Berlin, Germany's capital, has seen a very large measles outbreak on the past months. Since October 2014, 574 measles cases had been reported.
Today, the Berlin health senator confirmed that on 18 February 2015, an 18 month old toddler, who had not been vaccinated against measles, and did not have any chronic disease, died after having been treated for measles infection in the Charité hospital for 5 days. While the child was vaccinated against some diseases, according to the German media, he had not received the recommended MMR. In Germany, the first MMR is usually given between 11 and 14 months and the second is recommended between 15 and 24 months.
Over the past couple of years, discussions about mandatory vaccination had come up in Germany, some child care centers had begun to only accept vaccinated children, and discussions are unlikely to subside now. The question is whether parents, who are already afraid/suspect of the government could be convinced by a mandate - suggestions are welcome how to reach them better.
Meanwhile, our heartfelt thoughts go to the boy's family and everyone whose lives he touched. Another preventable measles death too many.
Today, the Berlin health senator confirmed that on 18 February 2015, an 18 month old toddler, who had not been vaccinated against measles, and did not have any chronic disease, died after having been treated for measles infection in the Charité hospital for 5 days. While the child was vaccinated against some diseases, according to the German media, he had not received the recommended MMR. In Germany, the first MMR is usually given between 11 and 14 months and the second is recommended between 15 and 24 months.
Over the past couple of years, discussions about mandatory vaccination had come up in Germany, some child care centers had begun to only accept vaccinated children, and discussions are unlikely to subside now. The question is whether parents, who are already afraid/suspect of the government could be convinced by a mandate - suggestions are welcome how to reach them better.
Meanwhile, our heartfelt thoughts go to the boy's family and everyone whose lives he touched. Another preventable measles death too many.
My thoughts are with the family and friends of the toddler who died from measles in Berlin.
ReplyDeletePerhaps his death will bring about a new awareness of the importance of having children immunized on time against this serious, sometimes deadly, vaccine-preventable disease.
My heart breaks for the family of this toddler as I know firsthand what a vaccine-preventable disease does to a healthy child and the devastating life path it creates for her and the family bit.ly/1LnA6wl
DeleteI want to make sure that others see Ms. Herman's blogpost at: http://www.measlesrubellainitiative.org/measles-sister/
ReplyDeleteA must-read for those who think that measles is "no big deal". Thank you for sharing Ms. Herman; that couldn't have been easy to write.
Science Mom, can you address the following? I'll have to post it in two comments because your comment boxes are limited to 4.096 characters.
ReplyDeleteThe Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics indicates peripheral lymphoid tissue does not reach adult size until approximately 6 years of age. It is during this 6 year growth period that children have heightened immunologic vulnerability.
The immune system is divided into two major classes—cellular immunity and humoral immunity. Cellular immunity involves the mucous membranes and humoral immunity involves plasma cells in marrow.
Most natural exposure to viruses, fungus and bacteria occurs in the mucous membrane and stimulates cellular immunity involving macrophage activation with cytotoxic T lymphocytes as the major agent. This cellular immunity controls viruses, fungus and bacterial assaults on the body.
Humoral immunity, which is what we get with vaccination, is predominantly involved with bacterial control and only secondarily involved with viruses and fungal assaults on the body.
Both of these immunity classes are governed by TH lymphocytes. During infancy these naive or uncommitted TH lymphocytes are differentiated into either armed TH1 cells which govern in cellular immunity or armed TH2 cells which govern in humoral immunity.
This initial differentiation during which TH cells become either armed TH1 or armed TH2 cells has a critical impact on the outcome of adaptive immune response depending upon whether immune response is dominated by cell-mediated activation of the former or antibody activation/production of the latter.
This differentiation is profoundly affected by cytokines serving as chemicals messengers and produced by lymphocytes. Interleukin 12 and Interferon gamma, two cytokines, tend to promote the development of TH1 cells. Interleukin 4, 5, 6 and 10 promote the differentiation of TH2 cells.
What's there to reply to? Just a lot of mental masturbation on your part of which you got a lot wrong. Vaccines also stimulate cell-mediated immunity, some more than others. Humoral immune responses also neutralise viruses. So your point is?
DeleteOnce one subset becomes dominant it is difficult if not impossible to shift the response to the other subset as the cytokines from one subset tend to dominate the other. The overall effect is that certain responses are dominated by either humoral (TH2) or cell-mediated (TH2) responses.
ReplyDeleteIn both the New England Journal of Medicine and Thorax we have reports and studies stating that a healthy immune system has a bias towards the TH1 (cell-mediated) immune system while people with allergies, asthma and autoimmune diseases have what is known as the TH2-skewed immune response as a result of vaccination.
In the days before immunizations most infant exposures would have come through the mucous membranes, thereby establishing a healthy TH1 immune system bias, whereas today, infant immune systems can be captured, so to speak, by immunizations injected into the blood stream and directed at stimulating humoral immunity.
By so doing their immune systems are being skewed into permanent dominance of the TH2 immune system, with its proneness to allergies and autoimmune diseases. Dr. HH Fudenberg wrote about this years ago, that vaccines and especially trivalent vaccines, cause us to be susceptible to otitis media in particular but also to viral, fungal and bacterial infections for a lifetime. This isn't exactly new science.
We see this in certain other vaccines where the Institute of Medicine through the National Academies Collection published a 1991 report titled Adverse Effects of Pertussis and Rubella Vaccines wherein they stated, "the evidence is consistent with a causal relation between DPT vaccine and acute encephalopathy and shock and “unusual shock-like state,” and between RA 27/3 rubella vaccine and chronic arthritis; and that the evidence indicates a causal relation between DPT vaccine and anaphylaxis, between the pertussis component of DPT vaccine and protracted, inconsolable crying, and between RA 27/3 rubella vaccine and acute arthritis.”
I'm wondering how you reconcile your position with the actual uncontested and published peer reviewed science? I mean this material is, as I stated above, not at all new. It might be relatively unknown but it's surely not unknown to those of us that read peer review. I'm wondering how you sleep at night with the knowledge that your advice causes harm to a certain subset of children?
I'm also wondering how much you know about genetic mutation as a result of vaccination? Howard B Urnovitz and his colleagues have been studying the implications of vaccines in cancer, Persian Gulf War Syndrome, multiple sclerosis, and AIDS. Urnovitz, who holds doctorates in immunology and microbiology from the University of Michigan where he studied vaccines, has become one of the most vocal proponents for scientists to become aware of vaccine-associated genetic mutations.
ReplyDeleteProbably Urnovitz and colleagues are best known for the work they have published on the Gulf War Syndrome (GWS), where they found evidence of genetic alterations in Chromosome 22q11.2, a known genetic “hot spot” for mutations, which appears to have a role in the pathogenesis of GWS.
Even more striking, when they sequenced their findings, many enteroviral-similar segments were found, suggesting that this may have played a role in causing the changes in 22q11.2 chromosome. Most Gulf War veterans received the oral poliovirus vaccine, which according to the work of Martin, has been shown to be contaminated with the simian CMV. To further strengthen the possibility of a connection, polio virus is an enterovirus.
The second example is that of M.G. Montinari and colleagues who investigated the relationship between postvaccine central nervous system (CNS) diseases and mutation of human leukocyte antigens (HLA), diseases which strip the body’s brain and nerve tissues of the outer coating of myelin.
The HLA system is one which aids an individual’s immune system to differentiate that which is “self” from that which is “nonself.” Although the mechanisms are complex, it is a system which, during embryonic life, learns to recognize healthy or normal cells of the body as “self” so that these cells will remain unmolested by the search and destroy mechanisms of the immune system. Of special concern is that the HLA system also carries an increased proneness to polymorphism (mutation), the mutations in turn possibly resulting in an impairment of self-recognition.
Montinari found that certain alleles of HLA were more frequent in patients with postvaccine-induced illness, which indicates an immunogenetic basis for such illnesses. Montinari implicated vaccine preservatives such as thimerosal as causing genetic mutations by modifying the amino acids in presenting antigen proteins.
There's so much more. Frankly, it's shameful that you dispense advice to vaccinate on terribly biased and distorted information while also omitting extraordinarily important data. I realize that you probably front for the pharmaceutical industry but honestly, are a few dollars worth the lifelong disabilities your advice is responsible for or the distorted and warped perspectives that you instill in your few readers?
And if you don't front for the pharmaceutical companies, why would you dispense purely fictional perspectives to people that are simply looking for the truth?
Prager, you're either dumb as a stump or a lying sack of shit; neither bode well for you. I just took a look at one of your wanking paragraphs:
DeleteEven more striking, when they sequenced their findings, many enteroviral-similar segments were found, suggesting that this may have played a role in causing the changes in 22q11.2 chromosome. Most Gulf War veterans received the oral poliovirus vaccine, which according to the work of Martin, has been shown to be contaminated with the simian CMV. To further strengthen the possibility of a connection, polio virus is an enterovirus.
Now here's the original study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC103718/
Your claim that they implicated polio virus and found it has a little problem...
You are wrong.
I'll get to your other moronic claims when I have time.
The third example, and slightly more complex science, is the work of Farhad Imani and Kelly Kehoe whose studies demonstrated that infection of human B cells with rhinovirus or measles could lead to the initial steps of IgE antibody class switching, as expressed in the abstract to their report:
ReplyDelete“Circulating immunoglobulin E (IgE) is one of the characteristics of human allergic diseases including allergic asthma. We recently showed that infection of human B cells (lymphocytes located in bone marrow) with rhinovirus or measles virus could lead to the initial steps of IgE class (DNA) switching. Since many viral vaccines are live viruses, we speculated that live virus vaccines may also induce IgE class switching in human B cells. To examine this possibility, we selected the commonly used live attenuated measles mumps rubella (MMR) vaccine....Our data suggest that a potential side effect of vaccination with live attenuated viruses may be an increase in the expression of IgE.”
It might be added that if there is a switching in B lymphocyte DNA towards increased IgE antibody production from viral vaccines, associated with increased allergic disorders, it is rea- sonable to assume that there would also be switching away from the protective IgG (gamma globulin) antibodies.
Really, you should be absolutely ashamed of yourself although I fully realize this is highly unlikely.
So says the Conspiracy-theorist...sorry, try harder next time.
ReplyDeleteI am posting this as part of my English composition class project. It is meant to be a summary of my final paper.
ReplyDeleteIt has been concluded that Measles is a highly contagious disease that affects children and young adults. The vaccine for this virus is the two dose MMR vaccine. Children that are unvaccinated can become fatally ill. Roughly 60% of children that contracted measles die from Pneumonia and adults die from encephalitis. The best way to prevent children and adults from becoming contagious is to vaccinate. The increase of cases in children has occurred because of the large number of people that are against the vaccine. Reasons parents are against the MMR vaccine is the fear of having their children develop autism, and a new found passion for eating healthfully and living a more natural and organic life. Part of the reason for this reaction is the study that made a linkage between the MMR vaccine and the development of autism. This study was proven to be fraudulent. The CDC has conducted multiple controlled case studies and found no connection between the MMR vaccine and Autism. In fact, the vaccine has been found to be completely safe. The only demographic that should not be vaccinated are immunocompromised children.
Brigitte, great job, looks like you have a very bright future in the pharmaceutical industry. Hopefully, your children, if you choose to have them, will not suffer any non existent vaccine damage. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteCare to point out any facts that Brigitte got wrong?
DeleteOh I see, brave Anonymous pulls out the passive-aggressive form of the pharma shill gambit and flounces. Newsflash for you Anon, the vaccine damage stories are bullshit and more laypeople are getting that hence ignoring the tear-jerking, baby-shield testimonials at state congressional meetings and denials of claims at the NVICP.
DeleteHello, Travis. Are you having more identity problems? Have you now decided to identify as a mother of three grown children?
DeleteJust reading this. You mean almost $4,000,000,000.00 worth of compensation payouts for vaccine injury is bullshit? Wow. You mentioned denial - you definitely are in denial.
ReplyDeleteWhat does that have to do with a little boy who died from measles in Germany?
DeleteIf you mean the American National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, then I think you need to do a little math problem. Look at the table of the latest statistics for that program.
Go down to the last line that says "Grand Total", and get the total number of vaccines given during the time period covered by the table. It is 2,532,428,541 vaccines. Then go over and find the number of total compensated claims, which is 2054 compensated claims. Divide the first number by the second number.
What number did you get? What does it mean? Do you think a person will do better in a regular court room than in Vaccine Court with its lenient rules for evidence?
4 Billion? It's barely over 3 Billion....over 28 years....I guess the anti-vaxers wouldn't know the truth if it came up and bit them.
DeleteWhy do people get so worked up on vaccines? Shut the Fugg up and take your vaccine like a good little slave and eat whatever shite you want. This toddler had no immune system...if he/she had been on healthy food and was breast feeding..this would be unlikely. I'm willing to bet this toddler was not breast fed or had a good diet.
ReplyDeleteWow, aren't you a peach....what a way to blame the victim here.
DeleteHi, Travis. Are you still working though those identity issues? Perhaps you should speak to someone about that.
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