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effect. Whereas yearly U.S. vaccine sales amounted to only about one Boostrix (the two U.S.-licensed Tdap vaccines
hundred seventy million dollars in the early 1980s, the current value of for adolescents and adults) both state that the
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North America’s vaccine market is estimated at twenty-five billion —a safety and effectiveness of their products have
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nearly one-hundred-fifty-fold increase. Analysts estimate that the global not been established in pregnant women. 27,28
vaccine market now brings in close to sixty billion dollars annually. 21 In fact, no vaccine administered to pregnant
women has been tested for safety or efficacy
SUPREME COURT BETRAYAL before licensure. The Boostrix insert ambigu-
The government swindle did not end in 1995. The final blow came ously states that the vaccine should be given
in 2011, when the U.S. Supreme Court chose to misinterpret the legisla- to pregnant women “only if clearly needed.” 28
tive history of NCVIA. The original 1986 Act had left claimants with
the option to sue in civil court if denied federal compensation. The COMBINATION VACCINES WORSE
Supreme Court’s 2011 decision in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth removed this op- The pertussis vaccine is a routine com-
tion, fully eliminating vaccine-injured Americans’ right to sue vaccine ponent of combination vaccines that include
makers—even if there was evidence that the manufacturer could have additional components against hepatitis B, po-
made a vaccine less reactive. The six-to-two split decision, with Jus- liomyelitis and invasive Haemophilus influenzae
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tices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg dissenting, completely type b (Hib). For example, Vaxelis is a combina-
shielded pharmaceutical companies from all liability from harm caused tion six-in-one vaccine manufactured through a
by a vaccine. partnership between Sanofi Pasteur and Merck.
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Together, the 1986 Act and the 2011 U.S. Supreme Court decision A pertussis-containing pentavalent combination
freed vaccine manufacturers, doctors and other vaccine administrators shot of DTaP, inactivated polio (IPV) and Hib is
from any legal accountability or financial liability in civil court for also available, as are four-component vaccines
permanent injuries or deaths resulting from government-recommended with DTaP plus IPV.
or mandated vaccines. Moreover, 9/11 gave the government an excuse Although the CDC claims that these com-
to take one further step. In the name of national security, a December bination vaccines are safe, research indicates
2005 act passed by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush that the risk of adverse events such as febrile
(the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness or PREP Act) grants seizures is greater for combination vaccines
drug companies and vaccine program administrators full absolution from than for single vaccines. For example, a Danish
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legal responsibility for vaccine injuries and deaths that occur under the study found that in some cases, the incidence
umbrella of a HHS-declared public health “emergency.” The 2005 Act, of febrile seizures increased as much as six-fold
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which covers experimental vaccines and other medical countermeasures for children receiving a pentavalent vaccine.
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deployed during declared emergencies, is especially significant as our Febrile seizures can later develop into epilepsy,
nation prepares to roll out fast-tracked Covid-19 vaccines. 24 and some types of febrile seizures are associ-
ated with an increased risk of developmental
CURRENT RECOMMENDATIONS delays and subsequent neurological disorders.
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Vital statistics show that the threat from infectious diseases had fallen Children experiencing seizures can also fall or
significantly long before there was a national vaccine program. This choke on food or saliva.
has not stopped the CDC from recommending that infants and children Worse yet, combination vaccines are associ-
continue to receive five doses of acellular DTaP vaccine by age six. The ated with a significantly increased risk of sudden
vaccines are routinely given at two, four and six months; between fifteen and unexpected deaths in young children. An
and eighteen months; and between four and six years. The public health Italian study published in 2011 showed a statisti-
agency then recommends a follow-up booster dose of Tdap vaccine cally significant two-fold increased risk of sud-
(tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis) between the ages of twelve den infant death within fourteen days of the first
and thirteen and another Tdap booster between nineteen and twenty-six dose of a hexavalent vaccine. Another study
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years of age, as well as further Tdap shots every ten years thereafter. from 2006 confirmed during autopsies that
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The CDC recommends Tdap vaccines (or tetanus and diphtheria children who died soon after receiving six-in-
[Td] vaccines) for all adults, including pregnant women. For the latter, one vaccines had abnormal brain pathologies.
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the recommendation is that the Tdap vaccine be administered between
twenty-seven and thirty-six weeks gestation during each pregnancy, re- ACELLULAR PERTUSSIS VACCINES:
gardless of whether the woman has already received a recent dose. This NOT OFF THE HOOK
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recommendation comes despite the fact that product inserts for Adacel and The well-documented dangers of the origi-

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