Mike, I just re-read the 1998 paper and his 1999 follow-up letter. The point of both was a putative link between MMR vaccine and autism. There were signs of inflammation in some of his subjects’ colons, but no virus was recovered (or even sought.
Rick > On Mar 9, 2019, at 10:34 AM, mike wilson <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > >> On 09 March 2019 at 02:39 Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> John, >> >> My professional opinion as a pediatrician: >> >> Having measles confers lifelong immunity. So does the measles vaccine. >> >> The current measles outbreaks are the result of growing numbers of >> UNvaccinated children of “anti-vax” parents. This whole thing was started by >> a British physician, Andrew Wakefield, who published an utterly fraudulent >> paper in 1998 (in The Lancet) linking the meals-mumps-rubella vaccine to >> autism. He then established a lucrative business as an expert witness for >> solicitors bringing suit against vaccine companies on behalf of the parents >> of autistic children. > > > Not to defend Wakefield or the antivaccination creed but I read his paper > when it first came out. What he actually said (paraphrased as I don't think > I have a copy any more) was that his small sample found that the recognised > autistic children in it had live measles virus in their gastrointestinal > tract and that this needed to be investigated. This finding was confirmed, > iirc, by a much larger Japanese study some time later. > >> >> After the fraud was uncovered and the paper retracted, the General Medical >> Council struck him from the Register (revoked his medical license), which >> meant that he could no longer practice in the UK, any Commonwealth country, >> or the EU. So, he set up shop in Texas. >> >> I was at Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1981-82, after a previous vaccine >> scare. I saw unvaccinated children have their cancer treatments much delayed >> because of tetanus and whooping cough—both of which are awful diseases to >> behold. The previous year there had been a case of measles in a child with >> leukemia. It was quickly fatal. >> >> Quoth Jonathan Swift: "Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after >> it.” In this case, the truth still hasn’t caught up after 21 years. >> >> Rick >> >> >>> On Mar 7, 2019, at 12:08 PM, John <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: >>> >>> ... but I know there are medical professionals on the list who might know >>> the answer. >>> >>> I'm almost 70 years old, and I'm pretty sure I DID NOT receive the measles >>> vaccine as a child. I had measles while I was in grade school *before* the >>> vaccine became available. But all the stuff about measles in the news >>> lately has me wondering ... >>> >>> How long does immunity last after you've had measles? >>> >>> Should I get a measles vaccination at this late date? >>> >>> Is there a problem if you HAVE been previously vaccinated for measles (I >>> got so damn many shots before I went to Iraq in 2004 that I don't remember >>> what half of them were for)? > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
