CDC Lies: Measles Outbreaks Confirmed Among Children Already Vaccinated

ChildGettingVaccineMaybe Mickey Mouse is responsible for spreading measles to children at Disneyland? This is a more likely hypothesis than health department claims that unvaccinated children are to blame for a recent outbreak that occurred at “the happiest place on Earth,” in which 39 people — and counting — from at least four states, according to the latest reports, have been confirmed as having contracted the disease while visiting the park.

Official reports are claiming that unvaccinated children are to blame because some of those who contracted the measles hadn’t been vaccinated. Some of them had been vaccinated, of course, and the original source of the disease has yet to be determined. But like always, it is automatically those pesky individuals who choose not to inject their bodies with a vaccine linked to brain damage and autism — and that’s been shown to spread the measles — that must have triggered the outbreak.

The interesting thing about this latest measles outbreak is that the media is parading it around as evidence that not getting vaccinated triggers disease outbreaks, even though the original source of the disease is unknown. It is entirely possible that a vaccinated person spread the disease to both vaccinated and unvaccinated people, which in and of itself shows the lack of effectiveness of vaccines. Continue reading

Measles: A Rash of Misinformation

Activist Post February 17 2013

Immune systemWith the recent release of a provocative children’s book entitled Melanie’s Marvelous Measles, a debate has ensued regarding the effectiveness and wisdom surrounding measles vaccinations. When I first heard about the book, I went to Amazon to order a copy for myself. The amount of negative reviews was staggering. People were claiming that the information was “dangerous”, “harmful” and “ill-informed”. Some were even calling for the book to be banned. It took me a few minutes to read it from cover to cover. Rather than critique the book, which has already been done quite eloquently by others, I would like to talk about the widespread fear surrounding measles and the misinformation regarding the vaccine.

References to measles can be found as far back as the 7th century.[1] Measles is an RNA virus that was first isolated in 1954. A typical infection produces a characteristic skin rash starting at the head and progressing down the trunk and extremities. The rash is typically preceded by a high fever. Around this time, blue-white spots (Koplik spots) can be found on the mucous membranes. These are considered pathognomonic for measles. Other symptoms may include cough, runny nose, conjunctivitis, diarrhea, anorexia and lymphadenopathy.

According to the CDC, prior to the introduction of the vaccine, measles was a nearly universal infection occurring most commonly in 5-9 year olds with 90% of U.S. children immune by age 15. Most kids recovered fully within a few weeks with life-long immunity. Reported complications from data collected between 1985-1992 included pneumonia (6%), encephalitis (.1%), seizures (.6-.7%), and death (.2%). These occurred most frequently in children under 5 and adults over 20. These complications may, in fact, have been exacerbated by allopathic interventions to treat common symptoms such as fever reduction using antipyretics.[15,16]

Many people are aware that the first licensed live-virus vaccine was introduced in 1963 (Edmonston B strain) but few know that there was also a kill measles vaccine (KMV) licensed that same year.[1] That vaccine was pulled in 1967, however, after it was discovered that individuals who received the KMV and were subsequently exposed to the wild virus were afflicted with a more severe atypical form of measles. Today’s vaccine, known as MMR, contains attenuated, live-measles virus (Edmonston-Enders strain) mixed together with mumps and rubella virus. There is an alternate version of the vaccine, known as MMRV, that combines MMR with the varicella virus. The measles virus is cultured on chick embryo fibroblast tissue and the vaccine contains human albumin, neomycin, sorbitol and gelatin. The 2013 CDC recommendations include 2 doses of MMR, the first at 12-15 months and the second at 4-6 years.

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