MMR compromises mucosal immune system

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Current childhood vaccine programs: An overview

with emphasis on the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine

and of its compromising of the mucosal immune system

Harold E. Buttram, MD

Email: hbuttram1304@...

Abstract

Both common observation and official statistics confirm that there have been

dramatic increases in chronic physical and mental illnesses in American

children, such as autism, asthma, and allergies since the introduction of the

MMR vaccine in 1978. Government health officials have denied a relationship with

vaccines, but U.S. Congressional hearings on vaccine safety (1999 to Dec. 2004)

revealed a total absence of vaccine safety tests that would meet current

scientific standards, so that it can be assumed that many vaccine reactions are

taking place unrecognized. Prior to the introduction of vaccines, the Th1

cellular immune system of the gastrointestinal and respiratory systems served as

the primary defense systems with the Th2 humoral immune system in the bone

marrow, serving a secondary role.

There is a school of thought that the “minor childhood diseases” of earlier

times, including measles, mumps, chicken pox, and rubella, which involved the

epithelial tissues of skin, respiratory, and/or gastrointestinal tracts, served

a necessary purpose in challenging, strengthening, and establishing the

dominance of Th1 cellular immune system during early childhood. Current vaccines

against these diseases, in contrast, being directed at stimulating antibody

production in the bone marrow, are bypassing the cellular immune system and

thereby tending to reverse the roles of the cellular and humoral systems, with

the former suffering from a lack of challenge. In addition, the cellular immune

system is being further compromised by the powerfully immunosuppressive effects

of the MMR vaccine. The time is overdue to totally rethink and redirect our

current childhood vaccine program.

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Keywords: cellular immunity, humoral immunity, MMR vaccine, immunosuppression,

autism, asthma, allergies, autoimmune diseases.