Whooping Cough (Pertussis) is NOT Vaccine Preventable
You can still contract and transmit pertussis despite receiving multiple pertussis-containing vaccinations.
A 2024 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that only 40% of Americans trust physicians and hospitals—a collapse in confidence driven by the government-funded covid propaganda campaign that undermined human rights and devastated the economy. Unfortunately, Louisiana physicians and public health agencies have not learned the lesson, as evidenced by the continued false and misleading messaging around communicable diseases. Once again, physicians like U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy are exploiting the tragic deaths of two Louisiana children to push ineffective vaccines.
In reality, pertussis-containing vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission of whooping cough. Senator Cassidy’s statement, “please protect your child with a vaccine,” reflects an ongoing distortion of vaccine effectiveness and creates a false sense of security, leading some parents to delay necessary care under the mistaken belief that their child is protected. Further, because the vaccine can make recipients asymptomatic carriers of pertussis, parents may unwittingly transmit the bacteria to their infant.
This continued obfuscation of truth is why Americans continue to distrust physicians and public health.
As we shared recently in a social media post, neither Tdap nor DTaP vaccines prevent transmission or infection of whooping cough. In fact, as the study below concludes, the priming pertussis vaccination provides may be the driving factor behind the increase in whooping cough.
Pertussis-containing vaccines DO NOT prevent infection or transmission of the bacteria.
“The observation that aP [acellular pertussis], which induces an immune response mismatched to that induced by natural infection, fails to prevent colonization or transmission provides a plausible explanation for the resurgence of pertussis and suggests that optimal control of pertussis will require the development of improved vaccines.” ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24277828
The archived CDC chart below indicates cases of pertussis increased when the whole-cell pertussis containing vaccine, DTP, was replaced with acellular pertussis-containing boosters in 1991 and replaced completely in 1996. The chart below, known as Appendix E, is no longer available in this format on the CDC website.
Fully vaccinated populations continue to have outbreaks of whooping cough, as we reported years ago when the fully vaccinated school population at St. Theresa’s in Houston, Texas experienced an outbreak.
But St. Theresa’s is not the only incident where this has occurred. Whooping cough outbreaks in vaccinated populations have taken place in Mt Vernon schools in Linn County, Iowa, in Jefferson County, Missourri, and in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. That’s just a few; there are many more stories just like these.
In addition to not providing adequate protection, data also indicates that pertussis-containing vaccines may actually make you MORE SUSCEPTIBLE to pertussis infection throughout your lifetime.
Being vaccinated with DTaP makes you more susceptible to pertussis throughout your lifetime.
“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.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30793754/
Waning protection after the fifth dose increases the odds of acquiring pertussis.
“Comparison with PCR-negative controls yielded an odds ratio of 1.42 (95% confidence interval, 1.21 to 1.66), indicating that after the fifth dose of DTaP, the odds of acquiring pertussis increased by an average of 42% per year.”nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa1200850
Evidence also indicates that fully vaccinated siblings and adults are a primary source of pertussis transmission to infants.
“Conclusions: The incidence of pertussis was highest in children aged 12 years and under in this epidemic. At its peak, siblings were the most important sources of pertussis in infants 6 months and younger, particularly fully vaccinated children aged 2 and 3 years. Waning immunity before the booster at 4 years may leave this age group susceptible to infection. Even if cocooning programs could achieve full vaccination coverage of parents and ensure all siblings were fully vaccinated according to national schedules, waning immunity in siblings could provide a means for ongoing transmission to infants.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25391405/
If fully vaccinated siblings and adults are identified as sources of pertussis transmission in peer-reviewed studies, why are hospital systems requiring pertussis vaccination of hospital employees?
Perhaps because the Louisiana Department of Health and the New Orleans Health Department — like Senator Bill Cassidy — continue to promote the false and harmful narrative that pertussis-containing vaccines provide meaningful protection to individuals and the broader community.
Adding insult to injury, these state health agencies fail time and again to provide the public with sufficient information about the adverse events associated with these drugs, instead making claims that the manufacturer cannot: “The whooping cough vaccine is safe and effective.”
As we previously noted, no pertussis-containing vaccine has undergone adequate clinical trials to establish safety, as none included an inert placebo control group.
Although LDH mentions minor side effects on their website like sore arm, fever, headache, and fatigue, the inserts paint a different picture. The insert for Daptacel states: “A review by the Institute of Medicine found evidence for a causal relation between tetanus toxoid and both brachial neuritis and Guillain-Barré syndrome.” There is no pertussis-only vaccine — every pertussis vaccine option is in combination with tetanus.
The Daptacel insert also states: “Within 30 days following any dose of DAPTACEL, 57 (3.9%) [of 1,454] subjects reported at least one serious adverse event. During this period, the most frequently reported serious adverse event was bronchiolitis, reported in 28 (1.9%) subjects. Other serious adverse events that occurred within 30 days following DAPTACEL include three cases of pneumonia, two cases of meningitis and one case each of sepsis, pertussis (post-dose 1), irritability and unresponsiveness.”
In addition to the “study” results, post market surveillance reports include:
Blood and lymphatic disorders
Lymphadenopathy
Cardiac disorders
Cyanosis
Gastro-intestinal disorders
Nausea, diarrhea
General disorders and administration site conditions
Local reactions: injection site pain, injection site rash, injection site nodule, injection site mass, extensive swelling of injected limb (including swelling that involves adjacent joints)
Infections and infestations
Injection site cellulitis, cellulitis, injection site abscess
Immune system disorders
Hypersensitivity, allergic reaction, anaphylactic reaction (edema, face edema, swelling face, pruritus, rash generalized) and other types of rash (erythematous, macular, maculo-papular)
Nervous system disorders
Convulsions: febrile convulsion, grand mal convulsion, partial seizures
HHE, hypotonia, somnolence, syncope
Psychiatric disorders
Screaming
Last fall, Louisiana Surgeon General Dr. Ralph Abraham stated that for trust to be restored to physicians and public health, they would simply have to “tell the truth.” While COVID and flu vaccines have come under scrutiny from our state’s top health officials, we’re still waiting for the bold remedy promised last fall: the truth about childhood vaccines, which continue to be promoted with blatantly false and misleading claims.
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