The Mail on Sunday -Another term, another battle with the MMR school bullies

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Mail on Sunday

2 September 2007

Another term, another battle with the MMR school bullies

By Booth

Pencil - case? Check. New socks to replace lost or greying ones? Check.

Cardigan, school bag and, oh nearly forgot...MMR Booster.

Parents are being urged to make sure their children have the measles, mumps

and rubella jab before the start of the new school year after a surge of

infections over the summer holidays.

By June, 136 cases of measles had been confirmed. Last week the number

reached 480. And new cases are being detected every day, according to the

Health Protection Agency.

Well, excuse me if I don't call the doctor's surgery in a frenzied panic

but, frankly, I have some ironing that needs urgent attention before my

daughters' first day back to school tomorrow.

A booster shot wouldn't be useful to andra, who's seven, or

five-year-old Holly, as they haven't had their first shot. In fact, they've

had only two out of a possible eight vaccinations to date.

Every parent in the UK has a personal relationship with the Government's

vaccination programme. The MMR jab is the real tough decision.

From the first health visitor's call, mothers are coerced, emotionally

blackmailed and eventually admonished into allowing tiny infants to be

injected with a cocktail of vaccines that fewer and fewer of us trust to be

either (a) safe or ( effective. One reason we mothers don't trust them

and have decided to trust word-of-mouth advice over Government leaflets is

the bullying tone.

I remember a health visitor, with a face that would frighten cattle and a

personality to match. She was, she said, going to give me a 'black mark'

for not starting 's vaccination programme at 16 weeks old.

'I just want time to find out more about it from the Government,' I tried

meekly.

'The Government will know more about you. I'll tell them,' hissed this

sister of mercy.

Mothers don't like to be intimidated. We instinctively protect our infants

from any bullying.

So when a family friend visited later that day with a book on vaccination,

I grabbed it. For seven years, I've seen this book passed around

playgroups, healthcentres and parks - a guilty parental pleasure.

It's called The Vaccination Bible: The real risks they don't tell you about

all the major vaccines.

Chapter five is all about MMR. The upshot is this: Governments overstate

the measles danger to 'sell' us the jabs. A bout of measles is not the

killer it's often made out to be - unless you're poor. And the side-effects

of the jab can be more dangerous than the infections themselves.

A US National Academy of Sciences study concluded: 'The measles vaccine can

cause death from measles-vaccine-strain-infection, thrombocytopenia, fatal

shock and arthritis.'

As for the rubella part of the jab: 'As many as 26 per cent of the children

receiving rubella vaccination develop arthralgia and arthritis.'

It would sound bonkers except each statement is sourced from international

research.

andra got rubella at 24 months and I was terrified. Her temperature

soared. She had bright red blotches everywhere.

At the hospital I was criticised by four nurses and three doctors when they

found had not had any of her baby-jabs.

'OK, OK!' I finally cried, 'I'll do what you say. Now please help my

daughter.'

The doctor looked at me as if I was mad. This dreadful, awful rubella I'd

personally infected my child with could only be cured by...'Calpol, cold

cloths to lower her temperature plus plenty of fluids.'

In France, where we moved three years ago the State takes an even dimmer

view of non-vaccinated chhildren. No child without paperwork proving it has

received a vat of vaccines can join a nursery or school, a leisure centre,

a gym club or any other club involving groups of children. In short, they

are officially ostracised from society.

Funny then that, today, both my girls are happily settled in school and

have active social lives.

One doctor was sympathetic to my worries about vaccines. I could not,

however, 'avoid' (his exact word) the tuberculosis jab. 'Zis,' he said, 'is

a jab we doctors 'ate very much. We do not like to geev it to our own

children but we 'ave to.'

In France, parents buy the vaccines and then present them to the GP. The

code on the vaccine is noted on the child's log book, which the doctor

stamps with his personal details.

In my case, the doctor noted the vaccine number. He stamped the girls'

books and then showed us the door.

He had not vaccinated either or Holly. 'Good look fighting the State,'

he said. 'And the drug companies'.

And good luck to every parent making their own difficult decision this week

on MMR while searching under beds for matching (white) socks and school

ties.

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Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK

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