by Barbara Loe Fisher
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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 (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 Astroturfers 4 and trolls 5 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
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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% of children entering kindergarten 13 have gotten two doses of MMR vaccine, which is also true for 92% of school children ages 13 to 17 years. 14
Plus, less than one percent of children under age three are completely
unvaccinated and 92% 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 vaccine 18
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
stories 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 noses 33 or are shedding vaccine strain live virus that could make other people sick. 34 35
Pertussis Vaccine Failing
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% 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% of the measles cases associated with Disneyland
were vaccinated, some of them with at least two doses of MMR vaccine. 50
Public health doctors are scrambling to explain leaks in measles vaccine immunity 54 55
and have come up with this lame excuse: they say they just discovered
that 1 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
Government health officials do not conduct rountine 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 symptoms 69 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 last week 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 Disneyland 73
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 punish 76 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 have 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.
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Ahh, I love it! :) Yes, our family, our choice.
ReplyDeleteIn today's society, the idea of requiring children to get vaccinations is very controversial. There are many reasons why individuals should be required to get his or her vaccinations and why they should not be. People should be required to get vaccinations because old diseases that are almost gone can resurface, if the immunity is no longer there, due to people are not getting the vaccination. The most controversial reason why vaccinations should not be required is because of an individual's religious beliefs. Forcing a law that goes against everything someone believes in is injustice. Vaccines are cost effective and even free for low income families. There are minor side effects when getting the vaccination but the side effects are nothing compared to the disease. For certain people like cancer patients, getting vaccinations can be a gamble that may put their health at jeopardy thus they depend on others who can get it, to keep them safe. Not requiring vaccinations could put innocent lives at an unnecessary risk. Eventually the well being of the United States can be in harms way, bringing back many of the illnesses that were nearly gone.
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