All children must be offered measles jab/Does the MMR keep up with mutating wild measles virus??

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Geir,

That is something that has been at the back of my mind for a long time.

If a virus constantly mutates, what point is the MMR to anyone when it

is based on a strain from many years ago. Many people talk about the flu

vaccine being pointless due to the fact that it can never keep up with

the mutating wild flu virus. Wouldn't that be the same case with the

measles virus.

In other words, is the wild measles virus today exactly the same as the

wild measles virus of 20 years ago at the time the MMR strain was

originally developed. Can you help me out on this??

Best,

Geir Flatabø schrieb:

> There is the other side of the story

> that the vaccination it self might be the cause of the epidemics,

> knowing the Measles virus possibility to infect in horizontal spread,

> and change properties getting more virulent like other viruses

> changing properties.

> As long as this is not looked for - noone knows.

>

> Geir Flatabø

>

> 2008/8/9 Anita <mysuperteach@...

> >

>

> having just read Halvorsen's book, it's a bit difficult to put any

> faith into the gov't dire predictions. Salisbury seems to have real

> issues with truth.

>

> One vax campaign here in the UK featured a little baby left at the

> side of a cliff. If that wasn't enough to frighten parents, there

> was also a lion prowling nearby. Another one said that parents who

> don't vax their kids are the equivalent of drunk drivers.

>

> If it weren't so terribly sad that accurate information isn't shared

> with parents, it would be hilarious.

>

> Anita

>

>

> >

> > _Click here: All children must be offered measles jab | UK |

> Reuters_

> > (http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL74549520080807

> <http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL74549520080807>)

> >

> >

> > All children must be offered measles jab

> > Thu Aug 7, 2008 11:07am BST

> > LONDON (Reuters) - Every child up to the age of 18 who has not

> been

> > vaccinated against measles must be offered the MMR jab to help cut

> the risk of an

> > epidemic, the government said on Thursday.

> > Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam son has asked the heads of

> every primary

> > care trust to urge parents to get their children immunised, after

> a decade

> > of low uptake.

> > Some parents have been put off the MMR vaccine after controversial

> research

> > in 1998 said it may be linked to autism.

> > Recent large-scale studies have found no evidence of any link and

> the

> > Department of Health said people should not be afraid of the jab.

> > " Parents who have not had their children vaccinated with the MMR

> vaccine

> > should do so now, " said Professor Salisbury, director of

> immunisation at

> > the Department of Health. " The evidence on MMR is absolutely clear -

> - there is

> > no link between the vaccine and autism.

> > " The MMR vaccine coverage is not high enough to remove the threat

> of

> > recurrence of measles outbreaks. Measles is serious and in some

> cases it can be

> > fatal. Delaying immunisation puts children at risk. "

> > The government estimates that three million children aged between

> 18 months

> > and 18 years have missed either their first or second MMR

> vaccination.

> > In 2006 and 2007 there were 1,726 confirmed cases of measles in

> England and

> > Wales -- more than the previous 10 years put together. From 1996 to

> 2005 there

> > were 1,621 cases.

> > The Department of Health said a measles epidemic in Britain could

> lead to

> > between 30,000 and 100,000 cases among children.

> > Measles is a highly infectious viral disease that causes fever,

> coughing and

> > red-brown spots. Complications include pneumonia, ear and eye

> infections and,

> > more rarely, inflammation of the brain.

> > More information about the MMR vaccine is online

> > at:http://www.mmrthefacts.nhs.uk/ <http://www.mmrthefacts.nhs.uk/>

> > (Reporting by Griffiths; Editing by Steve )

> >

>

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