Re: MD Coalition for Vaccine Choice Merck Focusing on Combination Vaccine Manufacturer Stops Sales of Monovalents for Measles, Mumps, Rubella

[Guest guest]

Big Pharma will continue to do what gives them the most profits.

As many know these statements are a joke and unfounded.

Single doses are just has harmful - having had a single measles

vaccine reaction in 1975 myself.

Thanks for posting!

On Dec 28, 2008, at 9:57 PM, Becky Simpson wrote:

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> This is pathetic. So much for vaccine choice and using blood

> titer tests to determine the need to vaccinate.

>

> Becky

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> Merck Focusing on Combination Vaccine Manufacturer Stops Sales of

> Monovalents for Measles, Mumps, Rubella

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> By . http://is.gd/dD9E

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> Merck & Co. Inc. has stopped production and sales of its

> monovalent vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella. The

> manufacturer instead plans to focus on its combination vaccine, MMRII.

> Merck spokeswoman Amy Rose said MMRII accounts for 98 percent

> of the company's volume for measles, mumps and rubella vaccines,

> compared to just 2 percent from monovalent vaccines Attenuvax

> (measles), Mumpsvax (mumps) and Meruvax (rubella).

> " The combination vaccine is what's recommended, and it's such

> a significant portion of the orders we see, " said Rose. " It's in

> the best interest of public health to make more of that rather than

> dedicate manufacturing capacity to monovalents. "

> Rose said Merck had not decided when, or if, it might make

> the monovalent vaccines available for sale in the future.

> Doug Campos-Outcalt, M.D., M.P.A., who serves as the AAFP's

> liaison to the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

> and is a former member of the AAFP Commission on Clinical Policies

> and Research, said Merck's decision was insignificant in terms of

> public health. He added, however, that some parents likely will be

> unhappy.

> " The use of the single antigen is pretty limited, " he said.

> " There's no harm if you need one in getting all three. There are

> some parents out there that want a delayed vaccine schedule. They

> want the vaccines spread out over a longer period of time and not

> so many at once. That's a lot of hooey. Alternative schedules have

> never been proven to be superior. "

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

#1 - vaccines don't give immunity so even if you have no antibody

titers, it doesn't mean vaccinating will help you.

#2 - titers after vaccines do NOT mean immunity - only after the disease

Sheri

>On Dec 28, 2008, at 9:57 PM, Becky Simpson wrote:

>

> >

> > This is pathetic. So much for vaccine choice and using blood

> > titer tests to determine the need to vaccinate.

> >

> > Becky

> >

> > ---------------------------

> >

> > Merck Focusing on Combination Vaccine Manufacturer Stops Sales of

> > Monovalents for Measles, Mumps, Rubella

> >

> > By . http://is.gd/dD9E

> >

> > Merck & Co. Inc. has stopped production and sales of its

> > monovalent vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella. The

> > manufacturer instead plans to focus on its combination vaccine, MMRII.

> > Merck spokeswoman Amy Rose said MMRII accounts for 98 percent

> > of the company's volume for measles, mumps and rubella vaccines,

> > compared to just 2 percent from monovalent vaccines Attenuvax

> > (measles), Mumpsvax (mumps) and Meruvax (rubella).

> > " The combination vaccine is what's recommended, and it's such

> > a significant portion of the orders we see, " said Rose. " It's in

> > the best interest of public health to make more of that rather than

> > dedicate manufacturing capacity to monovalents. "

> > Rose said Merck had not decided when, or if, it might make

> > the monovalent vaccines available for sale in the future.

> > Doug Campos-Outcalt, M.D., M.P.A., who serves as the AAFP's

> > liaison to the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

> > and is a former member of the AAFP Commission on Clinical Policies

> > and Research, said Merck's decision was insignificant in terms of

> > public health. He added, however, that some parents likely will be

> > unhappy.

> > " The use of the single antigen is pretty limited, " he said.

> > " There's no harm if you need one in getting all three. There are

> > some parents out there that want a delayed vaccine schedule. They

> > want the vaccines spread out over a longer period of time and not

> > so many at once. That's a lot of hooey. Alternative schedules have

> > never been proven to be superior. "

> >

> >

> >

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