Re: Chicken pox vacc and immune system reactivation

March 31, 2000

>The mild reinfection had no serious side effects and could be effectively

>treated with an anti-viral medication like acyclovir, if necessary.

" no serious side effects " ...hmmm, to my knowledge, the vast majority of real,

wild c.p. cases have " no serious side effects " either, for otherwise healthy

children, so what's the point of vaccinating??? I must just be slow, cuz I

don't get it.

The

>findings appear in Nature Medicine.

" Nature Medicine " ? Is that supposed to make it sound natural? IMO, most things

having to do with conventional western medicine are UNnatural, how misleading

to name what I assume to be a mainstream medical journal " Nature " anything.

No, I'm not surprised.

>The wild-type varicella virus is spread by coughing or sneezing. It causes

>the fever, tiredness and rash of chicken pox. The infection lasts for about

a

>week.

A week of fever, tiredness and rash vs. the chance of screwing up your child's

immune system, leaving them vulnerable to serious adult c.p. because they have

no natural immunity, and injecting them with toxins - not a very tough choice

if you ask me.

>for chicken pox and 100 people die from the virus. In adults, getting chicken

>pox can lead to pneumonia, severe skin infections and brain damage.

Okay, so how DARE they recommend it for all kids until they're positive it

confers

lifelong immunity? It seems criminal to me to do so when they might just be

deferring the disease until these people are adults when it can be really

serious.

Even if it gives 50 years of " protection " , then we'll have seniors becoming

vulnerable to it. Not a good thing.

>Klinman says they will continue to follow the kids for the next 15 years. " It

>was part of the approval package Merck agreed to when the FDA licensed the

>vaccine. "

" part of the approval package " that the public become unpaid, unwitting guinea

pigs? If they think it needs 15 years of study, why was it approved? Is this

supposed to be reassuring?

Sorry about the tirade, folks, just a bit cranky today, and this whole c.p.

vax thing really chaps my hide.

Aubin

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