Thousands Receive Unnecessary Vaccines

tA reported boom in U.S. whooping cough cases is now being questioned after health officials discovered a regularly used lab test misdiagnosed cases in suspected outbreaks in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Tennessee. The false positive test, reporting that persons had pertussis when they did not, resulted in thousands of people to taking antibiotics unnecessarily.

In March 2006, when a lab worker at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., was diagnosed with pertussis, nearly 1,000 hospital workers were tested, treated and furloughed to prevent infecting patients. Thousands were given antibiotics and vaccinations. The precautions affected staffing levels, and the hospital had to close off some beds. About 100 employees were diagnosed with pertussis using the speedy test, results later found to be wrong.

In April 2004, a 5-week-old infant in one Tennessee community, which CDC wouldn't identify, was diagnosed with whooping cough. Health officials began looking for the illness in other residents. Ultimately nearly 1,500 people were checked or offered antibiotics; 43 tested positive at first. But the more reliable test turned up negative results for all except the baby, the CDC said.

COMMENT: The CDC considers vaccines -- and antibiotics -- to be harmless, rather like "a little is good, a lot won't hurt." I wonder how many of those thousands who received unnecessary medications and toxic jabs had reactions? Of course, the CDC tracking that...only random cases of pertussis.