Measles Cases Triple as Parents Avoid Measles Vaccine
Fearing Link to Autism  by Jeffrey Dach MD

 
Above Image: vaccination campaign United States 1972 Courtesy Wikimedia Commons

Measles Vaccines Banned in UK, Canada and New Zealand

Pluserix made by Glaxo SmithKline, and Immravax made by Aventis Pasteur are both measles vaccines.  The (urabe) measles vaccine was banned in Canada in 1990.  Two years later, in 1992, the two measles vaccines were banned in both the UK and New Zealand after vaccinated children developed aseptic meningitis. (link)

Japan Has Stopped Using MMR Combined Vaccine

According to a BBC news report, Japan stopped using the MMR vaccine in 1993 when the MMR triple vaccine was shown to cause aseptic meningitis (one case for every  2026 recipients).  In Japan, the MMR has been replaced with three separate injections for measles, mumps and rubella.

Left Image: Classic 4 day measles rash, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

MMR Monkey Studies Reported at IMFAR show link to Autism

A large study has been underway for 5 years at the University of Pittsburgh studying the effect of MMR vaccine in monkeys.

At the 7th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), Dr. Laura Hewitson from the University of Pittsburgh, reports developmental delays, behavior and brain changes in macaque monkeys that mimic "certain neurological abnormalities of autism...There was a significant difference between the two groups. The vaccinated group had trouble developing reflexes, like holding things and the sucking reflex, which obviously gave them problems feeding...They also became more insular and more aggressive. There was also an increase in aggressive behaviour after they had their MMR vaccines, and they stopped exploring their surroundings as much."

MRI brain scans showed abnormal brain activity in the MMR vaccinated monkeys with increased opioid receptor activity.  Abnormal opioid receptor activity  has been linked to autistic behaviours. (link)
 
Concerns About Possible Vaccine Autism Link

Others, such as Viera Scheibner  remain very concerned about the vaccine autism link and suggest caution. Watch a video on measles vaccines here on Viera Scheibner's web site.  Watch more Viera Scheibner videos on MMR, Pertussis, Polio, and other vaccines here.  More Scheibner's articles.

Dr Robert Mendelsohn wrote this in 1984

THE MEDICAL TIME BOMB OF IMMUNIZATION AGAINST DISEASE 
The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them. BY ROBERT S. MENDELSOHN, M.D. written in 1984.

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Which is Greater Threat, Measles or Autism ? by Jeffrey Dach MD

Previous Articles on Vaccines and  Autism Topic:

For more information on the vaccine/autism controversy see my previous articles:

Autism, Vaccines, and Robert F Kennedy Jr. by Jeffrey Dach MD

John McCain Links Autism with Vaccines by Jeffrey Dach MD


Update Feb 3, 2004

Andrew Wakefield was found guilty of unethical conduct by the GMC relating to the 1998 study published in Lancet, and Lancet then retracted the article.

See the following links for more:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/health/research/03lancet.html
Journal Retracts 1998 Paper Linking Autism to Vaccines
By GARDINER HARRIS NY Times Published: February 2, 2010

http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/2010/01/andrew-wakefield-dishonesty-misleading-conduct-and-serious-professional-misconduct.html
Andrew Wakefield: Dishonesty, Misleading Conduct, and Serious Professional Misconduct: Blog Posts Critical of Verdict; Blog Posts Approving of Verdict

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/AutismNews/autism-british-doctor-andrew-wakefield-started-autism-vaccine-debate-ethics-debacle/story?id=9713197
Doctor Who Started Vaccine, Autism Debate in Ethics Row
Doctor's Critics and Parent Supporters Say Ethics Debate Is Irrelevant to Science
By LAUREN COX ABC News Medical Unit Feb. 1, 2010

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245518/Judgement-day-MMR-rebel-investigation-blighted-doctors-life-12-years-finally-approaches-conclusion.html
Judgement day for MMR rebel: an investigation that has blighted doctor's life for 12 years finally approaches conclusion By Sally Beck  23rd January 2010

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http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1834693,00.html?xid=rss-topstories Measles Cases Highest Since '97 Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008 By AP/MIKE STOBBE 
(TIME magazine. ATLANTA) — The number of measles cases in the U.S. is at its highest level since 1997, and nearly half of those involve children whose parents rejected vaccination, government health officials reported Thursday.  The number of cases is still small, just 131, but that's just for the first seven months of the year and doctors are troubled by the trend. There were only 42 cases for all of last year. "We're seeing a lot more spread. That is concerning to us," said Dr. Jane Seward, of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Pediatricians are frustrated, saying they are having to spend more time convincing parents the shot is safe.

http://www.whale.to/vaccines/chatterjee.html
Vaccines : Untested, Unsafe and Unnecessary.(c) Dr Leo Rebello & Jagannath Chatterjee ,(Published in Medical Journal "Homoeo a' fair", December 2006)
Dr Leo Rebello,Director, Natural Health Centre, Mumbai. India
Jagannath Chatterjee Health & Human Rights Activist,Member: MANITHAM, Chennai,  Loksatta, Maharashtra/Hyderabad,

http://www.autismmercurylink.com/blog/2008/08/40-infallible-reasons-why-you-should-not-vaccinate-infants/
40 Infallible Reasons Why You Should Not Vaccinate Infants- Jagannath Chatterjee.(Fighting Vaccines Since 1985).

http://johnsonroad.net/blog/2008/08/15/unscientific-anti-vaccine-hysteria-could-cause-a-measles-epidemic/
Unscientific Anti-Vaccine Hysteria Could Cause A Measles Epidemic
Author: Jordan 15 Aug

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7715338
Lancet. 1995 Apr 29;345(8957):1071-4.
Is measles vaccination a risk factor for inflammatory bowel disease?Thompson NP, Montgomery SM, Pounder RE, Wakefield AJ. Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study Group, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, UK.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9500320
Lancet. 1998 Feb 28;351(9103):637-41.  Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children.Wakefield AJ, Murch SH, Anthony A, Linnell J, Casson DM, Malik M, Berelowitz M, Dhillon AP, Thomson MA, Harvey P, Valentine A, Davies SE, Walker-Smith JA.Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study Group, University Department of Medicine, Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine, London, UK.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15016483
Lancet. 2004 Mar 6;363(9411):750.
Partial retraction of: Wakefield AJ, Murch SH, Anthony A, Linnell J, Casson DM, Malik M, Berelowitz M, Dhillon AP, Thomson MA, Harvey P, Valentine A, Davies SE, Walker-Smith JA. Lancet. 1998 Feb 28;351(9103):637-41.  Retraction of an interpretation.Murch SH, Anthony A, Casson DH, Malik M, Berelowitz M, Dhillon AP, Thomson MA, Valentine A, Davies SE, Walker-Smith JA. Centre for Paediatric Gastronenterology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, Royal Free Campus, London NW3 2PF, UK.

http://jeffreydach.com/2007/10/11/autism-vaccines-and-robert-f-kennedy-jr-by-jeffrey-dach-md.aspx
Autism, Vaccines, and Robert F Kennedy Jr. by Jeffrey Dach MD

http://jeffreydach.com/2008/03/06/john-mccain-links-autism-with-vaccines-by-jeffrey-dach-md.aspx
John McCain Links Autism with Vaccines by Jeffrey Dach MD

http://combatingautismfromwithin.blogspot.com/2007/10/do-vaccinations-cause-autism-by-jeffrey.html
Do Vaccinations Cause Autism? by Jeffrey Dach, MD

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1808316.stm
Friday, 8 February, 2002, 06:49 GMT BBC News. Why Japan stopped using MMR.
Japanese children are vaccinated later than in the UK. By the BBC's Charles Scanlon in Tokyo.  Japan's Health Ministry says the withdrawal of the MMR vaccine for children did not cause an increase in deaths from measles.  It followed UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's comments this week in which he cited Japan as an example of the dangers of not having the combined vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella.

There is a huge controversy in the UK, with thousands of parents refusing to let their child have the combined MMR injection over fears that it has links to autism and bowel disorders.  But the medical establishment says such a link does not exist, and that the MMR vaccine is far more effective than having separate injections.
Measles epidemics  Japan stopped using MMR because it was linked to outbreaks of non-viral meningitis and other damaging side-effects. Doctors say there were problems with the vaccine which was of a different type to that used in the UK.
They stopped using the MMR vaccine in 1993 and reverted to three separate injections for measles, mumps and rubella.

Japan's Health Ministry said more than 100 people died from measles over the next six years, while there were no deaths in the UK.  But a spokesman said even more had died from the disease during the period when MMR was being used.  He said the withdrawal of the triple vaccine had had no impact. Deadly epidemics of measles are far more common in Japan than the UK. The ministry says that is because children are often vaccinated much later. Japanese officials say they have no record of a connection between MMR and autism.

http://www.informedchoice.info/MMR.html#mmr8
INFORMED CHOICE MMR vaccine and the autism epidemic.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2041668
Pediatr Infect Dis J. 1991 Mar;10(3):209-13.
Aseptic meningitis as a complication of mumps vaccination. Sugiura A, Yamada A.
Department of Measles Virus, National Institute of Health, Tokyo, Japan.
In 1989 a nationwide surveillance of neurologic complications after the administration of mumps vaccine was conducted in Japan, based on the notification of cases and the testing of mumps viruses isolated from cerebrospinal fluid for their relatedness to the vaccine by nucleotide sequence analysis. Among 630,157 recipients of measles-mumps-rubella trivalent (MMR) vaccine containing the Urabe Am9 mumps vaccine, there were at least 311 meningitis cases suspected to be vaccine-related. In 96 of these 311 cases, mumps virus related to the vaccine was isolated from cerebrospinal fluid. The unusually high incidence may have been partly a result of the adverse media publicity of the problem at the time of surveillance. We analyzed clinical features of 165 and 27 laboratory-confirmed mumps vaccine-related meningitis cases that occurred among the recipients of MMR and monovalent mumps vaccines, respectively, during a 1-year period after the introduction of MMR vaccine. The incidence of vaccine-related meningitis was similar among the recipients of MMR and monovalent Urabe Am9 mumps vaccines. Meningitis was generally mild and there were no sequelae from the illness. The complication was more frequent among male than among female children.

http://darrendixon.supanet.com/mmrdangers.htm
MMR Vaccine Dangers AUTISM  by Dr Viera Scheibner and Bronwyn Hancock BSc. Feb 2001

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:RougeoleDP.jpg
This child shows a classic day-4 rash with measles.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Vaccination_campagne.jpg
campagne de vaccination aux États unis en 1972

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Measles_virus.JPG
English: This thin-section transmission electron micrograph (TEM) revealed the ultrastructural appearance of a single virus particle, or “virion”, of measles virus. The measles virus is a paramyxovirus, of the genus Morbillivirus. It is 100-200 nm in diameter, with a core of single-stranded RNA, and is closely related to the rinderpest and canine distemper viruses. Two membrane envelope proteins are important in pathogenesis. They are the F (fusion) protein, which is responsible for fusion of virus and host cell membranes, viral penetration, and hemolysis, and the H (hemagglutinin) protein, which is responsible for adsorption of virus to cells.
There is only one antigenic type of measles virus. Although studies have documented changes in the H glycoprotein, these changes do not appear to be epidemiologically important (i.e., no change in vaccine efficacy has been observed).

http://www.vaproject.org/thrower/mmr-briefing-20070430.htm
Regressive Autism, Ileal-Lymphoid Nodular Hyperplasia, Measles Virus and MMR Vaccine
Summary of Published Studies Offering Evidence for Linkages By David Thrower


http://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/00000473.htm
Adverse Events Following Immunization
The reporting rate was highest for events following measles-, mumps-, and rubella-containing vaccines, with 74.8 to 83.8 reports per million doses administered (Table 3). Since the majority of measles, mumps, and rubella is administered as combined vaccine (measles-mumps-rubella (MMR)), adverse events to individual vaccine antigens cannot be dissociated. This is a limitation of the surveillance system. All reports of events associated with MMR vaccine are attributed to each of the vaccine antigens, making the rates of reported events for measles, mumps, and rubella antigens appear approximately the same. When arthralgia and arthritis associated with single-antigen rubella vaccine are added to those events that are attributed to MMR vaccine, rubella antigen has the highest reported rate of adverse events (Table 4).

http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab004407.html
Vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella in children
Demicheli V, Jefferson T, Rivetti A, Price D

The vaccine was likely to be associated with benign thrombocytopenic purpura, parotitis, joint and limb complaints, febrile convulsions within two weeks of vaccination and aseptic meningitis (mumps) (Urabe strain-containing MMR).

Authors' conclusions: The design and reporting of safety outcomes in MMR vaccine studies, both pre- and post-marketing, are largely inadequate. The evidence of adverse events following immunisation with MMR cannot be separated from its role in preventing the target diseases.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3931045
Pediatrics. 1985 Oct;76(4):524-32.

Health impact of measles vaccination in the United States.Bloch AB, Orenstein WA, Stetler HC, Wassilak SG, Amler RW, Bart KJ, Kirby CD, Hinman AR.
As a result of intensive efforts to vaccinate children, measles and its attendant complications of encephalitis and death have declined more than 99% from the prevaccine era. Similarly, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis has declined markedly. Measles vaccine has been demonstrated to be extremely safe, as well as extremely effective. The health and resource benefits due to vaccination against measles during the first 20 years of vaccine licensure have been enormous. In this period it is estimated that vaccination against measles has prevented 52 million cases, 5,200 deaths, and 17,400 cases of mental retardation, achieving a net savings of $5.1 billion. These substantial health and resource benefits of measles vaccination will continue to accrue in the future.

http://www.whale.to/vaccine/mmr15.html
Pluserix Glaxo SmithKline & Immravax Aventis Pasteur MSD Ltd
2 measles vaccines.

[Canada withdrew licences for the vaccine in May 1990. 

Two years later, on September 14, 1992 two measles vaccines (Pluserix & Immravax) were banned in the UK after it was revealed that children had developed meningitis. 

On Sept 16, 1992 the New Zealand government withdrew Pluserix. 

Five years later in 1997: the Smith Kline Beecham Urabe MMR jab was used in a mass vaccination programme in Brazil.  

The men involved on the vaccine committee that approved Pluserix included Salisbury, Professor McDevitt, DAVID HULL & Professor George Nuki, all connected to the persecution of Dr Wakefield.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-7-42.pdf
Parents' champions vs. vested interests: Who do parents believe
about MMR? A qualitative study. Shona Hilton, Mark Petticrew and Kate Hunt
BMC Public Health 2007, 7:42


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2008/05/30/noindex/hautism126.xml&page=2
MMR: The debate that won't go away Cassandra Jardine 05/2008

http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/documents/vaccines/media/Primates%20-%20Adverse%20reactions%20to%20childhood%20vaccines,%20Sally%20Beck.pdf
Sally Beck is a British national newspaper journalist This news report is an extended version of the Telegraph contribution entitled MMR: The debate that won't go away, published 26 May 2008.Primates: Adverse reactions to childhood vaccines
By SALLY BECK

Dr Laura Hewitson "There was a significant difference between the two groups. The vaccinated group had trouble developing reflexes, like holding things and the sucking reflex, which obviously gave them problems feeding.
"They also became more insular and more aggressive. There was also an increase in aggressive behaviour after they had their MMR vaccines, and they stopped exploring their surroundings as much."
The team regularly carried out MRI brain scans on both sets of monkeys and found the vaccinated animals showed abnormal brain activity. Their brains did not show the expected decrease in opioid receptors, the little cells which field opioids - a morphine like chemical linked to autism. The vaccinated monkeys had too many receptors which led to excess opioid activity. This activity has been linked with autistic like behaviours such as sleeplessness, hallucinations, lack of social skills, high pain threshold and constipation, all symptoms found in varying degrees in children on the autistic spectrum.

http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/05/sick-monkeys-st.html#more
SICK MONKEYS: RESEARCH LINKS VACCINE LOAD, AUTISM SIGNS
BY DAN OLMSTED May 21, 2008
7th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR),
The study's principal investigator, Laura Hewitson from the University of Pittsburgh, reports developmental delays, behavior problems and brain changes in macaque monkeys that mimic "certain neurological abnormalities of autism."

The results are sure to be controversial, in part because they lend credence to studies first published in 1998 by British pediatric gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield, one of Hewitson's co-authors on these findings.

http://www.whale.to/a/meningitis.html
Meningitis & vaccine citations Meningitis & vaccines

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2726323
Aseptic meningitis after vaccination against measles and mumps.Cizman M, Mozetic M, Radescek-Rakar R, Pleterski-Rigler D, Susec-Michieli M.
Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.

This retrospective study (1979 to 1986) investigated the possible etiologic relationship between vaccination and aseptic meningitis in 115 hospitalized children who became ill within 30 days of vaccination with the Leningrad 3 strain of mumps virus and the Edmonston-Zagreb strain of measles virus. The etiologic viral diagnosis was based on serologic tests and the isolation of virus from cell cultures which distinguished between attenuated and "virulent" mumps virus. The incidence of mumps vaccine-associated meningitis was 1/1000 vaccine recipients. In 92% of children the incubation period was 11 to 25 days and 28% had associated swelling of the salivary glands. Sixteen cases (13.9%) had a positive cerebrospinal fluid culture (attenuated mumps virus, 6 cases; "virulent" mumps virus, 7 cases; echoviruses, 3 cases). Clustering of cases, seasonal occurrence and age of the patients suggested causal relationship with the vaccination in the majority of children. In 4 patients with attenuated virus isolation from cerebrospinal fluid the incubation period ranged from 17 to 20 days. Clinical findings did not differ from natural mumps meningitis. The course was uncomplicated and at discharge the patients had no sequelae. Measles virus was never found as a cause of the meningitis. The mumps vaccine virus should be recognized as one of the causative agents of aseptic meningitis in countries where less attenuated mumps vaccine is used.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8741307
Adverse events associated with MMR vaccines in Japan.Kimura M, Kuno-Sakai H, Yamazaki S, Yamada A, Hishiyama M, Kamiya H, Ueda K, Murase T, Hirayama M, Oya A, Nozaki S, Murata R.
School of Medicine, Tokai University, Isehara, Japan.

The largest nationwide active surveillance of four Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccines was conducted in Japan. A total of 1255 pediatricians actively participated in the study, which comprised 8.6% of all members of the Japanese Pediatric Society. The total number of registered recipients of MMR vaccines was 38 203. They were arbitrarily given one of the MMR vaccines produced by three makers (Takeda, Osaka city, Kitasato Minato-ku. Tokyo and Biken Suita city, Japan) or the standard MMR vaccine made of designated strains (Kitasato's measles-AIK-C, Biken's mumps-Urabe Am9 and Takeda's rubella-To336) produced by Takeda, Kitasato and Biken and were observed for 35 days. The rates of virologically confirmed aseptic meningitis per 10,000 recipients were 16.6, 11.6, 3.2 and 0 for the standard MMR, Takeda MMR, Kitasato MMR and Biken MMR vaccines, respectively. The incidence of convulsions between 15 and 35 days was the highest with the standard MMR vaccine and the incidence of fever associated with vomiting occurring between 15 and 35 days (symptoms relevant to aseptic meningitis) were also the highest with the standard MMR vaccine. The incidence of parotid swelling was the lowest with Takeda MMR vaccine. This surveillance revealed that incidences of aseptic meningitis after administration of the standard MMR vaccine and of Biken MMR vaccine were different. This posed questions about the manufacturing consistency of the Urabe Am9 mumps virus vaccines. On the other hand, the National Institute of Health found that the biological characteristics of the Urabe Am9 mumps virus contained in the standard MMR vaccine and in the Biken MMR vaccine were different. The Biken Company reported that the mumps vaccine in the standard MMR vaccine was a mixture of two Urabe Am9 mumps vaccine bulks; one identical to that contained in the Biken MMR vaccine and the other produced by a different manufacturing process.

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=124860#B13
J Clin Microbiol. 1998 January; 36(1): 299–301.  PMCID: PMC124860
Detection of Measles Virus mRNA from Autopsied Human Tissues
Yuko Katayama,1 Kiyoyasu Kohso,1 Akiyoshi Nishimura,2 Yoshitsugu Tatsuno,3 Morio Homma,4 and Hak Hotta1*

However, our previous study showed that, by using a reverse transcription (RT)-PCR method, MV mRNA was detected in 11 (18%) of 61 brain tissue samples obtained from autopsy subjects who had not exhibited SSPE-like symptoms (9). This result suggests the possibility that MV persists in apparently healthy individuals.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8847530
J Gen Virol. 1995 Dec;76 ( Pt 12):3201-4.
Detection of measles virus nucleoprotein mRNA in autopsied brain tissues.Katayama Y, Hotta H, Nishimura A, Tatsuno Y, Homma M.
By means of RT-PCR, a portion of measles virus (MV) mRNA encoding nucleoprotein (NP) could be detected in 11 (18%) of 61 brain tissue samples obtained from administrative autopsy cases, who apparently had not suffered from subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)-like central nervous system disorders. Most of the brain-derived NP sequences showed significant asynonymous nucleotide substitutions when compared with wild-type MV isolates and SSPE virus. Our present results suggest that MV commonly persists in the human brain without causing apparent clinical symptoms, probably due to decreased virus replication.

http://www.whale.to/vaccines/mendelsohn.html
THE MEDICAL TIME BOMB OF IMMUNIZATION AGAINST DISEASE - The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them. BY ROBERT S. MENDELSOHN, M.D. written in 1984


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