Measles - Dr. Mendelsohn on Measles

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Measles - Dr. Mendelsohn on Measles

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MEASLES

Measles, also called rubeola or 'English measles, " is a contagious

viral disease that can 'be contracted by touching an object used by an

infected person. At the onset the victim feels tired, has a slight fever

and pain in the head and back. His eyes redden and he may be sensitive to

light. The fever rises until about the third or fourth day, when it

reaches 103-104 degrees. Sometimes small white spots can be seen inside

the mouth, and a rash of small pink spots appears below the hair line and

behind the ears. This rash spreads downward to cover the body in about 36

hours. The pink spots may run together but fade away in about three or

four days. Measles is contagious for seven or eight days, beginning three

or four days be-fore the rash appears. Consequently, if one of your

children contracts the disease, the others probably will have been

exposed to it before you know the first I child is sick.

No treatment is required for measles other than bed rest, fluids to

combat possible dehydration from fever, and calamine lotion or cornstarch

baths to relieve the itching. If the child suffers from photophobia, the

blinds in his bedroom should be lowered to darken the room. However,

contrary to the popular myth, there is no danger of permanent blindness

from this disease.

A vaccine to prevent measles is an-other element of the MMR inoculation

given in early childhood. Doctors maintain that the inoculation is

necessary to prevent measles encephalitis, which they say occurs about

once in 1,000 cases. After decades of experience with measles, I question

this statistic, and so do many other paediatricians. The incidence of

1/1,000 may be accurate for children who live in conditions of poverty

and malnutrition, but in the middle-and upper-income brackets, if one

excludes simple sleepiness from the measles itself, the incidence of true

encephalitis is probably more like 1/10,000 or 1/100,000.

After frightening you with the unlikely possibility of measles

encephalitis, your doctor can rarely be counted on to tell you of the

dangers associated with the vaccine he uses to prevent it. The measles

vaccine is associated with encephalopathy and with a series of other

complications such as SSPE (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis), which

causes hardening of the brain and is in-variably fatal.

Other neurologic and sometimes fatal conditions associated with the

measles vaccine include ataxia (inability to coordinate muscle

movements), mental retardation, aseptic meningitis, seizure disorders,

and hemiparesis (paralysis affecting one side of the body). Secondary

complications associated with the vaccine may be even more frightening.

They include encephalitis, juvenile-onset diabetes, Reye's syndrome, and

multiple sclerosis.

I would consider the risks associated with measles vaccination

unacceptable even if there were convincing evidence that the vaccine

works. There isn't. While there has been a decline in the incidence of

the disease, it began long before the vaccine was introduced. In 1958

there were about 800,000 cases of measles in the United States, but by

1962-the year before a vaccine appeared-the number of cases had dropped

by 300,000. During the next four years, while children were being

vaccinated with an ineffective and now abandoned " killed virus "

vaccine, the number of cases dropped another 300,000. In 1900 there were

13.3 measles deaths per 100,000 population. By 1955, before the first

measles shot, the death rate had declined 97.7 percent to only 0.03

deaths per 100,000.

Those numbers alone are dramatic evidence that measles was disappearing

before the vaccine was introduced. If you fail to find them sufficiently

convincing, consider this: in a 1978 survey of thirty states, more than

half of the children who contracted measles had been adequately

vaccinated. Moreover, according to the World Health Organization, the

chances are about fifteen times greater that measles will be contracted

by those vaccinated for them than by those who are not.

" Why, " you may ask, " in the face of these facts, do

doctors continue to give the shots? " The answer may lie in an

episode that occurred in California fourteen years after the measles

vaccine was introduced. Los Angeles suffered a severe measles epidemic

during that year, and parents were urged to vaccinate all children six

months of age and older-despite a Public Health Service warning that

vaccinating children below the age of one year was useless and

potentially harmful.

Although Los Angeles doctors responded by routinely shooting measles

vaccine into very kid they could get their hands on, several local

physicians familiar with the suspected problems of immunologic failure

and " slow virus " dangers chose not to vaccinate their own

infant children. Unlike their patients, who weren't told, they realized

that " slow viruses " found in all live vaccines, and

particularly in the measles vaccine, can hide in human tissue for years.

They may emerge later in the form of encephalitis, multiple sclerosis,

and as potential seeds for the development and growth of cancer.

One Los Angeles physician who refused to vaccinate his own

seven-month-old baby said: " I'm worried about what happens when the

vaccine virus may not only offer little protection against measles but

may also stay around in the body, working in a way we don't know much

about. " His concern about the possibility of these consequences for

his own child, however, did not cause him to stop vaccinating his infant

patients. He rationalized this contradictory behaviour with the comment

that " As a parent, I have the luxury of making a choice for my

child. As a physician... legally and professionally I have to accept the

recommendations of the profession, which is what we also had to do with

the whole Swine flu business. "

Perhaps it is time that lay parents and their children are granted the

same luxury that doctors and their children enjoy.

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

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

Vaccines -

http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/ Homeopathy

http://homeopathycures.wordpress.com

Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes & Homeopathy

Online/email courses - next classes start April 22

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Measles - Dr. Mendelsohn on Measles

http://www.whale.to/vaccines/mendelsohn.html#MEASLES

MEASLES

Measles, also called rubeola or 'English measles, " is a contagious

viral disease that can 'be contracted by touching an object used by an

infected person. At the onset the victim feels tired, has a slight fever

and pain in the head and back. His eyes redden and he may be sensitive to

light. The fever rises until about the third or fourth day, when it

reaches 103-104 degrees. Sometimes small white spots can be seen inside

the mouth, and a rash of small pink spots appears below the hair line and

behind the ears. This rash spreads downward to cover the body in about 36

hours. The pink spots may run together but fade away in about three or

four days. Measles is contagious for seven or eight days, beginning three

or four days be-fore the rash appears. Consequently, if one of your

children contracts the disease, the others probably will have been

exposed to it before you know the first I child is sick.

No treatment is required for measles other than bed rest, fluids to

combat possible dehydration from fever, and calamine lotion or cornstarch

baths to relieve the itching. If the child suffers from photophobia, the

blinds in his bedroom should be lowered to darken the room. However,

contrary to the popular myth, there is no danger of permanent blindness

from this disease.

A vaccine to prevent measles is an-other element of the MMR inoculation

given in early childhood. Doctors maintain that the inoculation is

necessary to prevent measles encephalitis, which they say occurs about

once in 1,000 cases. After decades of experience with measles, I question

this statistic, and so do many other paediatricians. The incidence of

1/1,000 may be accurate for children who live in conditions of poverty

and malnutrition, but in the middle-and upper-income brackets, if one

excludes simple sleepiness from the measles itself, the incidence of true

encephalitis is probably more like 1/10,000 or 1/100,000.

After frightening you with the unlikely possibility of measles

encephalitis, your doctor can rarely be counted on to tell you of the

dangers associated with the vaccine he uses to prevent it. The measles

vaccine is associated with encephalopathy and with a series of other

complications such as SSPE (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis), which

causes hardening of the brain and is in-variably fatal.

Other neurologic and sometimes fatal conditions associated with the

measles vaccine include ataxia (inability to coordinate muscle

movements), mental retardation, aseptic meningitis, seizure disorders,

and hemiparesis (paralysis affecting one side of the body). Secondary

complications associated with the vaccine may be even more frightening.

They include encephalitis, juvenile-onset diabetes, Reye's syndrome, and

multiple sclerosis.

I would consider the risks associated with measles vaccination

unacceptable even if there were convincing evidence that the vaccine

works. There isn't. While there has been a decline in the incidence of

the disease, it began long before the vaccine was introduced. In 1958

there were about 800,000 cases of measles in the United States, but by

1962-the year before a vaccine appeared-the number of cases had dropped

by 300,000. During the next four years, while children were being

vaccinated with an ineffective and now abandoned " killed virus "

vaccine, the number of cases dropped another 300,000. In 1900 there were

13.3 measles deaths per 100,000 population. By 1955, before the first

measles shot, the death rate had declined 97.7 percent to only 0.03

deaths per 100,000.

Those numbers alone are dramatic evidence that measles was disappearing

before the vaccine was introduced. If you fail to find them sufficiently

convincing, consider this: in a 1978 survey of thirty states, more than

half of the children who contracted measles had been adequately

vaccinated. Moreover, according to the World Health Organization, the

chances are about fifteen times greater that measles will be contracted

by those vaccinated for them than by those who are not.

" Why, " you may ask, " in the face of these facts, do

doctors continue to give the shots? " The answer may lie in an

episode that occurred in California fourteen years after the measles

vaccine was introduced. Los Angeles suffered a severe measles epidemic

during that year, and parents were urged to vaccinate all children six

months of age and older-despite a Public Health Service warning that

vaccinating children below the age of one year was useless and

potentially harmful.

Although Los Angeles doctors responded by routinely shooting measles

vaccine into very kid they could get their hands on, several local

physicians familiar with the suspected problems of immunologic failure

and " slow virus " dangers chose not to vaccinate their own

infant children. Unlike their patients, who weren't told, they realized

that " slow viruses " found in all live vaccines, and

particularly in the measles vaccine, can hide in human tissue for years.

They may emerge later in the form of encephalitis, multiple sclerosis,

and as potential seeds for the development and growth of cancer.

One Los Angeles physician who refused to vaccinate his own

seven-month-old baby said: " I'm worried about what happens when the

vaccine virus may not only offer little protection against measles but

may also stay around in the body, working in a way we don't know much

about. " His concern about the possibility of these consequences for

his own child, however, did not cause him to stop vaccinating his infant

patients. He rationalized this contradictory behaviour with the comment

that " As a parent, I have the luxury of making a choice for my

child. As a physician... legally and professionally I have to accept the

recommendations of the profession, which is what we also had to do with

the whole Swine flu business. "

Perhaps it is time that lay parents and their children are granted the

same luxury that doctors and their children enjoy.

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

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

Vaccines -

http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/ Homeopathy

http://homeopathycures.wordpress.com

Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes & Homeopathy

Online/email courses - next classes start April 22