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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Emerging</strong> <strong>Risks</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Live</strong> <strong>Virus</strong> & <strong>Virus</strong> <strong>Vectored</strong> <strong>Vaccines</strong>:<br />

Vaccine Strain <strong>Virus</strong> Infection, Shedding & Transmission<br />

Humans experience and recover from many different types <strong>of</strong> viral infections from<br />

infancy and throughout life without suffering chronic health problems. Common<br />

respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms <strong>of</strong> viral infections include fever, sore throat,<br />

runny nose, coughing, headache, diarrhea, vomiting and other symptoms that usually<br />

resolve without causing harm.<br />

However, depending upon the virus and the health <strong>of</strong> a person, serious complications <strong>of</strong><br />

viral infections can include dehydration, secondary bacterial infections (pneumonia,<br />

otitis media), brain inflammation, shock and death. People at higher risk for viral<br />

infection complications include infants, the elderly, and those with:<br />

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compromised immune system (immunodeficiency, cancer);<br />

malnutrition and living in unsanitary conditions;<br />

lack <strong>of</strong> sleep and high levels <strong>of</strong> stress;<br />

history <strong>of</strong> chronic disease (diabetes, COPD, heart disease);<br />

People Shed for Different Lengths <strong>of</strong> Time<br />

When someone has a viral infection that causes illness, that person can shed and<br />

transmit virus for different lengths <strong>of</strong> time depending upon the virus and the health or<br />

other individual characteristics <strong>of</strong> the infected person. 75 <strong>Virus</strong>es are shed and<br />

transmitted through coughing and sneezing, exchange <strong>of</strong> saliva (kissing or sharing<br />

drinking cups), skin-to-skin contact (for example, touching chickenpox lesions), breast<br />

milk and exposure to blood, urine or feces (changing a baby’s diapers), semen or other<br />

body fluids.<br />

Smallpox, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, influenza, rotavirus, chicken pox and<br />

shingles are viral infectious diseases for which live virus vaccines have been widely<br />

used by human populations for the past century.<br />

<strong>Live</strong> <strong>Virus</strong> <strong>Vaccines</strong> & Shedding <strong>of</strong> Vaccine Strain <strong>Virus</strong><br />

<strong>The</strong>re are different types <strong>of</strong> vaccines, including vaccines containing inactivated (killed)<br />

microbes and those containing live attenuated viruses. 76 77 <strong>Live</strong> attenuated viral<br />

vaccines are created in a number <strong>of</strong> ways but one <strong>of</strong> the most common methods<br />

involves passing a virus through a living cell culture or host (such as chicken embryo,<br />

monkey or dog kidney cells, human fetal lung cells) over and over until there is a<br />

reduced risk the weakened virus will make a person seriously ill but is still capable <strong>of</strong><br />

stimulating a strong enough inflammatory response in the body to produce vaccine<br />

acquired antibodies. 78<br />

Mutated Vaccine Strain <strong>Live</strong> <strong>Virus</strong> That Regains Virulence<br />

Sometimes the weakened vaccine strain live virus can mutate and regain virulence,<br />

including neurovirulence, which significantly raises risks <strong>of</strong> serious complications from<br />

vaccine strain virus infection. 79 80 Healthy persons can suffer complications from<br />

vaccine strain viral infection 81 but children and adults with immunodeficiency are more<br />

NVIC Referenced Report – Nov. 2014, Page 12

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