In part one of this series I showed the increase in the number of vaccines children are receiving today compared to thirty years ago. In part two, I provided my risk versus reward analysis for the Varicella vaccine (Chicken Pox) based on CDC information. The last part is going to cover vaccine contents, and of course I will provide some final thoughts.
What is in a vaccine? If you are like I was, you may perceive a vaccine as a virus suspended in a pristine saline solution. The virus can be dead, alive, or suspended, that part really does not matter. The important part is that the contents of a vaccine injection outside of the virus does not usually resemble what I perceived.
For simplicity we could call this a transport agent, but in reality it's more complex. The purpose is not just to transport, but also to induce your bodies reaction to the virus and keep the virus in a certain state (alive, weakened, and prevent mutation). The proper term for this is attenuation, and the solutions used for this are generally complex in both construction and composition. Most vaccines today are LAV, or "Live Attenuated Viruses" which includes things like Polio and Varicella (Chicken Pox).
Is there mercury in the vaccine? There was some heated debate a couple decades ago regarding a particular attenuation solution called Thiomersal. This is a compound containing mercury, so this is a yes and no answer. I'm not going to rehash the whole debate, but will ask that you read that complete page. Thiomersal was removed from vaccines for a ten year period due to the increased rates of autism I have already mentioned. Rates were not seen to change after removal, so today it's again used as an attenuation solution in some vaccines.
Science is pretty clear on the point that Thiomersal was not a direct cause for the increases. We have continued to see increases in the number of neurological disorders including autism, and we have continued to push for (and receive) more vaccinations during this same time frame. The correlation does not equate to causation, but until we have answers we should at least be keeping our eyes open to all possibilities.
Given the correlation, I started to look for other science that could provide answers. How many of the attenuation ingredients are tested? How many are tested in compounds, and what compounds are they tested in? I can't seem to find that type of information. At least as worrisome to me, I could not find ingredients lists on the CDC. I see attenuation solutions discussed, but not much in the way of details.
Since I could not find full ingredient lists at CDC I had to dig for a site that listed the ingredients. Here is what I found, and I'll start with the Chicken Pox vaccine which I covered in part two. If Merck wants to contact me with corrected information I will be happy to update this page, or even link to the appropriate Merck information page.
According to what I could find, and not in order of quantity, here is what it takes just to produce the Varicella virus for vaccines.
human embryonic lung cell cultures, embryonic guinea pig cell cultures, WI-38 human diploid cell cultures, MRC-5 human diploid cell cultures, sucrose, phosphate, glutamate, processed gelatin, urea
And the attenuation solution, well that is more complex.
sucrose, hydrolyzed gelatin, urea, sodium chloride, monosodium
L-glutamate, sodium phosphate dibasic, potassium phosphate monobasic,
potassium chloride, residual components of MRC-5 cells (DNA, protein), neomycin, bovine calf serum, sodium phosphate monobasic, EDTA, fetal bovine serum
Some of this is as simple as table salt, but other parts are not quite so simple. Compare this to something we had immunized for a long enough time to eradicate in Small Pox.
Creation: Vero cells, human serum albumin, sodium chloride, mannitol USP, meomycin, polymyxin B
Attenuation: glycerin USP, phenol USP in Water for Injection USP
The purpose of the ingredients is not to frighten anyone, but to clearly demonstrate that vaccines are not all the same. Each has it's own ingredients and composition, each has it's own side effects and warning labels, each has different reactions to different drugs and conditions (read the warnings), and each has a different rate of success for vaccination. Compositions change not only between manufacturers, but over time within the same manufacturer. Those are facts, not speculation or opinion.
Here is where I will get into some opinion...
I don't believe that any manufacturer of vaccines or medical professionals have bad intentions. Success at eradicating a disease like Small Pox and nearly eradicating Polio give a lot of hope for further reduction and eradication of diseases through vaccination. That said it's important to remember that there is no such thing as perfection. Many vaccines have incredible success rates, and I'm sure that most manufacturers hope to have similar success rates in all vaccines, but some are much worse than others.
Until we are at perfection, it's important to allow people to choose which vaccines to get. Education should be all that's required for people to make the right choice for them. Whether or not you wish to educate yourself, be sure to talk with your Doctor and follow their recommendations. If you don't trust your Doctor, find a Doctor that you do trust.
Society has gone through massive changes in the last three decades, and as rates of neurological issues increased we can say that not all of it is good. There are plenty of places to look for those increases outside of the increases in vaccines. Areas such as agriculture, food processing, and overall diets are just as important to investigate. Pollutants and other environmental changes could be having impact as well. Until we have answers, we should not rule anything out. This includes vaccines and the attenuation solutions that go with them. While there may not be a direct cause and effect relationship to vaccines, there may be indirect links.
Passing legislation to force vaccinations is the wrong thing to do. Legislation can not effectively account for the differences in risks we have with the various vaccines today. If that was done, rapid advances would have to wait for legislation to catch up. That is a lose lose proposition!
This is not a one size fits all issue, it should not be a one size fits all debate, and we can not resolve the issue with a one size fits all piece of legislation.
Society needs to be educated, not forced into things. Intelligent people can, and usually do, make intelligent decisions.
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