Measles Herd Immunity?

Measles is a prevalent disease and practically most if not all children

get it before they reach puberty. I also has a characteristic
epidemiology which was a subject of interest to Hedrich, who, in
1933 published a study on the epidemiological patterns of measles in
Baltimore from 1900 to 1931. He concluded that when 54%-67% of
the children less than 15 years of age were immune to measles,
epidemics did not occur. This is the basis of the concept of herd
immunity.

Cherry (1980) wrote that “…today we would regard that proportion

of immunes to susceptible as as too low, but we still retain the basic
concept – that there excists a threshold of herd immunity that will
prevent epidemics.”

We know that today, in the US, with 98% immunisation status due to
enforced vaccination, epidedemics of measles still occur at three to
four years intervals, unmabated, and uninfluenced by vaccination.

The Amish, a religious group of people living right across the central
part of the United States, claim religious exemption to vaccination and
are practically unvaccinated. They have not experieced a single case
of measles between 1970 and 1987 (for eighteen years) (Sutter et al.
1996). Then on 5 December 1987, the first case of measles appeared
followed by a major outbreaks of measles. However, during this long
time interval of eighteen years, the well-vaccinated outside
communities experienced 2-3 year regular epidemics of measles, in
fully vaccinated populations. It is likely that without measles
vaccination, also the outside communities wouldn’t have any cases of
measles. Vaccination kept measles occurring. This is not surprising
because vaccination against other diseases, such as whooping cough,
keeps all these (so-called vaccine-preventable) disease occurring with
anabated regularity and high incidence.

Epidemiologists have a hard time explaining this recurrence, yet it is

really quite easy to see why. First of all, Hedrich (1933) studied and
described natural immunity, achieved by contracting measles. The
well-documented fact that, despite 98%-100% vaccination
compliance, epidemics of measles still occur means that vaccination
against measles is totally ineffective. If the vaccine worked, than 67%
vaccination compliance should stop epidemics. It does not. Not even
100% compliance does.

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Measles occurs irrespective of and despite vaccination. It is governed
by the same rules of natural immunity (there is no other true
immunity) which is achieved only by contracting measles, as in
Hedrich’s time. The major difference between then and now is that
due to deleterious effect of vaccination on the immune system, we
now have atypical measles, an especially vicious form of measles
resisting all treatment, and the so-called “mild measles” with under-
developed rash, which exposes children in later years to dangers of
chronic diseases, including cancer.

A large group of Swiss doctors formed a working committee

questioning the Swiss Health Departments’s policy of mass
vaccination with the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine.
They wrote in their proclamation of 1989 that up to 1969, at the Basel
University Paediatric Clinic, artificial infection with measles was used
to successfully treat nephrotic syndrome.

Many practitioners know that cancer patients have a particularly small

number of infectious diseases of childhood to report in their medical
history. Ronne (1985) found evidence of a relationship between the
lack of measles history, or poor development of rash when having
measles, and the increased incidence of degenerative diseases of bone
and cartilage, immunoreactive diseases (such as asthma and allergies),
sebaceous skin diseases and a number of cancers. These were just the
conditions Ronne looked into, there could be other diseases which are
prevented by having measles in childhood. It is also well-known that
measles is an important developmental milestone in the life and
maturing processes in children. Why would anybody, with a healthy
mind, want to stop or delay the maturation process of children and of
their immune system? Medicine obviously degenerated away from
healing into a salesmanship for the drug companies making huge
profits on vaccines.

On one occasion, a medical doctor said that the drug companies do not
make profit on vaccines, to which I retorted “Then they should stop
making them. Why flog a dead horse?”