# DTP Vaccine and Child Mortality in Guinea-Bissau: Claims About a 2017 Study

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- Source language: English
- Duration: 3:10
- Published: 2026-10-09
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnshWZLQjCK6/en/dtp-vaccine-and-child-mortality-in-guinea-bissau-claims-about-a-2017-study) The Danish government was approached, uh, by the Gates Foundation, by Gavi and others saying, "Will you finance the DTP vaccine in Va-- in Africa?" The DTP vaccine we got rid of in this country in the '80s because of the high level of injuries, one in 300, according to NIH, suffering brain injuries or death.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnshWZLQjCK6/en/dtp-vaccine-and-child-mortality-in-guinea-bissau-claims-about-a-2017-study?t=24) And so we got rid of it here, but they are still giving that vaccine to kids, to 61 million kids, I think, in Africa and, and, um, and Asia.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnshWZLQjCK6/en/dtp-vaccine-and-child-mortality-in-guinea-bissau-claims-about-a-2017-study?t=34) And they went to the Danish government to get financed, and they said, "We've saved 30 million lives."

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnshWZLQjCK6/en/dtp-vaccine-and-child-mortality-in-guinea-bissau-claims-about-a-2017-study?t=40) The Danish government, to its credit, and Novo Nordisk, a vaccine company, said, "Let's actually check on those numbers." And they went to Guinea-Bissau, where the Danes operated, uh, health clinics all over the country that weighed every child when they were three months old,

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnshWZLQjCK6/en/dtp-vaccine-and-child-mortality-in-guinea-bissau-claims-about-a-2017-study?t=60) and then, then again when they were six months.

[1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnshWZLQjCK6/en/dtp-vaccine-and-child-mortality-in-guinea-bissau-claims-about-a-2017-study?t=62) And if they were-- if they showed up, sometimes they'd miss by a day, you know, they'd get them at 29 days r- or, you know, uh, 88 days rather than 90 days.

[1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnshWZLQjCK6/en/dtp-vaccine-and-child-mortality-in-guinea-bissau-claims-about-a-2017-study?t=73) Then they wouldn't vaccinate them till the second visit at six months.

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnshWZLQjCK6/en/dtp-vaccine-and-child-mortality-in-guinea-bissau-claims-about-a-2017-study?t=76) So you had this situation where half the infants in the country were vaccinated at three months and half were six months.

[1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnshWZLQjCK6/en/dtp-vaccine-and-child-mortality-in-guinea-bissau-claims-about-a-2017-study?t=84) It was a perfect natural experiment. A-and the, the Danish team, which w- uh, included Peter Aaby, Sigrid Morgensen, uh, Christine Stabell Bentley, the deities of vaccine research, very pro-vaccine, uh, African vaccine research,

[1:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnshWZLQjCK6/en/dtp-vaccine-and-child-mortality-in-guinea-bissau-claims-about-a-2017-study?t=101) went in and looked at the data on these children, a-and they found something that shocked them.

[1:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnshWZLQjCK6/en/dtp-vaccine-and-child-mortality-in-guinea-bissau-claims-about-a-2017-study?t=107) Uh, girls who were-- got-- received the vaccine were 10 times more likely to die over the next three months than children who were unvaccinated.

[1:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnshWZLQjCK6/en/dtp-vaccine-and-child-mortality-in-guinea-bissau-claims-about-a-2017-study?t=119) And they were dying of things that nobody ever associated with the vaccine.

[2:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnshWZLQjCK6/en/dtp-vaccine-and-child-mortality-in-guinea-bissau-claims-about-a-2017-study?t=123) They were dying of bilharzia, anemia, and pulmonary respiratory problems, and sepsis, and just common infections.

[2:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnshWZLQjCK6/en/dtp-vaccine-and-child-mortality-in-guinea-bissau-claims-about-a-2017-study?t=132) And nobody for decades had noticed this correlation, that it was the-- disproportionately the vaccinated girls who were dying.

[2:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnshWZLQjCK6/en/dtp-vaccine-and-child-mortality-in-guinea-bissau-claims-about-a-2017-study?t=142) And the researchers concluded that the vaccine, the DTP vaccine, was killing more children than diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis before the introduction of the vaccine, and they recommended the removal of it, which we are now pressing Gavi to do.

[2:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnshWZLQjCK6/en/dtp-vaccine-and-child-mortality-in-guinea-bissau-claims-about-a-2017-study?t=159) Um, but, um, what that shows, this is an incredible story. It's published in the eBio pharma in 2017, January 2017.

[2:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnshWZLQjCK6/en/dtp-vaccine-and-child-mortality-in-guinea-bissau-claims-about-a-2017-study?t=170) What that shows is that you can have mass injuries and catastrophic injuries, and they're hiding in plain sight, sight, and nobody is gonna notice the connection. And that's why President Trump wants us to do these studies, 'cause he understands that