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foods tainted with glyphosate is hard to them discussing how they were going to give her son the tetanus shot “because
do. get all the hundreds of other employees he’s a boy.” Seriously. The doctor went
I have been able to avoid flu shots to get their shot. So it sounds like non- on to explain that because he was a boy
for more than ten years now, but I did compliance is rather a big problem, even he could be crawling on the living room
have to fend off my child’s pediatrician in a hospital setting! Maybe that’s why I carpet and come upon a rusty nail, end
when he brought up the Gardasil shot keep hearing pro-vaccination stories in up with a puncture wound and contract
the last time we were in. He started the news so often these days. tetanus. Mind you, this family lives in
talking about it while he was looking I’m curious about how the biome the suburbs, not in the outback or on a
at the chart, then paused and looked at influences the immune system. It seems farm. The doctor reminded her that she
me. I was trying to keep a poker face, like it is a sort of mediator between had studied about tetanus and vaccines
but I guess my antagonism showed in pathogens and allergens and the immune in medical school and knew far more
my face. I didn’t say anything, but he response. Now that we are seeing more than Barbara Loe Fisher. My client had
quickly dropped the subject. and more articles and books about how not a clue who Ms. Fisher was. Up until
I agree with your recent press re- important our microbiome is, and how then, this mother knew no one who
lease that people who are injected with the good bacteria are threatened from didn’t vaccinate their children except
vaccinations actually end up as carriers so many directions, I would love to see one friend, and she was only beginning
of those pathogens, but their system just a definitive article from WAPF about it. to educate herself. The mother agreed
doesn’t mount a defense. Vaccinated You guys are so good at making compli- to allow the doctor to give her son the
people don’t present the symptoms of cated issues understandable! tetanus-only vaccine.
fighting an infection, so we are told that Laura Davis Later that evening the mother no-
they’re “immune” to the pathogen. And Stillwater, Oklahoma ticed that her son was no longer saying
isn’t that the same result doctors are “mama” or “dada.” Nor was he cooing.
seeking when they give allergy shots? VACCINATED He woke a few hours after going to bed
They just want your system not to react WITHOUT PERMISSION with a fever, a high-pitched scream,
to the presence of the allergens, right? I received a call from a very dis- horrific eczema outbreak and flapping
I’m beginning to wonder whether tressed young mother about three weeks hands. The following morning the pe-
the “package” (combination of patho- ago. She took her seven-month-old son diatrician’s office confirmed that the cul-
gens, preservatives, culturing medium, in to see the pediatrician for a lingering ture relating to his cough was negative.
and other adjuvants) they use for vac- cough. As soon as the doctor saw that When the mother explained that he had
cinations doesn’t just kill off the “first the baby was “overdue” for his second screamed all night and had fever along
responders” of the immune system, and DTaP, she began pressuring the mother with flapping and eczema covering his
then the body labels everything that was to allow the vaccine to be given right back, she was told by the nurse that this
in that package as a threatening intruder, away. Mind you, the child had a cough. had nothing to do with his shot, and by
and that’s why the allergic response is The mother explained that her son had the way “he was given the full DTaP,
triggered later. experienced severe eczema right after not the tetanus only,” and that he was
I’ve never been a rabid anti-vaxxer, receiving the DTaP at four months of age “just reacting due to his cold.” I am not
but it really does seem like these vac- and so she had decided to delay the sec- making this up. It’s hard to believe that
cinations are getting out of hand. My ond booster until she better understood the doctor would blatantly go against the
poor sister is at risk in her job. They why he reacted. She also explained that mother’s very clearly expressed wishes
practically dragged her in bodily for a she had an appointment six days later to but this really happened.
flu shot a few years ago, even though see an allergist to discuss her concerns. A couple of days later the baby
she had filed the proper paperwork for This didn’t stop the pediatrician experienced two seizures and was taken
an exemption. While she was being from hassling the mother. She finally to Children’s Hospital where they stayed
“violated” (her words), she did hear told her she really needed at least to for two days. Never would the hospital
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