March 12, 1998 – A study of 60 children under the age of 16 in the Southampton area of England, all with insulin-dependent diabetes, shows that the vaccines they received at a young age are statistically a risk factor for diabetes significant.
The 60 children were all subjects under 16 years of age with insulin-dependent diabetes, between October 1992 and September 1993, in the Southampton and Southwest Hampshire regions of England. Each case was compared with three controls of the same age and sex selected at random from the patients of the treating physicians.
The effect of the vaccines was apparent in the children’s first year of life but not in the subsequent four years. Analysis of infections suggests that respiratory infections, which accounted for 52% of infections in the first year of life, subsequently result in the greatest degree of protection. Infected children were significantly less likely to develop diabetes.
These results are consistent with those of a Scandinavian study which showed a similar trend. The researchers’ conclusion is that infections, especially in the first year of life, appear to serve to educate the immune system, possibly through the lymphocytic response. Although most vaccines seem to actually prevent the diseases they were developed against, they are not without risk and can lead to a rise in chronic diseases later in life.
Early infection and subsequent insulin dependent diabetes, Gibbon C, Smith T, Egger P, Betts P, Philipps D, Arch Dis Child. 1997; 77: 384-385
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