This article was abstracted from Dr. Humphries' excellent
book
Dissolving Illusions, with contributions from Dr. Mercola,
Barbara Loe Fisher and Sayer Ji. If you have a sincere interest in
this topic I would strongly encourage you to purchase a copy of this
excellent book.
This week's issue of The Journal of the American Medical
Association (JAMA)1
claims that the consensus scientific view is that childhood vaccines
are safe and effective, among CDC's 10 great 20th-century
achievements and a World Health Organization "best buy."
With the elevation of vaccination to a sacred cow status, it is
no wonder that ever since about 50 visitors to Disneyland in
California were diagnosed with measles earlier this year, the whole
country has been subjected to a relentless barrage of mainstream
media articles blaming unvaccinated children for a minor measles
outbreak that, by March 16, 2015, consisted of a grand total of 176
cases.2
in a population of 320 million people.
The way public health officials and the media have been promoting
irrational fear about measles and using it to lobby for laws
eliminating all non-medical vaccine exemptions or even criminally
prosecuting and jailing unvaccinated people, it sometimes feels like
we are living in a dystopian science fiction novel.
I have never seen such a well-coordinated disinformation campaign
to vilify virtually anyone who would question the effectiveness and
safety of complying with the CDC's ever-expanding vaccination
schedule.3
While some argue that the media is simply acting to protect the
"public health," there has been a near complete abandonment of fair
and balanced journalism. Almost every media outlet has swallowed the
propaganda produced by Big Pharma and forced vaccination proponents
hook, line, and sinker and failed to carefully research or
independently analyze the facts.
Let me assure you that this story is far bigger than measles. It
is about getting the entire population to accept the concept that
vaccination is a more effective way to stay healthy than supporting
your inborn immunity and optimizing immune function, which is so
essential to preventing illness and serious complications from
infectious diseases.
The media completely overlooks the conflicts of interests
inherent in the public-private financial partnership between
industry and government and the fact that Big Pharma will generate
$35 billion from vaccine sales this year4
and is projected to take in over $57.8 billion by 2019.5
CDC Says NO ONE Has Died from Acute Measles in the US Since 2003 –
But How Many Measles Vaccine Related Deaths Have Been Reported Since
Then?
If you believe the media's story on measles in America today, it
would seem that children who get measles in the U.S. are being
admitted to the hospital in great numbers and regularly dying from
measles complications.
But if we look at the latest report (March 13, 2015) published by
the California Department of Health, we see that out of 133 cases of
measles reported in that state this year, 20 people were
hospitalized and 81 percent recovered without a need for special
care and there were no deaths.6
(Also, while 43 percent of the California measles cases were not
vaccinated, 15 percent WERE vaccinated and 56 percent of the cases
were in adults over age 20. Only 18 percent of the cases were in
school-aged children between 5 and 19 years old, while 15 percent
were in children ages one to four and 11 percent in infants under
one year old).
If we examine the US government's measles mortality report data
between 2005 and 2015, we find six adults and one child listed in
National Vital Statistics data7
as reportedly dying from complications related to measles. Only the
child, a male between one and four years old, had a confirmed
autopsy performed.
However, in private email correspondence, Meryl Nass, M.D. asked
the CDC about confirmed measles deaths in the U.S. and the CDC
replied in writing that, "The last documented deaths in the U.S.
directly attributable to acute measles occurred in 2003."8
Vicky Debold, PhD, RN, who serves as volunteer Director of
Patient Safety and Research for the National Vaccine Information
Center (NVIC), analyzed U.S. measles mortality data and found a
discrepancy between what the CDC told Dr. Nass and information
published in the National Vital Statistics.
Dr. Debold said, "There was an autopsy-confirmed death of measles
with encephalitis reported in the U.S. in a male child between one
and four years old. The remainder of the measles reported deaths
after 2003 were for six adults without confirmed autopsies (2 in
2009; 2 in 2010; 2 in 2012).
Three of the adult deaths were recorded for measles with
encephalitis; one death recorded for measles with pneumonia and two
deaths recorded for measles without other complications."
Deaths from Measles Vaccines: Is it 98 or 980?
Dr. Debold was curious about the one measles-related child death
recorded in 2005 and the fact that the CDC did not acknowledge it
when replying to Dr. Nass. Dr. Debold wondered if, perhaps, the 2005
child death was MMR vaccine related.
She searched VAERS reports using the MedAlerts9
database, where she found five deaths associated with measles
containing vaccines that occurred in 2005 in the U.S. in males aged
one to four years.
One of those 2005 MMR vaccine related death reports in VAERS
listed "mild fever" and "non-infectious encephalitis and
encephalopathy" as symptoms after a one year old boy received MMR,
varicella and flu vaccines and died five days later (VAERS ID#
250504).
The autopsy report listed "sudden unexpected death in childhood"
as the cause of death; however, there was no mention of a rash or
other measles-related symptoms, which also can occur after MMR
vaccination.
Dr. Debold commented, "Six out of seven measles-associated deaths
reported after 2003 in the National Vital Statistics reports
occurred in adults between the ages of 25 and over 85 years old, who
should either have had natural measles immunity or have gotten at
least one MMR shot. It would be helpful for CDC to explain the
discrepancy between National Vital Statistics data and the statement
made to Dr. Nass."
So, between zero and seven measles-related deaths have occurred
in the U.S. since 2003, but how many measles vaccine reaction death
reports have been recorded by the federal Vaccine Adverse Events
Reporting System (VAERS) in the past 12 years?
Searching the MedAlerts database, we see that there were 98
deaths following MMR or MMRV vaccinations reported to VAERS that
occurred between 2003 and 2015. Plus, there have been 694 reports of
MMR or MMRV vaccinations causing disability in that time frame.
It has been estimated that less than 10 percent of vaccine
adverse events are ever reported to VAERS.10,11
Considering the fact that there were 98 measles vaccine-related
deaths and 694 measles vaccine-related disabilities reported to
VAERS in the past 12 years, if only 10 percent of vaccine-related
deaths and disabilities are being reported to the government, then
the actual number of measles vaccine-related deaths and disabilities
that have occurred since 2003 could have been as many as 980 deaths
and 6,940 disabilities.
Unfortunately, many pediatricians dismiss vaccine-related health
problems as a "coincidence" without any proof that is true for the
individual suffering a bad health outcome after vaccination, which
is one reason why there is such low vaccine reaction reporting rate
in the U.S. Naturally, many doctors and health care workers are in
denial.
Parents of well nourished healthy children living in the U.S.,
who are weighing the measles vaccine's benefits and risks, may well
be asking themselves: If I vaccinate my child, he or she may have a
vaccine reaction and die. If I do not vaccinate, my child may still
get sick with measles but may have a lower risk of dying."
The History of Measles
Let's not minimize the risks of measles because it has the
potential to be a very deadly infection - just not normally in
well-nourished populations in the 21st century. Throughout the
1800s, measles epidemics occurred about every two years in the
United States and England. During these epidemics, when suboptimal
sanitation and nutrition were the norm, some hospital wards
overflowed with children with measles and up to 20 percent died from
pneumonia and other complications.
However, by the 1960s, deaths from measles had dropped to
extremely low numbers in both England and the United States. In
England, the percent decline from its peak level reached an
astonishing 99.96 percent by the time the live attenuated measles
virus vaccine was introduced in 1968. When the first inactivated
(killed) measles vaccine was licensed in 1963, the measles death
rate in some states like Massachusetts had reached zero. During this
year, the whole of New England had only five deaths attributed to
measles.
We need to keep this in perspective. These were deaths BEFORE the
launch of measles vaccines in the 1960s, when deaths from asthma
were 56 times greater, accidents 935 times greater, motor vehicle
accidents 323 times greater, other accidents 612 times greater, and
heart disease 9,560 times greater. Why such a disproportionate
emphasis on measles deaths?
Even a casual review of the relevant literature will reveal that
preventing measles mortality is not primarily related to vaccination
but to nutritional status. Child mortality due to measles is 200 to
400 times greater in malnourished children in less developed
countries than those in developed ones. It is crystal clear that as
nutrition improves and vitamin A and D levels are optimized, the
complications and deaths from measles radically diminish.
Furthermore, experiencing measles infection in childhood itself
may confer health benefits and even survival advantage in protecting
against autoimmune conditions and chronic inflammation, including
cancer, which means it may be a means through which our immune
system is primed and gains self-tolerance.12
Experiencing and recovering from naturally –acquired measles may
actually be, as our not so distant ancestors once commonly
acknowledged, a good thing, because it confers much longer lasting
superior immunity and is protective against infection that leads to
complications later in life, when measles can be much more serious.
There are reports in the literature documenting the fact that not
only can live attenuated measles vaccine cause measles vaccine
strain infection that may not be cleared from the body, but vaccine
strain live virus is also shed in the urine and other bodily
secretions.13
Herd Immunity Did NOT Work for Measles
Dr Alexander Langmuir is known as "the father of infectious
disease epidemiology." In 1949, he created the epidemiology section
of what became the CDC. He also headed the Polio Surveillance Unit
that was started in 1955 after polio vaccine safety issues became
public. According to Dr Langmuir and many other experts, the measles
vaccine was supposed to eradicate the common childhood disease in
1967. But of course that did not happen.
A 1994 study indicated that as vaccination rates increased,
measles became a disease in populations where the majority of
children had been vaccinated, including in the U.S. This "startling"
surprise challenged the theory that vaccine-induced "herd immunity"
would provide complete protection against outbreaks of measles. As
the CDC has admitted and published reports in the medical literature
have documented, measles outbreaks have occurred in school
populations in which 71 percent to 99.8 percent of the student body
have been vaccinated.14
It may have been "startling" at the time but it became a regular
occurrence that measles outbreaks developed in highly vaccinated
school populations even though more than 98 percent of the students
had previously been vaccinated.15
In the particular case of measles, vaccine-induced "herd immunity"
was not well established with widespread use of one dose of measles
vaccine and thus did not prevent outbreaks.
Even more recently, a study conducted in the Zhejiang province in
China shows that populations, which have achieved a measles
vaccination rate of 99 percent through mandatory vaccination
programs, are still experiencing consistent outbreaks far beyond
what the World Health Organization (WHO) expects. This calls into
question whether MMR vaccine really does provide long lasting
protection against measles infection.16
Measles Vaccine Does NOT Create Life Long Immunity
One key factor to consider is that measles vaccine does not
create lifelong immunity. Vaccines only confer temporary artificial
immunity, although sometimes vaccines fail to confer any immunity in
susceptible persons, and this is why health officials recommend
multiple doses of measles and other vaccines to "boost" vaccine
acquired immunity. Although previously, the CDC advised that adults
born before 1958 did not have to get vaccinated, the CDC now states
that "people who are born during or after 1957 who do not have
evidence of immunity against measles should get at least one
dose of MMR vaccine."
17
In fact, since the Disneyland-related measles outbreak in early
2015, some public health doctors are suggesting that all
adults should get an MMR booster shot because as many as 1 in 10
previously vaccinated adults may be susceptible to measles due to
waning vaccine acquired immunity.18
There is plenty of evidence that an increasing number of measles
vaccinated children and adults in the U.S. and around the world are
getting measles, even after two doses of MMR.19,20,21
Infants under age one, who used to be protected in the first year of
life by getting natural maternal antibodies from mothers, who had
experienced and recovered from measles in childhood, are now
susceptible to measles from birth. That is because most young
mothers today have been vaccinated and measles vaccine acquired
maternal antibodies are far less protective than naturally acquired
antibodies.22,23
We have not yet seen how the universal measles vaccination policy
will play out over the next several generations as senior citizens
with naturally acquired measles immunity die and children and
younger adults with artificial vaccine acquired immunity are relied
upon to provide "community immunity". Some experts have predicted
that measles epidemics are likely to become more common in the
future.
One study suggested that, even with good response to vaccination,
measles vaccine acquired immunity only lasts from 15 to 20 years.24,25
In fact, there is evidence of waning measles vaccine acquired
immunity after 10 years.26
If this is true, then there could be a resurgence of measles after a
period of relatively low measles incidence, which we are in now. In
addition somewhere between 2 and 10 percent of vaccinations result
in primary vaccine failures, meaning those who get the vaccine don't
gain any antibody protection after vaccination at all.27
The California Disney measles outbreak is primarily associated
with one of the 22 measles genotypes known to be circulating
globally -- the B3 strain of measles that has caused recent
outbreaks in the Philippines.28
Measles vaccines used in the U.S. and other countries were created
using the A measles genotype, although scientists have said, "there
are no known biological differences between viruses of different
genotypes."29
Your Body Has Two Different Immune Systems
There are two systems that fight disease in the body. One is the
innate system that is always ready to work and the other is the
adaptive arm of immunity. The adaptive arm consists of Th1 and Th2.
Both are necessary but Th1 is commonly known as the cell mediated
arm, and Th2 known as the humoral or antibody arm. Most vaccines
preferentially stimulate the Th2 or humoral part of the immune
system. When it comes to measles vaccines, it is known that breast
fed babies will develop more of a Th1 immunity while formula fed
babies will develop Th2 slanted immunity30
which is actually less desirable.
Measured antibodies may be reflective of some form of immunity,
but it is not a perfect correlate as indicated by those who recover
and remain immune to measles without making any antibodies.
The benefit of only measuring humoral immunity as a means of
measuring vaccine effectiveness is that it can be easily determined
by drawing blood samples. If specific vaccine-induced antibodies are
present, the person is presumed to be immune to that infection and
protected. If vaccine induced "community immunity" was guaranteed
protection, it would simply require proof that nearly everyone in
the community had high vaccine-acquired antibody levels.
Evidence of the profound importance and effectiveness of the
innate and Th1 immune system can be demonstrated in individuals who
are unable to genetically generate antibody production. This is
called agamma-globulinemia. When individuals with this condition
were exposed to measles, they recovered just as well as those who
were able to make normal antibodies.31
They also had protection in the future upon re-exposure.
This "disconcerting" discovery was made in the 1960s when measles
vaccination programs were just getting underway and demonstrates
that production of antibodies is not necessary for the natural
recovery from measles. Even more recent research published last year
indicates that antibody-mediated immunity is not necessary to
neutralize viruses like vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV),32
again calling into question the primary justification used today to
"prove immunity" and promote the idea that elevations in
vaccine-induced antibody titers are necessary to produce immunity
against all infectious diseases.
Therefore, humoral immunity may only play a secondary role in
natural resistance against measles disease and other targeted
"vaccine-preventable" diseases. The reason most people completely
recover from and are protected after acute infections may be due
more to the fact that they have innate immunity, which requires no
memory or previous exposure and does not involve preformed specific
antibodies. The other reason they don't get re-infected is because
they acquired cell-mediated immunity from the infection.
Innate immunity involves the activation of white blood cells,
including macrophages, natural killer cells, and antigen-specific T
lymphocytes, as well as the release of various cytokines (immune
system proteins) in response to challenge from pathogenic microbes.
This type of innate immune response is mounted by most people with
functioning immune systems, regardless of vaccination, and is highly
dependent on whether or not the person is getting enough essential
nutrients. When cellular immunity is impaired— for instance, in
leukemia— measles infection can be lethal.
Are Measles Vaccines a Rational Option?
Why does it make sense to subject all healthy people living in
developed countries with access to good nutrition, sanitation and
health care, who are not usually susceptible to suffering
complications from measles, to the known and unknown risks of MMR
vaccines, when the result could be leading the world to a situation
worse than the pre-vaccine days? What will be the response to
revaccinating everyone in the world with more and more measles
vaccine booster doses? And what happens if the vaccine-induced
re-programming of our immune system actually reduces our ability to
effectively respond to real-world challenges from other pathogenic
infectious microbes?
Vaccinologists have long relied on high antibody titers as a
measure of a vaccine's effectiveness, but have they stopped to
consider whether constantly artificially manipulating the immune
system to produce vaccine-induced antibodies is rendering millions
of people more vulnerable to infectious diseases, as well as more
prone to developing autoimmunity? The best analogy I can think of is
kicking a beehive.
Although this may result in a bunch of angry bees (i.e.
antibodies) attacking anything within reach, claiming we have
"improved the health of the hive" by increasing the number of angry
bees (measured by high antibody titers) without proving they are
attacking a real threat, is absurd. In fact, the "bees" may end up
attacking the Queen bee (the host), reducing self-tolerance and
inducing chronic autoimmunity.
What Really Caused Measles to Drop from 1963 Onwards?
There was an apparently steep drop in measles incidence from 1963
onward. But was that dramatic downtrend in the curve all because of
widespread use of measles vaccines? By 1968, the US immunization
survey showed that only 50– 60 percent of children between one and
nine years old had been vaccinated33
for measles. And a lot of vaccinated children still got the common
childhood disease. During epidemic days, even when three measles
vaccinations were given to children, more than 50 percent of measles
cases had been fully vaccinated.34
Here are some probable contributions to the decline in the reported
cases of measles:
First:
As always happens after a vaccine campaign, the criteria for
diagnosing the disease was narrowed. The vaccinated who developed
measles symptoms were not counted in the tally of wild measles
cases, even though they might have been infected with wild-type
measles virus.35,36
The accelerated decline seen on the curve could have been due to the
fact that if someone received a vaccine and developed a rash and
high fever, it was not diagnosed as measles. So because of the new
classification, measles appeared to drop in the vaccinated.
Up to 54 percent of vaccinated cases in some reports developed
rash after vaccination, which was in part why immune globulin was
administered with it. Still today, by the CDC's admission, 5– 10
percent37
of vaccinees develop a rash and fever,38
which is indicative of vaccine strain measles virus infection.39,40,41
Since MMR vaccine associated rashes are often missed by clinicians
and parents and attributed to something else,42
that 5– 10 percent could well be a gross underestimate.
If 5– 10 percent of measles vaccines result in fever and rash,
then there actually could be approximately 650,000–1,300,000 cases
of vaccine strain measles infection associated symptoms in the
United States per year given the 13– 14 million yearly doses of
vaccine injected into one-year-olds (live births per year US census
= 14 million).
Second:
Gamma globulin use during measles infection began in the 1940s.
The reason it was given at the same time as the live and killed
vaccines was to limit the negative (vaccine strain measles virus
infection) effects of the injection. Gamma globulin was and still is
also prescribed as prophylaxis to those exposed to measles cases,
including the contacts of live-vaccine virus cases in the freshly
vaccinated.
Measles can be prevented or modified after exposure by passive
immunization with the use of immune serum globulin. (But it comes
with a price: potential development of tumors and connective tissue
disease later in life. Not to mention all the problems that can
occur in giving a pooled human blood product.)
Gamma globulin use in the early years of measles vaccination
programs could, therefore, have contributed to the decreasing
severity of acute measles disease manifestation when used alone or
with the vaccine. Yet the attribution would have been given to the
vaccine. Rashless measles infections would have led to fewer measles
reports, but not because measles was not circulating and causing
occult or hidden infections.
So, on one hand, the early vaccines were leading to cases of
vaccine strain measles and causing a different disease (which were
not counted as wild measles), and on the other hand, the gamma
globulin given to prevent the side effects of the vaccines was also
interfering with normal cell-mediated processing of the virus.
Third:
Before the introduction of the 1963 vaccine, the incidence of
measles was already on a slow decline. Was measles slowly becoming
less prevalent anyway? We know that measles can be subclinical 30
percent of the time. The measles death rate had already plummeted.
Like smallpox, was the disease slowly burning out? Was the rise in
breastfeeding and improved nutrition contributing to fewer diagnosed
cases?
Measles Vaccination: A Failed Experiment?
Breast milk is not just food, and its immunoprotective properties
involve more than just antibodies. Colostrum contains viable T
lymphocytes that impart immunity to the newborn. The fact that
vaccinated people have inferior more temporary immunity in
comparison to the naturally acquired longer lasting immunity has led
to the recommendation of revaccinating women before pregnancy. But
this type of artificial vaccine acquired immunity is not transferred
to the newborn as well as naturally acquired immunity.
Nobody has figured out how to tell for certain who is truly
immune to pathogenic microbes. People without antibodies can be
completely protected from clinical illness by cellular immunity.
Therefore antibody is a mere surrogate that has questionable
significance.
When Silfverdale evaluated thousands of vaccinated and
unvaccinated breastfed and non-breastfed children looking at the
risk of measles, breastfeeding had a far larger impact on measles
risk than vaccinating. Now that women who were vaccinated in the
1970s and later are of childbearing age, accumulating evidence shows
that their infants are not as well protected as they were when
measles circulated widely and infected nearly every child by the age
of 15.43
Today the only solution to the issue of waning vaccine-acquired
immunity is to keep vaccinating and to vaccinate childbearing-age
mothers again. But this may always carry more risk than allowing
measles to circulate and be dealt with normally by T cells in
well-nourished populations. Because the deaths and disease
complications associated with measles can be severe among infants,
the early loss of passive immunity demonstrated in recent studies of
vaccinated mothers should be of major concern.
Today, because of vaccination, young infants are more susceptible
than ever. Scientists are searching for ways to vaccinate them
earlier and earlier in order to bypass all placental and breast milk
immunity and replace it with artificial vaccine-induced immunity.
Why? Placental and breast milk immunity protects the infant from
measles and other pathogenic infections.
This is just another example of how vaccines have created a
situation that requires even more vaccines and more manipulation of
the immune system. This is financially profitable for vaccine
manufacturers but scientifically and immunologically unsound.
So How Can You Protect Yourself and Your Child from Measles?
For over 100 years, there has been a strong association with
vitamin A deficiency and adverse health outcomes from measles
infections, especially in young children.44
Has the time come for the medical community to recognize that any
child presenting with measles symptoms, especially complications,
should be given vitamin A and evaluated for overall nutritional
status? If not, what has history taught us?
Vitamin A stops the measles virus from rapidly multiplying inside
cells by up-regulating the innate immune system in uninfected cells,
which helps to prevent the virus from infecting new cells. It is
well known today that a low vitamin A level correlates with low
measles-specific antibodies and increased morbidity and mortality.
Vitamin A is a well-proven intervention for reduction of mortality,
concomitant infections, and hospital stay.
It made no more sense to vaccinate against measles in 1963 than
it does to put a measles infected child in a dark room instead of
just giving vitamin A, which protects the retinas and the uninfected
cells. The efficiency of the cellular immune system is tied to the
intake of dietary nutrients, including vitamins A, D and C, zinc,
selenium, and protein rich in vitamin B.45
Poor nutrition leads to impaired cellular immune responses, which
results in worse outcomes after measles infection or exposure. This
also explains why during the 1800s and into the 1900s, when the
general nutritional status of the Western world was improving, there
was a dramatic decrease in deaths from measles.
In 1987, scientists in Tanzania used vitamin A during measles
outbreaks and watched the impressive protective effects. During the
1990s, when mortality reductions of 60-90 percent were measured in
poor countries using vitamin A in hospitalized measles cases, there
was even more publicity of the vitamin A depletion theory in measles
mortality and morbidity. By 2010, it was well accepted that
supplementing with vitamin A during acute measles illness led to
significant drops in both adverse outcomes and death.
Finally, vitamin A (which is found in high concentrations in
breast milk) was given credit in the battle against measles, but
only after a vaccine was well accepted throughout the world. In the
United States, studies have found that vitamin A deficiency is not
just a thing of the past. Even children with normal diets were
vitamin deficient upon measles infection. A 1992 California study
showed that 50 percent of children hospitalized with measles had a
vitamin A deficiency.46
But there was also vitamin A deficiency in 30 percent of the sick
controls who did not have measles. None of the uninfected controls
showed significant deficiency.
Vitamin C can also be used and during a measles epidemic was
given prophylactically and all those who received as much as 1000
mg. every six hours, by vein or muscle, were protected from the
virus.47
Given by mouth, 1,000 mg. in fruit juice every two hours was not
protective unless it was given around the clock. It was further
found that 1,000 mg. by mouth, four to six times each day, would
modify the attack; with the appearance of Koplik's spots and fever,
if the administration was increased to 12 doses each 24 hours, all
signs and symptoms would disappear in 48 hours.
Vitamin D also plays a major role in combating infections, but
this wasn't known until decades after the implementation of the
measles vaccines so it has not been tested clinically. However, many
studies that strongly suggest vitamin D levels below 50 ng/ml will
contribute to an impaired ability to mount a sound immune response
against measles.48
Measles Complications Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE)
Although some may say that all the problems with measles vaccines
were worth the risk because the morbidity of measles was cut down,
they miss the bigger picture. That picture involves numerous
neurologic diseases, including SSPE (subacute sclerosing
panencephalitis, which is a rare, chronic progressive encephalitis
that nearly universally ends in death), even in those who are fully
vaccinated. Contrary to popular belief, SSPE is now a disease
occurring in vaccinated persons. In a study49
of nine SSPE cases, three had been fully vaccinated against measles.
There was no history of rash in any who were vaccinated and
developed SSPE.
In 1989, Dyken reported an increase in the proportion of cases of
SSPE following measles vaccination. There is also a shorter
incubation period for SSPE following vaccination compared with that
which develops after measles infection. SSPE is far from a
closed-book issue in the era of vaccination.
What disasters can befall those who accept injections of any
vaccine virus that can persist indefinitely within the body?
Generally benign person-to-person measles transmission, especially
in developed countries like the U.S., seems to have been interrupted
after years of experimental vaccinations and with some surprising
and unintended consequences.
Much of the interruption was done by intentionally subjecting
children to measles vaccine strain viruses through needle injection
to which the immune system can react in abnormal ways, creating
other illness in the process. What we have now is a population of
increasingly unhealthy children —with rates of many chronic diseases
and disorders increasing dramatically. For many, vaccination becomes
a matter of swapping one set of possible risks for another set of
probable risks, the outcome of which are alleged to be "coincident."
More Vaccine Shenanigans
Recently Merck has been accused, by two former virologist
employees, of falsifying documents in order to keep its mumps
vaccine patent, all the while knowing that the mumps vaccine in the
MMR shot is not effective. A lawsuit was filed in 2010 and an
amended complaint in 2012, detailing Merck's efforts to allegedly
"defraud the United States through an ongoing scheme to sell the
government a mumps vaccine that is mislabeled, misbranded,
adulterated, and falsely certified as having an efficacy rate that
is significantly higher than it actually is."
Merck allegedly did this from the year 2000 onward to maintain its
exclusive license to sell the MMR vaccine and keep its monopoly of
the US market. This ongoing event has been effectively shielded from
and ignored by mainstream media. During the alleged fraudulent
activity that occurred in Merck's labs, two courageous scientists
working for Merck voiced their objections.
They claim to have been told by the company's upper management
that if they called the FDA, they would be jailed. They were also
reminded of the very large bonuses that were to be rewarded with
after the MMR vaccines were government certified as effective. If
what these scientists claim is true, the net result of Merck's
questionable activity were vaccine-resistant mumps epidemics and
outbreaks that instead of being identified as being caused by a
failing vaccine, have led to the demand for more vaccine boosters
that will net increased revenue for Merck.
It is known that the mumps component of all MMR vaccines from the
mid-1990s has had a very low efficacy, estimated at 69 percent. The
mumps portion has lost efficacy (the ability to stimulate production
of a high number of vaccine-induced antibodies), but what is not
being measured is the potential negative effects of injecting a live
vaccine strain mumps virus into the body.
What do you think happens to a live attenuated vaccine strain
virus that is injected into a person and elicits only a sluggish
immune response and may never be cleared? What chronic health
disasters can befall those who are injected with live vaccine strain
viruses that cause vaccine strain virus infection with the potential
to persist indefinitely in the body?
We need to rationally and objectively analyze the risks and
benefits of any vaccination program rather than relying on fear
campaigns designed by profit-seeking vaccine manufacturers and
promoted through regulatory and policymaking governmental agencies,
along with the media, which have long been captured by corporate
interests.
So What Does a Caring Parent and Responsible Adult Do?
Those who are beginning to see the light, and are questioning the
safety and effectiveness of vaccines, may have to also question their
own long-held beliefs about vaccination and infectious diseases. This is
not easy to do because the public has been bombarded with so much
fear-based propaganda and incorrect information about vaccination for so
many years. Doctors may have to do the same and examine their own work
and many years, if not decades, of administering measles and other
vaccines to children and adults.
If they come to the conclusion that vaccines often fail to work or
are harmful, they will have to be prepared to deal with strong
resistance from government officials and very real threats to their
medical licenses from those expecting doctors to promote mandatory use
of all federally recommended vaccines. The golden handcuffs often are
too attractive for doctors to rise to that kind of challenge because
they are afraid they could lose everything.
But the alternative – protection of the status quo – has profoundly
serious consequences for the health of future generations. It is time
for all of us to acknowledge what is and is not known about vaccination
and health and, at a minimum, support the legal right for everyone to be
able to exercise voluntary, informed consent to use of vaccines,
including measles vaccine.
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