> On 09 March 2019 at 02:39 Rick Womer <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
