Vaccination: an analysis of the health risks—part II

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Nov, 2003 by Gary Null, Martin Feldman

The Journal of the American Medical Association published a study indicating that among 235 cases of student measles reported in Dane County, Wisconsin, in 1986, more than 96% had received a measles vaccine. (74) A study reported in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly found that 58% of 1,600 cases of measles in Quebec, Canada, in 1989 occurred in those who had already been vaccinated. (75) And the World Health Organization has conceded that those administered the measles vaccine have a 14 times greater likelihood of contracting the disease than those who remain unvaccinated. (76)

Jamie Murphy, author of What Every Parent Should Know About Childhood Immunization, believes that the vaccine may in fact be causing the illness. "In one Chicago study," he says, "90% of people vaccinated for measles got measles. Another group did not get vaccinated and had a very low percentage of measles." Murphy believes that this information should serve as a red flag, causing people to realize that vaccines are not working. (77)

Murphy's observation raises a question that no one has answered: Why are people who are vaccinated for these conditions getting them? He thinks the answer is that the vaccine does not provide true immunization.

"The vaccine can never duplicate the kind of immunity that we get from nature. Back in the 1950s, when I got the measles and 80% of children got either measles or mumps ... it strengthened your immune system. ... Also, when a natural epidemic of measles occurs, as it does every three to four years in the United States, those children who have been vaccinated, because they did not get a true immunity from the vaccine, become susceptible to measles."

Murphy also argues that rather than preventing measles, the vaccine may simply be suppressing it, only to have it manifest as other forms of disease with age. (78) He asserts that quite a few diseases are associated with the measles vaccine, including "encephalopathies (brain damage), aseptic meningitis, cranial nerve palsy, learning disabilities, hyperkinesis and severe mental retardation. ..." (79)

Results of two separate studies by the Institute of Medicine, one in 1991 and another in 1994, showed there to be strong evidence that the MMR vaccine can cause acute arthritis, anaphylaxis, thrombocytopenia, and even death. (80)

Even the package insert accompanying the MMR vaccine says that the vaccine may lead to arthritis or arthralgia, either long-term or temporary. (81) Meryl Dorey, editor of the Australian publication Vaccination? The Choice is Yours and president of the Australian Vaccination Network, points out that the MMR vaccine is also associated with Guillain-Barre paralysis, multiple sclerosis, and aseptic meningitis, a swelling of the lining of the brain, which can be fatal. "According to Japanese studies," she notes, "one in 1,044 children who get this vaccine can get aseptic meningitis. It's one of the reasons why Japan withdrew the use of the MMR vaccine in 1994." (82)

Viera Scheibner, a retired research scientist, reports that "In April 1993, the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Japan decided to discontinue the use of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (Sawada et al., 1993). This decision was prompted by published reports of vaccinated children and their (unvaccinated) contacts contracting mumps from the MMR vaccine, and reports of one in 1,044 vaccinees developing encephalitis." (83,84)