Vaccines,
Vaccine Deployment, and “New Vaccines”
(LSF SPECIAL REPORT ON VACCINATION)
August 2025
Part 2 of 5 Tuesday 26th August
Introduction to Part 2
In this 2nd of the five-part series, we
conclude the general introduction to the topic by pointing out the
contradiction in the arguments used to demonize anybody who challenges blind
embrace of mass vaccination – aka” vaccine hesitancy”. If vaccines work as advertised, anybody duly
vaccinated should not need to bother whether some other folks got vaccinated or
not! Thereafter we offer our short
prescription on how to improve the effectiveness of vaccines.
Finally in
today’s post, we began the illustration of our points with 7 specific case
studies. The first of these is the Oral Polyomyelitis Vaccine (OPV). Many of our readers will be shocked to learn
that the OPV is proscribed in most developed nations of the world, as it is
guaranteed to cause in any population where is administered, the very same
Polio it is touted as fighting! Even worse, it has been linked with the Post
Polio syndrome which manifests some 15 - 30 years later on in people who had received
it. The feeble plea by international/UN
bodies that the OPV be replaced with the Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) used
in the developed nations has remained unheeded for over a decade. All this is crazy stuff, isn’t it!
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iv. Criminalizing Rational Hesitancy
The final point of concern to be addressed on the subject of Vaccination
is the growing tendency to criminalize acts deemed “vaccine hesitancy”. Advocates
for indiscriminate mass vaccination try to push some moral burden on the
unvaccinated, accusing them of not permitting the attainment of some “herd”
immunity that would in theory make possible the “eradication” of some target
disease.
The herd immunity theory has however been challenged by several reports
of outbreaks of infections even in communities with more than 99% vaccine
coverage [6]. Even more striking are data that emerged
during the COVID pandemic. For instance,
a country like Gibraltar which rushed to attain an official 101% immunization
rate, actually ended up becoming the worst-affected COVID nation - within three
months of their initially widely acclaimed success.[7]
It will also be recalled that during
the same COVID-19 saga, even while no vaccine had yet been developed, Mr Bill
Gates came out to authoritatively declare that normalcy to the globally imposed
“lockdown, masking, and social distancing” would come, only when literally “every
person on earth” is jabbed with one of the experimental COVID vaccines, he was
going to sponsor [8]. In the same vein,
there was the heinous report in 2012, of rural folks in Malawi being compelled
by Gates-funded NGOs, to take the measle vaccine, AT GUN POINT [9].
All these defy plain simple logic. For a
vaccine-preventable infection, the only persons who should be in jeopardy of
their health are the unvaccinated. For
vaccines that are truly effective, the vaccinated should be safe from the
infection irrespective of what some other folks do or fail to do.
v. Way
Forward:
Every man-made
product can always be improved upon. There must be concerted efforts to
constantly improve on the safety and efficacy of vaccines. However, this will only happen when they are
transparently developed, and administered only in situations where their
benefits clearly outweigh the inevitable associated risks; with the
contraindicated conditions well noted and respected.
In the
next section of this document, we provide brief reviews of some common vaccines/vaccine
types, currently being deployed en masse, and largely indiscriminately,
in Nigeria. The principal point to note
is that most of the vaccines are
presented for use in Nigeria in formats that are PROSCRIBED in the developed
nations where they are produced. It
could also be noted, in passing, that Nigeria’s once-thriving capacity for
local vaccine production [10], dating back to 1940, was rudely truncated in
1991 during a supposed facility upgrade, promised by players from the advanced
countries. This has now turned us into
the proverbial beggar that is not entitled to make choices.
II. Specific Cases
We now apply the principles and points discussed above, to seven specific
special cases – Polio Vaccines, Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines, Combination
Vaccines, Malaria Vaccines, Human Papilloma Virus vaccines, Covid Vaccines, and
General mRNA-based vaccines. The
discussions are concise summaries extracted mostly from our previous articles,
which can be consulted for additional, more technical, details and references
as might be needed.
i. The Oral
Poliomyelitis Vaccine (OPV)
Poliomyelitis,
commonly known as polio, is a highly contagious viral disease that
primarily affects young children. It can cause paralysis and, in some
cases, even death. The disease is caused by
the poliovirus, which is transmitted principally in unsanitary
conditions through food and water that has been contaminated with faecal matter.
Enormous
human and financial resources have been deployed towards the utopian goal of
totally eradicating polio in the world through the use of vaccines targeting
the most prevalent strains of the poliovirus.
One cannot but wonder, however, if better health outcomes would not have
resulted if only a fraction of such resources had been directed to improve
basic sanitation globally. This would
not only drastically prevent polio infections to start with, there will also be
positive spin-offs for numerous other diseases associated with poor
hygiene. These in particular, include diarrheal,
which is responsible for the death of 150,000 children in Nigeria, every year
[11].
However,
the main problem with polio vaccination in Nigeria is that it involves largely
the administration of Oral Polio Vaccine – OPV, a vaccine that has been
proscribed for use in the western world.
The United States for instance, stopped the use of OPV in 2000, and
shifted to the Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) [12]. The reason is that the OPV uses weakened but
live polio virus to inoculate children and stimulate an immune response. It is however well-established that this
weakened virus, shed in the stool of vaccinated children, in course of time regains
strength and starts to cause poliomyelitis in the community! [13,14] Since the
efficacy of OPV in the vaccinated is less than 100%, both the already
vaccinated and unvaccinated stand in jeopardy of being infected by this shed
virus. The polio subsequently caused by
the vaccine is termed “circulating Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus” (cVDPV), and is
deemed by global health authorities as a general, inevitable consequence of
vaccination which must be accepted – for developing countries, chiefly Nigeria.
With relentless condemnation of
this unconscionable discriminatory practice by respected public health
authorities over the years, the World Health Assembly in May 2012, decided that
OPV should be phased out and replaced with IPV globally. Though Nigeria made a symbolic introduction
of IPV in 2015 [15], ten years later most of the polio vaccines administered in
the country are still OPV. The childhood vaccine schedule from the NPHCDA (Table
1, accessed on 5th August, 2025), stipulates 4 doses of OPV and 2 doses
of IPV [16]. The logic of mixing OPV
and IPV is not clear. Even one dose of
OPV administered to millions of children is guaranteed to generate cVDPV!
Another very troubling dimension to the continued
use of OPV is the emerging facts concerning the development of what is referred
to as the “post polio syndrome.” This
has been observed in people who have been exposed to mild polio infection -
such as that resulting from receiving the OPV.
The syndrome, characterized by “decreasing muscular function or acute
weakness with pain and fatigue” in more than 80% of polio infections, takes between
15 to 30 years before manifesting [17].
It is of course, difficult to diagnose and trace it to its source - the
polio vaccine administered so many years previously. Conditions contraindicated for OPV are listed on
the Medecins Sans Frontieres web page on HPV [18].
6.
Gustafson TL, Lievens AW, Brunell PA, Moellenberg RG, Buttery CM, Sehulster
LM.: Measles outbreak in a fully immunized secondary-school population.New
England Journal of Medicine, 1987 Mar 26;316(13):771-4. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/research_db/measles-outbreak-in-a-fully-immunized-secondary-school-population/)
7.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/04/gibraltar-covid-vaccination-safe.html
9.
https://churcharise.blogspot.com/2011/08/and-in-malawi-bill-gates-partners.html
10. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/253420-nigerias-vaccine-production-centre-remains-comatose-despite-govt-assurances.html?tztc=1
11.
https://washnigeria.com/2023/06/29/101-nigerian-children-die-of-diarrhoea-daily-who/
12.
https://www.cdc.gov/polio/vaccines/index.html ]
16.
https://x.com/NphcdaNG/status/1627577180182962176. Accessed 5th August,
2025.
17.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-polio_syndrome#:~:text=Post%2Dpolio%20syndrome%20(PPS%2C,after%20a%20nonparalytic%20polio%20infection.
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