In February of this year I called on Victorian Health Minister Jill Hennessy to resign on the basis she is not a fit and proper person to hold such a high office for a variety of reasons.
Readers will recall that the Minister, last year, chose to reinstate the thoroughly discredited Whooping Cough ‘cocooning’ vaccine for fathers, in the knowledge it was ineffective and that it will expose this segment of the population to the unnecessary risk of disability or death associated with all vaccines.
What’s worse, it can now be revealed that the Minister, while in opposition, received specific and unambiguous advice from the Victorian health department’s Professor Chris Brook during a 2012 Estimates Committee hearing that vaccinating parents was totally ineffective in protecting newborns from Whooping Cough.
Ms HENNESSY — Minister, if I could just take you to budget paper 3, page 141, and the public health outputs, you would know that since 2009 the Victorian government has funded free vaccinations for parents and carers of newborns in an effort to protect newborns from the current whooping cough epidemic. Indeed last year you announced an extension of that vaccine until 30 June 2012. Last week there were 1655 notifications to your department of whooping cough for the year. Can you just confirm for the committee if the public health outputs include the funding of the extension of that program to protect families, in particular newborns, from whooping cough?
Prof. BROOK — The state decided some three years ago that it would, in consultation with other jurisdictions, initiate what has been called a ‘cocoon’ strategy. Since children are not born with natural immunity to pertussis and they cannot really be vaccinated until about the third month of life, it is important if there is a pertussis epidemic, or mini epidemic, to try and protect them. The outbreak of the disease can occur because pertussis is not a lifelong vaccination, so it can get into the adult herd and then be transmitted to children. So that can be dangerous — —
Ms HENNESSY — Do you mean parents by ‘herd’?
Prof. BROOK — The term ‘herd’ is an epidemiological one. It implies the population.
Ms HENNESSY — You are talking to humble politicians.
Prof. BROOK — Yes, but parents in this particular instance, or grandparents. The idea was to try and vaccinate the parents and encourage others who may be associated with an infant to obtain vaccination. That was done in good faith based on limited evidence at the time and has been continued in most jurisdictions, I think bar one, to this year. During the course of the last 12 months, two separate manufacturers have put in fairly complex submissions to the ultimate arbiter of these things, which is the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee. So it is not a matter of chief health officers or bureaucrats of any sort, whether professional or not, putting information forward; this is complex, technical information put forward by manufacturers. On both occasions the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, which is totally independent and very expert, has determined that there is no clinical effectiveness of this strategy, and therefore the commonwealth, having previously declined to contemplate any support for the vaccine, has firmly determined that it will not.
But that changes the dynamic in so far as each of the jurisdictions is concerned, because obviously if we are told something is ineffective, then it becomes a moot point — and still not a moot point, it becomes clear that it is not something that should be supported when indeed there may be better ways to spend the money concerned. So all jurisdictions who have been in this program will be effectively ceasing the cocoon strategy as of the end of June this year. One jurisdiction — and I am sorry, I do not have which one before me — has already done so without ill effect. I should also point out that the actual rate of disease has declined significantly. It is about half what it was in the 12 month prior period, although there is still some ongoing activity in New South Wales compared with Victoria.
On what basis then did the Minister reinstate cocooning? Surely it wasn’t on the basis of something she read on the internet? Surely it wasn’t on the basis of internet propaganda issued by the Hughes, who have been dubbed the ‘Kardashians of Vaccination‘? After all, the Minister has been openly critical of parents relying on vaccine information from the internet, so surely she wouldn’t have been swept up in the fear porn du jour? One could even say she has a pathological hatred of the internet and yearns for the days when governments were able to control the level of information provided to the general public.
Regardless of the reasons for her doing so, the Minister has reinstated an ineffective vaccine with callous disregard for the safety of Victorian fathers, some of whom will be inevitably disabled or killed by a totally unnecessary and invasive medical procedure.
That just isn’t right, but thank God for the internet, otherwise we may never have known.
Disgusting. It has been known for six years in WA Health, and published by FDA in 2013, that those vaccinated, catch, carry and spread whooping cough. That is why cocooning is so dangerous. No parents had Dtap, the vaccine that is causing the spread, by vaccinating parents with DTap, these parents now become possible carriers of whooping cough, previous to vaccination if the had the old DTP, or whooping cough previously, THEY CAN NEVER SPREAD WHOOPING COUGH. Silly Jilly is all about spreading whooping cough it seems, ignoring the fact Australia had no whooping cough before Dtap vaccine (400 max cases a year), and since Dtap first showed its failings in 2010, Australia now has 1 in 16 Dtap kids (which is nearly all of them), spreading whooping cough each year, most without even showing symptoms. This woman will go down in history, for being the thickest Health Minister ever.
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ADULTS do not spread whooping cough. The old DTP worked. Every victim of whooping cough, every year now, is either a Dtap vaccinated child, (ie born from 1996), or an baby, infected by their fully vaccinated siblings. Silly Jilly, there was 400 cases of whooping cough (MAX) for years. Since DTap the part vaccine called acellular pertussis vaccine brought in 1996, after only 14 years, IT HAS BEEN PROVEN, over and over, even by the FDA, that the vaccine only stops people getting symptoms, while allowing these kids, to near constantly, catch, carry and spread whooping cough. No symptoms, little vaccinated kids are now infecting newborn babies. That vaccine should have been BANNED in 2013, and in only 3 years, the Dtap vaccine fails, ie no more vaccinated symptomless carriers NO MORE BABY DEATHS> But Silly Jilly, who knows buggar all about Health, recommends MORE injections? This lady is stark raving mad. Because of Dtap, and near 100% vaccination rate,, Australia now has 300,000 pertussis spreading Dtap kids each year! 90,000 are full vaccine failures, with a cough, the other 210,000 a year are carriers, no symptoms. Silly Jilly, the vaccinated herd, is now a cesspool of whooping cough, but they don’t cough! What hope does a baby have when EVERY Dtap child, vaccinated in the last three years, has to be assumed to carry whooping cough. angela coral eisenhaure PATHOLOGIST facebook. I tested the first kids, first fully caused by that useless vaccine………….. First epidemic EVER in Australia, ALL CAUSED BY DTAP, and it hasn’t stopped now for 6 bloody years, and she jabs more? This woman is totally thick. Oh, and also refuses to reply to any correspondence I send her, complete with FDA references.
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Worse,? they trying to hide the fact babies are infected by vaccinated siblings, who are carriers, because of the vaccine…………… what do they do? Brazil was prime example, lets TRY vaccinating babies before birth, with a vaccine that kills them if given at birth (OMG< there must be another SILLY JILLY OUT THERE? God help us all?) What happened? Vaccianted every pregnant woman in Brazil from 20 weeks gestation from MAY 2015 (when the GSK brand vaccine Tdap was ready made under licence in Pernumbuco)….. Exactly 20 weeks later, these babies began being born, with lots and lots of microcephaly. FOUR of 5,000 vaccine damaged babies also had zika, so what do CDC, and WHO blame, and of course Brazil Health? Ah lets blame the mossies. What CDC forgot to do was check USA stats, where they been vaccinating ad hoc in pregnancy with Tdap since 2013, USA actually has 25,000 microcephalic babies a year now. Prior to vaccines in pregnancy it was 400 a year. So seems CDC in a panic, attempting to get zika into USA asap, to blame, for birth defects happening yearly now from vaccines, for 3 years. No zika in USA? buggar, oh dear better say infected men, spread it for at least six months, well still gonna take a lot to convince USA that there new stats, of 1 in 50 microcephalic babies, is all due to a few infected men, with real randy sex lives?
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As for the Kardashians of vaccination, they had a new facebook page, under the guise of real medicine, they stole the page of a go fund me boy, crippled in Indonesia, they said, look what happens if you dont get polio vaccine. Until I demanded it, they didnt link to the go fund me page, they stole the photos from…………… How sicko.
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Yeah, when questioned, like help this poor boy, the missus, said no, this page is only about awareness, ie rot in hell little crippled boy, thanks for the photos.
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ANyone ever checked if they really lost a baby?
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Jill Hennessy is a lawyer with no qualifications in health, medicine or science, and cearly no ability to think critically when it comes to advice she is being given about vaccines. She should be held to account for reassuring parents that “vaccines are safe”.
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