As your link to Mercolas article shows, the vaccine issue is very
controversial. Having seen the devastation of shingles, I think this
should be big news, and once again brings to question the market driven
ethics of pharmaceuticals;
New research published in the International Journal of Toxicology by
Gary S. Goldman, Ph.D., reveals high rates of shingles (herpes zoster)
in Americans since the government's 1995 recommendation that all
children receive chicken pox vaccine.
Goldman's research supports that*shingles, which results in three times
as many deaths and five times the number of hospitalizations as chicken
pox,* is suppressed naturally by occasional contact with chicken pox.
Dr. Goldman's findings have corroborated other independent researchers
who estimate that*if chickenpox were to be nearly eradicated by
vaccination, the higher number of shingles cases could continue in the
U.S. for up to 50 years; and that while death rates from chickenpox are
already very low, any deaths prevented by vaccination will be offset by
deaths from increasing shingles disease.
*
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2005/09/01/12896.aspx
Smallpox (not chickenpox) apparently wiped out native Americans when
Europeans made their awful invasion. There is reasonable documentation
that the greatly hailed vaccination was in fact not responsible for the
decline in smallpox.
http://www.vaclib.org/intro/present/index3.htm
It is claimed that smallpox has been iradicated from the planet except
in labs but that we have some stockpile of smallpox vaccines "in case it
breaks out"
How weird is that? crazy world.....
On 11/22/2012 10:49 AM, Joyce Miller wrote:
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:57 AM, mgperrault <mgperra...@aol.com> wrote:
My mom almost died from shingles. Of course the severity varies. Older
folks that have had a chicken pox vaccination when they were young may get
worse symptoms.
My understanding is that shingles comes from chicken pox. In other
words, if you didn't have chicken pox as a child, you probably won't
get shingles as an adult. Shingles is caused by the reactivation of
the virus that causes chicken pox years after we have had chickenpox.
Some people either don't know that they have had chickenpox or had a
such a mild case of chickenpox that it has been forgotten.
http://www0.health.nsw.gov.au/factsheets/infectious/chickenpox.html
-- in either case, the shingles may be severe or may not be as severe
as others.
Also note that they are not sure that the chickenpox vaccine can cause
shingles, but people who have not had chickenpox can get chicken pox
if they have direct contact to someone who has shingles.
http://www0.health.nsw.gov.au/factsheets/infectious/chickenpox.html
Also see Mercola's article:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/11/02/chicken-pox-vaccine-creates-shingles-epidemic.aspx
-- especially the use of topical honey to treat shingles
