{"id":103533,"date":"2017-12-25T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=103533"},"modified":"2017-12-14T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T13:28:00","slug":"on-vaccines-adjuvants-and-autoimmunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/12\/on-vaccines-adjuvants-and-autoimmunity\/","title":{"rendered":"On Vaccines, Adjuvants and Autoimmunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Immunologists Survey the Research and It\u2019s Not Reassuring<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

21 Nov 2017 – <\/em>Add one more item to the growing stack of published medical literature linking vaccines to the current explosion of autoimmune diseases from skin afflictions to neurological disorders. A paper<\/a> published in October 2015, the journal Pharmacological Research<\/em> is an international team of immunologists\u2019 roundup of current findings on vaccine-induced disease — and their conclusions are in sharp contrast to public health\u2019s \u201csafe and effective\u201d mantra that denies any such connection.<\/p>\n

\u201cVaccines and autoimmunity are linked fields,\u201d state the authors led by Lu\u00edsa E\u00e7a Guimar\u00e3es of the Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases in Tel-Hashomer, Israel. Just as natural infections can sometimes induce autoimmune disease, so can vaccination induce autoimmunity that \u201cmay be severe and fatal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Autoimmunity can manifest acutely, as encephalitis for example, or in a wide range of disfiguring and debilitating immune-mediated illnesses from alopecia to multiple sclerosis. These are soaring<\/a> globally and together affect as many as one in five Americans today. Officials like those at the National Institutes for Health and the Centers for Disease Control claim some mysterious unidentified \u201cenvironmental\u201d factors must be responsible for the epidemic, but they obstinately refuse to look at the ever-increasing schedule of injected drugs that target the immune system.<\/p>\n

In the paper, the immunologists review current research and case studies of vaccine-induced autoimmunity in light of the new the concept of Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants<\/a> introduced by leading immunologist Yehuda Shoenfeld<\/a> in 2011. The ASIA model explains adverse events that have been linked to vaccination since it began according to new understandings of the mechanisms by which vaccine ingredients called adjuvants take effect. Adjuvants are designed to stimulate the immune system but in some individuals can trigger a cascade of immune reactions and symptoms (ASIA) that can eventually manifest as overt autoimmune disease.<\/p>\n

Aluminum’s Effect as a Vaccine Adjuvant<\/strong><\/p>\n

The paper identifies three documented risks associated with the most common vaccine adjuvant, the metal aluminum: 1) it persists in the body for years; 2) it can \u201ctrigger pathological immune responses\u201d and 3) it can \u201cpass through the [blood brain barrier] BBB into the [central nervous system] CNS where it can trigger immune-inflammatory processes, resulting in brain inflammation and long-term neural dysfunction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given aluminum\u2019s well-established neurotoxicity and the increasing schedule of aluminum-containing vaccines for children, this should be terrifying. \u00a0\u201cAluminum compounds persist for up to 8-11 years post vaccination in the human body,\u201d<\/strong> say the immunologists. \u201cThis fact, combined with repeated exposure may account for a hyper activation of the immune system and subsequent chronic inflammation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bad as that all sounds, they also note that vaccination has been experimentally demonstrated to unleash the immune system\u2019s production of autoantibodies \u2013 immune cells mistakenly directed at their host\u2019s cells rather than invaders. \u201cIt has been widely demonstrated that autoantibodies can develop years before the manifestation of a full-blown autoimmune disease,\u201d say the immunologists.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Vaccine Adverse Reaction Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n

Only a fraction of adverse events are reported and no long-term studies have ever been done to compare autoimmune disease in vaccinated vs. unvaccinated individuals or looked at the impact of the full schedule of vaccines on autoimmunity so it is a wonder that the immunologists still assert the general safety of some vaccines. Especially given what they are just learning about others — like the totally unexpected but now indisputable link between the H1N1 Pandemrix swine flu vaccine used in 2009 and a horrifying epidemic of narcolepsy among children who received the vaccine and will be disabled for life. How many cases of historical narcolepsy were caused by previous vaccines? No one knows.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The immunologists show no sympathy for the HPV vaccine against human papilloma virus, however, though it is universally recommended and frequently mandated to girls (and boys) as young as nine to prevent rare adult cervical and anal cancers. \u201cDeath rate from cervical cancer in 9-20-year-old girls is zero and long-term benefits are yet to be proven,\u201d say the immunologists. They cite unusually high adverse event reports with the vaccine, including cases of many autoimmune diseases such as paralyzing Guillain Barre syndrome, multiple sclerosis and transverse myelitis and state that \u201cshort-term risks to healthy subjects can prove to pose a heavier burden than cervical cancer.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

What This Means?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Future studies must be \u201cbetter designed,<\/strong>\u201d the paper concludes. Having true placebos rather than comparing one adjuvanted vaccine to another would be a start. And studies should follow recipients for many years rather than the usual month or two and large epidemiological studies of vaccines\u2019 impact on autoimmune disease should be undertaken, the researchers add.<\/p>\n

Many parents and even many doctors may be surprised that such studies have never actually been done already, particularly for immune system diseases that are inexplicably soaring.<\/p>\n

But even more disturbing than these admissions from top immunologists is the paper\u2019s unintended revelation of just how little <\/em>is known about how vaccines impact the immune system. It turns out the top doctors don\u2019t have a clue who is really in danger of vaccine injury or why. The study of ASIA and these adjuvant effects is just beginning to bring parts of the whole vaccine\/autoimmunity phenomenon into focus. And what is most clear is not at all reassuring.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Children\u2019s Medical Safety Research Institute<\/a>\u00a0(CMSRI)\u00a0is\u00a0a medical and scientific collaborative established to provide research funding for independent studies on causal factors underlying the chronic disease and disability epidemic. You can follow CMSRI on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0for the latest updates.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Immunologists Survey the Research and It\u2019s Not Reassuring – \u201cVaccines and autoimmunity are linked fields,\u201d state the authors from the Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases. Just as natural infections can sometimes induce autoimmune disease, so can vaccination induce autoimmunity that \u201cmay be severe and fatal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":103534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}