If so many extra vaccine doses have been added since 1999, and New Zealand has the highest pertussis vaccination rate for pertussis ever, why do we keep having these epidemics?
So how many of these children were vaccinated? Only slightly more than half were "confirmed" cases, and the rest were "assumed":
Of the 353 confirmed cases reported since 26 December 2009, 240 (68.0%) had a known vaccination status (Table 4). Of these 240 cases, 127 were not vaccinated including seven cases aged less than six weeks and therefore not eligible for vaccination. Twenty-eight cases had received one dose of vaccine, eight cases had received two doses, 27 cases had received three doses, eight cases had received four doses, and 12 cases reported having completed their pertussis vaccination. A further 30 cases reported being vaccinated but no dose information was available.
Most of the vaccinated children were appropriately vaccinated for their age, and the ones who only had one shot, might have had a reaction to that shot, and their parents wouldn't have wanted more.
Out of the 679 cases since 26 December 2009, seventy were hospitalized, and there were no deaths.
Neither is there mention of sequelae, and you can bet if there had been, the papers would have been full of them. Notably, the immunisation status of those hospitalised, was not discussed.
Even though however-many-DPT-doses haven't made a jack bit of difference to the whooping cough incidence graphs since vaccination started with the DPT in 1961, why does the media fall for this mental manipulation? Because they are ignorant.
This is nothing new, as this 1983 medical article on pertussis, called "Media-induced Maladies" shows.
Actually it's a world-wide plan/phenomena. Take this article here: ALSO dated 22 September (funny that...) which is worth putting in full. Note the sentence in red.
September 22, 2010
Indiana Whooping cough cases skyrocket.
Rate of Vigo residents lacking immunization among state’s highest
INDIANAPOLIS — State health officials say Indiana is on track for the
highest number of pertussis infections since 1986, mirroring a national
trend in the escalation of the highly contagious respiratory disease better
known as whooping cough.
Health experts say the rise in reported cases may be due in part to better
diagnostic testing. But they also point to the number of children who may
not have been vaccinated against the disease, as well as the number of
teenagers and adults who’ve failed to get the booster shots designed to keep
their immunity from waning.
“Infants are the most vulnerable and they can die from the disease,” said
Dr. John Christenson, director of pediatric infectious disease at Riley
Hospital for Children in Indianapolis. “But teenagers and adults serve as
the vectors for the disease, transmitting it to infants who have no
immunity.”
As of mid-September, the number of whooping cough cases reported to the
Indiana State Department of Health for 2010 had surpassed 390, close to the
total number for 2009.
In Vigo County, the state says there have been no reported cases of whooping
cough so far this year. Less than five cases total were
reported in 2008 and 2009, said Megan Bland, Vigo County Health Department
spokeswoman.
Epidemiologist Angie Cierzniewski of the Indiana State Department of Health
said health experts are fighting the misconception that whooping cough had
been nearly eradicated.
“People think it went away with polio and measles,” Cierzniewski said.
It came close, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Before the first pertussis vaccine was introduced in the 1940s, whooping
cough infected more than 160,000 Americans a year and killed about 5,000.
By 1976, the number of cases
nationwide had dropped to 1,010 a year, because of what experts say was the
widespread use of the vaccine. But the numbers have increased tenfold since.
In California alone, there have been more than 4,000 cases reported this
year, including nine infants who’ve died – most of them after being
misdiagnosed initially.
California public health officials cite concerns similar to those voiced by
Indiana public health officials, including difficulty in tracking who’s been
immunized.
Indiana has a state law that requires students starting school to provide
proof that they are up-to-date on their immunizations for whooping cough, as
well as for polio, diphtheria, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B
and chickenpox (or show evidence they’ve had chickenpox).
A new state law also requires vaccinations against meningitis, a second
chickenpox shot and an updated shot inoculating children against whooping
cough, diphtheria and tetanus. Exemptions are granted only for religious or
medical reasons.
But during the 2009-10 school year, there were some counties in Indiana
where more than 20 percent of kindergarten students had no records of their
immunizations, according to the state health department.
“It’s a state law, but it’s really up to the school districts to enforce
it,” Cierzniewski said. “There are some schools that have so many students
without immunization records that if they enforced the law, they wouldn’t be
able to have school – there wouldn’t enough students to attend.”
That’s a scenario for trouble, warned Christenson. “A
lot of epidemics start when someone with the disease comes into a community
with an under-immunized population.”
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With regard to the last sentence in green. Being an information junkie, I have a huge collection of newspaper articles about kids with pertussis dating from the late 70's, and... most of them are vaccinated children. One more recent prominent one was a 10 month, fully vaccinated daughter of a doctor at Middlemore hospital. Which reminds me of this medical article in which in 1979, while defending his article the author replied with a situation which exactly mimics THIS country:
I did discover that the only seriously ill infants were too young to have been vaccinated in any case; and that
these children were threatened by an outbreak of which the onset and initial spread were entirely among immunised children.Nothing has changed in the world of expedient misinformation. Whooping cough is primarily spread by vaccinated children with undiagnosed infections, to their unvaccinated siblings, or other children in daycare or school.
The brown coloured paragraph is typical misinformation, when the truth is, that because of "observer bias" and the assumption that all vaccinated children can never get pertussis, pertussis was constantly diagnosed as something else, until the truth gradually dawned on everyone, and that TRUTH then permeated the medical literature. Ironically, the guru of pertussis, Dr James Cherry, was the first to twig that the problem was blinkered doctors, not absence of pertussis!
Why did that truth gradually permeate the medical literature? The whole truth and nothing but, is never told in the medical literature about anything... but a relatively probable scenario might go something like this bad dream I had in my imagination.... Big Pharma said, "Oh goodee, just give kids, adolescents. parents, caregivers, grannies and aunts a whole lot of shots whenever a baby pops out! We'll call it 'cocooning'.... more is always better.... " (Thinks to self... "This way we will have no recession"). Meanwhile doctors said, "Oh, well,.. but how do we explain that we were a bunch of idiots and couldn't see beyond the end of our noses?" to which pharma responded, "Oh don't bother. No-one will ever notice, after all, you are God and the sheeple will always believe you."
In order to convince the public that pertussis boosters from cradle to grave is a good idea, you have to have time to concoct some plausible sounding excuses. As well as allow enough time to pass, to get away with absolute porkies.
But the mainstream media will never wake up to the fact that media induced maladies exist, because they ASSUME that doctors tell the truth, and they can't be bothered studying the medical literature (or wimp out by saying they don't have the time).
Even if they did all the above, I wonder who would in mainstream media would have the balls to challenge people like Dr Alison Roberts, and demand truth and accountability?