The UK’s MMR vaccination fear campaign isn’t going well
A fear campaign aimed at increasing measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination among Brits has so far proved to be a flop.
For the last week, legacy media have been hyping a story of a Liverpool child who died after contracting measles.
“The city has experienced a surge in cases among young people, with the hospital warning parents last week that the spike in infections was due to falling rates of uptake of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine,” warned The Guardian.
However, not only was the child suffering from “serious health problems,” but authorities are refusing to disclose the child’s vaccination status.
“To respect patient confidentiality, we can’t comment on individual cases,” the Alder Hey Children’s NHS trust, which treated the child, said in a statement.
British health officials are warning that vaccine uptake among Brits is “dangerously low” and far below the World Health Organization’s recommended average of 95%. The UK’s national average is 83.9%, the lowest in a decade, which officials and pundits warn puts British children at risk.
But a closer look reveals a glitch in the narrative.
Take the North West region, for example, which boasts one of the highest vaccination rates in the country. Over 93% of North Western children have received at least one MMR dose by age five. Cumbria, a city in North West England, has a 94.8% average vaccination rate, nearly reaching the World Health Organization’s target. Yet, the region is experiencing a rise in measles infections, accounting for 12% of all national cases this year.
Peterborough, on the other hand, where just 76.6% of the population is vaccinated, has reported only two locally acquired measles cases—both of which were fully vaccinated.
Birmingham has an even lower vaccination rate at 74.8%, but measles cases in the city have already stabilized. Its 26 cases are less than half that of the highly vaccinated North West, which continues to see an increase in infections.
Secretary Kennedy promotes healthier options
In March, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. recommended the MMR vaccine for children, though he stressed more natural methods of combating measles like vitamin A, sanitation, and nutrition. Kennedy said nutrition is a “best defense” against chronic and infectious diseases.
“Tens of thousands died with, or of, measles annually in 19th Century America. By 1960 -- before the vaccine’s introduction -- improvements in sanitation and nutrition had eliminated 98% of measles deaths. Good nutrition remains a best defense against most chronic and infectious illnesses. Vitamins A, C, and D, and foods rich in vitamins B12, C, and E should be part of a balanced diet,” Kennedy wrote.
Kennedy: Kids who get measles are healthier
Last year, Kennedy told John Stossel that not only does nutrition prevent measles, healthy kids who contract the disease are often better off than those who don’t.
“In 1964, there was about three or four hundred [children] who died [from measles] and they were almost all severely malnourished kids, mainly from the Mississippi Delta . . . It’s very, very hard to kill a healthy child with any infectious disease, but particularly with measles,” he told Stossel. “And the World Health Organization now says vitamin A is an absolute cure for measles, which we didn’t know about back then. Back then, we were treated with chicken soup and it was a week at home watching ‘Leave it to Beaver.’ And every kid caught it. Every single kid got it. And I had 11 brothers and sisters, and we all got it, and we were all fine. And there are lots and lots of studies out there now that show that kids who get measles as a child are much healthier when they grow up, that they’re much more resistant to cancers, to atopic diseases, to allergies, and to heart disease.”
MMR vaccine associated with autism
During a Q&A session at the Godspeak Cavalry Chapel in 2021, Kennedy said the MMR vaccine is associated with autism.
“[Vaccination advocates] knew that a lot of mothers believe the MMR vaccine was causing autism. And they believed that by studying the MMR vaccine alone, isolating it from the other vaccines and studying it alone, they could exonerate that vaccine. And then they could use that to exonerate all the vaccines. So they did a study where they just isolated the MMR vaccine and they looked at children in Georgia, which is where CDC's headquarter was, had five scientists on it, who were their top scientists and what they found was when the data came back: black boys who got the MMR vaccine on time, which means under 36 months of age under three years had a 336% higher chance of getting autism diagnosis than children who did not get it on time,” he said.
Kennedy explained that Blacks have stronger immune systems than Whites, which means they need only half the antigen that Whites do. When they receive the full antigen, it pushes their immune system “over the cliff.”
