Re: ] Chickenpox Cases from 1838 to NOW

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Nice to see another homeopath here - thought I was seeing things since

Sheri just posted it on minutus this morning

Yes a great resource for argument and then there is how to look at

getting through the actual illness successfully. People have survived

it fine for a loong time and it's healthy for some immune system

development, etc. Personally I never had them, oh well...and need to

find a pox part for my 11 year old!

I was instructed with my kids' homeopath at the time not to take even

any homeopathics and let it ride...just support in other comforting

ways. Since my oldest was already on a constitutional remedy, I

believe it went much more quickly and comfortably and we didn't need

much else but oatmneal baths. That's the case with so much when on a

constitutional

Liz

>

> received this today and thought people would be interested--its

> a good resource for argument

>

> tanya

>

> Sent: 12/11/2008 9:11:24 AM

> Subject: [Minutus] Chickenpox Cases from 1838 to NOW

>

>

> Something I teach in my online course in Childhood Diseases

>

> Chickenpox Cases from 1838 to NOW

>

> I am going to quote from a variety of sources

> from 1838 to 1986 to show you what is said about

> chickenpox so you can compare and see the

> differences. Now they have made chickenpox a

> 'killer'. Did it look like a killer in the

> articles before the vaccine was out? You tell me.

> Sheri

>

> PS This [..] means text omitted in this area.

>

> *******

> Pulford, A - Homeopathic Materia Medica of

> Graphic Drug, Pictures & Clinical Comments

> Variola, measles and chickenpox are NOT diseases,

> but merely system " cleansers. "

> (Strict homoeopathic treatment has enabled the

> compilor of the appended remedies to pass through

> all the epidemics of Scarlet Fever, measles, and

> chickenpox, without the loss of a case of either,

> and confirms the belief that no acute case of any

> kind should die. Study the following remedies and comments closely.

>

> ************

> 1908 Benson, A.R. Homeopathic Nursery Manual

> REUEL A. BENSON, M. D. 8 West 19th St., New York. April, 1908.

>

> Preface

> This book was originally written for the use of

> my own patients and nurses, among whom I have

> found a constant demand for such information as

> the book contains. It has been largely the

> outgrowth of lectures delivered in the Flower

> Hospital Training School for Nurses.

>

> An effort has been made to write clearly and

> concisely, and to avoid the common error of

> giving too much technical information. This is

> especially true of the section on care during

> illness, as it is my belief that a human life is

> too valuable to be trusted in any but skilled

> hands. The therapeutic treatment is, therefore, purposely very meagre.

>

> The book is intended for the use of homoeopathic

> physicians and homoeopathic families and all

> those who believe with me that a child who has

> been properly fed and reared under the

> homoeopathic regime, is physically better equipped for life than any

other.

>

> Chicken-pox (varicella)

> Chicken-pox is a mild infectious disease,

> beginning with a slight rise in temperature (99°

> - 100°), loss of appetite, and general languor.

> The eruption appears first on the back and

> consists of small red spots. These spots may be

> widely separated. There may be only four or five

> on the whole back. Small water blisters soon form

> on the top of these red spots and in a day or two

> these blisters become black and dry up. These

> spots are found on other parts of the body, but

> generally they are widely scattered.

> The disease runs its course in three days to a

> week, and generally the child is not ill enough to remain in bed.

> Chicken-pox has no serious complications or

> after effects; very severe cases may resemble

> small-pox somewhat, but such cases are rare.

> Nursing : The child should be kept quiet and

> fed on a light diet. Great care should be taken

> to prevent rubbing or scratching of the eruption.

> The skin may be kept well covered with vaseline,

> and where there are large spots, they may be protected with a bandage.

> Aconite may be given, a teaspoonful every hour

> in the early stages of the disease, but no other

> medication is necessary unless special symptoms arise for it.

>

> 1838 Hering, Constantine (father of American Homeopathy)

> http://www.homeoinfo.com/02_history/people/hering.php (about Hering)

>

> Homeopathic Domestic Physician

> Part 1 in 1835 and Part 2 in 1838

>

> Chicken-pox

> This disease is similar to, though bearing no

> relationship with, small-pox. The eruption is

> preceded for a day by a mild degree of fever.

> Sometimes however, the fever is very great. The

> eruption appears, but within a few hours develops

> into vesicles or blisters. The general mildness

> of the attack, the rapid development of the

> eruption, the short course of the disease, and

> the appearance of the vesicles, which do not

> possess the circle of inflammation about them as

> in small-pox, and which do not become depressed

> in the centre, and finally, which leave no scabs

> unless they have been scratched open, distinguish this disease from

small-pox.

> It generally passes off without requiring any

> medical assistance; when, however, there is a

> considerable degree of fever, Aconitum may be

> given; when there is much headache or congestion

> to the head, Belladonna. If the eruption is

> considerable, Antimonium tart., or Mercurius may be beneficial.

>

> ********

> 1907 Century Book of Health

>

> Prognosis - The disease practically always terminates favorably

> Treatment - the disease is usually so ild that no treatment is necessary

>

> Otherwise nothing is said about complications.

>

> *********

> 1942 " International Modern Home Physician "

> In an medical book I have - " International Modern

> Home Physician " from 1942, there is no panic given about chickenpox

>

> " This is a mild disease; there are no

> complications except in the very rarest cases,

> when inflammation of the kidneys or broncho-pneumonia may occur.

>

> ******

> 1954 " Essentials of Pediatrics " - Jeans, & Blake

>

> Complications - Complications are

> infrequent. Scratched or traumatized lesions

> offer a protal of entry for pyogenic bacteria,

> with resultant local suppuration and sometimes

> the development of

> erysipelas. ..............sometimes causes

> encephalitis, but complete recovery is the rule

>

> Prevention - When chickenpox occurs among

> children in their own homes, preventive measures

> other than isolation are not carried out because

> of the mildness of constitutional symptoms and the rarity of

complications.

> ********

>

> Other sources in the past

> http://www.vaccination.org.uk/a/chickenpox.html

> GREAT source - all the below with links

> Considered non-fatal in 1894

> " Dr. Ogle, the chief in the Registrar-General's

> Department, told the Royal Commission as a

> witness before it, that he had never known

> chicken-pox kill a child in his life. " --Dr Hadwen (1896)

>

> " Varicella always runs a favourable course. It

> has no sequelae.....PROGNOSIS.—This is always

> favourable. " --Dictionary of Medicine (1894)

>

> As a rule, it is a very insignificant disease. By

> that I mean that it is not of sufficient

> importance to worry about.-- Tilden MD (1851-1940)

>

> Smallpox deaths hidden under chickepox to make vaccination look better

> " In the thirty years ending in 1934, 3,112 people

> are stated to have died of " chicken-pox, " and

> only 579 of smallpox in England and Wales. Yet

> all the authorities are agreed that chicken-pox

> is a nonfatal disease " —M. Beddow Bayly, Case

> Against Vaccination, London, June 1936, p. 5.

>

> " Dangers " hyped after vaccine introduction:

> 1953 " MILD--Mumps, Chickenpox and rubella...are

> mild. In other words there's not much point in

> trying to avoid them. They don't do much to

> young children and they do build up their general

> immunity and resistance. " --T MD, British

> Medical Journal booklet (c 1953)

>

> " According to the survey, among parents of

> unvaccinated children, 48% were not likely to

> vaccinate their children because they don't

> believe that chickenpox is a serious disease.

> Many parents were not aware that chickenpox can

> lead to pneumonia, encephalitis, skin infections,

> scarring or death. " --Merck (Vaccine seller)

>

> In 1995, chickenpox suddenly became a major

> health problem. Six children were reported to

> have died from chickenpox; frequent and repeated

> TV coverage lasted for weeks without anyone

> mentioning that two of the six children had

> leukemia and the others were on cortico-steroids.

> HYPING VACCINES: AN INVESTIGATION By Dr. F. Yazbak

>

> " In 1997, 3 deaths reported by two states did not

> occur from chicken pox, but rather from the

> unnecessary drugs they used to treat it. " -- Krasner

>

> " Diseases such as chickenpox or measles can be

> very serious or even fatal in both children and

> adults who take this drug

> (Deltason/Orasone--generic name Prednison, a steroid). " --PDR

>

> " A recent American study showed that 6% of

> admissions for the complications of varicella

> were musculoskeletal disorders ranging from

> necrotising fasciitis to toxic-shock syndrome

> requiring multiple amputations. Complications

> were not related to severity of chickenpox. Since

> the routine mantra from medical people to parents

> is `paracetamol for fevers' despite medical

> literature clearly demonstrating that such advice

> is highly dangerous; since the majority or

> parents follow such advice unquestioningly; and

> since necrotising fasciitis has primarily been

> associated with people who regularly pop

> paracetamol and other anti-inflammatory drugs, it

> is hardly surprising. " ---

>

> " Father dies after catching chickenpox from his

> sons....the inquest heard he was susceptible to

> the illness after being put on a high dose of

> steroids to treat kidney problems. " --(Daily Express Sept 9, 2000)

>

> " On June 30, 1988, my oldest child, ,

> died of chickenpox. He was normally a healthy

> child with very mild asthma. He'd never been on

> corticosteroids, and had never been hospitalized.

> On June 16th 1988, he suffered his first severe

> asthma attack and was hospitalized for four days.

> was put on commonly used asthma

> medications including corticosteroids. Exactly

> one week following the asthma attack he broke out

> with chickenpox. Unfortunately, the

> corticosteroids lowered his body's response,

> (immune system) and he could not fight the

> chickenpox virus. It destroyed every organ in his

> body, and on June 30, 1988, died at

> the age of 12. The vaccine wasn't licensed then,

> but it is now. I worked for years to see warnings

> added to corticosteroid labels, and the vaccine

> (Varivax) licensed. " E.

> Cole http://sites.netscape.net/rebeccacoleusa/

>

> http://www.vaccination.org.uk/a/steroid_varicella.html

> Steroid varicella citations

>

> Curable with Vitamin C through Nutritional medicine:

> " Chickenpox gave equally good response (to

> Vitamin C therapy), ... vesicles were crusted

> after the first 24 hours, and the patient well in

> three to four days. " --Dr Klenner http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/

>

> Deaths mostly in adults, yet vaccine is to be given to children:

> " The proponents of mandated chickenpox

> vaccination of children pronounce that over 100

> die of chickenpox each year. They do not

> emphasize, however, that it is adults who are at

> higher risk and that they will not be required to

> be vaccinated! The numbers above show that in

> 1997 (the last year available) no children died

> from chickenpox in New York. " -- Null

>

> " Among certified deaths from chickenpox adults

> accounted for 48% in 1967-77 (88 deaths in 11

> years), 64% in 1978-85 (120 deaths in eight

> years), and 81% in 1986-97 (269 deaths in 12

> years). " --Norman Noah, professor of public health.

>

> Vaccine for profit not health of children

> " It was predictable when the live chicken pox

> vaccine was licensed in 1995 that one dose would

> not give lifelong protection in the same way that

> recovery from chicken pox disease gives lifelong

> immunity. The developers of the live chicken pox

> vaccine, including Anne Gershon, knew this. It is

> common knowledge that vaccines only stimulate

> temporary, partial immunity and the historical

> experience with live measles vaccine is a perfect

> example. By trading lifelong immunity for

> temporary, vaccine-induced immunity, populations

> become vaccine dependent. Chicken pox is a

> relatively benign disease for 99.9 percent of

> healthy children but it is much more serious in

> teenagers and adults. Mandating the use of

> chicken pox vaccine and removing the ability for

> children to get permanent immunity to chicken

> pox, puts them at risk as adults. The winners in

> this public health strategy are the

> pharmaceutical companies producing vaccines

> requiring purchase of multiple doses. The losers

> are the people, who are first put at risk as

> children for vaccine adverse events and then

> again put at risk as adults for a disease that

> the vaccine fails to protect against long term. " ---BLFisher

>

> Chicken pox vax ineffective - but let's use it anyway

> We must admire the tenacity and great marketing

> skills of the pharmaceutical companies. They have

> learned the lessons of true perseverance! If you

> find out that your vaccine doesn't work, say it

> works well, but just for not as long. That way,

> you open up the lucrative market for boosters.

> Better yet, if you find out that the vaccine is

> causing the disease its meant to prevent and/or

> that people who are vaccinated are still getting

> sick with this disease, call it 'breakthrough'

> not vaccine failure (after all, isn't a

> breakthrough a really good thing?) and talk about

> how much milder the disease is than it would have

> been had the people not been vaccinated and you

> have turned a failure into a success. We can

> learn a lot from these geniuses of marketing and

double-speak.--Meryl Dorey

>

> *****

> Online, today - 2006

> Although most people with chickenpox simply have

> sores on the skin and in the mouth, the virus

> sometimes infects the lungs, brain, heart, or

> joints. Such serious infections are more common

> in newborns, adults, and people with an impaired immune system.

>

> Lung infection occurs in about 1 out of 400

> people, especially adolescents and adults,

> resulting in cough and difficulty breathing.

> Brain infection (encephalitis) is less common and

> produces unsteadiness in walking, headache,

> dizziness, confusion, and seizures. Heart

> infection sometimes causes a heart murmur. Joint

> inflammation produces joint pain.

>

> Reye's syndrome, a rare but very severe

> complication that occurs almost only in those

> younger than 18, may begin 3 to 8 days after the rash begins.

>

> Prognosis and Treatment

>

> Healthy children nearly always recover from

> chickenpox without problems; only about 2 of

> 100,000 children die. However, even this low rate

> means that before routine immunization, 100

> children died annually in the United States

> because of complications of chickenpox. The

> infection is more severe in adults, of whom about

> 30 of 100,000 die. Chickenpox is fatal in up to

> 15% of people with an impaired immune system.

> Last reviewed/revised February 1, 2003

>

> ******

>

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Nice to see another homeopath here - thought I was seeing things since

Sheri just posted it on minutus this morning

Yes a great resource for argument and then there is how to look at

getting through the actual illness successfully. People have survived

it fine for a loong time and it's healthy for some immune system

development, etc. Personally I never had them, oh well...and need to

find a pox part for my 11 year old!

I was instructed with my kids' homeopath at the time not to take even

any homeopathics and let it ride...just support in other comforting

ways. Since my oldest was already on a constitutional remedy, I

believe it went much more quickly and comfortably and we didn't need

much else but oatmneal baths. That's the case with so much when on a

constitutional

Liz

>

> received this today and thought people would be interested--its

> a good resource for argument

>

> tanya

>

> Sent: 12/11/2008 9:11:24 AM

> Subject: [Minutus] Chickenpox Cases from 1838 to NOW

>

>

> Something I teach in my online course in Childhood Diseases

>

> Chickenpox Cases from 1838 to NOW

>

> I am going to quote from a variety of sources

> from 1838 to 1986 to show you what is said about

> chickenpox so you can compare and see the

> differences. Now they have made chickenpox a

> 'killer'. Did it look like a killer in the

> articles before the vaccine was out? You tell me.

> Sheri

>

> PS This [..] means text omitted in this area.

>

> *******

> Pulford, A - Homeopathic Materia Medica of

> Graphic Drug, Pictures & Clinical Comments

> Variola, measles and chickenpox are NOT diseases,

> but merely system " cleansers. "

> (Strict homoeopathic treatment has enabled the

> compilor of the appended remedies to pass through

> all the epidemics of Scarlet Fever, measles, and

> chickenpox, without the loss of a case of either,

> and confirms the belief that no acute case of any

> kind should die. Study the following remedies and comments closely.

>

> ************

> 1908 Benson, A.R. Homeopathic Nursery Manual

> REUEL A. BENSON, M. D. 8 West 19th St., New York. April, 1908.

>

> Preface

> This book was originally written for the use of

> my own patients and nurses, among whom I have

> found a constant demand for such information as

> the book contains. It has been largely the

> outgrowth of lectures delivered in the Flower

> Hospital Training School for Nurses.

>

> An effort has been made to write clearly and

> concisely, and to avoid the common error of

> giving too much technical information. This is

> especially true of the section on care during

> illness, as it is my belief that a human life is

> too valuable to be trusted in any but skilled

> hands. The therapeutic treatment is, therefore, purposely very meagre.

>

> The book is intended for the use of homoeopathic

> physicians and homoeopathic families and all

> those who believe with me that a child who has

> been properly fed and reared under the

> homoeopathic regime, is physically better equipped for life than any

other.

>

> Chicken-pox (varicella)

> Chicken-pox is a mild infectious disease,

> beginning with a slight rise in temperature (99°

> - 100°), loss of appetite, and general languor.

> The eruption appears first on the back and

> consists of small red spots. These spots may be

> widely separated. There may be only four or five

> on the whole back. Small water blisters soon form

> on the top of these red spots and in a day or two

> these blisters become black and dry up. These

> spots are found on other parts of the body, but

> generally they are widely scattered.

> The disease runs its course in three days to a

> week, and generally the child is not ill enough to remain in bed.

> Chicken-pox has no serious complications or

> after effects; very severe cases may resemble

> small-pox somewhat, but such cases are rare.

> Nursing : The child should be kept quiet and

> fed on a light diet. Great care should be taken

> to prevent rubbing or scratching of the eruption.

> The skin may be kept well covered with vaseline,

> and where there are large spots, they may be protected with a bandage.

> Aconite may be given, a teaspoonful every hour

> in the early stages of the disease, but no other

> medication is necessary unless special symptoms arise for it.

>

> 1838 Hering, Constantine (father of American Homeopathy)

> http://www.homeoinfo.com/02_history/people/hering.php (about Hering)

>

> Homeopathic Domestic Physician

> Part 1 in 1835 and Part 2 in 1838

>

> Chicken-pox

> This disease is similar to, though bearing no

> relationship with, small-pox. The eruption is

> preceded for a day by a mild degree of fever.

> Sometimes however, the fever is very great. The

> eruption appears, but within a few hours develops

> into vesicles or blisters. The general mildness

> of the attack, the rapid development of the

> eruption, the short course of the disease, and

> the appearance of the vesicles, which do not

> possess the circle of inflammation about them as

> in small-pox, and which do not become depressed

> in the centre, and finally, which leave no scabs

> unless they have been scratched open, distinguish this disease from

small-pox.

> It generally passes off without requiring any

> medical assistance; when, however, there is a

> considerable degree of fever, Aconitum may be

> given; when there is much headache or congestion

> to the head, Belladonna. If the eruption is

> considerable, Antimonium tart., or Mercurius may be beneficial.

>

> ********

> 1907 Century Book of Health

>

> Prognosis - The disease practically always terminates favorably

> Treatment - the disease is usually so ild that no treatment is necessary

>

> Otherwise nothing is said about complications.

>

> *********

> 1942 " International Modern Home Physician "

> In an medical book I have - " International Modern

> Home Physician " from 1942, there is no panic given about chickenpox

>

> " This is a mild disease; there are no

> complications except in the very rarest cases,

> when inflammation of the kidneys or broncho-pneumonia may occur.

>

> ******

> 1954 " Essentials of Pediatrics " - Jeans, & Blake

>

> Complications - Complications are

> infrequent. Scratched or traumatized lesions

> offer a protal of entry for pyogenic bacteria,

> with resultant local suppuration and sometimes

> the development of

> erysipelas. ..............sometimes causes

> encephalitis, but complete recovery is the rule

>

> Prevention - When chickenpox occurs among

> children in their own homes, preventive measures

> other than isolation are not carried out because

> of the mildness of constitutional symptoms and the rarity of

complications.

> ********

>

> Other sources in the past

> http://www.vaccination.org.uk/a/chickenpox.html

> GREAT source - all the below with links

> Considered non-fatal in 1894

> " Dr. Ogle, the chief in the Registrar-General's

> Department, told the Royal Commission as a

> witness before it, that he had never known

> chicken-pox kill a child in his life. " --Dr Hadwen (1896)

>

> " Varicella always runs a favourable course. It

> has no sequelae.....PROGNOSIS.—This is always

> favourable. " --Dictionary of Medicine (1894)

>

> As a rule, it is a very insignificant disease. By

> that I mean that it is not of sufficient

> importance to worry about.-- Tilden MD (1851-1940)

>

> Smallpox deaths hidden under chickepox to make vaccination look better

> " In the thirty years ending in 1934, 3,112 people

> are stated to have died of " chicken-pox, " and

> only 579 of smallpox in England and Wales. Yet

> all the authorities are agreed that chicken-pox

> is a nonfatal disease " —M. Beddow Bayly, Case

> Against Vaccination, London, June 1936, p. 5.

>

> " Dangers " hyped after vaccine introduction:

> 1953 " MILD--Mumps, Chickenpox and rubella...are

> mild. In other words there's not much point in

> trying to avoid them. They don't do much to

> young children and they do build up their general

> immunity and resistance. " --T MD, British

> Medical Journal booklet (c 1953)

>

> " According to the survey, among parents of

> unvaccinated children, 48% were not likely to

> vaccinate their children because they don't

> believe that chickenpox is a serious disease.

> Many parents were not aware that chickenpox can

> lead to pneumonia, encephalitis, skin infections,

> scarring or death. " --Merck (Vaccine seller)

>

> In 1995, chickenpox suddenly became a major

> health problem. Six children were reported to

> have died from chickenpox; frequent and repeated

> TV coverage lasted for weeks without anyone

> mentioning that two of the six children had

> leukemia and the others were on cortico-steroids.

> HYPING VACCINES: AN INVESTIGATION By Dr. F. Yazbak

>

> " In 1997, 3 deaths reported by two states did not

> occur from chicken pox, but rather from the

> unnecessary drugs they used to treat it. " -- Krasner

>

> " Diseases such as chickenpox or measles can be

> very serious or even fatal in both children and

> adults who take this drug

> (Deltason/Orasone--generic name Prednison, a steroid). " --PDR

>

> " A recent American study showed that 6% of

> admissions for the complications of varicella

> were musculoskeletal disorders ranging from

> necrotising fasciitis to toxic-shock syndrome

> requiring multiple amputations. Complications

> were not related to severity of chickenpox. Since

> the routine mantra from medical people to parents

> is `paracetamol for fevers' despite medical

> literature clearly demonstrating that such advice

> is highly dangerous; since the majority or

> parents follow such advice unquestioningly; and

> since necrotising fasciitis has primarily been

> associated with people who regularly pop

> paracetamol and other anti-inflammatory drugs, it

> is hardly surprising. " ---

>

> " Father dies after catching chickenpox from his

> sons....the inquest heard he was susceptible to

> the illness after being put on a high dose of

> steroids to treat kidney problems. " --(Daily Express Sept 9, 2000)

>

> " On June 30, 1988, my oldest child, ,

> died of chickenpox. He was normally a healthy

> child with very mild asthma. He'd never been on

> corticosteroids, and had never been hospitalized.

> On June 16th 1988, he suffered his first severe

> asthma attack and was hospitalized for four days.

> was put on commonly used asthma

> medications including corticosteroids. Exactly

> one week following the asthma attack he broke out

> with chickenpox. Unfortunately, the

> corticosteroids lowered his body's response,

> (immune system) and he could not fight the

> chickenpox virus. It destroyed every organ in his

> body, and on June 30, 1988, died at

> the age of 12. The vaccine wasn't licensed then,

> but it is now. I worked for years to see warnings

> added to corticosteroid labels, and the vaccine

> (Varivax) licensed. " E.

> Cole http://sites.netscape.net/rebeccacoleusa/

>

> http://www.vaccination.org.uk/a/steroid_varicella.html

> Steroid varicella citations

>

> Curable with Vitamin C through Nutritional medicine:

> " Chickenpox gave equally good response (to

> Vitamin C therapy), ... vesicles were crusted

> after the first 24 hours, and the patient well in

> three to four days. " --Dr Klenner http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/

>

> Deaths mostly in adults, yet vaccine is to be given to children:

> " The proponents of mandated chickenpox

> vaccination of children pronounce that over 100

> die of chickenpox each year. They do not

> emphasize, however, that it is adults who are at

> higher risk and that they will not be required to

> be vaccinated! The numbers above show that in

> 1997 (the last year available) no children died

> from chickenpox in New York. " -- Null

>

> " Among certified deaths from chickenpox adults

> accounted for 48% in 1967-77 (88 deaths in 11

> years), 64% in 1978-85 (120 deaths in eight

> years), and 81% in 1986-97 (269 deaths in 12

> years). " --Norman Noah, professor of public health.

>

> Vaccine for profit not health of children

> " It was predictable when the live chicken pox

> vaccine was licensed in 1995 that one dose would

> not give lifelong protection in the same way that

> recovery from chicken pox disease gives lifelong

> immunity. The developers of the live chicken pox

> vaccine, including Anne Gershon, knew this. It is

> common knowledge that vaccines only stimulate

> temporary, partial immunity and the historical

> experience with live measles vaccine is a perfect

> example. By trading lifelong immunity for

> temporary, vaccine-induced immunity, populations

> become vaccine dependent. Chicken pox is a

> relatively benign disease for 99.9 percent of

> healthy children but it is much more serious in

> teenagers and adults. Mandating the use of

> chicken pox vaccine and removing the ability for

> children to get permanent immunity to chicken

> pox, puts them at risk as adults. The winners in

> this public health strategy are the

> pharmaceutical companies producing vaccines

> requiring purchase of multiple doses. The losers

> are the people, who are first put at risk as

> children for vaccine adverse events and then

> again put at risk as adults for a disease that

> the vaccine fails to protect against long term. " ---BLFisher

>

> Chicken pox vax ineffective - but let's use it anyway

> We must admire the tenacity and great marketing

> skills of the pharmaceutical companies. They have

> learned the lessons of true perseverance! If you

> find out that your vaccine doesn't work, say it

> works well, but just for not as long. That way,

> you open up the lucrative market for boosters.

> Better yet, if you find out that the vaccine is

> causing the disease its meant to prevent and/or

> that people who are vaccinated are still getting

> sick with this disease, call it 'breakthrough'

> not vaccine failure (after all, isn't a

> breakthrough a really good thing?) and talk about

> how much milder the disease is than it would have

> been had the people not been vaccinated and you

> have turned a failure into a success. We can

> learn a lot from these geniuses of marketing and

double-speak.--Meryl Dorey

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> Online, today - 2006

> Although most people with chickenpox simply have

> sores on the skin and in the mouth, the virus

> sometimes infects the lungs, brain, heart, or

> joints. Such serious infections are more common

> in newborns, adults, and people with an impaired immune system.

>

> Lung infection occurs in about 1 out of 400

> people, especially adolescents and adults,

> resulting in cough and difficulty breathing.

> Brain infection (encephalitis) is less common and

> produces unsteadiness in walking, headache,

> dizziness, confusion, and seizures. Heart

> infection sometimes causes a heart murmur. Joint

> inflammation produces joint pain.

>

> Reye's syndrome, a rare but very severe

> complication that occurs almost only in those

> younger than 18, may begin 3 to 8 days after the rash begins.

>

> Prognosis and Treatment

>

> Healthy children nearly always recover from

> chickenpox without problems; only about 2 of

> 100,000 children die. However, even this low rate

> means that before routine immunization, 100

> children died annually in the United States

> because of complications of chickenpox. The

> infection is more severe in adults, of whom about

> 30 of 100,000 die. Chickenpox is fatal in up to

> 15% of people with an impaired immune system.

> Last reviewed/revised February 1, 2003

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