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months of age, and the second dose at four to six years of age. The CDC also recommends the MMR vaccine for adults who do not have evidence of immunity.15
Ingredients found in measles vaccines in- clude chick embryo cell culture, WI-38 human diploid lung fibroblasts, MCR-5 cells, vitamins, amino acids, fetal bovine serum, sucrose, gluta- mate, recombinant human albumin, neomycin, sorbitol, hydrolyzed gelatin, monosodium L- glutamate, sodium bicarbonate, potassium chlo- ride, potassium phosphate, sodium phosphate and sodium chloride.16 (Potassium chloride is used to cause cardiac arrest as the third drug in the “three drug cocktail” for executions by lethal injection.)
MOTHER NATURE KNOWS BEST
There is no doubt that the results of near- universal vaccination have not been completely positive and perhaps, in the case of measles, Mother Nature knows best. We are supposed to get measles, but not as an adult or as an infant. According to The Lancet Infectious Diseases, when people contract measles today it is four to five times worse than in pre-vaccination times because of age distribution. Measles is a more serious disease for adults, whose vaccine-based immunity wanes, and for infants, who no longer receive passive immunity from their naturally immune mother to protect them during their
most vulnerable period.17
According to the CDC Pink Book: “During
the 1989-1991 measles resurgence, incidence rates for infants were more than twice as high as those in any other age group. The mothers of many infants who developed measles were young, and their measles immunity was most often due to vaccination rather than infection with wild virus. As a result, a smaller amount of antibody was transferred across the placenta to the fetus, compared with antibody transfer from mothers who had higher antibody titers resulting from wild-virus infection. The lower quantity of antibody [in the vaccine] resulted in immunity that waned more rapidly, making infants susceptible at a younger age than in the past.”
The million-dollar question is this: Are we trading potential vaccine-induced immunity
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for problems greater than the natural measles infection? Measles dates to the beginning of recorded human history, and contracting natural measles generally provided people with lifelong immunity, while the vaccine requires revaccina- tion throughout life. In their white paper, “The evidence & science support vaccine exemp- tions,” the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) states that “Eliminating our ecological relationship with measles has had serious con- sequences that upend the assumed risk/reward of eliminating measles.”
The ICAN white paper features studies showing that those who have not had natural measles infection will have higher rates of cancer and heart disease. For example, the Inter- national Agency for Research on Cancer found that individuals who never had measles had a 66 percent increased rate of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and a 333 percent increased rate of Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Combined, these cancers killed almost twenty-one thousand Americans in 2018. Another study showed that individu- als who never had measles had a 100 percent increased rate of ovarian cancer—which killed over fourteen thousand Americans in 2018. A twenty-two-year prospective study of over one hundred thousand individuals in Japan revealed that measles and mumps, especially in case of both infections, were associated with lower risks of mortality from atherosclerotic CVD (heart disease)—which killed over six hundred thousand Americans in 2018.18 Natural measles infection is also associated with a reduced risk of sebaceous skin diseases, degenerative diseases of the bone and cartilage, and Parkinson’s dis- ease.19
THE HEARINGS
On February 27, 2019, the U.S. House Ener-
gy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a public hearing titled: “Confronting a growing public health threat: measles outbreaks in the U.S.” and on March
The International Agency for Research
on Cancer found that individuals who never had measles had a 66 percent increased
rate of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and a 333 percent increased rate of Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
ERRATA
In the Letters section, on page 6 of the Winter 2018 issue, under the picture for the PROUD WINNERS OF THE 2018 ACTIVIST AWARD, Joy De La Ferrar should have been listed as Joy De Los Santos.
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