Texas Doc: Anti-Vaxxers Risk ‘Measles Time Bombs’ in 2018

Preface by Christopher Wyatt | TLB staff writer/documentary producer

WHAT IN THE WORLD??? I am struggling to find the right words for my preface to this article because either Dr. Peter Hotez is psychic and can predict the future, or the powers that be are telling us that there will be a planned measles outbreak in 2018. The future measles outbreak of course will be non existent and anti vaxers will be blamed! In this article there is of course the usual media attempt to paint vaccines as safe and Autism as the only concern people have about vaccines. Autism is a concern regarding vaccines but the truth is that vaccinations cause a whole host of serious injuries ranging from impaired immunity all the way to death!

The sad thing is that most people (including many non vaxers) are needlessly scared to death of the measles. Measles can be serious in the malnourished and those with underlying health issues but for most people it is an illness that is beneficial in the sense that it helps detoxify the body, strengthen the immune system, and has been shown to reduce the risk of certain cancers and autoimmune diseases.  Until the days of the measles vaccine infantile measles was unheard of because mothers who had previously had measles would pass along passive immunity that would offer the newborn immunity for the first few years of life. Afterwards the child would acquire natural immunity to the measles and the cycle would continue.  Most people are unaware of the benefits of natural immunity and fail to understand how the cycle of immunity works. Those of us who are knowledgeable on the subject have a duty to get that information out there.  EVERYONE PLEASE WAKE UP, DO YOUR RESEARCH, & ACTIVELY SEEK OUT NATURAL IMMUNITY!!! (CW)

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Texas Doc: Anti-Vaxxers Risk ‘Measles Time Bombs’ in 2018

By Merrill Hope

Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of Texas Children’s Hospital and president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, foresees a dangerous measles epidemic erupting the Lone Star State by 2018 driven by plummeting vaccination rates while propelled by an anti-vaccination movement.

In Texas and Its Measles Epidemic, a perspective for the Public Library of Science (PLOS) Medicine Journal, Hotez warns the state appears headed for an outbreak given the sharp uptick in the number of parents filing for non-medical exemptions of the Mumps, Measles, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine in recent years. Hotez stated the trend is rooted in unproven connections between vaccines and autism, but the potential consequences may result in “measles time bombs.”

The Texas-based research scientist worries measles could erupt in school districts with “low vaccination coverage,” and the most vulnerable are infants too young to be vaccinated. He also writes the dangers unvaccinated children face are potentially more severe than many may realize.

The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) reported of the 5.5 million children attending public, charter, and private schools nearly 45,000 (or 0.84 percent) opted out of school immunization laws via non-medical “conscientious” exemptions. That figure almost doubled since 2010, with a 19-fold increase when compared to 2003, the first year Texas allowed parents to reject vaccines for personal reasons. Only 18 states still allow these philosophical exemptions, Breitbart Texas reported.

The medical expert anticipates the number of unvaccinated school children will jump to 50,000 by next year, leaving Texas “dangerously close” to slipping below the 95 percent coverage rate to prevent outbreaks. Measles season generally runs from late winter to early spring. If the anti-vaxx trend continues, Hotez expects a February or March 2018 epidemic. He emphasized one contagious person could easily infect 12-18 infants too young to get the MMR vaccine. Previously, Hotez called measles a leading cause of child mortality, killing 100,000 youngsters worldwide each year.

He attributes the state’s alarming rise in vaccine exemptions to an anti-vaccination movement based on the work of leading anti-vaxx advocate Dr. Andrew Wakefield. His 1998 paper published in U.K. medical journal The Lancet alleged a connection between vaccines and autism. These claims were discredited by the medical community. The disgraced physician lost his medical license.

Wakefield relocated to Austin where he and Texans for Vaccine Choice “are heavily promoting the 2016 documentary “Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe,” Hotez wrote. Wakefield directed the film which alleges links between vaccines and autism plus a cover-up by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Earlier this year, Robert DeNiro and the Tribeca Film Festival cancelled screening the film after conferring with “others in the scientific community.”

In August, Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood appeared in an 11-minute “Vaxxed” interview that aired on the Autism Media Channel. He claimed vaccines caused his five-year-old son’s autism.

However, Hotez, the father of an adult child with autism, stated scientific studies show no link between vaccinations and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Instead, he expressed intrigue “by data indicating that neurobiological changes in children with ASD begin early in pregnancy, well before vaccinations are given.”

Breitbart Texas spoke to Hotez in greater depth about his concerns regarding unvaccinated children. He finds it troubling that Texas, the nation’s second-most populous U.S. state, has become a battleground over MMR inoculations “despite the evidence base refuting links between vaccines autism.”

“As a vaccine developer and father of an adult child with autism and developmental delays, I point out there is not even any plausibility of the link to autism.”

Hotez identified autism as a genetic and epigenetic condition. In his article, Hotez credited anti-vaxxers with stirring the pot “conflated with fringe political elements to create a dangerous and toxic mix of pseudoscience and conspiracy theories.” He suggested they will lobby Texas lawmakers to push “anti-vaccine platforms.”

This troubles Hotez, concerned unvaccinated children and infants too young to receive vaccines are put at risk. Babies get their first MMR vaccine between 12 and 15 months. During the Disneyland outbreak, a four-month-old baby was one of nine infants under a year old who caught measles, Breitbart California reported.

Last year, a Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) study argued the MMR vaccine does not cause autism. Much anti-vaxx rhetoric hinges on thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used to prevent contamination of multi-dose vials of vaccines. Between 1999 and 2001, thimerosal was removed or reduced to trace amounts in all childhood vaccines except for some flu vaccines. Since 2003, the CDC funded or conducted nine studies on thimerosal but found no autism-related link.

In the scientific journal article, Hotez addressed historical outcomes of U.S. childhood measles prior to the advent of a vaccine in the early 1960’s. “During that era, an estimated 50,000 hospitalizations occurred annually, together with 500 deaths and 4,000 cases of measles encephalitis, leading to permanent neurologic complications, deafness, or both, as well as billions of dollars in lost productivity and medical costs.”

Live Science reported on a rare yet deadly neurological disorder that can emerge several years after unvaccinated children contract measles–Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE). Marked by swelling of the brain, SSPE victims die within a year after diagnosis. While some may live longer, the condition is always fatal and has no cure. In California, researchers identified 17 SSPE cases between 1998 and 2015. The average age of children who contracted the disease was 12. Some were diagnosed as young as three. Of these cases, 16 died and one remains in hospice care, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. They cite the MMR vaccine as highly effective in reducing potential childhood SSPE cases.

Hotez told Breitbart Texas, “Children who we thought recovered from their measles, in fact, go on to develop the serious and even deadly complication SSPE associated with seizures, coma, and death.”

He punctuated the overwhelming measles risk is to infants in the first year of life, explaining they are the “measles time bombs” in an outbreak involving large sectors of unvaccinated school children where the virus spreads to this delicate population. “Infantile measles is a scary and lethal disease. It’s why I wrote the article to warn about the risk to unvaccinated infants.”

Hotez addressed Austin-based Texans for Vaccine Choice, a political action committee (PAC) dedicated to “protecting personal liberties and informed consent for all individuals” at the forefront of the anti-vaxx debate. Breitbart Texas spoke by email with the group’s director, Julie Schlegel. She said they have thousands of members across the state from varying socioeconomic backgrounds, political party and religious affiliations. Some vaccinate their children. She qualified they were “all concerned with their rights being taken away.”

In 2015, state lawmakers proposed a handful of mandatory vaccination bills, although none passed through the legislature. One, authored by Representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas), sought to end conscientious non-medical exemptions, similar to California’s SB 277,  which eliminated that option for Golden State public and private school children following the devastating Disneyland measles epidemic.

The CDC maintains vaccines are safe and do not cause autism. Schlegel asserted “nearly 4 billion dollars” was paid to individuals who claimed vaccine injuries. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) reports $3.5 billion was paid over 27 years (1988-2015) from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims through a “no fault” Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) to people who alleged vaccine injury. In 2009, this same court ruled vaccines do not cause autism, USA Today reported.

Between 2006-14, over 2.5 billion doses of various vaccines were distributed nationwide. Of all 3,637 petitions filed claiming vaccine injures, 2,287 were adjudicated by the “vaccine court.” That means, says HRSA, for every one million vaccine doses, only one person received compensation.

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3 Comments on Texas Doc: Anti-Vaxxers Risk ‘Measles Time Bombs’ in 2018

  1. Either he is willfully stupid or paid shill! I can’t believe any doctor of an autistic child is more dried about MEASLES than 50% of our population having autism by 2020 as vaccine schedules go from 90 to 200 at the rate we are going! I’m more worried that he’s setting up THEIR NEXT FALSE FLAG! Granted nobody would die from it, but you know they will make some outlandish,baseless claim like 5% died because anti-vaxxers and the next day a 2,000 page mandate bill is presented to congress! I’ve seen this play out with the Disneyland faux outbreak, the Oakland fire drill where they are ready with ordinances and spending bills for low income housing the next day! Then we have the Sandy hook hoax that took a little longer for CT to whip out their gun registration laws! But it’s obvious when an event is staged for agendas, and it’s happening weekly! Fake news is what comes into our homes by idiot box! The next tragedy story where for some reason always involves wannabe actors or two-bit actors as victim or perp (like Oakland and Pulse)! What are the odds that actors are always finding themselves in mainstream headline events?? You would have better luck hitting the powerball 30 times straight! Out of all of the career paths out there, how come every major headline story has someone in the entertainment industry either as victim or the bad guy like Comet Pizza? Even more amazing is the MSM that can tell you the story and all the reasons why it happened within minutes and sometime HOURS before it occured like the Ohio State fake stabber! The OSU event was written and uploaded 6 HOUR before it happened! Isn’t that just psychic? Or is it just propaganda sold as real events to scare the public into approving more theft of their tax money for their ready made bills and agendas? It’s so obvious that the national major media outlets are not reporting anything! They just sit back and wait for the next fake event to come along and help push their agenda for the week! If we just sit silently and allow more innocent people to be duped then we deserve to hand over our freedom and money!

  2. What in the world? Does anyone not read history anymore? The measles was always considered a nuisance illness. What’s next, promoting the chicken pox vaccine by saying how deadly it is?

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