IS IT EDUCATION OR FEAR MONGERING?

Whether you’re a physician or a consumer/patient, it is important to be OBJECTIVE when determining whether an advertisement like the one above is designed to educate and protect us or create FEAR in order to gain PATIENT COMPLIANCE while improving the health care system’s revenue flow.

Let’s OBJECTIVELY use government sources to cite the scientific findings to determine whether adds like these fairly and impartially educate us or act to elicit an emotional “CALL TO ACTION” response to instigate FEAR and compliance for procedures not necessarily in our best interest.

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MORTALITY RATES FROM WHOOPING COUGH FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN PRIOR TO THE INTRODUCTION OF THE WHOOPING COUGH VACCINE

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In the United States, the mortality rate per million births in the first year of life declined by about 70% over the first half of the 20th century (3530 in 1900–1919 vs 1040 in 1934–1949).

The mortality rate among children aged 1–4 years in the United States declined more steeply (84%) than in infants (797 in 1900–1919 vs 128 in 1934–1939) [25], remaining around one-tenth of that in infants.

(REFERENCE: Global Childhood Deaths From Pertussis: A Historical Review)

Instead of readily sharing this information with the public, our government chooses to provide documents like the following:

A 92% reduction by 2007 looks amazing UNTIL we recall that there was a 70% reduction in 0-12 month old infants between 1900 and 1949 and an 84% reduction in 1-4 year old children PRIOR TO ANY AVAILABLE VACCINE! Can you see how statistics can be used to create a misleading outcome? They make it appear the vaccine produced a 92% improvement WHEN IT DIDN’T!

Since the pharmaceutical advertisement never mentioned any potential ADVERSE REACTIONS to this vaccine, should we assume it’s safe or should we ask:

ARE THERE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE WHOOPING COUGH VACCINE?

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According to the National Vaccine Information Center:

1. “Vaccines are pharmaceutical products and, like all pharmaceutical products, carry a risk of injury or death that can be greater for some than others.”

2. “The pertussis toxin is also thought to be the main component responsible for causing brain inflammation after injection of pertussis-containing vaccines.”

3. “Because pertussis toxin can cross the blood brain barrier when conditions are right, brain inflammation (encephalitis) that causes permanent brain damage has always been the most dreaded serious complication of the pertussis vaccination.”

4. “In 1994, the IOM (Institute Of Medicine) published the report DPT Vaccine and Chronic Nervous System Dysfunction after reviewing the 10-year follow up to the British NCES (National Childhood Encephalopathy Study) study and concluded that “NCES data are consistent with the possibility that some children without underlying brain or metabolic abnormalities might experience serious acute neurologic illness within 7 days after receiving the DPT vaccine and that acute illness could have chronic nervous system sequelae (complications.“)

5. “As of August 2012,  about half of the 2,982 awards for vaccine injury and death totaling nearly $2.5 billion dollars made under the U.S. 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act involve pertussis containing vaccines.“

(REFERENCE: National Vaccine Information Center Pertussis (Whooping Cough) & Pertussis Vaccine)

The references I provided are intended to show that RISKS exist whether one follows or abstains from pharmaceutical health care policies. It is WRONG for ANY doctor to make the claim that “ALL VACCINES ARE SAFE“ because:

“Vaccines are pharmaceutical products and, like all pharmaceutical products, carry a risk of injury or death that can be greater for some than others. The risk for injury or death from vaccination depends upon the vaccine or vaccines given; the individual’s health at time of vaccination; vaccine reaction history; personal or family medical history and whether the child or adult are exposed to other environmental toxins or factors that may affect immune responses to vaccination.”

(REFERENCE: National Vaccine Information Center Pertussis (Whooping Cough) & Pertussis Vaccine)

If you choose to vaccinate or choose to abstain, don’t base your decision on:

FEAR!

Base your decision on quality sources that provide ALL SIDES OF THE EVIDENCE. Most families that have been awarded financial compensation for vaccine injuries believed their family physicians knew what was in their best interest. LEARN from their mistakes by seeking MULTIPLE QUALITY OPINIONS from various types of doctors offering OBJECTIVE UNBIASED INFORMATION they are willing to provide you. Understanding the DETAILS of the RISKS and BENEFITS empowers the consumer with knowledge to reach an intelligent INFORMED DECISION rather than leaving it in the hands of ANY one doctor.

Now that you’re “armed” with this new knowledge, go back to the advertisement and see if GSK (GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceuticals) is looking to EDUCATE you or cause a FEAR BASED REACTION?

IN YOUR OPINION, WHO’S INTERESTS DO ADVERTISEMENTS LIKE THESE PROTECT, YOURS OR THE MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES?

 

 

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