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Measles Outbreaks Centered in the Vaccinated: Studies Show Vaccine Is Ineffective

April 7, 2012 by admin in Vaccines with 21 Comments
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Evidence from government health agencies and medical journals clearly documents that the measles vaccine is ineffective. So what is the official response? The bastion of “evidence-based medicine” ignores its own evidence and calls for more vaccinations, of course!

Without further ado, here are studies and government agency announcements documenting that measles outbreaks have hit the vaccinated and even been centered on them:

Measles (Rubeola) in Previously Immunized Children, Pediatrics Vol. 46 No. 3 September 1970, pp. 397-402

This study goes back 40 years and documents that the lack of efficacy in the measles vaccine is nothing new. It stated:

The analysis of serologic data supported the contention that the outbreak was causally related to defective protection associated with the use of vaccine plus globulin in infants. It also demonstrated persistence of CF antibody many years after immunization and suggested the presence of a booster phenomenon.

A review of the clinical illness of the 25 children who had been given the vaccine and 22 who had not revealed little difference in the severity of the disease.

Measles Outbreak among Vaccinated High School Students — Illinois, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 1984 Report

The CDC investigated an outbreak of measles from 9 December 1983 to 13 January 1984. It centered in a school of 411 students where 100% of them had been vaccinated. The study confirmed their vaccination histories. The initial case was in a 17 year-old student, and the source of his infection was not discovered. The more students were in contact with him, the more likely that they succumbed to measles.

The CDC entered an editorial note:

This outbreak demonstrates that transmission of measles can occur within a school population with a documented immunization level of 100%. This level was validated during the outbreak investigation. Previous investigations of measles outbreaks among highly immunized populations have revealed risk factors such as improper storage or handling of vaccine, vaccine administered to children under 1 year of age, use of globulin with vaccine, and use of killed virus vaccine. However, these risk factors did not adequately explain the occurrence of this outbreak.

They attempt to blame a cluster of vaccine failures, though that never goes past the point of conjecture.

A measles outbreak at a college with a prematriculation immunization requirement. American Journal of Public Health (1991)

Currently, the CDC schedules the MMR (measles mumps rubella) vaccine at 12-15 months of age. However, this study says:

Students vaccinated at 12-14 months of age were at increased risk compared to those vaccinated at greater than or equal to 15 months.

This study followed an outbreak of 84 cases of measles at a Colorado college where over 98% of the students had been documented to have “adequate measles immunity, based on previous measles infection, live measles vaccine on or after the first birthday, or serologic evidence of immunity. At least one of these proofs of immunity was required for entry into the school.

Explosive School-based Measles Outbreak, American Journal of Epidemiology, 1998

This study investigated the degree of prevention provided by measles vaccines. They found:

Total protection against measles might not be achievable, even among revaccinees, when children are confronted with intense exposure to measles virus.

Largest Measles Outbreak in the Americas since 2000: Quebec Ongoing Epidemic, IDSA Boston Oral Abstract, 2011

Between 1 January and 3 August 2011, 727 measles cases were notified in Canada. 65% of the cases were in young people aged 10-19 years. Only 1.8% were over age 40.  The study concludes:

While this still ongoing outbreak feeds largely on unvaccinated individuals, the high proportion of cases who received two doses raises concerns on vaccine effectiveness.

This is rather strange. Notice that the percentage of people over age 40 who got measles is very small. This is the least vaccinated group by a significant margin. The age group that came down with the highest percentage of cases was aged 10-19 years, a group that was mostly vaccinated, but had generally had the vaccines a few years earlier.

The implication of this is that the measles vaccine provides only limited protection, and that the limited protection lasts for only a short time. However, natural immunity, the sort that people over age 40 are significantly more likely to have, generally results in permanent immunity.

The statement that the outbreak “feeds largely on unvaccinated individuals” seems rather casual. To blame people who haven’t been vaccinated for disease in those who have is absurd on its face. That, though, is the sort of pseudo logic that’s often used to push vaccines.

Summation

These reports document three primary facts about the measles vaccine:

  • It is far from complete protection, even shortly after the vaccine is given.
  • It loses efficacy rapidly, with much of it wearing off over a couple of years.
  • It’s probably useless to give it to children under age 15 months.

The third point, the lack of effectiveness in the measles vaccine for children under age 15 months, should no longer be surprising. A newborn’s immune system does not function in the same way as an adult’s. Newborns do not develop antibodies as older children and adults do. That fact is now being used to pressure people into getting vaccinated. The reason given is to “cocoon” babies from diseases.

What they fail to mention is that, prior to mass vaccination, newborns faced very little risk of contracting measles. Their mothers generally had natural immunity from having had the diseases themselves, thereby developing lifelong protection and passing it on to their babies. Thus, newborns were protected until they’d reached an age that allowed them to respond to infections and develop their own immunity.

However, little or no protection is provided to newborns when their mothers have only vaccines’ artificially-induced antibodies. So, the need to cocoon newborns from diseases like measles is a direct result of the vaccines!

As can be seen from the work of those who push vaccinations, the measles vaccine is of limited value. What efficacy is provided lasts only a short time. There is a known and significant risk of adverse effects from the vaccine itself. Revaccinating again and again and again—which appears to be where things are headed—carries serious risks of neurological damage, among other life-altering damage.

As a result, scientists have become pseudo scientists. Even when, as in the examples given here, their results show that vaccinations may not be effective, they still spin them to push modern medicine’s paradigm. Whatever the results, vaccinations will be promoted. If the vaccinated are shown not to be protective, then the claim will be that more vaccines need to be given. If it becomes clear that it won’t be possible to do more vaccinating, then fear mongering and guilt will be promoted.

Modern medicine has decided that vaccinations will be promoted, and it appears to make no difference how much harm they do or even whether they’re particularly effective. Vaccines are big money makers for doctors, who have an excuse to call children into their offices on a regular basis. They’ve become the planned future of Big Pharma as their blockbuster drugs go out of patent and little new is in the pipeline. Nothing, no amount of harm and no facts of inefficacy are allowed to stand in the way of the profit-making vaccine juggernaut.

Definition of juggernaut, from the American Heritage DictionarySomething, such as a belief or institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed.

 

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  • curt Watkins

    your headline “studies show measles vaccine is ineffective” is a deliberate distortion of the truth. The truth is that a single measles vaccine, particularly when given before age 12 months, is less than 100% effective and some individuals will remain vulnerable to infection IF EXPOSED. For this reason a second measels vaccine at 4-5 years was added to US vaccine schedules. In the 80s if I’m remembering correctly. I see that India has recently recommended a second measels vaccine form the same reason.

    the Illinois 1984 high school outbreak effected 16 students out of 411 or less than 5% were infected, and the epidemic died out without sustained transmission. Prior to routine vaccination, nearly every child caught measels. the Illinois example shows that a single childhood measles shot is about 95% effective in preventing infections. Adding the second shot at age 4-6 brings the protection to nearly 100%. It’s quite a distortion (AKA lie) to call a vaccine that is 95% effective (and over 99% effective if two doses are given) “ineffective”.

    Your statement: that natural infection provides “permanent” immunity seems to be implying that we should be infecting our children so as to better prevent infection. My guess is you have little or no experience with an actual measles infection or it’s known complications . If not, you have vaccines to thank. Prior to vaccination everyone was familiar with it. Why don’t you try googling measles photos?

    • HeidiStevenson

      I’ts well documented by one of the studies above that the second vaccine is NOT bringing protection to nearly 100%. And what protection is provided wanes rapidly. That’s a fact – not a lie.  

      I had measles as a child, and I remember it. Everyone was familiar with measles then – and no one feared it. Didn’t you ever hear of parents intentionally getting their children exposed to measles and other such diseases? They knew that it was not a big deal for a normal child, and like so many other “childhood” diseases, could be a serious problem as an adult. And no, it is not true that every child would be infected in an outbreak. You toss around the word lie quite easily – but apparently, your hold on what is and isn’t true is less than reliable.
      A rash is a rash – not permanent, not pretty, and not an issue. 

      There are no simple answers here – but the fact is that the extremely severe and even deadly adverse effects of the vaccine are not being considered in the rush to vaccinate. That’s a serious problem, especially in light of the fact that vaccines are not nearly as effective as claimed and they have not been responsible for the huge drops in disease rates. That’s because of environmental and nutrition factors.

      • Curt Watkins

        You say that measles is not a big deal for a normal child.

        Tell that to the 126 dead in Yemen over the last year:
        http://reliefweb.int/node/480612

        Or the king and Queen of the Hawaiian islands, both killed by Measles in 1824: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19633516
        Do you suppose they would agree with your assessment that measles is “no big deal”?

        poor nutrition to blaim! You say?. lack of good medical care?

        Lets look at France then. They French have embarked on a grand experiment to see what happens when vaccine coverage rates fall:
        http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/activities/sciadvice. “Epidemiological Update on Measles in EU/EEA”

        In 2010 there were 5021 reported cases of measles in France and two deaths. Bulgaria had 22,005 cases and 24 deaths. 30% of cases in France required hospitalization. Is being admitted to the hospital “no big deal” in your book? Is Blindness? Encephalitis? do you think the families of these dead people are relieved to hear that you managed to have an uneventful case of measles as a child. Excuse me but how selfish are you? We don’t vaccinate to prevent the mild cases, we vaccinate to prevent the rare deaths and not so rare complications.

        These are actual real people dying from this preventable virus. In Europe! and yes, the situation in the third world is much worse.

        when was the last time you heard of a case of measles in your community? It is an extremely rare problem in this country because the vaccine is effective. You point to a couple of outbreaks where the vaccine did not protect everybody (and I nor anyone else claims the vaccine can protect everyone), and somehow in your twisted logic 95% effective becomes ”

        CW

        • Curt Watkins

          “ineffective “.

          • Captian_a
          • Curt Watkins

             Heidi,
            You claim vaccines are responsible for the increasing rates of diagnoses of Autism.  This is changing the subject.  We were talking about Measles vaccine effectiveness and the serious nature of a measles infection.  I’ll take the bait as your claim is false. The hypothesis that MMR can cause or contribute to Autism has been thoroughly disproven: 

             http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14761240

            Further more common sense dictates that the autism “epidemic” we are seeing would have occured in the 1970s had the MMR been responsible.

            And you dismiss the Bulgarian death rate as “One-tenth of one percent”, as if it was some sort of inconsequential number.  That is one in a thousand.  And is is very callous of you to blaim poor nutrition (not to mention that is one a special pleading) when it was Measels that killed them, not starvation.  Poor nutrition may make the illness more severe, but it does not change the fact that full vaccination would have prevented those deaths.  Remember, full vaccination rates serve as a cocoon around the most vulnerable in a population including the infants, malnourished and immunodeficient, by preventing the circulation of measles in the community. 

            And you say “When honest studies are done that compare disease and mortality rates
            between measles-vaccinated children and measles-unvaccinated children,
            no case can be made for the measles vaccination”.

            Maybe you didn’t see this:  Clinical efficacy of measles vaccine during the 1990 measles epidemic. (http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/1766702)
            In this study exposed siblings of measles cases were followed.  If they had been vaccinated the rate of infection was 4.2%.  The rate for unvaccinated siblings was 77.8%.   That doesnt exacly square with your headline on this blog post:
            “Measles Outbreaks Centered in the Vaccinated: Studies Show Vaccine Is Ineffective”.
            If you need more “honest studies”, there are many more.

            Guest,
             You are trying to dismiss the dramatic spike in measles cases in France as a consequence of their diet?  That is laughable.  As if the French diet was any diferent 5 years ago when Measels rates were extrememly low.  I’m not surprised you dont want to talk about the France experience as the recent dramatic and sustained epidemic of Measles is a direct consequence of waning vaccine uptake.   This observation also undercuts a favorite anti-vaccine trope claiming rates of Measles were declining due to nutrition and other general health measures prior to the introduction of measles vaccines in the 1960s, and the eradication of polio and measles and smallpox in America had nothing to do with vaccines.   If that was true, then we would not be seeing the epidemic in France. 

            You tell me “You’ve had your say. I don’t have time for this. If you don’t like the viewpoint, then move on”.  I guess it hurts your brain to hear from an opposing viewpoint that has actual facts to back up his opinion.  Well don’t worry, I will be moving on because it is no use talking to someone with their head in the sand. 

            Forgive me for trying to bring some actual facts to this discussion.  I fear that what is happening in France will soon happen in the US and tens of thousands will suffer needlessly, with dozens of deaths.  Dont believe it?  It hasent been that long: 75 deaths in California in the late 80s:

            http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1022280/

            I suppose Guest will be telling us that Californians have poor nutrition, or that the virus back then was more virulent.

            If there are any grandparents on this thread that have a memory of what these diseases were actually capable of, then please tell your children and grandchildren, because they have forgotten.  History is doomed to repeat itself.  But this time there will be lawyers.  And when children die unnecessarily, there will be lawsuits.  

        • HeidiStevenson

          Ever hear of autism? Vaccines cause encephalitis, too. In fact, you cannot name an adverse effect of measles that isn’t also caused by vaccines – plus autism. Cot death.

          Bulgaria: One-tenth of one percent death rate (and that’s assuming that all of the cases were counted)

          Autism: over one in 100 children – over one percent, more than ten times the official death rate in Bulgaria

          How was the health of the Bulgarian children? Not particularly good. CIA Fact Book: 
             US Death Rate, 8.39/1000. 
             Bulgarian Death Rate: 14.32/1000

          90% of the measles cases in Bulgaria are in the Roma population, a particularly impoverished group of people in an impoverished nation. Their underlying health is already poor, making them more susceptible to the disease and more likely to suffer ill effects from it. They are not a reasonable comparison for American children.

          How many cases of autism and other vaccine-related diseases & deaths in France? You don’t know.

          The virulence of measles was much worse in 1824. It cannot be compared with today’s measles.

          The whole picture isn’t told by tossing around a few figures. 

          No, I haven’t heard of any measles cases in my community in quite some time – but I have heard of loads of autism cases, and those are lives devastated by vaccines. That disease didn’t even exist prior to vaccines, yet now it’s pandemic wherever vaccinations are given.

          When honest studies are done that compare disease and mortality rates between measles-vaccinated children and measles-unvaccinated children, no case can be made for the measles vaccination. There is no evidence base for safety – and frankly, there’s little for efficacy, either. But the little evidence that does exist is not on the side of efficacy.

          You’ve had your say. I don’t have time for this. If you don’t like the viewpoint, then move on.

          • ROFLCOPTERY


            The virulence of measles was much worse in 1824. It cannot be compared with today’s measles. ”

            Maybe due to the implementation of an effective vaccination programme since then?

            There’s no link between autism and measles vaccines. That nonsense should have been put to bed ages ago. Your anecdotal evidence suggesting that those without the vaccine aren’t statistically effected by measles is because they are protected from the worst effects by the immunisation of the vast majority of other people in society. If too many people take the decision not to immunise you’ll begin to see the negative effects.

        • Guest

           Let us also not forget that France is often studied because people have much lower rates of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, etc, despite not eating what is considered “an ideal diet.

          Clearly correlation doesn’t prove causation; however it is interesting that the first world countries with lower vaccine rates, or delayed vaccines, often have better health overall.

          However, there is a simple answer – long term studies of vaccine effectiveness and side effects in vaccinated, partially vaccinated, and not vaccinated populations.  These studies are not particularly hard to do, nor particularly expensive; and yet they are not done.

          Also, if vaccines are so very important why do we wait until the vaccines fail to recommend boosters?  Antibody levels are used to prove vaccine efficacy; and yet there’s no one monitoring antibody levels in the vaccinated population.  No one watching to see when immunity wanes, no one watching to see when boosters would need to be moved closer together as natural boosters from being exposed to people with the disease drops.

        • Coo Per16

          We had a measles outbreak where I live last year. My son isn’t vaccinated ,he got it and was better in less than a week. Other vaccinated kids were very ill for weeks.

          • ROFLCOPTERY

            That’s conclusive.

  • Riko

    I would be interested in who the author is of this article and his/her background in medical or health research and practice. From this article is hard for me to judge whether the cases described here are in any way representative. 

    According to this article the vaccines are a not very profit making line of business for pharmaceutical companies. 
    http://www.vaccineethics.org/issue_briefs/industry.php

    Although I don’t trust profit making companies to do what is best for me, assuming that every medical decision is somehow pushed by big bad pharma is rather one-dimensional. And many immunisation programmes around the world are paid for by government and again is not a money maker for doctors. Equating doctors with drugs pushers implies a very cynical worldview.  

    Curt Watkins reference to the current outbreak in France is quite revealing, regardless of whether our current vacines are the solution, the measles seem anything but a harmless disease and I’d be open to a sare alternative to vaccines, but what is that? 

    • HeidiStevenson

      The claim that vaccines are not particularly profitable is ludicrous. It flies in the face of the fact that Big Pharma is doing extensive research in them.  

      Curt Watkins reference is not revealing, as my response to him clarifies. It tells only a small part of the tale. The link he gives doesn’t contain the information he says. Aside from that, 2 deaths in 5021 cases is 0.0039% – tiny. And it doesn’t factor in the harm done by vaccines. There’s nothing revealing about that.

      The studies referenced in this article clarify that people considered fully vaccinated get measles – and that measles occurs in fully-vaccinated populations. 

      The article doesn’t report on cases. It reports on studies.

      • Riko

        Quoted from the economist in October 2010 “FOR decades vaccines were a neglected corner of the drugs business, with old technology, little investment and abysmal profit margins. Many firms sold their vaccine divisions to concentrate on more profitable drugs. This troubled public-health experts because vaccines are a highly effective way of dealing with diseases.” 

        http://www.economist.com/node/17258858

        It then goes on to describe that pharma companies now have renewed interest in developing new vacines for diseases like the flu for which no vacines yet exist and better profit margins can be made. Diseases that have no compulsory vaccination programmes.  

        I’m no medical expert so I can’t argue on the value of 2 deaths out of 5021 measles sufferers. What I can see is that the idea that this is a big pharma driven conspiracy is not supported by economics. 

        • HeidiStevenson

          Then you’d better open your eyes. You quote from a source that supports the financial interests of multinational corporations, like Big Pharma, as if there’s no conflict of interest. 

          The simple fact is that Big Pharma has turned on the afterburners in its quest for new vaccines. They aren’t doing it as a public service. It’s money – big money. You can quote any source you want, but the reality is that they are putting the bulk of their efforts into vaccine research. 

          As to the term conspiracy – only you are using it. No conspiracy is required to see that Big Pharma is enormous corporations out to make money for drugs in whatever form they can. Vaccines are drugs and it’s where they’re putting the bulk of their efforts, not as a conspiracy, but to increase the bottom line.

      • Captian_A

         0.0039% = tiny.  I’d agree, except 2 out of 5021 is 4 out of 10,000 or 0.04%.   I think I understand how 95% effective becomes “ineffective” in your brain.  Bad math!  

        And of course confirmation bias.  You highlight a few studies documenting that measles vaccine  is not 100% effective (an uncontested point), and ignore (and suppress: thanks for deleting my post) the many, many, many studies showing that the vaccine is highly effective. 

        So two deaths out of 5000 cases is no big deal?  You seem to have little regard for life.  How many children in your local school district?

        And stop already with the MMR causes Autism crapola.  That hypothesis is about as dead as the flat earth theory:

        http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2004/Immunization-Safety-Review-Vaccines-and-Autism.aspx

         CWatkins

  • Jeff_jos72

    I remember this article that mention ghis person who was vaccinated comming down with the measels, the parent blamed it on the unvaccinated children, but non of the unvaccinated children had it. The unvaccinated parent had to defend their child in court!

    • CWatkins

       An interesting concept: being responsible for your actions, or inaction.  Let see… you ignore the advise of your government and of your doctors, and choose not to vaccinate your children against measles.  Then your children go to Europe and bring home measles…completely predictable with lots of precedence.  Your child spreads measles in their school.  An infant sibling of one of your child’s classmates dies of measles.  Dead infant who should not have died.  Who is to blame?   The Gypsies in Bulgaria?

      Think about it.  This will happen if vaccine rates fall.  It happened in the UK after Wakefield.  It is happening now in France.  The US is next and there will be dead children.  In fact it is already starting:  http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6115a1.htm

      Sorry to be such a downer, but it does not have to play out that way. 

      Thank you for hosting this discussion
      CWatkins 

    • CWatkins

       An interesting concept: being responsible for your actions, or inaction.  Let see… you ignore the advise of your government and of your doctors, and choose not to vaccinate your children against measles.  Then your children go to Europe and bring home measles…completely predictable with lots of precedence.  Your child spreads measles in their school.  An infant sibling of one of your child’s classmates dies of measles.  Dead infant who should not have died.  Who is to blame?   The Gypsies in Bulgaria?

      Think about it.  This will happen if vaccine rates fall.  It happened in the UK after Wakefield.  It is happening now in France.  The US is next and there will be dead children.  In fact it is already starting:  http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6115a1.htm

      Sorry to be such a downer, but it does not have to play out that way. 

      Thank you for hosting this discussion
      CWatkins 

      • http://profiles.google.com/midtra52 keith dontmatter

        You’re not even reading the comment.  None of the unvaccinated children even had measles.  You’re pro pharma sales nonsense doesn’t fly.  You have just as much luck doing a rain dance to prevent measles as you do getting a measles vaccine.  Both are just as effective.  It wouldn’t kill you to read a couple medical studies instead of blindly believing sales pitches.

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