Abstract:Contrary to the long-held belief that the effects of vaccines are specific for the disease they were created; compelling evidence has demonstrated that vaccines can exert positive or deleterious non-specific effects (NSEs). In this review, we compiled research reports from the last 40 years, showing that live vaccines induce positive NSEs, whereas non-live vaccines induce several negative NSEs, including increased female mortality associated with enhanced susceptibility to other infectious diseases, especially… Show more
“…Uversky and his colleague Alberto Casillas went on to argue in a recent preprint that such repeated vaccination also increased exposure to other infectious diseases, since the IgG4 antibodies exert a general depression on the immune system (Rubio-Casillas et al, 2023). They also argue that these deleterious effects are confined to vaccines that present just part of the target pathogen and would not apply to live or attenuated vaccines presenting the whole organism.…”
“…Uversky and his colleague Alberto Casillas went on to argue in a recent preprint that such repeated vaccination also increased exposure to other infectious diseases, since the IgG4 antibodies exert a general depression on the immune system (Rubio-Casillas et al, 2023). They also argue that these deleterious effects are confined to vaccines that present just part of the target pathogen and would not apply to live or attenuated vaccines presenting the whole organism.…”
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