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Shaken Baby Syndrome 101 |
SBS appearing in India |
Diagnosis on Shaky Ground |
A Parent's nightmare |
Experiments cast doubt on Shaken Baby Syndrome |
Blood disease symptoms resemble child abuse |
BILIRUBIN METABOLISM AND NEUROLOGICAL INJURY LINK SHOULD BE
EXPLORED
The bilirubin metabolism and neurological injury link should
be
explored more closely. Many of these SBS cases have common
anemia, bilirubin,
coagulation, symptoms. |
www.vaccinetruth.org/shakenbaby
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The US
reports around 50,000 cases a year. 1 in every four
cases is a fatality. That's 12,500 deaths annually.
Thorough research into SBS has led to my conclusion that
Vaccines most certainly play a large role in the
syndrome. There appear to be more cases relating to
vaccinations, than there are to domestic child abuse.
Medical diagnosis leading to court cases against parents
and caregivers are on shaky ground lacking thorough
medical examination and investigation. While some may
claim that the vaccine controversy is a "cover up" for
the accused, others will argue that the false
accusations are a cover up for the vaccine induced
symptoms to keep suspicion off the 30 billion dollar
industry.
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Tapestry of Errors and Influence
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After reading
SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME AND VAERS: A REVIEW AND
ANALYSIS I couldn't help but notice several
similarities between a situation that occurred 2 years
ago with my then 7-month old son. I do not believe
vaccine reaction was even considered by the physicians
who made their diagnosis of SBS. The only finding that
they had was a subdural hematoma. The feelings of the
neurosurgeon was that the hematoma was old. Watching my
son being operated on was unbearably painful and the
additional stress of the diagnosis took a huge toll on
my family. Thankfully, my son made a complete recovery
and is a happy, healthy, and quite bright nearly 3-year
old boy, but I will still be forwarding this article on
to the police dept., social services dept., and "Child
Advocacy" physician who were involved in our case.-Karin
Wille
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Medical examiner admits role in eyes mix-up
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VACCINES,
VITAMIN C DEPLETION AND SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME
General
commentary on a case report
By Harold E
Buttram, MD
On August
16, 2003, I received the following communication from a
grandmother, whose first name is Sharon, somewhat in the
fashion of a desperate plea for help on behalf of her
daughter, who has been accused of injuring her infant
daughter by Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS). As a poignant
example of what I consider to be ill-advised
administration of vaccines to a highly fragile and
vulnerable infant, I thought that this story needs to be
told, which I am now doing with the permission of the
grandmother and her daughter. My response to the letter
can in no way be construed as a medical report but
rather as a general commentary on my observations in
reviewing numerous cases of the SBS during the past 4
years.
The
information about the case includes the following
message from the grandmother:
"My
daughter had ‘Twin Transfusion Syndrome.’ It was
diagnosed in her twenty-fifth (25th) or
twenty-sixth (26th) week. She had an
amniocentesis three or four times, as Baby B was
stuck to the wall of the uterus. The syndrome
progressed. It took its toll, and at twenty-nine
weeks we lost Baby B.
"Her…ObGyn physician wanted her to continue her
pregnancy until thirty-five weeks to ensure that
Baby A was developed and that her lungs matured.
That was the safest thing to do, I felt as well.
However, we were told to watch for any discharge
with dark color, foul odor, things of that nature.
When my daughter developed a dark brown discharge,
the doctor on call did a full pelvic exam, including
use of a speculum. Two hours after returning home
from the examination her water broke.
"I
then took her back to the hospital and she was
admitted. She stayed in the hospital five days after
which labor was induced with delivery of a baby girl
weighing 2 lbs and 14 ounces. The baby’s APGARs were
1 at one minute, 5 at five minutes, and 6 at six
minutes. The baby stayed in a newborn intensive care
unit for 2 months and was, for example, diagnosed
with milk pulmonary valve stenosis, ventricular
septal defect, anemia of prematurity, apnea and
bradycardia, suspected necrotizing
enterocolitis-medical, bloody stools, and
hyperbilirubinemia.
"After discharge from the hospital the baby was
visited two or three times a week by a visiting
nurse. At approximately two months of age the baby
was administered four shots - the DTaP, Hib, IPV,
and Prevnar vaccines. She did not do well after the
shots. She wasn’t eating well. She was fussy and
cried with high-pitched screams. Her mother took her
to the doctor because she was jerking the second day
following the vaccines, but he was not concerned.
She then took her to the sitter where the baby
became lifeless. The sitter did not summon help, nor
did she call my daughter until it was time to get
off work. My baby granddaughter was taken to the ER
that night where she was having seizures
back-to-back and was admitted to the hospital. Three
days later the attending physician said he thought
the baby had been injured by Shaken Baby Syndrome.
"An
MRI confirmed she had a brain they expected to see
from a baby that weighed less than 3 pounds. There
was no blood on the brain or in the spinal fluid.
There were no rib fractures. She had no bruises or
broken bones. She has never missed a doctor’s
appointment. She was on a heart monitor which showed
no motion artifacts. All she had were retinal
hemorrhages…
"My
granddaughter was a 30-week gestation baby, small
for gestational age…will this SBS stuff ever fade
away?"
As a
sequel to the story, based on the lone finding of
retinal hemorrhages, the baby was removed from custody
of the mother and placed in a foster home. The
grandmother, who is now disabled and unable to work, is
trying to gain custody of the baby.
Analysis and General Commentary
In the
next 25 years or so, when there is greater knowledge
about the adverse reactions and aftermath from current
childhood vaccine programs, physicians and scientists,
as well as the lay public, may look back on these
programs with embarrassment if not worse. This is not to
say that vaccines do not have a proper role in
preventive health, which they do, but not with neglect
of safety considerations, of which in my opinion this
case serves as an example.
The
rationale for these statements is based largely on the
work of Dr. Archivedes Kalokerinos, who worked as a
medical officer among the Australian aborigines in the
"outback" in the 1960s and 1970s. Being troubled by very
high infant mortality, in some areas approaching 50%, he
began to investigate possible causes. Having noticed
signs of scurvy in some of the infants, and observing
that the children often died following immunizations,
especially if they had colds or minor respiratory
infections, the thought occurred to him that there might
be a connection between vitamin C deficiency and deaths
following vaccines. With improved nutrition, routine
oral vitamin C supplementation of children and infants,
avoidance of immunizations during minor illnesses,
even if just a runny nose, and large doses of
injectable vitamin C during crises, infant mortality was
virtually abolished. Although Kalokerinos was awarded
the Australian Medal of Merit in 1978 for his work, it
has never been acknowledged by mainstream medicine. What
is worse, it has never been subjected to systematic,
meaningful scientific study.
With the
work and clinical observations of Dr Kalokerinos in
mind, I would next like to turn to the work of attorney
Toni Blake of San Diego, who specializes in defending
parents and caretakers accused of shaken baby syndrome,
and who has described a pattern she has noted with these
infants. They tend to have the following
characteristics: 1) All babies came from problem
pregnancies including prematurity, low birth weights,
maternal diabetes or toxemia of pregnancy, maternal
drugs or alcohol, (or other prenatal risk factors
involving immaturity or compromise of the liver,
kidneys, and immune system); 2) all had subdural brain
hemorrhages; 3) many had fractures; 4) infant
complications occurred in clusters around 2 months, 4
months, and 6 months of age; 5) most infant
complications and collapses occurred with 11 or 12 days
of vaccinations. (Personal communications 2000 and 2002)
In my
opinion, the observations of attorney Toni Blake may
hold a key to what is happening in many of these infants
now being (mis)diagnosed as victims of shaken baby
syndrome; that is, the ill-advised vaccination of
fragile infants, as described above, and/or the
vaccination in the presence of minor viral or bacterial
infections. What is happening in these infants?
In
contrast to classical scurvy of earlier times in the
days of wooden sailing ships, when scurvy was
characterized by a total lack of Vitamin C, what we may
be seeing today is something quite different. As
described by Dr. Kalokerinos (1) and
Alan Clemetson, MD (2) subclinical
scurvy is a condition in which apparently healthy
infants with marginally low but adequate levels of
Vitamin C in unstressed conditions may be suddenly
thrown into states of critical Vitamin C depletion by
combinations of stresses from common infections and
toxins, including the toxins found in vaccines. As one
example of marginal Vitamin C deficiency on the modern
scene, in a study of people attending an HMO (Health
Maintenance Organization Clinic) in Tempe, Arizona in
1998, 30% were found to be depleted with plasma Vitamin
C levels between 0.2 and 0.5 mgs/100 ml and to be
deficient in 6% with levels below 0.2%. (3)
In regards to infants, it is true that infant formulas
have been mandated to include Vitamin C at levels
providing the required 30 mgs per day. However, this is
a maintenance level and makes no allowances for
additional stresses which may bring about many-fold
increases in need for Vitamin C. Common colds, for
instance, have been shown to reduce Vitamin C levels up
to 50%. (4) No one knows the effects of
vaccines on Vitamin C levels in infants, because
before-and-after studies of this type have never been
done, but Vitamin C is known to neutralize the toxins of
diphtheria, (5-8)
tetanus, (9) typhoid endotoxin, (10)
and four varieties of gas gangrene. (11)
As will be described below, in the process of
neutralizing these toxins, Vitamin C is necessarily used
up and depleted.
(Note: If
the reader will consult with these references, which
were extracted from an article by A Clemetson, (12)
it will be found that most of these studies are quite
old and some published in foreign languages. To me that
is the pity of it, as our own scientific & medical
system has never recognized their importance or followed
through with further investigations.)
It is
seldom appreciated that vaccines contain a variety of
toxins. In addition to bacterial endotoxins and
attenuated live viruses, depending on the vaccines,
vaccines may also contain formaldehyde, mercury,
aluminum phosphate, antibiotics, phenols, alcohols,
mineral oils, animal serums, animal DNA, chicken embryo,
aborted fetal tissue (in measles, mumps, rubella, and
chicken pox vaccines), Simian Cytomegalo Virus (CMV) in
oral polio vaccines, and Mycoplasma. (This list of
ingredients has been compiled from current
Physicians’ Desk Reference manuals and from report
in the medical literature in the cases of Simian CMV and
Mycoplasma).
Returning
to the importance of vitamin C in relation to vaccines,
one of the prime roles of Vitamin C in the body is its
action as an antioxidant in donating electrons to quench
free-radial inflammatory damage from infections and/or
toxins, with our consideration here being vaccine
toxins. However, in the process of donating electrons,
Vitamin C necessarily becomes depleted. Once the level
of Vitamin C is reduced to the point that it can no
longer protect the brain, which is unduly susceptible to
toxic and infectious damage, it (the brain) may become
subject to free-radical damage. By definition
"free-radicals" consist of molecular fragments with one
or more unpaired electrons in their outer orbits. When
uncontrolled, these can be very destructive to the body,
such as may take place when exposed to harmful
radiation. Vitamin C is critically important in
protecting against free-radical proliferation because,
in donating electrons, it neutralizes the unpaired
electrons in the "free-radical" oxygen molecules. Of all
the organs of the body, the brain appears to be most
vulnerable to this type of damage because of its
relatively high fat content.
For these
reasons, the combination of ill-advised vaccines given
to fragile infants, as in the present case, with highly
immature detoxification organs (liver and kidneys) and
immature immune systems, or as often takes place, in the
presence of viral or bacterial infections, is in my
opinion an invitation to disaster with the brain being
potentially subjected to a firestorm of free-radical
inflammatory damage. I believe that this is what is
likely happening in many of these infants. Once this
pattern has been set in motion, there is a variable
latent period with gradual progression of inflammatory
brain swelling commonly complicated by brain and retinal
hemorrhages. As the brain continues to swell, the
breathing center, located at the base of the brain, may
become herniated into the spinal canal and become
constricted, this in turn resulting in respiratory
arrest and collapse. In other instances there may be
seizures, as in the present case. Among the cases of SBS
that I have reviewed, I have found these to be common
patterns, too frequent to be coincidental.
As
described in his autobiography, Dr. Kalokerinos
describes the mechanisms involved in the production of
brain edema with retinal and brain hemorrhages in much
the same fashion: (1)
"1.
Endotoxin (endogenous and/or from vaccines) damages the
endothelial linings of the brain’s blood vessels.
2. endotoxin then ‘leaks’ through to the surrounding
brain tissue. This includes the retina that is an
extension of the brain.
3. The brain tissue is damaged.
4. The blood supply to the portions of the brain
involved is reduced.
5. Insufficient oxygen, glucose, and Vitamin C follows.
6. Parts of the brain are ‘rich’ in ‘bound’ (controlled)
iron. This is released.
7. Violent free radical reactions result, and these
cannot be controlled because of a lack of immediately
available Vitamin C and other antioxidants.
8. So further, and rapid, brain tissue damage results,
with more free radical reactions.
9. Hemorrhages occur in the area/areas involved.
10. After a variable period (depending on a host of
factors) some of the red blood cells in the hemorrhages
break down and release their stores of iron and copper.
11. This results in a further cascade of free radical
reactions and tissue destruction.
12. Cerebral edema (brain swelling) occurs."
By way of
comparison, in Vienna in the 1840s, long before
recognition of the importance of sanitation and the role
of microbes in causing disease, a doctor named Ignaz
Semmelweis was assigned to an obstetrical post at a
birthing center which was notorious for its high
maternal mortality rates. Based on simple observation,
Semmelweis deduced that doctors and nurses were carrying
infections from one patient to another and subsequently
required that they wash their hands between patients. As
a result, the mortality rate among maternity patients
under his care was reduced from nearly 30% in other
wings of the hospital to less than 2% for patients under
his care or supervision.
Was
Semmelweis honored by his peers for this discovery? No,
at least not at that time. Instead he was dismissed from
the hospital staff because his procedures did not
conform with the medical thinking of the time. In the
case of Dr. Archivedes Kalokerinos, could history be
repeating itself?
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SHAKEN
BABY SYNDROME OR MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE?
By
Maureen Hickman
Managing Legal Clerk, Carters Law Firm, Sydney,
Australia
e-mail:
acii@ozemail.com.au
Address: PO Box W261, Warringah Mall, Brookvale. NSW
2100, Australia
Telephone: 61 2 9907 1687
Facsimile: 61 2 9907 1657
Is it
Shaken Baby Syndrome or the negligence of medical
personnel for failing to carry out extensive medical
investigation, following injury or death of a child
diagnosed with sub-dural and retinal haemorrhages? That
is the crucial question.
The
worrisome aspect of the diagnosis of SBS by coroners,
forensic pathologists and other medical specialists is
that they focus their entire attention on this one
medical hypothesis and ignore many other idiopathic
causes (including vaccination) of death/injury.
Following any medical observation of co-existing
sub-dural and retinal haemorrhages in a baby the
conclusion is that these haemorrhages are distinctly
characteristic of SBS. In other words, where the facts
fit the theory, accept them without any further medical
investigation into the cause.
Unfortunately, the medical professionals acting on
behalf of the accused are brought into the matter some
time after the cremation or burial of a child or
sometimes the child is in other care, if injured.
Because they have no access after death/injury, it is
impossible to request further specific analysis of
certain organs, blood testing, radiology screening etc.,
or to demonstrate that other explanations may exist for
the death/injury.
The
Brain Journal of Neurology,1 in an
introduction, says ‘The neuropathology of inflicted
head injury, whether adult assault or non-accidental
injury (NAI) in children, has not been fully studied.’
Until such studies are carried out and published, the
current medical opinion on the link between subdural and
retinal haemorrhages and SBS cannot be substantiated. If
no medical literature is available defining the affects
of alleged ‘shaking,’ why are medical practitioners and
police personnel so determined to ignore other reasons
for death/injury?
In a
recent SBS case in Western Australia,2 where
a father was accused of the murder of his son, Cameron
Court, Scott J found the father ‘not guilty’. In the
judgment dated 3rd June, 2003, Scott J said:
‘I
was not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the
accused caused the death of the deceased in the
manner alleged by the Crown.
I
also took into account the principle of law that I
could only draw an inference against the accused if
it was the only rational inference that was
available on the evidence. That rule was of
importance in determining whether the Crown had
proved beyond reasonable doubt the necessary intent
for the offence of murder. It was also important
because this was a circumstantial evidence case
relying upon conclusions said to be available from
medical findings.
I
was unable to conclude beyond reasonable doubt that
the death of the deceased was caused by the deceased
being shaken by the accused in the manner alleged by
the prosecution. The evidence, which I have reviewed
extensively in these reasons, gave rise to
considerable doubt as to whether shaking was the
cause of the death of the deceased. It was not
necessary to consider the intent of the accused
further.
For these reasons I acquitted the accused of both
murder and manslaughter.’
Application for Leave to Appeal was made on 23rd
June, 2003 but this Application has not yet been heard
before the court and therefore it is not known at this
time whether an appeal will take place. The particulars
of the appeal by the prosecutors are as follows:-
‘(a)
The expert medical opinion was that the child had
died from a brain injury due to trauma;
(b) The Respondent’s explanation did not account for
the constellation of injuries found on the deceased;
(c) The constellation of injuries found on the
deceased was consistent only with the Baby-Shaking
Syndrome. The baby died as a result of being
subjected to acceleration/deceleration forces
combined with rotational effect.’
In
another SBS Australian case3 heard in 1998, a
father was found ‘not guilty’ of manslaughter of his
daughter, Rikki-Lee Walters. In the judgment dated 24th
March, 1998, Black A.J. said:
‘In my view, this is a case of circumstantial
evidence and, accordingly, in order to convict the
accused I have to be satisfied not only that the
circumstances are consistent with the accused having
committed the crime but also that the facts are such
as to be inconsistent with any other rational
conclusion. Before drawing an inference on the
accused’s guilt from circumstantial evidence, it is
essential for me to be sure that there are no other
circumstances which would weaken or destroy the
inference.
"Applying the above principles to the present case
it means that in order to convict the accused I
would have to be satisfied first of all that the
subdural haemorrhage found in Rikki-Lee was caused
by the accused violently shaking Rikki-Lee in a way
that a reasonable person in his position would have
realised that by doing so Rikki-Lee was being
exposed to an appreciable or significant risk of
serious injury and that no other reasonably possible
explanation for her death exists. That would involve
amongst other things my finding beyond a reasonable
doubt that the possibilities put forward by Dr.
Kalokerinos and/or Dr. Donohoe were not reasonable.
‘I did not form the view that either of those
doctors was putting forward a fanciful untenable
proposition. Perhaps putting the burden the correct
way I am not satisfied that their evidence should be
rejected as unreliable nor amI satisfied that their
propositions are unreasonable.’
Following
the death/injury of a child and the subsequent police
accusation of SBS by a parent/carer, any severe adverse
effect of vaccination is one medical investigation that
is not carried out by the prosecution medical team. If
you meticulously peruse past medical/hospital
documentation of these children as well as a health
chronology prepared by parents since the birth of the
child, a high percentage have had serious adverse
reactions to vaccines administered prior to their
death/injury. These vaccine adverse events, even though
the mechanism is sometimes uncertain, cannot be
categorically denied as untenable by the elected judges
and juries who hand down decisions affecting the life
and freedom of others.
In the
Walters case, vaccination was put forward as a possible
case of death. Dr. Kalokerinos in his evidence said
‘a possible cause of Rikki-Lee’s death [was] of ‘Scurvy
haemorrhages precipitated by Pertussis Vaccine’.
The fact
that Rikki Lee had a bad reaction to vaccination was
noted on the Report of Death to the
Coroner, dated 23 April, 1998: ‘The deceased received
two-monthly injections on Wednesday 19.4.98 at her
three-monthly period because she had been sick. The
deceased then suffered a bad reaction to the injections,
however the mother did not return her to the Doctor –
Signed by Police Constable.’
It is
noted that the medical practitioner said in a statement
to police that at the time of vaccination: ‘I cannot
recall this consultation, however it is my usual
practice to OBSERVE the child and ask general
questions as to the child’s health. If the child had
been obviously unwell with fever, the vaccination would
not have been ordered. Further, the child did not appear
to have any physical injuries or (to be)
suffering from neglect and if the child had been I am
aware of the guidelines in relation to me contacting the
Department of Community Services. The child received
vaccinations from nursing staff as this is usually the
normal practice at the centre.’
We know
that the child was ill because both parents have alluded
to this fact when giving police statements. Did the
medical practitioner give adequate information to the
parents on the risks and benefits of vaccination so an
informed decision could be made? The father alleged that
the medical practitioner in a consultation lasting 3 — 4
minutes: did not take any notes of the consultation; did
not examine the child for contraindications to the
administration of a vaccine; did not question the
parents on the health of the child and did not explain
the risks and benefits of vaccination.
If the
medical practitioner did not recall the consultation,
how could he remember whether there were any physical
injuries or whether the child was suffering from
neglect? Remember, the doctor took no notes
according to the parents. The doctor made the statement:
‘If the child had been obviously unwell with
fever, the vaccination would not have been ordered’.
We know, however, that the doctor admitted only
OBSERVING the child so how could he make a diagnosis
of whether the child had any contraindications for the
administration of the six vaccines?
In the
medical diagnosis of subdural and retinal haemorrhages
in any case of death/injury of a child, police and
investigators adopt the view that the individual caring
for the child at the time of the occurrence is the
person guilty of SBS. This causes distress and despair
for the accused and their family, if they are not guilty
of any offence.
Law firms
acting on behalf of accused individuals require medical
professionals who are not obedient or compliant to
prevailing standards of the medical rhetoric and
investigation of SBS and who will look into all other
possible causes, including vaccination, of death/injury.
It is therefore very important for the worldwide
networking of law firms and helpful medical
professionals in SBS cases.
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Brain, A Journal of Neurology, Vol. 124, No. 7,
1290-1298, July, 2001.
- The
Queen —v- Craig Douglas Court — No. 28 of 2002, in
the Supreme Court of Western Australia, at Perth,
Heard 19-23, 26, 28 & 29 May, 2003.
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Regina —v- Scott Warren Walters — No. 70031 of 1996,
in the Supreme Court ofof New South Wales Criminal
Division, judgment 24th March, 2998.
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ANALYSIS OF CAUSES THAT LED TO TODDLER ALEXA SHEARER’S
CARDIAC ARREST AND DEATH IN NOVEMBER 1999
PART ONE: OVERVIEW
By RFD Columnist, Mohammed
Ali Al-Bayati, Ph.D., DABT, DABVT
Toxicologist & Pathologist
Toxi-Health
International
150 Bloom Dr.
Dixon, CA 95620
Phone: (707) 678-4484
Fax: (707) 678-8505
http://www.toxi-health.com
Kathleen
Butcher is a 40-year-old, white woman, and the mother of
five children. She was accused of, and arrested for,
killing Alexa Marie Shearer by vigorous shaking of the
head and blunt trauma to the head and abdomen. Alexa was
a 15-month-old toddler, who suffered from cardiac arrest
and apnea on November 16, 1999 in Kathleen’s house in
Howard County, Maryland. Kathleen was her daycare
provider and she had cared for Alexa ever since she was
two months old.
Kathleen
was arrested in December of 1999 based on a verbal
communication between the Chief Medical Examiner for the
District of Columbia, Dr. Jonathan Arden and the Howard
County Police. Dr. Arden performed Alexa’s autopsy on
November 19, 1999. He told the police officer present at
the autopsy, that Alexa’s injuries and death were caused
by blunt trauma to the head, and that the manner of
death was homicide. In February of 2001, Kathleen was
convicted of involuntary manslaughter and child abuse in
the death of Alexa and sentenced to 10 years and 5
years, respectively, to serve concurrently in prison
(Criminal Case No. 13-K-99-38775). Kathleen has stated
that she took care of Alexa as her own child and never
harmed her.
Kathleen
Butcher and her husband, Ducman Butcher, requested that
I evaluate the medical evidence in Alexa’s case to find
the factual cause(s) that led to Alexa’s cardiac arrest
and death in November of 1999. I evaluated Alexa’s case
by reviewing: her medical records, autopsy report,
adverse reactions to vaccines and medications given to
Alexa, trial documents and testimonies of expert
witnesses, and the medical literature pertinent to this
case. I used differential diagnosis to evaluate the
contribution of agents relevant to this case and the
possible synergistic actions among agents in causing
Alexa’s cardiac arrest, apnea, bleeding, pathologic
changes in tissues, and death in this case.
Alexa was
born on August 11, 1998; she was near term and was
delivered by caesarean section. She suffered from
jaundice and an upper respiratory tract bacterial
infection during the first week of her life. Her blood
bilirubin level was 16.5 mg/dL at five days following
birth, which is about 8 times the
expected normal level of 2 mg/dL. Neurological damages
have been observed in some infants who had blood
bilirubin level > 12 mg/dL.
Alexa’s
appetite became poor at about 10 months of age and her
appetite got worse gradually toward the time of her
death at 15 months. For example, on July 20th,
Alexa’s mother told the child’s pediatrician that she
had a poor appetite for the previous 2-3 weeks. She
developed white thrush on her tongue and was treated
with three consecutive courses of Nystatin (anti-fungal)
orally, that caused vomiting and diarrhea. Alexa’s
physician overlooked her chronic health problems and
vaccinated her with the polio (IPV) and hepatitis B (Hep
B) vaccines on July 20, 1999, at 11 months of age.
Alexa was
vaccinated with the MMR vaccine and varicella on August
13, 1999, when she was suffering from chronic immune
depression, fungal infection, poor appetite, and poor
weight gain. She also had frequent bowel movements and
vomited on many occasions. (She received the MMR
vaccines three months earlier than the recommended age
of 15 months for a healthy child.)
Alexa
developed an upper respiratory tract infection and
low-grade fever and her poor weight gain became worse
after receiving these vaccines. At two months of age,
Alexa had been in the 50th percentile for weight on the
growth chart and her weight then dropped to below the
1st percentile at 15 months of age. Her length also
dropped from the 25th percentile at 7.4 months to the
10th percentile at 12 months of age.
Alexa
suffered from cardiac arrest and apnea between 12:30 and
12:45 on November 16, 1999 at Kathleen Butcher’s house.
The clinical data described in this report clearly shows
that Alexa’s cardiac arrest was triggered by acute
pancreatitis and diabetes mellitus. It was not caused by
violent shaking and blunt trauma as the State alleged.
Alexa did not breathe for about 30 minutes following her
cardiac arrest and her brain suffered from severe
ischemia and hypoxia, which caused severe diffuse edema
and nerve damage.
Alexa
also suffered from vitamin K deficiency, anemia, acute
bacterial infections, oesteomyelitis, otitis media, and
mastotidis. In addition, the complications of acute
pancreatitis and diabetes caused hypovolemia, metabolic
acidosis, reduction of potassium levels in cardiac
muscles and nervous tissues, edema, bleeding, and
disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). Vitamin K
deficiency caused bleeding and affected calcium
metabolism in bone.
Furthermore, the treatment of Alexa with high
therapeutic doses of epinephrine during resuscitation,
and epinephrine and heparin during her hospitalization
caused bleeding in the subdural space, retina, skin, and
other locations. She was also treated with excessive
amounts of sodium bicarbonate that caused brain edema,
hypoxia, and hypokalemia. Alexa’s treatment with high
therapeutic doses of epinephrine, dopamine, fresh frozen
plasma, albumin, and fluid also influenced the
intravascular osmotic and hydrostatic pressure and
caused the leakage of the fluid outside the blood
vessels thereby contributing to the formation of edema.
It is
noteworthy that Alexa was given vaccinations with four
attenuated live viruses when she was suffering from
serious chronic health problems. Alexa’s poor weight
gain and her low food intake caused a significant
depression in the functions of her immune system,
especially the T-cell count and functions. The MMR and
varicella vaccines caused the following serious
illnesses that led to Alexa’s cardiac arrest and apnea
on November 16, 1999:
1) It
caused an upper respiratory tract infection, which
increased Alexa’s risk of developing a bacterial ear
infection and osteomyelitis. Viral respiratory tract
infections caused edema of the eustachian tube mucosa
and blocked the tube, which led to the accumulation of
the fluid in the middle ear and mastoid cavities,
providing a culture medium for the bacteria present.
Streptococcus pneumonia and Haemophilus influenza are
the primary causes of bacterial ear infection in
children and these bacteria also cause osteomyelitis in
children. It is likely that these bacteria caused
Alexa’s otitis, mastotidis, and osteomyelitis of the
T-10 vertebrae.
2) The
MMR and varicella vaccines, along with her viral and
bacterial infections, caused Alexa to eat less, lose
weight, develop anemia, vitamin K deficiency, and led to
significant immune depression, especially T-cell counts
and functions. The mumps virus from the vaccine probably
overcame Alexa’s weakened immune system and infected the
pancreatic tissues. The clinical tests and the
pathological findings in the abdominal cavity indicated
that Alexa suffered from acute pancreatitis, which led
to her cardiac arrest and apnea on November 16, 1999.
I
reviewed Dr. Jonathan Arden’s autopsy report and his
court testimony in this case and found that his autopsy
and his investigation were incomplete. It is my belief
that he also misinterpreted the clinical data including
the results of his own tests and that he presented the
wrong conclusions to the police and the court about the
causes of injuries and death in this case. His work led
to what I consider to be the false accusation, arrest,
and conviction of Kathleen Butcher for a horrible crime
that she did not commit.
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