Shocking news about the latest combo vaccine

For years, I've been sounding the warning about the potential dangers of vaccines. I've told you that their effectiveness is questionable, and their side effects unknown. And I'm sad to say that my warnings have finally come to pass. Recently, a Merck & Co. vaccine caused some children to suffer from fever-related convulsions.

The vaccine is called ProQuad, and it's a combination of the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) and chickenpox vaccines. It turns out that the toddlers who were given ProQuad - ages 12 to 23 months - had twice as many seizures as the kids who received the chickenpox vaccine and the MMR vaccine separately.

Incredibly, the results actually caused a federal advisory panel on vaccines to step back from recommending ProQuad over the individual vaccines. This marks a rare - if tepid - step down from the usual government endorsement of all things inoculation-related.

It's no wonder these kids are experiencing adverse reactions. The amount of chickenpox antigen found in ProQuad is - are you ready for this? - FIVE TIMES higher than in the stand-alone chickenpox vaccine. So not only does ProQuad have measles, mumps and rubella - it's also the equivalent of five chickenpox shots. All in one shot. For children.

The government advisory panel on vaccines had stated prior to these incidents that the preferred method of vaccine administration would have doctors giving "as few needle sticks as possible, which in their mind made a combination vaccine such a ProQuad superior to separate shots.

Funny … my preference would be no shots at all!

In the wake of the convulsion issue, however, the advisory panel is, according to the article that I read, "no longer voicing a preference for ProQuad over the separate shots." Incredible, isn't it. Here's a vaccine that's statistically proven to cause a greater risk of seizures, and the best the government "advisory panel" - whatever that is - can do is to "no longer voice a preference." Why can't they condemn ProQuad and other combo vaccines until further research is done? Why hasn't the FDA been called in rather than relying on this so-called "advisory panel" and their milquetoast half-retreat from their pro-vaccine stand?

Am I the only one whose nostrils are filled with the foul stench of Big Pharma money? How else can you describe a federal agency not dropping the hammer on a firm with what seems to be a defective product? If it were somehow proven that McDonald's hamburgers were twice as likely to cause children (or anyone else for that matter) to choke, how quickly would the "powers that be" move to yank every single burger directly out of Happy Meal boxes throughout North America? Trust me on this: the answer is lightning fast - and you know it.

The ProQuad seizure case is yet another black mark on vaccines. I'm surprised (as I often am) that I seem to be the only one pointing these things out. I just hope that the autism lobbies can sink their teeth into this issue and use it for fodder. I don't care why people stop getting vaccines - as long as they stop getting them.