Chicken Pox – Shingles

Chicken pox

Chicken pox

Chicken pox is a contagious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV) that produces fatigue, fever, aches and itchy blisters. While it is certainly no fun at all and it is self-limiting in a week or 10 days. Chicken pox becomes serious only for the very frail and those with compromised immune systems–as is the case with most diseases. (The annual number of US deaths from the flu ranges from 3,000 in a good year to over 10 times that in a bad one.)

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), before vaccination for chicken pox became so common, the annual death rate from the disease was between 100 and 150 persons. While that is only one in 3 million Americans, it is still not good. But, consider this: according to a scientific study of the government’s own Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), during the period 1990 through 2010, a total of 1,880 children age 1 and under died apparently from the effects of multiple vaccinations given at the same time. This number (about 94 per year) is likely an underestimate because these deaths may often be reported as having been caused by something else (sudden infant death syndrome?). And that is just babies.

Another study in the same scientific journal showed that during the 2009-2010 flu season, 40 times more pregnant women lost their babies if they had received immunizations for both the season flu and the A-H1N1 virus. The researchers proposed that the culprit was likely the mercury contained in the the shots and warned that the children who survived should be monitored for future problems.

The experts in the media are hounding us to get children vaccinated for chicken pox and suggesting booster shots for adults. They often fail to mention that children can still get chicken pox even after being immunized and close to a third of those may suffer a case as bad as if they hadn’t been vaccinated. They also don’t tell us that sometimes adults can get shingles* from simply having had the chicken pox vaccine without having contracted the diseease.

I don’t want to wade into the debate over immunizations and autism or even the concerns expressed by Russell Blaylock, MD during an interview on our show about the effect of adult vaccines on the brain. I will go this far: immunizations should not be taken lightly. At the least it seems prudent to request a vaccine that does not contain mercury. Also, I see no reason for infants to get so many vaccinations in such a short period of time. Many of the combinations being given have not even been studied to prove they are safe.

I also want to caution readers to be wary of information found on the misinformation highway. I found a website that claimed 145,000 children died from multiple vaccines in 20 years. They referred to the same study I quote, but I can’t figure any legitimate way they could have reached that conclusion. By the same token, the CDC dances around a lot of the bad news. Sorting this stuff out makes the blog take a lot longer, but I sleep better for getting closer to the truth. 

*Shingles is a painful condition where the same virus that causes chicken pox comes back later to attack nerve endings. Click here to read my article about it and home remedies with which I have had success.



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