Ryan's Story

RYAN'S STORY

~ Shingles ~

Time frame between vaccine and breakout - 30 days. It has re-occurred 3 times.

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Above are pictures of my son's second outbreak of Shingles. The doctors have yet to isolate a virus in any of the samples taken. However it was diagnosed twice by his doctor through visual examination. A third outbreak was diagnosed by the head of the department of Infectious diseases at St. Louis Children's Hospital, again through visual examination. The virus still has not been isolated.

The specialist at Children's Hospital has done some immunology work and has determined that for some odd reason my son has displayed a number of detection cells, which only appear after infection. However he has not developed any anti-bodies for the chicken-pox virus. He tells me that this is extremely unusual.

The specialist is quite perplexed. He will be filing an additional VEARS report, after a second round of immunology blood work. He says that, if the blood work verifies the results he got in the first round, then he can, with 100%, certainty say that the vaccine is responsible. Either by the fact that Ryan received a bad lot, or that it is some other bad reaction to the vaccine.

My son's doctor says that he has seen 2 cases like Ryan. Ryan's daycare has seen 2 cases like Ryan. And a lady who responded to a post I put on the MSNBC BBS stated she was from Missouri and her child had an adverse reaction as well. I have to wonder if there are some bad lots floating around Missouri.

I hit the Merck web site and navigated to their Chicken-Pox vaccine links. They have about 15-20 pages of statistics and marketing information. If you sift through their argument for vaccination against chicken-pox. You can actually use their own stats against them. For example, consider these points;

The number of people they (Merck/CDC) claim are infected every year (Naturally)
The number of series cases or death that occur through natural infection. (About 1 death per state per year)
How many people will be infected through vaccine.
How many children that will die or suffer conditions like my son's (As a result of vaccine reaction)

Furthermore, if you examine their sited cases of Shingles in the 90's (primarily of children), you will also notice a sharp increase since the approval of this vaccine. However, they only use these stats to promote their vaccine. They present the stats as a scare tactic "X number of children have suffered from Shingles since 1995 - an increase of " (not a quote) Etc... But they don't point out the time frame the vaccine was released. I had never heard of Shingles till after 1995. I heard of a few cases after '95 but before my son's vaccine, mostly in adults. I never researched it and did not know at the time that it was the varicella (chicken-pox) virus. After my son's breakout the daycare said "We have seen a couple of cases of this since 1995, and had NEVER seen it prior to '95. I believe this live virus is actually spreading through the unvaccinated population. The problem is I only have personal experiences, and information gathering through conversations with aquaintences and friends.

You can only conclude that the benefits of this vaccine does not merit it. However, if you use the monitory cost benefit of this vaccine you MAY find that it is beneficial, in terms of savings from lost worktime and convenience to parents, not to mention the large amounts of money being made by the manufacturer of the vaccines. But hey, if these are the criteria being used for the justification of risking our childrens health, then it is a sad day in America.

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