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David Lewandowski <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:59:39 -0800
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        This is so Andy won't have to waste his valuable time searching for
references. Andy do you have references proving the efficacy of vaccines such
as measles into adulthood? What are the rates of autoimmune diseases in those
vaccinated? Where does the money trail lead?

 From What Every Parent Should Know About Childhood Vaccinations by Jamie
Murphy, pp64-65:

        Measles ranks second as a cause of death among the four leading
childhood diseases prevalent between 1911 and 1935. The death rate for measles
decreased from 27 per 100,000 in 1911 to 6 per 100,000 in 1935, a decline in
mortality of 77 percent.
        Mortality figures from twenty-two American cities revealed that measles
deaths decreased steadily from 1887 to 1935 with most of the decrease occurring
before 1920. The measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, so any assertion that
measles vaccination had a hand in the decrease in mortality is completely
unfounded. If the vaccine could not have been responsible, why did measles
deaths decline so significantly? Louis Dublin and Alfred Lotka, statisticians
and authors of the comprehensive studies done at Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company in 1937, remark that the decline in measles mortality was due to
"better nutrition, improved physical conditions, better hygienic surroundings,
and more adequate medical and nursing care during illness and convalescence."
They continue, "The use of convalescent serum is both too recent and too
limited to explain any substantial part of the downward trend." George Bigalow,
M.D.,chairman of the White House Committee on Communicable Disease Control in
1931, commented that during the 1920s while the general mortality from measles
was only 5 to 10 deaths per 100,000, the case-fatality rates (or the proportion
of cases of a specified disease which are fatal within a specified time),
perhaps reached 35 percent in the infant asylums due to "the prevalence of
rickets and other forms of malnutrition, the overcrowding, and inadequate
nursing and hygienic care." Furthermore, he notes that :higher fatality rates
among Negroes and Indians are more likely due to living conditions, and
inadequate medical and nursing care, than to inherent hypersusceptiblity."
These observations were significant, not only for the time period in which they
were made, but also for the present; and they will be helpful later on when we
evaluate the increased incidence of measles cases in the United States since
1983.

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