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- Scientists Prove Those Vaccinated for Shingles Can Infect Others with Chicken Pox
Although the International Business Times had attempted to present the public with a balanced review of the situation facing parents, it is questionable as to whether they presented any real evidence to support their claims and they left many readers with unanswered questions.
Source: Children's Medical Safety Research Institute - Shingles vaccine and eye disorders
The shingles vaccine is one of the most widely marketed vaccines on the market. It is difficult to turn on your television in any capacity without enduring some celebrity endorsement over Zostavax. Approved in 2006, the vaccine uses a live virus. And it’s a big seller. But Merck’s manufactured goldmine also has a bit of a “murky” history in terms of side effects.
Source: Vaxxter - Four Sanger middle-school students have chickenpox – and they had been vaccinated
Four students at Washington Academic Middle School (California) are home with chickenpox – and each had previously had vaccinations to prevent getting the disease.
Source: Fresno Bee - Shingles Vaccine Dangers Exposed In FDA Letter to Merck
The CDC claims the shingles vaccine is safe, but a letter the FDA wrote to Merck paints a different picture.
Source: Green Media Info - Shingles Vaccine Eye Damage
The shingles vaccine Merck Pharmaceuticals has been marketing since 2006 now comes with a warning that it could cause eye damage. February 17, 2016, the FDA approved a label change to Merck’s Zostamax vaccine prescribing information. The change to the label added “Eye Disorders: necrotizing retinitis.” Merck consequently faces Shingles Vaccine Lawsuits over this dubious vaccine.
Source: Matthews & Associates - Shingles Lawsuit
The vaccine contains live varicella zoster virus – the chickenpox virus that also causes shingles. Once a person has had chickenpox, the virus remains dormant in their body. Later in life, if the immune system becomes weakened, the virus can reactivate to cause shingles. Zostavax, according to Merck, contains a “weakened” or “attenuated” form of the virus, which stimulates the immune system in an effort to keep the virus dormant and prevent shingles.
Source: Lopez McHugh LLP - The WHO Task Force on Vaccines for Fertility Regulation
Over the past 18 years, the WHO Task Force on Vaccines for Fertility Regulation has been supporting basic and clinical research on the development of birth control vaccines directed against the gametes or the preimplantation embryo. These studies have involved the use of advanced procedures in peptide chemistry, hybridoma technology and molecular genetics as well as the evaluation of a number of novel approaches in general vaccinology. As a result of this international, collaborative effort, a prototype anti-HCG vaccine is now undergoing clinical testing, raising the prospect that a totally new family planning method may be available before the end of the current decade.
Source: Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland - Disseminated Varicella-Zoster Virus After Vaccination in an Immunocompetent Patient
Severe adverse events associated with varicella-zoster virus (VZV) vaccination are rare. The authors describe a 53-year-old woman with no known immunodeficiency who presented with diffuse pruritic rash 17 days after receiving the varicella virus vaccine live. She had a low level of white blood cells and received a diagnosis of thrombocytopenia with elevated aminotransferase levels. Punch biopsy demonstrated positive VZV immunostaining and viral culture positive for VZV.
Source: Scotch AH, Hoss E, Orenstein R, Budavari AI. - History of chickenpox in glioma risk: a report from the glioma international case–control study
“The Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine reported an inverse relationship between a history of chicken pox and glioma, a type of brain cancer, meaning that children who have had the chicken pox may be less likely to develop brain cancer."
Source: Cancer Medicine Volume 5, Issue 6, pages 1352–1358, June 2016 - Chicken pox outbreak, 97% affected
A county in the western part of Indiana is the site of the nation’s largest current chickenpox outbreak, according to news reports. An epidemiologist has confirmed that out of the cases analyzed, 97 percent of the children were vaccinated.
Source: Dave Mihalovic, Prevent Disease Waking Times - Chickenpox outbreak in a highly vaccinated school population
We investigated a chickenpox outbreak that started in an Oregon elementary school in October 2001, after public schools began phasing in a varicella vaccination requirement for enrollment. We sought to determine the rate of varicella vaccination and effectiveness and risk factors for breakthrough disease.
Source: Epidemic Intelligence Service, Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Chicken Pox associated with Shingles epidemic
New research published in the International Journal of Toxicology (IJT) by Gary S. Goldman, Ph.D., reveals high rates of shingles (herpes zoster) in Americans since the government's 1995 recommendation that all children receive chicken pox vaccine.
Goldman's research supports that shingles, which results in three times as many deaths and five times the number of hospitalizations as chicken pox, is suppressed naturally by occasional contact with chicken pox.
Source: News Medical - Life Sciences & Medicine
