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Cases of Autism Dwarf Risk from Measles
Immunize, immunize, immunize – you don’t want those nasty measles! It is a serious infectious malady, but the media and medical establishment is using the hype and fear lately to strong arm parents to vaccinate their children.
The reality is, the risks of the only known “cure” are far more harmful, long lasting and epidemic than that of measles. The following provides an interesting numbers crunch. How many children develop autism or die after vaccinations compared to those who develop measles?
Much shame and blame is dumped on those heartless parents who won’t vaccinate and are causing terrible outbreaks that put the rest of society at risk. Yet, the countries with the largest amount of vaccinations also have the biggest number of measles cases. That math certainly doesn’t add up. With loud, wailing reports of measles pandemonium, it is convenient for the establishments to ignore and divert attention away from a bigger epidemic: autism.
~Health Freedoms
Cases of Autism Dwarf Risk from Measles
When the number of children who get measles is compared with the number who get autism, and then you consider the relative degree of harm from each, it becomes obvious that there’s an agenda behind the measles fear mongering.
Here we go again. Fear mongering over measles is in full swing. To listen to the hype from the medical establishment, you’d think it was smallpox, not the relatively mild disease that doesn’t begin to compare with the harm done by the so-called cure for measles, vaccinations. The reality is that the autism epidemic dwarfs the risk of measles in every sense.
First, though, let’s get a sense of the measles hysteria being mounted by seeing what the papers are saying. The Telegraph refers to the people who’ve contracted measles as “struck down”. The Guardian refers to the head of the Health Protection Agency, Mary Ramsay, who focuses on “reminding parents and young adults of the importance of immunisation. Although MMR coverage has improved over the last few years, we cannot stress enough that measles is serious and, in some cases, it can be fatal. Measles is a highly infectious and potentially dangerous illness which spreads very easily.” We’ll see how seriously that warning should be taken! Then, the Los Angeles Times gives dire warning with, “This could bode ill for infants, who are generally too young to get the vaccine.”
Always, the implication is that parents who don’t vaccinate their children are guilty, not only for harm to their own children, but also for putting everyone else at risk. Never are the risks of the vaccinations considered. And there’s a reason for that: If the dangers and likelihood of harm from vaccines were compared with those of measles, the truth would result in widespread resistance to it and other vaccines.
So, let’s do a comparison and see the relative risks from measles and vaccinations.
United Kingdom
According to The Guardian, in the first three months of this year, there were 330 cases of measles in the UK. Apparently, that’s supposed to strike fear in the hearts of parents, though not a single child has died.
Let’s assume that rate continues, so that a total of 1,320 children come down with measles. According to the UK’s Office of National Statistics, the number of live births in the UK over the last few years has been around 790,000 per year. Most of those children are vaccinated. Let’s assume a very conservative number actually received vaccinations for most childhood diseases, and put the number vaccinated at 80%, or about 632,000. Then, let’s round that downwards, just to be sure we err on the side of caution, and make that figure 630,000 new children who receive their vaccinations each year.
Now, the rate of autism is debated, but a commonly-accepted figure is that around 1 in 100 children develop it. That’s 1% of all children, and so far, it appears that only vaccinated children suffer from the disease. (Try to find an unvaccinated autistic child!) So, if we refer to the conservative figure of 630,000 new children who are vaccinated each year, that brings the number of newly-autistic children to about 6,300! That’s 6,300 chronically ill children whose potential in life has been devasted added to all those from previous years.
Compare 6,300 newly autistic children every year with 1,320 children coming down with measles! Multiply the number of measles cases tenfold, and even then, it’s minor compared to children thrust into lives of pain and limitation from autism—not to mention the drain on their families and society as a whole. A few days, even weeks, of illness simply don’t compare with a lifetime of destroyed hopes and options, full of pain and debility.
France
Let’s take a look at France, using a similar approach. France is a worst-case scenario for the incidence of measles in the industrialized world. According to The Guardian, during the same period of time that the UK noted 330 cases of measles, France reported 5,000, with one measles-related death.
The number of live births in France is a little greater than the UK’s, at 796,000 in a year. Using the conservative 80% vaccination rate, that’s 636,800 vaccinated children. As with the UK, we’ll be extra conservative and round downwards to 630,000 new vaccinated children each year—about the same number as in the UK. [Note that the French vaccination rate is actually high, with the MMR vaccine required of every child before entering school. Nonetheless, we'll assume a much lower rate and use the 80% vaccination rate that we used for the UK.]
So, conservatively, we can assume that 6,300 French children become autistic each year. Compare that with the worst-case scenario that France presents today. 5,000 cases of measles extrapolated over the entire year would be 20,000 cases, a significant number. Then, 1 death extrapolated over the entire year would be 4 deaths.
Next, let’s also consider the number of babies dying from cot death (also called crib death or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) each year. This is not unreasonable, since a close correlation between cot death and the DPaT vaccine exists. The number of cot deaths in the UK is around 300 a year, and the rate is similar in France. So, we can compare about 300 cot deaths with 4 measles deaths in a year. The number of deaths associated with measles pales in comparison to cot deaths.
Now, let’s take one last jab (pun intended) at the claim that nonvaccinated people are to blame for the pseudo-epidemic of measles. France vaccinates as much as the UK. Yet, France’s outbreak of measles is far bigger, more than 15 times bigger. It has been much larger for the last couple of years, too, so this year is not an anomaly. If the unvaccinated are to blame for measles outbreaks, then why is France’s outbreak so much larger than anywhere else?
Why All the Fear Mongering About Measles?
In even the worst-case scenario, measles cannot compare with autism and cot death for either severity of risk or numbers involved. Even if we discount the obvious connection between vaccinations and both autism and cot death, where is the sense of proportion in the news media and our public health institutions?
If we consider the overall effects and losses from autism alone, it’s obvious that measles isn’t even in the same ballgame. However, instead we have massive resources thrown at measles. An enormous fear mongering campaign has been launched, with the goal of pressing everyone, parents and adults alike, to have more and more vaccinations.
The question must be asked: Why? Why are so much energy and resources being put into scaring people to get vaccinated for a disease that causes a tiny fraction of the harm, both fiscally and in human terms, that measles does?
Surely it’s obvious that this is a misdirection program, propaganda to keep people’s attention away from the truly serious issues. That’s the best possible spin to place on it.
However, it seems obvious to me, and to all those who have personally gone to the effort of reading the research themselves, that there’s an even more insidious campaign of misdirection going on. Its purpose is to promote the belief that vaccines are more beneficial than harmful, to literally scare and shame people into vaccinating both their children and themselves—no matter what the personal or societal cost.
Frankly, I don’t have the words to describe my disgust at the depths of depravity that Big Pharma, Big Medicine, and Big Government have stooped to cover up the autism pandemic and its likely cause, vaccinations.
by Heidi Stevenson
Source:
http://www.gaia-health.com/articles451/000467-worst-case-scenario-measles.shtml
As someone who has worked with children who have autism (and a variety of other challenges), I have seen how difficult, and even debilitating, autism can be. What I find conspicuously missing from this article, is any data to connect MMR vaccinations to autism. I know that there is a lot of speculation about that connection, and I am not discounting it as a possibility. But this article is written as though it is a certain scientific fact that MMR vaccinations cause autism, when there is research to both support as well as refute that assertion. That seems like irresponsible journalism.
For a group accusing others of fear-mongering, I would have hoped for more balance and context.
Respectfully,
Jim Brennan
parent and advocate for children with special needs.
“The question must be asked: Why? Why are so much energy and resources being put into scaring people to get vaccinated for a disease that causes a tiny fraction of the harm, both fiscally and in human terms, that measles does?”
I think this sentence makes more sense if the last phrase reads, “…that autism does?” I.e. I think you have a typo here.
Some of your facts are wildly off Heidi.
I don’t know where you learned that measles is mild and self-limiting. It often is but it’s a very severe disease for many and did leave some victims with a permanent encephalitis.
Measles is what wiped out natives of the new world and Polynesia!
On the other hand, in a well-nourished population, smallpox is mild and self-limiting. You seem to have got this backwards.
FYI I am an MD of over 40 years experience. Have you any medical training to back up your article, which conspicuously lacks any sources for your opinions? It’s usual to reference outside sources, not your own website.
Your other page is pure speculation: autism has NOT hit 1/100 and there are MANY children with autism who have not been vaccinated, as I have been pointing out for years. Also you can’t argue from what is happening with measles NOW, after 30 years of MMR. It was very different decades ago from today, I can tell you. I saw it all on the hospital wards.
With such a scant regard for facts, I think you are on a par with journalists seeking to sensationalize their perspective.
Not helpful…
Interesting debates on both sides, but I still think that there are too many vaccines given together within a short time – I only got MMR, smallpox, tetanus and polio vaccines as a kid in the 50′s, and never had a problem with those, but today’s flood of new vaccines is over the top! I like what Jim Carrey said in this article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-carrey/the-judgment-on-vaccines_b_189777.html
Best to all to make wise decisions when it comes to your own kids!
Research for yourselves more than just one or two articles!
As a mother of 7 grown kids, I always used to bring my kids in later than the schedule recommended for their vaccines, and never when they were tired or not feeling well for any reason, so they could ‘fight’ whatever it was they were going to get in the vaccine… and they never got the number of vaccines loaded on kids today!
“Fear mongering over measles is in full swing”
Fear mongering is the way of life for our masters. We are being programmed each and every day thru fear. Please learn the facts and tell the “government” and their and our masters we are not afraid and will manage OUR affairs WITHOUT their lies and “laws”.
I am totally convinced the less contact you have with INDUSTRIAL Medicine and their toxic drugs the healthier you will be.
Vaccines are obviously NEVER needed.
http://healthyprotocols.com/2_vaccine.htm
Here’s what I don’t understand: Why should someone who has been vaccinated against measles be concerned about people who aren’t vaccinated? I mean, the vaccines work, right? Right?
Hello. I was born before vaccinations of measles was heard of. I was seven when I contacted it (nearly all in my class at school came down with it) This was before penicillan and other anti-biotics to help with complications from the disease.
I remember being very hot with measles, and my mother drew the blinds to protect my eyes from light injury. I sleep a lot and coughed a little. The third days was the worst and then it all went away.
People expected their children to get measles, it was considered a normal childhood disease. Uncomfortable, but not that dangerous. Consider there are all sorts of antibiotics to handle complications. There has to be a certain amount of common sense applied, because as in any disease it could take a turn for the worse, in a similar way to broncitis turning into pneumonia. Parents, stay alert.
But I am grateful that I didn’t have to be immunized. I had three children that had measles all at the same time. They are all well and happy today.
I don’t like the government telling us to vacinate. It should be optional. Honest statistics and good information help people decide if they need or want a vaccination for their children. We aren’t cattle.
Our local schools are strong arming people to get their children vaccinated because the local govt. entity will fine them $10,000 if the kids aren’t vaccinated. Here is the part that is nonsensical–the school gets all teary stating how the one child who is not vaccinated is putting all the rest in danger because if they get the measles-or some such else-then they will expose the vaccinated kids to the measles and that is not fair. WAIT A MINUTE!! The ones who are vaccinated (IF the vaccines work and IF prevention of measles is really the goal) should be safe from said measles–did I miss something here–isn’t that what was supposed to happen? LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE I say vehemently to govt. and schools and all others who are pushing these on our children this way. You can’t go to govt. school unless you are vaccinated? Boo hoo-govt. school is a poor educational choice anyhow!
“Why should someone who has been vaccinated against measles be concerned about people who aren’t vaccinated?”
Yeah that is a hoot!
Lots of things at play here. Besides misery loving company the PTB want EVERYONE under the toxic NEEDLE. Folks injections are the ONLY good cheap way to SELECTIVELY get rid of billions of “undesirables”. I know this sounds paranoid but once you realize the total inefficaciousness and the terrible risk most “vaccines” carry you too will become a little paranoid.
There is no good medical reason to vaccinate. The risks EXCEED the “rewards” by a very wide margin. So why is it so important that EVERYONE be shot up for EVERYTHING?
CONTROL life and death control.
My daughter had red measles when she was 6 months old. Easy to tell with the V-shaped rash on her chest. Measles destroys Vitamin in the body. Vitamin A is stored in the ocular fluid of the eyes, in the liver and in the mucus membrane lining of the body. I did not take my baby to the doctor who would have told me little I could do. Instead I gave my baby 50,000 IU of crushed
dry Vitamin A in the morning with her milk. In minutes her symptoms stopped; her fever left, she was not cranky and was happily playing until about 6 PM when all her symptoms returned. I didn’t have the courage to give her more Vitamin A so she had very restless unpleasant nights and I rocked her. Why is such a simple remedy not taught to doctors or even researched?
Sharilyn Wood Stalling, the reason people are hesitant to give massive doses of Vitamin A to babies is because of Vitamin A toxicity.
From Wikipedia:
“Hypervitaminosis A occurs when the maximum limit for liver stores of retinoids is exceeded. The excess vitamin A enters the circulation causing systemic toxicity. Betacarotene, a precursor of vitamin A, is selectively converted into retinoids, so it does not cause toxicity.
…The U.S. Institute of Medicine says that the Lowest Observed Adverse Effect Level (LOAEL) for vitamin A, when taken over an extended period of time is 21,600 IU. Most multivitamins contain vitamin A doses below 10,000 IU, therefore multi-vitamins are unlikely to cause vitamin A toxicity when taken at their recommended dosages. But in high doses, its central nervous system toxicity can be enhanced by its lipid solubility because it is readily transported across the blood brain barrier and concentrated in the brain.”
FYI