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intravascular complexing of particulate antigen (whole-cell or THE UK MEASLES EPIDEMIC THAT NEVER WAS acellular pertussis organisms) (Wilkins, 1988*). However, vacci- The term "Munchausen syndrome per proxy" has been used to nators have great difficulty with this, and as a rule draw largely identify individuals who kill or otherwise harm a child in order to irrelevant timelines for accepting the causal link between adminis- attract attention to themselves. The term was used in many tration of vaccines and onset of reactions—usually 24 hours or up _ instances in the 1980s when earlier attempts were fashioned to to seven days. However, most reactions to vaccines are delayed, explain some of the cases of sudden infant death. and most cases are then considered unrelated to vaccination. According to Meadow (1995),"* "Munchausen syndrome per One only has to peruse a product insert of hepatitis B vaccine to —_— proxy" is flamboyant terminology originally used for journalistic see that besides local reactions, a number of neurological signs reasons. It was a term commonly applied to adults who presented may occur, such as paraesthesia and paralysis (including Guillain- themselves with false illness stories, just like the fictional Baron Barre syndrome, optic neuritis and multiple sclerosis). von Munchausen who travelled on cannon balls. The term is now Devin et al. (1996)° described retinal haemorrhages which are used to apply to parents of children who present with false illness emphatically being considered the sure sign of child abuse, even stories fabricated by a parent or someone else in that position. though these can be and are caused by vaccines. Goetting and While the term may have some validity in describing this spe- Sowa (1990)" described retinal haemorrhage which occurred after cial form of child abuse in the documented cases of parents slow- cardiopulmonary resuscitation in children. ly poisoning their child or exposing it to unnecessary and often Bulging fontanelle due to brain swelling was described by dangerous and invasive medical treatments, more recently it Jacob and Mannino (1979)!'! as a direct reaction to the DPT vaccine. They described a case of a seven- month-old baby who, nine hours | The court system should therefore after the third DPT vaccination, developed a bulging anterior be more open to the documented fontanelle and became febrile and viable and alternative irritable. Bruising and easy bleeding is one explanations of the observed of the characteristic signs of the injuries and be more wary of the 3 blood clotting disorder, thrombocy- topenia—a recognised side-effect of obviously biased statements of the many vaccines. Its first signs are provaccination "experts’... easy bruising and bleeding and petechial (spotlike) rash. Thrombo- became a way for some doctors to camouflage the real observed side- effects of especially measles (M), measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) and measles-rubella (MR) vaccinations in the UK. Many thousands of British children (up to 15,000 in my consid- ered opinion) developed signs of autism usually associated with bowel symptoms after being given the above vaccines in 1994. The Bulletin of Medical Ethics published two articles, in 1994 and 1995, dealing with this problem. The October 1994 article ("Is your cytopenia may result in brain and measles jab really necessary?") stated other haemorrhages (Woerner et al., that during November 1994 the UK 1981"). Government would be running a mass campaign of measles vacci- The convulsions which follow one in 1,750 doses of the DPT nation with the intention of reaching every child between the ages vaccines (Cody et al., 1981'*) can result in unexplained falls in of five and sixteen. bigger children who can sit up or stand, which may cause linear It claimed that the purpose of this campaign was to prevent an cracks of the skull and other fractures. When one considers that epidemic that would otherwise occur in 1995, with up to 200,000 babies are supposed to get a minimum of three doses of DPT and cases and up to 50 deaths. The article also showed that since OPV (oral polio vaccine), then the risk of developing a convul- 1990 there have been only 8,000 to 10,000 cases of measles each sion is one in 580, and with five doses the risk rises to one in 350. year in England and Wales, and that coincidentally there was an This means that a great number of babies develop convulsions epidemic of only about 5,000 cases in Scotland in the winter of after vaccination between the ages of two to six months, at about 1993-94. Between May and August 1994 the notification rate in 18 months, and at five to six years. The convulsions often occur = England and Wales dropped sharply, so there was nothing that when the parent or another carer is not looking, and the child, clearly suggested an imminent epidemic. while standing or sitting on the floor, simply falls backwards or The nine-page article in the August 1995 issue of BME stated onto its arm. among other things that on 14 September 1992 the Department of All these signs can be misdiagnosed as a result of mechanical Health (DoH) hastily withdrew two brands of MMR vaccines fol- injuries, particularly so because vaccinators simply refuse to lowing a leak to the national press about the risk of children admit that vaccines cause serious injuries, or they only pay lip ser- developing mumps meningitis after administration of these vac- vice to the damage caused by the pernicious routine of up to 18 cines. Both brands contained the Urabe mumps vaccine strain vaccines with which babies are supposed to be injected within six _ which had been shown to cause mumps meningitis in one in 1,044 months of birth. vaccinees (Yawata, 1994'5). The court system should therefore be more open to the docu- Based on the epidemiology of measles, there was never going mented viable and alternative explanations of the observed to be a measles epidemic in 1995 and there was certainly no justi- injuries, and be more wary of the obviously biased statements of _ fication for concomitant rubella vaccination. The mass campaign the provaccination "experts", that nothing else but vigorous shak- was planned as an experimental alternative to a two-dose schedule ing can cause retinal haemorrhages—even though such statements of measles-mumps-rubella vaccination. The UK Government only reflect their ignorance. Such "experts" then go home and knowingly misled parents about the need for the campaign and continue advising parents to vaccinate, and thus, with impunity, about the relative risks of measles and measles vaccination. The they cause more and more cases of vaccine-injured babies and DoH broke the European Union's law about contracts and tender- children. ing to ensure that specific pharmaceutical companies were award- NEXUS - 37 THE UK MEASLES EPIDEMIC THAT NEVER WAS provaccination “experts”... AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1998