Anne

It echoes, of course, Peter Fletcher, Former Chief Scientist at the UK Department of Health who told the Mail on Sunday in 2006:

"There are very powerful people in positions of great authority in Britain and elsewhere who have staked their reputations and careers on the safety of MMR and they are willing to do almost anything to protect themselves."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-376203/Former-science-chief-MMR-fears-coming-true.html

And Cherie Blair's life-style consultant Carole Caplin who wrote in the same newspaper two years before:

"Ever since concerns about a possible link between the MMR vaccine and autism first surfaced more than seven years ago, it's been crystal clear that extremely powerful forces would like nothing better than to suppress public debate about the issue and discredit anyone questioning MMR.

"These forces consist of very senior Government health bureaucrats, who advise our politicians, and leading figures in the British medical establishment, who advise the bureaucrats.

"Senior civil servants and doctors are people who do not like their authority challenged in any way."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-259834/Why-allowed-question-MMR.html

Of course, David Salisbury has been Director of Immunisation since 1986 and has superintended the entire revolution.

Thank you Andy,

Your persistence astounds me. I am so proud of you for what you do for my son. I am honored to have helped you even if in only a small way.

The videos of the courageous young men at the end is what people need to see - everyone new parent needs to see.

I have plenty of videos of my own son having the same pain - before we took him to your friend (and ours!) Dr Arthur Krigsman.

He still has issues that are under control that sound a lot like Crohns disease ( as described by a friend who has Crohns) but I feel for the children and adults who continue to suffer as the young men in the video simply because they have a diagnosis of autism, and no doctor will treat them correctly for fear of being attacked as you have.

Another effect of the failure of the medical community to honestly address autism is that I personally have lost all faith in any doctor. I refuse to go the doctor for anything less than a broken bone for fear that they will push Rx's on me that I do not need simply to fill their quota. I went in for a minor issue last year and was offered the DTP and the Flu shot at the same time - surprised they did not throw in Shingles as well.....

I see so many of my "50-ish" friends going in for "well check up physical's" only to come away with 10 different damn prescriptions to take.

I would rather pass on due to my vices than to an adverse reaction to ill prescribed meds. Seen it too many times.

Thank you again Andy, and John Stone and the Lancet Parents for never giving up.

Thanks John- a BIG spike in Swansea. We will now have to await the figures for the percentages of vaccinated and unvaccinated children contracting measles in Wales. This should be even more interesting, since the largest 'spike' in the unconfirmed but notified Welsh measles cases is NOT teenagers, but children aged 1-4years, a cohort group stated to be 90-95% MMR vaccinated.

http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/888/page/66389#d

Jenny

May laboratory confirmed

http://www2.nphs.wales.nhs.uk:8080/CommunitySurveillanceDocs.nsf/61c1e930f9121fd080256f2a004937ed/e26dd2eec96007f180257b64005807a5/$FILE/monthly%20lab%202013May.pdf

May notifications

http://www2.nphs.wales.nhs.uk:8080/CommunitySurveillanceDocs.nsf/61c1e930f9121fd080256f2a004937ed/690dc66cd4b9cdfb80257b640057e5e3/$FILE/monthly%20notif%202013May.pdf

John Stone-Can you provide a link to your Welsh April confirmed measles cases? I can only find official data up to 2nd April 2013. Scroll down to measles lab CONFIRMED cases. Mumps is also interesting, not far 'behind' measles.

http://www2.nphs.wales.nhs.uk:8080/CommunitySurveillanceDocs.nsf/3dc04669c9e1eaa880257062003b246b/38c4ee86b5fd701e80257b41003cdc52/$FILE/monthly%20lab%20201303.pdf

There was an article in the Guardian which claimed " The number of laboratoryconfirmed cases in the outbreak stands at 370 out of a total of 850 samples tested" , but this was rubbish, once again the BBC and Welsh Health Mandarins spreading misinformation.

"MMR vaccination drive targets 43,000 children as measles epidemic spreads"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/02/measles-epidemic-swansea-teenagers-targeted-vaccinations
Extract:-
"The headline total for measles across Wales is now at 1,170 cases. The number of laboratory confirmed cases in the outbreak stands at 370 out of a total of 850 samples tested.
Dr Marion Lyons, PHW director of health protection, said: "The efforts to vaccinate susceptible young people children across Wales have been excellent, with non-routine vaccinations being given in their thousands by GPs, in schools and in emergency drop-in clinics.
"This undoubtedly will have reduced the length and severity of the outbreak, but the number of unvaccinated people in the hardest-hit age group remains a cause for concern.
"Our message is clear – the MMR vaccine is safe and it works, and there is no reason why children not vaccinated in the late 1990s because of fears about the safety of the vaccine should not be immunised now.
"Those not vaccinated are highly likely to catch measles, which is highly contagious. It is just a matter of time before a child is left with serious and permanent complications such as eye disorders, deafness or brain damage, or dies."

Jenny

'OK -So much for the measles MMR component. Until the Welsh Health Authorities deign or dare to publish their April 2013 LABORATORY CONFIRMED numbers of measles cases, it is very difficult to judge the long term efficacy or otherwise of the measles MMR vaccine component. Certainly, the vast majority of Welsh children and young adults have been vaccinated against measles, mostly with MMR vaccine.'

But they did, and it tells an incoherent story. First of all what happened in March. Well, they were telling the media that they had 432 cases in Swansea for the month with six days to go, but in fact the official figures disclose only 183 notications for the city of which only 1 by the end of March had been confirmed. In the April figures they claim to have confirmed a further 5 cases for March bringing the presumably final tally to 6.

Obviously, they badly needed some real cases from somewhere - having made such an immmense fuss - so in the April figures they have 73 confirmed cases out of 270 notifications - a miraculously higher hit rate (73/270 as opposed to 1/183 or even 6/183), but still nothing like the figures they were apparently giving out to the media.

It has a somewhat shaggy dog story quality. And what is surely significant here is that no one came back to put me straight in BMJ where my letter could only have been very embarrassing.

John

OK - It seems all the doom and gloom about the measles and mumps is just NOT enough to persuade enough of those Welsh 'teenagers' to submit to the MMR vaccine needle. These intelligent young persons are not only responsible for themselves, but they can think for themselves too. They are very difficult to bully, unlike parents of young babies, who are between a 'rock and a hard place' with MMR vaccine.

So what next in the increasingly threadbare BBC pro MMR vaccine propaganda? What hasn't been tried yet? Yes you've guessed . How about a RUBELLA epidemic. This time the scare tactics are directed at the 'lassies'!!

Wales measles epidemic prompts rubella outbreak warning
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22569279

This is all becoming quite ridiculous!! Before the MMR vaccine was introduced in 1988, a single Rubella vaccine was administered to girls only in the UK at around 11-12 years.
Evolution of Surveillance of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella in England and Wales: Providing the Platform for Evidence-based Vaccination Policy (2002)
http://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/2/125.long
A. J. Vyse12,
Extract:- " Rubella is now emerging as an imported infection in England and Wales, with most cases arising as a result of immigration or travel overseas (54, 55). Therefore, continued surveillance of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome is required, with “catch-up” rubella immunization being considered for recent immigrants from countries with no immunization program"

In other words MMR and single rubella vaccines have all but 'wiped out' rubella in the UK. They should only be targeting immigrant populations for 'top up' rubella vaccine.

Your time will come Dr Wakefield. We are all right behind you. Keep the faith and keep filming.
Jenny

@John Stone -re MMR, measles, and the South Wales Evening Post: BMJ with lots of 'rapid responses' including one of John's. Most of them are querying the evidence for a Welsh measles‘epidemic’ with so far only a small percentage of laboratory confirmed measles cases:-
http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f2598?tab=responses

John says:- "Plainly, the authorities never had the faintest evidence supporting the campaign being run in the media against Andy."

The BMJ didn't publish my comment either! Here it is!! Just ONE example of the ‘doom and gloom’ lies and misinformation about measles, being put out by the Welsh health authorities in order to ‘scare’ parents and young persons to get themselves and their children vaccinated with MMR vaccine. Scarily, Dr Hayes very irresponsibly is promoting ‘extra’ MMR vaccine doses for babies over 6 months and young persons who have already been vaccinated against measles. Single vaccinations, Dr Hayes states are ‘unreliable’ and may not provide immunity.

“On a BBC Television interview, Dr Sara Hayes, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board’s director of public health, stated:-
"Before the introduction of the MMR in 1988, about half a million children caught measles and about 100 died from it each year in the UK."
This scaremongering tosh was repeated on the BBC's internet news transcript 9th April 2013.

Dr Hayes omitted to mention the introduction of single measles vaccinations into the UK child vaccination schedule in the late 1960s. In those days parents were not pressurised into obtaining measles vaccinations for their children, and 'boosters' were not administered. Following the introduction of measles vaccinations, the disease slowly declined as more and more children were immunised.

Child measles deaths between 1980 and 1987 for ages 1-10 years were less than 80 IN TOTAL. By the time MMR vaccine was introduced in 1988, numbers of child measles deaths in the UK had already declined steeply.

Dr Hayes' wildly inaccurate measles statement was taken up by dozens of internet news outlets worldwide, but the BBC quickly removed this misinformation from its 9th April news transcript.

We are still waiting to receive the April 2013 laboratory confirmed Welsh measles cases. I await these with interest.”

Deaths by Age Group: 1980 - 2008 (ONS data)
Measles deaths - England and Wales, By Age Group, 1980 – 2008
http://www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard/HPAweb_C/1195733811885

"Thank you," Dr. Wakefield! No fancy words or sayings come to mind as I just simply need to say, "Thank you!" through my tears. You will never know how many you have helped and that are grateful for you! Despite the "hell" you and your family have been put through and continue to be put through, thank you for speaking the truth! Thank you for being a voice for my son, for us, for other families with vaccine injured loved ones... and countless other victims like those at the end of this video! Bless you!!!

As austerity is the chosen word used by the UK government ..Why aren`t the MP`s ,Government's, Health Boards ,et-al jumping up and down asking who has cost the country millions of pounds for this lie of a scare...never mind the people who have been vaccinated when it was a hoax all along...set up by whom?

Angus