"Death Lottery": They chose not to vaccinate their children – News – News

In eight years, 15 children or a kindergarten group have succumbed to serious diseases such as tuberculosis, influenza and cough in Latvia. Everyone could have protected publicly funded vaccines, but the parents of the children who died of these dishes refused to be biased. Two unvaccinated children died in a deadly death in November, and doctors have just aroused their anxiety.

"Bleeding blood vessels in the child's body Blood is bursts in the brain and eyes In an interview with Latvian TV (LTV), Dice Zavadskis, a children's infectiologist and head of the vaccination center for Children, describes the death of a 3-month-old unvaccinated child who was spitting.

As the Center for Prevention and Control of Diseases (CCPC) explains, a long cough is caused by a bacteria that is spread by air droplets. Children aged 1 to 5 are mainly affected by this disease, but they can also be infected by young people and adults. Against the long cough, like many other serious diseases, vaccines have been developed and can be obtained for free in Latvia. However, parents have the right to prevent the child from being vaccinated, but as the SPKC and medical staff explain, the decision to abandon the vaccines is a huge responsibility for their child.

Professor Zavadskis points out that their share of responsibility is also on the shoulders of doctors. Physicians should explain the importance of vaccines to parents and explain to parents how to prevent their parents from being vaccinated without vaccination. Similarly, other physicians from BKUS (Children's Clinical University Hospital) turned to the public with an open letter.

"Some diseases can not be cured, but there are diseases that, in the twenty-first century, represent an opportunity not only to cure, but also to prevent the risk of disease." By refusing to vaccinate and by moving away from Safe, proven and effective therapeutic guidelines, we, adults and professionals, are threatening the child's life and the right to a healthy life.

(…) We believe that it is the co-responsibility of the whole society, in particular the competence and the duty of the medical staff, to explain the risks for the parents ", indicates the letter of BCK.

"Why risk the lives of your children? Why look for an excuse for inactivity and ask questions about the safety and effectiveness of immunization? How many children still have to lose their health or even their life, so we believe in the effectiveness of vaccination and in the consequences of bad decisions? ", rhetorically asked the doctors of the BCU.

Video: BKUS on the importance of vaccines

Since the vaccine inventory, companies have been skeptical about the anti-stings, believing, in their opinion, that inadequate studies on vaccine exposure and possible side effects. Nowadays, oil fires are also accompanied by various theories of conspiracy found on the Internet, on the basis of which some parents decide the health of their children.

According to data from the SPCC, parents are most active in Latvia in vaccinating their children against diseases such as hepatitis B, diphtheria, tuberculosis, whooping cough, polio, etc., but only certain vaccine plaques reach the 100% threshold. Most likely, children in Latvia, and more specifically girls, are vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (CPV), which can lead to cancer of the cervix of the uterus.

As SPCC explains, CPV is a virus that infects deep layers of skin and mucous membranes. There are more than 100 types of CPV and most of them are low-risk virus types that produce benign skin and mucosal formations such as warts.

In turn, high-risk types may promote changes in the mucous cells, leading to precancerous and, subsequently, cancerous development. The most common cervical cancer agents are types 16 and 18 of CPV – about 72% of all cervical cancer cases are directly related to these types of CPV.

CPV is very common and everyone can easily get infected. These viruses are transmitted by direct contact, especially badual contact. The highest incidence of CPV infection concerns young women up to the age of 25 years.

In 2010, a CPV vaccine administered to a 12-year-old girl funded by the state was launched in Latvia, but the latest available data suggest that only about half of parents are in agreement to vaccinate their children. girls against the virus. Asked why the vaccine is so low, SPKC public relations expert Edite Tettere said the vaccine against the CPV virus was relatively new and the company was unaware of the importance of the vaccine.

The center points out: there is no scientific evidence or evidence that vaccination against CPV causes infertility or autoimmune diseases.

To raise parents' awareness of CPV and the vaccine against this virus, the Center organized several free seminars "Call for vaccination against CPV, save lives!", Organized by more than 300 specialists.

Similarly, the CCPS, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, launched a large public awareness campaign several years ago entitled "Win the battle against cancer before it comes" to make people think. parents to the health of their daughters.

SPKC also works tirelessly to inform the public about other serious diseases and vaccines that may protect us and children from various forms of harm.

Upon arrival in high season, the CCPC invites people, especially parents, to suspect that they will also be vaccinated against the flu. The center points out that children aged 6 to 24 are part of a group at high risk of flu complications because children of this age have not yet developed immunity against any influenza viruses.

However, according to Tetter, among the Latvian population, influenza vaccination is not as widespread as that against tick-borne encephalitis, this is a reason to emphasize that ticks are perceived as a real and physical threat, but that Influenza virus is and remains unnoticed in the human eye and is misleading. It seems less dangerous.

However, the CCPC data prove the opposite: last year, several hundred people died from complications related to the flu.

Infectiousologist Zavadsk explains: The health of infants and pregnant women in the face of the flu is particularly fragile. It is not for nothing that these groups belong to groups at high risk of morbidity and complications, for which the state compensates for the flu vaccine at 100% or 50%.

"The vaccinated mother protects herself and the future baby.When a mother develops antibodies after receiving the vaccine, she receives it through the placenta.This is not always the case with immunity mother has obtained vaccination before the beginning of pregnancy, however, antibodies received during pregnancy can protect a child from influenza for the first six months after birth, and later they gradually disappear. if the flu season begins to fall when a child is already six months old, he can be vaccinated himself, "says the doctor.

"Sometimes people think that an influenza vaccine can cause the flu, but it's not possible to be infected with the vaccine! There is nothing that could suggest an illness." Another misconception is that the flu vaccine can help fight against all seasonal viruses … This is not the case.

However, do not forget that the flu is one of the most serious seasonal infections. That's why we can lose people in perfect health. All vaccines available in Latvia are dead, that is, they contain only a very small part of the microbe and are perfectly safe for pregnant women and people who are immunocompromised, "Zavadskas said.

Similarly, the flu shot can not spoil the immune system. With the help of a vaccine, we show the immune system what the enemy looks like and this is done extremely smoothly. To recognize the opponent, the immune system must remember a very small particle specific to the virus. "Think about the amount of germs that a small child who does not care about hygiene every day, crawls in the ground in a nursery, attends public events! There are microbes capable of triggering various diseases, but the immune system of the child almost always faces it.The vaccine is one millionth of all! Vaccines are the most widely studied drug today, "says Zavadskis.

The flu is most affected by children – every season, one in three falls. They release the flu virus longer – up to 10-20 days, while adults have about seven days. In addition, children are more attentive to hygiene and communicate more closely. That's why they are the biggest flu distributors, who deliver it quickly to their peers, but also to parents and grandparents.

Experiences from other countries have shown that vaccinating children against influenza also significantly reduces the prevalence of influenza in adults and the elderly. Every year, thanks to vaccination, the world manages to protect the lives of more than 2.5 million children, says SPKC.

We sometimes hear allegations that a child should not be vaccinated against a specific disease, since there are no more cases of illness in Latvia for years. However, this argument does not stand up to criticism. The SPKC stresses: No country is isolated today, infectious diseases do not respect national borders and diseases can be imported from areas of the world where the spread of these infections continues.

For example, Tajikistan, like many other countries, was certified polio-free in 2002. However, by the end of 2009, the polio virus had been injected from India into Tajikistan, which had caused an outbreak of poliomyelitis in 2010 and 460 cases were recorded. This epidemic may be explained by the fact that the polio vaccine in Tajikistan was not sufficient to prevent the return and spread of the infection.

The CCPC invites parents to carefully weigh and rely on sound scientific information about child immunization. "It's a big responsibility: decide to postpone or refuse to vaccinate, which can affect the child's life," concludes the center.