Excerpt from Polymicrobial Diseases
Chapter 19 – Virus-induced Immunosuppression
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

“MV infection produces an immune system paradox. MV infection, while inducing lifelong immunity, also suppresses the immune system leading to an increase in susceptibility to other, secondary infections (24, 67, 91). In vitro research has shown that MV infection of cell cultures makes the cells more susceptible to a secondary bacterial invasion (13). The immune suppression appears coincident with the marked activation of the immune system, in the form of MV-specific responses, which in turn is coincident with the onset of clinical disease, i.e., rash. Immune suppression can continue for many weeks after the apparent recovery from measles (47). Therefore, MV infection results in both immune activation and immune suppression at the same time. Immune suppression is apparent in vivo in such forms as the loss of the DTH skin test response, the impairment of the production of antibody and cellular immune responses to new antigens, reactivity of tuberculosis, and remission of immune mediated diseases such as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (15, 16, 84, 95). Immune suppression is apparent in vitro in such forms as suppressed lymphoproliferative responses to mitogens, abnormal lymphokine production, and inhibition of antigen-specific proliferation of T lymphocytes (9, 40, 87).

Secondary bacterial, protozoal, or viral infections occur because of immunosuppression by MV infection. These infections can result in pneumonia, chronic pulmonary disease, otitis media, laryngotracheobronchitis, adult respiratory distress syndrome, hepatitis and diarrhea (7, 29). Secondary infections are more common in underdeveloped countries. These secondary infections account for most of the morbidity and mortality associated with acute measles (7). Much research has been done to determine whether a correlation exists between malnutrition and/or overcrowding, which in turn results in a more intensive exposure to measles, and measles mortality (1, 2, 4, 5, 28). A natural epidemic of measles virus in a rhesus monkey colony showed that enteric organisms normally carried in healthy individuals became serious pathogens during the viral infection (58). Some of the bacteria that can be involved in superinfections in measles patients are Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Staphylococcus aureus, Morganella morganii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Chlamydia trachomatis, and Streptococcus pyogenes (7, 56, 94). Some of the viruses that can be involved in superinfections include adenovirus and herpes simplex virus (7, 88, 92). Although acute measles infection causes a relatively high mortality, there was no increase in mortality of those who survived a measles infection found in the postmeasles period as compared with uninfected community controls (6).”

UKPA
05/18/2010

Babies have a “gap” in their immunity against measles which makes them susceptible to picking up the virus, researchers have said.

Youngsters usually receive their measles jab when they are 13 months old, as part of the triple measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.

But research has shown they are susceptible to the virus from around two or three months old until they get vaccinated.

The researchers said that protection offered by a mother’s antibodies wears off in the first few months, leaving babies open to infection.

The latest study, published online in the British Medical Journal, involved 207 healthy women and their babies recruited from five hospitals in Antwerp, Belgium.

Read the rest of the article here.

Kristina Skorbach
Epoch Times
05/24/2010

Britain’s General Medical Council stripped Doctor Andrew Wakefield of his license to practice medicine for linking autism to vaccines for measles and other diseases.

Doctor Andrew Wakefield was born into a family of doctors, after receiving his doctoral licence in 1981 in Canada, he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1985. He published many research papers in his field and became interested in the possible link between autism and vaccines reported BBC.

The research piece that Wakefield published in 1998 in the Lancet, a medical journal, provided sufficient evidence that vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella could produce autistic symptoms in kids. According to AP, after the paper caused a stir, the number of kids that received vaccinations went from 95 percent in 1995 to 50 percent in 2000, in the UK.

Even though many pieces printed in medical journals say that vaccines for measles are safe and could have prevented the recent outbreaks, Wakefield stood by his research results and opened up an autism center in U.S. in 2004.

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Christina England vactruth.com 05/20/2010 How a mother is supposed to decide what vaccines are safe, when the governments change their minds so frequently, is anyone’s guess. One minute the government makes it categorically clear that the measles vaccine should never, under any circumstances, be given to a child under the age of nine months, the next minute they are saying the complete opposite and actually advising it. Take this circular that was issued to the government in 1968, entitled Notes on the use and storage of Measles vaccine (live attenuated) for routine vaccines for example.

Click here to see the government document on the measles vaccine.

It clearly states under Section 7 – Routine Vaccination that live measles vaccine should not be given to children below the age of nine months since it usually fails to immunise such children, owing to the presence of maternally transmitted antibodies. This was the advice from the good old JCVI who at the same time said that the vaccine should instead be given to children in their second year of life after the completion of the immunisation against diphtheria, tetanus whooping cough and polio.

However despite this advice, reports are now saying the complete and utter opposite.

I do appreciate times move on and medical advances do as well but something as fundamental as ‘the presence of maternally transmitted antibodies’, does leave me to question this new research.

OK moving swiftly on. In the 1968 report in Section 6 – Reactions it says:-

“Mild febrile reactions and transient rashes may be expected to follow the administration of the vaccine in a substantial proportion of cases. The rise of body temperature which may occur from 5 to 10 days after vaccination – usually about the 8^th day – is due to the multiplication of the attenuated virus. This febrile reaction, when it occurs, seldom lasts more than 24 to 48 hours. The Committee on Safety of Drugs has agreed that severe and unusual reactions to measles vaccine should be reported on the yellow card used for reporting adverse reactions to drugs. The Committee does not however, wish to receive reports of mild febrile reactions and rashes associated with the use of this vaccine.”

I bet it doesn’t as this may clog up the system. So what this actually says is, a mother lets her perfectly healthy baby have a vaccine that will give the baby a mild dose of measles ,while risking her child’s health with other adverse reactions to save her child from ultimately catching measles. Totally bizarre thinking if you ask me.

What this also proves is that the UK government as far back 1968 knew that the measles vaccine gave children adverse reactions, in fact, after reading the papers it is very clear that they seem quite happy to be offering babies a vaccine that they admit in a substantial proportion of cases gives them high fevers and rashes. Well I guess you could say it is all in a days work to them and on this score nothing has actually changed. Currently the measles vaccine is not being given as a single vaccine and is being given instead as part of the MMR. This now means that your baby can expect to enjoy a  few more side effects than he/she would have had from the single measles vaccine.

• MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) Vaccines: Adverse Reactions …

“How safe is the MMR vaccine?

“The drug company that makes the MMR vaccine publishes an extensive list of warnings, contraindications, and adverse reactions associated with this triple shot. These may be found in the vaccine package insert available from any doctor giving MMR, and in the Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR) at the library.(8,9) The following afflictions affecting nearly every body system — blood, lymphatic, digestive, cardiovascular, immune, nervous, respiratory, and sensory — have been reported following receipt of the MMR shot: encephalitis, encephalopathy, neurological disorders, seizure disorders, convulsions, learning disabilities, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), demyelination of the nerve sheaths, Guillain-Barre’ syndrome (paralysis), muscle incoordination, deafness, panniculitis, vasculitis, optic neuritis (including partial or total blindness), retinitis, otitis media, bronchial spasms, fever, headache, joint pain, arthritis (acute and chronic), transverse myelitis, thrombocytopenia (blood clotting disorders and spontaneous bleeding), anaphylaxis (severe allergic reactions), lymphadenopathy, leukocytosis, pneumonitis, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, erythema multiforme, urticaria, pancreatitis, parotitis, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, meningitis, diabetes, autism, immune system disorders, and death (Figure 49).(10,11)”

The most interesting fact given in the 1968 circular and something that needs a great deal of thinking about today is in Section 8 – Relation to other immunising procedures where it offers the following advice:-

“An interval of three to four weeks should normally be allowed to elapse between the administration of measles vaccine and any other vaccine, whichever is given first.”

My question is, if this is so, then why the hell did they dream up putting the measles vaccine into a multi vaccine just a few years later? It is obvious to me that their very clear advice seems to have gone completely out the window, as nowadays, not only is the measles vaccine part of a multi vaccine but now they are saying it is safe to give children many vaccines in one day. In fact Paul Offit is actively giving the advice to parents that multiple vaccines are quite safe saying that even as many as 100,000 are perfectly safe. I wonder how he would feel offering to be the pin cushion he wants our children to be.

Dr Offit

“Paul Offit, M.D., chief of infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Henle Professor of Immunologic and Infectious Diseases at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, is the Chief US spokesman/liar for vaccination. The Voice of Sauron. On the board of Every Child By Two. Believes children can safely take 100,000 vaccines!”

Mind you in saying this according to some he does share the patent on the Rotavirus vaccine Rotateq, that looks to have made him millions. Honestly what some people will do to get rich is beyond me.