I would be prepared to clinically defend that to scientists. Geraghty believes as many as one in 15,000 children suffer brain damage and as many as one in 35,000 die following DPT vaccination. Other experts read the statistics in other ways. I actually used one in 62,000 children when I calculated risks and benefits. You have to go to the hundreds of thousands before you see a permanent complication, one in a half a million, maybe one in a quarter million.
Figures worldwide vary according to which study is examined.
For example, in Great Britain two studies were completed on the whooping cough vaccine in the mid 1970s. The Committee on Safety of Medicines concluded that one in 53,000 children vaccinated was severely brain-damaged. The National Childhood Encephalopathy study determined that one in 100,000 children was left permanently brain-damaged by the DPT shot. In West Germany, the government stopped recommending the shot after a Study showed one in 39,000 children was affected. In Sweden, two studies done by Dr. Justus Strom surveyed more than 200,000 children and looked at 10 years of whooping cough in the country.