The Band Stil Plays On - SF pediatrician with homeopathic diploma and chickenpox parties
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I can't believe that the State of California would allow a licensed
pediatrician to go around telling their patients that they should go to a
chickenpox party instead of getting the chickenpox vaccine.
In San Francisco, the home of The Band Played On, is in my opinion still
spawining hoards of bloody idiot mothers who don't understand the
consequences of their statements like:
"Dr. Michelle Perro herself has not yet immunized her young daughter,
hoping she will contract chicken pox naturally. A pediatrician with a
diploma in homeopathy, Perro recommends an alternative for those parents
uncomfortable with vaccinating their children. "We offer homeopathic doses
of the varicella [chicken-pox] virus, which a large population of our
clients prefer." She reports that she and her associates have not heard of
any children contracting chicken pox after receiving the homeopathic
treatment. "
The article, written by an award winning video artist, not a medical writer,
had this little bit of information, excuse me, misinformation to start the
article:
"Though chicken-pox parties like the one de Feminis attended have fallen
out of favor in recent years, they may be making a comeback. Despite the
medical establishment's warnings about the risks involved, some parents are
more concerned with the potential side effects of vaccines -- believed to
include autism, as well as learning and hyperactivity disorders -- leading
them to seek alternatives to vaccination for some childhood diseases. "
Are the people of San Francisco that stupid, or what??
Our experience with the complications of chickenpox here in the
Kitchener-Waterloo area of Ontario is not that unusual. Perhaps the author
of this ridiculous article and the homeopathic pediatrician should leave
their minds in San Fran, and come up here to speak with the pediatricians
and parents who have seen the tragedy close up and personal when kids do not
have immunity to chickenpox and then succumb to flesh eating disease.
Another article
Jeff Winchester, DC, our resident anti-vaccine chiropractor, as usual had
this to say about chickenpox vaccine:
www.chirowatch.com/Chiro-anti-vax/letter981229winchester.html
Of course you may remember his appearance, just a year earlier, when he
picketed the local high school to protest the meningitis vaccine after two
teenage girls had died during on Canada's worst meningitis outbreaks.
A recent outbreak of serious complications from chickenpox actually made it
all the way to Canada's national newspaper, the Globe and Mail.
Another Article
Since 2000, researchers have tracked admissions of children with severe
chickenpox complications at 12 hospitals across Canada. Of 940 young
patients recorded between 2000 and 2002, nine suffered strokes.
Eleven other children had flesh-eating disease requiring disfiguring
surgery, according to Dr. David Scheifele, director of the vaccination
evaluation centre at B.C.'s Children's Hospital in Vancouver. His latest
case involved a little girl with a pox lesion on her vulva. The surgery
involved removing the skin of her genitalia. "It's like a reverse lottery,''
he says. "Once in a while your child will lose big time.''
The shame, doctors say, is that chickenpox is no longer inevitable. While
there is no vaccine for flesh-eating disease, there is a very good one for
chickenpox. A single dose, enough to immunize a child for life, costs
doctors $58 and retails at pharmacies for $60 or $80, depending on the
mark-up. (Children age 13 and over require two doses.)"
In Ontario, the cost of the chickepox vaccine may be covered by private
insurance. In the U.S. I assume this is true also.
Why in the world, in view of the serious complications of wild chickenpox,
including stroke, and flesh-eating disease, is the San Francisco Chronicle
allowing the nonsensical pronouncements of a homeopathic pediatrician to be
aired around the world on the internet.
I ask you to correct the misconceptions about chickenpox that one member of
your medical profession has presented. Do this please, in the name of the
memory of all of those children who have died or suffered because their
parents followed the unscientific pronouncements of their chiropractors, or
naturopaths, and yes, even their own pediatricians.
Stop the music, San Francisco, and get on the Band Wagon and let's fight
chickenpox with the our modern weapons of intelligence, not some mumbo-jumbo
idiotic rant in support of homeopathic chickenpox pills.
The homeopathic community should hang their heads in shame for spreading
such rubbish. Ah yes, there must be something in the water supply in SF that
prevents rational thought. But then again, there is no rational thought when
it comes to homeopathy, is there?
Dr. Terry Polevoy, MD
938 King St. West
Kitchener, Ontario, N2G 1G4 Canada
519-725-2263 -- 725-4953 fax
