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          ues to recommend the use of        or whose children or family        vaccine safety issues, WHO has
          the  DTP  vaccine in developing    members  or patients  have had     established  a Global  Advisory
          countries. (Developed countries    negative experiences from vac-     Committee on Vaccine Safety. ”
          have switched to the DTaP vac-     cinations.  They are facing tre-   They have a list of key points on
          cine because the DTP vaccine       mendous push back, including       the same page which are: “
          is associated with a higher risk   censorship. Why do they have to    •There is no such thing as
          of adverse events, but the DTP     fight so hard for when they have   a "perfect" vaccine which
          is still used in WHO vaccination   proof? Why  the  sudden push       protects everyone who  re-
          campaigns  primarily  because      for  mandatory vaccinations in     ceives  it  AND  is entirely
          it’s cheaper.)” Although, accord-  countries in the world? Consider
                                                                                safe for everyone.
          ing to online  testimonials, peo-  the case of the United States of
                                                                                •Effective    vaccines     (i.e.
          ple are experiencing  adverse      America, which has protections
                                                                                vaccines inducing  protec-
          reactions to DTaP as well.         in place for the manufacturers of
          An article published on Foxnews.   vaccines, with US Congress cat-    tive immunity) may produce
          com  on  December 19th 2019,       egorizing vaccines as ‘unavoid-    some undesirable side ef-
          stated that a whooping  cough      ably unsafe’. In this instance,    fects which are mostly mild
          outbreak forced a Texas school     the US Government, rather than     and clear up quickly.
          to close despite a 100-percent     the vaccine manufacturers, is      •The  majority  of  events
          vaccination  rate.  This followed   the one that pays compensation    thought to be related to the
          findings  that  the  MMR  vaccine   from taxpayers’ pockets for cas-  administration of a vaccine
          strain has actually been  the      es of vaccine injury and death -
                                                                                are actually not due to the
          cause  of some outbreaks and       so far to the tune of over 4 billion
                                                                                vaccine itself  -  many  are
          deaths.  These vaccines kill       American dollars. Convert that     simply coincidental events,
          and even appear to sicken and      to your local currency.
          weaken, rather than strengthen     The WHO is aware of negative       others (particularly in de-
                                                                                veloping countries) are due
          the ones receiving them. Users     side effects,  which means  that
          and  proponents  of  the  influen-  Afrikan countries must have       to human, or programme
          za vaccine have also reported      been amply advised on the          error.
          online  that  they  caught  the  flu.   same or at least read the items I   •It is not possible to predict
          In Uganda, mothers of children     read on the WHO website where      every individual who might
          with the measles vaccine com-      they say that “vaccine-associat-   have a mild or serious reac-
          plained  they were  in hospital    ed adverse events may affect       tion to a vaccine, although
          more often than mothers of chil-   healthy individuals  and should    there are a few contraindi-
          dren who didn’t vaccinate ( LA     be  promptly  identified  to  allow   cations to  some vaccines.
          Times piece). An article in Re-    additional  research and appro-
                                                                                By following  contraindi-
          uters in February 2020, states     priate action to take place. In
                                                                                cations  the risk of  serious
          that  after  a swift  uptake of  the   order  to  respond  promptly,  effi-
          HPV vaccine in Japan in 2009,      ciently, and with scientific rigor to   adverse effects can be min-
          the health ministry suspended                                         imized.”
          its active recommendation after
          reports of side effects including                                     Did you see that? ‘Particularly
          muscle  pain, sleep  disorders,                                       in developing countries.’ I don’t
          and light and sound sensitivi-                                        know, maybe the US is now one
          ty. The article goes on to claim    This body that  we                of the ‘developing countries’?
          that Japan is putting lives at risk                                   The Global  Advisory  Commit-
          because  of this decision,  but I   live in was carefully             tee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS)
          have to wonder. Especially after    and masterfully  de-              convened a group of experts in
          growing  concerns being  raised                                       December  2010  to “review the
          about the safety of the HPV Vac-    signed by God with                WHO  guidelines  on assessing
          cine following 436 deaths. What     remarkable protec-                the  causes of  serious  AEFIs.”
          does Japan know that we don’t?      tive and self-healing             AEFIs are Adverse Effects Fol-
          There are thousands  of sto-                                          lowing  Immunizations.  A 2011
                                              qualities.                        GACVS  meeting report stated
          ries of people who  have had




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