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07 Jan 2008, 1:25 pm

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Dr. Buttram is... Got to take things with a grain of salt, specially when it's normally head to head, Woodlands Healing Research Center


I don't understand the last sentence you wrote. I live near the Woodlands Healing Research Center near Quakertown, PA. I have CFS in addition to autism and they claim to have good success treating CFS. It seemed like you support Dr. Buttram and his center but the last part "take things with a grain of salt" confuses me. And what does "head to head" mean?



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07 Jan 2008, 2:05 pm

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My objection is the graph below starts with 1950. It deliberately leaves out the decline that occurred from 1900-1950. It is dishonest to deliberately cover up information that proves you are wrong. If you object to the former graph, then show me a graph or statistics from 1900-1950.


Deliberately - there you go, the big conspiracy !

Ok - I've found the WHO global summary 2006 reg vaccination-preventable diseases
http://www.who.int/vaccines-documents/GlobalSummary/GlobalSummary.pdf

It's a very detailed global report, but it starts with some graphs regarding immunization coverage versus disease cases in different areas. If you want a closer look on single countries there's a listing for all of them in this report.
That all should give you a very clear picture if you want to spend the time to study it.



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07 Jan 2008, 2:14 pm

no I don't support dr butt :), Ram :) lol, the saying take it with a grain of salt is:-

In common parlance, if something is to be taken with a grain of salt, it means that a measure of healthy skepticism should be applied regarding a claim; that it should not be blindly accepted and believed without any doubt or reservation.

They is parts that are true & parts that are not natural does not mean safe, in china can't remember the name of the natural medicine but basically it was taken out coz it caused the side effect of hallucinations, also claiming all the junk of immune system dysfunction by vaccines is like throwing everything into 1 bag... Does not always work & you really need to learn how out break's work, before you can understand how to evaluate gaps in outbreaks, take the norovirus that just happened in the uk, that is an example of how outbreaks happen, not about how outbreak's happen it's the fact people normally do not stay home when they should be staying home, & they spread the virus all over the place...

Then you got people who take advantage of natural & really it holds no weight, people spend billions in this industry just like in the Drug industry, some natural products can be more harmful than drug one's due to the fact it can have someone relieving themselves in it...

Also taking supplements, here’s 1 as an example, if you take too much vitamin C in the cap form, your body can stop depositing vit C into hard tissue & dump it into soft tissue; & if you go off for a cancer screening they can mistake this calcium deposit for cancer...

That what you meant by CFS zen http://bacteriality.com/2007/10/06/interview4/



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10 Jan 2008, 8:38 pm

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That what you meant by CFS zen http://bacteriality.com/2007/10/06/interview4/


Yea but that is a severe case. Luckily, I'm not doing as bad.



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10 Jan 2008, 9:04 pm

Vaccines are not 100% effective, nor are they claimed to be by reputable sources. However, they have been highly effective, particularly in mass use (ie a large nuber of the population vacinated). For many of the diseases vaccinated for a 70-80% effectiveness rate of prevention is very good when compared to the problems and even death rate associated with them (namely smallpox and polio). Mass vacination has infact virtually wiped out several strainds of nefarious viruses by immuning the population to them. Yes, there can be side effects or potienial hazards, yet these tend to be vary small and the good vastly outweighs the bad.
Further vaccinations do not cause autism or autism spectrom disorders. The evidence goes against that.



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11 Jan 2008, 1:47 pm

It looks like some vaccines are ineffective.

According to CDC, Pertussis epidemic rages in Netherlands despite 96% vaccination rate:

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"In 1996, 2,771 cases of pertussis were reported to the Inspectorate of Health in the Netherlands (population 15 million), compared with 319 cases in 1995. With epidemic cycles expected every 3 to 5 years and a recent outbreak in 1994, this rise was unexpected (1). After the introduction of pertussis immunization with a whole-cell vaccine in the National Immunization Program (1952), the incidence of pertussis in the Netherlands decreased significantly. Children are immunized at ages 3, 4, 5, and 11 months with a diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and inactivated polio vaccine (DTP-IPV), and vaccine coverage for pertussis, for at least three immunizations, is 96% at the age of 12 months. Until the 1980s, the incidence of pertussis seemed very low, because only incidental cases were reported. However, in the last two decades, pertussis has been endemic, and epidemic peaks have appeared.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol3no2/melker.htm



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11 Jan 2008, 4:52 pm

zendell wrote:
It looks like some vaccines are ineffective.

According to CDC, Pertussis epidemic rages in Netherlands despite 96% vaccination rate:

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"In 1996, 2,771 cases of pertussis were reported to the Inspectorate of Health in the Netherlands (population 15 million), compared with 319 cases in 1995. With epidemic cycles expected every 3 to 5 years and a recent outbreak in 1994, this rise was unexpected (1). After the introduction of pertussis immunization with a whole-cell vaccine in the National Immunization Program (1952), the incidence of pertussis in the Netherlands decreased significantly. Children are immunized at ages 3, 4, 5, and 11 months with a diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and inactivated polio vaccine (DTP-IPV), and vaccine coverage for pertussis, for at least three immunizations, is 96% at the age of 12 months. Until the 1980s, the incidence of pertussis seemed very low, because only incidental cases were reported. However, in the last two decades, pertussis has been endemic, and epidemic peaks have appeared.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol3no2/melker.htm


So that was a few years ago, like 10 years ago. What did they do to get the pertussis under control did they find that the circulating germ wasn't the same one the vaccine was designed to stop?

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In conclusion, in the Netherlands a sudden increase of pertussis notification has been observed, which seems to reflect a true increase in incidence. Nevertheless, the cause of this increase has not been definitively determined. A possible mismatch between the vaccine and the circulating Bordetella strains is being investigated.


Is the solution to an outbreak of pertussis to stop vaccinating? No. It is not.

From 1999:
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The re-emergence of pertussis was found to be associated with an upsurge in strains that were antigenically distinct from those used in the whole cell vaccine used in the Netherlands (4,5).

http://www.eurosurveillance.org/em/v04n12/0412-224.asp

The solution then would be to give a different vaccine that is effective for the different kind of pertussis. Right? Uhuh.

http://mic.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/ ... 011?ck=nck

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Changes in the Dutch Bordetella pertussis population in the first 20 years after the introduction of whole-cell vaccines

Inge H. M. van Loo1,2 and Frits R. Mooi1,2
Laboratory for Infectious Diseases Research (LIO), National Institute of Public Health and Environment, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands1
Eijkman Winkler Institute for Medical Microbiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands2

Author for correspondence: Frits R. Mooi. Tel: +31 30 2743091. Fax: +31 30 2744449. e-mail: [email protected]

Despite the introduction of mass vaccination in 1953 in The Netherlands, pertussis is currently an endemic disease with regular epidemic outbreaks. Changes in the Bordetella pertussis population in the first 20 years after the introduction of vaccination were studied by indexing IS1002 fingerprint types, fimbrial serotypes and 15 genes encoding surface proteins. Three periods were compared, the pre-vaccination period (1949–1952) and two subsequent periods, 1953–1958 and 1965–1972. Except for fimbrial serotypes, no changes were observed in the B. pertussis population between the first two periods. Mortality decreased fivefold and 543-fold in the periods 1953–1958 and 1965–1972, respectively, compared to the pre-vaccination period. The largest decrease in mortality coincided with significant changes in the B. pertussis population with respect to the frequencies of fimbrial serotypes, fingerprint types and ptxS1 alleles. A new fingerprint type (ft29), associated with the novel ptxS1 allele ptxS1A was observed in 50% of the isolates in the period 1965–1972. Of the 15 investigated genes, only ptxS1 showed a mismatch between the vaccine strains and clinical isolates, suggesting that it may have played a role in driving the observed changes. It is proposed that, within 10–20 years after the introduction of mass vaccination, an adaptive response occurred consisting of clonal expansion of strains, which expressed a pertussis toxin variant distinct from the vaccine variants. This adaptation had very little, if any, effect on mortality, however.


So they were able to drop the number of deaths by pertussis in the Netherlands via vaccine. But antivaxers seem like they'd rather have the people (mostly small babies) just die, rather than vaccinate them for pertussis (whooping cough, it's an ugly death, too).

I don't appreciate thoughtless attacks on vaccines, because vaccines save lives and thoughtless attacks on vaccines can cost people their lives.


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11 Jan 2008, 4:55 pm

zendell wrote:
It looks like some vaccines are ineffective.

According to CDC, Pertussis epidemic rages in Netherlands despite 96% vaccination rate:

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"In 1996, 2,771 cases of pertussis were reported to the Inspectorate of Health in the Netherlands (population 15 million), compared with 319 cases in 1995. With epidemic cycles expected every 3 to 5 years and a recent outbreak in 1994, this rise was unexpected (1). After the introduction of pertussis immunization with a whole-cell vaccine in the National Immunization Program (1952), the incidence of pertussis in the Netherlands decreased significantly. Children are immunized at ages 3, 4, 5, and 11 months with a diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and inactivated polio vaccine (DTP-IPV), and vaccine coverage for pertussis, for at least three immunizations, is 96% at the age of 12 months. Until the 1980s, the incidence of pertussis seemed very low, because only incidental cases were reported. However, in the last two decades, pertussis has been endemic, and epidemic peaks have appeared.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol3no2/melker.htm

Why do you do this cherry-picking?

At least you give the link, at which the initial summary says:
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In 1996, a sudden increase in pertussis incidence was reported in the Netherlands (2.1 per 100,000 in 1995, 18 per 100,000 in 1996). Although not all potential surveillance artifacts could be excluded, it is highly probable that the data reflect a true outbreak. However, the cause of this increase has not yet been determined. Further research is directed to the severity of disease and a possible mismatch between the vaccine and the circulating Bordetella strains.


You quoted the first paragraph in isolation. I could quote from elsewhere in the report:
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Data from other countries in Europe indicate that the pertussis epidemic is restricted to the Netherlands.


The report is old.

At http://mic.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/148/7/2011 I see:
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Three periods were compared, the pre-vaccination period (1949–1952) and two subsequent periods, 1953–1958 and 1965–1972. Except for fimbrial serotypes, no changes were observed in the B. pertussis population between the first two periods. Mortality decreased fivefold and 543-fold in the periods 1953–1958 and 1965–1972, respectively, compared to the pre-vaccination period.

I.e. vaccination works.

At http://jb.asm.org/cgi/content/full/186/16/5496 I find a recent report (2004) that is essentially a confirmation of your article's own suggestion that a new strain is part of the reason behind the increase in reported cases.

Elsewhere (http://www.eurosurveillance.org/em/v04n12/0412-224.asp) I see the suggestion that there are various other reasons for increased reporting.


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11 Jan 2008, 7:21 pm

I was merely pointing out that some vaccines are ineffective after I changed my original post at http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt53006.html to "vaccines seem to work 70-80% of the time."



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11 Jan 2008, 7:38 pm

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I was merely pointing out that some vaccines are ineffective after I changed my original post at http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt53006.html to "vaccines seem to work 70-80% of the time."


The vaccine you are criticizing continued to work, just not as effectively as it had been working before. No one has ever said that all vaccines work on everyone all the time. The wild type germs work effectively at causing disease like almost all the time, and they work effectively at killing and maiming people quite often which is why people decided to develop vaccines.... get it??? Dying of a vaccine preventable disease or going deaf or blind or otherwise damaged because of one is probably not as good as getting vaccinated. :roll:


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11 Jan 2008, 7:44 pm

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No one has ever said that all vaccines work on everyone all the time.


I always assumed they would at least test the vaccines first to see whether they work before forcing everyone to take them (you can't enroll children in public schools in the US if you don't vaccinate them). Even if vaccines are somewhat effective, there are risks associated with them. Me not wanting vaccines is no different than you not wanting chelation due to the risks. I think vaccines cause autism and other diseases but I know it hasn't been conclusively proven yet.



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12 Jan 2008, 7:51 am

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No one has ever said that all vaccines work on everyone all the time.


I always assumed they would at least test the vaccines first to see whether they work before forcing everyone to take them (you can't enroll children in public schools in the US if you don't vaccinate them). Even if vaccines are somewhat effective, there are risks associated with them. Me not wanting vaccines is no different than you not wanting chelation due to the risks. I think vaccines cause autism and other diseases but I know it hasn't been conclusively proven yet.


Well, you'd think so, but unfortunately they're more interested in profits than people so tend to roll them out long before they've even completed stage 3 testing (if they even bother). Generally speaking, the population are the test, and damned whatever the results are.


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12 Jan 2008, 2:39 pm

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...Me not wanting vaccines
-- and thereby attempting to impose on others, your disregard of the fact that without vaccines, people would go back to dying in pandemics. A fact which for some reason you try to dismiss. --
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is no different than you not wanting chelation
-- a process that has no proven usefulness, other than when treating genuine poisoning cases --
zendell wrote:
due to the risks.
-- which you seem to accept as existing. So why would anyone accept a treatment, with known risks, for a condition that is not present? --
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I think vaccines cause autism and other diseases but I know it hasn't been conclusively proven yet.
I cannot see why you should believe in such a thing, in the face of a lack of unbiased evidence showing any connection.
I would genuinely like to understand what locks you into this pattern of thought.

All medicine is fallible. No treatment can ever be "conclusively proven" either to work, or not to work (except in some gross cases - amputating the heads of people with politically incorrect beliefs has been shown to cure those individuals of their beliefs.)

Vaccines certainly aren't "safe". I would never suggest that. What they do in to increase the overall safety. They introduce risks. Those different risks are far less than initial risks that they remove.

By analogy, do you refuse to wear seat belts in a car?


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12 Jan 2008, 2:43 pm

[quote="zendell"]
"I always assumed they would at least test the vaccines first to see whether they work before forcing everyone to take them (you can't enroll children in public schools in the US if you don't vaccinate them). Even if vaccines are somewhat effective, there are risks associated with them. Me not wanting vaccines is no different than you not wanting chelation due to the risks. I think vaccines cause autism and other diseases but I know it hasn't been conclusively proven yet."

First off, they do test vaccines, stringently in most cases, for both effectiveness and risk, especially nowadays.
You are not forced to vaccinate your children. You don't want to vaccinate your child and have no valid exemption, fine homeschool or send your child to a private school that doesn't require it.
You not wanting to vaccinate your child is not not same thing as someone not useing chelation on theirs. The risks and hazards of stripping the body of its medals is much much greater than vaccinating someone. Also, chelation's potientialy harmful effects are restricted to the person undergoing the therapy, unlike with withholding vaccinations. An additional facter which makes vaccinations more effective is mass vaccination. If more people are vaccinated the virus protected against has less people to incubate in and starts dying out. However, if you switch that and more people are unvaccinated than vaccinated, the virus has more places to incubate and spreed, thus getting stronger, mutating and possibly gaining a resistance to the vaccine and treatments which would lower the effective rate and might lead to mass outbreaks, even in those who were vaccinated.
As for your thoughts on vaccines causeing autism, I can not tell you how to think, nor can I force you to look at the evidence. I can disagree with you and inform you that evidence states your thought/belief is wrong, and encourage you to actually do valid research. Not only has your view not "been conclusively proven", it has been basically invalidated. I did the research, studying both sides of the arguement, which is how accurate research is supposed to be done. Based on the evidence, vaccines do not cause autism or autism spectrom disorders. Without getting into the strictly scientific data, basic empirical evidence further goes against your claim. Thimerosal is used anymore, yet rates haven't dropped, the "rise" is still constant. Most people vaccinated for MMR do not have autism. In places where vaccination use dropped autism rates have not dropped and a "rise" is still sited. These facts point against the claim tha vaccines cause autism, even without going into hard scientific data which also goes against the claim.



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12 Jan 2008, 6:32 pm

Thimerosal IS used; Bush vetoed its removal last year.

Just to clear that up.


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12 Jan 2008, 6:51 pm

lau wrote:
zendell wrote:
I think vaccines cause autism and other diseases but I know it hasn't been conclusively proven yet.
I cannot see why you should believe in such a thing, in the face of a lack of unbiased evidence showing any connection.
I would genuinely like to understand what locks you into this pattern of thought.


There's an equal lack of unbiased evidence that vaccines don't cause autism. There's good evidence that Thimerosal isn't a major factor. However, there's other aspects of vaccines that may cause autism. I believe that mycoplasma and stealth viruses that contaminate some vaccines cause autism. Even if vaccines are stopped, people will still get autism if their mother has these infections. The Amish (who I'm sure have the autism genes) don't get autism and I think it's because they don't vaccinate their children. I'll willing to bet the autism genes are the same ones for autoimmune diseases, CFS, FM, and neurological disorders that have been increasing along with autism since the same infections are associated with them.

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Vaccines certainly aren't "safe". I would never suggest that. What they do in to increase the overall safety. They introduce risks. Those different risks are far less than initial risks that they remove.


I believe the risks (chronic health problems) outweigh the benefits.