Source: Global Research
mRNA and Breastfeeding: COVID-19 Vaccinated Mothers Who Breastfeed — Babies Have Serious Reactions Including Death
Decreased Breast Milk Production, Milk Discoloration, Bleeding. Study of 16 cases
Global Research, May 23, 2023
Babies Who Died When COVID-19 mRNA Vaccinated Mothers Were Breastfeeding (Two Cases)
CASE 1 (VAERS ID 1532154): 8 week old baby died July 17, 2021:
36 year old mother from New Mexico wrote: “On July 17, 2021, my baby passed away. I had been breastfeeding my 6 week old baby at the time that I received the first Pfizer vaccine on June 4, 2021.
He became very sick with a high fever on June 21, about 2 weeks after I got the first Pfizer vaccine. He was treated for 2 weeks with IV antibiotics for a supposed bacterial infection, however, they never found any bacteria.
After the 14 day course of antibiotics, he was home for one week, but exhibited strange symptoms (e.g. swollen eyelid, strange rashes, vomiting). I took him back to the hospital on July 15, where he presented with what they called an atypical Kawasaki disease. He passed away shortly thereafter from clots in his severely inflamed arteries. He died on July 17, 2021.
CASE 2 (VAERS ID 1166062): 5 month old baby died March 20, 2021
Mother received her 2nd dose of Pfizer vaccine on March 17, 2021 while at work. The next day on March 18, 2020, her 5 month old breastfed infant developed a rash and within 24 hours was inconsolable, refusing to eat and developed a fever.
Baby was brought to ER, blood analysis revealed elevated liver enzymes, was hospitalized but continued to decline and died on March 20, 2021 with diagnosis of TTP.
Babies Who Had Serious Reactions When COVID-19 mRNA Vaccinated Mothers Were Breastfeeding
There are hundreds of these cases so I will only highlight a few:
CASE 3 (VAERS ID 1415059): 3 month old baby had seizures from breastfeeding
A mother from Pennsylvania wrote: “I received 1st dose of Moderna on June 18, 2021. I fed my three month old daughter milk that I pumped from my breasts later that night and put her to bed. When transferring her to her bassinet at approximately 11:30pm, she started a seizure that lasted seven minutes. We were transported to Hospital where she suffered two more seizures in the early morning hours of June 19th. She has been a healthy baby with no health conditions prior to these events.
CASE 4 (VAERS ID 930348): Pfizer vaccinated mom’s baby had seizures for 4 days
A 33 year old mother from New Jersey writes: “I am breastfeeding. My daughter had seizure like episodes starting on Saturday 1/2, Sunday 1/3, Monday, 1/4 and 2 times on Tuesday 1/5.”
CASE 5 (VAERS ID 1099241): A 16 month old baby got hemolytic anemia
A mother from California had J&J vaccine on March 10, 2021. Her 16 month old baby developed jaundice the next day and was admitted for evaluation of hemolytic anemia.
CASE 6 (VAERS ID 1543319: 12 month old has swollen lymph nodes
On Feb 1, 2021, the mother received 1st Moderna dose. The next day the nursing 12 month old infant developed fever and swollen lymph nodes in the groin.
CASE 7 (VAERS ID 1101777): 14 month old boy has body rash all over
A 29 year old mother from New York had Moderna and writes: “I’m breastfeeding my 14 month old son. A couple of days after I received my first dose of the Moderna vaccine, he broke out in red spots all over his body. A few days later, he developed a low grade fever. It’s been one week since I was vaccinated. He does not have a fever anymore and the red spots are almost all gone.”
CASE 8 (VAERS ID 917888): 15 month old has rash and fever
A 35 year old mother from New Mexico had one dose of Pfizer. She writes: “ I am breastfeeding my 15 month old son and he got a rash on his abdomen and face that has progressed more over past several days. He has had no fever but acts like he doesn’t feel great as he was not eating like his normal self. I don’t know if the rash is related or not but it is during the time of the vaccine.”
CASE 9 (VAERS ID 931851): 5 month old baby has severe diarrhea & vomiting, almost died
A 32 year old mother from Alaska writes: “I am currently breastfeeding my 5-month-old son. I received my first (Pfizer) vaccine on 12/28/2020 and directly breastfed within 4 hours of receiving the vaccine. Two days after my vaccine my son was at daycare and had two large diarrhea blowouts and two large emeses followed by a 1-minute episode where he was limp with entire body cyanosis and in-and-out of consciousness. He also had a maculopapular rash on his torso. EMS was called. He was observed in the emergency department for a few hours then recovered. He has continued to be well and back to baseline since the event.”
CASE 10 (VAERS ID 970309): 5 month old boy has vomiting, diarrhea, body rash and blood in urine
A 30 year old mother from Connecticut had one Moderna jab. Two nights after her 1st Moderna dose, her 5 month old boy had violent vomiting, diarrhea, body rash, and hematuria.
CASE 11 (VAERS ID 1088716): 4 month old baby had blood in stool
A 29 year old mother from Kentucky had 1st Pfizer dose. She writes: “I am currently breastfeeding my 4 month old son. He started pooping blood 4 hours after my 1st dose of the vaccine. His next 3 stools were blood streaked and then returned to normal.”
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccinated Mothers Who Had Reactions Related to Breastfeeding
CASE 12 (VAERS ID 976245): Significant decrease in breast milk supply
A 28 year old mother from Oregon had 1st Pfizer dose. She had arm soreness, lip swelling and numbness next day. She developed a significant decreased in breast milk supply starting 2-3 days after Pfizer and it did not recover. She had been breastfeeding her baby completely since birth in July 2020.
CASE 13 (VAERS ID 980782): Breast milk turned green
Mother had Pfizer vaccine. She noticed reduced breast milk production and her breast milk has turned green.
CASE 14 (VAERS ID 1022827): Blood in breast milk after 1st Pfizer dose
A 33 year mother from New Jersey writes: “I am breastfeeding. The first pump after my Pfizer shot ( three and half hours after) 2oz of blood was pumped from the right breast”
CASE 15 (VAERS ID 1041373): Had a miscarriage 10 days after Pfizer
A 36 year old woman from Pennsylvania who was breast feeding her previous infant born in 2019, had 1st Pfizer dose on Dec.21, 2020. She was 4 weeks pregnant and had a miscarriage 10 days after Pfizer.
CASE 16 (VAERS ID 1154934): Mom started bleeding after 1st Moderna dose
A 37 year old woman from California writes: “The Moderna vaccine induced my menstruation. I am currently breastfeeding and had not been menstruating since becoming pregnant in January 2019. I had a baby since then and due to nursing on demand my period had not returned. Less than 24 hours after getting vaccinated I woke up to a moderate menstrual flow, bright red blood. I am still menstruating and experiencing mild cramping and bloatedness in my abdominal area. There was no prior indication this would happen before the vaccine. I had not even spotted before. My cycle has historically been very regular and I am certain the vaccine had something to do with stimulating my endocrine system and thus causing my menstruation.”
COVID-19 Vaccine mRNA Found in Breastmilk
It is interesting to note that mRNA was found in breast milk as early as April 2021 in a paper by Low et al. (click here)
It was recently confirmed again in a paper by Hanna et al. in Sep.2022 (click here)
US Genomics Expert Kevin McKernan wrote a substack article about how mRNA ingested by the infant through breast milk, could exert clinical effects by:
COVID-19 vaccine mRNA is RNase resistant due to modified N1-methyl-pseudoU, so it doesn’t break down easily;
Baby’s oral mucosa can be transfected by mother’s mRNA (contained in extracellular vesicles in breast milk);
Mother’s mRNA can survive the baby’s gut and digestive process.
His fascinating account of how mRNA is transported in breast milk can be found here: (click here)
“Milk is considered as more than a source of nutrition for infants and is a vector involved in the transfer of bioactive compounds and cells. Milk contains abundant quantities of extracellular vesicles (EVs) that may originate from multiple cellular sources. These nanosized vesicles have been well characterized and are known to carry a diverse cargo of proteins, nucleic acids, lipids and other biomolecules. Milk-derived EVs have been demonstrated to survive harsh and degrading conditions in gut, taken up by various cell types, cross biological barriers and reach peripheral tissues. The cargo carried by these dietary EVs has been suggested to have a role in cell growth, development, immune modulation and regulation.”
Pfizer’s Post Marketing report issued April 2021 with Adverse Event reports through Feb. 28, 2021:
Pfizer’s documents give us some interesting information on page 12 (click here)
Babies who were breastfed by COVID-19 mRNA vaccinated mothers had a 13% adverse event rate (17/133), and a 2% serious adverse event rate (3/133).
mRNA Vaccines Are Not Safe for Breastfeeding
So COVID-19 mRNA vaccination is NOT SAFE for breastfeeding mothers or babies.
This was confirmed by the UK Government on August 16 2022, when it declared that “Women who are breastfeeding should also not be vaccinated” (click here)
Alberta Health Services can be sued for medical misinformation: (click here)
AHS advises Albertans: “There are no known risks to getting the COVID-19 vaccine while breastfeeding”.
Every pregnant Alberta woman can now sue AHS for medically misinforming them. It is time for historic class action lawsuits.
My Take…
COVID-19 vaccine mRNA is found in breast milk. This has been known since at least April 2021.
Pfizer’s own documents report that the rate of adverse events in babies who are breastfeeding from COVID-19 mRNA vaccinated mothers is 13% and serious adverse events occur in 2% of babies, including two baby deaths recorded in VAERS.
Most common reactions babies have to mRNA in breast milk are: fever and rashes, then diarrhea, vomiting, and sometimes more serious such as hemolytic anemia, bleeding in urine or stool, and seizures.
We now have an outbreak of myocarditis (heart inflammation) cases in babies < 28 days old, with 16 cases of myocarditis in the UK, including two deaths that are not reported in VAERS (click here). These cases can be due to mRNA in breast milk or LNPs with mRNA crossing the placenta before baby is born.
Mothers report decrease in breast milk production, breast milk discoloration (turns blue or green), sudden onset irregular or heavy menstrual bleeding, breast lumps and more.
COVID-19 mRNA vaccination in breastfeeding mothers was NEVER SAFE, any Institution or expert who claimed otherwise was lying.
About Author
Dr. William Makis is a Canadian physician with expertise in Radiology, Oncology and Immunology. Governor General’s Medal, University of Toronto Scholar. Author of 100+ peer-reviewed medical publications.
Source: Global Research
Two UK Babies Dead From Myocarditis: Total of 16 Babies Developed “Severe Myocarditis” in Wales & England, Eight Ended Up in Intensive Care
Can COVID-19 mRNA vaccinated mothers injure their babies? YES!
Global Research, May 22, 2023
Sources
Major NEWS out of UK
This is a major international story. On Tuesday, May 16, 2023, the WHO issued an alert that there had been 15 newborns in the UK, 10 in Wales and 5 in England who were struck down with severe myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) from June 2022 to March 2023. (click here)
The cases occurred from June 2022 with a peak in November 2022 involving babies under 28 days old.
Out of the affected babies, one has died. Eight were treated in intensive care, where they were intubated, put on a ventilator and received circulatory support.
“Health chiefs were spooked by the ‘unusual’ spike in cases over such a short space of time, prompting a thorough investigation.”
According to Zerohedge: “in the same hospital (covering the South Wales region) over the previous six years, “only one other similar case has been identified.”
Official explanation
The UKHSA said it was “investigating the situation in England”.
PCR testing of nine of the children confirmed they had coxsackie B3 or B4 — types of enterovirus.
Dr. Christopher Williams, consultant epidemiologist for Public Health Wales, said: ‘Enterovirus is a common infection of childhood, causing a range of infections.
It only affects the heart on very rare occasions. This cluster is unusual due to the number of cases reported in a relatively short time frame.
“Investigations are now ongoing in collaboration with the pediatric team in the children’s hospital of Wales to understand the reasons why and to investigate any further cases that may be reported in the coming weeks and months.”
Another baby died of myocarditis, not part of the 15 UK newborns
Another baby who is not included with the 15 newborns affected, also died of myocarditis. Joann Edwards from Mountain Ash in South Wales gave birth to Elijah on Feb.25, 2022 but within a few days of being at home, he became lethargic, developed jaundice and was taken to the hospital when he was a week old because he stopped feeding.
The baby was diagnosed with sepsis, myocarditis and died within days of hospitalization (click here)
Mrs. Edwards said her family has been ignored and was ‘gobsmacked’ after hearing about other cases as they were ‘led to believe that we were a one-off’.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board is now probing Elijah’s death.
What is going on?…
16 UK infants with myocarditis, 2 died, 8 in Intensive Care.
This is an extremely important story.
I don’t buy the official explanation. It’s very suspect. Of these 16 cases, 9 were allegedly diagnosed by PCR tests and all tested positive for enterovirus.
The problem is, we know that PCR tests were notorious for producing over 95% false positive results during the COVID-19 pandemic which were used to drive fear.
In reality, anyone can over-cycle these PCR tests to produce false positives for any virus, and you have the perfect cover-up.
And if the World Health Organization is involved, the probability of fraud and cover-up approaches 100%.
COVID-19 mRNA vaccinated mothers…
My first question is: were the 16 mothers COVID-19 mRNA vaccinated?
Given how aggressively COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were pushed on pregnant women, it is highly probable that they were. For the sake of argument, let’s assume they were.
My second question is: Can the mother’s COVID-19 vaccination cause myocarditis injury in her newborn infant and if so, how?
The short answer is: YES.
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines are crossing the Placenta…
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, including Pfizer and Moderna, are delivered in the form of mRNA packaged in lipid nanoparticles or LNPs.
These LNPs CAN AND DO cross the placenta and here are the studies proving it:
Dec.2015 – Nanoparticles can cross mouse placenta & cause injury (click here)
Nov.2020 – Translocation of (ultra)fine particles and nanoparticles across the placenta: a systematic review on the evidence of in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo studies (click here)
Dec.2022 – Lipid Nanoparticle composition drives mRNA delivery to the placenta (click here)
Feb.2023 – Ionizable Lipid nanoparticles for in vivo mRNA delivery to the placenta during pregnancy (click here)
Bottom line: COVID-19 mRNA vaccinated mothers deliver COVID-19 mRNA vaccine LNPs across the placenta to their unborn child.
Once LNPs enter the fetus, they have negative clinical impact on it. A study by Young et al. showed that some pregnant mice lost their fetuses when they were given LNPs (click here)
This was exposed recently by well known whistleblower Jikkyleaks and has been dubbed #Placentagate.
Jikky says: “This could be one of the biggest scandals in medicine” (click here)
My Take…
COVID-19 mRNA vaccinated mothers deliver LNPs with mRNA to their unborn children through the placenta. This was never studied by Pfizer or Moderna.
Once the LNPs are in the fetus, they distribute freely throughout, including into the baby’s heart where spike protein expression causes inflammation (myocarditis)
Furthermore, mRNA was also recently detected in breast milk, in the paper by Hanna et al. (click here)
US Genomics Expert Kevin McKernan wrote a substack article about how mRNA ingested by the infant through breast milk, could exert a clinical effect by:
COVID-19 vaccine mRNA is RNase resistant due to modified N1-methyl-pseudoU, so it doesn’t break down easily;
Baby’s oral mucosa can be transfected by mother’s mRNA;
mother’s mRNA can survive the baby’s gut and digestive process.
Look at this fascinating explanation: (click here)
“(Breast) Milk is considered as more than a source of nutrition for infants and is a vector involved in the transfer of bioactive compounds and cells.
Milk contains abundant quantities of extracellular vesicles (EVs) that may originate from multiple cellular sources. These nano-sized vesicles have been well characterized and are known to carry a diverse cargo of proteins, nucleic acids, lipids and other biomolecules.
Milk-derived EVs have been demonstrated to survive harsh and degrading conditions in gut, taken up by various cell types, cross biological barriers and reach peripheral tissues. (click here)
Translation: COVID-19 mRNA vaccinated mothers can transfer mRNA to their infants through breast milk (in extracellular vesicles), the mRNA can survive the baby’s digestive process, and the mRNA can then exert a serious clinical impact, including well known adverse events such as myocarditis.
Summary…
I have a reasonable suspicion that maternal COVID-19 mRNA vaccination may be causing myocarditis in babies. In this cluster of 16 UK babies that developed “severe myocarditis”, 8 ended up in the ICU and 2 died. Notice that all 16 babies were 28 days old or younger, which seems particularly odd.
Any possible link between maternal COVID-19 mRNA vaccination and these 16 infant myocarditis cases including 2 deaths, should be investigated but this will probably never happen. A cover-up (with the help of the WHO) may already be well underway and it will all be swept under the rug to protect Pfizer & Moderna.
But this story is important because it raises a KEY question:
Can COVID-19 mRNA vaccinated mothers give mRNA to their babies and injure them? YES, both through the placenta in utero, and through breast feeding via breast milk.
In both situations, the COVID-19 vaccine mRNA can exert a serious clinical impact on the infant, which includes all well known mRNA adverse events such as MYOCARDITIS.
About Author
Dr. William Makis is a Canadian physician with expertise in Radiology, Oncology and Immunology. Governor General’s Medal, University of Toronto Scholar. Author of 100+ peer-reviewed medical publications.
Featured image is from Children’s Health Defense
Source: Global Research
High School Students Who Died Suddenly or Unexpectedly After Taking COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines. Foreign Deaths in 2021
20 cases
Global Research, May 10, 2023
Germany (Hollfeld, Bavaria) – 15 year old girl had 2nd Pfizer mRNA on Nov.1, 2021, suffered a massive heart attack on Nov. 4, 2021 and died on Nov. 17, 2021
Brazil (Rondonia) – 13 year old boy Weverton Silva Had Pfizer mRNA on Aug. 25, 2021, died from heart attack on Oct. 8, 2021 (VIDEO click here)
Guyana (Kamwatta, Moruca) – 13 year old boy Joshua Henry died 2 hours after getting 2nd dose of Pfizer mRNA on Oct. 4, 2021 (click here)
UK – 17 year old student Adam Ali died suddenly after Pfizer mRNA, autopsy results were “inconclusive”, CT showed blood in the lungs, died Sep. 19, 2021 (click here)
Lviv, Ukraine – 19 year old Volodymyr Salo received 1st Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA on Sep. 13, 2021 at 2:30pm, collapsed and had a seizure at 8:15pm and died by 9pm (click here)
Brazil – 16 year old Isabelli Borges Valentim, student at a private Christian school had 1st Pfizer mRNA on Aug. 25, 2021, developed blood clots and died 8 days later on Sep. 2, 2021 (click here)(click here)
Italy – 16 year old Camilla Canepa had AstraZeneca shot on May 25 2021, arrived in Hospital June 3, 2021, died shortly after. (click here)(click here)
California – 16 year old California boy (VAERS ID: 1466009) had 2nd Pfizer jab on April 3, 2021, died 27 days later on April 30, 2021 while taking his math class on Zoom (click here)(click here)
UK (Barnsley) – 18 year old paramedic student Kasey Turner received AstraZeneca vaccine on Feb. 11, 2021, was admitted to hospital Feb. 23, 2021 with severe headache and died on Feb. 27, 2021 from cerebral venous thrombosis (click here)
Vietnam: 5 children died after Pfizer mRNA vaccine
After Vietnam started vaccinating with Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccines on Nov.23, 2021, within two weeks, 5 children were dead and 120 hospitalized (click here)
17 yo girl (Trieu Phong, vaxxed Dec.2, died Dec.9, 2021) (click here)
15 yo boy (Son La, vaxxed Dec.4, died Dec.6, 2021) (click here)
12 yo boy (Binh Phuoc, vaxxed Nov.29, died Nov.30, 2021) (click here)
16 yo boy (Bac Giang, vaxxed Nov.24, died Nov.28, 2021) (click here)
14 yo girl (Hanoi, vaxxed Nov.27, died Nov.28, 2021) (click here)
Vietnam suspends Pfizer batch after 120 children hospitalized (click here)
South Korea (3 teenagers died)
A 17 year old boy died in Incheon, near Seoul, on Oct.15, 2021 (click here)
A high school male student had COVID-19 vaccine on Aug.13, 2021 and died 75 days later on Oct.27, 2021. This was the first admitted teen death post vaccination in South Korea (click here)
16 year old boy died after 2 doses of COVID-19 vaccine on Dec.30, 2021 (click here)
Thailand (2 teenagers died)
16 year old girl (daughter of Thanphit Sakunmat, from Lampang) died as a result of blood clots in lungs a few days after 2nd Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA jab on Oct.27, 2021. (click here)
15 year old Wuthidet Namo died at Samut Prakan Hospital on Nov.26, 2021, after receiving 2nd Pfizer jab 2 days earlier at school (click here)
Singapore
18 year old boy died on Oct.13, 2021, 75 days after his COVID-19 vaccine (click here)
My take…
What you find in 2021 is that there were many deaths very soon after COVID-19 vaccination with Pfizer or Moderna.
Most of these deaths cannot be found using Google and usual search terms.
Google has censored almost all COVID-19 vaccine related deaths from its search engine.
And some of the websites that reported these deaths are now offline.
About Author
Dr. William Makis is a Canadian physician with expertise in Radiology, Oncology and Immunology. Governor General’s Medal, University of Toronto Scholar. Author of 100+ peer-reviewed medical publications.
Source: Children’s Health Defense
‘Horrible Idea’: First Vaccine for Birth Control Now in Clinical Trials
Rather than disrupt the menstrual cycle, as hormonal forms of birth control do, the vaccine uses the immune system to prevent pregnancy by blocking fertilization.
Humanity’s first contraceptive vaccine is already in clinical trials, according to an article published this week in The Atlantic.
Reporter Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D., described the vaccine, as envisioned by its developer Professor Gursaran Pran Talwar, stating that it would be:
“A new form of contraception that could block pregnancy without the usual trade-offs — an intervention that’s long-acting but reversible; cheap, discreet, and easy to administer; less invasive than an intrauterine device and more convenient than a daily pill.
“It would skip messy, sometimes dangerous side effects, such as weight gain, mood swings, and rare but risky blood clots and strokes. It would embody the sort of ‘set it and forget it’ model that’s become a gold standard for health.”
Rather than disrupting the menstrual cycle, as hormonal forms of birth control do, the vaccine uses the immune system to prevent pregnancy by blocking fertilization.
Talwar first developed the vaccine and patented a version of it in the early 1990s. That version, meant to be effective for two years before a booster was needed, was reported to be “nearly 100% effective.”
Talwar, former director of India’s National Institute of Immunology, told Wu he developed the vaccine because he knew women in India who were struggling to feed large families, but were unhappy with existing forms of contraception.
He said he wanted to make something, “free of all problems,” so he created a vaccine that would neutralize the human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) hormone, known as “the pregnancy hormone” because it is necessary for fertilized eggs to implant.
But Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., chief scientific officer for Children’s Health Defense, said such a vaccine doesn’t just have problems, “It is an absolutely horrible idea.”
Hooker told The Defender:
“So much can go wrong by ‘immunizing’ a woman with hCG identical to the hormone she produces, or men with sperm proteins to attack their own sperm at the production site.
“The big question that comes to mind is ‘reversibility.’ It is very difficult to turn off an immune response complete with memory B-cells after it has been turned on. My fear is that many would be left permanently sterile from this type of vaccine.
“Also, the problems posed by this technology related to autoimmunity are myriad.
“Essentially, by coaxing the body to attack human proteins, you also put human tissues, including primarily vital reproductive organs, in the line of fire for many harsh inflammatory processes associated with an immune response.
“This is one bad idea!”
Mary Lou Singleton, midwife and family nurse practitioner, also raised safety concerns. She told The Defender:
“This would be the first vaccine designed to provoke an immune response against a normal, healthy bodily process.
“Like all living organisms that reproduce sexually, the human body is organized around our reproductive potential.
“We have no idea what the long-term consequences of programming the immune system to attack the part of our body that sustains early pregnancy may be, but we do know that the history of medicine is full of unintended consequences.”
The Atlantic article didn’t focus on possible health risks. Instead, it touted Talwar et al.’s 1994 vaccine clinical trial, where only 1 of 119 women in the study became pregnant.
The limitations, Wu said, are in the fact that although they didn’t get pregnant, about 20% of the women did not produce the threshold amount of antibodies for the trial to be successful. This would be considered sufficiently effective for a regular vaccine, Wu wrote, but for contraception, expectations are higher.
Another limitation she noted is that a three-shot series could be “cumbersome.”
But, she wrote, “There is some reason to think these issues aren’t insurmountable,” because immunocontraceptives have been used for decades by wildlife scientists to prevent pregnancies “as a more humane alternative to culling.”
Immunocontraception has primarily been used on captive animals, but it also has been used for population control of some wild species such as white-tailed deer, wild horses, bison and elephants, according to the Humane Society of the United States.
Dr. Julie Levy, a feline infectious disease expert at the University of Florida who has worked on immunocontraceptives in animals described the challenge of creating an effective contraceptive vaccine as “trying to immunize an animal against itself.”
Wu also mentioned that the hCG vaccine has “encountered some issues with tolerability,” in that some women develop “painless but prominent nodules,” which she said indicates the adjuvants in the vaccine are “riling up the immune system a tad too much.”
That means scientists will have to “tinker with dosing or ingredients,” before the vaccine is ready, she wrote.
But, she argued this vaccine is important because it could fill clear gaps in the contraceptive market.
“Nearly half of the world’s pregnancies are unplanned,” and access to existing contraception is “inconsistent, inequitable, and still stymied by stigma and misinformation,” she said.
Drawing on an interview with Debanjana Choudhuri, director of Programs and Partnerships at India’s Foundation for Reproductive Health Services, Wu added:
“A temporary contraception, packaged into a super-safe vaccine, could offer convenience and privacy, with potential appeal for young urbanites, who have already been enthusiastic about injectable contraceptives and might not mind getting boosts.
“Most important, adding a vaccine to the repertoire gives people ‘another choice.’”
‘Pregnancy is not a disease’
The real challenge to launching a birth control vaccine, Wu wrote, is that some might stigmatize it because of the history of contraception imposed on women, particularly the poor, mentally ill and people of color, without their consent or to their detriment.
Sanghamitra Singh, Ph.D., the Policy and Programmes lead at the Population Foundation of India, told Wu that “pregnancy is not a disease.”
Wu conceded that vaccination against pregnancy might “unintentionally” imply that pregnancy is a problem to be eradicated and that could stigmatize the shot.
Singleton said she also had concerns about potential abuse.
She added:
“People in power all over the world continue to curtail the reproductive rights of women through forced and coerced long-term contraception and sterilization.
“As anti-natalism and concerns about overpopulation rise among the ruling classes, will this technology be added to state-mandated vaccination schedules for teenagers, immigrant women, poor women or other groups labeled ‘high-risk’ for undesired pregnancy?”
Wu also conceded that the administration of the vaccine could “raise the specter of the eradication of fertility in society’s most vulnerable subsects,” because, according to Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Ph.D., a reproductive bioethicist at the University of Texas Medical Branch, the ease of administering it might mean it would be more likely to be given without fully informed consent.
This might be a problem, Wu pointed out, in today’s climate where many people are already “disinclined toward shots,” especially amid “false accusations that other immunizations compromise fertility.”
But recent Pfizer data obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests showed a link between the COVID-19 vaccine and miscarriage and birth defects.
Pfizer’s animal studies for the vaccine showed major red flags regarding both pregnancy loss and fetal abnormalities.
The documents also revealed that the drugmaker elected not to follow up the vast majority of pregnancies in the original human trials, despite high miscarriage rates in the minority they did follow.
Singleton said the question of vaccine safety was already difficult to discuss, and combining that with a discussion of contraception could raise even more challenges.
She said:
“As has become evident over the past few years, mainstream society allows no dialogue or critique on the subject of vaccine safety. Already it is difficult for women’s health activists to broach the topic of the safety and long-term effects of hormonal contraception.
“Combining the medical sacred cows of birth control and contraception seems like a recipe for a medical intervention no one will be allowed to question.”
Wu’s article attributes the fact that Talwar’s vaccine has made little progress since the early ’90s to “bad timing.” He only recently got approval to run trials on his new “vaccine recipe.” But, she reported the research is moving forward and may also be directed toward immunotherapy for certain cancers.
About Author
Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. is a reporter for The Defender. She wrote and taught about capitalism and politics for 10 years in the writing program at Duke University. She holds a Ph.D. in human geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's from the University of Texas at Austin.
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