As a live virus, the MMR can cause measles' - Dr. Lawrence Palevesky
Frontline News previously reported about measles outbreaks that have affected 58 individuals in 17 states as of March 14. Thirty-three states have not been affected, as of yet. Frontline News provided historical evidence that in first-world countries, such as the U.S., measles is a disease with low incidence and, when it does occur, almost no fatalities.
Included in the 58 figure are twelve cases in a Chicago shelter currently housing about 1,800 illegal aliens. Chicago officials called for vaccination of the 900 people in the shelter who had not been vaccinated.
As Frontline News also reported, the living conditions in the shelter are unsanitary and crowded and disease has been rampant there for months, indicating a potential relationship of the living conditions to the proliferation of measles there.
In this segment, Frontline News focuses on the measles vaccine and how it has been implicated in past measles outbreaks.
Vaccine strain measles
Will mass vaccination prevent more cases or make the situation worse? The MMR vaccine is known to cause cases of measles which are indistinguishable from wild-type measles. As such, it is important to be aware that, should Chicago face a continued outbreak, vaccine-strain measles may have fueled it.
California outbreak
According to a study reported in the Journal of Microbiology and led by Felicia Roy, during the 2015 measles outbreak in California, 38% of the cases were caused by the vaccine strain:
. . . approximately 5% of recipients of measles virus-containing vaccine experience rash and fever which may be indistinguishable from measles . . .
During the measles outbreak in California in 2015, a large number of suspected cases occurred in recent vaccinees. Of the 194 measles virus sequences obtained in the United States in 2015, 73 were identified as vaccine sequences (R. J. McNall, unpublished data). In contrast, only 11 of 542 cases genotyped in the National Reference Center for Measles, Mumps, and Rubella in Germany were associated with the vaccine virus.
Genotyping is used to confirm the origin of an outbreak and to exclude endemic circulation, but it is also the only way to distinguish vaccine strains from wild-type viruses.
X user TeddyFreddie tweeted Dr. Andrew Wakefield's speech in which he stated that half of the California cases were ultimately found to be vaccine strain.
Dutch case
As a report in the Dutch Journal of Medicine, Nederlands Tijdschrift der Geneeskunde, confirmed, MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella three-in-one) vaccinated children may present with mild virus symptoms 5-14 days after the vaccination. The vaccine uses live attenuated viruses which replicate on a limited level in vaccinated individuals.
Since the symptoms are indistinguishable from the wild-type virus, diagnostic tests are the only way to tell the difference. The study described the case of a 14-month-old boy who came down with measles post-vaccination:
Case description: A 14-month-old boy was admitted to the hospital with an impressive rash 13 days after MMR-vaccination. Diagnostic tests were positive for measles. This test result caused the mother to doubt further vaccination.
Was the vaccine even necessary? The authors stated that there was so little wild-type circulating that the vaccine most likely caused it:
“[t]he low incidence of wildtype measles infection strongly suggests that these symptoms will likely be a reaction to vaccination. Elaborate diagnostic procedures may cause the parents a lot of stress and therefore offering reassurance to parents may be more appropriate.” (Emphasis added.)
In MommaBear123's tweet below, Dr. Lawrence Palevsky explains that even though the live attenuated measles virus vaccine is supposed to be too weak to cause measles, it can in fact cause measles. He further claims that that case of measles will be transmissible:
[I]t is transmissible and that's a problem. As a live virus, the MMR can cause measles.
Ukraine fiasco - explosion of measles cases AFTER vaccination campaign
More than the California outbreak brings evidence of what might be, the massive Ukraine outbreak post-vaccination can be considered a serious warning.
Ukraine had a low vaccination rate and a low measles case rate until July 2017 when the WHO implemented a vaccination campaign in the country, as reported by authors Mara Gabriëlle, Daphne Knipping, and Door Frankemathe for the Dutch website Stichting Vaccinvrij:
In recent years there has been a shortage of measles vaccines in Ukraine. Vaccination rates had dropped to 31% in 2016 and were the lowest in Europe. And yet there were hardly any cases of measles. In 2017 sufficient vaccines became available for a ‘catch-up campaign’ and 90% of the children in Ukraine received the MMR.
Since then there has been an explosion of cases of measles. The number has already surpassed 12,000! Why is the media ignoring the current outbreak of measles in Ukraine? And what is really going on? [Emphases added.]
Shortly after, as shown in the below graph, which extends to April 2018, measles cases spiked precipitously. The red bars show lab-confirmed cases and the green show clinically determined cases. Stichting Vaccinvrij has concludes that the measles outbreak is caused by the vaccine campaign.
Yet, the WHO twisted the facts provide by Gabriëllel and flipped the order of events. Thus, the world body claimed that the vaccine campaign was necessary because of the 12,000 measles cases, as seen int the below WHO headline:
Gabriëlle and her team put the graph and WHO headline into perspective, claiming the WHO is not interested in whether or not it was the vaccine campaign that caused the outbreak as it orders more vaccines to fight it:
The number of cases of measles confirmed by the laboratory is relatively small. But ‘Ukraine is restoring immunization coverage in a gigantic effort to stop the outbreak of measles, which affected more than 12,000 people this year’.
It does not matter whether the campaign completely misses the target and probably causes more measles than it prevents because the reported cases may really be vaccine strain measles, not wild type measles cases. Nevertheless, a new order of vaccines has been placed to ‘combat the epidemic’. [Emphases added.]
Can a surge in mumps be expected, too?
Mmumps being one of the three vaccines included in the MMR vaccine, the U.K.'s NHS (National Health Service) has stated that it is also possible that cases of vaccine-strain mumps will occur following vaccination.
About 3 to 4 weeks after having the MMR injection, 1 in 50 children develop a mild form of mumps. This includes swelling of the glands in the cheek, neck or under the jaw, and lasts for a day or two. [Emphasis added.]
Check back for our next segment when we focus on what you can do if your child comes down with measles.
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