Unsafe Immunization Practices: Creating a Silent Epidemic in Developing Countries?

Unsafe Immunization Practices: Creating a Silent Epidemic in Developing Countries?









(NaturalNews) According to the World Health Organization, immunization
providers are responsible for 1.3 million early deaths each year in
emerging countries, due to using needles and syringes multiple times
without sterilizing them. But, it doesn't stop there. Approximately 21.7
million people every year who line up for vaccines and other
injections with these unsterilized needles and syringes are being
infected with Hepatitis B. An additional 2 million are infected with
Hepatitis C, and still another 250,000 receive HIV infections. One
might question why the World Health Organization would allow the
administration of vaccines and medications year after year, in such an
unsanitary manner, while keeping statistics that prove millions are
actually receiving a death sentence.

Is this a new problem? No!

In 1999, the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children's
Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) issued a
joint statement outlining the substantial risk of disease and death
involved when re-using immunization needles. This joint statement also
provided a solution to the problem - an auto-disable syringe, which was
"widely available at low cost." This type of syringe presented the
lowest risk of person-to-person transmission of blood-borne pathogens
because it could not be reused. Their stated goal was:

"By 2003 WHO, UNICEF and UNFPA recommend that all immunization be provided in all countries using only auto-disable syringes."

Problem solved, right? Again, No! The original 1999 joint statement was
revised in 2003. The following statistics were reported by UNICEF in
an undated publication:

Estimated number of annual infections due to unsafe injections:
• Hepatitis B: 21 million cases
• Hepatitis C: 2 million cases
• HIV: 250,000
• Estimated annual deaths: 1.3 million

Another three years pass. In 2006, WHO issues a revised statement
titled, Injection Safety: Misuse and Overuse of Injection Worldwide.
This 'revised' statement says:

The most recent study* indicates that each year unsafe injections cause
an estimated 1.3 million early deaths, a loss of 26 million years of
life, and an annual burden of USD 535 million in direct medical costs.

Unsafe injection practices are a powerful engine to transmit
blood-borne pathogens, including hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C
virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Because infection
with these viruses initially presents no symptoms, it is a silent
epidemic. However, the consequences of this are increasingly
recognized.

• Hepatitis B virus: HBV is highly infectious and causes the highest
number of infections: in developing and transitional countries 21.7
million people become infected each year, representing 33% of new HBV
infections worldwide
• Hepatitis C virus: Unsafe injections are the most common cause of HCV
infection in developing and transitional countries, causing two
million new infections each year and accounting for 42% of cases.

• Human immunodeficiency virus: Globally nearly 2% of all new HIV
infections are caused by unsafe injections. In South Asia up to 9% of
new cases may be caused in this way. Such proportions can no longer be
ignored.

HBV, HCV, and HIV cause chronic infections that lead to disease,
disability and death a number of years after the unsafe injection.
Those infected with hepatitis B virus in childhood will typically
present with chronic liver disease by the age of 30 years, at the prime
of their life. This has a dramatic effect on national economies.

* The cost of unsafe injections by M.A. Miller & E. Pisani:
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Vol. 77, no 10, 808-811.

Please note the above quotation refers to 'the most recent study.' This
is the same 1999 study which brought unsafe immunization practices to
the attention of worldwide health authorities. Did none of these
organizations see a need to follow-up on the issue and perhaps update
their records? Apparently an estimated 1.3 million early deaths per
year is nothing to be overly concerned about when it comes to
immunization practices.

An additional five years pass. In 2011, Talea Miller, PBS, issues a report stating:

"A nurse injects a patient with a syringe of antibiotics, reloads and
moves on to the next patient in line. The syringe isn't sterilized, the
needle is not replaced, and the patient is at risk of contracting a
disease from the very shot that is supposed to cure him.

It's a disturbing scenario, and one that plays out each day in many
poor countries. About 40 percent of all injections are given with
unsterilized, reused syringes and needles, reports the World Health
Organization. An estimated 1.3 million deaths -- and 21.7 million new
Hepatitis B infections -- occur each year as a result of the unsafe
practice."

Twelve years since the initial warning about unsafe immunization
practices being used worldwide and the statistics don't appear to be
changing. Are the estimated 16.9 million early deaths and 288 million
new infections with potentially life threatening diseases which
occurred during that time supposed to be acceptable collateral damage?

If so, perhaps the average medical consumer has no concept of what the
terms 'infectious disease control' and 'public health' mean to those in
charge of the world's health and safety.


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