“As many as 1 out of every 20 children with measles gets pneumonia, and about 1 child in every 1,000 who get measles will develop encephalitis. (Which can lead to convulsions, and can leave the child deaf or mentally retarded.) Two out of every 1,000 children who get measles will die from it. Measles also can make a pregnant woman have a miscarriage…”
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
“Complications from mumps infection can include meningitis (inflammation of the brain and spinal cord), orchitis (swelling of the testicles), oophoritis (swelling of the ovaries), pancreatitits, or hearing loss. Infection in women in the first trimester of pregnancy can result in spontaneous abortion.”
Ontario Ministry of Health
“In 80% of cases where a pregnant woman has rubella in the first 5 months of pregnancy, the fetus will get rubella before it is born… the baby may be blind, deaf or have heart damage… 10% of babies born with rubella will die during the first 12 months of life. There is no treatment for rubella in babies.”
Canadian Paediatric Society
“Data released last February for England and Wales showed a rise in measles cases of more than 70 percent in 2008 from the previous year, mostly due to unvaccinated children.”
“Medical journal retracts autism paper 12 years on”, Reuters; Feb 2, 2010
Sometimes it can take decades for what people consider to be a truth to be exposed as an absurdity.
Unfortunately, during those years, the absurdity can be devastating to large groups of people, and even deadly.
In 1998 a research paper was published in the prestigious Lancet medical journal, written by a previously unknown American doctor while working at the Royal Free Hospital in Britain, as “an Honorary Consultant in Experimental Gastroenterology”.
Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s study suggested there was a causal connection between vaccinations for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR vaccines) to autism and bowel diseases in children. The conclusions of his study were based on a minuscule sample population of twelve children. The long term results of his study could be the deaths of hundreds of children.
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