your community.
THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY.
National vaccine policy recommendations are made at the federal
level but vaccine laws are made at the state level. It is at the
state level where your action to protect your vaccine choice rights
can have the greatest impact. It is critical for EVERYONE to get
involved now in standing up for the legal right to make voluntary
vaccine choices in America because those choices are being
threatened by lobbyists representing drug companies, medical trade
associations, and public health officials, who are trying to
persuade legislators to strip all vaccine exemptions from public
health laws.
Signing up for NVIC's free Advocacy Portal at
www.NVICAdvocacy.org gives you immediate, easy access to your own
state legislators on your Smart Phone or computer so you can make
your voice heard. You will be kept up-to-date on the latest state
bills threatening your vaccine choice rights and get practical,
useful information to help you become an effective vaccine choice
advocate in your own community. Also, when national vaccine issues
come up, you will have the up-to-date information and call to action
items you need at your fingertips.
So please, as your first step,
sign up for the
NVIC Advocacy Portal.
Share Your Story with the Media and People You Know
If you or a family member has suffered a serious vaccine
reaction, injury, or death, please talk about it. If we don't share
information and experiences with one another, everybody feels alone
and afraid to speak up. Write a letter to the editor if you have a
different perspective on a vaccine story that appears in your local
newspaper. Make a call in to a radio talk show that is only
presenting one side of the vaccine story.
I must be frank with you; you have to be brave because you might
be strongly criticized for daring to talk about the "other side" of
the vaccine story. Be prepared for it and have the courage to not
back down. Only by sharing our perspective and what we know to be
true about vaccination will the public conversation about
vaccination open up so people are not afraid to talk about it.
We cannot allow the drug companies and medical trade associations
funded by drug companies or public health officials promoting forced
use of a growing list of vaccines to dominate the conversation about
vaccination. The vaccine injured cannot be swept under the carpet
and treated like nothing more than "statistically acceptable
collateral damage" of national one-size-fits-all mandatory
vaccination policies that put way too many people at risk for injury
and death. We shouldn't be treating people like guinea pigs instead
of human beings.
Internet Resources Where You Can Learn More
I encourage you to visit the website of the non-profit charity,
the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), at
www.NVIC.org:
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NVIC Memorial for Vaccine Victims: View
descriptions and photos of children and adults, who have
suffered vaccine reactions, injuries, and deaths. If you or your
child experiences an adverse vaccine event, please consider
posting and sharing your story here.
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If You Vaccinate, Ask 8 Questions: Learn
how to recognize vaccine reaction symptoms and prevent vaccine
injuries.
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Vaccine Freedom Wall: View or post
descriptions of harassment and sanctions by doctors, employers,
and school and health officials for making independent vaccine
choices.
Connect with Your Doctor or Find a New One That Will Listen and Care
If your pediatrician or doctor refuses to provide medical care to
you or your child unless you agree to get vaccines you don't want, I
strongly encourage you to have the courage to find another
doctor. Harassment, intimidation, and refusal of medical care
is becoming the modus operandi of the medical establishment in an
effort to stop the change in attitude of many parents about
vaccinations after they become truly educated about health and
vaccination.
However, there is hope.
At least 15 percent of young doctors recently polled admit that
they're starting to adopt a more individualized approach to
vaccinations in direct response to the vaccine safety concerns of
parents. It is good news that there is a growing number of smart
young doctors, who prefer to work as partners with parents in making
personalized vaccine decisions for children, including delaying
vaccinations or giving children fewer vaccines on the same day or
continuing to provide medical care for those families, who decline
use of one or more vaccines.
So take the time to locate a doctor, who treats you with
compassion and respect and is willing to work with you to do what is
right for your child.
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