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NORTH KENT: Parents assured over safety of MMR vaccine


PARENTS are being encouraged to ensure their children have the MMR vaccine after claims it was linked to autism were quashed.

Last week the Lancet medical journal retracted “spurious” research it had originally published which linked autism and the MMR jab.

This followed the announcement the paper’s main author, Dr Andrew Wakefield, was ruled by the General Medical Council to have broken research rules.

The director of health improvement at NHS West Kent, Dr Declan O’Neill, said: “It is hoped this will bring to an end the saga of anxiety and misinformation triggered by this unethical action.

“It is very unfortunate that we still do not know the cause of autism, however there has been a mountain of research now which disproves the contention made in the spurious article twelve years ago and which the Lancet has finally withdrawn.”


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Creaky, Bromley says...
12:08pm Tue 9 Feb 10

Don't believe anything the government tells you.

Paul2222, London says...
9:17pm Tue 9 Feb 10

The effects of the GMC hearing are to warn off doctors from expressing similar concerns about one size fits all vaccination policy and to ensure that scientists won’t investigate vaccine safety. The effect is to ensure government contracts with the large drug-makers are safeguarded and that clauses compelling government to make good their loss of earnings should MMR sales drastically fall are not activated. The commercial interests of the drug-makers take priority over research into why autism has increased dramatically.

The plan has been to “discredit” the doctors and ensure they are left undefended in the media. The press have been compelled to refer to their “discredited” work. But scientists claiming this have never fully replicated their work; the doctors’ research remains original and significant.

Independent research into why autism has increased must be funded, without powerful drug makers influencing the research agenda to keep share prices high and protect their products.

RobertSnozers, Tonbridge says...
9:19am Thu 11 Feb 10

I'm still amazed by the flat-earthers who won't accept that MMR, now one of the most researched drugs on the planet, is safe. And there hasn't been an increase in autism - what there has been is a widening of what is understood by the term and a large increase in identified cases because people are now so worried about it. What has increased is measles, mumps and rubella and there has been at least one death which could have been avoided. Do us a favour and find another conspiracy theory to carp about. I hear climate change is nice at this time of year.

yummymummyhere, bexley says...
5:28pm Thu 11 Feb 10

MMR safe? I cannot believe that! I thought my son was going to die 45mins after having this poison injected into him. Silly me for not looking into it before. Well, once I did look into it I was horrified. I now have a list of ingredients of what is in these vaccines-BTW, my Dr. was shocked when I showed her the list. (don't you think they should know what's in these before advising patients?)-sorbitol, hydrolized gelatin, chick embryonic fluid, and human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue (mmm nice!). There also appears to be 25 vaccinations for kids before they are 2! Most have Mercury in them and yet they still say there is no link?WTF, they feed parents BS about "Nasty" diseases and to "protect" them, when in truth the immune system is more than up to the job. No Dr. no matter how many letters they have after there name, can convince me that the MMR poison is safe! (all my opinion of course )

yummymummyhere, bexley says...
5:35pm Thu 11 Feb 10

A piece taken from the recent article published by actor Jim Carrey - We have never argued that people shouldn’t be immunized for the most serious threats including measles and polio, but surely there’s a limit as to how many viruses and toxins can be introduced into the body of a small child. Veterinarians found out years ago that in many cases they were over-immunizing our pets, a syndrome they call Vaccinosis. It overwhelmed the immune system of the animals, causing myriad physical and neurological disorders. Sound familiar? If you can over-immunize a dog, is it so far out to assume that you can over-immunize a child? These forward thinking vets also decided to remove thimerosal from animal vaccines in 1992, and yet this substance, which is 49% mercury, is still in human vaccines. Don’t our children deserve as much consideration as our pets?

I think I’d rather listen to the more sensible voice of Dr. Bernadine Healy, former head of the National Institute of Health, who says:



Listen to the patients and the patients will teach…I think there is an inexcusable issue, and that’s the lack of research that’s been done here…A parent can legitimately question giving a one-day old baby, or a two-day old baby Hepatitis B vaccine that has no risk for it the mother has no risk for it. That’s a heavy-duty vaccine given on day two . I think those are legitimate questions.

I hope more people wake up and not believe everything the government tell us.

RobertSnozers, Tonbridge says...
8:58am Fri 12 Feb 10

Before 1998 - 100 or so deaths a year from measles in the UK. Since then - one (and that was after the scare caused numerous outbreaks). How many deaths directly attributable to MMR?

yummymummyhere, bexley says...
10:48am Fri 12 Feb 10

Well I don't think anyone will know the true numbers. There have been alot of Drs who have spoken out on their findings that alot of illness/deaths actually caught from the MMR itself just get hidden and diagnosed as something completely different! Please just check this article published yesterday.. 77 percent of those infected with Mumps had been vaccinated- http://www.naturalne
ws.com/028142_mumps_
vaccines.html Also alot of youngster's who died from the meningitis - already had been vaccinated against it. All I am saying is look into this very carefully before getting your children vaccinated against anything, at least then you can have better judgement. Before my son had a severe reaction to his jab, I believed everything my Dr told me, thought I was doing the best thing for my baby- But my Dr did'nt even know whats in the stuff. So I can no longer trust what my Drs are telling me if they themselves are too ignorant or stupid for not knowing what they are giving their patients.

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Health experts call for more parents to immunise their children NORTH KENT: Parents assured over safety of MMR vaccine

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