MMR: health chiefs accused
Health chiefs protest that with so many unvaccinated children in Ireland now, an epidemic must be imminent. Watch out for terrorising propaganda!
Health 'experts' point out that international practice demands an immunisation level of at least 95% to reduce the risk of measles and mumps epidemics. It also, incidentally, helps doctors receive a rewarding cash bonus.
However, they might try explaining why the US still get measles epidemics despite a 98% MMR uptake, or why over a four-period in the UK, 66% of children who contracted measles had been fully immunised.
It is our health chiefs and not the parents of unvaccinated children who are on trial because of the serious drop in the uptake of MMR. They are obscuring the real issues by ignoring the dangers in the MMR.
Over 15 years ago, a similar bovine MMR vaccine had to be withdrawn because it was found to be unworkable. Japan withdrew the MMR when they discovered that it was causing mumps and encephalitis in many children.
In the US, the National Academy of Science has published evidence showing that MMR can cause shock as well as potentially fatal infections from a vaccine strain of measles virus.
Their vaccine reaction reporting system records up to 14,000 cases of injuries and deaths following vaccination every year. Under 10% of US doctors report vaccine reactions while up to 600,000 cases of MMR vaccine-induced diabetes are diagnosed every year.
Patrick J Carroll,
Lady Lane House,
Waterford.
