Suffocation (death
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[2015] CDC Lists 131 Ways for an Infant to Die: Vaccines and Sudden Death (SIDS) There are 130 official ways for an infant to die. ...When a baby dies, coroners must choose from among these 130 categories. The official causes of death listed in the ICD include nearly every imaginable — and tragic — possibility. However, there is NO category for infant deaths caused by vaccines.[4] This is odd because the federal government is aware that vaccines permanently disable and kill some babies...From 1992 through 2001, the post-neonatal SIDS rate dropped by an average annual rate of 8.6%. It seemed as though the ‘Back to Sleep’ campaign was successful and that the real cause of SIDS was due not to vaccinations but from babies sleeping on their bellies. However, a closer inspection of the ICD — the 130 official ways for an infant to die — revealed a loophole. Medical certifiers, such as coroners, could choose from among several categories of death when a baby suddenly expired. They didn’t have to list the death as SIDS. Although the post-neonatal SIDS rate dropped by an average annual rate of 8.6% from 1992 through 2001 following the AAP’s seemingly successful ‘Back to Sleep’ campaign, the post-neonatal mortality rate from ‘suffocation in bed’ (ICD-9 code E913.0) increased during this same period at an average annual rate of 11.2. Sudden, unexplained infant deaths that were classified as SIDS prior to the ‘Back to Sleep’ campaign, were now being classified as deaths due to suffocation in bed!
Reclassification of SIDS Deaths to “Suffocation in Bed” and “Unknown Causes”
Figure 1. The postneonatal SIDS rate appears to have declined from 61.6 deaths (per 100,000 live births) in 1999 to 50.9 in 2001. However, during this period there was a significant increase in post-neonatal deaths attributed to “suffocation in bed” and due to “unknown causes.” When these sudden unexpected causes of infant deaths are combined with SIDS deaths, the total SIDS rate remains relatively stable, resulting in a non-significant decline. [2015] CDC Lists 131 Ways for an Infant to Die: Vaccines and Sudden Death (SIDS)