It has been my intention for some time to write on Whooping Cough (Pertussin) in my blog series "The Myths of Conventional Medical Success", following my blogs on Smallpox, Polio and Measles - and, indeed, the Covid-19 vaccines. Each of these blogs highlights the outstanding success of the advertising and promotion of the pharmaceutical industry; whilst contrasting this with the abject failure of the drug companies medicine's to they claim to have 'conquered' or 'eliminated' these diseases.
The story of the Whooping Cough vaccines has been remarkably similar; great propaganda, but little or no evidence of effectiveness.
However, this blog has been effectively written for me in an excellent, and well researched article by Roman Bystrianyk, entitled "Whooping Cough and Vaccines: 10 things you probably didn't know, who was co-author of the equally excellent book, "Dissolving Illusions: disease, vaccines, and the forgotten history", written now over 10 years ago - but still as relevant as ever. So I will outline these 10 facts here, and rely upon you to read the Bystrianyk article in greater detail, and alongside his sources.
1. Death Rate Dropped Nearly 100% Without VaccinationHistorical data from England and Wales, beginning in 1838, indicate that deaths from whooping cough, and other infectious diseases, had already dropped to near zero before the rollout of vaccines or antibiotics.
2. Sweden Halted Vaccination; Deaths Unchanged
In Sweden, examinations in 1978 showed that 84% of children who were verified to have pertussis had previously received three doses of vaccine. As a result, the whole-cell DTP vaccine was deemed ineffective.
3. Vaccination Rates in England Dropped, No Increase in Deaths
A thorough examination of the complete, official data shows an obvious and dramatic drop in whooping cough deaths between 1902 and 2008. The DTP vaccine coverage rate was officially recorded in England starting in 1970. But by 1957, when vaccination began nationally, deaths from whooping cough had already all but vanished.
4. Whooping Cough Had Become Mild
Whooping cough often instils fear in parents, conjuring images of children coughing and choking dangerously. However, in 1981, Gordon T. Stewart described whooping cough as "generally mild ... which most children escape or overcome easily without being vaccinated." Similarly, in 1995, Douglas Jenkinson studied 500 cases of natural whooping cough and observed that parents rarely noticed the characteristic cough, concluding that a “serious outcome is unlikely.”
5. Whooping Cough Bacteria Is Common
Some estimate that as many as one-third of adolescents and adults with a prolonged cough are infected with B. pertussis bacteria. This applies even to those who have been vaccinated or had the natural disease.
6. Vaccines Cause Neurological Damage
The debate regarding neurologic damage from the vaccine has been going on for decades (and this goes back to at least the 1940's).
7. Whooping Cough Vaccine Fades In Three Years
A study by Dr. David Witt, chief of infectious disease at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Rafael, California, found that the pertussis vaccine lost its effectiveness in as little as 3 years (and more studies are referenced).8. Whooping Cough Now Affects Adolescents and Adults
Before the pertussis vaccine was introduced, lengthy natural immunity was, in fact, the norm because of the natural family and community dynamics. In the 1940s, pertussis was considered only a childhood illness. If an adolescent or adult got it, everyone was astonished.
9. Vaccines Permanently Mis-programs The Immune System
The term “original antigenic sin” (OAS) was coined by Dr. Thomas Francis, who became well known during the Salk vaccine era when he oversaw and interpreted the results of the largest (and most controversial) polio vaccine trial in history. He explained the phenomenon of OAS using the natural influenza virus as an example.10. Despite Failures, Vaccinologists Recommend More Vaccination
As had been the promise with all vaccines at their inception, there was an expectation that vaccinated people would be protected for life against whooping cough.... This is far from true. The DTaP vaccine compromises the immune system permanently.
These ten points outline demolish any realistic chance that Whooping Cough (Pertussin) vaccines played any significant part in either the reduction of cases, the seriousness of those remaining cases, or the safety of the vaccine.
It is not so much that all these ten points are all proven, and do not require more debate, and further research.
- It is that most people are not aware of them, they are not, and never have been discussed by the conventional medical establishment,
- instead, the conventional medical establishment refuses to debate or to do any further research on them,
- whilst continuing to maintain the conventional medical myth,
..... that the Pertussin vaccines are "safe and effective"; and have successfully eradicated Whooping Cough as a serious, killer disease. They most certainly have not done so.
Also read my other blogs on the Myths of Conventional Medicine.
The Myths of Conventional Medicine. Eradicating Smallpox.
The Myths of Conventional Medicine. Conquering Polio.
The Myths of Conventional Medicine. Conquering Measles.
The Myths of Conventional Medicine. The Covid-19 vaccines.
