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been immunized within 21 days prior to death... Inthe DPT SIDS__ Vaccination and shaken baby syndrome group 6.5% died within 12 hours of inoculation, 13% within 24 As Dr Innis repeatedly stated in his comments to a variety of hours, 26% within 3 days, and 37%, 61% and 70% within 1, 2 and BMJ articles on shaken baby syndrome (SBS), all of the SBS 3 weeks respectively. Significant SIDS clustering occurred with- cases he studied were vaccinated within 21 days of the appearance in the first 2 to 3 weeks of DTP #1, 2,3 or 4. The age range in the mptoms of SBS or death. I second this with a slightly quali- DTP group was 59 days to 3 years..." fied statement that among some 70-odd cases of SBS for which I One of many points I am making here is that the recipients of a have prepared a report, only two were cases of birth injury and vaccine such as DPT or OPV may react for more than 21 days were unvaccinated. Also, a few of the SBS babies died more than after the vaccines are administered, this being additional informa- 21 days after their last vaccinations. Indeed, days 42 to 48 after tion to that published by Innis (2004). Innis puts emphasis on the vaccination represent important critical days with increasing num- period of under 21 days from vaccination as a risk period for the bers of deaths (as discussed above). onset of symptoms that can lead to allegations of child abuse, Most of those who have been involved in the study of SIDS or based on the 22 cases that he has analysed to date. SBS, including those who have participated in the present and Vaccines, such as that for pertussis, are actually used to induce very much needed BMJ.com cathartic debate on SBS, have been so-called experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (Levine et al., rather shy or silent about the administered vaccines, even though 1966; Levine and Sowinski, 1979; Steinman et al., 1982; and those vaccine injections are, as a rule, the only documented facts. many others). Steinman et al. described an animal model for per- The act of shaking is undocumented and it is indeed (as Dr Innis tussis vaccination encephalopathy. They vaccinated mice with correctly states) a little more than a figment of bizarre imagination the heat-killed Bordetella pertussis by the accusing doctors, child protection vaccine combined with bovine serum agencies and police. albumin (BSA). They concluded that Some responders in this debate have resembled that of human eases in| 80Me responders in this Vietmise innocent carers. The simple which death occurred after DPT vacci- debate have questioned answer is that they are. As pointed out nation: diffuse vascular congestion by Kirschner and Stein (1985): "...the and parenchymal haemorrhage in both whether doctors are out to treating physicians in the emergency the cortex and white matter. Cortical victimise innocent carers. room mistook life-threatening illness s showed ischaemic changes, A A stmortem artifacts for inflicted neon: shoved scene uns | The simple answer is that mma antacid dent in the meninges. they are. by the parents in the emergency room B. pertussis has a wide range of were in all cases truthful and consis- physiological effects _ including tent with the results of physical exami- increased IgE production, increased nations of the child, the involved sensitivity to anaphylactic shock, lym- physicians failed to make a correct phocytosis and hyperinsulinaemia. Its ability to induce increased diagnosis. Not only lack of experience with severe childhood ill- vascular permeability may account for the tendency to produce ness and death but also an attitude of suspicion and/or hostility haemorrhages. The relevance of the murine [i.e., mouse-related] probably contributed to these misdiagnoses." model of pertussis vaccine encephalopathy is demonstrated by So what are the causes and mechanisms of what is considered most babies being exposed to cow's milk (even in breast-fed the pathognomic triad of symptoms by the proponents of SBS, babies) due to a pre-existing anti-BSA antibody. This sensitisation such as subdural and retinal haemorrhages and broken bones? to BSA may lead to a similar chain of events following pertussis As I wrote in my previous papers on this subject (J ACNEM vaccination in genetically susceptible human babies. 2002; bmj.com Rapid Responses, 2 April 2004; and elsewhere), When babies were only given four vaccines at one session the whole idea of subdural haematomas and bizarre bone fractures (DPT and OPV), they developed the so-called minimal pathology: as a result of child abuse was started by Caffey in 1946. He con- petechial (spot-like) bleeding into the thymus, pericardium, lungs sidered fractures in the long bones as a complication of the infan- and other organs and their deaths were classified as SIDS (which tile subdural haematoma associated with the fractures of the crani- should stand for "sudden immunisation death syndrome"). Such um. Even though his own illustrations show what is generally pathology was considered insufficient to cause death, even though considered typical scurvy fractures, he denied any "Roentgen it was obviously sufficient, considering that tens of thousands of signs of scurvy". Caffey (1946), without going into any more babies have died this way. According to Hess (1920) and many detail, concluded: "The fractures appear to be of traumatic origin others, one of the symptoms of acute scurvy is petechial but the traumatic episodes and the causal mechanism remain haemorrhage. Why consider scurvy in post-vaccinal death? obscure." It is difficult to understand why such classical scurvy Vaccines are a cocktail of toxic substances such as formalde- fractures as shown in his own photographs were misinterpreted. hyde (interestingly, when Selye discovered nonspecific stress syn- However, Caffey admitted in his 1965 article, "Significance of the drome, the first "noxious substance" rhar he injected into his labo- history in the diagnosis of traumatic injury in children", that "it is ratory rats was formaldehyde), aluminium phosphate and alumini- still a wonder to me that Ross Golden welcomed me, a pediatri- um hydroxide, mercury compounds (thimerosal, merthiolate, con- cian without either formal or informal training or experience in taining up to 49% mercury), phenol, coolant (propylene glycol), radiology, into his department of traditionally and highly trained peanut oil, and of course foreign proteins (antigens), viruses and expert radiologists". Indeed, why? bacteria or their protein envelopes (such as pertussigen, an active The fact remains that Caffey made a mess of things which will toxic ingredient in all pertussis vaccines, whether whole cell or take years to rectify. The sooner the rec on begins, the bet- acellular), to mention just a few of the most common, standard ter not only for all those thousands of victims of Caffey's obvious ingredients in a variety of vaccines. ignorance and closedmindedness but also for those formally Some responders in this debate have questioned et SN aS ce The simple answer is that they are. 32 = NEXUS whether doctors are out to victimise innocent carers. www.nexusmagazi ne.com OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2005