All provincial vaccine schedules have been updated with January 2020 information. Errors in aluminum content have been corrected. Direct links to product monographs for the relevant vaccines on page 2 of the schedules have also been added for immediate access to product monographs. Links to provincial information have also been updated on each schedule.
There are now two Canada-wide maps. The first map shows the total vaccine doses from prenatal to age 18 in each province for the general population and for aboriginal children when these dosages differ.
All provincial vaccine dosage counts increased by at least one dose due to a contract change for the rotavirus vaccine. GSK’s two-dose Rotatrix vaccine is no longer being purchased by the Canadian government under the federal vaccine purchase program. It has been replaced by Merck Canada’s 3-dose RotaTeq vaccine.
Page 15 of Health Canada’s Canadian Immunization Guide lists ingredients of both Rotarix (Rot- 1) and RotaTeq (Rot-5), as do the product monographs linked above.
Rotarix contains bovine and porcine derived material and DNA fragments from porcine circoviruses 1. RotaTeq also contains bovine and porcine derived material as well as DNA fragments from porcine circoviruses 1 and 2 and Polysorbate 80.
Also of note is that two doses of Rotarix at 1.5 mL each amount to a total of 3mL. While 3 doses of RotaTeq at 2.0 mL each amount to a total of 6mL. Thus RotaTeq doubles the volume of vaccine received by an infant.
The second map shows the actual neurotoxic load of aluminum and mercury for both populations in the first year of life when following routine vaccine schedules using the example vaccines listed on page 2 of each provincial schedules.
For further study and understanding of aluminum toxicity and vaccine schedules see the recent IPAK publications of James Lyons-Weiler and the work of Christopher Exley at both his blog (with simple versions of his work written for public consumption) and his peer-reviewed and published papers on Aluminum at his research group’s Keele University site.
Special thanks to Nelle Maxey!