Lancet
To prove vaccines are evil and that DPT caused lots of deaths.
But the causes of deaths?
the numbers are too small to make that conclusion.
There were 18 deaths between 3 and 5 months of age: 3 had cough and respiratory infections as the main symptom, 3 had fever (presumed malaria), 2 were due to diarrhea, 5 had diarrhea and vomiting, 1 was a sudden death, and 4 had no information on cause....
Conclusions
DTP was associated with 5-fold higher mortality than being unvaccinated. No prospective study has shown beneficial survival effects of DTP. Unfortunately, DTP is the most widely used vaccine, and the proportion who receives DTP3 is used globally as an indicator of the performance of national vaccination programs.
It should be of concern that the effect of routine vaccinations on all-cause mortality was not tested in randomized trials. All currently available evidence suggests that DTP vaccine may kill more children from other causes than it saves from diphtheria, tetanus or pertussis. Though a vaccine protects children against the target disease it may simultaneously increase susceptibility to unrelated infections.
or maybe not.
The range of diseases that killed the kids is high. Some are viral and other bacterial or protozoa, all of which have a different immune response.
Seasonal disease variation, the comparison to children outside the cohort that live in the community, the water supply, whether or not mom breast fed (or stopped breastfeeing because of pregnancy and used dirty water in formula to feed her kid), the observation if there was a malaria outbreak in some areas, all are not in the analysis.
This was done in the1980s. And they compared it to earlier statistics.
Right. As if the statistics were accurate. Especially where infant and toddler mortality was high.
lots of statistics are being thrown at you in the article, to confuse you. But the numbers are too low.
And they ignore that quite a few "unvaccinated" kids actually had been given DPT by another program. They ignored this.
here in the Philippines, some parents stopped all immunizations for their kids, and we had an epidemic of measles
in 2019
Since January, the Philippines has had one of the worst measles outbreaks in the world: more than 33,000 cases and 466 deaths from the vaccine-preventable disease.
and here is why some stories might be biased: People in a lot of cultures tell you what they think you want to hear, not what is "true":
so some of those who had measles had their moms claim they got the shot:
"Most of the time the mothers will tell us that they've had their child immunized, because they're afraid of being scolded,"
another alternative: They got the shot, but the vaccine, which deteriorates if not stored correctly, no longer worked.
