The Dangers of Vaccines

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The Dangers of Vaccines
Many researchers have come forward describing the possible health risks associated with vaccines, in spite of the conviction of the inevitability and safety of vaccines. A scientific publication by the Department of Paediatric Rehabilitation from the University of Bialystok has established that there are several serious neurological repercussions associated with vaccination. Considering that vaccines normally contain the same ingredients, the effects on infants and young adults are the same throughout the world.
The University of Bialystok is a recognized medical institution that has carried out research on some important topics. The available evidence is indicative of the fact that vaccines are harmful in nature. There exists an incredible amount of research on the topic of vaccines that medical professionals are not conversant with, which has been done by doctors and specialists from various universities. Medical specialists are normally directed to studies conducted by pharmaceutical institutions and the producers of vaccines (Coulter, 89).
This paper explores the prescription of vaccines about serious repercussions, effects on the immune system, neurological indications after vaccinations and history of vaccines showing a little advantage. Most researches are conducted in the Western world, thereby increasing the sphere of studies to a worldwide one offers stakeholders with an extensive range of knowledge emanating from a wide range of diverse sources.

Reports on the harmful nature of vaccines should be taken seriously as they coincide with several other studies coming out to indicate that vaccines are harmful to the health of children and young adults.
Harmful Side Effects of Vaccines
While introducing her analysis titled ‘Conflicts of Interest in Vaccine Safety Research’ in 2012, Gayle Delong from the College of Baruch asserts that a majority of studies on vaccines are funded by manufacturers of vaccines and public health organizations with a direct financial and bureaucratic interest that is capable of obstructing researches on the safety of vaccines. The author further states that studies on the subject are frequently distributed by medical publications with financial interests motivating their promotion of the opinions of the research sponsors. The presence of conflicts of interests is not to be construed to imply that the studies are falsified or that the organizations that fund the studies are entirely corrupt. Even though several truthful and objectives professionals are exploring the safety of vaccines, in case an objective researcher relies on the findings of the biased research, the outcome could be an accidental continuation of the bias (Miller, 127).
For decades, users of vaccines such as patients have been demanding for studies associating the long-lasting health results of vaccinated children and those who have not been vaccinated, however, public welfare organizations have declined to fund them. In 2004, an American organization carried out a national survey of 700 young adults. Throughout the initial five years of life, in comparison to the unvaccinated children, the ones who had received vaccination had suffered a minimum of two times as many occurrences of use of antibiotic, rheumatic complications, temporary unconsciousness, fainting, violent behaviour, swelling of the throat, complications of the ear, febrile seizures, and incidents of crying for over three hours (Wailoo, 27).
While introducing her analysis, Lucija Tomljenovic asserts that intentionally hiding relevant information from patients and their caregivers with the single intention of persuading them to stick to recommended vaccination schedules could be regarded as a violation of ethics or misconduct. Authorized documents received by United Kingdom Department of Health and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI) disclose that health officials in England have been participating in such misconduct for the previous three decades, seemingly with the sole purpose of defending the status of the domestic vaccination scheme.
A research conducted in Poland in 2012 titled “Neurological Adverse Events after Vaccination” point out that there are several reports published in medical journals in Poland that lead to the conclusion that post-vaccinal problems among infants and young adults can be witnessed in intermittent situations and that they are not consistent with the advantages of vaccination in the eradication of harmful illnesses in childhood. The research further states that apart from offering an efficient inducement for the proper development of the immune system, latest research has indicated that vaccines have the capability of upsetting it. For instance, yearly vaccination for the prevention of influenza has been demonstrated to impede the growth of the virus-specific CD8+T protection in kids (Wailoo, 127).
Dangerous Contaminants in Vaccines
Thimerosal
One of the toxic ingredients of vaccines is Thimerosal, which is made of an associated mercury substance known as ethylmercury. The toxic nature of mercury can lead to several complications in the human body thereby putting not only the health but also the health of the patient at a huge risk. It was the suggestion of the FDA that a few children, subject to the type of vaccines they are getting and their timing, could be susceptible to concentrations of ethylmercury that may accumulate to surpass one of the government recommendations created for the injection of Thimerosal in the body. There are striking similarities between the symptoms of mercury toxicity and autism in infants and young adults. This can elucidate the recent growth in the magnitude of infants and young adults diagnosed with autism beginning the start of 1990. There seems to be a straightforward correlation between the several kids identified with autism and the prescription of hepatitis B as well as Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccinations to children in the 1990s (Blastland and Spiegelhalter, 199). Autism is a neurological condition that is marked by incomplete developments in the areas of language, intelligence, and social skills.
The most crucial periods in the life a human being are the hours, weeks and months after birth. It was decided by medical authorities several decades ago that they were conversant with what need to be done to infants and several have amassed wealth and started careers from the work. It is not accidental that children are repeatedly bothered physiologically and psychologically by medical involvements done from the initial moments of life. The occurrences of asthma, diabetes, and autoimmune infections during childhood had increased two-fold over the previous two decades; Attention Deficit Disorder has increased three-fold while there has been a 600 percent increase in the incidence of autism (Cave and Deborah, 172).
Gardasil HPV Vaccine
Health officers with the federal governments in the United States have reported nearly 8,000 serious cases of girls and women vaccinated with the Merck & Co. after its introduction twenty-four months back, and an excess of five hundred of the victims originate from the city of New York (Cave and Deborah, 172). The injections are accompanied by serious side effects such as paralysis, heart attack, including death, according to the thousands of reports received by drug regulators for the duration of the two years after its introduction in the United States.
Aluminium 
Compounds contained in aluminium have been extensively utilised as subsidiaries in preventive and remedial vaccinations. Researchers and professionals have identified macrophagic myofascitis, a disorder resulting in adverse weakness and several neurological disorders, one of which bears a close resemblance to multiple sclerosis as well as the Gulf War Syndrome. Researches conducted on both humans and animals have demonstrated a positive, and strong relationship to the aluminium hydroxide utilised as vaccine adjuvants. The use of aluminium hydroxide and aluminium phosphate in injections have been associated with many neurological complications (Allen, 117).
Delay of Immunization in Japan
According to research conducted by Raymond, the postponement of DPT vaccinations for at least two years after birth in Japan has led to a significant reduction in negative side effects. Between 1970 and 1974 when immunization against DPT was started after three to five months after birth, the national compensation agency in Japan was compelled to settle claims for fifty-seven long-lasting serious damage vaccine cases, as well as thirty-seven mortalities. In the duration of the subsequent six years, during which vaccinations against DPT were postponed to two years of age, there were reductions in the severe reactions to just eight and three mortalities (Messenger, 86). This is a representation of an eighty-five to ninety percent decline in severe incidents of injury and mortality.
The probabilities of an infant reacting adversely to DPT immunization are one in 1750, whereas their probability of perishing on account of pertussis is one in seven million. Years of researches published in the prominent medical publications in the world have reported immunization failure and adverse vaccine occasions, encompassing death. Several books authored by physicians, academicians and independent researchers expose adverse flaws in vaccination theory and practice. However, astoundingly, a majority of paediatricians and caregivers and guardians are not conversant with the findings. The situations have started to shift in previous years, nonetheless, as an increasing amount of parents and providers of healthcare throughout the world are increasingly becoming conscious of the challenges and are raising questions about the necessity of mass vaccinations.
Success in the Pharmaceutical Business
GlaxoSmithKline decided to compense the United States government a staggering $3 billion in 2012 for the settlement of a domestic and illegitimate case connected to its wrongful branding of medications Paxil as well as Wellbutrin and refusal to make public safety information concerning the a drug meant for the treatment of diabetes. According to the Economist, even though the fine was the biggest payment ever imposed on a drug organization, it was just a drop in the ocean for the company, representing less than 11 percent of its related revenue in 2012. And in the course of the duration the organization illegally promoted antidepressants to children below the age of 18, it allegedly earned $27.5 billion in revenue (Wakefield, 117). According to the Economist, in the course of the previous few years, the Justice Department has received more than $13 billion from pharmaceutical organizations for the settlement of allegations of unlawful marketing of brands. A majority of the firms have similarly paid billions as settlement of charges made by patients as a result of injuries suffered or death resulting from the use of drugs such as painkiller Vioxx, which resulted to the settlement of $4.85 billion with manufacturer Merck back in 2010. To several firms, such amounts would prove to be catastrophic, if not terminal. The legality or the benefits of such business to patients can be debated. However, the fact that illegal practices, such as illegal branding and illegitimate marketing, is an issue that is beyond debate as they are very lucrative to the pharmaceutical sector (Wakefield, 177).
Consistent with BBC News, pharmaceutical organizations in 2013 were receiving higher average revenue margin in comparison to companies in the oil, gas, media and car making industries, and were only comparable to firms in the financial institutions such as banks. However, Pfizer had a profit margin of 42 percent that was significantly higher than all other companies. There are five pharmaceutical firms that as of 2013 had profit margins that surpassed 20 percent.
The firms make the argument that their products are expensive because of the high cost of R&D and the comparatively brief patent life of the drugs, however, several corporations devote more than double the amount they use for promotion as they do on research and development, while cost of developing a bestselling medication is able to effortlessly be recovered within six to a maximum of ten weeks of high sales. While the implication is not that these pharmaceutical companies do not manufacture crucial medicines that are beneficial to the welfare of people, it is challenging for them to make the argument that they value patients more than they do profits.
Pharmaceutical firm profiteering is similarly on display in the situation of off-label prescription that as far as Forbes is concerned, represents close to 20% of all recommendations and rakes in more than $40 billion is sales in a single year. It is, therefore, possible for the pharmaceutical companies to continue earning enormous profits by merely following the uses of the drugs that have been approved by FDA. Considering the list of fraudulent practices of Big Pharma that have provoked huge fines by the Department of Justice, it becomes apparent that there is a direct relationship between the huge profits earned by the industries and unsavoury business practices. In most circumstances, such malpractices end up being harmful to patients who depend on the medications and entrust these companies with their lives. Other than being compelled to pay federal fines, pharmaceutical firms need to be compelled to settle lawsuit damages to the patients whose lives they put at risk (Farb, 165).
Identification of Chickenpox and Shingles
Chickenpox
Also medically known as varicella, chickenpox presents with a second-rate fever, sickness and a rash. The rash is initially maculopapular, and then changes to vesicular and advances to crusted abrasions within about a week. A few cases are subclinical or very minor in nature. Individuals who are mature have the tendency to suffer from more adverse infections in comparison to children. In a rare situation, the disease could lead to death.
Considering the fact that the rates of vaccination have gone up over the last couple of years, there has similarly been an increase in the cases of varicella in persons who have received vaccinations. Generally, the cases of varicella in persons who have been vaccinated are increasingly milder, with a lower fever and increasingly quicker recovery. Vaccinated people frequently have less than fifty rash abrasions and fewer vesicles in comparison to the situation of persons who have not been vaccinated who have 300 or more abrasions and several vesicles. Complications range from secondary bacterial diseases of the skill abrasions, basic chickenpox pneumonia, aseptic meningitis, and encephalitis as well as Reye disorder. Newly born infants and immunosuppressed sufferers are faced with a higher probability of suffering from adverse chickenpox (Miller, 54).
Herpes zoster (shingles)
VZV continues to be in a dormant condition in the nerve tissue of human beings and becomes active in between 15 percent and 30 percent of disease-ridden individuals in the course of their lifetime, leading consequently to herpes zoster otherwise known as shingles (Cave and Deborah, 132). Shingles are marked by a largely independent vesicular discharge within a dermatome. It is frequently connected with adverse pain that may come before abrasions by two to three days. The rash continues to exist for up to numerous weeks though the duration is mainly determined by severity. The rash is frequently more prevalent and long-lasting especially in patients suffering from immunosuppression.
Patients need to be cautiously assessed to make sure that the cases of the involvement of the eye or the auditory nerve do not take place when the rash occurs in the ophthalmic region of the face. At this phase, it becomes mandatory that professional treatment is sought considering that lack of medical attention could lead to blindness, loss of the ability to hear or a variety of other complications in the body. Chances of occurrence increase the older a person grows and kids below the age of twelve seldom get infected unless they are suffering from immunosuppression or were originally affected as babies. Another type of shingles is disseminated herpes that is marked by skin abrasions away from the affected area, and that might involve other organs of the body leading to hepatitis or encephalitis. An incapacitating impediment of shingles, particularly among a majority of senior patients, is continued pain that may continue for weeks after the healing of the skin lacerations (Wakefield, 177).
In conclusion, some researchers have come forward describing the possible health risks associated with vaccines, in spite of the conviction of the inevitability and safety of vaccines. Reports on the harmful nature of vaccines should be taken seriously as they coincide with several other studies coming out to indicate that vaccines are harmful to the health of children and young adults. Throughout the initial five years of life, in comparison to the unvaccinated children, the ones who had received vaccination had suffered a minimum of two times as many occurrences of use of antibiotic, rheumatic complications, temporary unconsciousness, fainting, violent behaviour, swelling of the throat, complications of the ear, febrile seizures, and incidents of crying for over three hours. This lead to the conclusion that post-vaccinal problems among infants and young adults can be witnessed in intermittent situations and that they are not consistent with the advantages of vaccination in the eradication of harmful illnesses in childhood. The research further states that apart from offering an efficient inducement for the proper development of the immune system, latest research has indicated that vaccines have the capability of upsetting it. To stop pharmaceutical companies from being involved in ethical violations, it would be mandatory for federal governments to come up with more stringent measures to curb such malpractices to protect members of the public.
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