Occurrence of Convulsions and Death After DTP Childhood Vaccination
Data Published Over 20 Years Ago Signaled Concern
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
When the CDC ACIP Panel added the unsafe, ineffective, mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to the routine pediatric childhood schedule without full FDA licensure and with no assurances on long-term safety, the entire schedule was called into question from the perspectives of clinical indication, medical necessity, safety, and efficacy. Is it possible since the release of older vaccines that the medical community and CDC ACIP panel ignored solid data and safety concerns with established vaccines? I was participating in the Novel Coronavirus Southwestern Intergovernmental Committee deliberations in the Arizona Senate building, when a paper published over 20 years ago was presented on the diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccines. The results were astonishing.
Geier and Geier published a massive study and one of the first of its kind at the time using the CDC Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. The hypothesis was that febrile convulsions were more likely to occur with combined vaccine products that in some cases it would lead to death. Here is what they did: “The incidence rates calculated in this study are based on the estimates by the CDC of the number of doses administered during the study period: 121,954,137 doses of whole-cell DTP; 54,611,651 doses of acellular DTP (DTaP); and 9,335,142 doses of DT were administered. The background rate of development of convulsions by children is based on the estimates of the 1991 report by the Institute of Medicine of 0.2 per million children per day.”
They found more cases (occurrence/million) of febrile seizures and death after whole-cell DTP, DTaP, DT alone, in a descending, nonlinear graded fashion, and the risks were in a tight temporal relationship. This is concerning because of the associations between post-vaccine febrile seizures and childhood/adult epilepsy requiring medications and with the development of neuropsychiatric conditions including autism.
In summary, no vaccine is perfectly safe. Combining multiple products into single shots increases the reactogenicity and the risk of a catastrophic outcome. As parents and doctors begin to make more discerning choices they may consider going to less complex products, spreading them out, and giving them at later ages.
Alternatively, some parents and doctors may choose for a child to “go natural” or completely unvaccinated, which has the best overall outcomes in contemporary studies at this time. Diphtheria and pertussis are easily treated with antibiotics, so prompt recognition and treatment if such a rare infection occurs is always an option for parents. Tetanus is avoided with good wound care and antibiotics for deep tissue lacerations and puncture wounds.
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It’s about time that the medical community & “experts”, finally look at the great harms of the current (& growing) vaccine schedule. It’s a huge, multi-billion dollar industry, left to run amok, at the expense of so many children’s lives.
Thank you for this article Dr. McCullough. Data existed long before this, linking the whole cell pertussis vaccine with convulsions. My brother was a case in point. In 1944 at 6 months old, this perfectly normal infant developed seizures immediately following the pertussis vaccine. He then stopped grasping his parents' fingers, no longer maintained eye contact, and generally failed to thrive. My father (a cardiologist) took him to numerous neurologists, all of whom said the occurrence had nothing to do with the vaccine. When it was time for his booster, my parents dutifully took him in for his second vaccine, and that was it. Again the screaming, high fever, convulsions, and he became what they called "profoundly retarded" back in the day. For the rest of his life he never talked, he hit his head repeatedly against the wall, wore a diaper into adulthood, and it destroyed my parents' hearts. Integrative physicians claim that it takes allopathic medicine 50 years to "catch on." This is a good example of that.