Stats about diagnosis after vaccination

[catchthewind]

Hi all,
I've blogged a little bit about vaccinations in the past. (My daughter is not vaxed. My pets haven't been vaxed since we got them.) I know most of my readers, and most of them are relatively crunchy mamas who are either on the fence about vaccines, haven't vaxed their own kids, or are at least open minded. I want to keep my vaccine posts easy to read and with citations but with really clear information about them. It's sort of a documentation of how my husband and I came to our decision not to vax.

My last post I wrote about was showing how the deaths from diseases had been declining long before the vaccine, and how the CDC likes to show graphs that start right before the vaccine was introduced, rather than long term. But the CDC graphs are cases while the other graphs are deaths, so it is comparing two different things. Now I want to write a post about how doctors are much slower to diagnose a VPD in a vaccinated child, which would obviously skew the statistics. I am having a lot of trouble finding sources though. I know they are out there, but I guess I'm just not hitting the right search terms. Could anyone here point me to some good sources for this information or good websites that explain why this is the case?

I read a study or article once that discussed how the "definition" for ADHD was changed and suddenly the number of kids with it skyrocketed, just as a drug was released for it. I can't seem to find that article anywhere now either and would like to quote it as well to help show how much influence big pharma has on the numbers out there, if anyone happens to know what I'm talking about and knows of a good link. I'm usually really good at finding what I need, but the search terms are escaping me with this!

Thank you!

[Scattershoot]

I would use polio and show how the diagnostic criteria was changed after introduction of the vaccine making it much harder to diagnose. It's hard to go the other route (doctors not diagnosing a certain disease due to vax status). People will just say that is anecdotal. Here's one example of diagnosing I experienced. When I worked at an outpatient mental health facility we had a running joke for a doctor who was affiliated with the local inpatient facility. We called him Dr. Bipolar. Almost every single young person sent to us from that facility had that diagnosis. I discovered the reason. The money allotted for care was related to diagnosis. ADHD and Reactive Attachment didn't make as much.

Another good example is AIDS. The diagnostic criteria actually changed when one entered Africa. I'm not sure if this is still the case, but it was for a very long time (the Bangui definition). They argue some countries have changed this, but the fact is most Africans aren't even given an HIV test (the tests are ridiculuosly wrong much of the time anyhow).

There is a reason people go to doctors for "second opinions." This is not wordplay it is often a fact or perhaps a Freudian slip.

[mamakay]

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