Hemophilus Meningitis Vaccine Proven
to Cause Diabetes in Clinical Trial of Over 100,000 Children; Many Diabetics
Eligible for Compensation
BALTIMORE, July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The prestigious peer
reviewed journal Autoimmunity published data this week by Dr. J. Bart
Classen, an immunologist at Classen Immunotherapies, and David Carey Classen,
an infectious disease specialist at the University of Utah, proving a causal
relationship between the hemophilus vaccine and the development of insulin
dependent diabetes. The data is particularly disturbing because it indicates
the risks of the vaccine exceeds the benefit. The findings are expected to
allow may diabetics to receive compensation for their injuries and lead to
safer immunization.
The study followed over 100,000 children which had been
randomized in a large clinical trial to receive 1 or 4 doses of the
hemophilus vaccine and over 100,000 unvaccinated children. After 7 years the
group receiving 4 doses of the vaccine had a statistically significant 26%
elevated rate of diabetes, or an extra 54 cases/100,000 children, compared
to children who did not receive the vaccine. By contrast immunization
against hemophilus is expected to prevent only 7 deaths and 7 to 26 cases of
permanent disability per 100,000 children immunized. The study showed that
almost all of the extra cases of diabetes caused by the vaccine occurred
between 3-4 years after vaccination. Furthermore the paper provides new data
proving the vaccine causes diabetes in mice and reviews data from 3 smaller
human studies, which all had similar results to the current study, but were
too small to reach statistical significance.
"Our results conclusively prove there is a causal
relationship between immunization schedules and diabetes. We believe
immunization schedules can be made safer," stated Dr. Bart Classen.
The Classens' research is already becoming widely accepted.
An independent group of researchers working at a prestigious Swedish medical
center recently published a paper (Ann. N.Y. Acad Sci. 958: 293-296, 2002)
supporting their findings. Last year doctors attending a conference of the
American College for Advancement in Medicine overwhelmingly agreed that
vaccines can cause chronic diseases such as diabetes. For the latest
information on the effects of vaccines on insulin dependent diabetes and
other autoimmune diseases visit the Vaccine Safety Web site (
