Re: Diarrhea vaccine urged for all children

On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 21:37:29 -0400, "Jan Drew" <jdrew1374@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dr. Wakefield,

This is an Open Letter to Wakefield:

http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/?p=354

<quote>
Open Letter To Andrew Wakefield

Dear Mr Wakefield,

Following your announcement of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, uptake
rates of this vaccine in the UK have fallen to amongst the lowest in Europe:

Take-up rates of the jab dropped throughout the UK, down to less than 70% in
some areas, after a small-scale study published in The Lancet in 1998 by Dr
Andrew Wakefield suggested a link to autism.

Source.

In 2004, mumps cases in the England and Wales rose from 4,204 in 2003 to 16,436
in 2004, nearly a four-fold increase.

And in the first month of 2005, there were nearly 5,000 cases. Most were among
young adults born before 1988 and who would, therefore, not have been offered
MMR as a child. In the second paper, Dr Ravindra Gupta, from London's Guy's and
St Thomas', working with colleagues from King's College London, found cases have
also occurring in very young children who would have been eligible for the MMR -
measles, mumps and rubella - vaccine&..Dr Gupta (...) said uptake of MMR among
two-year-olds in the UK fell from around 92% in early 1995 to around 80% in
2003/4.

Source.

In October 2004, experts predicted that due to falling vaccination uptake, the
UK would start to suffer from "small outbreaks":

The medical newspaper Pulse has warned that there could be a measles epidemic
this winter on a scale last seen in the 1960s. It said that lowering levels of
immunity meant as many as 12% of children and 20% of adults could be
hospitalised if infected by measles.

Source.

And now, this year, 18 months after this warning, we have the UK's first measles
induced fatality in 14 years.

The 13-year-old who died last month lived in a travellersâ¬" community. It is
thought that he had a weakened immune system; he was being treated for a lung
condition. The boy died of an infection of the central nervous system caused by
a reaction to the measles virus.

The Health Protection Agency described his death as shocking.

Source

The Times also says that of the 72 reported measles cases last month, 9 required
hospitalisation - this tallies almost exactly with the 2004 prediction of a
hospitalisation rate of 12%.


I have a few questions for you Mr Wakefield.

Do you accept that there is a strong causative correlation between the falling
MMR vaccine uptake and the rise in both mumps and measles? If you do not, could
you please explain why not. If you do could you please explain what you feel is
your role in these matters.

Is it true that, as reported by Brian Deer in the Times and in the Channel 4
current affairs programme "Dispatches", that you received up to £55,000 to find
scientific evidence of a link between MMR and autism and that you did not
disclose you were being funded through solicitors seeking evidence to use
against vaccine manufacturers?

Is it true that the vast majority of your subjects from the Lancet study were
not, as you claimed, captured through the normal referral process, but actually
supplied to you by lawyers representing these people and their families in
vaccine litigation?

Is it true that up to nine months prior to the publication of your paper showing
a link between the MMR vaccine and autism that you and the Royal Free (where you
conducted your research) filed numerous patent applications which were
alternatives to the MMR vaccine? If you did, would you consider it a lucky guess
that led you to do this seeing as your MMR paper had yet to be published?

Do you believe, like your collaborator Hugh Fudenberg, that:

Some parents would rather see their kid die than live as a severely autistic.
Source.

These are serious matters Mr Wakefield. I'm aware that you are pursuing three
court cases related to these matters (although at least one is currently stayed)
and you are also due to be investigated by the GMC sometime this year but as the
parent of an autistic child - in short exactly the sort of person you claim to
want to help - I need answers now. What I read of you indicates wrong doing on
a grand scale. If these things are established to be true you are guilty of not
only extreme medical negligence but also of betraying thousands of parents and
forcing thousands of autistic children to undergo totally unnecessary and highly
invasive medical procedures.

You need to account for yourself Mr Wakefield. Please don't wait for more
children to be hospitalised or die.
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If Wakefield were a strong and real promoter of vaccination, each pick that the
esoterics would have against Wakefield, the would put into attacks against him.
But as he is helping the esoterics in their anti-vaccination war, they couve up
all his mess. What an insane and corrupt bunch of liars.

--
Für eine wehrhafte Medizin!

http://wehrhafte.medizin.se
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