Hilary Butler documenting HIB, then Prevnar now MRSA
From:
Hilary Butler
Forward this where you like.
A couple of weeks ago, Ninetonoon did a programme about how wonderful Prevnar
is, and how lots of countries are using it, and
that’s why we should too.
Well, take your pick. Wednesday’s issue of JAMA
details that this time, the bug might have bit them right back on the backside.
Use Prevnar, get a new MRSA = dead children. This is what the public gets, when
they sit back and trust the medical profession, and when the questions they ask,
do not get answered in any meaningful way.
(see letter to Dr Marc Lipsitch the
answers were unsatisfactory and I’ve not pdf’d them)
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In the new study, Fridkin and his colleagues analyzed data collected in
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, New York,
Oregon and Tennessee, identifying 5,287 cases of invasive MRSA infection and 988
deaths in 2005. The researchers calculated that MRSA was striking 31.8 out of
every 100,000 Americans, which translates to 94,360 cases and 18,650 deaths
nationwide. In comparison, complications from the AIDS virus killed about 12,500
Americans in 2005.
In the second paper, Michael E. Pichichero and Janet R. Casey of the University
of Rochester in New York documented the emergence of an antibiotic-resistan
The researchers attributed the emergence of the strain to a combination of the
overuse of antibiotics and the introduction of a vaccine that protects against
the infection.
"The use of the vaccine created an ecological vacuum, and that combined with
excessive use of antibiotics to create this new superbug," Pichichero said.
So will Pete Hodgson let New Zealand parents welcome this new ecological niche
into New Zealand, and act all surprised when in a few years, kiddies drop dead
because they can’t be treated?
You all realise, of course, that this was started by the use of the Hib vaccine.
I attach for you a pdf containing a letter sent by me to Bill Birch in 1993, and
USA’s foremost expert on this topic, Marc Lipsitch in April 2006, with an
extract from the infectious disease journal, and the revelant IAS waves
newsletter giving Bill Birch’s reply.
[whale] Letter 1
[whale] letter 2
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