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You are here: Home / About Vaccines / Specific Vaccines / Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, and Hib Vaccine

Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, and Hib Vaccine

In Canadian childhood vaccination programs, vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio and Haemophilus (a bacterial infection) are administered as one shot in a vaccine with the trade name, Pediacel®. An alternate vaccine being offered has a sixth component against hepatitis B. Since it eliminates any need for the single hepatitis B vaccine, one of the first four vaccines injected at 2 months, Public Health hopes this vaccine, Infanrix hexa™, will encourage more parents to opt for vaccination. What’s certain is that this vaccine will make it even more difficult for parents who wish to consent to only one or two single vaccines to do so. Although not disclosed in its monograph, the polio viruses of Infanrix hexa™ are cultured on aborted human foetal tissue.

Pediacel®, unlike its predecessor, the 5-valent Pentacel™, does not require mixing of its Haemophilus component with the four other components prior to injection; all five components are contained in one vial of vaccine. Pentacel™ was introduced shortly after Haemophilus vaccine first became available. Prior to this, polio vaccine was administered together with diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccines in a 4-valent vaccine or the four vaccines were administered as a separate polio vaccine and a 3-valent DTP vaccine. It was serious adverse reactions to DTP vaccine that gave rise to much more wary vaccine consumerism starting in the 1980’s.

Pentacel™ was introduced in 1997. Its phase-out of began after licensing approval of Pediacel® in 2009. For a number of years, Canadian children (unbeknownst to their parents) served as the test market guinea pigs for Pentacel™ after which it was released for marketing in other parts of the world.

Pertussis deaths were rapidly declining well before the first widespread use of DTP in the late 1940s. And despite its use for more than six decades in one form or another, whooping cough outbreaks still occur in highly vaccinated populations. Long term universal vaccination with pertussis vaccines has demonstrated that immunity artificially -derived via vaccination is pathetically inept compared to immunity naturally-derived from infections. With increased vulnerability of babies of mothers who’ve never been exposed to pertussis infections, and increased vulnerability of teens and adults whose childhood vaccinations no longer protect them, pertussis vaccine is now scheduled for most of a Canadian’s lifespan. As well as Pediacel™ and Infanrix hexa™ for infants and children 2 mos to 6 yrs old, Adacel™, containing immune stimulants against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, is given to 12- to 54-year-olds.

Please see the separate Polio page in the Specific Vaccines section for more articles on this subject.


Related VCC Articles

  • Vaccine Injuries Under-Reported and Ignored (PDF) (a letter to the Saskatchewan Minister of Health from parents of a young boy neurologically damaged by Pentacel™)
  • Association for Vaccine Damaged Children 1986 Queen’s Park Press Conference (4/1/2019)
  • The reality of vaccine injury: a much needed lesson for Carly Weeks (2/13/2019)
  • Ontario Parent Questions Tdap Vaccines in Pregnancy (1/27/2019)
  • Government Sanctioned Bullying With Ontario Vaccine Legislation (12/12/2017)
  • Alberta Health & Calgary Herald – provide risk information of vaccine during pregnancy (8/14/2017)
  • First Do No Harm by Ted Kuntz (1/22/2017)
  • History of the Haemophilus Influenza Type B (Hib) vaccine in Canada (7/11/2016)
  • Pertussis Microbe Outsmarts the Vaccines As Experts Argue About Why (3/30/2016)
  • Vaccine Safety Report Released (3/24/2016)
  • Adverse reaction to the Tdap vaccine (4/9/2014)
  • The Penta Project (11/24/2013)
  • Original Antigenic Sin Committed by Vaccination (11/1/2013)
  • An Admission that Pro-Vaccinators Don’t Want to Make (1/8/2013)
  • Can Infanrix hexa kill babies? (12/17/2012)
  • Whooping cough vaccine failure drives resurgence of the disease (8/18/2012)
  • Whooping Cough: The Disease and the Vaccine (6/29/2011)
  • The vaccines: PEDIACEL, INFANRIX hexa, ADACEL-Polio and ADACEL (5/20/2011)
  • The Diseases: Pertussis, Tetanus, Diphtheria, Polio and Haemophilus influenzae B (4/12/2011)
  • Tetanus – A Compilation of Articles (3/1/2011)
  • Magnesium As First Line Therapy in the Management of Tetanus (2/10/2011)
  • Tetanus as a single vaccine is no longer available in Canada (2/10/2011)
  • The Perilous Haemophilus, or is it… Pneumonia (4/7/2009)
  • Tetanus Toxoid Vaccination (4/6/2009)
  • Haemophilus Influenza B (Hib): The Disease & the Vaccine (1/26/2009)
  • Amanda’s Story – Seizures and DPT (12/3/2008)
  • Kirk’s Story – Collateral Damage (12/3/2008)
  • Clayton’s Story – Vaccine Reaction (12/2/2008)
  • Sara’s Story – Pervasive Development Disorder and Vaccines (12/2/2008)
  • Katie’s Story – Medical Denial (12/2/2008)
  • Tetanus Vaccination (11/12/2008)
  • A Not-So-Perfect Vaccine (11/10/2008)
  • Delayed DPT Vaccine May Reduce Asthma in Children (9/27/2008)
  • Anaphylactic Children – Canaries in the Public Health Mine Shaft? (9/27/2008)
  • A Compilation of DPT Polio and Hib Vaccines in Canada from 1971-2003 (3/30/2008)
  • Pertussis resurgence in Canada largely caused by a cohort effect (1/1/2003)
  • The True Story of Pertussis Vaccination: A sordid Legacy? (7/1/2002)
  • Congressional Testimony April 6 2000 – Autism – Dr Vijendra K. Singh (4/6/2000)
  • Congressional Testimony April 6, 2000 Autism Dr. Bernard Rimland (4/6/2000)

Links to External Articles

  • FDA Admits That Government Is Recommending Untested, Unlicensed Vaccines for Pregnant Women – Children’s Health Defense
  • Adverse Effects of Pertussis and Rubella Vaccines: A Report of the Committee to Review the Adverse Consequences of Pertussis and Rubella Vaccines
  • CDC’s Own Data: Vaccine-Infant Death Link – The CDC’s own research has found that the long denied vaccine-SIDS link is real. “This is exactly what has happened with the publication of a new study in the Journal of Pediatrics titled ,”Adverse Events following Haemophilus influenzae Type b Vaccines in the Vaccine Adverse Event ReportingSystem, 1990-2013,” wherein CDC and FDA researchers identify 749 deaths linked to the administration of the Hib vaccine, 51% of which were sudden infant death linked to the administration of Hib vaccine. “
  • 36 European babies die following 6 in 1 shot
  • Recent Italian Court Decisions on Vaccines and Autism – “The Italian infant plaintiff received three doses of GlaxoSmithKline’s Infanrix Hexa”
  • ‘Pentavalent Vaccination and the Infant Mortality Rate, a BMJ discussion’
  • Hemophilus influenzae Type B (Hib) Immunization by Karl-Reinhard Kummer MD
  • Changing Disease Epidemiology Via Vaccines – Are We “Robbing Peter To Pay Paul”?
  • Breastfeeding Protects from Haemophilus Influenza (medical article references)
  • Diabetes Rises in Finland following Haemophilus Influenza B Vaccine (Hib)
  • TETANUS – an indepth review of the disease and it’s treatments by Hilary Butler
  • Tetanus – the disease and the vaccine (Dr. Sherri Tenpenny dismantles the argument that adults need Td – tetanus and diphtheria combined – shots)
  • Study shows tetanus shots needed every 30 years, not every 10 – A revised adult vaccination schedule could save millions in health care costs
  • National Library of Medicine (a list of articles)
  • Trends in Pertussis Among Infants in the United States, 1980-1999 (“Reported cases of pertussis among adolescents and adults have increased since the 1980’s, despite increasingly high rates of vaccination among infants and children. However, severe pertussis mobidity and mortality occur primarily among infants.”)
  • Reemergence of Pertussis in the Highly Vaccinated Population of the Netherlands: Observations on Surveillance Data. (“The increase in pertussis incidence was higher among vaccinated than among unvaccinated persons of all ages. This resulted in lower estimates of vaccine effectiveness.”)
  • NVIC – Pertussis (Whooping Cough) & Pertussis Vaccine
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