Comments on: Rotavirus: Death by Diarrhea?

By: admin

admin — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:26:04 +0000

We are definitely in favor of people have the option to choose to use vaccines. We are equally in favor of people having the option to choose not to use vaccines.

I’m glad your son is okay!

By: parent

parent — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 04:14:04 +0000

Nowadays we have too many immoral drug companies n doctors pushing unnecessary vaccines on us by legislation, fear campaigns etc. But my son almost died from contracting rotavirus in the early part of 2000. It struck so fast n so severely if we had not sent him to hospital by the 3rd day he would have died. From hindsight, if the vaccine had been available to us earlier, I would definitely have used it, even tho I m leery of many other vaccines.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:20:10 +0000

I put your concern to my associates and this abstract was turned up. If the terminology is a bit steep, find a medical dictionary and a medical encyclopedia for a bit of support. Hope it helps. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16238790

By: Orange Blossom

Orange Blossom — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:56:50 +0000

What a very informative article and discussion! I found it while researching whether or not to give my daughter her second and third doses of rotavirus.
My concern is that it will contribute to her food intolerance/allergy problem. Many moms have noticed their breastfed babies developing reactions to things in the mother’s diet after the vaccine. I think my daughter’s got worse after her first one; other moms have described in much detail how much the vaccine hurt their children. I just wish more people would REPORT problems!!!

By: admin

admin — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:24:52 +0000

Whoops, you are absolutely right! Sorry, I shouldn’t try to do this at work…

You would need to get hold of the actual clinical studies. I know one of the clinical studies used a placebo containing all other ingredients except for the viral solution. I think this means that the placebo could contain viral contaminants from some of the other ingredients.

18 more deaths is definitely cause for concern, even over a large population.

Search for the various studies in PubMed. Some may be available free. The others can be requested through your local public library, ask at the reference desk.

By: Wallflower

Wallflower — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:02:36 +0000

That looks like 18 more deaths to me. Is there a way to find out what “placebo” was used?

By: admin

admin — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:40:18 +0000

No, you didn’t get it right. Here is the quote

Deaths: During the entire course of 8 clinical studies, there were 68 (0.19%) deaths following administration of ROTARIX (N = 36,755) and 50 (0.15%) deaths following placebo administration (N = 34,454). The most commonly reported cause of death following vaccination 6 was pneumonia, which was observed in 19 (0.05%) recipients of ROTARIX and 10 (0.03%) placebo recipients (Relative Risk: 1.74, 95% CI: 0.76, 4.23).

So there were only 8 more deaths in the Rotarix groups over the placebo groups over a total group of around 70,000. However, both groups were vaccinated with multiple vaccines at the same time, so placebo is a bit of a misnomer.

By: Wallflower

Wallflower — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:08:55 +0000

Am I reading this package insert correctly? It appears there were 118 total deaths associated with this particular rotavirus vaccine during the 8 trials done: http://us.gsk.com/products/assets/us_rotarix.pdf

If that’s the case, how in the world do they justify this in terms of safety at all in the U.S. Given that only 20 children die per year of the disease itself?

By: Frum The Guggie Daly

Frum The Guggie Daly — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:37:51 +0000

[...] occurs when the intestine gets blocked or twisted.” Here’s a good article about rotavirus: http://insidevaccines.com/wordpress/?p=64

By: Marconi

Marconi — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:15:30 +0000

I would agree with this statement here:

*** I have no doubt that big pharma is trying to recover some of their costs by targeting wealthy, developed nations with this product. I can’t say that I completely agree with this approach, but I guess it’s good to give parents options…***

if the means of informing parents was by giving honest information.

But American parents are told bulldust, and emotionally blackmailed, in order to accept a vaccine which is completely unnecessary if you are a long term breastfeeder.