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Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts
DavidHumus writes "Some of the longer-term effects of the anti-vaccination movement of past decades are now evident in a dramatic increase in measles. From the article: 'A measles outbreak infected 1,219 people in southwest Wales between November 2012 and early July, compared with 105 cases in all of Wales in 2011. One of the infected was Ms. Jenkins, whose grandmother, her guardian, hadn't vaccinated her as a young child. "I was afraid of the autism," says the grandmother, Margaret Mugford, 63 years old. "It was in all the papers and on TV."'"
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I think I'm as amused by the reactions of the thirty-and-under-somethings here as I am by the vaccinations-cause-autism crowd. I'm not yet 60, and for my generation, measles, mumps, rubella (German measles) and chicken pox were childhood rites of passage. A tiny minority had permanent side-effects; I remember a grade-scool classmate who was deaf in one ear, supposedly as a result of measles. I *DO* recall the media hoopla from the Guillain-Barre cases after the 1976 swine-flu immunization campaign. I guess I'm saying that if YOU had a MMR shot and DON'T have a smallpox vaccination scar on your left bicep, then you're: 1) under 35, and 2) lacking historical perspective.
"No, Andrew Wakefield deserves a good chunk of the blame. He has caused children to die by his self-aggrandising actions, and in a just world would be up on charges for it."
It's curious that the co-author of the original paper, Professor Walker-Smith, was subsequently totally exonerated. Meaning there was nothing in that paper that could be deemed fraudulent or unethical. Wakefield was the victim of a smear campaign by the pharma-industry who stood to lose masses amount of revenue.
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Merck vaccine fraud exposed by two Merck virologists; company faked mumps vaccine efficacy results for over a decade, says lawsuit
http://www.naturalnews.com/036328_Merck_mumps_vaccine_False_Claims_Act.html
"(NaturalNews) Breaking news: According to two Merck scientists who filed a False Claims Act complaint in 2010 -- a complaint which has just now been unsealed -- vaccine manufacturer Merck knowingly falsified its mumps vaccine test data, spiked blood samples with animal antibodies, sold a vaccine that actually promoted mumps and measles outbreaks, and ripped off governments and consumers who bought the vaccine thinking it was "95% effective."
See that False Claims Act document at:
www.naturalnews.com/gallery/documents/Merck-False-Claims-Act.pdf
According to Stephen Krahling and Joan Wlochowski, both former Merck virologists, the Merck company engaged in all the following behavior:
Merck knowingly falsified its mumps vaccine test results to fabricate a "95% efficacy rate."
In order to do this, Merck spiked the blood test with animal antibodies in order to artificially inflate the appearance of immune system antibodies. As reported in CourthouseNews.com:
Merck also added animal antibodies to blood samples to achieve more favorable test results, though it knew that the human immune system would never produce such antibodies, and that the antibodies created a laboratory testing scenario that "did not in any way correspond to, correlate with, or represent real life ... virus neutralization in vaccinated people," according to the complaint. (http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/06/27/47851.htm)"
Don't be such media watching idiots when it comes to Vaccines, they are harmful. They are for profit of drug companies. Be stupid and uninformed at your own risk.