It has always been a principle of medicine that one should not vaccinate pregnant women, except in extreme cases, because the risk to the baby is just too high. Recently, we have seen two examples of violation of this policy. When the HPV vaccine Gardasil was first released the CDC and the manufacturer (Merck Pharmaceutical Company) recommended that it be given to pregnant women.
Shortly after beginning this dangerous practice it was ordered halted because a number of women were losing their babies and babies were being born with major malformations.
It is known that stimulating a woman's immune system during midterm and later term pregnancy significantly increases the risk that her baby will develop autism during childhood and schizophrenia sometime during the teenage years and afterward. (1)
Compelling scientific evidence also shows an increased risk of seizures in the baby and later as an adult. (2) In fact, a number of neurodevelopmental and behavioral problems can occur in babies born to women immunologically stimulated during pregnancy. (3-6)
It is true that serious flu infections or E. coli infections during pregnancy are a major risk for all these complications, but a woman's risk of becoming infected, is a very small fraction of 1 %, yet the CDC, medical doctors, and the media are announcing that all pregnant women should be vaccinated for the swine flu.
The media repeats the manufacturers' mantra that this vaccine is produced exactly like the seasonal flu, when in fact it is not. Yes, they use chicken eggs, but the rest has been fast tracked and many shortcuts on safety procedures have been allowed. Many physicians are calling for all pregnant women to be vaccinated with at least three vaccines, two of which contain mercury. There is also evidence to show that a large number of these women will gain no protection from the vaccine.
Dr. Michael Bronze, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, writing for emedicine medscape.com (WebMD), states that the risk of a pregnant women being hospitalized with the H1N1 infection is 0.32 per 100,000 pregnant women (which is 1 in 300,000 pregnant women). One can safely say, based on the Australian/New Zealand experience (at the peak of their flu season) and the American data somewhere in the middle of their flu season, that pregnant women have about a 99.97% chance they will not become so sick as to require hospital care at any level.The death rate of pregnant women who were admitted to the ICU was 7.7%, a fairly low figure for infectious ICU patients. Remember, most patients admitted to the hospital are admitted for hydration and are not that ill in terms of the infection itself.
The countries in the southern hemisphere have already gone through their fall and winter, that is the seasons of peak flu infections. Epidemiologists and virologists have been surprised at how mild this flu pandemic has been in the Southern Hemisphere, with relatively few deaths and few hospitalizations in most areas.
Dr. Bronze also notes that animal studies have shown that vaccines harm unborn babies and that no safety studies have been done in humans. A recent study done by Dr. Laura Hewitson, a professor of obstetrics at the University of Pittsburg Medical Center, found that a single vaccine used in human babies, when used in newborn monkeys, caused significant abnormalities in brainstem development. (7) This mass vaccination program for H1N1 variant virus will be the largest experiment on pregnant women in history and could end as a monumental disaster.
Every pregnant women in America needs to see the video interview (below) regarding the dangers of pregnant women receiving vaccine.
More Information: The Swine Flu Coverup - America deserves the truth
References:
1) Smith SEP et al. Maternal immune activation alters fetal brain development through interleukin-6. Journal of Neuroscience 2007; 27: 10695-10702
2) Galic MA et al. Postnatal inflammation increases seizure susceptibility in adults rats. Journal of Neuroscience 2008; 28: 6904-6913.
3) Buka SL et al. Maternal cytokine levels during pregnancy and adult psychosis. Brain Behavior and Immunity 2001; 15: 411-420.
4) Ozawa K et al. Immune activation during pregnancy in mice leads to dopaminergic hyperfunction and cognitive impairment in the offspring: a neurodevelopmental animal model of schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry 2006; 59: 546-554.
5) Meyer U et al. Immunological stress at the maternal-foetal interface: a link between neurodevelopment and adult psychopathology. Brain Behavior and Immunology 2006;; 20: 378-388.
6) Blaylock RL. The danger of excessive vaccination during brain development: the case for a link to autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Medical Veritas 2008; 5: 1727-1741.
7) Hewitson L et al. Delayed acquisition of neonatal reflexes in newborn primates receiving a thimerosal-containing hepatitis B vaccine: Influence of gestational age and birth weight. Neurotoxicology 2009; (epub ahead of print)
Comments
Money is the root of this. The vaccine manufacturers need to break even on the swine flu vaccine and so they are looking to play on the fears of pregnant women. It is always a good idea to look at the morbidity and mortality rates of the disease vs. the vaccine. In many instances the damage you can do by taking the vaccine while pregnant is higher and more likely than getting the illness or damage from having the actual illness.
This made me feel very happy about the choices that I have made for myself and my unborn baby. We are not putting any poison in this body!
I'm 10 weeks pregnant and the news has freaked my out but still don't feel good about getting the vaccine. I have never gotten flu vaccines. People have told me that pregnant women have died from the swine flu?? dosen't people die from the flu every year?
well i have just gotten the H1N1 shot earlier today and i am very worried bout what might and might not happen to me and my child after seeing all the things bout swine flu on the news. i shouldnt have to be worried because doctors should have made sure that this shot will not harm u.. but because i work in the health care work i had to get it... so what chould u tell me????
I was schocked that the CDC,health officials and media were telling pregnant woman to be vaccinated when they have not had time to test this new vaccine. It could take years to see the real results of their hasty decision.
A father's heavily researched and well-linked email response when his daughters were marketed to by Canadian health authorities.
Go to the Scribd website and search for "HPV vaccine letter".
I too work in the healthcare field, and was given the choice to get the H1N1 Vaccine, I declined, due to this reason, I am 19 weeks pregnant and studies show that pregnant woman should not be vacinated during pregnancy, except in extreme cases because the risk of the baby is too high.....As a Healthcare worker YOU are given a CHOICE to take or decline a new vaccine, but you waive your right to sue the health company.....
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