MEASLES! MUMPS! RUBELLA!
by Steve Ransom

"Something curious has happened to the 'official' perception of the childhood diseases which are the subject of the MMR vaccine (Measles, Mumps, Rubella). They have all officially become more serious since vaccines were introduced." Richard Barr

With the recent news that a High Court judge has ordered that two children be given the MMR injection against their mothers' wishes, one must ask whether the defence was acquainted with the following information. The 31st May 2001 edition of Private Eye, an independent UK publication, contained the following report on the GlaxoSmithKline Measles, Mumps, Rubella vaccine.

"A landmark ruling in the French appeal courts against UK vaccine manufacturer GSK passed almost unnoticed by the British media. The courts reached a decision that vaccine damage had taken place, based on serious, precise presumptions and similar evidence.... This has huge importance for the 3,000 UK families now seeking to sue SmithKline and another company over damage they say was caused to their children by the MMR jab."

THE 'M' WORD!
As more and more children are being harmed by these unnecessary vaccines, and as the mainstream media continues to avoid more detailed reporting on these matters, older parents are thinking back to their own childhoods and starting to ask, "Whatever happened to those good old-fashioned measles parties?" Do our children need the MMR at all? Mothers would herd their children together into someone's front room in order to mix with another mum's spotty, measles-ridden child, in the hope of them all catching measles.

Lesley Dove is co-ordinator of the London branch of Contact Network, an organisation that believes in the old-fashioned theory of measles parties. Says Ms Dove, "I think our children's immune systems are being compromised [by vaccination]. Measles was a natural part of growing up when I was a child."

However, as we will see in later chapters on germ theory and the nature of disease, the measles party is not the way forward. In a subsequent telephone call to Lesley Dove, I asked her about the success rate at these measles parties. She admitted that it was negligible. Not even Lesley's children caught anything from the parties they attended. The measles party concept does demonstrate, however, that unlike the young parents of today, parents from only a generation ago did not perceive measles as a dread disease. They knew that if a child did come down with measles, then that child would soon recover. But such has been the recent pharmaceutical campaigns with regard to 'THE DANGERS OF MEASLES!' that today's younger parents shudder when they hear the 'm' word. The corporate brainwashing runs very deep, as this Daily Telegraph article demonstrates:

LOUISE HAD MEASLES - NEEDLESSLY - Louise Bate is gazing listlessly from her mother's arms, showing little interest in her toys or her three-year-old brother, William, playing on the floor. Aged nine months, she is just recovering from a dose of measles that has left her drained of energy. Louise's mother Josie is indignant that Louise has fallen ill. "I feel very frustrated and sad that she got an illness that could have been avoided. Louise went from being a totally contented, happy, sleeping, well-feeding baby to the most miserable, distressed, sick child - and I know from my GP that she didn't have it badly. Measles can cause complications, such as brain damage and hearing loss."

Miserable, distressed and sick? Have we become so 'pharmaceutically shaped and educated' that we are indignant if our child becomes ill for a few days? Is it the general expectation that there should be a pill for every ill? An injection for each and every disease under the sun? With measles, what is ostensibly a relatively mild, non life-threatening condition has now been re-jigged by Big Pharma into a monster requiring highly profitable, mass immunisation. Josie's reference to brain damage and hearing loss merely indicates that she has fallen under the spell of those master weavers. Mum should count her blessings. What of the thousands of parents who now face a lifetime of heartache supporting their MMR vaccine-damaged children. They would give anything on earth to have their precious child listless and disinterested for only a couple of days, as opposed to listless and disinterested for the rest of their lives. The Telegraph article predictably carried no interviews with parents of vaccine-damaged children. Instead, the writer minimised the threat of MMR vaccine damage, quoting of all things, a UK government Department of Health investigation that unsurprisingly vindicated the vaccine, and warned readers that a low uptake of the vaccine could spark a measles epidemic. Of course, there was no such epidemic.

BUT DON'T CHILDREN DIE OF MEASLES?
Whenever there is a child death attributed to measles, the vaccine establishment always hits overdrive, as far as national headlines are concerned. The dismally uneventful 1984 Australia New Zealand measles 'epidemic' was a case in point. When two children were reported to have died of measles, no readers were informed that both children had a terminal illness and, more to the point, one of the children had been 'fully immunised' against measles beforehand. To repeat that timeless piece of advice from Geoff Watts: "Another trap for the unwary lies in the failure to distinguish between association and causation." Serious cases of measles are invariably an indication of an impoverished immune system. And how might the measles vaccine have impoverished the child's immune system in the first place?

Readers are reminded of the fact that the MMR vaccine contains neomycin, sorbitol and gelatin, the concoction cultivated in a medium of human diploid cells 'harvested' from aborted human foetal tissue. The tuberculosis vaccine mentioned earlier uses a medium composed of glycerin, asparagine, citric acid, potassium phosphate, magnesium sulphate, and iron ammonium citrate. This mixture helps grow what is then injected directly into the human system. Tetanus vaccine is produced using aluminium phosphate, formaldehyde, ammonium sulphate, washed sheep red blood cells, glycerol, sodium chloride, thimerosal medium (49% mercury) and pig pancreas derivatives.

FAKE MEASLES EPIDEMICS
Writing for JABS, an independent organisation advising parents on the potential dangers of vaccination, Janine Roberts introduces us to the fraudulent measles epidemic of 1995:

"Questions are being raised about a most urgent warning sent out to doctors and the parents of 8 million children by the UK Department of Health, saying that there would definitely be a measles epidemic in 1995 that would infect between 100,000 and 200,000 children and that "around 50 children, mostly of secondary school age, would die," - that is, if children of between 5 and 15 were not revaccinated. New research indicates that there might have been a very different story behind this campaign: Doctor Richard Nicholson, the editor of the Bulletin of Medical Ethics, stated that after studying all government reports, there was no proof that such a major measles epidemic was about to start. He alleged the government's estimate of up to 50 deaths was based on improper use of statistics - that effectively the government was scare-mongering.

Similarly, the quarterly magazine What Doctors Don't Tell You filed the following report on the same incident:

1994 MEASLES JAB NOT NEEDED - Dr Nicholson described the campaign as 'a gift horse' for the two drug companies, which still had vaccines in stock intended for use with the combined MMR jab.… The stocks of the vaccine were still current, but had to be used by autumn 1994, just when the campaign took place. "The campaign provided a very lucky break for the two vaccine suppliers." said Dr Nicholson (Bulletin of Medical Ethics, August 1995).

Here are just a few of the tragic results of this lucky break for the vaccine suppliers.

'Tony Gregory's 9-year-old daughter Amy immediately reacted. "She collapsed within an hour. Next day she was vomiting constantly, had diarrhoea and was covered in a nettle rash. Many local children were affected. There were children still fainting in school a fortnight later. We wondered if the batch of vaccines was faulty. I will fight tooth and nail to find out why this happened to Amy."

GOVERNMENT MUST BE FORCED TO HELP FORGOTTEN CHILDREN - "Since our formation, the Hope Project has been inundated by requests for help…. Every day new parents are ringing us. They all have the same tragic story. Healthy baby, child, teenager, usually a boy, given the DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) or DT (diphtheria and tetanus), MMR or MMR booster. This was then followed by a sudden fall or slow but steady decline into autism or other spectrum disorders. Initially, we were being contacted by a new parent a week. By 1998, we were trying to help on average three new sufferers a week. Such is the increase in contacts this year, that now we could give up everything else we do and just talk to parents all day. There is an epidemic out there and authorities are refusing to acknowledge it."

For the first time in this study on vaccination, the word epidemic has been used correctly. It is describing a real disaster unfolding - a man-made, profit-driven, vaccine-damage epidemic. Janine Roberts again:

"One of those most angry about last year's MMR vaccination campaign is Karen, mother of 12-year-old son Sam. "He was ridiculously healthy, He never had anything wrong with him, apart from some mild asthma, was doing well at school and loved football. He was an avid Spurs fan. Four weeks after vaccination, coming down the stairs, his knees suddenly gave way and he tumbled down. He kept on falling. Sometimes when I was talking to him he would suddenly go blank. One doctor said to me: "Has he been exposed to measles?" I said, "No, he has never had measles." The doctor replied, "No, I meant, has he had a recent measles injection?" Then it clicked. All this had started after the vaccination. Sam is now in a wheelchair and has lost the power of speech."

With MMR, DPT, meningitis, smallpox, rabies, tetanus and the flu 'shot' all billed as safe by the UK government, what should we make of the UK Prime Minister's refusal to say whether his baby son has received the infamous MMR triple jab? Blair's reticence in this matter displays a strangely unsupportive role over a vaccine that spearheads his own government's child immunisation programme.

Perhaps privately, the Blairs have looked up the more accurate information on MMR, as opposed to relying on the dangerous nonsense pumped out to the masses. And having looked up the real goods on this vaccine, who in their right mind would wish the MMR vaccine on anyone, let alone their own child? The Blairs might also have been influenced in their decision by 'insider' vaccine information, some of which appeared in the UK Sunday Observer, dated 27th August 2000, revealing that the UK government had attempted to cover up the deaths of a number of children as a result of receiving the meningitis vaccine. Documentation also revealed that more than 16,000 adverse reactions to the meningitis jab had been reported by GPs, since the nationwide campaign began in 2000. With the UK Department of Health admitting that only between 10 and 15 percent of adverse reactions are reported, the actual number of children damaged as a result of this vaccine is probably far higher. Actually, it would be naïve in the extreme to think that Tony and Cherie are anything but fully conversant with the dangers of vaccination.

A PRESIDENT'S PRECEDENT
But the Blairs need not feel alone in their dilemma. Even a president has set a precedent over the issue of vaccine refusal. On a visit to the Middle East, former US president Bill Clinton refused the mandatory US army anthrax shot, the vaccine now believed to be at the root of the strange and debilitating illnesses rendering many Gulf War veterans virtually immobile. Interestingly, The UK Mail on Sunday, dated 22nd December 2002, reported the high number of armed forces personnel who were refusing the anthrax 'jab' because of their fears of experiencing side-effects, which have left many ex-servicemen and women with permanent disability.

GERMAN MEASLES (RUBELLA)
Falsely dubbed German measles, rubella is germane (similar/relevant) to measles. But yet again, we are being cynically manipulated by certain vested interests, into believing that this illness is highly dangerous, when it is not. Twenty years ago, the reporting on rubella was very low-key. The 1982 MacMillan Guide to Family Health stated:

"This is a very mild infectious disease - in the majority of children who catch it, it causes no more inconvenience that a common cold. The incubation period is 14-21 days and the first symptoms are a slightly raised temperature, swollen glands behind the ears and a rash appearing on the first or second day first on the face and then spreading to the rest of the body. By the fourth or fifth day, all symptoms have faded away."

BUT ISN'T RUBELLA
A DANGER TO EXPECTANT MUMS?
Before the triple whammy of MMR, thousands of young girls were being injected with the rubella vaccine, in the belief that this vaccine would provide the girls with future immunity against German measles because of its possible negative effects upon the foetus. In actual fact, it was the vaccine itself that was the danger to these young girls, now known to have given rise to early arthritis, arthralgia, various skin conditions, respiratory trouble and swollen glands. As far as rubella being a danger to expectant mums is concerned, a study carried out by doctors on the effects of rubella on foetuses of women who had contracted German measles was published in The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. In their study of 34 pregnant women thought to have rubella, eight mothers were told that their unborn babies had rubella infection. Six of those mothers chose to have abortions. Only three of the aborted babies were determined to be rubella 'positive'. The other two supposedly 'infected' babies were carried to term and were born with no defects. Twenty-four of the remaining twenty-six babies were born in good health. The other two died from other causes.

Translated, out of the thirty-four babies in the report, none was born with any defects, two babies died of other causes and six women were scared into aborting their babies needlessly, with life-lasting emotional consequences for the parents concerned. Another one of those wretched snapshots, clearly depicting the unforeseen consequences that can beset those who fall under the mesmeric spell of perceived conventional medical wisdom and do everything they're instructed to do by their doctor. On the rubella vaccine itself, vaccine critic, Dr Robert Mendelson stated:

"Being a sceptical soul, I have always believed that the most reliable way to determine what people really believe is to observe what they do, not what they say. If the greatest threat of rubella is not to children, but to the foetus yet unborn, pregnant women should be protected against rubella by making certain that their obstetricians won't give them the disease. Yet, in a California survey reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, more than 90 percent of the obstetrician-gynaecologists refused to be vaccinated. If doctors themselves are afraid of the vaccine, why on earth should the law require that you and other parents allow them to administer it to your kids?"

CHICKEN POX
Consider the following explanation of chicken pox, from the 1967 Pears Medical Encyclopaedia, before the introduction of the vaccine:

"Generally the rash is the first, and sometimes only symptom, but the child may be irritable, headachy, and have a slight temperature. No specific treatment exists (although if the child is irritable, Aspirin may be given and calamine lotion applied to the sores); there are no complications in the vast majority of cases. Quarantine period is three weeks from the beginning of the rash, but doctors are increasingly of the opinion that there is no reason why other members of the family should not be exposed to a harmless infection which confers immunity for life - other people's children are, of course, another matter."

And now, since the introduction of the chicken pox vaccine, look at this condensed explanation of chicken pox, found in the year 2000 edition of the Merck Manual:

"Chicken pox, which is extremely contagious, is believed to be spread by infected droplets and is most communicable during the short prodrome and early stages of the eruption.… A live attenuated varicella vaccine is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics for universal vaccination of all healthy children who lack a reliable history of chicken pox."

Who do you believe?

PROFIT BEFORE HEALTH
The recent spate of stories concerning certain patients being 'struck off' by their doctors for the sake of profit, highlights the commercialism surrounding the MMR jab. The Canbury Medical Centre in Kingston, Surrey, in the UK, is not meeting the government target of immunising 90% of the children on its list. If this continues, the doctors will each lose a 'vaccination bonus' of £2,865. Because of the fears surrounding the MMR vaccine, those parents who have elected not to have their child vaccinated are being sent letters stating that their child will be treated as a 'temporary resident'. This politicking reduces the overall numbers and brings the percentages back up to within target levels. The surgery's policy came to light when one mother received a letter from the medical centre saying that her daughter Abigail, who has not had MMR, would be de-registered because she had not had all the recommended vaccinations.

"I was absolutely livid and also quite shocked," said Abigail's mother. "I feel so strongly about this. Not giving Abigail MMR is my choice; it is my free choice. It is an educated decision I have made through research, deliberation and discussion - and now my child's right to a GP is being denied her. This goes straight to the fundamentals of why parents don't trust the doctors on MMR. How can you trust the advice of somebody who is being paid to do something?"

THE RISE IN AUTISM
And in the US, Dr Mercola invites us to consider the link between the great rise in the number of autistic children and a vaccination policy which currently oversees babies being given their first vaccine against hepatitis B in the first two days of life, and another two doses before they are 18 months old. These children also have five doses of diphtheria and tetanus, two doses of MMR, four of the Hib, one of chicken pox, four of the polio vaccine and now four doses of a vaccine supposedly to prevent ear infections before they go to school.

"It should be pointed out that today's children receive 22 or more vaccines before school age, whereas today's senior citizens received only one vaccine in their youth, the smallpox vaccine."

VACCINE ADVERSE EVENTS REPORTING SYSTEM
To date, the US National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program or NVICP, established in 1986, has paid out in excess of $1 billion in injury awards to western vaccine-recipients. There are quite literally thousands of cases pending. This despite the fact that the Health and Human Services narrowed the definition of vaccine damage to such an extent that only immediate and severe reactions now qualify. Seizures, disorders, brain damage, ataxia, paralysis, learning difficulties and deaths that occur many days or weeks following these vaccinations do not qualify. Added to this, doctors have little incentive to report themselves to the government's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System or VAERS, prompting former director of the FDA David Kessler to confess that "…only 10% of vaccine injuries are ever reported." Lisa Jillani, of People Advocating Vaccine Education, has observed the growing number of children now suffering from 20th century behavioural disorders, and reports:
"So the injuries can even conservatively amount to tens of thousands of children, while doctors continue to diagnose and treat mysterious new illnesses and maintain the 'one in a million' adverse reaction myth taught in medical schools."

A front-page article appeared in the UK's Sunday Observer, dated 27th August 2000. The Observer obtained documents revealing that the UK government had attempted to cover up 11 deaths of children as a result of receiving the meningitis vaccine. The document also revealed that more than 16,000 adverse reactions to the meningitis jab had been reported by GP's since the nationwide campaign began last year. With the UK Department of Health admitting that only between 10 and 15 percent of adverse reactions are reported, the actual number of children damaged as a result of this vaccine is probably far higher.

Similarly, on 13th December 2000, Independent Newspapers ran the following:

FALSE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ENDANGERING THE PUBLIC - Doctors are fabricating research results to win grants and advance their careers, but the medical establishment is failing to protect the public from the menace of these scientific frauds, a committee of medical editors said yesterday. Eighty cases of fraudulent research have been detected in the past four years, and 30 have been investigated in the past year. In some cases, institutions have covered up wrongdoing to protect reputations...

Is it really any wonder that so many behavioural, nervous and mental disorders are presenting themselves at doctors' surgeries, when we consider the high number of vaccines being administered? The next chapter looks at the legal steps parents and individuals can take to avoid such vaccinations.

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Wake up to Health in the 21st Century by Steven Ransom

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