microcephaly cases (with suspected linkage to Zika, during last year or 2?)
Brazil ~1800
Columbia 29
Martinique 10
Panama 5
El Salvador 4
French Guiana 3, Paraguay 2, Honduras1, Costa Rica 1
USA 21
Cape Verde 9 http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/30/health/zika-around-the-world/index.html
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hundreds of deaths a year in Brazil from dengue and chikungunya http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fg-brazil-zika-war/
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On 8-25-16 health officials in Puerto Rico report as many as 10 people developed Guillain-Barre syndrome as a result of Zika infections. http://www.straitstimes.com/world/timeline-zikas-origin-and-global-spread
8-12-16 30 people in Puerto Rico have been diagnosed with a temporary paralysis condition known as Guillain-Barre that has been linked to Zika http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/zika-virus-puerto-rico-public-health-emergency-us-obama-administration-a7188776.html
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2-10-16 Since 2012, Mattos’s team found, a strikingly large number of babies—4 percent to 8 percent—appeared to have microcephaly, according to the broadest definitions of the term. Additionally, the number of babies affected peaked in 2014, before Zika had been detected in Brazil.
“What we expected was that we would have something like three to four cases a year of microcephaly—that is what has been documented in the official sites,” Mattos told ABC. “But we then noticed that we had much, much higher numbers.”
When the researchers narrowed the definition to only the most extreme cases of microcephaly, the rates (0.04 percent to 1.9 percent) were more in line with those reported elsewhere in the world. But this still meant hundreds of babies had microcephaly. In contrast, the nationwide incidence of microcephaly reported in years before 2015 was below 200 annually.
“It is possible that a high incidence of milder forms microcephaly has been occurring well before the current outbreak, but that only those extreme cases, with classical phenotypes, were being notified,” the authors wrote in their report, published last week (February 4) in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO). http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/45297/title/Brazil-s-Pre-Zika-Microcephaly-Cases/
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In 2014, there were 147 cases of microcephaly reported for Brazil. In 2015, the number of cases rose dramatically to 3,530 suspected cases. http://www.statista.com/statistics/507576/microcephaly-cases-among-newborns-in-brazil/
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2-19-16 In India, Findings: The pooled prevalence rate of newborns with microcephaly was 2.30 per 10 000 births, among 97 155 births reported by the nine studies. http://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/16-172080.pdf
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USA in 2004-6: Encephalocele 341 cases, Spina bifida without anencephaly 1460, Anencephaly 859. http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/data.html
The CDC was far less specific, estimating the microcephaly rate at from 2 to 12 cases per 10,000 live births in USA. Given the approximately 4 million births in the US in 2013, that would mean 800 to 4,800 microcephaly cases. http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2016/01/is-microcephaly-surging-in-brazil-or-just-efforts-to-find-it.html
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11-2-2011 Pertussis vaccine in the combination DPT shot for diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis that is supposed to prevent whooping cough has been associated with brain inflammation, permanent brain damage and infant death since it was used on a mass basis in the U.S. starting in the late 1940’s.
A 1985 book DPT: A Shot in the Dark by Coulter and Fisher book described the questionable safety and effectiveness of the vaccine, which was replaced in the U.S. in 1996 by an acellular version (DtaP).
Recently, there have been reports of B. pertussis whooping cough outbreaks in California among both vaccinated and unvaccinated children and adults.
In fact, in 2010, the majority of confirmed or suspected reported whooping cough cases were in vaccinated people.
In an eye-opening report, the Watchdog Institute found that DtaP vaccine immunity only lasts about three years. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/11/02/why-is-this-vaccine-causing-increased-infant-mortality.aspx
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“Delay of DPT immunization until 2 years of age in Japan has resulted in a dramatic decline in adverse side effects. In the period of 1970-1974, when DPT vaccination was begun at 3 to 5 months of age, the Japanese national compensation system paid out claims for 57 permanent severe damage vaccine cases, and 37 deaths. During the ensuing six year period 1975-1980, when DPT injections were delayed to 24 months of age, severe reactions from the vaccine were reduced to a total of eight with three deaths. This represents an 85 to 90 percent reduction in severe cases of damage and death. (Ref21).”—Raymond Obomsawin, MD http://www.whale.to/m/quotes17.html
One hundred and seven (107) of the 786 claims were DTP-related death claims. The Special Masters of the U.S. Court of Claims, who heard the cases, awarded compensation in 73 (68%) of the 107 cases – after deciding that the deaths were vaccination-related. In fifty (68.5%) of the 73 compensated claims, the originally-stated diagnosis was SIDS. —-F. Edward Yazbak [2008] Rapid Responses to Does cot death still exist?
“When you impair the brain blood flow by vaccination you can impair the respiration control center which can result in death. We call it SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome).” – Dr. Andrew Moulden MD, PhD
Another scenario would be a baby who receives a hepatitis B vaccine at birth and then gets his or her DTaP vaccine within months of birth. Two weeks later, mom finds the baby dead in its crib. The doctor blames it on SIDS and never reports it to the CDC as a vaccine reaction. In this case the triple antigen exposure (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis) triggers the baby’s already primed microglia— this time in the brainstem, where the respiratory control neurons reside. When the baby is placed on its stomach, it cannot muster enough force to fill its lungs. Any fumes from the mattress only aggravate the problem. For the pediatrician, it is easier and safer to blame it on a mysterious disorder called SIDS, than to admit it was a sequential vaccine reaction. –Vaccine Safety Manual by Neil Z. Miller. Preface http://whale.to/m/quotes17.html