Postvaccinal Encephalitis
Table of case-fatality rate of post-vaccinial encephalitis
[2009 Oct] Valley Mom Blames Vaccines For Illness Phoenix resident Melissa Ellingson said tetanus and flu shots she received this summer nearly cost her her life. “I couldn't talk. I couldn't walk. I couldn't feel my whole body. It was like I had an epidural of something,” Ellingson said. She developed encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, about a month after the two vaccines.
[March 2007] Early fears about MMR in secret papers
Anna [MMR--paralysis, post vaccination encephalopathy]
Encephalitis:
An acute inflammatory disease of the brain due to direct viral invasion or to hypersensitivity initiated by a virus or other foreign protein......Secondary encephalitis, usually a complication of viral infection, is considered to have an immunologic mechanism. Examples are encephalitides secondary to measles, chickenpox, rubella, smallpox vaccination, vaccinia, and many other less well defined viral infections. (Merck manual) http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section14/chapter176/176c.htmVaccine-associated neurotropic disease, (previously described as post-vaccinal encephalitis)
Many of the mothers noticed that their children had a high-pitched cry soon after their vaccination or vaccinations. This is called the encephalitic cry, meaning that it is caused by an inflamed, swollen brain. It also explains the difficulty many mothers have in waking their children, the vomiting, passing out and irritability following vaccinations. These are all signs of an inflamed brain. The reason that pediatricians are telling these mothers that their children's reactions to these vaccines are normal is based on at least two factors. One, most pediatricians, in my experience, know absolutely nothing about a child's brain. When I was practicing, if anything happened to a pediatrician's patient that in any way indicated something was wrong with the child's brain, the doctor was on the phone with me in an instant. Most admitted they knew nothing about the brain. The second reason is that they are trying to avoid a lawsuit. If they can convince the mother that everything is well, they may avoid a trip to the courtroom. Most physicians are gunshy about lawsuits. It can also hurt their reputation. Vaccine Safety Manual by Neil Z. Miller. Preface
[March 2008] [SO THERE ARE MORE HANNAH POLINGS WE JUST DON'T KNOW ABOUT? GOTCHA, JUDGE.--Dan Olmsted We were also compensated by the Federal Government in 2002. Our child suffered the same diagnosis after her routine immunizations. Encephalopathy with autistic like symptoms. I am not sure why people think this is the first case? Maybe they are just the first to go so public. I wonder how many other families have been compensated for the exact same symptoms? When we settled with the government I did not get the impression that we were that unique; quite the opposite as I spoke to the Special Master (the judge for the compensation program). - Misty Hiatt
Somewhat 35 years ago, when I
worked in Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology and
Microbiology, a leading Russian center for vaccines
development and immunology research, a tragedy
happened: our measles vaccine caused an epidemics of
encephalitis among vaccinated. Our senior
immunologist and virologist, prof. Svet-Moldavsky,
was sent to investigate. It turned out that at
producing facility they slightly modified protocol,
using overgrown rats instead of very young, as was
required. Live virus vaccines are made nowadays
essentially as in days of Pasteur, by multiple
passage on animals brains. So these vaccines can
induce antibody production not only to virus
antigenes, but to components of brain tissue as
well. While antigene composition of human and
animals tissues is different, some overlapping
exists, so autoimmune response against brain tissue
of vaccinated children is possible. This happened in
this case. The story never leaked into press, of
course, due to Soviet era secrecy, but everybody in
Institute knew it.
Measles lethality drastically plummeted in last few
decades, from several procents to one case in
thousand infected. Most of it was due to concurrent
bacterial infection pneumonia, which now effectively
treated by antibiotics; these 1/1000 deaths are also
caused not by virus itself, but autoimmune reaction
on this virus targeting brain tissue. But there are
sound reasons to fear that attenuated vaccine virus
can induce analogic reactions. Many parents reported
onset of autism symptoms immediately (several hours
after) vaccination. Too early for viremia, but
timing is exact for autoimmune reaction.
The Wakefield witch-hunt--Melanie
Phillips
"Today, there are about 150 vaccines being worked on, and within the next decade, we could have a flu vaccine for the left nostril and one for one right nostril. Mankind will be used as a pin cushion. For every vaccination, minimal encephalopathy destroys brain cells. As a result, in Germany, there are 1.2 million children who have contracted hyperkinetic syndrome who are then treated with Psychopharmeca (a drug similar to Ritalin) used to calm them down... We have hundreds of thousands of so-called minimal cerebral dysfunction cases and millions of neurodermatitis patients. In Germany, there are millions of people with allergies. We don’t just produce minimal encephalopathies in the brain, but we also produce modifications of the genetic code."--Dr Buchwald MD[Media Sept 2002] Bosnia halts using Unicef-donated DTP vaccines after baby contracts encephalitis
"What could be the cause of so much encephalitis in the US population? The only possible cause is the childhood vaccination program. The pertussis and measles vaccines are particularly dangerous, but all the vaccines have made a certain contribution."--Harris Coulter
"The United States Public Health Bureau is extremely reticent about reporting diseases caused by vaccination but the report from 1922 to 1931 admitted that there had been 85 cases of post-vaccinal encephalitis, which DeKruif states "is the twin of infantile paralysis.""--Eleanor McBean
"He fell sick with a post-vaccination encephalitis, and ever since, I have a completely destroyed human being at home."--Dr G Buchwald MD
"His mother took him for a DT booster, which changed his life. He got encephalitis from the vaccine. Extensive hospital work proved that there was no other possible cause, and in the work-up for ACC, Professor David Holdaway, New Zealand's strongest proponent for vaccination, wrote the report for ACC which stated that there was no doubt that this was a case of vaccine damage."--Hilary Butler http://www.netlink.co.nz/~ias/diphtheria.htm
Disintegrative psychosis is recognised as a sequel to measels encephalitis.Viral encephalitis can give rise to autistic disorders, particularly when it occurs early in life. *Wing L, The autistic Spectrum London Constable, 1996 pg 68-71
Infantile encephalitis - inflammation of the brain in children following infections,injury,etc.,and causing the cerebral palsies of children. ENCYCLOPEDIA AND DICTIONARY OF MEDICINE AND NURSING; MILLER AND KEANE.
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Vaccine Injury Table http://www.hrsa.dhhs.gov/bhpr/vicp/table.htm#
Antony SJ, et al. Postvaccinial (influenza) disseminated encephalopathy (Brown-Sequard syndrome). J Natl Med Assoc. 1995 Sep;87(9):705-8. Review. PMID: 9583968; UI: 98242646.
Askanas A; [Postvaccinal encephalitis and enterovirus infection] (Pediatr Pol, 1966 Feb)
Buchner H, et al. [Polyneuritis cranialis? Brain stem encephalitis and myelitis following preventive influenza vaccination]. Nervenarzt. 1988 Nov;59(11):679-82. German. No abstract available.PMID: 3211251; UI: 89097428Buchwald G; [Postvaccinal encephalitis and encephalopathy] (Med Welt, 1971 Oct 22) Buchwald G, et al.
Harold E. Buttram, MD, Townsend Letters, December 1997"Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) Vaccine as a Potential Cause of Encephalitis (Brain Inflammation) in Children," .
Collomb H, et al. [Postvaccinal encephalitis (yellow fever vaccination); neuro-radiological study]. Bull Soc Med Afr Noire Lang Fr. 1966;11(3):587-90. French. No abstract available.PMID: 4382457; UI: 67213214.
Cavanagh, NPC (1981); Brett, EM; Marshall, WC; Wilson, J; The Possible
Adjuvant Role of Bordetella Pertussis and Pertussis Vaccine in Causing Severe
Encephalopathic Illness: a Presentation of Three Case Histories; Neuropediatrics 12:
374-381 (1981)
The clinical and some laboratory details of three children who had
severe neurological sequelae after either infection with Bordetella pertussis or
immunisation with diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine and oral polio vaccine are
reported. Each of these patients had had a recent or concurrent viral illness. The
severity of their encephalopathic illness may have been due to an adjuvant role of B.
pertussis or a component of the vaccines they received.
Cherry, J.D (1988)., Brunell, P.A., Golden, G.S., Karzon, D.T., (1988),
Report of the task force on pertussis and pertussis immunization, Pediatrics 81:6 Part 11
(June 1988) Supplement pp 936-984.
Extract: For more than 25 years, it has been known that pertussis
vaccine is a reliable adjuvant for the production of experimental allergic encephalitis.74’99"8
This experimental allergic encephalomyelitis is mediated by sensitized lymphocytes
rather than serum antibody mechanisms.52 Pertussis vaccine has also been used
as an adjuvant in the following experimental autoimmune diseases: thyroiditis,
myocarditis, glomerulonephritis, uveoretinitis, and hemolytic anemia.49"9
Except for the adjuvant effect upon antibody responses to specific vaccines, there is no
evidence that any of the experimental adjuvant activities of pertussis vaccine, and
specifically LPF, occur in vaccinated children.
Finley, K H, "Pathogenesis of Encephalitis Occurring With Vaccination, Variola and Measles, Arch Neur and Psychologist, 1938; 39:1047-1054.
Froissart M, et al. [Acute meningoencephalitis immediately after an influenza vaccination]. Lille Med. 1978 Oct;23(8):548-51. French. No abstract available.PMID: 723420; UI: 79072015
Fejerman
N; [Post-vaccinal encephalitis] (Arch Argent Pediatr, 1964 Oct-Dec)
Gross
WL, et al. Meningoencephalitis syndrome following influenza vaccination. J
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Gamboa ET, Cowen D, Eggers A, Cogan P, Ganti R, Brust JC.Delayed onset of post-rabies vaccination encephalitis.Ann Neurol. 1983 Jun;13(6):676-8.PMID: 6136253 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Gurvich
EB, et al. Vaccinia virus in postvaccinal encephalitis. Acta Virol. 1983
Mar;27(2):154-9. PMID: 6135334; UI: 83252750.
Horn
W. [Encephalitis following smallpox vaccination]. Z Arztl Fortbild (Jena). 1965 Nov
15;59(22):1204-6. German. No abstract available. PMID: 4161632; UI: 66172634.
Jagdis
F, et al. Encephalitis after administration of live measles vaccine. Can Med
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Jorch
G, et al. [Coincidence of virus encephalitis and measles-mumps vaccination].
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Jennings
AD, et al. Analysis of a yellow fever virus isolated from a fatal case of
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TM, et al. Delayed acute measles inclusion body encephalitis in a 9-year-old
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66004721.
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17;29:1653-4. German. No abstract available.PMID: 4378496; UI: 66004721.
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R, et al. Postvaccinal encephalitis in adult. A case with anatomo-clinical report. Rev
Neurol (Paris). 1979;135(11):803-13. French. PMID: 45321; UI: 81125716.The case
reported concerns a man of 27 years who presented 10 days after a polyvaccination (7
vaccines in 2 months) altered consciousness, epileptic fits, right hemiplegia, vegetative
dysfunctions and meningeal status. Evolutionary clinical course led to death in 21 days.
Naumova, R P, et al, "Encephalitis Developing After Vaccination
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Nalin
DR. Mumps, measles, and rubella vaccination and
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No
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P, et al. IgE levels of infants with complications after pertussis vaccination.
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IgE levels of 31 infants who had severe complications after
whooping cough vaccination, were determined by RIST. The patients had convulsions,
encephalitis or anaphylactic shock symptoms. All but two had elevated IgE levels for their
age. It is suggested that, in certain genetically predisposed human beings, pertussis
antigen can also induce IgE synthesis, as has already been established in rodents. PMID:
463714, UI: 79228768
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I, et al. [Encephalopathy after vaccination against smallpox
with permanent sequel--diabetes insipidus]. Vojnosanit Pregl. 1972 May;29(5):242-4.
Serbo-Croatian (Roman). No abstract available.PMID: 4402923; UI:
72233718.
Pollock
TM, et al Safety of pertussis vaccine. Lancet. 1983 Oct 1;2(8353):795-6. No abstract
available. PMID: 6137630; UI: 84012855.
Reported 8 children with anaphylaxis or collapse within 24 hours of
DPT vaccination, for a rate of 6 cases per 100,000 children vaccinated
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J; [Case of encephalitis necroticans acuta in the course of postvaccinal
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VA, Bereshkova RV. Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol 1975 Jun;(6):66-72
[Pathomorphological and immunofluorescent studies of smallpox vaccine neurotropism]. [Article in Russian] Experiments were conducted on guinea pigs sensitized
with the AK C-vaccine components. In intracardiac injection with smallpox vaccine there
was shown a possibility of development of marked hemodynamic disturbances, of the
inflammatory-dystrophic processes of irreversibel character, with a subsequent
neuronophagia and demyelinization. Injection of smallpox vaccine into the circulation of
intact guinea pigs was accompanied by development in the nervous system of insignificant
circulatory disturbances and of the inflammatory dystrophic phenomena of reversible
character. A method of immunofluorescence was used and the antigen of the vaccine virus
was revealed in the neurons of the brain and the spinal cord of the sensitized and intact
animals. Marked hemodynamic and insignificant inflammatory-dystrophic processes were
revealed in the nervous system of a child which died of the post-vaccinal encephalitis; an
antigen of the smallpox virus was found by the immunofluorescent method in the nerve cells
and the vessels in various portions of the nervous system. PMID: 239507, UI: 75221294
Salwa S. [Encephalitis following smallpox vaccination]. Wiad Lek. 1973 Feb 1;26(3):215-9. Review. Polish. No abstract available.PMID: 4144404; UI: 73149830.
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BD, et al. Encephalitis in a 13-year-old boy following 17D
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Gupta PN, et al. Post-vaccinal encephalitis. Report of a case. Indian J Pediatr.
1975 Dec;42(335):356-7. No abstract available.PMID: 6390; UI: 76212084.
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N, et al. [Encephalitis after smallpox vaccination]. God Zb Med Fak Skopje.
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Tourbah A, Gout O, Liblau R, Lyon-Caen O, Bougniot C, Iba-Zizen MT, Cabanis EA
Neurology 1999 Jul 22;53(2):396-40. Encephalitis after hepatitis B vaccination: recurrent
disseminated encephalitis or MS? Federation de Neurologie, Hopital de la Salpetriere and
Faculte de Medecine Pitie-Salpetriere (Paris VI) France.
OBJECTIVE: To describe clinical and MRI features of patients with a
disease suggestive of CNS inflammation after hepatitis B vaccination. METHODS: Eight
patients with confirmed CNS inflammation occurring less than 10 weeks after hepatitis B
vaccination are described. They received follow-up clinically and on MRI for a mean period
of 18 months. RESULTS: Clinical and MRI findings were compatible with acute disseminated
encephalomyelitis. However, clinical follow-up, repeated MRI, or both showed the
persistence of inflammatory activity, which makes this encephalitis more suggestive of MS
than of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. CONCLUSION: The persistent inflammatory
activity observed clinically and on MRI in these patients is comparable with that usually
observed in MS. Epidemiologic studies are currently testing the hypothesis of a triggering
role of hepatitis B vaccination in CNS demyelination. PMID: 10430433, UI: 99357502
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IS, et al. [Changes in the properties of the vaccinia virus isolated in postvaccinal
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69219963.
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