Now I'll have to go and find whatever it was that I read. > On 09 March 2019 at 22:50 Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Mike, > > I just re-read the 1998 paper and his 1999 follow-up letter. The point of > both was a putative link between MMR vaccine and autism. There were signs of > inflammation in some of his subjects’ colons, but no virus was recovered (or > even sought. > > Rick > > > On Mar 9, 2019, at 10:34 AM, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> 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)?
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