Measles in Disneyland: Third MMR
Shot and Vaccine Exemption Ban
February 10, 2015
Story at-a-glance
In January, visitors to Disneyland got measles and
presumably infected other people in California,
Washington, Utah, and Colorado, yet no source case
for the outbreak has been identified
Dr. Pan, a pediatrician politician, has vowed to
introduce new legislation to further limit parents’
ability to make voluntary vaccine choices for their
children
The hype about 51 cases of measles has more to do
with covering up vaccine failures and propping up
the dissolving myth of vaccine acquired herd
immunity than it does about protecting the public
health
By Barbara Loe Fisher
There have been hundreds of media stories published in the U.S.
and around the world since Jan. 14, 2015, the day after it was first
reported that visitors to Disneyland got measles and presumably
infected other people in California, Washington, Utah, and Colorado.1
Like wildfire, the story spread globally even though there was -
and still is - limited information about the 51 lab-confirmed cases
of measles public health officials say are linked to the happiest
place on earth.
According a Jan. 23 Health Advisory issued by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), "no source case for the
outbreak has been identified."2
Demonizing of Parents and Their Children
The U.S. has a population of more than 320 million people and 38
million people live in California, so it is curious why a handful of
measles cases prompted one California newspaper to quickly place
blame on parents making informed vaccine choices, calling them
"ignorant" and engaged in a "self-absorbed rejection of science."3
Astroturfers4
and trolls5,6
saw that kind of talk as a green light to do more of it on public
comment boards, suggesting that children with vaccine-related brain
injuries are genetic mutants and calling mothers of vaccine injured
children "liars" and "witches."7
Pediatrician Leads Blame and Shame Game
Dr. James Cherry,8
a prominent UCLA pediatrician and infectious disease expert,
publicly joined in the blame and shame game, hurling insults at
parents declining to give children every one of the government
recommended 69 doses of 16 vaccines, including two MMR shots.
Dr. Cherry said, "There are some pretty dumb people out there,"9
and "Some people are just terribly selfish."10
Name-calling is a convenient way to deflect attention from
inconvenient truths about vaccine failures and the dissolving myth
of vaccine acquired herd immunity.11
A Very Highly Vaccinated U.S. Population
Case in point: there were 644 cases of measles reported in
America in 2014,12
even though 95 percent of children entering kindergarten13
have gotten two doses of MMR vaccine, which is also true for 92
percent of school children ages 13 to 17 years.14
Plus, less than one percent of children under age three are
completely unvaccinated and 92 percent of them have gotten one or
more MMR shots.15
In some states, the MMR vaccination rate is approaching 100 percent.16
According to Dr. Cherry, measles vaccine acquired herd immunity
is in effect with a measles vaccination rate of more than 90
percent.17
Well, that has been true in America since 1981 with one dose of MMR
vaccine18
and since 2000 for two doses of MMR vaccine, which is one reason why
the CDC declared measles eradicated from the U.S. in 2000.19
But, clearly, measles virus has not been eradicated from
the U.S., just like measles has not been eradicated from any other
country and emerging scientific evidence suggests it never will
be—no matter how many doses of MMR vaccine are mandated for every
man, woman and child in the world.20,21,22,23
Why is a big deal being made out of 51 cases of measles reported
in the U.S.?
Flu Shots That Don't Work
Perhaps public health officials would prefer that the media and
the public focus on a handful of measles cases at Disneyland and not
focus on the fact that millions of Americans have gotten flu shots
that don't work and health care workers are being fired if they
don't get flu shots that don't work.24,25
If you got a flu shot this year, it will do absolutely nothing to
protect you from the influenza strain making most people sick.26,27,28
Worse, scientists have confirmed that the more often you get an
annual flu shot, the less effective it is!29,30
How many vaccinated people are attending schools, going to
grocery stores, and working in hospitals and doctors' offices
without a clue they are infected with and shedding and transmitting
influenza virus because they only have mild flu symptoms or no
symptoms at all?31,32
And it is anybody's guess how many children are getting sick
after live virus influenza vaccine is sprayed up their noses33
or are shedding vaccine strain live virus that could make other
people sick.34,35
Pertussis Vaccine Failing
The pertussis vaccine is failing, too.36,37
Like measles, in recent years there have been huge increases in
reports of B. pertussis whooping cough among children and adults in
California and other states, and many of those people have been
vaccinated.38,39
That was true for pertussis outbreaks in the U.S. 30 years ago,
too.40,41
Now public health officials are finally admitting the truth that
many scientists have been publishing for a long time: you can be
fully vaccinated for pertussis, get infected and show atypical or no
symptoms and spread whooping cough to vaccinated and unvaccinated
persons.42,43,44
In fact, Dr. Cherry himself admits that there are millions of
undiagnosed B. pertussis whooping cough cases every year in America,45
even though 95 percent or more of America's school children have
gotten multiple does of pertussis containing vaccinations.46
In 2013, Dr. Cherry wrote, "Neither B. pertussis infection or
pertussis vaccination elicit long-lasting immunity. Infection and
illness repeatedly occur in all ages throughout life."47
So much for the myth of pertussis vaccine acquired herd immunity.48
Measles Vaccine Failing
It isn't very scientific to blame pertussis or influenza
outbreaks on unvaccinated people. And it isn't very scientific to
blame measles outbreaks on unvaccinated people, either.
In some outbreaks of measles in California last year, nearly 20
percent of the people had been vaccinated.49
The CDC says that 12 percent of the measles cases associated with
Disneyland were vaccinated, some of them with at least two doses of
MMR vaccine.50
Measles vaccine acquired herd immunity is a dissolving myth, too.51,52,53
Public health doctors are scrambling to explain leaks in measles
vaccine immunity54,55
and have come up with this lame excuse: they say they just
discovered that one measles vaccinated adult in 10 is now
susceptible to measles because vaccine immunity wears off.56
They call it "waning immunity."57
More MMR Shots Coming?
Now get ready for the sucker punch: Dr. Cherry told a TV network
last week that the solution to waning measles vaccine immunity is to
"give additional doses" of MMR vaccine to adults.58,59
That's right. Let's just mandate more MMR shots for millions of
Americans and make Merck's stockholders really happy.60
But who is Dr. Cherry kidding? We all know that adults are way
too hard to pin down – unless you threaten them with loss of a job
or medical care or put them in prison—so I predict that the third
MMR shot will more likely target high school students and people
trying to get a college education.61
Dr. Cherry's solution to reported measles cases at Disneyland
reminds me of when doctors told parents in 1990 that they didn't
realize one dose of MMR vaccine would fail to provide lifelong
immunity after all, so kids are going to have to get a second dose
of MMR.62
Inconvenient Scientific Truths About Measles Vaccine
The inconvenient scientific truth about measles in Disneyland and
around the world is that public health doctors do not know how many
vaccinated people can be infected with measles, show few or no
symptoms and transmit measles to other people.63
G,overnment health officials do not conduct routine active
surveillance of vaccinated people to find out if they are
experiencing asymptomatic or atypical measles and transmitting it to
others.
In addition, there are published studies demonstrating that
people given live virus measles vaccine can be infected with vaccine
strain measles virus and shed vaccine strain measles virus.64,65,66
Health officials do not conduct routine active surveillance of
people getting live MMR vaccine to monitor for vaccine strain
measles virus infection, shedding and the potential for
transmission.
Is It Measles or Something Else?
Most doctors and parents don't know that the CDC warns, "During
outbreaks, measles vaccine is administered to help control the
outbreak, and in these situations, vaccine reactions may be
mistakenly classified as measles cases. A small proportion of
measles vaccine recipients experience rash and fever 10–14 days
following vaccination."67
Yes, MMR vaccine can cause vaccine strain measles infection that
looks just like measles.68
Plus, other common viral infections – like adenovirus infections –
can look just like measles with rash, fever and conjunctivitis
symptoms69,70
and be misdiagnosed as measles UNLESS there is expensive RNA lab
testing done to confirm that what looks like measles really is
wild type measles.71
Plans to Further Damage California Vaccine Exemptions
And now for the second sucker punch, at least for families living
in California: Dr. Pan, the pediatrician politician who lobbied in
2013 to pass a bill restricting non-medical vaccine exemptions for
children to attend school, told one California newspaper that he
intends to introduce new legislation to do more damage to the
ability of parents to weigh the benefits and risks of vaccination
and make voluntary vaccine choices for their children.72
Will California health officials take away religious and
conscientious belief vaccine exemptions and leave doctors like Dr.
Pan and Dr. Cherry in charge of who gets a public education?
Using Disneyland to Move the Goalposts
The hype about 51 cases of measles reportedly linked to
Disneyland73
has more to do with covering up vaccine failures and propping up the
dissolving myth of vaccine acquired herd immunity than it does about
protecting the public health. It has a lot to do with defensive
doctors trying to blame a minority of parents who are refusing to
place irrational faith in them and their moving goal posts,74
and are choosing instead to think and act rationally.75
That third MMR shot is coming to America and so is a massive
Pharma-led lobby attempt to demonize and punish76,77
all Americans who defend the human right to exercise informed
consent to medical risk-taking, including vaccine risk-taking.78
The calls to strike down those who do not use every dose of the
growing list of government-mandated vaccines, is on a fast track.79,80
It will include banning the unvaccinated from exercising the right
to get a public education, medical care,81
employment, and many other human and civil rights.
Americans Have a Choice to Make
The battle lines are clearly drawn. Now Americans have a choice
to make: will we stand up and fight to protect our human right to
make voluntary decisions about which vaccines we buy and use, or
will we permit liability free drug companies and government health
officials to take that freedom from us?82
Go to
NVICAdvocacy.org and learn how you can take action to protect
vaccine exemptions in your state. Learn more about the risks and
complications of measles and measles vaccine on NVIC.org. And if you
or your child has been vaccinated and the vaccine failed to protect
you or caused harm, you can
make a report to NVIC and share your experience with others on
NVIC.org.
It's your health. Your family. Your choice.
Protect Your Right to Informed Consent and Defend Vaccine Exemptions
With all the uncertainty surrounding the safety and efficacy of
vaccines, it's critical to protect your right to make independent
health choices and exercise voluntary informed consent to
vaccination. It is urgent that everyone in America stand up and
fight to protect and expand vaccine informed consent protections in
state public health and employment laws. The best way to do this is
to get personally involved with your state legislators and educating
the leaders in your community.
THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY.
National vaccine policy recommendations are made at the federal
level but vaccine laws are made at the state level. It is at the
state level where your action to protect your vaccine choice rights
can have the greatest impact. It is critical for EVERYONE to get
involved now in standing up for the legal right to make voluntary
vaccine choices in America because those choices are being
threatened by lobbyists representing drug companies, medical trade
associations, and public health officials, who are trying to
persuade legislators to strip all vaccine exemptions from public
health laws.
Signing up for NVIC's free Advocacy Portal at
www.NVICAdvocacy.org gives you immediate, easy access to your own
state legislators on your Smart Phone or computer so you can make
your voice heard. You will be kept up-to-date on the latest state
bills threatening your vaccine choice rights and get practical,
useful information to help you become an effective vaccine choice
advocate in your own community. Also, when national vaccine issues
come up, you will have the up-to-date information and call to action
items you need at your fingertips.
Share Your Story with the Media and People You Know
If you or a family member has suffered a serious vaccine
reaction, injury, or death, please talk about it. If we don't share
information and experiences with one another, everybody feels alone
and afraid to speak up. Write a letter to the editor if you have a
different perspective on a vaccine story that appears in your local
newspaper. Make a call in to a radio talk show that is only
presenting one side of the vaccine story.
I must be frank with you; you have to be brave because you might
be strongly criticized for daring to talk about the "other side" of
the vaccine story. Be prepared for it and have the courage to not
back down. Only by sharing our perspective and what we know to be
true about vaccination will the public conversation about
vaccination open up so people are not afraid to talk about it.
We cannot allow the drug companies and medical trade associations
funded by drug companies or public health officials promoting forced
use of a growing list of vaccines to dominate the conversation about
vaccination. The vaccine injured cannot be swept under the carpet
and treated like nothing more than "statistically acceptable
collateral damage" of national one-size-fits-all mandatory
vaccination policies that put way too many people at risk for injury
and death. We shouldn't be treating people like guinea pigs instead
of human beings.
Internet Resources Where You Can Learn More
I encourage you to visit the website of the non-profit charity,
the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), at
www.NVIC.org:
NVIC Memorial for Vaccine Victims: View
descriptions and photos of children and adults, who have
suffered vaccine reactions, injuries, and deaths. If you or your
child experiences an adverse vaccine event, please consider
posting and sharing your story here.
Vaccine Freedom Wall: View or post
descriptions of harassment and sanctions by doctors, employers,
and school and health officials for making independent vaccine
choices.
Connect with Your Doctor or Find a New One That Will Listen and Care
If your pediatrician or doctor refuses to provide medical care to
you or your child unless you agree to get vaccines you don't want, I
strongly encourage you to have the courage to find another
doctor. Harassment, intimidation, and refusal of medical care
is becoming the modus operandi of the medical establishment in an
effort to stop the change in attitude of many parents about
vaccinations after they become truly educated about health and
vaccination.
However, there is hope.
At least 15 percent of young doctors recently polled admit that
they're starting to adopt a more individualized approach to
vaccinations in direct response to the vaccine safety concerns of
parents. It is good news that there is a growing number of smart
young doctors, who prefer to work as partners with parents in making
personalized vaccine decisions for children, including delaying
vaccinations or giving children fewer vaccines on the same day or
continuing to provide medical care for those families, who decline
use of one or more vaccines.
So take the time to locate a doctor, who treats you with
compassion and respect and is willing to work with you to do what is
right for your child.
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