Vaccines 2.0: The Careful Parent's Guide to Making Safe Vaccination Choices for Your Family [2015] by Mark Blaxill

Author:Mark Blaxill
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: !!!, Vax - Risk Awareness
ISBN: 9781632201713
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2015-02-03T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

THE ENTERIC

VACCINES

Rotavirus

Poliovirus

Hepatitis A

ENTEROVIRUSES ARE A GROUP of more than one hundred viruses that can cause stomach pain, diarrhea, respiratory illness, rash, and, in the case of poliovirus, paralysis and death. They usually replicate in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract—entero is from the Greek enteron, or intestine.

While most enterovirus infections are inapparent or cause minor symptoms, the virus can sometimes spread to other organs in the body and trigger severe illness, including aseptic meningitis and encephalitis.

In late 2014, Enterovirus 68 made headlines for causing severe respiratory distress in children, especially those with asthma. There were also scattered reports of paralysis. We suspect enteroviruses, like many other microbes, can be made more virulent by co-factors such as environmental toxins and pesticides, an idea we will discuss in the polio section.

Rotavirus

There’s something truly maddening about the rotavirus vaccine: It isn’t needed where it’s used, and it isn’t used where it’s needed. The reason is that people with too much power over vaccine recommendations in the United States got it approved here, but the companies they got it approved for have priced the vaccine so high that it’s too expensive for consumers in poorer countries. While that may be changing, it’s a real window into the way the vaccine schedule in the United States has been hijacked by special interests for whom money is an inevitable part of the reward-risk calculation.

Before we address this unhealthy state of affairs, let’s sift through the mass of verbiage around this (and every other vaccine) for the few nuggets that really matter. Rotavirus, a common stomach bug, is simply not a dangerous disease in a place like the United States. The usual scare fest about deaths and hospitalizations masks the truth. Ailments that cause far worse problems get far less attention—there’s just no vaccine market for most of them.

Any child’s death is tragic; when the numbers are small in relative terms, though, a vaccine needs to be extraordinarily safe so as not to cause more problems than the disease itself. And the time and effort required to prevent a particular disease in a particular population with a particular vaccine needs to be objectively assessed. Rotavirus vaccine flunks those tests big time and lands deep in the red on our Reward-Risk Rating, down there close to Gardasil® as a really, really bad vaccine for American children.

The truth is that in their candid moments, even public health officials don’t get too excited about rotavirus. Only West Virginia and North Dakota make it a school requirement. Only a handful of other countries recommend it. Where is the sense of alarm about the lurking menace of rotavirus in the US? Nowhere outside the often-interchangeable offices of drug companies and CDC officials, it seems.

On our blog, Age of Autism, autism parent and Generation Rescue cofounder J. B. Handley wrote about his experience with Oregon health officials in a post titled “Rotavirus: The Vaccine Nobody Wants”:

I found the Department of Health to be extremely helpful in explaining why certain vaccines were not on their required list and in giving me general advice about immunization strategy.

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