Death of the Innocents.

On March 9, 2009 Dana Elizabeth McCaffery died at 4 weeks of age from Whooping cough. She was born on February 5, 2009 to Australian Parents who recently had moved to a small quiet community called Northern Rivers. This community has become a hot bed in Australia for the anti vaccination movement. In fact The Northern Rivers region has one of the nation’s lowest childhood vaccination rates.

“First, our tiny daughter coughed uncontrollably until she turned blue and required oxygen to regain her breath. She was fed through a nasal-gastro tube, was given fluid via a drip and placed in an oxygen headbox. The paediatrician told us that when Dana could recover without oxygen we could go home, but she would continue having coughing attacks for up to 100 days and possible respiratory complications. However, this is for the ‘lucky ones’.
Dana developed Pneumonia on the third day. She was placed on a ventilator and airlifted to Brisbane’s Mater Children’s Paediatric Intensive Care Unit. We still did not panic, on the advice she would be there for a week until she was strong enough to breathe on her own.
On the fifth day, the Pertussis took an unexpected and deadly turn. In what seemed an instant, Dana had an aggressive reaction to the toxin, which attacked her immune system and heart. The Pertussis blocked every drug or treatment that the team of specialists could throw at it. We were powerless to save her. After nearly 10 hours of desperate blood transfusions, Dana’s beautiful heart stopped beating and she let out her last sweet breath.”

She was the first to die from this appalling but totally preventable disease since 2004!
She contracted it from the anti Vaccination community of Northern Rivers. And even though her parents Immunized her siblings and believe in vaccinations it did not save little Dana.

Let me pose this question. Let’s say that you have been poisoned. You go to the emergency room for the Antidote only to be confronted by two lines.

Line A leads to a man. He says that he has the only true antidote, that he has faith it works and that the Doctors in the other line are out for profit only, so they can’t be right. He states that his wife’s “Mommy sense” told her that this was the correct antidote. He says that the doctor’s antidote causes horrible side effects but has no proof.

At the end of line B stands a group of people. They say that they have the antidote, that they have tested it on lab animals in a double blind study, have had their research reviewed by peers, and had an independent lab confirm their results. In fact you can see the cages of rats and the publications. It, in their opinion, is 100% effective. They also state that they have done a double blind study, also reviewed by their peers, and independently confirmed that this antidote does not cause any side effects.

Who would you turn to? At least you have a choice. Little Dana Elizabeth McCaffery did not.