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Vaccines and Inflammation

Consequences in Pets and Humans

Feb 18, 2009 Elaine Moore

The immune system responds to infectious organisms, toxic chemicals, and other foreign proteins by launching an inflammatory response.

Vaccines contain diluted suspensions of inert microorganisms. Vaccines cause the immune system to react by producing antibodies to the specific microorganism, such as the measles virus. These antibodies then offer protection in subsequent exposures to the infectious agent. Vaccines provide immunity in this way.

Vaccines and the Inflammatory Response

Vaccines trick the immune system into thinking the body has encountered a foreign organism. The immune system is very intelligent. It forms antibodies to the organism in the vaccine, and it also reacts to the injection wound and the vaccine’s numerous chemical preservatives. A result is inflammation. Inflammation is a known cause of disease.

Several researchers have proposed that inflammation can allow attenuated viral particles to flourish. Vaccination inflammation occurs when at-risk cells produce receptors called angiotensin II type I receptors. This can lead to continual inflammation similar to that seen in cancer. Inflammation caused by vaccines may signify that the infectious component, or the adjuvant, such as mercury, in the vaccine is winning by stealth. At the rate infectious organisms mutate, it’s not surprising that diseases such as human parvovirus B19 infection, rarely seen before the 1990s, are on the rise today.

Individual Effects

Many canines and humans are genetically unable to withstand vaccines, including people and dogs with inherited faulty immune cell function. Immunology studies show that patients with immunodeficiency or a family history of it should not receive live-virus vaccines due to the risk of severe or fatal infection. Immunodeficiencies include food allergies, inhalant allergies, eczema, dermatitis, neurological deterioration, autoimmune diseases and heart disease. Simply put, anyone with these conditions can die if they receive live-virus vaccines. Their immune systems are simply not competent enough to guarantee a healthy reaction to the viral assault from modified live-virus vaccines.

Children and the MMR Vaccine

Modified live-virus (MLV) vaccines replicate in the patient until an immune response is provoked. If a defence isn't stimulated, the vaccine continues to replicate until it gives the patient the very disease it intended to prevent. In the case of the MMR vaccine, live measles has been found in the brains of vaccinated children with autism, which is an autoimmune disease. Despite the February 2009 federal ruling stating that vaccines do not cause autism, there is substantial evidence that suggests otherwise.

Pet Vaccinations

Although the American Veterinary Association has mandated that annual booster vaccines are not necessary and not without harm, many states require them. With more immunology studies and a reduced reliance on studies from pharmaceutical manufacturers, vaccines may eventually serve their intended use without causing harm. Before subjecting their dogs to booster vaccines, pet owners can ask for a blood rabies titer to tell whether the dog has immunity to rabies. In nearly all cases, immunity from puppy vaccines is lifelong.

Resources:

Catherine O'Driscoll, Shock to the System, 2005

Vaccines not the cause of autism, court finds

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