“Mark Roe was a healthy baby–and then, for no apparent reason, he was dead. His parents had to know why. Their determination to find an answer is now helping doctors unravel the mystery of “crib deaths,” which take the lives of 25,000 infants a year.” — Vivian Cadden, “Why Babies
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Kari Bundy is a warrior mom. Like so many mothers before and after her, Kari trusted her pediatrician with her most precious loved ones, going to every well baby visit and giving her children the recommended vaccines she thought were protecting them. Like so many mothers, Kari kissed her baby
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So much effort of public health programs is spent on the prevention of infectious diseases. The goal to prevent and even eradicate infectious germs, while it may sound noble and heroic, could also be fundamentally misguided. For one, there’s little attention placed on the short and long term consequences of
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Shared by her mother, Jenny Dougall, in her own words: “My name is Jenny Dougall. I live in British Columbia, Canada. On April 20th, 2010 our beautiful baby girl was born, Elliauna Alexandra Dougall. Our appointment for her vaccines was made and booked for us in advance. The day was
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It’s truly unbelievable what is happening to perfectly healthy babies, and people just don’t get it. They don’t get that vaccine injuries like this aren’t rare at all. They don’t get that the diseases we are vaccinating against, aren’t even posing an imminent danger to infants and children. That we
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I may be just a mom to most people, but I’m not alone in thinking children don’t need COVID vaccines. Marty Makary, MD, MPH and a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine weighed some of the pros and cons, and found there is no benefit for young, healthy children:
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A few months ago someone wrote this as a comment on one of my posts: “Wait, are you guys against all vaccines?” It made an impression then, and every now and again it pops into my head as a reminder that there are people here who have questions and hesitations
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For many decades, our health experts have known that there are race-related differences in immune responses to vaccines. For example, African Americans have more powerful immune responses to vaccines, compared to non-hispanic whites. But this is one instance where bigger may not be better, since a more powerful immune response
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In a little over 3 months since the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) has received over 50,000 reports of adverse events, including over 2,200 deaths. Currently, there are no vaccines authorized for children under 16 years of age–but the trials have begun, and
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Shared by Ashley Everly, author and creator of ThinkLoveHealthy.com and Vaccine.Guide JUST IN CASE you still believe we can trust the FDA to ensure that a vaccine is actually “safe and effective” before it is licensed for use in this country, I implore you to read the following, about the
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Willow Lara Zielinski was born on February 17, 2015 and died less than a week after vaccines at a little over four months old on July 3, 2015. At Willow’s four-month pediatric appointment, on Friday, June 26, the doctor gave her the Pentacel vaccine (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hib, and polio),
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Herd immunity is based on naturally acquired immunity, which is a life-long immunity developed from natural exposure to a pathogen. Vaccine-induced immunity is temporary—hence why so many boosters are required, why more and more boosters have been added over time. It’s also why we see outbreaks in highly “vaccinated” populations. Primary Vaccine
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Christine Stabell Benn discusses how the DTP vaccine is associated with a 5-fold increase in mortality in children. All non-live vaccines are associated with increased mortality, and higher rate in females. She argues for live polio vaccination in infants, however all live vaccines are capable of causing the illness it’s aiming
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Shared from his father, Matt Konway. “This is my son Malachi. Both photos I’ve not shared before and were taken for his grandparents shortly after arriving at the hospital after his first and second seizures. No his lips aren’t blue from a popsicle or candy, his lips are blue from
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The DTaP is a vaccine that contains toxoids and some antigens adsorbed onto aluminum adjuvants to stimulate antibodies against Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis. The DTaP is an acellular vaccine that replaced the whole cell pertussis vaccine, DPT, in the mid to late 1990s. In 1948, the antigens for Diphtheria, Tetanus
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Every year around this time a slew of news stories comes out about young infants who die of vaccine-preventable diseases, which is a devastating tragedy. The thought of a brand new baby dying from anything preventable is simultaneously infuriating and heart-wrenching. Unfortunately, these stories don’t take into account that vaccines
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From August 1978 to March 1979, 11 infants died suddenly and unexpectedly within eight days of their DPT vaccination, all in Tennessee. Nine of the 11 infants had received the same lot of DPT vaccine (diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus) from Wyeth Laboratories: lot 64201. Four of the 11 were dead in 24 hours.
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Vaccinations give us all a false sense of security. A universal mantra that vaccines are safe and effective has trumped any attempt to have a conversation about it without being attacked and ridiculed. But are vaccines really safe? Are they always, indefinitely effective? Why are asking these very basic questions
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