La vacuna oral desde 1970 causó más parálisis que la propia enfermedad. Nueva versión no ha sido probada y farmacéuticas necesitan conejillos de Indias, por ello habrían apuntado hacia el Perú.
Ante la decisión del gobierno israelí de inocular vacuna oral contra la polio, Shiri Guman abrió una página en Facebook para alertar a las madres a negarse a entregar a sus hijos para esta vacuna, por ser peligrosa, a diferencia de la vacuna intramuscular. De hecho, ya muchos padres se resisten a la vacuna oral para sus hijos.
El virus se descubrió en el sur del país, por lo cual se ha programado aplicar 150 mil dosis en Kiryat Gat y Mitzpeh Rimon, informa The Times of Israel (ver artículo original en inglés al final), a partir de la próxima semana.
En declaraciones al Canal 10 local, Guman recordó que en los países occidentales la vacuna oral ya no se usa desde 2009, por haber sido declarada peligrosa,y alertó para no tomar en cuenta a ningún asesor que sea remunerado por una compañía farmacéutica.
Vacuna no ha sido probada en Occidente, necesitan conejillos de Indias
Guman precisó que tras declararse peligrosa la vacuna oral en 2009, se desarrolló una nueva versión, la cual todavía debe ser probada en Occidente y citó al doctor Richard Halvorsen, quen en su libro La Verdad sobre kas Vacunas advirtió que desde 1970 las vacunas orales han causado más parálisis en el Reino Unido que el propio virus de la polio.
El hecho de que la nueva versión no ha sido probada en occidente puede dar pistas de que en el Perú la ministra de Salud Midori De Habich haya decidido contravenir la solicitud médica de comprar la vacuna intramuscular y optar por la oral no sólo por ahorrarse unos millones, sino que puede haber ofrecido a los niños peruanos como conejillos de indias, sin que se sepa lo que ella recibiría cambio. Sólo se puede pensar mal de una autoridad que decide negarse a escuchar las alertas de los médicos para arriesgar la salud de los menores.
Hay que recordar que De Habich trabajó para programas financiados por la USAID, institución acusada de estar involucrada en experimentos en seres humanos, la cual ya ha sido expulsada de varios países.
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Protests voiced against oral polio vaccination
Health Ministry claims live attenuated vaccine is perfectly safe, but detractors say it’s untested and potentially dangerousBy ASHER ZEIGER August 5, 2013, 5:21 pm 5 Share 8
Workers at the Beersheba Health Ministry office with the polio medication on August 4, 2013, (photo credit: Flash90)Workers at the Beersheba Health Ministry office with the polio medication on August 4, 2013, (photo credit: Flash90)WRITERSAsher Zeiger
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While a massive campaign to inoculate the populace in the south against polio began on Monday morning, some Israelis objected to the vaccine being used, and have been refusing to inoculate their children.
Some 150,000 children up to the age of 9 who live in cities and towns between Kiryat Gat and Mitzpeh Rimon are to get the oral vaccination after the virus was discovered in sewers in the area and people were found to be carrying it.
Next week, the ministry will decide whether to give the vaccines to all children under 9 years of age nationwide.
Shiri Gurman, who started a Facebook page entitled “Mothers say ‘no’ to the live attenuated polio vaccine,” told Channel 10 news that she would be “happy to find that I am mistaken, but I want the Ministry of Health to present high-level clinical research” confirming that the vaccine, which Gurman said had not been used in any Western country since 2009, was safe.
“We cannot settle for a position paper by a physician who might be receiving a salary from a pharmaceutical company as a consultant,” said Gurman.
The Facebook page, which has over 700 members, cites two health experts who warned against using the live attenuated vaccine, also known as oral polio vaccine (OPV).
According to the Israel Hayom daily, Professor Allon Moses, the director of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Diseases at Hadassah Medical Center, and Dr. Michal Stein, the representative of the Israel Ambulatory Pediatric Association, both addressed the Knesset Health Committee a month and a half ago.
Moses said that he would inoculate anybody who lives in an area where polio has been found, “but the oral vaccination will affect people with low immunity levels, for example, after cancer treatments,” which Moses described as “problematic.”
Stein, who is a pediatrician at Wolfson Medical Center, said that “if we need to vaccinate on a large scale, we must try to use an inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV).”
Health Ministry Director General Dr. Roni Gamzo disputed the claims against OPV, quoting a spokesperson for the World Health Organization as saying that the OPV being used in Israel had been tested and used in many countries. Speaking on Channel 10 news, Gamzo further emphasized that the vaccine was being given exclusively to children who have been previously vaccinated against polio, and any instances of complications caused by the vaccine occurred only with children who had not previously administered polio shots.
Gurman was not convinced. She stated on her Facebook page that the previous version of OPV was discontinued and declared “dangerous” by Israel and other Western countries in 2005. The new version of the drug was developed in 2009, but according to Gurman had yet to be tested in the West.
Gurman also referred to British physician and immunization specialist Dr. Richard Halvorsen, who claimed in his book “The Truth About Vaccines” that since 1970 OPV had caused more cases of paralysis in the United Kingdom than did the polio virus against which it was meant to inoculate.
Gamzo acknowledged that Israel would be the first Western country to use the new OPV, but he rejected the idea that children were being used as guinea pigs for the vaccine.
Haviv Rettig Gur contributed to this report.
The Times of Israel, 05.08.2013
http://www.timesofisrael.com/protests-voiced-against-oral-polio-vaccination/
