the Israeli IDSA and the Israeli Tribune complain about their lack of understanding of vaccines vs diseases

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Subject: IDSA complains about their lack of understanding of vaccines
vs diseases

Date: Jan 17, 2012 12:37 PM


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And here we see IDSA trying to give people
the immune suppresssing Tb vaccine as a
Lyme vaccine. And it failed as a MRSA
and an HIV vaccine, too!!
http://www.actionlyme.org
and
http://www.actionlyme.org/SEBELIUS_TARDCARE_CRIME.htm

Watch it now, you may miss it...

See where the actual standard for vaccinating immunosuppressed
children with live attenuated viruses is DON'T:

"Measles, Mumps, and Rubella -- Vaccine Use and Strategies for
Elimination of Measles, Rubella, and Congenital Rubella Syndrome and
Control of Mumps: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices (ACIP) http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00053391.htm

"Updated information on adverse events and contraindications,
particularly for persons with severe HIV infection, persons with a
history of egg allergy or gelatin allergy, persons with a history of
thrombocytopenia, and persons receiving steroid therapy." [are
immunosuppressed- KMD]

===============

So, that's how much IDSA knows about
science or chemistry or vaccines.

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Here we see in an article published tomorrow:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-x-uncommon-diseases-20120118,0,2077796,full.story

"It's the parents' fault that IDSA has
no clue what they're talking about..."

and here they admit it.

See. Let me explain about "the government":

If you are stupid and a loud-mouth,
you're hired.

http://www.actionlyme.org

Yet the science says if you're a loud
mouth, you *will* be stupid, since stupidity
is arrogance. We see the phenomenon
play out - loud and clear - with IDSA's
proclamations:

"It doesn't matter what the vaccine is or
does because we make our own reality."


KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org

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By Lisa Pevtzow, Special to the Tribune

January 18, 2012
In February 2011, a year-old boy was taken to Texas Children's
Hospital in Houston with a high fever and a rash covering his body.

It wasn't until a full day had passed that he was correctly diagnosed
with the measles — and that was after being eyeballed by an older
doctor, one of only a few at the hospital who had ever seen a case of
the disease, said Carol Baker, a professor of pediatrics, molecular
virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine.

"They weren't thinking measles," said Baker, who sits on the board of
the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.

As rates of now-preventable diseases have plummeted with the success
of vaccines, infectious-disease experts worry that doctors no longer
have the experience to diagnose them and that many parents now fear
the vaccines more than the diseases. Younger doctors, according to a
recent study, don't take vaccines as seriously as their older
colleagues.

"We're losing the memory of these diseases, and that is a problem,"
said the study's author, Saad Omer, an infectious-disease
epidemiologist at Emory University's Vaccine Center.

Omer polled more than 550 doctors and found out that although doctors
overwhelmingly support vaccines, the more recently they graduated from
medical school, the less likely they were to think that vaccines are
effective and safe.

"During medical training, you can learn as much as you want about
these diseases from textbooks, but unless you see a child struggling
to breathe from whooping cough or brain damaged from bacterial
meningitis, the feeling of how bad these diseases can be is not
visceral," he said.

When he presented his findings last month at the annual meeting of the
Infectious Diseases Society of America, the older doctors were not
surprised.

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"Young parents today and young nurses and doctors, who have not seen
these diseases, are not as anxious as they should be," said Sam Katz,
a pediatrician and virologist who was part of the original team at
Children's Hospital Boston who developed the measles vaccines. "Our
greatest success has been our worst enemy."

Katz, 84, belongs to the last generation of physicians who remember
the last major outbreak of polio in the United States.

When Katz began working on the measles vaccine as a young doctor in
1955, virtually every child in the country under 10 came down with
measles, and 20 percent of those were hospitalized with complications
that ranged from pneumonia to encephalitis and permanent neurological
damage. Worldwide, 2.5 million children died of the measles each year.
In Nigeria, said Katz, who now consults for the World Health
Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
mothers would say, "Don't count your children until the measles has
passed."

In India, there is incredible respect for vaccines, said Kenneth
Alexander, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at Comer Children's
Hospital at the University of Chicago.

"They fear the disease, not the vaccine," Alexander said.

In 2011, more than 200 cases of the measles were reported in the
United States — the highest number in 15 years — mostly brought here
by travelers from overseas or by unvaccinated Americans who visited
other countries, according to the CDC.

Last summer, one of the largest outbreaks occurred in Indiana when 14
people came down with measles after an unvaccinated person returned
from a yearlong trip to Indonesia. It was initially misdiagnosed as
the mosquito-borne tropical disease dengue fever, and it took 17 days
to figure out it was the measles, said Angela Cierzniewski, the
Indiana state epidemiologist. By then, more than 800 people had been
exposed.

"You see what you expect to find," Alexander said.

Last fall, the largest outbreak of whooping cough in decades
blindsided many doctors in the Chicago area, he said. Studies show
that 20 percent of adults with a cough that lasts more than two weeks
actually are suffering from whooping cough, which is often
misdiagnosed as bronchitis or asthma. In fact, he said, pediatricians
are better at recognizing whooping cough than internists, who don't
consider the possibility.

"You can read about it, you can be lectured about it (in medical
school), but if there is not a lot in front of you, you can scratch
your head for a couple of days," said Andrew Bonwit, an assistant
professor of pediatric infectious disease at Loyola University's
Stritch School of Medicine and a pediatrician at Ronald McDonald
Children's Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center.

Bonwit said medical schools must do a better job of teaching young
doctors the history of medicine, which is largely the history of
disease and death, he said. Archival footage of children with measles
or whooping cough, for instance, should be teaching tools to help
students identify diseases and understand their severity, he said.

Bonwit has only secondhand experience with many of the diseases he
teaches about and diagnoses.

When he was in medical school, he remembers professors decades older
than he who knew the diseases intimately and fastidiously put together
slide shows to help the trainees recognize what they may never get to
treat. It was only after Bonwit saw a child die of chickenpox in 1993
that he began to take the vaccine seriously, he said. "And I will
never forget that," he said.

Many of the youngest practitioners have never seen a child with the
chickenpox.

North suburban pediatrician Shoshana Waskow, who graduated from
Harvard Medical School in 1995, has never seen a case of the measles
or the mumps, much less diphtheria, tetanus or polio.

"But you have to push yourself to think about them," she said.

Waskow has so many patients who are partly immunized or whose parents
don't follow the conventional vaccine schedule for their children —
she estimates it's 15 to 20 percent of her practice — that she said
she can't assume new patients are fully immunized.

"When I was a kid, my parents would never have refused a vaccine for
us, because they've seen polio (and other diseases) and understood
their severity," said Waskow, who belongs to the Pediatric Associates
of the North Shore practice. "This is a place that many parents now
don't perceive risk."

Waskow, like many doctors, sees each time a parent denies or delays a
vaccine as an opportunity for education. She tells the parent that
vaccines have been proven time and time again to be safe and that once-
obsolete diseases such as the measles are on the rise because too many
parents are not inoculating their children properly. There is no
guarantee that even altering the vaccine schedule provides proper
coverage for their children, she tells parents.

For his part, Alexander would love to send parents to the Internet —
where they get much of their spurious information about vaccines — to
see a child coughing severely with pertussis or covered with the
distinctive measles rash.

He gave a cautionary tale: In England, in recent years, parents
stopped immunizing their children against the measles; measles became
endemic and children died. Vaccination rates rose immediately.

"To get back on track, children have to die, and that breaks my
heart," Alexander said.

Copyright © 2012, Chicago Tribune
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