It’s been a trying month here at VRAN and for anyone who believes
it is a basic human right to make a voluntary and educated decision
about vaccines. Informed consent is under attack and the call for
mandatory vaccination dominates
media articles
that accuse non-vaccinators of spreading disease. Recent
outbreaks of measles in Canada have unleashed a media barrage vilifying
anyone who questions vaccine safety or who chooses an alternative
vaccine schedule, or who simply says no to vaccines.
Outbreaks in both
Alberta and
British Columbia
where measles has erupted in non-vaccinating religious communities have
been linked to imported cases from the Netherlands and the Philippines.
In a 2011 outbreak in
Quebec,
52 of 98 high school students who developed measles were fully
vaccinated, as were 3 of the 4 people who recently developed
the disease in
Calgary. Concerns are being raised that a vaccinated adult in the
Ottawa area has developed measles.
The history of measles outbreaks in highly vaccinated communities spans many decades and is well described in this
article. A
medical report discussing a measles outbreak in a school with a 98% vaccination rate found that,
“Vaccine
failures among apparently adequately vaccinated individuals were
sources of infection for at least 48 per cent of the cases in the
outbreak”. Just released, this
medical article
reports failure of the mumps component of MMR vaccine to prevent the
disease in fully vaccinated young men ages 18-25 in the Netherlands.
Vaccinating against this previously common childhood illness has pushed
mumps into adulthood when the risk of sterility increases in males.
Health officials quoted in media articles deny any knowledge of
treatment for measles which is remarkable since vitamin A has long been
recognized as an essential nutrient for the treatment of measles and is
an important deterrent of morbidity and mortality as described in this
medical article,
“The
World Health Organization has long recommended vitamin A
supplementation for children under 5 and for pregnant and breastfeeding
mothers. Vitamin A deficiency increases vulnerability to a range of
illnesses including diarrhea, measles, and respiratory infections.” In the pre vaccine era, parents would supplement their children with
cod liver oil, rich in vitamin A & D during the winter months to strengthen their resistance to infectious diseases.
Why would health officials withhold important information about the universally known benefits of
vitamin A & zinc,
vitamin C, and
vitamin D
supplementation during outbreaks of measles and other infectious
diseases? Do public health officials choose to remain silent on
the treatability of the disease in order to promote a sense of fear
and helplessness in the population while intensifying the
vaccination drumbeat?
Societal memory is short it seems. Only 40 years ago, measles was
seen as an ordinary childhood disease. It was not feared nor was the
public terrorized when cases appeared in the school or neighbourhood.
There was NO mass hysteria over cyclical outbreaks of measles as
everyone understood the benefit of getting the disease in childhood.
Doctors and parents knew that the vast majority of healthy children
who got measles recovered, and went on to develop long lasting
immunity into adulthood, thus benefitting society as a
whole. Adults exposed to the cyclical outbreaks of measles had
their own immunity boosted naturally, thus maintaining strong resistance
to the disease.
The 95% or higher vaccination rates required today to uphold artificial
“herd immunity” is a sham as is proven by outbreaks among highly
vaccinated populations. When measles vaccines were licensed in Canada,
the public was told, "one shot will provide life-long immunity".
This theory has been proven false as evidenced by many measles outbreaks
over the years in fully vaccinated groups. Some researchers
fear that vaccine immunity can wane after 25 years or in as little as
ten years. Others are concerned that “a booster dose might not have any
lasting effect on waning immunity.”
Measles vaccination can only
provide temporary immunity with the result that both the vaccinated and
unvaccinated will increasingly be at risk of the disease.
Vaccination is a medical experiment which has drastically changed the
natural epidemiology of measles and is creating pools of susceptible
people in whom temporary vaccine immunity wears off. Health
officials are unable to predict who amongst the vaccinated are
susceptible to the disease should they come in contact with the measles
virus.
Naturally acquired immunity is a precious health resource that develops
over many generations. The scuttling of this highly protective
natural immunity and it’s replacement with temporary vaccine immunity is
a tragic loss both to contemporary society and to future generations.
When the present naturally immune adult population (those born pre-1970)
dies off, and is replaced by a majority with temporary immunity,
it is
predicted
that there will be a greater proportion of susceptibles than in the
pre-vaccine era resulting in more and more disease outbreaks across all
age groups, with increased levels of risks as well. This
article refers to a 2009 study published in
Proceedings of the Royal Society
that “investigated what could happen with waning measles vaccine
immunity even with high vaccine coverage among children. They predicted
that, after a long disease-free period in the population, the
introduction of infection will lead to far larger epidemics than
predicted by standard models.”
The recent avalanche of belligerent media articles accompanied by the
hostile tone of public commentaries implies that those who question
vaccine theology are ignorant fanatics endangering the health and lives
of children and the population as a whole. Acceptance of the vaccine
agenda is so embedded in the public psyche that it has resulted in a
mass paralysis of critical thinking skills absent any comprehension of
the negative impact on health from artificial manipulation of the immune
system.
The few reasoned voices who post comments are shouted down or are
blocked from providing published evidence of vaccine risks , vaccine
failures, outbreaks of disease in highly vaccinated populations, the
vaccine injured, or the individual’s right to vaccine choice. The
atmosphere in mainstream media on this issue has disintegrated into an
all out attack on anyone with an alternative view about vaccines.
“The public conversation about vaccination, health and autonomy has
become ugly and divisive in the 21stcentury because the War on Disease
has been turned into a War on Values and Beliefs” observes Barbara Loe Fisher in her recent report on
Measles in America.
In her report, Fisher discusses the global push by the World Health
Organization (WHO) in partnership with governments, the pharmaceutical
industry and medical trade groups to achieve measles eradication by the
year 2015 – latest 2020. She writes,
“In order to accomplish
that goal in the next two to seven years, the plan is to make sure that
at least 95% or more of the world’s two billion children get two
doses of MMR vaccine.”
Fisher cites the militarization of disease eradication campaigns and
heavy handed police powers used to intimidate families of unvaccinated
children as happened a few years ago in Maryland where parents were
forced to comply with vaccine mandates. She asks - “
Will the oppression escalate?”
“I don’t think any of us know how far doctors working for government
or drug companies and medical trade groups will go to pit citizens
against each other in an effort to shun and punish anyone defending the
human right to exercise freedom of thought, belief, conscience and
informed consent to medical-risk taking, which includes taking
risks with liability free pharmaceutical products like vaccines.”
The kicker to all this conflict is that by the time measles vaccines
were developed in the 1960’s, mortality from the disease in developed
nations had already declined to minimal levels. Alexander
Langmuir, MD known as ‘the father of infectious disease epidemiology’,
knew that measles was not a disease needing eradication. He
described measles as a
“self-limiting infection of short duration, moderate severity, and low fatality…”
To those who asked him “Why do you wish to eradicate measles?”, he
replied with the same answer that Sir Edmond Hillary used when
asked why he wished to climb Mt. Everest –
“Because it is there”. “To this may be added….. and it can be done.”
For an excellent in depth of the history of infectious diseases, measles
and vaccine development, we recommend Dissolving Illusions by Dr.
Susanne Humphries, MD and Roman Bystrianyk, easily ordered at the
VRAN website bookstore.
