Haemophilus influenzae

The flu shots still can contain mercury.

The DTAP shot, the Hib shot, the hepatitis B shot, and the Prevnar shot all contain aluminum, as does the HPV shot.

And these are things that do not belong fully injected, directly injected 100% absorption into a human body.

Yeah, and I think it's also important when we're talking about all this kind of stuff, too, is that I think that a lot of people, when they think about, let's say, a vaccine injury, they're looking at the extremely acute immediate reaction, again, whether you're talking autism or you have a heart attack, your heart goes crazy or whatever it is.

Modern physicians believe he had acute epiglottis.

From Hib.

There you go.

Epiglottis.

Optional.

Optional.

In Florida, get your Hib.

Fantastic.

Let's take a look at the bacteria that are involved.

Haemophilus influenzae type B used to be the most common cause, but it's much less frequent now after the Hib vaccine.

The most common microbes in the current era are gram-positive cocci, like Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcal species.

There are gram-negative and anaerobic bacteria that can be involved.

Yeah, it's meningococcal B.

And do you remember years ago? they brought out a vaccine for the under fives, the Hib vaccine for meningitis.

Now, it didn't cover all the strains of meningitis, but as it happened, Grainne was over five that year.

And even when she was going to Kolkata, she had to get a series of vaccinations going to India, and meningitis wasn't included.

And the reason you want to save it is the profound vulnerability that follows removal.

Medicine actively admits this vulnerability by mandating lifetime vaccines for pneumococcal, Hib, and meningococcal bacteria for anyone without a spleen.

Because the spleen is the only organ capable of filtering out those specific bacteria, which have a tough, encapsulated outer shell.

Right.

flu type b was a very, very common cause, right? But times have changed, right? You know, people have kind of wisened up.

A lot of people have got in-- started getting their Hiby-- uh, Hib, Hib vaccines, right? So H.

flu type b vaccines, not Hiby.

H. flu type b vaccines, right? So that has really, really reduced that, that problem, right? So but, y-you know, there are other things, many times bacteria, that can cause this problem, right? So remember, when people have epiglottitis, right, the thing that we're worried about is that ep-- that epiglottitis can literally progress to just complete obstruction of the airway.

Literally complete obstruction of the airway, right? So the thing is, on your exams and also in the real world, you kinda wanna avoid anything that agitates the child, right? And you wanna secure the airway in a controlled setting.

Offit, who's a pediatrician and helped develop a vaccine for rotavirus that saves, you know, 165,000 lives a year.

And he talked about, we, we talked very in detail about Haemophilus influenzae b. It's like, it's this thing people don't really hear about or think about, but as emergency docs, as pediatricians, we know this so well.

And I, I came up in, in medicine in the late '90s, training then, and it had been pretty much eradicated, or not eradicated, but, like, it wasn't a thing we had to think too much about.

Our, my attendings who trained 20, 30 years prior told horror stories of kids with horrible infections in their throat where you had to, like, secure an airway, like cut into their neck to get an airway for them, or horrible cases of meningitis that this vaccine eliminated, like just-

I mean, you learn about them in, in the various, uh, hard science classes, but some of it's almost like a, a history of medicine you would learn [chuckles] as you were going through, and some of the older attendings, you know, who are maybe, like, in their early 60s when I was in my 20s would, would talk to you about these cases.

I, I...

God, I remember Haemophilus influenzae meningitis that I, I didn't see, but people telling me about how horrible and, you know, the difference between croup and epiglottitis, people may not-- Those aren't often thought of as much because they don't make the news.

But these horrible diseases that an entire generation or multiple generations now of, of doctors just haven't had to experience, thank God, and these guys seem hell-bent on bringing them back.