Chinese Baby Atrophies and Dies After Receiving BCG Vaccine

Xiao Ruirui, a Chinese baby boy in Zhejiang province who due to an immune system defect has developed multiple diseases and illnesses after receiving the BCG vaccine.

From NetEase:

Infant’s body atrophies after getting BCG vaccine [against tuberculosis], CDC says it is a case study

“I thought you were going to be another one of life’s miracles, but closing my eyes, all I can hear is the sound of my heart breaking…” lamented a mother as she held her child who has been given a death sentence from a serious disease.

At the [Zhejiang Province] Anji County’s Dipu town clinic, lying in his mother’s arms, Little Ruirui opens his eyes, an IV drip hanging from his foot. He couldn’t possibly know what disease he has contracted, and all he feels is suffering.

7-month old Little Ruirui has already received several months of treatment at Hangzhou, Shanghai, and other places, but because [his family] couldn’t afford the expensive treatment costs, on May 5th, he has once again returned to Dipu. Now, he has lost his hair, his muscles loose, his head and body even shedding layers and layers of skin.

The Shanghai city Public Health Clinical Center diagnosed him with acute bronchial pneumonia, septicemia, pulmonary infection, disseminated BCG [tuberculosis] disease, hyper-IgE syndrome, and a zero-chance of curing him. A life that hasn’t yet begun has already entered its final moments.

A picture of Little Ruirui when he was healthier.

An atrophied Chinese baby who now resembles an old man after a BCG vaccination.

Xiao Ruirui, a Chinese baby boy in Zhejiang province who due to an immune system defect has developed multiple diseases and illnesses after a BCG vaccination.

Xiao Ruirui cries, his face wrinked from his atrophied muscles.

Little Ruirui, A Chinese baby born with a rare immune system disorder hold a string of beads.

Xiao Ruirui, face covered, with a photograph of him by his side.

Family members cry around Xiao Ruirui's body, a Chinese baby born with a rare immune system defect.

Family and relatives care for Xiao Ruirui, a Chinese baby born with a rare immune system defect.

Family and relatives care for Xiao Ruirui, a Chinese baby born with a rare immune system defect.

Family and relatives care for Xiao Ruirui, a Chinese baby born with a rare immune system defect.

Family and relatives care for Xiao Ruirui, a Chinese baby born with a rare immune system defect.Family and relatives care for Xiao Ruirui, a Chinese baby born with a rare immune system defect.

Family members at a hospital where Xiao Ruirui is.Family and relatives care for Xiao Ruirui, a Chinese baby born with a rare immune system defect.

From China.com:

2011 May 19th noon, devastating news arrives.

Little Ruirui in the end had no options for escaping the disease, and at around 11:20 passed away. Before having a chance to enjoy any of life’s happiness, he hastily left.

I am at the hospital at this time, at child’s side keeping him company, and not in much of a mood to write anything. I just want to post the photos, so that everyone can feel for a moment what is called tragedy, a tragedy that should never have happened to an innocent and lovely child.

From 19Lou:

Probabilty is only 0.19~1.56 out of 1 million, provincial health department expert yesterday answers questions related to the Anji “Atrophied Baby”
Disseminated BCG disease is extremely rare, normal children need not worry

A Chinese news report about this case:

The Chinese news report mentions that Little Ruirui has passed away and that there is a lot of public anger and concern regarding BCG vaccinations. Health department representatives explain that what happened to Little Ruirui is due to an immune system defect, and that the probability for something similar happening due to the vaccine for normal children is very rare.

Comments from 19Lou:

biocore2009:

Even if the probability is extremely low, the government should still bear this responsibility, do some small practical action to comfort this poor family.

zhengmin1983:

So should we vaccinate or not vaccinate, faint. Possible means it will still happen, who can provide a clear path [proper advice] for the future?

taozi9494:

Because the probability is extremely low, it should be considered a rare disease even more. It should get government help even more!!!
No???

nishizawa:

Vaccine problems in China are many.
My little girl got a pneumonia vaccination, and she developed pneumonia that very afternoon.

痴呆疯傻:

When a problem happens, what does the government do? Why is it always shifting responsibility?

zesalani:

This is not a fault with the government, no vaccination is 100% safe. It should be those in science answering these questions.
But since this kind of problem has appeared, the government should provide corresponding compensation.

kynavv:

Problems with giving birth, problems with inoculation, problems with food, just how many gates of death do we have to get through…?

丹麦童话:

Ultimately it is still that the government did not do its job. Fake milk power, fake rice, everything is fake, and they make a vaccine that harms people. China’s high officials, I beg you to do some good things, okay?!

People gathered around Xiao Ruirui, a Chinese baby boy in Zhejiang province who due to an immune system defect has developed multiple diseases and illnesses after a BCG vaccination.
Comments from China.com:

笑我狂:

Hahahahaha~~~~~~~

In China, this thing is truly fucking commonplace!!!!

After laughing, our eyes are filled with tears of hate!!!!!

火柴杆:

Seeing the image, it feels like knives in my heart.

I shed tears for the child.

你不想惹的人:

This kind of situation is relatively common! This is just the tip of the iceberg!

天子照:

Which government department should take responsibility for the problems with China’s food and medicine safety problems?????

爱国者和飞毛腿:

It was an accident. The needle damaged a nerve, caused the muscles in the legs to shrink/atrophy. Nothing to do with the vaccine.

龙之威出枭雄亦下:

What kind of society is this, living in China is a tragedy.

江黑:

Poor child, if there is a next life, please don’t reincarnation in China.

xiaowei87103:

Looking at the report, this doesn’t seem to be a problem with the vaccine, but that the child has a defective immune system. I call for scientific progress! However, I do feel like they should be given some kind of compensation or something, so sad!

大器晚成的狼:

No matter what the reason is, seeing a little baby passing from this world like this is so heartbreaking, so saddening.

A mother cries for her dying baby.

  • McCurry

    NFSW!!!!! SOFA! Poor Baby

  • zsu

    I didn’t get the BCG vaccination until I was in my early teenage years (I’m a brit).

    • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaccination-Information-Network-VINE/69667273997 Erwin Alber

      I’m glad I wasn’t given this crap vaccine in my youth (I’m Swiss). I unfortunately WAS vaccinated against small pox and diphtheria as a child by my well-meaning but ignorant parents.

      • Gregory Orton

        Then I hope you get TB. Seriously? “This crap vaccine”. Fuck you and all of your ilk.

        This is a tragedy through and through. But without these “unfortunate vaccinations”, then the world would still be over-run with various diseases. Measles, mumps, diphteria, rubella, polio. And you’d have an increased chance of catching them. I fear HIV wouldn’t be good enough for you.

        It’s because of people like you that fear, uncertainty and doubt are allowed to rule people’s hearts and minds.

        • LK

          @Gregory Orton: fear mongering by big pharma targets exactly the likes of you. you are their best customer, ones who go out and make more fear mongering. thank you for your cogent and convincing defense of vaccine policy.

          • EL

            Ya because Big Pharma scare tactics were responsible for all the deaths that Small pox caused before 1970. Big Pharma is also responsible for all the suffering that polio suffers had all across Europe and the “developed” world.

            Give your own head a shake.

  • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

    Side by side in the photos, I can’t help but notice that vaccine baby is making the same fist pump as Brother Hao.

    I think we can all eternally agree, making racist jokes is unacceptable.

    • Fauna

      Hahahahaha!

      • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

        Note to Fauna: as I was born color-blind, I see neither race when it comes to people nor irony when it comes to laughter, so I’ll take it for what it is.

        Whenever I tragic story like this involving babies [like that mother breast smothering one], I always seem to find the same comment: “Baby, if/when you get reincarnated, don’t come back to China.” I think it’s hard enough to get a visa in the corporeal-world, let alone the non-corporeal world.

        I’ll show myself out now.

        • B-real

          Dude she was laughing because you are right they are bumping fist to each other. Chill out come back and troll with the rest of us.

          • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

            Good sir, be you calling your humble servant a fellow troll? Wine drum fiddlesticks! Since childhood I have heeded this noble words that have always rang true: every time someone laughs, a troll loses his bridge.

  • ##BlothaLonely##

    It’s a crime to be poor in this country, sigh!!

  • Adnan

    Destiny…

    Sad that he couldn’t even start his life here.

    But on the other hand, he is gonna be in a place called ” Aaraaf” or ” Maqaam Al-Aaraaf”
    and then to Heaven.

  • Anonanon

    I can stomach students jumping off buildings, people getting run over by buses and gore, but I can’t stand babies dying. Disturbing shit.

    • donscarletti

      Be glad you were born late last century, otherwise it would be the norm, not an exception.

    • Gary

      This baby had a problem with his immune system so he would not have lived long in China even if he didn’t get the vaccine.

      In the US there is a compensation fund set up by the vaccine makers. They pay the families of children who have problems from this fund in exchange for no lawsuits.

      • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaccination-Information-Network-VINE/69667273997 Erwin Alber

        “This baby had a problem with his immune system so he would not have lived long in China even if he didn’t get the vaccine.”

        That’s an unproven assumption which may well be completely unfounded. t’s like saying that a child who died from an allergic reaction to penicillin would have died anyway, even if it hadn’t been given penicillin. It’s clearly nonsense, as far as I am concerned.

        It’s simply that babies are not meant to be injected with toxic chemical and biological agents that may harm or kill them, under the pretext of “immunising” them.

        • Chris

          Actually, it was stated there. Hyper-IgE syndrome, otherwise known as Job’s syndrome, a severe immunodeficiency.

          • LK

            I agree with Erwin … it is unproven whether this child “had a problem with his immune system”, and even if he did it is no defense of vaccines that kill.

            The statement that the child had Hyper-IgE syndrome is listed in a series of other conditions that led to the mortality of the child. I’m no expert on this condition, but although the syndrome “could” be a genetic condition, I don’t think one can conclude from the above report that the child actually suffered from this genetic condition. There is no statement that prior to the vaccine that the child had any manifestation of Hyper-IgE syndrome. It is possible (but admittedly not conclusive) that the child’s condition post-vaccine showed symptoms which correlate with the syndrome and hence the syndrome was indicated on the basis of clinical symptoms alone. Many conditions are diagnosed on the basis of symptoms alone … for example Parkinson’s and Alzheimers.

            Now let’s look at the Wikipedia definition:

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperimmunoglobulin_E_syndrome

            It says under “Pathophysiology” the following: “Abnormal neutrophil (a form of white blood cell) chemotaxis (i.e. phenomenon in which somatic cells, bacteria, and other single-cell or multicellular organisms direct their movements according to certain chemicals in their environment) due to decreased production of interferon gamma by T lymphocytes is thought to cause the disease.” Without deciphering all that scientific terminology, I can infer that if diagnosis is made on this basis, it can be made without reference to any genetic abnormality. It could be possible (although I will admit I am no authority on this point) that this symptomology could be caused by other factors.

            Doing a search on google, I could not find anything that specifically indicate the manner by which this syndrome is diagnosed (e.g., by test or by clinical observation), but I found an interesting medical article abstract here:

            http://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(03)03244-5/abstract

            I says that the patient, as a child, was diagnosed with they syndrome “based on his clinical presentation of recurrent Staphylococcus aureus soft tissue and pulmonary infections with resultant pneumatocele formation, eczematoid dermatitis, characteristic facial features, and elevated IgE level (10,000 IU/mL).” Later, the article concludes that, after testing, the man did not suffer from this syndrome (at least, presumably, caused by the genetic abnormality).

            That means it is possible to make a diagnosis of this syndrome based on clinical observation alone.

            Now, I will make a remark which will admittedly show my bias, but of course, we’re all wearing our colors on our sleeves here, no? The fact that the doctors threw in Hyper-IgE syndrome is suspicious. If the manifestations of the symptoms of that syndrome could arise from disease caused by other factors, but yet a diagnosis of the syndrome may be made on the basis of clinical observation alone, is it not possible that a self-serving physician, upon the advice of the supplier of the vaccine, included in its statement of diagnosis a syndrome with a genetic factor (although the genetic factor need not be proven in order to make the diagnosis) indicating a susceptibility to mortality from the vaccine, in order to protect themselves from liability? Or is such an idea so outrageous to not even be considered a possibility (and if you believe that, I bet you’re still waiting for that cashe of WMD in Iraq to be found)?

          • Chris

            To summarize your arguement, and correct me if I understood you incorrectly:

            Diagnosis of Job syndrome is based on clinical presentation (symptoms); because there are no better tools for diagnosis, this method is therefore suspect, and may be a name attributed to this child by the physician to avoid blame.

            To answer this, I say that often diagnosis of diseases are based on clinical presentations. Recurrent infections by Staph aureus (or maybe more familiar to the public as the same species of bacterial as MRSA), presence of unusual eczema (often seen as rashes at elbow) are used for diagnosis of Job’s syndrome. Many, many diseases are diagnosed based on clinical signs and symptoms. Take, for example, Alzheimer’s. It is a diagnosis of exclusion. Meaning that given the presentation of symptoms such as dementia, loss of memory etc, without other known causes, it is diagnosed as Alzheimer’s. Of course, a definitely diagnosis can be done, if you want to take out chunks of patients’ brain just to have a look see.

            In other words, in the medical profession, it is not always possible to have absolute proof to diagnose. Whether this gives you comfort or not, I don’t know. Often, the base cause of many situations and diseases are still under investigation. We don’t even know what the virus that cause small pox looks like. Therefore, when presented with a constellation of symptoms and signs that points to a particular disease, we have to make a diagnosis in order to proceed to treatment. To discount any diagnosis simply because there’s a possibility of it being wrong, well, then what can you believe in life?

            There’s a possibility that the diagnosis is wrong. I concede that. But there’s a high probability that the doctors know what they are doing, after many years of training. I can’t say 100% that it is hyper IgE syndrome, but I choose to trust someone who spend better parts of their lives helping people to tell the truth.

            PS: not too sure what WMD has to do with this topic. To bring in emotional support on your side? Stick to topic. What I do or do not believe in another, separate topic has nothing to do with whether or not my argument is valid or not here.

  • PRC

    EEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!

  • SteveSleve

    Too many people in China. Maybe that’s why the fake food and the poor medicine, but excellent condoms and great sex toys :)

    • Pinede

      That’s all you find to say about pictures of a dying baby?

  • krdr

    This is just too sad. No words, just sadness.

  • http://www.qq.com/1325279774 Kedafu

    Respectfully,

    song of the article,

    Sweet Child of Mine (G&R)
    -Gregorian Chant version.

    hard breaking story,

    love and peace everyone

    • Chris #1

      I had to watch my house mate’s casket lowered to that song (the real version) not your bullshit gregorian mormon tabernacle asspants version.

      Not only has it ruined that song completely for me but it was the only one I knew how to play all the way through on my guitar.

      Back to stairway to heaven I guess… which is BULLSHIT for those atrophied legs. Maybe escalator to hevean is more apt.

  • Mick

    Looks like this poor child had congenital immunodeficiency ( a very rare disorder, similar to AIDS), which would make it susceptible to infections. I do not think it is possible to test for this condition in every baby, especially in rural China.

    • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaccination-Information-Network-VINE/69667273997 Erwin Alber

      At least, that was their excuse for this baby’s death.

  • http://www.makeyourownpheromones.com Michael Hughes

    That’s horrible

  • Vertigo112

    You have my sympathy, child.

  • Esca

    my heart breaking,my mind shaking

  • James

    People should know that vaccine are still pretty dangerous because they are made from weakened forms of microbe or its toxins, if you don’t have a good immune system to develop that antibody, you will probably suffer from that diseases.

    • Chris

      Not correct. Not all vaccines are made that way. Some are attenuated, meaning they are live virus that was grown in culture for many generations so that they are not pathogenic anymore. These have a high chance of possibly causing disease.

      Many others are inactivated by chemical means, which are much safer.

      When considering vaccination, though the remote chance of harm is there, it is far, FAR lower than the chances of permanently disabling disease or death should they NOT get the vaccination.

      All we hear about these days are how some rare cases of vaccine causing harm, and people have forgotten how many millions of lives are saved by them.

      Get your vaccinations, regularly, and promptly.

      • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaccination-Information-Network-VINE/69667273997 Erwin Alber

        You have all the vaccinations you want – I won’t have any more as long as I live. Once I die, they can inject me with all the vaccines they recommend that I have missed out on, for all I care.

        I used to believe in this vaccination nonsense as well for many years, until I found out that vaccination is an ugly and brutal money-making racket and an organised criminal enterprise dressed up as disease prevention. Now they can stick this filth into their own anatomy. Nobody is comig near me or a member of my family with any of these disgusting potions.

        • Chris

          You sir, are seriously misinformed, and are now spreading that misinformation to the masses.

          Not vaccinating now, your children can still enjoy the benefit of herd immunity. But if this trend continues, good luck having a relatively safe childhood.

          Once again, I ask you. What makes any drug company more money? A one time shot that prevent disease, or a multitude of shots to treat disease once you acquire it?

          • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaccination-Information-Network-VINE/69667273997 Erwin Alber

            Herd immunity is a mental delusion that afflicts morons with a herd mentality. Call it pseudo-science, junk science, Mickey Mouse science, or tobacco science, but not science!

            Vaccination is nothing but a ugly and brutal money-making racket worth billions. The benefits are purely of a financial nature, and two-fold:

            1. Profits from the sale of vaccines
            2. Even greater profits from the sale of drugs used to treat the disasters caused by vaccines

            Vaccines have never prevented anything, apart from health, sanity and common sense.

  • Nathan

    Baby dies… I lol.

    • jin

      nathan dies…. i laugh and pee on your grave

      • Nathan

        I did the same thing to Jack Kerouac’s grave, except I also poured some Jim on it, I saw it as a sign of respect. Thanks bro.

  • xmcx

    This is funny because so many commenters expect the government to “do something about it”.
    -Maybe that means give money to the victim’s family… though it seems inhumane to assume that money could be used to compensate the parents’ grief.
    -But if that means “ensure vaccines don’t kill one baby in a million”, then they are very uneducated and have ridiculously high hopes as to what the government can do “for them”. Does the government in China really do so much “for people” in terms of caring and providing, that they expect Louis Pasteur type discoveries, on demand, every time?

  • vince

    This is the first time I’ve felt that the comments on chinasmack have taken the cake for being insensitive and inhuman as compared to the translated ones, and you call yourselves civilized. For those of you who “lol’d” at something like this go kill yourselves, you would be no great loss. Having a child of my own I can only imagine the pain that the parents might be feeling, maybe one day some of you nutjobs will understand, but I have my doubts.
    I hope something like this can be prevented from happening as this is a situation no parent should have to go through. Truly a heartbreaking article.

    • Jones

      How dare you talk so lightly of suicide and even promote it. So insensitive. The translated comments didn’t even promote such a large amount of people killing themselves. I hope you atrophy.

      • vince

        you hope i get a trophy? why thank you very much :)

    • Jack

      have you seen the African Man sings Propaganda Song page? The Chinasmack users who posted comments were 10x more racist than their Chinese peers.

    • Yurp

      Go cry some more faggot, no one gives a shit about a dead baby.

      • vince

        Hmmm, ur mum must be real proud of you.

    • donscarletti

      Don’t feed the trolls. No seriously, you’re doing us all a disservice by handing out your vitriol so such dimwitted and unworthy provokers. It will just have them come back when they next get the hunger.

      This is hearbreaking. But the real tragedy comes when thousands of children die from preventable diseases when their parents see this as a reason to not have them vaccinated.

      • vince

        I try not feed them but since I’m so ‘sensitive’ as nathan so eloquently put it I find it hard not to sometimes, I’ll make it my mission to let them starve to death.

      • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaccination-Information-Network-VINE/69667273997 Erwin Alber

        Vaccines have never protected anyone, or saved anyone’s life, let alone the lives of millions. It’s all a monumental fraud that has gone on for over 200 years.

        “Belief in immunization is a form of delusional insanity.”
        Dr Herbert Shelton, USA

        • angryman

          So, where’s smallpox now? Rubella, whooping cough, measels? All those ‘childhood diseases’ that raised infant mortality through the roof.

          You’re a moron. Go eat your organic muesli and try on new birkenstocks.

        • Chris

          Just because you scream and shout that it’s a “fraud”, does not make it so.

          It’s easy enough to prove that disease incidence has gone down since vaccination started (see Angryman’s post), but where your proof that vaccination has not protected anyone?

          Show me evidence, show me data.

    • Nathan

      Ah your so sensitive Vince, if you just grew up a little you might stop trying to get laid online.

      Anyway… I lol’d because I know the truth behind this story, its already out there if you can speak Chinese.

      • Fly away

        Whatever, Nathan.

        Whoever ‘lols’ at such a story, is not entirely right in the head.

        • Nathan

          Maybe, but I see it as humour in the face of adversity… trust me. I’ve seen a few dead babies in my life. If you saw the original article or any of the fair media coverage of this story then you would know this baby was ‘dead’ before it was born. Did you ever ask why someone is taking a photo of the mother crying on the bed? Press were allowed in or was it a family member… why would they take that shot? There is more to it than meets the eye. But I’ll leave that for you to discover on your own.

          Most of the stories on ChinaSMACK are subject to sensationalism and all I do is try to provoke more insight…. or…. I just sit back and lol… which i did this time.

          Baby dies…. I lol.

          • PeterScriabin

            Relative to “…why would they take that shot? There is more to it than meets the eye”, I’ll bite if you’ll tell.

            Just what is the upside of provoking a tsunami of tears, and possibly undermining any belief in the good effects (private and social) of vaccination?

            Worthwhile, educational posts are so few and far between here, Nathan, that if you could provide one, I think it would be a pleasure and a benefit to the readers here. You up for it?

          • Nathan

            I would be delighted to if given the chance. As a travel journalist and Postgrad research student in Chinese Studies, I would relish the chance to provide an article for this website. Keep your eyes open in the future… if fauna will have me, i realise I am not the most popular person here thanks to my comments.

          • vince

            You don’t really have to wait to share your views, start a blogger account, provide more insight and I believe you can use Gravatar to link to your site, so now you know. I for one would definitely read what you write if it is indeed informative. Put up or shut up.

          • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaccination-Information-Network-VINE/69667273997 Erwin Alber

            So, dead babies cry?

  • Aaron Rogders

    I never even heard of BCG before. Do they have this vaccination in the states too?

    • KfU

      They should do… the Mexicans “flooding” across your southern border are riddled with it…

      In fact, I think it’s the first thing an illegal immigrant is tested for if they are caught…

      • KfU

        *TB obviously… not BCG vaccinations…

        • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaccination-Information-Network-VINE/69667273997 Erwin Alber

          The TB germ Bacillus Calmette-Guérin used to produce the vaccine was named in honour of the two French (pseudo-)scientists Calmette and Guerin. The vaccine was first used 1921, and was like Edward Jenner’s cowpox vaccine against smallpox useless and dangerous.

          The early use of BCG was marked by a tragic accident. In Lubeck more than 25% of the approximately 250 infants who received a batch of the vaccine developed tuberculosis. It was later recognized that this batch was accidentally contaminated with a virulent strain of M. tuberculosis.

          A large WHO field trial in India later showed that far from preventing TB, the BCG vaccine actually promotes the disease.

          The fact that the BCG vaccine is still in use today shows how depraved and corrupt the medical-pharmaceutical establishment is.

    • ralphrepo

      No, BCG is not used in the states.

      The CDC and US Dept of Health recommendations are that Bacille Calmette-Guerin not be used because the risk of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis infection in the United States remains low. BCG Vaccine really offers very marginal clinical protection, but in countries where the TB incidence is considered high (eg the PRC), it is better than nothing at all.

      However, in countries with low incidence of TB, its use is considered counterproductive. Anyone that has ever received BCG vaccine would automatically show a positive test response to the standard TB skin test, thus destroying the simple skin test’s effectiveness as a public health screening method. The only screening method available after that would be usage of the more expensive chest X Rays.

      http://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/factsheets/prevention/BCG.htm

      • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaccination-Information-Network-VINE/69667273997 Erwin Alber

        The BCG vaccine has never protected anyone, let alone saved anyone’s life. It is along with all other vaccinations the biggest public health scam ever. This baby died completely unnecessarily and was in fact fatally poisoned by those in charge of implementing the Chinese national child poisoning programme.

  • KfU

    I watched this programme on TV the other night…

    From what I gathered the child had a very rare condition than essentially amounted to it having a next-to-useless immune system.

    If it wasn’t the BCG vaccine that killed him, it would have been something else eventually – and his condition was so rare that it would not have been picked up in any normal test either prior or post birth.

    The BCG vaccine does have its “issues” – this being one of the reasons why it is only given to high risk babies in the UK (such as immigrants coming from areas with high TB or inner city shitholes where the immigrant and poorer population congregate and dwell) – this policy is possible in the UK because in the wider population TB is not prevalent.

    However TB is a massive problem in China, hence why the government issue vaccines to infants 2 months after birth (unlike at 3 months in UK) in an attempt to build up the vaccination levels required to help reduce the spread of TB (vaccination only works if a high majority of a population is vaccinated)

    However, at several points the show seemed to suggest that the hospital may have been at fault – an example being to suggest the needle had been inserted too deep in to the arm – going as far as to question the nurse on camera ( or “a” nurse – i couldn’t follow that bit) – which seemed to be massively against the public interest (which does not mean “what the public might find interesting”) in search of the usual sensationalist bull-shit TV scoop.

    I pointed out to those around me that this would cause the mentally challenged viewers (which lets face it is about 50 – 60 % of the population here) to panic and begin questioning the use of vaccines in general, as they would be unable or unwilling to properly digest the complexities of this case… although I remember the time in Portsmouth (UK) when a group of people set fire to the house of a doctor because they’d read in the local news paper that a “world-renowned paediatrician” had won an award, thinking that meant he was a child molester, so all countries have their morons…

    but i digress… my point being that yes it’s sad the baby died – but it was suffering from serious immune deficiency from birth – and would have lived a very short life whether it had been given the vaccine or not.

    Vaccination is important in countries like China where many diseases we have forgotten about in the west are still prevalent – and the only way they can be eradicated is by wide-spread vaccination.

    To put such a show on TV, especially given it’s misleading direction, is irresponsible in a country like China – and could lead to the deaths of many more infants through TB or other infectious diseases, because of the fear created around the vaccination process by this show. So i am amazed that this show was allowed to be broadcast in such a format and with so little editorial control…

    • Just John

      KfU,

      Thank you for the further information, or clearing up of the misinformation. Better then Nathan’s simple responce of “Baby dies – I lol”. At least now we understand more of the information and can make better informed comments.

      • vince

        I agree thanks for the information KfU, your comment sure sheds a lot more light on this story :)

    • Chris

      Agreed. He had something called Job’s syndrome (the part about the hyper Ig-E). That’s his underlying condition. Pretty rare, but not always fatal. His life, had he lived, would have been one filled with infections etc.

  • 老外

    Poor little guy… this makes me cry… it’s heartbreaking.

  • Irvin

    Did you know they also sterilize either the mother or the father after giving birth in china to keep up with the one child policy? That’s why so many people cherish and spoil their kid.

    Human rights doesn’t exist here, even as soon as you’re born they already pokes stuff into you.

    • Chad

      Are you referring to vaccines..?

    • Chris

      Not sure what human rights has to do with vaccination…it’s about health policies.

    • Justin

      That is not true. Maybe they did that like 20 years ago, but not now and if so it’s only in certain areas that are operating outside of the law. Officially it is against the law. So is forced abortion and sex-selective abortion (though hard to prove).

      Now you just have to pay a ridiculously high tax depending on where you are. It’s like 100,000 RMB in Beijing. Also if you are a minority or you live in certain areas with a low population you are allowed more than one.

      Also there are other stipulations. If you yourself are the only child in your family you can have more than one or if your kid dies. In some places, if your firstborn is a girl, you are allowed to have another. So it’s not a completely uniform policy.

      That being said there have been some pretty fucked up cases like the recent baby snatching case, wherein children have been taken from their migrant parents and put up for adoption. But all these cases are the result of a few 山高皇帝远 (lawless) local governments rather than a centralized policy.

      • Strangerland

        Yeah, the one-child policy is not that harsh nowadays…but some foreigners don’t bother to check their facts before babbling about human rights. If you’re Han, the policy is enforced on you. But when your child grow up and marry another product of the policy, they’re allowed to have 2 children. If you’re minority(Non-Han) then you can have children as much as you like, the policy is never enforced on the minorities.
        There are several conditions where you’re Han and allowed to have more children though: one if your first child is invalid/dead- then you can try to have one more, two is if you live in rural areas- then you can also have two.
        Also, recently big cities like Shanghai feared they’d suffer the same fate with Japan, so they start to allow people more children in certain areas. But even without this I know several chinese who go on and have their 2nd and 3rd children anyway- they just pay the fine or simply have babbies outside China so the babbies have foreign citizenship- only to raise the babies in China and turn them into China Citizen when they grow up… or if the citizenship is USA, they’d let the kids choose themselves when they grow up.
        Honestly, all is not lose in China. It’s India you have to worry about- they have no such policy and they ends up having more and more children each year.

        • vince

          Google Kerala One Child policy, it’s not a coercive policy and it actually works!

    • angryman

      You don’t know much about China, do you?

  • Joe

    I don’t understand what the problem is. There is no saving him, and even if he was kept alive, he would suffer. Just make another.

  • 平凡人

    Isn’t there a test available to check if BCG can be given? I recall when I was a child, before I had my BCG taken, there was a test done.

    • Chris

      The condition this kid had is really, really rare. Even if there are tests, they wouldn’t be checking if he had this disease. Just a case of really bad luck.

  • LK

    Vaccine policy is steamroller that makes billions for big pharma. It is indiscriminate and suffering and dying children and infants are but “acceptable” statistics. Let me tell you something, 90% of vaccine policy, if not all of it, is based on greed-driven lies. Big medicine, big pharma is looking to milk the world’s population. I should hope China, as a country outside the Western power sphere, might be able to develop its own sense of intelligent, nutrition-based health policy. Well, that might be too much to ask of a country that sanctions infanticide.

    • Chris

      This comment is beyond stupid.

      Vaccinations make money for big pharms? How does that work, exactly? By eliminating disease, it makes the drug companies money? If they want to make money, they would withhold any and all vaccinations.

      What do you think makes a company more money? A shot that cost, what, $70? Or drugs for measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, haemophilus, chicken pox (to name some of the vaccines that are given, in many developed countries, FOR FREE). Just for tuberculosis, if you are suspected of having it, would require medications for SIX month or longer!?!?

      Tell me what nutritional based health policy can cure tetanus. Point me to something I can eat to prevent chicken pox. Please, I beg you to.

      • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaccination-Information-Network-VINE/69667273997 Erwin Alber

        Vaccinations have never prevented anything, apart from health, sanity and common sense.

        The BCG vaccine in particular has been shown to be completely and utterly useless, and to actually INCREASE the incidence of tuberculosis.

        The only benefit of vaccination is to the idiots, criminals and psychopaths who promote (and profit from) this institutionalised insanity.

        • Chris

          While I agree with you on the effectiveness of BCG, I cannot agree with you on your view of vaccination.

          Seeing as you link yourself to VINE, I’m just gonna assume your beliefs are firmly entrenched in that world view (perhaps as firmly as mine). So let’s just talk this out in a logical fashion, and see if we can arrive at any conclusions.

          http://whqlibdoc.who.int/smallpox/9241561106_chp8.pdf

          Here’s a study on the control and now extermination of small pox.

          So, tell me. Do you, or anyone you know suffer from this once extremely common illness? How about diptheria? Ever stepped on a rusty nail? Afraid of tetanus? Probably not, I wager, because that disease has been eradicated by vaccination so thoroughly, it has stopped entering the public consciousness.

          So, instead of calling me an idiot (in a pretty passive aggressive way too), show me the logic of your argument.

          • LK

            @Chris: I will concede that it is possible that some vaccine policy is good public policy. You do no justice to your view by saying others with different view points are “stupid”. But I will humor you and give you a reasoned response. Notwithstanding the original intent of vaccines (to eliminate lethal and debilitating illnesses like polio), the current trend in vaccines is to vaccinate for non-fatal illnesses. You bring up chicken pox, which is case in point. A highly problematic vaccine is for HPV, which is not in itself fatal and merely correlates with a higher incidence of cervical cancer (which can with prevention and appropriate health measures be avoided entirely). Do a little research and you will see a fair number of pre-teenage girls have died after receiving the HPV vaccine. Given that it is a non-lethal disease, can any death from such a vaccine be justified as a matter of public health policy?

            The vaccine industry, well aware that killer diseases such as small pox having been successfully (largely) eradicated, can no longer rely on limiting vaccine policy to killer diseases in order to continue to generate the profits that their shareholders demand. So the idea of vaccines is now extended to non-lethal diseases. That is highly problematic. I was speaking with a colleague who has some digestive disorder (I forgot the name) which I know can be treated and healed with diet, but he, being brainwashed by mainstream medicine, said the diet seemed “too restrictive and its claims not believable” and said that the best hope, according to current research, was the development of a vaccine. The idea of a vaccine healing a gut disorder is beyond incredible to me, but it goes to show you how mainstream health propaganda has convinced everyone that vaccines is the panacea for all that ails us. Big pharma knows this and will continue to keep that lie alive.

            Again, you cite as the basis for your position the case for small pox. That is the rallying flag for the entire industry … look what we did, we eradicated this horrible disease, now we can do the same with any other disease. The obsession with vaccination is so extreme now, infants are required to get something like 10+ vaccines (I don’t recall the exact number) within their first 2 years of life, most of them in the first year, often simultaneously, with no research having been done on the effect of combined assaults on the undeveloped immune system of an infant by such combination of vaccines (which include not only the virus but adjuvants which create other problems like chronic immune system activation, leading to other more serious problems).

            Most children may not show any immediate effect as a result of the vaccinations, and it may be deemed “an acceptable risk” that some children die “for the sake of herd immunity”, but I will tell you that the nature of vaccine policy is to, like you, shut out those who would have criticisms of the way it is implemented. Vaccine policy is the high religion of the medical establishment. Those who go against it are heretics who are to be outcast and burned at the stake (if they could). For example, a way to make vaccine policy safer would be to vaccinate children at an older age and screen children for being at risk of adverse reaction (checking gut health, for one, would go a long way, as the gut is an essential part of the immune system). But such an approach is never considered.

            Also, you would be foolish to assume the studies that support the efficacy of vaccine policy are objectively done. It has been shown again and again that research is biased in favor of interests that sponsored the research (or potential employers and futures sponsors of the researchers).

            Above all, the test of whether or not you are willing to think for yourself when it comes to public health policy or whether you will just accept the authority of so-called “experts” at the FDA and AMA (which, btw, are all bought by big money interests … it’s called “regulatory capture” by big industry … a very common phenomenon among any governmental bureaucracy that regulates the private sector) is your view on whether fluoride in drinking water makes sense. If you agree with fluoridation of public drinking water, then that is the clearest evidence that you are willing to take complete non-sense as valid science simply on the basis of some pronouncement by public health authorities.

          • Chris

            Your original statement was that big pharms makes more money vaccinate people; I countered with the fact that long term treatment would make more money for the companies than trying to eradicate the diseases.

            You didn’t address my original counter, but so be it. Here, again, I shall summate you argument, then address them.

            1. Eradication of small pox is the corner stone of vaccination policies.
            2. Big pharms makes money on vaccinations of non-fatal illnesses.
            3. Children are subjected to multiple vaccinations, with some serious side effects, which you fail to point out. But I digress.
            4. People who do research on vaccinations are biased, and thus cannot be trusted.
            5. My belief on fluoridination somehow prove your point on vaccination.

            Rebuttal:.
            1. Fine. How about polio? Measles? Mumps? How about tetanus? How about meningitis due to Haemophilus influenza? Do you hear about these diseases? Polio has largely been eradicated, which causes serious neuromuscular disease. While measles do not cause death, there are also conditions that can lead to death which follows measles infection called Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. Tetanus is no longer feared, as next time you get cut by a nail? You won’t die from not being able to draw in a single breath. Does the decreased incidence of these diseases count for something?

            2. I don’t know what your coworker suffers from, and I don’t know why he believes what he believe, but I see you talked about HPV below, so I’ll just address this there.

            3. You know, you keep saying that vaccinations cause serious side effects, which I agree, some times rare things do happen, such as this post. But your statement insists that ALL children suffer long term side effects. Such as? Simple making a statement, doesn’t make it so.

            4. You don’t trust big med and big pharms. You don’t trust AMA or CDC, and probably not WHO either. So who do you trust? People that agree with your way of thinking?

            5. I have no opinion of fluoridination of drinking water. Attaching this issue here is detracting from anything to do with vaccination. Whether it is right or wrong to add fluorine to water, it does not change if it is right or wrong to vaccinate. They are separate issues.

          • Chris

            Hm. Odd, thought you mentioned HPV later, but guess not.

            Your position is that HPV is somehow by appropriate health measures.

            OK. Given that at least SOME of the readers here will be female, would you care to share these appropriate health measures? I’m sure that will help a great number of people.

            As for HPV being non-fatal. While HPV is non-fatal, approximately 95% of cervical cancers were found to have HPV DNA inside. The virus, particularly high risk strains of 16 and 18 (both covered by the vaccine), produce protein products E6 and E7 that actually turn off genes in your cells that stop it from dividing, causing uncontrol growth of those cells (*gasp* sounds like cancer!). Cervical cancers aren’t fatal. But to remove them might involve removing entire uterus and overies. Can you imagine the impact on a young women’s psyche that would have? So given the cost, both personal and medical, wouldn’t it be worth it to stop this from happening?

          • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaccination-Information-Network-VINE/69667273997 Erwin Alber

            The smallpox vaccine has never protected anyone, let alone saved anyone’s life. To think that it did is too stupid for words, but then, some people believe anything.

            The nfectious disease decline is mostly the result of improved living conditions, like better housing, nutrition, sanitation, working conditions and political stability. http://www.healthsentinel.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=8&Itemid=55

            Ever heard of bubonic plague and scarlet fever, or English sweating sickness? Deaths from these diseases are few or non-existent, yet there has never been a vaccine against them. Explain that!

            Injecting children with neurotoxic biological and chemical agents is biowarfare against civilians. It has nothing to do with diesase prevention, apart from delusive mental states in some people’s minds.

            Belief in vaccination is a contagious disease which causes mental illness in those who catch it. I used to be afflicted as well, but was cured from this terrible affliction some years ago.

      • LK

        @Chris: maybe you go educate yourself with some experience in the world instead of accepting “conventional wisdom” and then going around touting yourself as knowledgeable. I’ve looked into the question extensively, I have personal experience in the matter. Do you? Have you even inquired into the dangers of vaccines? Have you had your child die or injured by vaccines or know some one who did?

        And what’s the mortality rate for chicken pox in children?

        Your response is the product of typical mainstream propaganda. If you can’t help to think for yourself, then you can’t be helped at all.

        • Chris

          Not sure why or where I’m touting myself as knowledgeable. I disagree with your stance, and I provide evidence to support my argument.

          I’m sure your personal experience was very traumatic, troubling, and sad, but that doesn’t make what you say true.

          Mortality of chickenpox, according to http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/969773-overview, is ~100 in the US. For a preventable illness, that’s 100 too many.

          If my response is due to media, than how about yours? That of alternative media? Stop making this a “big brother” versus “the little guy” argument. I have consistently brought up evidence. Have you?

  • John Wayne

    This is so sad. Unfortunately there are probably many more questions than answers when it comes to what really went wrong. Countryside clinics and hospitals do have a stigma about them for a reason.

  • Dan Danger

    Very sad. Poor baby indeed.

  • wondering

    He was a beautiful little guy. It’s a tragedy. Sometimes life is not fair.

  • Mark

    less dead baby stories please

  • http://unblockfacebookinchina.info/access-facebook-in-china Rod

    I agree. I much more enjoy stories about gay and The French.

  • JC

    How do we know for a FACT that baby had an immune problem that was bad enough to kill it??

    That baby didn’t die – the poor thing was murdered.

    • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaccination-Information-Network-VINE/69667273997 Erwin Alber

      I agree. Like this one:

      Ian’s Voice Home Page
      This site is dedicated to giving voice to our son Ian Larsen Gromowski. Our child died of an adverse reaction to the hepatitis B vaccine. …
      iansvoice.org/

    • Chris

      The fact that it was stated he had hyper-IgE syndrome. Otherwise known as Job’s syndrome.

  • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaccination-Information-Network-VINE/69667273997 Erwin Alber

    A large WHO field trial in India showed that the BCG vaccine which killed this baby actually INCREASES the incidence of tuberculosis! It was eventually abolished in most countries, but is e.g. still given to newborns in Thailand, newborn Polynesian children in New Zealand, and to newborns in Ireland. It’s like all other vaccinations institutionalised insanity. Vaccination is in fact an organised criminal enterprise dressed up as disease prevention.

    “Belief in immunization is a form of delusional insanity.”
    Dr Herbert Shelton, USA

    The truth is that – having failed as disease prevention – vaccination is continued because it is such a lucrative business and because the psychopathic elites consider it useful as a form of biochemical warfare against civilians, as vaccinations impair the development of children’s immune, reproductive and mental functions.

    • staylost

      Right, so assuming one field trial overturns all information to the contrary lets follow your logic:

      1) Only one type of failure in any category of things deems the entire category of things worthless and even more, an attack on humanity if this category of things continues to be used.

      2) Erwin Alber shows that one field trial shows some oral medication actually fails to work and has bad side effects.
      ——————–
      Therefore Erwin Alber has shown that all oral medications are organized criminal enterprise.

      *****
      I’m not saying that you should get immunized Mr. Alber, I’m saying that you should think through your logic.

      • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaccination-Information-Network-VINE/69667273997 Erwin Alber

        The BCG vaccine in not an oral vaccine.

        “Administration should be by the percutaneous route with the multiple puncture device as described below. DO NOT INJECT INTRAVENOUSLY, SUBCUTANEOUSLY, INTRAMUSCULARLY OR INTRADERMALLY.”
        http://www.fda.gov/downloads/biologicsbloodvaccines/vaccines/approvedproducts/ucm202934.pdf

        My conclusion that vaccination is an organised criminal enterprise dressed up as disease prevention is the result of about 15 years of studying the vaccination issue. I take comfort in the fact that others who are more intellectually gifted than I am have arrived at similar conclusions.

        “Belief in immunization is a from of delusional insanity.”
        Dr Herbert Shelton, USA

        “I was shocked to find that this whole vaccine business was indeed a giantic hoax.”
        D A Kalokerinos MD, Australia

        “Vacciation is the biggest crime against humanity.”
        Dr G lanctot MD, Canada, author of the bestseller ‘The Medical Mafia’

        Vaccines have never prevented anything, apart from health, sanity and common sense.

    • Chris

      “vaccination is continued because it is such a lucrative business and because the psychopathic elites consider it useful as a form of biochemical warfare against civilians, as vaccinations impair the development of children’s immune, reproductive and mental functions.”

      How the, do you explain the continued rise in life expectancy over the last century? The continued rise in human population? I can’t measure mental functions, but are you basically saying that since you are vaccinated, you are thus dumber?

      • LK

        @Chris: wow, you are really persistent trolling around here? You got a stake here on this topic or something? Or you just passionate about this topic?

        I do not know how you can connect rise in life expectancy over the past century with vaccines. The answer to that is largely one of sanitation and better nutrition. Again to your point about small pox, it is possible that some of the vaccines against lethal diseases may have provided a reduction in infant mortality, thereby a boost in population, but I highly doubt that explains the bulk of the increase in population.

        I know I know, you’re going to say, look at the flu vaccine … saved us from all that influenza. I don’t have anything specific to point to here other than my personal experience, which is those persons who got the flu vaccine were typically at no less risk of getting the flu.

        Vaccines can cause chronic immune system activation, which in turn causes a condition called chronic microglial activation, which is really just a fancy way of saying your immune system in your brain is constantly activated by the vaccine (particularly the adjuvants) causing chronic brain inflammation. Inflammation of the brain causes brain damage. So yes, it is conceivable that vaccines make children dumber. Look up Russell Blaylock MD’s writings, if you want to educate yourself on the matter. He is a former neurosurgeon, and he studies all the research out there on these topics. He is the absolute authority on the topic, but sadly a voice in wilderness. Lucky for you, with your views, I’m sure you’ll do well at Pfizer or the like.

        • Chris

          I’m trolling now? I’m responding to your comments. Last I heard, it’s a free country.

          And actually, I AM pretty passionate about this stuff. Misinformation like this, or that involved with the MMR vaccination, will cause children to go unvaccinated, which will subsequently cause disease for them. So yeah, I have a problem with people who are spreading misinformation that can potentially cause a lot of harm.

          Inflammation is mediated by a number of factors in our blood, produced by our immune system. Microglial cells are modified macrophages (well, to be more precise, monocytes) that have closely related cousins in pretty much most of our body. They are call dendritic cells in skin, Kuffer cells in liver, osteoclasts in bone. So, if vaccine causes chronic inflammation in the brain, why not everywhere else? Why not argue that we will also have more liver disease, bone disease and skin disease because of vaccination? And where’s your proof. You make a broad statement that it makes you dumber. Ok. How much dumber. Are genius today really just regular Joe back in the good ol’ days?

          So, this one guy disagree with what EVERYONE else is saying. Therefore he is correct? The unabomber went to Harvard. Pretty smart guy. Should we all listen to him? He, also, doesn’t prescribe to most of our “conventional” wisdoms. That makes him right?

  • Anon

    This might have been China’s version of Red Alert 2′s Yuri. Please CCP, these ‘rare’ gene types probably represent the highest rates of advanced mankind. Watch out on usage of ALL vaccines and avoid if possible. China cannot defend itself (or take over the world) without it’s own version of the Psi-Corps. This represents a terrible loss. Please collect DNA and re-seed a series of test subjects in volunteer Red Guard female personnel.

  • http://www.matthewsawtell.com Matthew A. Sawtell

    I don’t what was worse – the story about the kid, or the comment section. Fauna, don’t know what to say… your site has ‘arrived’ – the trolls have come in full force.

    As for the vaccine issue… I simply blame the Playboy Bunny effect.

    • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaccination-Information-Network-VINE/69667273997 Erwin Alber

      I take it you are referring to Jenny McCarthy. She may be a former Playboy Bunny and a blonde, but she’s still got more brains than all the provax needle nut moron doctors combined.

      • http://www.matthewsawtell.com Matthew A. Sawtell

        “Street Smarts”? Maybe… Actual Intelligence? I doubt it, given how much she bragged about having “great sex” while pregnant.

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  • http://www.smartjobsusa.com Aman

    I suppose this kind of vaccination really needs some attention and should be made free for children upto age 6

  • Meh

    Holly hell why not allow the family some dignity and allow them to put the child to sleep? The droopy dried up probably bloodless skin should be an indicator!

  • andy

    you know what i say be more stronger to protect your

  • National Scraper

    Such Terrific one…

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