Vaccine Pushed on Infants Causes Drug-Resistant Pneumonia: JAMA Study

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Vaccine Pushed on Infants Causes Drug-Resistant Pneumonia: JAMA

Study

Aside from the direct risks of vaccination, yet another is now

clearly documented: drug-resistant forms of the diseases.

by Heidi son6 September 2010

A drug-resistant strain of pneumonia is the result of a highly-praised

vaccine routinely given to infants three times in their first year of

life, according to a study that will be published in tomorrow's

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The timing of

this study is particularly interesting, as it comes shortly after the

replacement of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV-7)

with an updated version, PCV-13.

The study's introduction reads:

The rapid increase in multiresistant serotype 19A as a cause of

invasive and respiratory pneumococcal disease has been associated in time

with the widespread implementation of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate

vaccination (PCV-7) inseveral countries. Because spontaneous fluctuations

in time and antibiotic selective pressure may have induced this serotype

19A increase, controlled studies are needed to assess the role of PCV-7.

The goal of this study was to see if suspicions of a connection

between the use of PCV-7 vaccinations has caused the increase in

drug-resistant pneumonias. The results are impressive. There can be no

reasonable doubt that pneumonia vaccinations are creating a new, more

virulent and less treatable form of the disease. Now that it's been

released, what can stop it?

The authors also point out that the full effects of PCV-7 on development

of the drug-resistant bacteria may not be fully defined by the study,

since it focused on only the first three PCV-7 vaccinations, ignoring

that the series consists of a fourth. They note, also, that their

sampling method may have minimized the real story­that more

drug-resistant bacteria may have emerged than they had accounted

for.

The StudyEntitled " Pneumococcal Conjugate

Vaccination and Nasopharyngeal Acquisition of Pneumococcal Serotype 19A

Strains " , the study was performed in the Netherlands and funded by

the Dutch Ministry of Health. Interestingly, several authors have

significant financial ties with Big Pharma. Many of them have received

grants from GlaxoKline, Wyeth, Pfizer, Baxter, and Novartis, making

the results of this study even more remarkable. However, the lead author,

Elske J.M. vanGils, MD, reported no such conflicts.

The study consisted of 1,003 healthy newborns and followed them to age 24

months. The infants were randomly assigned to groups. One group received

two doses of PCV-7 at ages 2 and 4 months, the second group received

three doses at ages 2, 4, and 11 months, and the third group was not

vaccinated with PCV-7.

At the end of the study, 16.2% of the three-dose group had been found to

harbor serotype 19A bacteria. The unvaccinated group had a 9.2% rate, and

the two-dose group had a 13.2% rate.

Will the Replacement Vaccine Improve Matters?The Centers

for Disease Control (CDC) recently replaced PCV-7 with PCV-13, and those

children who have already received PCV-7 are being pressed to also take

the new version.

There is little reason to believe that the new vaccine will improve

matters. It is, in fact, more likely to make things worse. It consists of

13 strains of pneumonia, including the ones in PCV-7. The only difference

the new vaccine could make is to worsen the situation by causing even

more drug-resistant bacteria to emerge.

The authors' conclusion is fairly tame:

However, we need to be aware that other serotypes with similar

characteristics and disease potential may be the next in line to

proliferate and therefore pneumococcal surveillance remains important

after introduction of expanded pneumococcal conjugate vaccines.

It's a shame that the authors don't state the obvious: The

introduction of pneumonia vaccines is resulting in far greater pneumonia

risk than existed before. Even if the PCV-13 vaccine does protect against

pneumonia, the fact is that, ultimately, it is producing more virulent

and less treatable forms of the disease.

Doctors owe it to patients to inform them that any protection they might

gain against pneumonia will ultimately come at the cost of worse disease

for which there is no treatment. Parents of newborns should consider the

plight of their own children as their grandchildren face virulent disease

that was unknown to their grandparents, disease created by the vaccines

their doctors are now pushing on them.

What is absolutely clear is that the vaccination scheme is not a

carefully thought out program with testing to assure that the public's

health is protected. Instead, the public is nothing but a vast testing

lab, with each and every person a potential lab rat.

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