Vaccine Immunisation Theory

download According to most of the medical establishment childhood immunisation constitutes one of the great success stories of American public health in the 20th century. Whereas the British led the way in introducing formal clinical trial methodology in the field of immunisation development, the Americans excelled in the rapid translation of laboratory knowledge into strategies suitable for mass application.

To achieve its “aim” of eradicating infectious diseases (without considering that infection may be one of our evolutionary drivers towards adaptation), WHO launched the Expanded Programme on Immunisation in 1974. At the time only 5 per cent. of the world’s children under one were immunised against six target diseases: diphtheria; tetanus; whooping cough; poliomyelitis; measles; and tuberculosis. By 1994 almost 80 per cent. of children under one were immunised against these diseases .

The world’s poorest regions are still suffering a heavy toll of premature death and disability from infectious diseases for which vaccines do not exist or else need to be improved. Infectious diseases are responsible for a third of all deaths in the developing world, killing at least 15 million people a year. The health disparity between rich and poor countries results in average life spans of 77 and 52 years respectively. Deaths attributable to infectious diseases contribute most to the disparity. Of these, more than 5 million are children under five. According to the World Healt Organiseation (2003) “The most effective way to reduce disease and death from infectious diseases is to vaccinate susceptible populations”.

Cuba is one of the world’s poorer countries. Since Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, it has developed an excellent health care service that boasts of 95 per cent. immunisation coverage, low infant mortality rates and life expectancy much higher than other developing countries. In fact, these indicators are equivalent to western European countries and the United States (MacDonald, 1999). Fidel Castro is known to boast  “Cuba is a poor country that dies of rich man’s diseases” .

A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body’s immune system to recognize the agent as foreign, destroy it, and “remember” it, so that the immune system can more easily recognize and destroy any of these microorganisms that it later encounters. Unlike natural infection it is usually injected into a muscle and goes into the blood stream. The theory of immunisation programmes works mainly in two ways: on an individual basis to protect specific persons at risk; and on a population basis to provide “herd immunity” to protect individuals who can not be vaccinated because of health reasons (Bedford and Elliman, 2000).

In both ancient Greece and China it had been noted that people who recovered from smallpox never had subsequent attacks of the disease  and in 1798  Edward Jenner observed that girls miking cows did not seem to get smallpox and discovered that his cowpox inoculation reduced incidence of later infection with smallpox. This was the start of a new science, which is the “coin of the realm” for World health Organisation’s (WHO) programme for preventing disease.

The advent of modern medicine, the discovery and invention of vaccines and antibiotics and the establishment of public health agencies promised to make recurring epidemics a thing of the past. The smallpox chapter of the history of immunisations was closed in 1980 when WHO declared the disease officially eradicated.  WHO aims to eradicate poliomyelitis and measles worldwide in the next few years (WHO, 2003).

Diphtheria, tetanus  and pertussis (whooping cough) may seem distant to young parents living in the UK, but they can still strike fear into the hearts of people living in the third world. During the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth, diphtheria and pertussis each infected more than 100,000 people a year in the UK– mostly children – and tens of thousands died as a result (WHO, 2003).  Tetanus, although less common, killed several hundred people per year during the same time period.

These figures prompted scientists to develop vaccines for these deadly diseases.  First on the market was a vaccine for rabies in 1885, followed by diphtheria in 1923, pertussis in 1926, tuberculosis in 1927 and a tetanus vaccine in 1928.  A combined vaccine – DPT – became available in 1946 (WHO, 2003). A diphtheria vaccination programme was introduced in the UK in 1940. At the time there were 46,281 notifications of the disease, resulting in 2,480 deaths. Since 1970 only 9 deaths have resulted from diphtheria, the last in 1994 (Bedford and Elliman, 2000). A pertussis vaccine was introduced in the UK in 1953; notifications were 100,000 at the time, mortality rates were estimated to be 1/1000. By 1973, immunisation coverage was 80 per cent.  with only 2,400 notifications (Kassianos,  2001).

Following the inauguration of the NHS and after the austerities of the war years, most people in Britain probably saw ‘health’ as being the absence of disease. Physicians began directing their attention to eradicating the common diseases of childhood. A vaccine for measles was developed in 1960, rubella in 1966, mumps in 1967, and a vaccine against chicken pox is now available. Commonly used vaccines are a cost-effective and a preventive way of promoting health, compared to the treatment of acute or chronic disease. In the US during the year 2001, routine childhood immunizations against seven diseases were estimated to save over $40 billion per birth-year cohort in overall social costs, including $10 billion in direct health costs

Even at the turn of the 18 century it was been suggested that the small pox vaccine was causing side effects

Even at the turn of the 18 century it was been suggested that the small pox vaccine was causing side effects

Nevertheless vaccinating millions of children with a one size fits all programme has always been controversial It is interesting to not not all countries follow the same schedule or use the same vacines because of the contoversies surrounding them. This is the UK vaccination  schedule for 2015 in Japan they dont give the MMR vaccine which has been steeped in controversy since Andrew Wakfield’s raised questions about the vaccine in 1998

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8 Responses to Vaccine Immunisation Theory

  1. Judy Comêr Calder says:

    Please may I have your email address. I urgently need to speak to contact a sympathetic doctor who can advise in our situation. My 19 year old daughter has aurto immune issues and so we have never given her any vaccinations. She now has a place offered at university to study medecine but has been asked to have all her vaccinations up to date and prove this. We need advice on what to do, which ones might be ok to have, how to have them, who ones to definitely not have, and a doctors letter of support etc. Am prepared to do this privately as single dose vaccines and oral ones and ones without aluminium are only available privately.. I think she will have to have some of th see vaccines before they let her in. We have little time to sort this out. Any leads please? Any sympathetic private doctors in the south west? Any or we useful info? Many thanks

  2. Nikki McDonald says:

    Hi Richard, we are considering a move to the U.K from the U.S.A. I would like to know how easy/hard is it to avoid having vaccinations for kids in school. My kids are 6 and 8 years old. So far we have avoided the barrage of immunizations in the USA.
    many thanks

  3. Maggie Croucher says:

    I have no medical background. I spent my working life in Financial Services. However, I have always had a ‘feeling’ about vaccinations. The cats I have had over the past 45 years have all died on old age – not cancer. None of them were vaccinated. Two of my siblings who are a few years younger than me are coeliac. Looking back on it, the symptoms started after they had the polio vaccination in the early 60’s. I was physically bigger then they were and I only have a mild form of this disease. Each time I see an article about vaccines I read it but I am met with blank stares when I mention any of the facts to friends and family. I believe this is because people think doctors are Gods and will not hear a word against them. So basically, they are sticking their heads in the sand. I, on the other hand, feel frustrated at their non-thinking attitudes and feel very strongly on this subject.

  4. Adolf Kiyunge says:

    How are you? I want to understand, who is the founder of vaccine immunisation theory, the year and its formulae and the country if possible.
    Thanks

  5. Adolf Kiyunge says:

    Who is the founder of vaccine immunisation theory and year ?

  6. Camile Stephens says:

    Hello would it be possible for you to email me or vice versa, I am attending court on this very matter and really would appreciate some advice from somebody experienced and knowledgeable. many thanks

  7. sam says:

    Hi
    Presumably you do know about the Bill Gates agenda for mandatory vaccinations for the world and that he seems to be directing the UK governemnt?
    His Foundation has given money to PHE, Imperial college, LSHTM, BBC, Guardian, CDC, WHO, all those institutions wanting the lockdon to continue until the vaccine is ready to ‘save us’
    Many who sit on the SAGE committe and certainly all who sit on the UK vaccine panel are funded by institutions in receipt of his funds. His Trust is invested in the industry so he will benefit from vaccine sales and as such all those associated with his funds should resign from the committees advising our government
    see off-guardian.org

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