[NVIC] Trusting Public Health Officials on MMR: Not

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BL Fisher Note:

MMR vaccine, brain injury and death: the truth will always prevail in the

end, no matter how many try to distort or hide it along the way. The people

are beginning to understand that the truth about vaccine risks is realized

when they stand up and witness what they have experienced after vaccination.

For 25 years, parent founders of the National Vaccine Information Center

have been pleading with U.S. public health officials to investigate the

biological mechanisms of vaccine induced neuro-immune injury and death. Not

only have those responsible for one-size-fits-all forced vaccination

policies in the U.S. and Britain refused to conduct credible scientific

research into vaccine reactions, they have manipulated existing data and

covered- up evidence that vaccines kill and injure children far more

frequently than the public has been told. Instead of doing their job and

finding out how and why vaccines can do harm, they content themselves with

witchhunting doctors trying to find out how and why vaccines can do harm.

As Abraham Lincoln said, " You can fool some of the people all of the

time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of

the people all of the time.

SUNDAY EXPRESS 18 June 2006

by Lucy ston

HEALTH EDITOR

Can we ever trust MMR?

'The Government has not looked at the whole picture'

Four years ago, the Sunday Express revealed that at least 26 child deaths

have been linked with the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. In many

cases, the Government - or leading medical officials - accepted the

connection.

Parents were awarded vaccine damage payments of up to £100,000 and, in

other cases, experts drew up post-mortem reports blaming the MMR jab as the

most likely cause of death.

Now, as we report today, two more parents have come forward claiming their

babies died as a result of the jab. And, last month, Vietnamese health

authorities withdrew the MMR jab after the death of one child and

hospitalisation of five others. The World Health Organisation is now

investigating this scare.

Since its launch in 1988, thousands of parents have reported unwanted

reactions to the triple jab, from moderate – rash, headache, temperature

– to severe, including brain damage, autism and convulsions. In 1992, the

Department of Health conceded it got the pre-licence trials wrong when the

chief medical officer announced the withdrawal of two of the three brands

of MMR because they were found to be causing meningitis.

All drugs, including vaccines can have side effects.The Government accepts

this – why else would it make vaccine damage pay-outs of up to £100,000?

But, publicly, it claims no deaths have been associated with MMR. How can

it do this when its own officials and post-mortem reports state otherwise?

Vaccine manufacturers accept there can be serious side effects, and have

informed the Government of this. So why does the Government’s publicity

machine continue to insist that the triple jab is entirely safe?

Instead of being open and investigating potential dangers in what appears

to be a minority of children, the Government polarises the debate by

implying there are no risks.The Whitehall propaganda machine really kicked

in eight years ago when the press reported findings of Dr

Wakefield’s explosive paper linking the MMR jab with autism.

At the time, his work was accepted as credible by experts in the field.

But, instead of making stocks of single vaccines available, as Wakefield

advised, policy chiefs made it difficult for parents to obtain them.

MMR uptake continued to fall. With an outbreak of disease on the horizon,

public health officials panicked. The Department of Health launched a

campaign to rubbish Wakefield’s research. He was ostracised by his peers

and forced to resign his post at the Royal Free. The Government risked

losing face if it changed its stance and accepted MMR might cause problems

in some children, but it also stood to lose millions in compensation

claims. Action had also been taken against the drug companies, which is

still ongoing.

Dr Wakefield has become the scapegoat for the frenzy over MMR but he is

not, as the Government likes to portray him, a lone maverick. Many other

doctors have concerns, and other scientists have found evidence to support

his findings. But the Department of Health insists that research proves the

jab is safe.

However, the Government has not looked at the whole picture. Instead of

looking at the affected children themselves, the studies it cites are based

on patterns of disease taken from medical records of large populations,

which are unable to detect adverse reactions in small numbers of children.

When Dr Wakefield alerted the Government and vaccine chiefs to his research

before publication, it promised an independent forum into his findings.

This has never happened. Instead, it has called for an investigation into

Dr Wakefield. The General Medical Council is considering whether to charge

him with serious professional misconduct.

Figures released by the Health Protection Agency last week reveal the

number of potentially deadly measles cases seen by doctors since January is

five times higher than during all last year, prompting fears of an epidemic.

As Halvorsen, vaccine expert and central London GP said: " With the

threat of a measles epidemic, the only way many parents will protect their

children is with the single vaccine. By refusing to allow this, the

Government is contributing to the epidemic it seeks to prevent. "

One has to ask the question: where does the Department of Health’s

interests lie? Is it to protect the nation's health, or to protect

officials, and the pharmaceutical industries’ lucrative patents for new

combination jabs?

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