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stress response established that the alarm very shallowly are considered false alarms. reaction is biphasic and includes two flare- ne Leif and I called them "warning alarms" ups of stressed breathing, one on day 2 and _ |* because they sounded when the monitored another between days 5 and 7, then |. babies started having longer and longer followed by about seven days |= episodes of low-volume breathing, which is corresponding to the stage of resistance, and | — the true stress-induced breathing pattern. A the increased stress level around day 16 |= | baby who developed pneumonia representing the stage of exhaustion. = experienced such "false alarms" for two ° . . benebowce i us ih Iu iid weeks before going down with typical Vaccination and cot deaths symptoms of pneumonia. This happened Figure 5 represents tabulation of raw data | ss. ee oe about six weeks after the six-month on deaths after DPT and polio vaccination | * vaccination with DPT and polio vaccines. published by Mitchell et al. (1995). These | = When reactions or deaths occur six weeks New Zealand authors concluded that "there | after vaccination, they would not be consid- was a reduced chance of SIDS [sudden |= { ered as being caused by vaccination. Yet infant death syndrome] in the four-day | = i - il | our records of alarms with Cotwatch micro- period after immunisation" and hence that | * bail lilivil I | iis! iil processor computer printouts demonstrate immunisation "may even lower the risk of — increased stress level in breathing more than SIDS" (though also saying that they cannot Figure 4: Record of breathing in the form six weeks after vaccination. confidently state it as a certainty). ; of vertical bars, showing the stress level in However, far from showing protection each baby before and after vaccination. Deaths after vaccinations against cot death by vaccination, Mitchell et Griffin et al.'s (1988) data on deaths after al.'s data show that all those babies they studied died as a direct vaccination are of interest as well. Even though the authors consequence of their DPT and OPV vaccination, showing perfect concluded that their data do not show the causal link, a proper clustering along the critical days. The "reduced" risk of SIDS in _ tabulation of their own raw data (figure 6), looking at four groups the "immunised" group is misleading, because only those who of babies who died after DPT and polio vaccination, shows the received vaccines on schedule were following: categorised as "immunised". Obviously this * Group | included babies aged 1.5-2.5 biases this group to be relatively healthier months (in the USA, vaccinations start at —— SiMe ee a children because a, or the, major reason for 6-8 weeks). The majority of these babies vaccines not being given on time, and |. died within 8-14 days after the first dose. sometimes not ever again, is the child being * Group 2 included babies aged 2.5-4 unwell, at least when the shots are due, if months, who died after the second dose of not constantly. So, ironically, a child who . DPT and OPV. The majority died between suffered visible adverse effects from 15 and 30 days. previous vaccines is likely to be in the "non- ~ ¢ Group 3 included babies aged 4-8 immunised" category in this study, even if . months, who died after the third dose. The he or she received further vaccines. majority died more than 31 days after Generally speaking, the most fundamen- vaccination. tal error of judgement displayed by cot | * . ¢ Group 4 included babies who died aged death researchers is that they do not look at 8-12 months. These are the residue of what happened to the babies who suc- === delayed deaths after the third dose. cumbed to SIDS, days before they died, and Figure 5: Tabulation of data on deaths after Far from showing no evidence of the instead they try to identify the elusive entity DPT and polio vaccination (Mitchell et al.). Causal link with the administration of DPT of "at risk" babies. The pneumographic and OPV vaccines, the tabulated raw data studies are done without any regard to what happens to babies in by Griffin et al. show three important observed phenomena: the first six months and/or one year or 18 months of life when the 1. Younger babies died earlier than older, bigger babies who initial DPT, Hib and polio vaccines and the first MMR and/or took longer to die. booster vaccines are given. 2. Sensitisation: there was increased immunological reaction Vaccinations are mostly ignored in cot (anaphylaxis) after subsequent doses of vac- death studies. In our experience, the timing - = . cines. of pneumographic studies is determined by 3. Increased numbers of deaths with the the availability of a bed in the overnight =. | increasing interval from vaccination: study unit rather than by looking at what ———. < delayed reactions, which are a rule rather happened to the baby just before it devel- than an exception. oped symptoms of stress or started causing |__| ; 7 : . Interestingly, Torch (1982, 1986) inde- alarms on its monitor. » pendently also made the same observation The notion of false alarms, widely used F as Leif Karlson and I: an increasing num- by those who conduct monitoring of babies' ———, = | ber of deaths with the increasing interval breathing, has also delayed the from the vaccine administration, increasing understanding of the situation. Alarms Figure 6: Tabulation of data from four number of injections and increasing age. which occurred when the monitored baby groups of babies who died after DPT and Torch (1982) wrote: "Preliminary data on did not stop breathing but was breathing _ polio vaccinations (Griffin et al.). the first 70 cases studied shows that 2/3 had a ee NEXUS = 31 —— = Se — 1. OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2005 www.nexusmagazine.com