Tetanus Vaccine and Infant/Maternal Mortality?

[MaddieMay]

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I just got the following email from a friend... my spidey sense went off (the email sounds alarmist) and wanted to know what the OB/Gyn community knows about the validity of this.

Thank you!

Proctor and Gamble has launched a vaccine program to give the tetanus vaccine to pregnant women in third world country, despite the fact that:
a) men are at far greater risk for tetanus and
b) the vaccine crosses the placenta and can cause miscarriage, sometimes killing the mother as well.

This is not the philanthropic endeavor it appears to be--this is population control. These women are not being told the risks to themselves or their babies. Please go to this link and sign the petition telling Proctor and Gamble to stop this program and sever their connection with Big Pharma. Tell them you will not purchase their products (or, at the very least, their Pampers diapers, which is the product connected to the program) until they do so. It's a sacrifice--we've used nothing but Pampers since Abby was a baby--but the women and children of those countries need us to speak up for them since they don't have the facts necessary to speak up for themselves. When you see the commercials for this program, imagine those women and children thanking you for saving their lives FROM the vaccine instead of THROUGH it. Thank you! http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/ban-pampers-products.html

(Information about the effects of the vaccine are available at this link as well. Read for yourself what's going on!)

 

[chrisisinnocent]

Your spidey sense was right. From the link:
Vaccines are an iffy science, with little proof that they protect against any disease. With vaccines components given unnaturally thru vaccines, the studies are poor in understanding damages that can occur. and the adjuvants in them that can cause adverse reactions, especially in infants, such as encephalitis, seizures, serious site infections and other life-long neurological and autoimmune diseases, not to mention the high incidents of vaccine-induced infant mortality.


Beyond the atrocious grammar and spelling it's the usual anti vaccination BS.

 

[MaddieMay]

Thanks for the confirmation, I appreciate it. I'm not trying to be a tool, but this email came from a really good friend I've had for almost 30 years and I want to be able to break this to her gently, and with proof.

So as far as anyone knows, is it that no infants or mothers have died from receiving the tetanus vaccine, or that only a teeny % have?

I'd look it up myself, but all I have access to is PsychINFO and we've done a shameful lack of studies on this vaccine. 😉

Thanks again.

 

[THP]

It would be hard to say that a single infant had a problem directly related to those particular antibodies crossing the placenta. In a best case scenario there would be a randomized placebo controlled trial where we could say the group with the vaccine had a certain fold increase in incidence of defects compared with the placebo groups.

Pregnant women are routinely excluded from these types of trials so there isn't a lot of great data. However, the vaccine has been used extensively for years.

Here is the CDC report outlining when to use the vaccine:

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5517a1.htm

Some other articles you might be interested in:


Tetanus toxoid and congenital abnormalities.Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 1999 Mar;64(3):253-8.PMID: 10366047 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE

Safety of tetanus toxoid in pregnant women: a hospital-based case-control study of congenital anomalies.Bull World Health Organ. 1995;73(5):605-8.PMID: 8846486 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Both of these articles show that there is no statistical difference in congenital abnormalities in women who received tetanus vaccine. Of course these are retrospective studies.

 

[MaddieMay]

Wonderful, thank you so much! 🙂

 

[MaddieMay]

Oh, uh, except when I click on the links it asks me for a login ID and password. 🙁

 

[THP]

I must have been logged in when I posted those. I fixed the CDC link and you will have to type the other titles into the pubmed website. You should be able to read the abstracts.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/

 

[MugsyMD]

There was a recent article about 1-2 weeks ago that showed the CDC covered up evidence about vaccines and the relationship to autism!!!! This is serious business the vaccine industry and they will not admit to and pediatricians take the party line in giving vaccines - there is plenty of evidence out there that the preservative thimeriosal (i.e. mercury containing/preservative) is STRONGLY assoiciated with autism. Also, giving a child multiple vaccines at ONCE is encouraged by pediatricians so parents do not have to come back to the office multiple times - but let me tell, when you get a child who just got 3 vaccines, gets a fever to 103 ++ degrees a day or two later, and then loses some functionality, etc... There happens to be a strong association with this and proof - but the AMA, the Pediatric, and ACOG ALL deny this association - and even in light of the CDC coverup!!!!

 

[yaah]

By "plenty of evidence" you mean "lack of scientific evidence but plenty of anecdotal evidence," right? Go on pubmed and search for vaccines and autism, you will find all the evidence you need. But don't pick and choose.

 

[PeepshowJohnny]

there is plenty of evidence out there that the preservative thimeriosal (i.e. mercury containing/preservative) is STRONGLY assoiciated with autism.

Like how Autism rates in California went UP after thimerosal was removed from vaccines?

Also, giving a child multiple vaccines at ONCE is encouraged by pediatricians so parents do not have to come back to the office multiple times - but let me tell, when you get a child who just got 3 vaccines, gets a fever to 103 ++ degrees a day or two later, and then loses some functionality, etc...

The sum total of all vaccinations given to a child in the year 2008 has less total antigenic material than single vaccinations given in the fifties. This is due to greater purification and recognition of what epitopes actual "work" of modern vaccines.

To put this a different way, my dad got more "vaccination" in one day when he got vaccinated than I had in my entire childhood.

There happens to be a strong association with this and proof - but the AMA, the Pediatric, and ACOG ALL deny this association - and even in light of the CDC coverup!!!!

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go to my monthly Illuminati meeting.

On a serious note, if you're a truly an attending, I can't help but feel concerned for your patients as you seem either ignorant or willing to abandon the scientific principles modern medicine. Do you think the AMA is covering up the "truth" about body humour imbalances and the thereaputic benefits of bleeding?

 

[Diane L. Evans]

I personally recommend to my OB patients with puncture injuries to take the vaccine. I try and avoid the first 6 weeks. There is no definative US study data showing adverse affects.