Thursday, September 7, 2023
By LETRE SWEETING
Tribune Staff Reporter
lsweeting@tribunemedia.net
FREE National Movement chairman Dr Duane Sands has called for the Davis administration to bring in a dengue vaccine - with cases having risen to 66 as of yesterday, according to The Ministry of Health and Wellness.
Dr Sands was a guest on Rodney Moncur’s Freedom March talk show yesterday.
In the space of two days, 14 more cases of dengue fever have been confirmed according to a Dengue Alert, released by the ministry yesterday.
The alert sent out reiterated symptoms of the disease including, headache, fever, nausea, vomiting, rash and aches and pains in certain areas of the body.
The alert added that: “Prevention and control of dengue depend on vector control. There is no specific treatment for dengue/severe dengue, and early detection and access to proper medical care greatly lower fatality rates of severe dengue.”
Yesterday, Dr Sands said: “We ought to have a conversation in this country — I know vaccines are something that some people have a serious issue with, not that they should, but let’s ask the government if I want to get the dengue vaccine, would you bring it in?
“There is a vaccine available. It is commercially available. Depending on which vaccine you choose, it can either be used only in young people, people younger than the age of 16. Or another version can be used in young people and adults.
“It can be purchased by the government and I think we should be proactive, get a supply and make it available to people that want it.
“People that have never had dengue, probably are not candidates for vaccination. The problem with dengue is, many people get dengue and don’t know it, because the majority of people who get dengue have very mild symptoms.
“I think if we look at the official numbers and that is the number of people that have been tested and if we say that there have been 60 that have been confirmed, then it is not unreasonable to infer that you probably have more than 600 people already infected with dengue. The numbers can increase, they can explode.
“Given the fact there are a number of people in the country who have been previously infected with different stereotypes of dengue, when they come in now, if they get bitten by a mosquito that’s carrying the fourth stereotype or the third stereotype and they had the first or the second, then some of those people come in with what we call haemorrhagic dengue and they can die from it,” Dr Sands said.
According the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the 2022 approved Dengvaxia dengue vaccine is recommended for children ages nine to 16, who have a previous history of “laboratory-confirmed” dengue infection, living in areas where dengue occurs frequently or continuously.
The CDC said: “Children without previous dengue infection are at increased risk for severe dengue disease and hospitalisation if they get dengue after they are vaccinated with Dengvaxia.
“Vaccine providers give three doses administered subcutaneously and each dose given 6 months apart (at 0, 6, and 12 months) for full protection.”
On August 2023, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said: “For the prevention of dengue disease caused by dengue virus serotypes 1, 2, 3 and 4. Dengvaxia is approved for use in individuals six through 16 years of age, with laboratory-confirmed previous dengue infection and living in endemic areas.”
A second “vaccine”, is called Qdenga or TAK-003, created by the Takeda Pharmaceutical Company in Asia. On July 11, Takeda revealed: “The Company has voluntarily withdrawn the United States Biologics License Application (BLA) for its dengue vaccine candidate, TAK-003, following discussions with the FDA on aspects of data collection, which cannot be addressed within the current BLA review cycle.
“The future plan for TAK-003 in the United States will be further evaluated given the need for travellers and those living in dengue-endemic areas of the United States, such as Puerto Rico.”
The Ministry of Health and Wellness announced the reappearance of the dengue fever last month, with confirmed cases steadily increasing each week.
Comments
ohdrap4 says...
> Children without previous dengue
> infection are at increased risk for
> severe dengue disease and
> hospitalisation if they get dengue
> after they are vaccinated with
> Dengvaxia.
Nice vaccine. You risk more severe disease AFTER you receive the vaccination.
It is not a vaccine. It is a dengue agonist. Lol.
Coming from the guy who took four COVID vaccines and then caught it.
Posted 7 September 2023, 9:18 a.m. Suggest removal
rosiepi says...
By fashioning your scorn without the key phrase included in the above article (and two times no less!) you’ve exposed yourself as the worst kind of purveyor of disinformation, ie. those who cause direct harm to the lives of our children.
“Dengvaxia is approved for use in individuals aged 6 through 16 years of age, with laboratory-confirmed previous dengue infection and living in endemic regions.”
Posted 7 September 2023, 1:25 p.m. Suggest removal
ohdrap4 says...
Except the Bahamas ins not an endemic region, and whomever was 6 years old or younger in 2011 last outbreak is now older than 16.
Thus the potential eligible subject must have contacted dengue abroad, be between these ages and preserved lab results.
Must be about two or three of them.
Remind me about scorn rosiepi, i remember your scorn of unvaccinated covid inpatients. The north remembers.
Posted 7 September 2023, 2:48 p.m. Suggest removal
rosiepi says...
If you claim an excellent memory, you must therefore be studiously ignoring the facts of Dr Sand’s’ admonitions, not all cases of the past infections are known by the patient/caregiver to have been Dengue, ie. the reason for the lab tests.
More importantly how can one blithely assume that any of those unknowns must stem from the last endemic in 2011?
Your reference of Covid in the Bahamas reminds us that egoists like yourself spreading disinformation caused the deaths and/or reduced the quality of life for many Bahamians.
Posted 8 September 2023, 12:49 p.m. Suggest removal
benniesun says...
I agree with Dr Sands that the govmin' dem should bring in the dengue vaccines. And since our valuable, very loving and extremely concerned 'health professionals' are the ones being exposed to diseases on a daily basis, it should be stipulated in law that they are mandatorily injected and boosted every three months - or more frequent if necessary - for their protection. The stipulation would allow all other citizens voluntary access to the same vaccines. In addition, any other vaccine that comes available and is publicly mentioned by our esteemed 'health professionals' should automatically be included in the mandatory injected mix'; of course, still being voluntary for any other brave soul.
Posted 7 September 2023, 10:19 a.m. Suggest removal
bahamianson says...
Ok Fauci, calm down.
Posted 7 September 2023, 12:32 p.m. Suggest removal
stillwaters says...
Say vaccine.....here we go again....
Posted 7 September 2023, 1:06 p.m. Suggest removal
ted4bz says...
COVID-19 virus was engineered so that we all take a toxic drug they call the vaccine. The dengue mosquito is engineered so that we take that toxic drug called the vaccine. I braved their COVID-19 virus without the toxic drug very easily and beautifully. Now, in the same way, I shall brave their dengue mosquito in the same way without their toxic drugs, no matter what.
Posted 7 September 2023, 1:14 p.m. Suggest removal
FreeportFreddy says...
It is better to have people think you are a fool than to open your mouth (or use your computer) and have it confirmed!
Posted 7 September 2023, 2:52 p.m. Suggest removal
ExposedU2C says...
OMG!! Don't tell me the sinister and evil likes of Fauci and Gates, and their greedy profiteering big pharma friends, have turned loose on mankind gain-of-function mosquitos laden with deadly diseases for population control purposes. Our nation needs plenty of Baygon spray....not more vaccines!!! But I bet we will find the supply chain for insecticides is broken and the price of a can of Baygon spray has gone through the roof, like everything else.
Posted 7 September 2023, 3:15 p.m. Suggest removal
ted4bz says...
HERE WE GO AGAIN!
Why do you think I come here to say the things on my mind? Because I don't care what anyone has to say, especially those with no minds of their own, those like you! Unless you’re a bot, then no one should come here to show they are still listening to these political MONEY BAGS. Well, unless you’re one of their plethora of fools. There is a lot more to come, stay tuned.
Posted 7 September 2023, 6:52 p.m. Suggest removal
TalRussell says...
The Red Party Chairman, should've done telephoned over to Hog Island, so as to confirm as to whether or not --- New cases dengue is behind Atlantis's sale for $2.5 billions. And what major changes are expected. --- Yes?
Posted 7 September 2023, 4:40 p.m. Suggest removal
ExposedU2C says...
Their decision to sell was made shortly after they recieved their latest monthy light bill from BPL.
Posted 8 September 2023, 9:33 a.m. Suggest removal
themessenger says...
Dengue fever is not contagious being mosquito borne, so the emphasis should be on mosquito control rather than vaccines. Having said that, those of you who have never suffered the serious debilitation and dehydration from dengue fever, I have, I wouldn't wish it on a dog, so vaccines just might be the lesser of the two evils.
Posted 8 September 2023, 12:36 p.m. Suggest removal
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