Well Patricia, I suppose that those parents will be keeping a close eye on any possible side-effects.

"Up to two million schoolchildren could be at risk of measles due to the MMR vaccine scare, doctors have warned."

Too bad there is no science left in the UK "health officialdom". I suspect if you tested all those who are not "MMR vaccinated" what you may find is that MOST have anti-bodies to the wild measles. This indicates they have been infected with the wild measles, which exists in most children's gut, have fought it off mostly asymptomatically and now are IMMUNE to wild measles infection for life.

But since their "vaccination" card indicates they have not been poisoned with the MMR, getting their poison MMR is all that matters.

Jenny, John (25 y/o death)

My colleague read the initial headline on BBC News online which was initially something like First Measles Death, She sent in an extremely strong complaint shortly after which the headline changed to 'Swansea death man, 25, had measles" I dont honestly know if the two things were connected but what is clear is that the BBC are very happy to speculate on anything around this topic.
We nor the BBC had any idea at that point why the man was dead but that did not stop the BBC from drawing all kinds of conclusions.

The Media spin on this is an utter disgrace.
We just happened to see the ITV coverage of the parent of a autistic son who had refused and continues to refuse the MMR.
I was truly delighted to see even just one person on TV fighting the fight. It was a small triumph that one got through the disgusting Media/Government censorship net.

Jenny

By my calculation, if the unfortunate young man was 25 then he would have been born in 1987-88 which would have made him likely to be in the first wave of MMR vaccinees, and of course ten years before AW voiced any concerns.

John

Re 25 year old man found dead in Wales:-
This man will not have received MMR vaccine in the UK, introduced in 1988. He may have received a single measles vaccination, in use in the UK, for 20 years prior to the introduction of MMR vaccine.

The Welsh health authorities are 'clutching at straws' here. If this man was not measles vaccinated, so what? This predated both MMR vaccine and the Wakefield et al Lancet article. If he was measles vaccinated, and his death was due to a measles infection, then this vindicates Dr Wakefield's recent assertion that these vaccines could be losing efficacy during adulthood.

The news that a possible adult death from measles in Wales of a 25 year old man although no confirmation yet.He would been vaccinated long before Dr Wakefield even looked at the first children but that will escape the media frenzy about him.

In the UK, Government health officials are doing everything in their power to blame Dr Wakefield for the measles outbreak in Wales. UK MMR child vaccination rates soon recovered to 90-95%, after Dr Wakefield publicly pleaded for single measles vaccinations in 1998, whilst MMR vaccine safety was further researched in the UK, and then Prime Minister Tony Blair's refusal to tell us if his son Leo had MMR or single vaccines,(which caused another 'dip'). Government sources claim 'teenagers' are the ones mostly infected and responsible for spreading the virus Every day press releases and media interviews are promoting this stance, warning of terrible disabilities and deaths from measles if this outbreak spreads to the rest of the UK.

Huge amounts of public money are now to be spent on an emergency 'catch up' programme in UK secondary schools to vaccinate all these 'teenagers' with MMR vaccine. Yesterday was the first day of the much vaunted £10million school MMR vaccination programme in Wales. Unfortunately for the Welsh health authorities these older school children seem to have their own ideas about diseases and vaccinations.

From todays Telegraph:-
Two million children at risk of measles
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10003565/

"Two-million-children-at-risk-of-measles.html
Up to two million schoolchildren could be at risk of measles due to the MMR vaccine scare, doctors have warned.
Many children did not receive jabs a decade ago after Andrew Wakefield’s published research in The Lancet, suggesting a link between the vaccination and autism, claims now entirely discredited.
Most of the 59 teenagers surveyed called diseases such as polio, tuberculosis and tetanus “historical diseases” and did not see them as possible threats.

The study published in the journal Vaccine found almost half of the teenagers believed vaccinations could not protect populations against disease, and most of them were scared of needles and injections, calling them “dagger-like” and “painful”.

Apart from the testimony of Dr Wakefield, these childrens' comments are the first sensible comments I have heard regarding vaccinations against illnesses, never mind mass MMR vaccinations!!

My own youngest grandson, (sibling of our own 'Wakefield babe'), and already protected against measles, mumps and rubella with private jabs, is vehemently against any more vaccinations administered to him during any school programme! Lets hear it from the children.
KIDS RULE OK!!

Vaccine proponents often claim vaccines are "victims of their own success." I wish I could also get them understand that those of us with a vaccine outcome that makes questioning the rose-colored vision of vaccine dogma something that becomes rather unavoidable (there are also some of us just smart enough to avoid learning by experience--that's not me), we are constantly faced not just at home, but just about every time we manage to get out in the world with possible vaccine injury everywhere.

I don't know how to calculate overall disease risk, death or disability, for an unvaccinated population with today's nutrition, access to care, etc., but we do know that something is causing "neurological sequelae" or disability at a rate around 10 percent in our vaccinated children, autism at 2 percent with an increased mortality risk for autism between 2 to 10 percent. We have unexplained infant deaths (SIDS) at a rate around 1 in 500. We also have increasing auto-immune and allergy risks, increasing rates of neurological diseases with ongoing suffering and sometimes devastating outcomes. And every time I turn around it seems like I'm learning that another prevalent condition, like heart disease, possibly involves immune related injury. We have nothing effectual being done to explain or prevent these, and often are not even able to accurately track prevalence.

Then, reading the prevaccine era risks for measles at about 1 in 5000 mortality for cases of infection (not every exposure results in infection, and on the other hand perhaps not every case gets reported), 1 in 4000? resulting in lasting disability, and yes, much of the injury in the above paragraph may not be attributable to vaccination and there are other diseases with adverse outcomes that hopefully we are preventing through vaccination to add to vaccine benefits. I'm not sure anyone can calculate confidently the risks and benefits with the data we have, but the chronic illnesses, most of them likely manmade, need to be given more attention aimed at prevention, and honesty regarding infectious disease risks and all contributing factors is needed as well.

Well like many on here our story is the same .We have our oldest son he had every vaccine under the sun (stopped talking after MMR for 4 weeks ,Talking well before MMR) we never thought anything about ….AS YOU DO !.His younger brother had the same but now after vaccines he is ageded15 years old with the mental age of 20 months (school assessed).On the back of this our two youngest aged 7 years girl and 9 years boy ,have had no vaccines nor had the mother prior to birth despite the strep B scare that they try to riddle you with…The non-vaccinated kids have never been to the doctors ever they have no medical files whereas my other two have medical files one to fill a six by six foot room and the other going on two inches…make your own minds up no excuse’s with the internet now

Angus