Rouser2 said:
According to yourlawyer.com, the DPT vaccine is still in use in the US.
"In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recommended that children be immunized with the new vaccine, but many vaccination programs still use DPT because it is less expensive."
http://www.yourlawyer.com/practice/overview.htm?topic=DPT Vaccine
One cannot address their assertions from sometime before 2002 when this website was copyright. Nor can one address their advertising for vaccine related injury clients that this site is aimed at. However as of TODAY, DTaP and TD are the only two vaccines with a CDC approved immunization schedule on their website. DPT is just not there.
I think any vaccine program would be hard pressed to continue to administer or use up DPT stocks in light of this and probably do deserve to be sued if a serious adverse event occurs.
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Insofar as Hoyt's continued and bizaare use of ad hominous nicknames such as whale, golem, troll'dini, etc., taking this off topic...Bill, do you do this at work and at home as well? Does everyone have some bizarre Tolkienan nick name
based on your personal opinion of them? Is this a sign of affection or contempt? If you do this all the time without noticing it, you should really get help for this affectation. If you are aware of it, keep in mind that it makes one question your motivations.
Yes, I am aware of the fact that the U.S. and worldwide stats on serious neurological sequelae from the old DPT
or DwPT (whole cell pertusssis) vaccine
are debatable. Nevertheless officially in the U.S., per CDC, DPT is out; DTaP is in. That's the bottom line. What exactly is your point? Are you defending the NVICP now against claims arising out of DPT? The compensation program doesn't want anybody giving the old DPT either...for good reason.
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Here are some very brief abstracts/biblios on this dating back to '92 and before:
DPT VACCINE AND CHRONIC
NERVOUS SYSTEM DYSFUNCTION
The evidence remains insufficient to implicate the presence or absence of a causal relation between DPT and chronic nervous system dysfunction under any over circumstances.
That is, because the NCES is the only systematic study of chronic nervous system dysfunctions after DPT, the committee can only comment on the causal relation between DPT and those chronic nervous system dysfunctions under the conditions studied by the NCES.
In particular, it should be noted that the chronic nervous system dysfunctions associated with DPT followed a serious acute necrologic illness that occurred in children within 7 days after receiving DPT.
REFERENCES
Alderslade R.
Bellman MH, Rawson NSB, Ross EM, Miller DL.
The National Childhood Encephalopathy Study: A report on 1000 cases of serious neurological disorders in infants and young children from the NCES research team.
In: Department of Health and Social Security.
Whooping Cough: Reports from the Committee on the Safety of Medicines and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office; 1981.
Fine PEM, Chen RT.
Confounding in studies of adverse reactions to vaccines.
American Journal of Epidemiology 1992;136:121-135.
Gale JL, Thapa PB, Bobo JK, Wassilak SGF, Mendelman PM, Foy HM.
Acute Oregon.
In: Manclark CR, ed.
Sixth International Symposium on Pertussis, Abstracts.
DHHS Publication No.
(FDA) 90-1162.
Bethesda, MD:
U.S. Public Health Service,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 1990.
Gale JL, Thapa PB, Wassilak SGF.
, Bobo JK, Mendelman PM, Foy HM.
Risk of serious acute neurological illness after immunization with diphtheria-tetanuspertussis vaccine.
Journal of the American Medical Association 1994; 271:3741.
Griffin MR, Ray WA, Mortimer EA, Fenichel GM, Schaffner W.
Risk of seizures and encephalopathy after immunization with the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine.
Journal of the American Medical Association 1990;263:1641-1645.
Howson CP, Howe CJ, Fineberg HV, eds.
Adverse Effects of Pertussis and Rubella Vaccines.
Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 1991.
Institute of Medicine.
Stratton KR, Howe CJ, Johnston RB, eds.
Adverse Events Associated with Childhood Vaccines: Evidence Bearing on Causality.
Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 1994.
Madge N.
Miller D, Ross E, Wadsworth J.
The National Childhood Encephalopathy Study: A 10-year Followup.
In: Manclark, CR.
(ed.)
Sixth International Symposium on Pertussis, Abstracts.
DHHS Publication No.
(FDA) 90-1162.
Bethesda, MD: U.S.
Public Health Service,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 1990.
Madge N.
Diamond J.
Miller D, Ross E, McManus C, Wadsworth J.
Yule W.
The National Childhood Encephalopathy Study: A 10-year follow-up.
A report of the medical, social, behavioural and educational outcomes after serious, acute, neurological illness in early childhood.
Developmental Medicine and Child
and on the other side of this coin:
DPT VACCINE Al CHRONIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DYSFUNCTION 17 Neurology 1993;Supplement No.
68;35(7):1-118.
Marcuse EK, Wentz KR.
The NCES reconsidered: Summary of a 1989 workshop.
Vaccine 1990; 8:531-535.
Miller D, Wadsworth J.
Diamond J.
Ross E.
Pertussis vaccine and whooping cough as risk factors in acute neurological illness and death in young children.
In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Pertussis, Geneva, 1984.
Developments in Biological Standardization 1985;16:389-394.
Miller DL, Ross EM, Alderslade R.
Bellman MH, Rawson NSB.
Pertussis immunization and serious acute neurological illness in children.
British Medical Journal 1981 ;282:1595-1599.
Miller DL, Madge N.
Diamond J.
Wadsworth J.
Ross E.
Pertussis immunization and serious acute neurological illnesses in children.
British Medical Journal 1993; 307:1171-1176.
Walker AM, Jick H.
Perera DR, Knauss RA, Thompson RS.
Neurologic events following diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis immunization.
Pediatrics 1988;81:345-349.
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excerpted/quoted from the yourlawyer's site:
British researcher Dr. Gordon T. Stewart, Department of Community Medicine at the University of Glasgow, (1977) documented (weaseled acc to Hoyt) that 1 of every 54,000 children receiving the vaccine suffered encephalopathy (brain dysfunction) with rare instances of mental retardation ensuing.
He examined 160 adverse cases where 40 percent demonstrated hyperkinesias (increased muscle movements accompanying brain dysfunction), infantile spasms, flaccid paralysis, and partial or complete amentia or severe mental retardation.
"He estimated the risk of transient brain damage and mental defect to occur in 1 out of every 10,000 vaccinated, and risk for permanent brain damage to occur in 1 out of every 20,000 to 60,000 vaccinated."
Sweden banned the pertussis vaccine from its vaccination program in 1979.
In 1980, German researchers, Tonz and Bajc, compared incidences of seizures caused by the pertussis vaccine in Germany with those in America. German children suffered seizures at the rate of 1 per every 4800 infants immunized.
(rate higher in the U.S. re incidence of seizures ...... seizures can cause brain damage by the way)
Japan replaced the traditional whole-cell pertussis vaccine with the purified, acellular vaccine. By 1983, studies indicated that the efficacy of Japanese acellular vaccines was equal that of the whole-cell vaccines and complication rates had been cut by 83 percent.
reference:
http://www.yourlawyer.com/practice/...c=DPT Vaccine
