[ That OPV can cause Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) has been a constant refrain
by conscientious doctors, even reported in your own paper. Now that their fears
have come true an effort is being made to twist the case by stating that
adequate doses have not been given.
If five doses are adequate then why does the same report state that AFP has
occurred after 7 to 10 doses? It is well known that in many cases upto 25 doses
have been administered by the time the children reached the age of two. The OPV
has also caused AFP in polio free States, ostensibly due to the use of live
polio virus.
OPV has been pulled out in many countries very early on because cases of AFP
were observed after the vaccine was administered. However, for strange reasons,
the OPV was continued in India despite reports of adverse reactions pouring in.
Was it because the vaccine manufacturers wanted to dispose off their stocks?
Most probably yes. International organisations have connived with vaccine
manufacturers to inflict this tragedy on third world countries.
Now that the lid has been blown, data on the adverse reactions compiled over
the years have mysteriously disappeared. Much more will happen. All the three
lakh cases will be attributed to other causes as is already being observed. Had
this incident happened in any other country heads would have rolled, but India
is different.
It is high time vaccines dangers are seriously discussed. We already have
over 40 lakh autistic children in India. The number is growing at over 120% per
year. It is being attributed to a genetic cause, though those making such
claims know fully well that genetic epidemics are an impossibility. Genetic
disorders show themselves in the womb and not after being vaccinated. One
cannot counter the cries of parents that their children have regressed after
vaccines with "scientific data". This is inhuman.
It is strange that we repeatedly pump in a toxic sludge composed of live and
genetically modified viruses, heavy metals, neurotoxins,
carcinogens,immunosuppressants, antibiotics, animal products and contaminated
serum into infants in the name of "immunisation" and then spend money on
researching, identifying and managing the diseases they cause. Such farcical
activities should immediately be stopped.
If the voices of doctors, scientists and activists had been heard then this
scenario would never have occurred. The government should now admit its
responsibility and compensate the victims. It should also reign in its mass
vaccination campaigns and give proper attention to the real factors that cause
disease. It is more important to have healthy children than to achieve economic
targets by catering to the drugs and disease management industry that goes by
the name of "health care".
- Jagannath Chatterjee]
80s paralysis spurt traced to polio slip
By G.S. Mudur
[The Telegraph | 25 September 2006]
Tens of thousands of children across India were paralysed by polio during the
1980s because health policy makers refused to acknowledge the low efficacy of
the oral polio vaccine (OPV) in India, a leading polio expert said.
The low efficacy, which leaves some children unprotected even after multiple
doses of OPV, has haunted Indias protracted war on polio and is also evident
in western Uttar Pradesh this year where many vaccinated children have
developed polio.
In western UP, the speed of immunisation has not overtaken the speed of the
wild polio virus, said T. Jacob John, former head of virology at the Christian
Medical College, Vellore, who is a member of Indias expert group on polio
eradication.
Health ministry and polio surveillance officials have attributed the outbreak
in Uttar Pradesh this year to the failure of health workers to immunise many
children in the region during the second half of 2005.
But they agreed that rapid and repetitive vaccination with OPV is needed to
fight the force of transmission of the wild polio virus, which is also aided
by factors such as high birth rate and poor sanitation.
The low efficacy feature surfaced over 20 years ago when studies in India
showed that three doses recommended by the World Health Organisation were not
enough to protect all vaccinated children, John said. The proportion of polio
cases among children who had received three doses rose steadily through the
1980s.
Japan wiped out polio with two OPV doses, the US did it with three doses,
and Indias southern states used six to eight doses. But in western UP, some
children with over 10 doses have still got polio, John said.
The geographic variation in OPV efficacy is observed even when the quality
and potency of the vaccine is excellent.
Following those studies, the Indian Academy of Pediatrics had recommended
five doses of OPV. Five doses would not have eradicated polio, but they would
have protected more children than three doses, a senior pediatrician in a
government medical college told The Telegraph.
Yet, the government continued with three doses until 1995. John has estimated
that this would have resulted in polio paralysis in tens of thousands of
vaccinated children whose parents and doctors had been told that three doses
were sufficient. The number could even be as high as 300,000.
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