Measles
On solutions looking for problems plus a free book summary “The Measles Book”
I’ve been meaning to write about measles for so long, but it just stayed on the important not urgent list. Then I got an email from Amelia recently, about measles, and I decided, no more dilly dallying. It’s time to write about measles.
[Note: If the post is too long for email, please read online for the full article.]
I spoke to my mother recently about measles in Iraq, in the 60s. She said that it was just a normal part of childhood, all the kids got it, and all the mothers knew what to do, they had their Vitamin A ready. But more interestingly for me, she said that the kids were “different” after they recovered from measles, as if they had somehow “developed” and gone up a gear.
I think this is the part of the measles story that most interests me.
Measles, as one of several childhood diseases, seems to be a “system upgrade”, a “developmental step”, an “advancement” of sorts.
How could all these good things, be a “disease”, in the way that we normally think about disease?
Anyway, I’ll come back to the “system upgrade” theme later.
This is going to be a long post, with a lot of material and resources in it. I want to create something that, provides breadth and depth for any curious parent thinking about both the disease and its attempted vaccine prevention.
Regarding resources, I have created another free book summary, my fourth so far.
The Measles Book, by RFK’s Children’s Health Defense is an excellent measles resource, and this summary of mine, which you can read in one sitting over a tea or coffee, can get you deep into the subject, quickly.
Next let’s go to Dissolving Illusions[i], and this passage and graph about measles and how it had gone away as a danger long before the vaccine arrived.
It was a version of this graph that I saw on Bobby’s Instagram, the day before they shut down his Instagram account. I still remember the shock of seeing that graph for the first time and realizing that I’d been duped all those years with “vaccines have saved us” propaganda.
In the case of measles, the death rate had declined by almost 100 percent (Graph 11.4). You would never know it today, but the dreaded measles was no longer a major issue in the Western world by the time vaccines were deployed.
Before the general nutrition status of European children reached the high level it is today, measles infection was something to be feared. As reviewed by Morely and colleagues, measles accounted for 11% of all deaths in Glasgow in the years 1807-1812… Even in the absence of a vaccine, by 1960, notification of childhood measles in England and Wales was only 2.4% and mortality fell to 0.030%, which is 1:200 of the 1908 Glasgow mortality rate.
Graph 11.4 (below): England and Wales measles mortality rate from 1838 to 1978.
The victors write history, and the history they wrote is that “we came, and we conquered the scourge that was measles”.
Well, as the graph shows, yes, they did come, but there was nothing to conquer, and there certainly was no scourge.
They had a solution looking for a problem.
This from Thomas Cowan[ii]
What many people don't realize is that by the time the measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, it had ceased to be a public health threat in the United States. Mortality from measles had already declined 98.S percent from 13.3 per 100,000 to 0.2 per I00,000, due to improvements in living conditions, nutrition, and medical care, according to Physicians for Informed Consent (see figure 10.1).3 In the decades prior to the introduction of the vaccine, parents had such a casual attitude about it that they frequently held measles parties to ensure their children's expo sure. Doctors discovered that giving their young measles patients adequate vitamin A in the form of cod liver oil was sufficient to protect them from complications, And it was understood that the only people who were really at risk were the very young and the elderly and that both demographics could be protected by exposure at the appropriate time. Then, less than ten years after the polio vaccine was introduced, the measles vaccine came along and changed the way we think about measles.
And this from a recent article:
Which is more beneficial: Measles or the vaccine?
Between 1900 and 1963, before the introduction of a vaccine, the mortality rate of measles dropped by 98%, due to advancements in living conditions, nutrition, and health care. Malnutrition, especially vitamin A deficiency, is a primary cause of about 90,000 measles deaths annually in underdeveloped nations. In the US and other developed countries, 75–92% of hospitalised measles cases are low in vitamin A.
Although 0.01% of measles cases are fatal and 0.00125% of cases result in permanent disability from measles encephalitis, the risk of permanent injury and death from the MMR vaccine has not been proven to be less than that of measles.
A serious side effect is seizure, which occurs in about 1 in 640 children vaccinated with MMR – about five times more often than seizure from measles infection. Other severe side effects of vaccination include deafness, long-term seizures, coma, lowered consciousness, permanent brain damage, and death.
So, not sure how many ways it can be said, but there was no measles problem by the time the cartel came along with a solution.
Forrest Maready was one of my earliest teachers on childhood vaccination. He had a wonderful video series on YouTube called My Incredible Opinion (over 100 videos), that has now almost entirely been taken down, probably under threat from YouTube. I cannot find them anywhere, and if anyone comes across them, please let me know.
But, thankfully, Maready wrote two books based on those episodes. Maready is arguably the best educator in this space, so I want to let him talk about measles, in his unique voice.
My Incredible Opinion – Vol. 2 – Episode 51 – Why measles and heard immunity won’t work
You've probably heard the term "Herd Immunity" mentioned anytime people talk about vaccination. It's cited as the reason we need mandatory vaccinations. If you haven't seen episode 50 yet, take a look - I go to great pains to show you how few vaccines actually contribute to the herd immunity concept. I want to take a closer look at measles and herd immunity. Why? Because over 90% of the U.S. is vaccinated for measles, yet we still see outbreaks. What is Herd Immunity, and why isn't it working?
In the 1930s, a public health officer calculated after a measles outbreak that once 55% of children in Baltimore got infected, the outbreak seemed to sputter out.
Thirty some years later, some other health officials did a bunch of complex math and thought that it would take only a small percentage of the population to be immune to a measles in order to lead to the eradication of the disease. Why were the even bothering with all of this?
Well, the nation had recently been going through an intense vaccination campaign for polio. Perhaps you've heard of. At that time, they were convinced the increase in paralysis they were seeing was due to the polio virus alone, and herculean efforts had been put forth to get the entire country vaccinated. We've got flu shots being offered at gas stations and on Rotisserie chicken now, but you've got to remember where they were back then. Vaccines were a very novel concept, and it took a huge effort to get the entire nation vaccinated for one thing - Polio.
People didn't totally understand the concept, people were a bit afraid of vaccines, and early on some of the vaccine itself was paralyzing children. So when some scientists began to show promise with a measles vaccine, no one got excited. Why? No one cared about measles. It was a trivial disease that was considered as much a rite of passage as a skinned knee. It had absolutely none of the terror associated with it as polio. AND, the nation had just been mobilized in a way that resembled war-time efforts to try and rid itself of the polio problem.
People were vaccine fatigued, and they didn't have the least bit of fear about measles. Also, there was a lot of pride and fame. Polio had a couple of scientists showing promise with their vaccines, but there were a lot of other scientists who were dying to make a name for themselves. Measles was low hanging fruit.
So these health officials, epidemiologists and other medical explorers of the day had to come up with a way to get the vaccine war drums pounding again. They were not going to get people scared of measles - they were too familiar with the disease back then, they didn't fear it. They were not going to be able to mount a nationwide vaccine campaign for a piddly disease like measles. No one cared. So they found this herd immunity concept and figured that the selling point was - we can eradicate Measles! Forever! And it actually won't take that much work. A nationwide rollout is not necessary.
This is an important part of vaccination medical history. “Herd Immunity” was a marketing strategy devised to create the “measles vaccine business”.
We still live with the consequences of that marketing strategy today.
Remember no one wanted to do it again, they had just done it with polio. No one wanted to go through that again. They thought that 55% was the herd immunity number that would eradicate measles, based on all the studies they'd done. Vaccinate 55% of people, and the remaining 45% wouldn’t even matter – the disease could be eradicated (not eliminated, mind you, as was recently declared in the news).
Remember, Measles was a fairly trivial disease – no one feared it, there were very few deaths because of it, but it WAS a nuisance – missing school etc. So they thought eradication was possible if they could hit the herd immunity number.
This nuisance point is important.
Missing workdays to look after a sick child is a “nuisance”. For many, if not most, who think that vaccination is harmless and has no downside, then picking up the “benefit” of not missing work, makes sense.
In a way, you could think about measles vaccination, as an “employment program”.
After a few years of hard work they were able to hit the. vaccination target of 55%, but Measles didn't go away like they thought it would. People were still getting infected with it so they upped he number to around 70%. They hit 70% of people vaccinated, and that didn't seem to do the trick either. Since then, health authorities have continued raising the herd immunity number to 80%, then 85%, them 90%, then 95% - where we're at today.
Between 90 and 95% of the US has been vaccinated for measles for a long time, yet we still see measles outbreaks. What's going on? War isn't herd immunity working like we thought?
No one knows for sure, but there are a couple of things that might explain it.
Before vaccines, mothers could pass their natural measles immunity on to their infants through the placenta and breast milk. Because vaccines work differently than natural immunity, a vaccinated mother doesn't pass immunological gifts on to her children. So for the first year of their life, a vaccinated mother's infant is more in danger of a measles infection than an unvaccinated mother's infant. That may be causing more measles cases than we had wanted.
The system that was in place before the vaccine worked fairly well. You got measles when you were a kid, you got lifetime protection, and if you went on to have children you gave them a head start when they were most vulnerable.
So a harmless, developmental and “upgrading” condition, that upgraded your immune system, provided lifetime protection, and passage of protective benefits to your baby…was destroyed by the cartel.
And replaced with an injection (more dangerous than the disease, more on that later), that provides temporary and waning coverage, no protection from mother to baby and a general degradation of the immune system (more on that later too).
Good marketing, or should I say industrial propaganda, can cover up anything.
Another problem is that vaccines don't work as long as we had hoped. Natural immunity seems to protect forever, for your entire life, long enough that it's really difficult to even test. For vaccines, current estimates range anywhere from 5 to 10 years. It’s different for everyone.
A natural measles infection used to mean you would never transmit the disease. Because of this, the number of people measles could infect was coming down. That's the phenomenon the 1930s health official was seeing.
Now, because only children are getting vaccinated for measles, and the vaccine doesn't protect for more than 10 years, that leaves a significant part of population vulnerable to measles. This is probably the single most misunderstood part of herd immunity. Remember - the vaccines don't work for more than a few years. If only kids get vaccinated, that means everyone else is currently susceptible to measles - that's 80 or 90% of the population.
That's why you may have seen recent outbreaks of measles where the majority are vaccinated. Sure they got measles shots, but they were 10, 20 or 30 years ago. You'll hear some people say these measles outbreaks are because of people not vaccinating their children, but actually if you haven't had a measles shot in 5 years, you could be basically unvaccinated for measles. You're just as likely to spread it as an unvaccinated person.
In fact, it's a little worse than that. In one of nature's cruel ironies, one effect of the vaccination is it does tend to mask the symptoms of the disease. If you haven't had a Measles booster shot in a couple of years, you may have gotten measles, spread it around to other people, and never realized it. An unvaccinated person will almost always get red dots all over their body and will know they are infectious and should stay away from other people. The dots are a helpful warning sign, kind of like the markings on a poisonous snake that say stay away!
Vaccines can mask those helpful signs, even when they no longer protect from infection or transmission. Many fight for herd immunity out of a concern for infants or immune-suppressed kids suffering from cancer or that have had organ transplants. If the vaccine does not work for you, you are in more danger of hurting these kids than for someone who is unvaccinated. An unvaccinated person will instantly know they have measles and can quarantine themselves appropriately.
One of the unfortunate side effects of the vaccination is that if were vaccinated for measles later on, you won’t gain lifetime immunity to it, like someone who just caught it naturally would. Vaccines prime your immune system in a way that can prevent it from working the way it's supposed to when it encounters natural disease. So if you're someone for whom the vaccine doesn't work, you will never be able to gain lifetime immunity to it by catching measles. You could catch it every time it comes around. You will spread it every time it comes around. Consigned to a lifetime of boosters. Awesome, right?
The last thing is - we are likely to start seeing more measles cases. It won't be just because more people are skipping their vaccines. It will also be because the number of older folks who were never vaccinate but have ACTUAL immunity are beginning to diminish. Though they've never been vaccinated and are approaching 70, 80, 90 years old they are still protected from the disease and help to stop is transmission.
Eventually, as we lose all of those folks who had natural immunity, the measles outbreaks will start to go up because the majority of adults haven't had measles shots in years. So during a measles outbreak, it probably has very little to do with how many people are unvaccinated but how ineffectual the vaccine is.
The reality is even if 100% of a population were vaccinated for measles, we would still see outbreaks. 5% is not going to makes difference. 10% won't make a difference. 50% would not make a difference.
This all sounds depressing - so what can you do? Well if you already had a measles vaccine, then you're kind of stuck. If for some reason you are terrified of measles (when 50 years ago no one cared about it), but if you're terrified of it now, then commit to getting a measles booster shot every couple of years. But just know that even the booster shots aren't perfect, as they don't push you back up to 100% protection - they tend to have a less dramatic effect each time. So I'd use them wisely.
If you have a kid, or a baby on the way, many are choosing to let nature take its course and catch measles naturally - the way we used to do it. You only have to catch measles once in your life, and it's so mild, parents used to purposefully infect their children with it in order to get it over with. If you go the vaccine route, then you risk infecting everyone around you for the rest of your life anytime your vaccine doesn't work, or whenever it does "work" but prevents you from realizing you have it.
Herd immunity is one of these things where the closer you look at it, the more you feel like nature has a particular way of doing things, and it's really hard to cheat your way around it. When herd immunity was theorized, they thought that natural immunity and vaccine-induced protection worked the same.
Now that we know that it's different, it's obvious why vaccines don't create true herd immunity. If vaccines worked 100% of the time for everyone, and 100% of people were getting boosters every 3-5 years, then we might be able to create herd immunity with vaccines. That's obviously never going to happen.
So the next time you see a Measles outbreak, just know that it's an inevitable consequence of the way we do things. Now that were advanced. Now that we have science. In the past, natural herd immunity worked. Vaccine herd immunity doesn't. And that is my incredible opinion.
Now here is Thomas Cowan discussing how the populations immunity was degraded:
Fifteen years after a mass vaccination program got under way, young adults started to get the measles again. Because vaccine-based immunity isn't lifelong, adults and the elderly were once again susceptible, and because the antibodies did not persist into adulthood, unlike their persistence in every case of natural measles, nursing mothers no longer had antibodies to pass on to their children. So people started, and have continued, to get boosters, even though there's no evidence to support the notion that boosters will lead to lifelong immunity either. The measles vaccine program has turned us, immunologically speaking, into Native Americans before they encountered Europeans, with the very old and the very young highly susceptible to devastating infection.
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It's no wonder public health officials are so worried about outbreaks. They have no plausible way to protect the elderly or young children. Mothers no longer have antibodies to pass to their nursing children and it is too dangerous to repeatedly vaccinate adults against measles because they're too susceptible to complications from the vaccine. We are in a precarious and unnecessary situation because we chose to interfere with a population that had already effectively neutralized measles.
This site is an excellent resource:
Education: Measles and the MMR Vaccine — Physicians for Informed Consent
MMR Vaccine – Is it safer than measles?
Safety studies of the MMR vaccine are particularly lacking in statistical power. A review of more than 60 MMR vaccine studies conducted for the Cochrane Library states, “The design and reporting of safety outcomes in MMR vaccine studies, both pre and post-marketing, are largely inadequate.”
Neil Miller is his wonderful “Miller’s Review of critical vaccine studies” has produced a treasure trove of vaccine studies. I have mined it for the subject I am most interested in, that of the protective aspects of this “disease”.
If you get it, you are a healthier adult. Full stop.
In the 1960s, a measles vaccine was introduced. In the 1980s, it was combined with vaccines for mumps and rubella into a single MMR shot. Although cases of measles declined after the measles vaccine was introduced, scientists now realize that childhood infections serve a valuable function and may be necessary for normal development of the immune system. For example, a large Japanese cohort study by Kubota and colleagues found that a history of measles and mumps in childhood is significantly protective against deadly heart attacks and strokes during adulthood. (Another study by Pesonen and colleagues, summarized in the next chapter, made a similar finding with chickenpox infections.)
Protection against heart attacks and strokes
Measles and mumps infections in childhood protect against deadly heart attacks and strokes during adulthood
“Measles and mumps infections were associated with decreased risks of mortality from cardiovascular disease.”
Kubota Y, Iso H, et al. Association of measles and mumps with cardiovascular disease: the Japan Collaborative Cohort (JACC) study. Atherosclerosis 2015 Jun 18; 241(2): 682-86.
This study investigated whether a history of measles and mumps during childhood alters the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease later in life.
A lifestyle questionnaire, including a history of measles and mumps, was completed by 43,689 men and 60,147 women 40-79 years of age. They were followed for several years to determine their rates of mortality from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
Men who contracted measles in childhood were significantly less likely to die from total cardiovascular disease compared to men who were not infected with either measles or mumps (hazard ratio, HR = 0.92). Men who had mumps were significantly protected against dying from a stroke (HR = 0.52).
Men who had both measles and mumps in childhood were significantly less likely to die from a myocardial infarction, that is, a heart attack (HR = 0.71).
Women who had both measles and mumps in childhood were significantly less likely to die from total cardiovascular disease compared to women who had neither infection (HR = 0.83). They were also significantly protected against dying from a stroke (HR = 0.84).
A history of measles and mumps decreases the risk of cardiovascular disease.
The results of this study may be explained by the “hygiene hypothesis,” which proposes that infections suffered during childhood are necessary for normal development of the immune system regulating T helper cells, Th1 and Th2, which control inflammation at the arterial wall leading to atherosclerosis.
Protection against developing allergies
Children who contract measles are significantly less likely to develop allergies than children who are vaccinated against measles
“Our data suggest that measles infection may protect against allergic disease in children.”
Rosenlund H, Bergstrom A, et al. Allergic disease and atopic sensitization in children in relation to measles vaccination and measles infection. Pediatrics 2009 Mar; 123(3): 771-78.
This study investigated the health records of more than 10,000 children in five European nations to determine whether contracting measles or receiving a measles vaccine affects the risk of developing allergies.
Children who contracted measles were significantly less likely to develop any allergic symptoms against common inhalant or food allergens (odds ratio, OR = 0.64) or to have been diagnosed with allergies by a doctor (OR = 0.51) than children who never contracted measles.
Children who were vaccinated and never contracted measles were significantly more likely to develop rhinoconjunctivitis than children who were not vaccinated and never contracted measles (OR = 1.70).
Protection against cancers
Cancer and Natural Infections
Several diseases have oncolytic (anti-cancer) properties. For example, tumor remissions after measles infection are well documented in the medical literature. Scientists have known for quite some time that infections in early life protect against various cancers in later life. Later born children have less cancer than first born children because they are exposed to more infections in early life from their siblings. Children who go to daycare in early life are more protected against cancers for the same reason. Vaccinations denied babies opportunities to become naturally infected, and with this reduction in exposure to disease there was a tradeoff — increased rates of cancer.
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Albonico found that adults are significantly protected against non-breast cancers — genital, prostate, gastrointestinal, skin, lung, ear-nose-throat, and others — if they contracted measles, rubella or chickenpox earlier in life. Montella found that contracting measles in childhood reduces the risk of developing lymphatic cancer in adulthood. Alexander found that infection with measles during childhood is significantly protective — it cuts the risk in half — against developing Hodgkin’s disease. Glaser also found that lymph cancer is significantly more likely in adults who were not infected with measles, mumps or rubella in childhood.
Protection against ovarian cancer
Women with prior infections of mumps, measles, rubella or chickenpox were significantly less likely to develop ovarian cancer
“In our patients, two protective factors against ovarian carcinoma appear to be operative, a history of pregnancy and of infection by mumps, measles, rubella, or chickenpox.”
Newhouse ML, Pearson RM, et al. A case control study of carcinoma of the ovary. Br J Prev Soc Med 1977 Sep; 31(3): 148-53.
Scientists compared 300 women diagnosed with ovarian cancer to 300 women hospitalized with a gynecological condition other than ovarian cancer, and to another control group comprised of 300 women living in the same neighborhoods as the ovarian cancer patients.
Compared to women in the control groups, fewer women with ovarian cancer could recall having been infected with mumps, measles, rubella or chickenpox.
A history of having contracted mumps, measles, rubella or chickenpox was associated with a statistically significant reduction — 39%, 53%, 38% and 34%, respectively — in the relative risk of developing ovarian cancer.
The relative risk of developing ovarian cancer was significantly reduced in women with a positive history of mumps (RR = 0.61), measles (RR = 0.47), rubella (RR = 0.62) or chickenpox (RR = 0.66).
A history of pregnancy and the use of oral contraceptives also showed significant protective effects against ovarian cancer.
Protection against malignant melanomas
Adults with previous infections of influenza, measles, mumps or chickenpox are less likely to develop malignant melanoma
“The study confirms the hypothesis that an inverse relationship exists between febrile infections and malignant melanoma….”
Kölmel KF, Gefeller O, et al. Febrile infections and malignant melanoma: results of a case-control study. Melanoma Res 1992; 2(3): 207-11.
This study compared 139 hospitalized melanoma patients with 271 controls to determine whether febrile infections provide natural immunity against skin cancer (malignant melanoma).
Individuals who contracted measles, mumps or chickenpox in childhood had a decreased risk of developing melanoma later in life.
Adults were significantly protected against malignant melanoma if they had a chronic infectious disease (OR = 0.32) an infectious wound (OR = 0.21), or if they contracted influenza during the previous 5-year period (OR = 0.32).
Adults with two or more febrile infections during the previous 5-year period were substantially less likely to develop malignant melanoma when compared to adults with no febrile infections during this period (OR = 0.20).
Protection against cancer of the lymph system
Measles and other childhood infections protect against cancer of the lymph system
“Our findings provide additional support to the hypothesis that infections by most common childhood pathogens may protect against Hodgkin lymphoma…. In addition, our study shows that measles may provide a protective effect against non-Hodgkin lymphoma.”
Montella M, Maso LD, et al. Do childhood diseases affect NHL and HL risk? A case-control study from northern and southern Italy. Leuk Res 2006 Aug; 30(8): 917-22.
Scientists compared 225 people with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and 62 people with Hodgkin lymphoma to 504 people without cancer of the lymph system.
This paper provides evidence that contracting measles in childhood reduces the risk of developing lymphatic cancer in adulthood.
These “viruses” have cancer destroying properties
Measles, mumps and chickenpox viruses have cancer-destroying properties
“Tumor-bearing mice treated with one thousand times the vaccine dose of each of the three [measles and mumps] viruses responded favorably to therapy with significant prolongations in survival.”
Myers R, Greiner S, et al. Oncolytic activities of approved mumps and measles vaccines for therapy of ovarian cancer. Cancer Gene Ther 2005 Jul; 12(7): 593-99.
In this study, scientists sought to measure the oncolytic (cancer destroying) properties of two measles viruses and one mumps virus by treating tumor-bearing mice with high concentrations of these viruses.
The measles and mumps viruses killed malignant tumor cells allowing the treated mice to live longer than untreated mice.
This study supports data showing the anti-cancer benefits of previously common childhood diseases, measles and mumps.
And against a backdrop of all that benefit, we have this:
The measles-mumps-rubella-varicella (MMRV) and MMR vaccines significantly increase the risk of seizures
“Providers who recommend MMRV should communicate to parents that it increases the risk of fever and seizure over that already associated with measles-containing vaccines.”
Klein NP, Fireman B, et al. Measles-mumps-rubella-varicella combination vaccine and the risk of febrile seizures. Pediatrics 2010 Jul; 126(1): e1-8.
The CDC-sponsored Vaccine Safety Datalink was used to compare the risk of seizures among 459,461 U.S. children 12-23 months of age who received the combination measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine (MMRV) and those who received MMR and varicella vaccines (MMR+V) separately.
Seizure risk was twice as high 7-10 days after MMRV than after MMR+V (relative risk, RR = 1.98).
Children were nearly 8 times more likely to have seizures 8-10 days after vaccination with MMRV (RR = 7.6), 4 times more likely after MMR + V (RR = 4.0), and 3.7 times more likely after MMR alone (RR = 3.7), compared with seizure risk on other days.
More than 90% of the seizures were acute and 87% were febrile seizures.
While on the negatives of measles vaccination, this from Kevin Stillwagon:
The Silent Killers - by Dr. Kevin Stillwagon (substack.com)
The gist of the article is, kids who got injected with the killed or dead version became susceptible to atypical severe symptoms when they came in contact with the wild (naturally occurring) virus, or got injected with the “live” or attenuated version later. We now know that this is “pathogenic priming” or “antibody dependent enhancement” (ADE). The antibodies created from the antigens in the killed version are suboptimal and will make it easier for the real virus to infect cells. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16912303/
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They discovered that healthy children when inoculated with the vaccine alone, got little or no adverse effects. However, when the vaccine alone was put into malnourished or debilitated children, measles symptoms showed up, sometimes severe. This was surprising to them, but it should not be to you because you understand that it is the condition of the immune system that determines if symptoms show up, not the presence of the virus.
Now, you cannot write about measles without addressing vitamin A.
Here again from Miller’s Review:
Vitamin A and Measles
Measles can be a dangerous disease, especially in third world nations where children are malnourished. In developed nations, measles can be severe when it infects people living in impoverished communities with poor nutrition, sanitation and inadequate health care. Complications are also more likely when the disease strikes infants, adults, and anyone with a compromised immune system.
Several studies show that severe cases of measles in children are associated with vitamin A deficiency. When patients with measles are given high doses of vitamin A, their complication rates and chances of dying are significantly reduced. The World Health Organization and American Academy of Pediatrics recommend administering 200,000 international units (IU) of vitamin A to children older than 1 year of age to be given immediately when measles is diagnosed, with a second dose given the following day. Infants who are 6-12 months of age should be given 2 doses of 100,000 IU of vitamin A. Infants who are younger than 6 months of age should be given 2 doses of 50,000 IU of vitamin A.
Vitamin A is a very important part of this story, if you are prepared to understand what it means.
If your child is not deficient in Vit A, then the risk of severe measles is incredibly low.
That with Vit A, even if your child gets measles, then you have a tool, with a long track record of success, to nurture your child through the few days of illness.
Vit A is the reason you need not fear measles, as you are not powerless against it.
Vit A is the pathway to natural, lifelong immunity.
The cartel (Empire) has really done a number on us with measles. With enough money, coordination and time, you can destroy the existing, working, immunity grid, construct ignorance about the past and then create a new reality based on fear and the purchase of salvation from the whitecoats in the form of low quality, dangerous “solutions” that make you chronically ill.
We are trusting, good natured beings, that are gullible cannon fodder for the charlatans.
[i] Dissolving Illusions – Suzanne Humphries MD and Roman Bystrianyk
[ii] Vaccines, autoimmunity, and the changing nature of childhood illness – Thomas Cowan MD
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