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Disease, by Mandell and Ralph, contains the following information on polio vaccines: Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr Haas and his col- league, Dr Vernon Wendt, warmed that the illness could appear in as many as 400,000 persons. The worrying thing is that this condition may not emerge until many years later. Dr Haas treated a 17-year- old female patient with atypical measles who received the killed vaccine 14 years earlier. As Dr Haas stated, "The age of our patient and the 14-year delay suggested that there was no certain time limit between immunization and the onset of atypical measles." Dr Marshall Horowitz, a noted virologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and among the first to identify atypical measles, made the following statement on this disaster: "There is no way to predict when this will stop. I will not predict that it will get milder as we get further away from the initial vaccination. Not all the cases of atypical measles have been reported but probably hun- dreds (or thousands) of cases have occurred." The killed measles vaccine was eventually abandoned and replaced by a live vaccine. The Australian Medical Journal (17/3/1973, p. 552) states: “The inactivated (Salk) vaccine has not been reported to produce any adverse effects. Oral live polio virus vaccine (Sabin) has rarely been associated with paralytic disease in recipients or in close con- tact of recipients." As Ross Horne, author of Health Revolution would say, "The mind boggles." In the USA, the history of measles vaccine campaigns has been nothing less than one of outright failure. According to Dr Robert Mendelsohn: "In 1978 a survey of 30 States (US) showed that more than half of the children who contracted measles had been adequately vaccinated." "...46% of individuals who were vaccinated with live vaccine following a course of killed measles vaccine developed erythe- ma and induration at the site of the injection. Reactions have also been reported in children exposed to natural measles who had previously been vaccinated with killed vaccine. These have taken the form of pp measles with urticaria, petechial es §=— 290 purpuric lesions and severe pneu- monia and fever." 5 ma and induration at the site of the injection. Reactions have Ia what tomed out ta be a prophetic statement, or should say also been reported in children exposed to natural measles who understatement’, Science News (13/9/1986) stated: “The war iad previously been vaccinated with killed vaccine. These against measles isn't going according to plan." According to have taken the form of atypical measles with urticaria, petechial Morbidity and Mortality Report (MMWR, and purpuric lesions and severe pneu- October 1990): “Of all persons who monia and fever." acquired measles in college settings from ae — — Dr Mendelsohn states that the live 31% had evidence - Bet iain "In 1978 a surve of 30 measles vaccine is associated with ne : encephalopathy and subacute sclerosing In the MMWR ( 27 July 1990 edition), it Salitts. which h é " eke i ta’ Wi panencephalitis, which causes hardening o! states tn 1388, 5) niente om @ States (US) sho ed that the brain and is invariably fatal. Secondary the US involving predominantly school-age more than half of the complications include multiple sclerosis, persons accounted for 32% of all reported . Reye’ di , blood-clotting disord cases. As many as 89% of patients in these children who contracted an | jecuslinanast Uae = exian pats outbreaks had been vaccinated on or after 1 their first birthday." In 1989, of the 17,850 measles had been See prncly veccnatsd anf 6/33 had evience @eqUately Vaccinated.” — 7 would consider the risks sssocated of previous vaccination (MMWR, 1 June oa Gren Sis quntetey actions 1990). Dr Robert Mendelsohn that the vaccine works. There isn't." The Journal of the American Medical Association (21/11/1990) contains an article Dr Archie Kalokerinos, in his talk at the on measles which states: sss "aural health convention, Stanwell Tops, NSW (May 1987), comments on the "Although more than 95% of school-aged children in the measles campaign in Africa: United States are vaccinated against measles. large measles out- "| would consider the risks associated with measles vaccination unacceptable even if there were convincing evidence that the vaccine works. There isn't." "Although more than 95% of school-aged children in the United States are vaccinated against measles, large measles out- breaks continue to occur in schools, and most cases in this set- ting occur among previously vaccinated children." "It was similar with measles vaccination. They went through Africa, South America and elsewhere and vaccinated sick and starving children... They claimed they wiped out measles, but they can't substantiate that claim. Measles is a disease that is changing. Most of those susceptible to measles died from some other disease or other that they developed as a result of being vaccinated. It reduced their immune levels and acted like an infection and knocked them out. They might have got septi- caemia, gastro-enteritis, etc., or made their nutritional status worse and they died from malnutrition. So there were very few susceptible infants left alive to get measles. It is one way to pet eat statistics, kill all those that are susceptible, which is what they literally did." In Hungary, between December 1988 to May 1989, there were 19,000 measles cases of which 77% aged between 17 and 21 had histories of receiving the live measles vaccine. The editorial accom- panying this report (MMWR, 6/10/1989) said: “The high age-specif- ic attack rates in this age group in which vaccine coverage was at least 93%, suggest that vaccine failure played a major role in this epidemic.” Despite high levels of measles vaccination among Australian chil- dren (approximately 80 per cent) outbreaks still occurred in several states during 1990. According to Dr Michael Levy of the NSW Health Department, 50 per cent of measles cases in NSW occurred in children between 6-10 years in which it was "uncertain" whether these children had even been immunised. In Victoria, Hunter Area Health Service Medical Officer, Dr John Stephenson, said that about 20 per cent of children affected by the Hunter's measles outbreak had received the measles vaccine. In 1963 both the USA and Canada began using a killed measles vaccine. Over 600,000 children received this vaccine of which a vast number became subject, as young adults, to what is known as ‘atypical measles’, a condition characterised by severe pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions. In a paper published in the GERMAN MEASLES (RUBELLA) VACCINE Rubella vaccinations on a large scale commenced in Australia in 1971. The Australasian Nurses Journal (November 1981) contains an article titled, "Rubella Immunisation: A Tangle of Absurdities, and Some Comments" by Dr Archie Kalokerinos and Dr Glen Dettman. These doctors wrote: “After years of vaccinating in the UK, the USA and Australia, there is no encouraging evidence to demonstrate that maternal 32°NEXUS JUNE - JULY 1993 MEASLES VACCINE