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The Common Cold Treated as Fearful: Vaccine Is Coming

September 11, 2012 by admin in Vaccines with 0 Comments

by Heidi Stevenson

Everyone gets them at some point: common colds. They’re no fun, but most of us just get on with it. Now, though, we’re seeing news stories that give the common cold a new and fearsome image as that of a killer or chronic disease inducer. Why would a fairly benign and ubiquitous disease get portrayed like that? One could ask the same question about some rather benign childhood illnesses, such as mumps, that are now treated as if they’re devastating killers.

As ever, it comes down to the selling of vaccines.

Turning Colds into Fearful Diseases

A BBC headline now screams, Crippling viral infections ’cause asthma’¹. The story says:

Viral infections in newborns “cripple” part of the immune system and increase the risk of asthma later in life, US researchers studying mice have said.

They showed infections by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) stripped immune cells of their ability to calm down inflammation in the lung’s airways.

They say their findings, published in the journal Nature Medicine, will help develop ways of preventing asthma.

The charity Asthma UK said the study had “really exciting” potential.

So what is respiratory syncytial virus? It’s the common cold! Yes, the common cold is now being framed as a “crippling viral infection”. It’s being blamed as the cause of asthma. Why would this happen? The answer is simple: We will be seeing vaccines for it within a couple of years. They’re in the pipeline right now.

Of course, just as with influenza, this is an everchanging virus, so Big Pharma can get ever-richer pushing a new vaccine every year.

Worse, there are other viruses that cause the common cold, so the field’s wide open for yet more vaccines. First, though, people need to be made fearful, so they must be convinced that colds are dangerous. Thus, we have pseudo studies showing us that terrible things can happen if we catch a cold.

Pseudo Science

We have a study showing that 18-year-olds who had been taken to the hospital with RSV when they were infants had a 39% chance of developing asthma, while only 9% of those who hadn’t been in hospitals did². That sounds impressive, but let’s look at it carefully.

There is no cause-and-effect documented. The fact is that virtually everyone has had RSV by the age of three! That’s not a new occurrence. It’s been true for centuries, at least, if not since the dawn of humanity. The problem is that asthma has become epidemic over the last 30 years, though it was quite rare before then. If RSV were the cause of this asthma epidemic, then it would be a new virus—but it isn’t. So, suggesting that RSV—the common cold!—is the cause of asthma makes little sense.

In that light, it becomes quite obvious that something besides RSV is at work inducing asthma. What has increased massively in the last 30 years? Vaccines, drug treatments for every little thing, and agribusiness products have all increased during that time—though vaccines have had the single greatest growth, making them the most likely suspect.

There is a brand new study purporting to show how early RSV infection causes asthma³. It claims that repeated RSV infections in infants results in an inability to calm inflammation. Their studies were performed on mice. They induced an asthmatic response by repeated infection with RSV and application of ovalbumin to sensitize them. They demonstrated that the regulatory T-cells lose their ability to function properly, thus making the mice’s inappropriate asthmatic response impossible to stop.

Mice used in labs are specially bred. They are, in fact, weakened, not like wild mice. The fact is that the evidence being produced by these scientists does not fit the facts, so there must be a deep flaw in what they’re doing. Is it the mice themselves? Perhaps these overbred mice are hypersensitive to viruses; that, in fact, seems likely.

The theory that early RSV infection causes asthma sounds good. The problem, though, is that it doesn’t fit the fact that asthma has become epidemic, yet RSV infections are nothing new.

Vaccines, the Proposed Cure for Asthma

We do know that vaccines are associated with asthma^4,5. The earlier they’re given, the more likely a child will develop it. As vaccine rates have increased, so have asthma rates. This doesn’t absolutely prove a cause-and-effect connection between vaccination and asthma. It does, though, raise a red flag.

Any suggestion of preventing asthma by preventing a disease with vaccinations should be suspect. That the disease proposed for vaccination is nearly always so mild that it’s treated as a nuisance, not something over which we should worry, should be doubly suspect. When we also toss into the mix the fact that the theory of RSV-common cold being the cause of asthma simply doesn’t match the facts, then we have strong reason to say that it’s pure madness to propose yet another vaccine for children.

In this case, it’s even worse, because the drive will most assuredly be to give the RSV vaccine to newborns, who are most at risk of damage from vaccinations, both because the blood-brain barrier doesn’t exist in them and the immune system functions entirely differently than it does in older children and adults.

In other words, it’s highly likely that yet another vaccination given to babies would increase the risk and burden of asthma, having precisely the opposite effect of the vaccine’s purpose. But, it would be many years before we would know for certain—and you can be sure that no studies will be financed to find the connection.

It’s obviously madness to consider yet another vaccine for anyone, let alone newborns. Yet, that’s precisely what’s in the works: a vaccination for the common cold, which is being treated as a devastating disease and the cause of asthma. As always with vaccinations, no proof of prevention will be required as the vaccines are rolled out. You can expect to see them in just a couple of years.

It’s madness, pure madness.