Chicken pox is an annoying infection with a great urge to itch away those bumps. Most people in former generation have gotten it when they were children. And then it was over. It's a one time minor inconvenience.
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These days though, most children have skipped that misery all together, as the chicken pox vaccine or varicella vaccine was introduced into the childhood vaccination schedules in 1995. But instead of getting chickenpox, another price is being paid from those vaccines, and that's in the form of getting shingles. Not the kind you put on roofs.
Shingles are another skin irritation. Instead of small bumps all over the body that last a week or so and then your immune system fights it off to develop an immunity, shingles is a rash and is caused by the varicella virus which also causes chicken pox. That virus is what's injected into people as part of the chicken pox vaccine.
The vaccine effectiveness has been wearing off, and many children get booster shots between 4-6 years old. This might help to reduce the amount of chicken pox, and that is the development of lingering varicella-zoster virus in the nerve tissue.
Shingles is also called herpes zoster. Yes, that's right, herpes. Standard herpes is a virus that lingers in the nervous system as well, and can come and go from time to time, flaring up. Chicken pox is a one time thing when caught and fought off, but shingles can keep coming back. Shingles can also come about from people who once had chicken pox, but it's rare.
But research is showing that people who get the vaccine have a greater chance of developing shingles. Those who get chicken pox "naturally" developed a boosted immunity to the virus, helping to protect them from ever getting shingles. There have been warnings from earlier studies that the chickenpox vaccination being deployed throughout the population would spur a shingles epidemic.
The Annals of Clinical Pathology has recently published new research that accuses the CDC and the Los Angeles Department of Health Services of collusion to bury research that shows a link between the Universal Varicella Vaccination Program and the rise of shingles.
The lead author of this new study, Gary S Goldman, is also a former research analyst for the Los Angeles Department of Health. He monitored the introduction of the chickenpox vaccine, and said that by the year 2000 he was already hearing about many accounts of inexplicable rises in cases of shingles among students. The chickenpox vaccine was also boosting the chances of adults getting shingles, since shingles is also contagious.
Goldman was part of the Varicella Active Surveillance Project (VASP), one of three CDC funded projects that would monitor the effects of introducing the varicella vaccine. The isolated region of the Antelope Valley, California, with a population of 300,000 had baseline epidemiological data collected prior to the 1995 introduction of the chickenpox vaccine.
The research paper goes on to say that despite CDC researchers opposing the original methodologies and calculations of childhood herpes zoster incidence rates, they eventually used the same methods and found similar results. But the CDC only represented half of the rates in the population in order to present the data they wanted presented and to paint a favorable picture of their vaccine program.
In the end, the CDC selectively published studies and manipulated findings that would further support their Universal Varicella Vaccination Program. The CDC also blocked the research analysts attempts to publish data that contradicted the CDC and would show the negative trends or outcomes from the vaccine program. This included declining vaccine efficacy and increasing the incidence rates of herpes zoster (shingles).
Goldman was the research analyst who was being ignored, and in his resignation said:
"When research data concerning a vaccine used in human populations is being suppressed and/or misrepresented, this is very disturbing and goes against all scientific norms and compromises professional ethics."
The CDC stopped Goldman from making his data public. He has catalogued 23 actions that they took to downplay and discredit his findings, which included:
- Attributing his findings to incorrect subgroups
- Statistically disguising his findings
- Manipulating the CDC data to invalidate his conclusions
- Printing selective studies to not give all the data to the public
- Pressure editors of journals to delay publishing his findings
- Directing him "not to pursue further analysis of trends in HZ cases"
- Denying him permission to contact individuals who had reported a second recurrence of shingles within a year of their first reported case
- Attempting to discredit him through ad hominem attacks
- After his resignation, serving notice "to 'cease and desist' publication in a medical journal when he sought to objectively publish all of the data and results" and pressuring journal editors to postpone publication.
After all of this exposure and evidence of collusion, the CDC's answer is to recommend a shingles vaccine instead of doing something about the chickenpox vaccine. Instead of getting free protection that naturally develops as a child getting chickenpox, they want you to spend money on a vaccine in order to protect yourself from another vaccine. It's highly ineffective, as a study on adults over 50 only shows a 50% effectiveness during the first year alone, with no effect after five years.
Between getting vaccinated, and vaccinated some more, people could endure the uncomfortable chickenpox that is not likely to repeat or develop into shingles. The alternative is to risk getting the herpes zoster virus and shingles that cause painful rashes that ooze fluid and last up to four weeks.
Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.
References:
- EXPLOSIVE research: Chickenpox vaccine linked to widespread increase in shingles
- CDC SCANDAL: The link between chickenpox vaccine and skyrocketing rates of shingles in adults revealed
- The US Universal Varicella Vaccination Program: CDC Censorship of Adverse Public Health Consequences
- The Varicella Vaccine, Skyrocketing Shingles and CDC Chicanery
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It never ceases to disgust me when good scientific findings are manipulated in order to push agendas. It really goes to show that trust, honesty and the actual common good matter very little to those with the power to influence change. Who cares about the epidemic later when we can make the money now. It’s such a narrow way of thinking and only hinders true progress. As always. Thanks for sharing.
Yup. Truth should be everyone's #1 agenda... but sadly it isn't :/ Truth gets stomped on as other things go above :/
Having chicken pox is one of my first memories I must have only 2 or 3 at the time. It sucked pretty bad from what I remember lol.
I can see a use for the shot for adults who never got chicken pox as a child because, from what I understand, it is much more serious in those cases. As for everyone else, it seems unecessary.
Yes, it's worse as an adult. I think just for the plain fact that we're able to remember it more as opposed to being a young child and the memory isn't as strong :/
kids have those strong immune systems.
Yup, chickenpox used to kill many people in America, now not so much.
Thanks for sharing a hint of factual evidence in this crazy string, but do not expect most of the readers to take notice.
I like a good conspiracy theory but I like them to make sense.
Thanks for sharing and spreading awareness! Yes, manipulation is taking place and it is devastating and disgusting.
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This is really unfortunate to hear and i always think that ancient practices for fighting with these issues were more better, and in current phase we never know if we will going to get the relief from the medication or we are taking another problem into our body.
And many don't want to believe but in my opinion there is an strong indication that everything is not right in the field of the medication and something wrong is going on for sure, because sometimes intuition tells half story.
And in my opinion if we go through all the stuff then for sure we can smell Conspiracies in the Medication world but these conspiracies are behind the scenes so it's difficult to identify but many say that everything is not right.
We can see that last picture and that situation is really painful to watch and in my opinion no one should face that situation because literally that is really painful to watch and we can feel from what situation people have to go through.
Thanks for sharing this post with us and wishing you an great day. Stay blessed.
Well laid out here, and some new learning for me here too for sure.
I'm of the mind to let things run their due course within reason. Yet the state has clamped down on an increasingly rigid control structure and made things worse. Seems like a lot of what happens in trying to mess with natural systems and cycles. It gets us further up shit creek without a paddle. From agriculture to pharmacology, it is in our species' best interest to wisen up and keep the bigger picture in mind.
Thanks for sharing
I'll be holding my breath just right up until the Congressional Hearings begin.
(Please send no flowers. Instead send a memorium in my name to my favorite charity... Natural News.)
LOL, yes something that will never happen...
Its a double win for corrupt pharma, first earn on an unneeded vaccine, then earn again from "unintended" health consequences.
Similar to the war on fat, first sell unneeded fat-free products, then earn on the diabetes caused by that food.
There is also the rise of a vaccination cult and being critical of vaccinations has become something that is met with similar resistance as saying one is a nazi. While some vaccines clearly have proven great results, remaining open to scientific discussion is key.
on the other hand a whole lot fewer kids are killed by chickenpox.
The CDC seems to be making a pretty good case.
https://www.cdc.gov/shingles/surveillance.html
Good information. And now we have an excellent Shingles vaccine for older adults, as well, so it could be that the entire problem will eventually be eliminated.
Beautiful, strong words ..
The biggest problem is corruption and moral decay
Great post from you
Thanks for sharing..
estas enfermedades son incomoda,por eso hay que colocar esa vacuna a tiempo
The article you cite was written, not by a health care professional, researcher, or biologist, but by a disgruntled former CDC employee, with the assistance of a political activist. The computer scientist author seems to have misunderstood the science behind the numbers and wrongly believed that there was a conspiracy taking place in his workplace. Bless his heart. Apparently the legitimate scientific journals refused to publish his article, so he paid to have it printed in Annals of Clinical Pathology (which does not meet the scientific standards required of MEDLINE indexed journals). Perhaps that is why the biology does not make any sense.
Shingles is a specific illness with only one cause. When the Herpes Zoster virus, which hides in the body after a person has chicken pox, is allowed by the person's immune system to reinfect them, the person develops the nerve inflammation known as Shingles. Usually the inflammation resolves (and it can recur), but sometimes the person is left with permanent nerve pain (post-herpetic neuralgia). You cannot get Shingles if the Herpes Zoster virus is not already hiding in your body. You have to have had chickenpox first. That is why children with immunity to chicken pox due to the vaccine are unlikely to EVER get Shingles - in almost 99% of them, the virus never gained a foothold in their bodies (about 1% of children who get the vaccine develop a mild case of chickenpox). Sometimes when a person receives a vaccine, their immune system fails to respond to it. For this reason, titers are drawn and nonresponders are immunized again. Failing this, those people would be susceptible to wild chickenpox, and later, to Shingles.
A strong immune system keeps the Herpes Zoster virus locked down. Shingles in children has always been extremely rare, occurring only in children who are immune compromised, such as those undergoing cancer treatment. Because (thankfully) there are more and more children who are cancer survivors every year, we should expect those numbers to increase. However, if they were vaccinated prior to developing cancer, most are not susceptible to Shingles, because the virus is not hiding in their bodies. Most cases of Shingles occur in older adults who had chicken pox as children and whose immune system is naturally weaker and also has gradually "forgotten" to defend itself from the virus. There is a legitimate concern that now that wild chickenpox is so rare in the USA, the immune systems of adults with the virus hiding in them are no longer being "reminded" to defend themselves, because we are not being exposed to the virus at the grocery store and in other public places. This is why it is such good news that there is a new extremely effective vaccine against Shingles.
The CDC does not believe that the increase in Shingles cases in the USA can be fully explained by the lack of naturally occurring "boosters" (exposure to children with wild chickenpox) because they look at datasets OTHER than the ones Mr. Goldman was hired to analyze. Shingles incidence is increasing in the USA, but it is increasing equally in countries where the Chickenpox vaccine is not widely available. In addition, the percentage of people in the USA who are immune-compromised is rising as people live longer and are active in the community despite taking strong immunosuppressant medications. If these people have Herpes Zoster hiding in their bodies from an encounter with chickenpox (usually as a child), they are at high risk for developing Shingles.
Bottom line: Before the chickenpox vaccine, virtually 100% of the population was at risk for eventually developing Shingles. The chickenpox vaccine does a lot to prevent Shingles (~99% of those vaccinated with it do not have the virus hiding in their bodies). It is possible it slightly increases the risk of Shingles in unvaccinated people because they are not being exposed to the virus in public places. Fortunately, as of this year, we have a Shingles vaccine that is extremely effective at preventing complications from Shingles such as post-herpetic neuralgia.