

New Study shows whooping cough vaccine (Tdap) protection fades quickly. Top expert admits there needs to be a new shot, but nothing in the pipeline. He says get vaccinated anyway “because, if you catch it, you *should* get a less severe round of the illness”.

Whooping Cough Vaccine’s Protection Fades Quickly

Sometimes we health nuts just have to laugh at the stupidity by our government and the agencies in charge…or else we’ll end up crying.

I chose laughter.

We already know that the virologists (yes real scientists) who work at Merck are suing the company because of the inefficacy of the MMR shot (measles mumps rubella), but now we find out the Tdap (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis) isn’t too effective either, when it comes to the whooping cough.

Even many of the “anti-vaxxers” I know opt to get the Tdap (DPT or DTaP), because they worry about whooping cough.

Well, looks like it might not protect them anyway.

But who cares if the MMR and Tdap aren’t working as they should?

Should they be working on better ones?

Instead they’re working in their labs on vaccinations for HPV (which a study found might increase your chance of cancer) high cholesterol and diarrhea.

I feel like I’m living in a bad Orwell novel.

From the NPR article on the inefficacy of the vaccine:

Now an analysis of a recent whooping cough epidemic in Washington state shows that the effectiveness of the Tdap vaccine used to fight the illness (also known as pertussis) waned significantly. For adolescents who received all their shots, effectiveness within one year of the final booster was 73 percent. The effectiveness rate plummeted to 34 percent within just two to four years. “This waning is likely contributing to the increase in pertussis among adolescents,” the authors wrote. The study was published Monday in the Journal: Pediatrics. “The take-home message is that the waning is there,” said Dr. Art Reingold, a University of California, Berkeley professor of public health. “You’re protected initially but it wanes over time.”

I have a friend and neighbor whose son got mumps within months of his third MMR shot.

I also know folks whose children have gotten whooping cough after their very last whooping cough shot. People don’t seem to realize this or are in denial.

So no surprise Art Reingold says you should get vaccinated anyway, because heck, even if you catch it – it won’t be as bad a case of whooping cough (chances are) than if you weren’t vaccinated.

So how is that working Art?

Are we getting vaccinated now so we can have a vaccine induced case of these childhood diseases (as ADULTS?!), Some say if we’d had these child illnesses as children they would be less severe (heck even the CDC admits a 5 year old getting the measles (in most cases) is way less severe than the measles contracted as adults.

Should I get my child vaccinated so they don’t get the childhood illnesses at the ages nature intended, and instead get them as an adult where more complications could arise-oh not to mention the complications of vaccines (yes I’m vaccine injured – hospital seizures etc).

Trust me, I’d would rather have had the measles.

Yep…Art Reingold (just to repeat his title one more time), CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices group on Pertussis, really did say this. He also said that adding another dose of the vaccine at a later age wouldn’t help much, based on research that was presented to the ACIP group.

“[An additional dose] would have very little impact on pertussis,” he said, “in terms of cases prevented.”

So at least Reingold the CDC Doc admits adding a dose at a later age really won’t help.

SO…I supposed we just keep vaccinating our children with a shot that nearly killed me, even it’s a toss up whether it will even protect them.

You are still likely to get pertussis, though hopefully not as bad as those thousands of kids who got it and lived to tell about it.

Oh-and if you say many die from it?

Go read the article from the Pro-Vax NPR site linked above.

They explain that over 11,000 kids got it in the outbreak and 3 died.

Granted, that is tragic three died but the percentage is small.

Do your homework before making a decision about what YOU choose to do.

I suppose I could go get yet another Tdap round-but after hospitalization, seizures, and near death…and knowing I might get it anyway?

I believe I’ll sit this one out.

The truth is out there.

You just have to search for it. …

Erin

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