Today marks the kick off for our 5th session of Vaccine Free: Now What? woohoo! About 5 years ago, after reading published scholarly articles and sensational newspaper headlines about outbreaks of infectious illnesses and vaccine injury, I had an inkling that the whole issue of outbreaks was simply going to escalate. Fast forward to today. Outbreaks of whooping cough, measles, mumps and seasonal flu vaccines that are failing. Add to that ‘shedding’ of live viruses, even more vaccine injury, and quarantine of the vaccine free (kids and young adults) and Disney in a panic. That is how the Vaccine Free: Now What? course was born…out of a desire to help parents be prepared with a homeopathic remedy kit and the knowledge of how to use the remedies in outbreaks of infectious illnesses.
After ‘graduating’ from the course, participants are invited to a closed, private Facebook forum and I have loved watching the confidence grow with every fever, every rash and every acute illness. If you read our February 3, 2015’s newsletter on conversations, you will understand why I am SO excited. Moms (no dads yet on the course) sharing the learning and helping each other, are having conversations about homeopathy and how it is helping heal. Very satisfying. When the big outbreaks happen, there will be a core of home prescribers who will be able to help family, friends and community.
Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
Here is a press release from The US Food and Drug Administration in November 2013:
“Based on an animal model, the study conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and published November 25, 2013, in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that acellular pertussis vaccines licensed by the FDA are effective in preventing the disease among those vaccinated, but suggests that they may not prevent infection from the bacteria that causes whooping cough in those vaccinated or its spread to other people, including those who may not be vaccinated.
Whooping cough rates in the United States have been increasing since the 1980s and reached a 50-year high in 2012.
‘There were 48,000 cases reported last year despite high rates of vaccination,’ said Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. ‘This resurgence suggests a need for research into the causes behind the increase in infections and improved ways to prevent the disease from spreading.’
This research suggests that although individuals immunized with an acellular pertussis vaccine may be protected from disease, they may still become infected with the bacteria without always getting sick and are able to spread infection to others, including young infants who are susceptible to pertussis disease.”
Vaccinated or not, young infants, are vulnerable to the infection. What is a parent to do?
Homeopathy can help.
Dr. Dorothy Shepherd, in her book Homoeopathy in Epidemic Diseases has this to say:
“Few realise how serious the disease can be and that the death rate of whopping cough was twice as high as that of measles, or even diphtheria, in the hospitals during the decades before the second world war….Parents accepted as a fact that whooping cough lasted at least six weeks, or until well on in May, and as it could not be cured it just had to be endured.”
You can understand how doctors today are concerned about a return of this infectious childhood illness. And if the vaccines are causing a problem themselves, how can parents address this infectious illness?
Dr. Shepherd again says, “My eyes were opened to the possibilities of cutting short an epidemic of this dread disease. At that time there was a small outbreak in the neighbourhood of the clinic, so with the help of the visitors and nurses, we coaxed the mothers to bring the little sufferers to the clinic for treatment before the commencement of the session to avoid infecting others. The results with Pertussin in potency were so striking that I soon used it in all the clinics and nurseries I attended, both as prophylactic (prevention) and as the curative remedy after the disease had started.”
There are other homeopathic remedies that can be used should you or your family members get whooping cough (pertussis).
Come join us in the 5th Vaccine Free: Now What? course . Learn the symptoms (check out this link for a good lesson in the symptoms www.whoopingcough.net), learn the homeopathic remedies and be prepared!
Yours in health and healing,
Donna
