Childhood Vaccine Programs: An overview with emphasis on the Measles-Mumps-Rube

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Childhood Vaccine Programs: An overview

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

and of its compromising of the mucosal immune system

H.E. Buttram/Medical Veritas 5 (2008) 1820-1827 doi:

10.1588/medver/2008.05.00190 Current

Harold E. Buttram, MD

Email: hbuttram1304@...

http://www.vacinfo.org/Buttram.pdf

Abstract

Both common observation and official statistics confirm that there

have been dramatic increases in chronic physical and mental illnesses

in Amer-ican 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 hu-moral

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 estab-lishing 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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