Pertussis
Or Croup if you are vaccinated
All our children got DTP vax on schedule. All caught Pertussis as toddlers. It took the doctors three visits to figure it out since they assumed the vax was effective. We skipped the Covid vaccine but wish we knew earlier the futility and potential harms of the entire childhood vax schedule. – MB reader comment
I consider this..
Sodium ascorbate treatment of whooping cough.
..mandatory reading for anyone wanting to raise an unvaccinated child. Learn about Vitamin C and how to use it to treat a wide variety of disease. This article by Dr Suzanne Humphries specifically looks at Pertussis. – Unbekoming
Before the GMC I’d never heard of Pertussis.
I didn’t know that I had immunized my child against a disease I didn’t know existed. My constructed ignorance was complete.
I’d heard of whooping cough, but I’m pretty sure that if I had all the letters in a scrabble game, I wouldn’t have thought of it, let alone spelt it correctly.
So, here I am 3+ GMC years later writing about it.
When I started to write about the childhood vaccine schedule, I wanted to do at least one stack on each disease they managed to get me to vaccinate my kids against. As a form of penance, at the very least.
One of my long-time readers, Virginia, sent me the story of her children and Pertussis quite some time ago, and I always thought I would build a stack around that, so here I am finally delivering on that promise.
Let’s start with Virginia’s story and go from there. Thank you Virginia [from Michigan].
My twin sons were born in 1993; via natural birth, I was 37 @ that time. They are our only children and have been the joy of our lives, (my husband died Oct. 30, 2021, esophageal cancer).
During my pregnancy, I drank no alcohol, nor even coffee..I wanted them to be grounded and calm- and they are!
I tried my best to eat organic food and give them a healthy start. I'm now 67, and my sons are now 29 and are both healthy, intelligent, kind, empathetic, responsible, productive citizens!
When our sons were around 2 years old, and had had six vaccines, including the Whooping Cough vax - some months later, they got a horrific case of Whooping Cough!!
My husband and many, many people we knew, also got it! It was BAD!
Some people were coughing so hard, they had broken blood vessels in their eyes!
I once timed my son, David, cough 40 minutes straight while I held him.. it was very scary..
Luckily, I did not get it; so was able to take care of my family while they coughed through it..
Many of our friends had gone to doctors and been put on multiple series of antibiotics, that did absolutely nothing to help. So, I wasn't about to put my babies on antibiotics..
I have a very healthy distrust of doctors, drugs, and modern medicine, and after my family got through the Whooping Cough, I started doing my own research.. from books! I didn't have a computer at that time.
I learned that many of the horrific auto-immune diseases we see everywhere were rarely, if ever seen, before vaccines existed!
The books I read believed the heavy metals and other toxins in the jabs, though they might sit in the body for decades while the toxins increased with each jab & toxic pesticides & other toxic products..over time, those toxins ultimately triggered as a threat to the body - and so, the body would begin to attack itself -THUS, horrific auto-immune diseases became rampant..
I started learning about animal vivisection and the corruption inherent in big pharma, and I learned that polio declined - worldwide - even in places that NEVER had any polio shots, and the last cases of polio were from the jabs.
My father was put on a "cholesterol lowering" drug.. I believe it was called something like, "Chlorophilbrate." I started researching the drug, and learned that people who took it, had a much higher incidence of heart attacks! My dad stopped taking it, and lived to be 86.
I did extensive research and was convinced VAXXINES were dangerous. I never gave my sons another jab and my husband agreed with me. I wish I had NEVER given them ANY JABS, at least they only had six. And thankfully, they have been very healthy and are well aware of the criminality of the so called health care system!
They have a best friend who's NEVER been jabbed.. and has never been sick!
I also had a dear friend who never had a jab, was never sick, and died at 90!
I've never taken a flu, nor Covid jab and never will. I haven't been sick for decades.
Doctors CAN be lifesavers.. if a person is in an accident - or gets a broken bone - they can save your life. But, they are HORRIBLE when it comes to disease - I don't trust anything they say and do.
So, Virginia vaccinated her twin boys for Pertussis, and they got it, and then gave it to others.
Let’s tie this in directly with the recent brilliant piece from Davis Taylor.
Should Amnesty Be Granted to Those Who Were A-OK with the Other Vaccines Being Mandated?
A February 2, 2023 segment of The HighWire (HW) (Episode 305) discusses research which indicates that being vaccinated for Pertussis (with the DTaP vaccine) makes children more susceptible to Pertussis throughout their lifetimes, not less, which certainly refutes any argument that it’s necessary for children’s health to be vaccinated for the disease. The segment also discusses research which indicates that being vaccinated for Pertussis unknowingly makes one an infected, asymptomatic carrier of the disease. All states mandate the DTaP vaccine upon schoolchildren.
Not only does Pertussis vaccination make you more likely to get Pertussis, but also makes you an asymptomatic carrier as vaccination acts to suppress symptoms, even as viral load is increasing. Sound Covid vaccine familiar?
What’s even more insidious about the whole Pertussis story, is that when your child get’s it after vaccination, the doctors will not suspect or diagnose Pertussis because obviously the child could never have that “he’s been vaccinated after all”!
Instead they call it “Croup”. Change the label and the disease, they caused, simply vanishes.
“For example whooping cough gets called “croup” when it occurs in vaccinated children”
A strategy we are now familiar with, made most famous with Polio.
My first dive into the subject came with episode 8 of Candace Owen’s wonderful series, A Shot in the Dark [I cannot link to Parler as it has just been bought, so waiting to see what they will do with the content].
If it wasn’t on Parler, this series would have (and it should have) gotten far more attention.
The resources related to that episode are on Patreon. Available here:
1. Los Angeles Times: Harvard-Westlake students were vaccinated. Dozens caught whooping cough anyway
https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-whooping-cough-vaccine-20190316-story.html
2. Fox News: Whooping cough outbreak closes Texas school despite 100-percent vaccination rate: officials
https://www.foxnews.com/health/whooping-cough-outbreak-texas-catholic-school
3. Harvard School of Public Health: Increase in Pertussis outbreaks linked with vaccine exemptions, waning immunity
4. FDA insert: INFANRIX
Some notes and thoughts from that episode for me were:
Pertussis keeps occurring in vaccinated kids which is why they keep adding boosters. Just remember that “effective vaccine” and “booster” shouldn’t be in the same sentence.
One of the ways they have hidden Pertussis is by relabelling it as croup.
If you are vaccinated, they will not test you for Pertussis (because obviously you couldn’t have Pertussis because you are vaccinated!). It again hides the cases.
By the age of 6 you have 5 doses in the US and a booster before 7th grade.
In the article above about the school outbreak. 46 vaccinated kids got it and 18 unvaccinated kids didn’t!
Candace talks about parents saying, “thank God he got the Pertussis vaccine…it would have been so much worse”. Where have we heard that before?!
In the Infanrix product insert, and in section 6.2 on Postmarketing Experience, she describes this as the “lying mothers” section. They manage to swat away all the reports by saying:
“Because these reactions are reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequency or establish a causal relationship to vaccination.”
The very last sentence, under “General Disorders” that include “fatigue” they casually through in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Para 13.1: Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment of Fertility
INFANRIX has not been evaluated for carcinogenic or mutagenic potential or for impairment of fertility.
Remember that when a pediatrician tells you it’s “safe”.
Here is A Midwestern Doctor recently writing about Pertussis vaccination:
What are the risks and benefits of each vaccine?
Diphtheria, Pertussis and Tetanus (DPT)
I am not a fan of the DPT vaccine for the following reasons:
•It is the vaccine most clearly linked to infant deaths (I summarized the extensive degree of evidence substantiating the link that has accumulated over the last century here).
•The vaccine frequently causes permanent brain damage (especially the older version of it). In addition to hearing this from many parents, this happened to two members of my extended family who received the slightly older and more toxic version of it.
•I believe it is one of the primary causes of childhood ear infections (one of the most common complaints parents see their pediatricians for). Many doctors have observed this link, and the best example I heard of came from a doctor who decided to vaccinate an ashram (Indian temple) he was staying in. Before the vaccines, ear infections were non-existent, immediately afterward a large number of children came down with them.
Conversely, I believe the benefit is minimal because:
•The vaccine does not prevent the colonization of any of these bacteria. This is why Pertussis outbreaks occur in fully vaccinated populations.
•Diphtheria is now non-existent in the United States, so there is no reason to vaccinate against it (additionally it can be treated with modern antibiotics).
•Tetanus is now very rare (there are approximately 30 cases a year) and it’s actually difficult to say how much the vaccine antibodies protect a person from tetanus (studies have shown that the vaccine produced antitoxin does not prevent tetanus).
This from Dr. Kevin Stillwagon on Pertussis:
The Silent Killers - by Dr. Kevin Stillwagon
So, the idea for the “protection” provided by this shot is to inject the actual pertussis toxin so that the body will create antibodies against the toxin. The hope is that if the antibodies are there, the symptoms will be less when a person becomes infected. It cannot prevent an infection, only react to one, like ALL shots called vaccines. The real problem though, is that the antibodies created are on the wrong side of the epithelium. The antibodies created are on the inside of the epithelial layer, not on the outside where they would need to be to neutralize the bacterial toxin.
Today, the pertussis shot is called “acellular” because it is only using the pertussis toxin and select protein antigens on the bacteria, instead of the entire bacteria. This change did reduce the prevalence of side effects, but the chance of severe permanent neurologic damage and sudden infant death still exists. Every parent needs to know that if a child does get pertussis symptoms from a natural infection, they are treatable and manageable. A child who does not get the shot may never have to deal with the pertussis toxin. A child who gets the shot WILL have to deal with the pertussis toxin.
Where have we heard this before? That anti-bodies in the blood cannot help you to defend against an infection in the mucous of your mouth and throat. Mucosal Immunity
And this excellent piece from Levi Quackenboss:
You Can't Protect Another Person From Pertussis
Every year, more than 600 children under the age of 13 die in car accidents…
Buckling your own seat belt would have zero impact on the number of accidents or the children who die in accidents each year. At best, buckling your seat belt means that you, and only you, are less injured in an accident than you’d be without it.
Yet, we’re told that the answer to preventing the seven annual infant whooping cough deaths that happen in this country, on average, for the last seven years, is to vaccinate ourselves, vaccinate our baby’s older siblings, and vaccinate their grandparents for pertussis.
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These newer vaccine versions, which were phased in during the 1990s, while the whole-cell versions of these vaccines were phased out, don’t confer immunity to pertussis bacteria.
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This is a key point: pertussis bacteria and pertussis toxin are not the same thing. Think of it like the difference between grapes and wine. Does anyone get arrested for driving after eating grapes? Of course not. Just because one is made from the other doesn’t make them the same thing.
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Did you pick up what I’m putting down here? These vaccines teach the body to fight pertussis after the body is infected – and by then it’s too late to stop vaccinated people from being contagious to a newborn baby.
That’s because there is no toxin to fight off – and no B unit to even recognize – until the pertussis infection takes hold anywhere from 4 to 21 days after exposure. In the very best case scenario, DTaP and Tdap may be symptom-reducing vaccines, but they aren’t designed to prevent an infection from happening. They are not transmission-reducing vaccines and they sure don’t contribute to even the most warped idea of herd immunity. Pertussis toxoid B unit antibodies are of no use until an infection happens.
And this from the recently awakened [to childhood vaccination] Dr Peter McCullough. Good to see him writing about childhood vaccination, at last!
Vaccine Failure a Major Determinant of Measles and Pertussis Outbreaks
In summary, large fractions of “preventable disease outbreaks” involving measles and pertussis occur because vaccines fail to provide adequate protection.
And this from Dr Robert Mendelson from his classic How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor:
As in the case with other infectious diseases, mortality had begun to decline before the vaccine became avail able. The vaccine was not introduced until about 1936, but mortality from the disease had already been declining steadily since 1900 or earlier. According to Stewart, "the decline in pertussis mortality was 80 percent before the vaccine was ever used." He shares my view that the key factor in controlling whooping cough is probably not the vaccine but improvement in the living conditions of potential victims.
And this from Dr Suzanne Humphries foundational book [a must read for anyone that wants to find their peace with the 200 year old lies about vaccination]. Her book was the foundation of one of my most important articles of the last two years:
Dissolving My Vaxxed Illusions
When it was clear that the smallpox vaccine was not able to prevent disease, the medical profession tried to justify vaccination by changing the goalposts from lifelong “perfect” immunity to “milder disease.” Similar dogma is repeated in 2013 to justify the fact that pertussis and influenza vaccines don’t protect recipients either. But did smallpox vaccination really decrease the death rate and make for a milder disease?
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Immunization against pertussis, which was introduced at a time when mortality from the disease had been falling steeply for 70 years, made a much less convincing impact… the death rate had fallen very substantially before 1957, and there was relatively very little room for improvement.
And this from the 2nd Smartest Guy in the World:
The Impact of Vaccines on Mortality Decline Since 1900—According to Published Science
In this case, you can actually see when the Pertussis vaccine was introduced. He also showed a chart for Scarlett Fever, which furthers the confusion about the role of vaccines, because there’s never been a Scarlett Fever vaccine, and yet the chart of a huge decline in mortality from Scarlett Fever looks very similar to measles and pertussis:
And this from CNN:
STUDY: 82% of Whooping Cough Cases Occur in Vaccinated - The HighWire
Conducted by scientists at the Vaccine Study Center, the research looked at nearly half a million children born between 1999 and 2016, and found that most whooping cough cases — 82% — occurred in children who were fully vaccinated or over-vaccinated.
“The bigger picture is that we’ve had several outbreaks of pertussis here in California over the past 9 years,” said Dr. Nicola Klein, a co-author of the study and director of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center. She emphasized that the vaccine generally works, but noted that “most of the children who had pertussis in our outbreaks were fully vaccinated.”
And this from James Lyon-Weiler
Natural vs. Artificial Herd Immunity: What Have Failed Vaccination Programs Taught Us?
This recommendation persists in spite of the findings of epidemiologists who reported in 2012 that to prevent one infant death, one million parents would have to be vaccinated. Fear tactics—such as the Glaxo Smith Kline ad featuring a new grandmother, supposedly not recently vaccinated with TDap, turning into a wolf—are used to aggressively promote the cocooning strategy.
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For a vaccine to be administered to pregnant women without adequate safety data is, in my view, nothing short of medical malpractice. Pertussis vaccination during pregnancy was actually put into policy with zero safety data. The use of TDap during pregnancy was recommended by the CDC in 2013—before, even as they admitted, sufficient safety testing was available. The subsequent and few vaccine safety studies conducted for TDap during pregnancy focused primarily on maternal outcomes, and have not properly accounted for fetal deaths (e.g., excluding cases of spontaneous abortions). Maternal immune activation is especially problematic for brain development.
And this from Dr Stanley Plotkin (no less!) et al:
Vaccine Failures, Part 2: Pertussis Vaccination
In 2017, Dr. Stanley Plotkin, the well-known vaccine developer (and former medical and scientific director of Sanofi Pasteur) who consults for vaccine manufacturers, wrote about the rapid waning of pertussis vaccines, stating that vaccine effectiveness drops off “as early as 2-3 years post-boosters.” Plotkin and his two coauthors (one affiliated with Sanofi) pointed to a record-breaking 2010 pertussis outbreak in California that witnessed high disease rates in fully vaccinated preadolescents; two-thirds (66%) of the cases in fully vaccinated children were in 7- to 10-year-olds—that is, children not far removed from their fifth dose of DTaP. The trio of authors conceded that current pertussis vaccines provide inferior immunity compared to the “rather robust” immunity induced by natural pertussis infection.
And this from the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
In the last 13 years, major pertussis epidemics have occurred in the United States, and numerous studies have shown the deficiencies of DTaP vaccines, including the small number of antigens that the vaccines contain and the type of cellular immune response that they elicit. The type of cellular response a predominantly, T2 response results in less efficacy and shorter duration of protection. Because of the small number of antigens (3–5 in DTaP vaccines vs >3000 in DTwP vaccines), linked-epitope suppression occurs. Because of linked-epitope suppression, all children who were primed by DTaP vaccines will be more susceptible to pertussis throughout their lifetimes, and there is no easy way to decrease this increased lifetime susceptibility.
On the matter of Safety, the most important document I have come across is the letter/report to HHS (Dept. of Health and Human Services) written in Dec 2018 from ICAN (Informed Consent Action Group):
As another example, Dr. Peter Aaby is renowned for studying and promoting vaccines in Africa and has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and studies regarding vaccination. In 2017, he and co-authors published a study finding that infants were 10 times more likely to die by 6 months of age following their DTP vaccination than those that did not receive any vaccines during the first 6 months of life. Children vaccinated with DTP were dying from causes never associated with this vaccine, such as respiratory infections, diarrhea, and malaria. This indicated that while DTP’s purpose is to reduce the incidence of diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis, it actually increased mortality from other infections.396 The study therefore concludes:
All currently available evidence suggests that DTP vaccine may kill more children from other causes than it saves from diphtheria, tetanus or pertussis.
Perhaps most concerning is that the above study was based on data from the 1980s that had been collecting dust for over 30 years. This begs the question: what other serious vaccine injuries and non-specific adverse effects are being missed by neglecting to conduct desperately needed vaccine safety science comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated children.
To anyone wondering how Pertussis vaccines are “tested” for Safety. Here from the same report, page 6. The “Control Group” simply got another vaccine:
On the question of Necessity, one of my favourite subjects when it comes to childhood vaccination, this from my recent article on the subject:
But let’s go to the other end of the scale, to pertussis [whooping cough].
Pertussis: 7,773 notifications in NSW 2019-2022
Let’s do that math again.
Over 3 years that is 2,591 notifications per year, for a population of 8m, that is 1 in 3,087.
Remember that everyone is vaccinated, but there are thousands of pertussis cases each year. So much for effective.
But how many actually die from pertussis? Turns out virtually nobody. Government sites obfuscate that point. But I found the number here from 2018.
It starts off with this fear porn:
The most common complication from whooping cough is pneumonia (lung infection). About 1 in 125 babies under the age of 6 months with whooping cough dies from pneumonia or brain damage.
What it really should say is “hospitalisation” with whooping cough. Just having it versus going to the hospital are two different things. But the above framing is much scarier, and frankly false.
But it goes on to tell us that:
In 2016, there were 445 hospital admissions for whooping cough in Australia, with over one-third (38%) of these in children aged under 1 year.
That means there were 169 hospital admissions for pertussis in all of Australia for kids up to 12 months.
Using the 1 in 125 death rate, that means there was 1.3 deaths in Australia in that year for babies up to 12 months old.
But the correct way to think about all of this is through the Absolute Risk lens. The risk of first getting it, to then being hospitalised, to then dying from it.
Using 2021 data, there were 1,463,817 kids between 0-4 in Australia. It simple terms, I’ll divide by 4 giving us 365,954 babies between 0-1.
That means the risk of dying in Australia from pertussis, if you are 0-1 years old, is 1 in 281,503 (365,954/1.3).
That is a very different number and framing from:
The most common complication from whooping cough is pneumonia (lung infection). About 1 in 125 babies under the age of 6 months with whooping cough dies from pneumonia or brain damage.
And from the doctor’s numbers to my mate:
Pertussis: 7,773 notifications in NSW 2019-2022
Can someone please explain to me why I would shoot up my child with 38 chemicals to protect against a 1 in 281,503 risk?
And this from my mentor Amelia:
You mentioned you would do an article on alternatives to vaccination, in which you could share this. She [Dr Suzanne Humphries] does mention that vitamin C works for all toxin mediated disease, refers to some that are 'vaccine preventable' and some for which there are no vaccines (bottom of page 16).
The Aus and Brit advice on whooping cough used to be that adults (grand parents etc) who were going to be in contact with newborns should get the vaccine to 'cocoon' the infant. It was a bad idea because the vaccine suppresses symptoms and the vaccinated adults could then, unknowingly, infect the infant. I think they have abandoned cocooning advice.
I remember one grandmother I knew in Britain decades ago saying the 'rule' when she had children was that babies should never leave home until they are at least 6 weeks old. That does make sense.
So, let me try to summarise all of this:
Pertussis cases had collapsed long before vaccination came along.
The risk of getting and dying from Pertussis is miniscule if you are unvaccinated.
The risks of vaccination are very real, not miniscule, and the evidence is everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and mind.
Vaccine immunity does not work for important technical reasons [details in articles above].
Being vaccinated for Pertussis makes you more susceptible to Pertussis.
Being vaccinated for Pertussis makes you more likely to be an asymptomatic carrier to infect others.
Natural immunity from getting and recovering from Pertussis is robust long lasting.
Pertussis is treatable if, and this is a big if, you get it.
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When I shared the anecdote earlier, I didn’t include the kicker. After our kids were finally diagnosed with pertussis, our county’s Department of Health called to find out if our kids were vaccinated. We said yes they were vaccinated on schedule, so why are they catching pertussis?! The representative replied it was the fault of the “unvaccinated”, claiming the “unvaccinated” drive virus mutation and cause more novel strains to circulate, and regrettably the vax doesn’t work for these new strains. Apparently the “blame the unvaccinated” line and illogical reasoning are public health traditions. I appreciate everything you are doing to share thoughtful analyses on these topics - thank you!
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