Re the little boy with leukemia, how bizarre is it that his doctors have allowed him to go to school? Dont they know that there are plenty of pathogenic microorganisms for which we have no vaccines.? Dont they know that not all individuals mount an immune response after a vaccine?

Thank you again to bayareamom and also to David M Burd for your information and equally important, your support.

@Linda L.:

You may want to show this LIST of concerned physicians and scientists re vaccines. I just found this over at Leslie Manookian's website, "The Greater Good."

Speaking to them about this documentary wouldn't be such a bad thing, either!

http://www.greatergoodmovie.org/news-views/doctors-and-scientists-with-concerns-about-vaccines/

LIST:

Doctors and Scientists with Concerns About Vaccines

Shizuo Akira, MD, PhD

David Amaral, PhD, MIND Institute, UC-Davis

François-Jérôme Authier, Professor, PhD

David Ayoub, MD, Radiologist

Anne-Catherine Bachoud-Levia, PhD

Toni Bark, MD

David S. Baskin, PhD

Denis Bedoret, PhD

Russell Blaylock, MD, CCN, former clinical assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS. and is currently a visiting professor of biology at Belhaven University, Jackson, MI

T. Bobrowicz, PhD

Kenneth Bock, MD

Marie-Françoise Boissea, PhD

Subbarao Bondada, PhD

Jeff Bradstreet, MD

Pierre Brugierese, PhD

Julie Buckley, MD

Thomas Burbacher, MD

Fabrice Bureau, PhD

Rashid Buttar, DO, FAAPM, FACAM, FAAIM

Stephanie F. Cave, MS, MD, FAAFP

E. Cernichiari, PhD

Pierre Cesaroa, PhD

Lakshman Chelvarajan

T. Chen, PhD

Xavier Chevalierf, PhD

Shiv Chopra, MSc, PhD

Stephanie Christner, DO

T. Clarkson, PhD

John Barthelow Classen, MD

Cevayir Coban, PhD

Maryline Couettea

Andy Cutler, PhD (research chemist)

Jeffrey Dach, MD

Josep Dalmau, MD, PhD

Vicky DeBold, PhD, RN

Jamie Deckoff-Jones, MD

Christophe J Desmet, PhD

Mary Catherine DeSoto, PhD

Richard Deth, PhD

J.G. Dórea, PhD

Peter Doshi, PhD Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

M. Duszczyk, PhD

Steven Edelson, MD, Director of the Autism Research Institute in San Diego

Mayer Eisenstein, MD

(The late) Dr. Frank Engley

Håkan Eriksson, PhD

Christopher Exley, PhD

Carl Feinstein, MD

Peter Fletcher, PhD, former Chief Scientific Officer, at the UK Department of Health

Lisa Freund, PhD

Paula A. Garay, PhD

Robert F. Garry, PhD

Thomas V. Getchell, PhD

Romain K. Gherardi, Professor, head of the department of Histology, Henri Mondor hospital, Paris, Neuropathologic and Clinical activities at the Neuromuscular Disease Reference Center, and is coordinator of the Department of Neurosciences INSERM

Beatrice Golomb, PhD, MD

Jay Gordon, MD

K.S. Grant, PhD

John Green, MD

Boyd Haley, PhD

Richard Halvorsen, MD

Diane Harper, MD, MPH, MS

(The late) Bernadine Healy, MD

Martha Herbert, MD, PhD, Professor of neurology at Harvard Medical

Laura Hewitson, PhD

Robert T. Hitlan, PhD

Amy Holmes, MD

Brian Hooker, PhD

Mady Hornig, PhD

Suzanne Humphries, MD

Philip Incao, MD

Ken J Ishii, PhD

Emmanuel Ittie, PhD

Dr. Jill James, PhD

Bryan Jepson, MD

Jerry Kartzinel, MD

Matthew S. Kayser, MD

Marcel Kinsbourne, PhD

Kouji Kobiyama, PhD

Sheldon B. Korones, MD

Arthur Krigsman, MD

Pierre Lekeux, PhD

A. Lerner, PhD

N. Liberato, PhD

S.X. Lin, PhD

Andrew D. Livingston, PhD

Yushu Liu, PhD

Brian J. Lopresti, PhD

Kurt M. Lucin, PhD

Patrick Maisona, PhD

M. D. Majewska, PhD

Jennifer Margulia, PhD

Thomas Marichal, PhD

N. Scott Mason, PhD

A. Kimberley McAllister, PhD

Jaquelyn McCandless, MD

Susan McCreadie, MD

(The late)Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, MD

(The late) John Menkes, MD, Former head of pediatric neurology at UCLA Medical School. Menkes was also director of pediatric neurology at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. In addition, he was a member of the Forum for Vaccine Safety with the National Institute of Medicine.

Joseph Mercola, DO

Claire Mesnil, PhD

K. Meyza, PhD

S. Midha, PhD

P. Mierzejewski, PhD

Elizabeth Mumper, MD, Associate professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of Virginia

Devi S. Nambudripod, MD

Meryl Nass, MD

C. Nelson, PhD

E. Newell, PhD

Raymond Obomsawin, MSc, PhD

Tetyana Obukhanych, PhD

Keiichi Ohata, PhD

M. Olczak, PhD

Dr. Mehmet Oz

Larry Palevsky, MD

Elodie Passeria, PhD

Michael S. Petrik, PhD

Jon Poling, MD

Diana Popa, PhD

Massroor Pourcyrous, MD

(The late) Bernard Rimland, MD

Aviva Jill Romm, MD

Catherine Sabatel, PhD

E. M. Sajdel-Sulkowska, PhD

Bob Sears, MD

Martyn A. Sharpe, PhD

Chris Shaw, Professor, PhD

DD Shen, PhD

K. Vijendra Singh, PhD

Yehuda Shoenfeld, MD, FRCP

Peter Siesjö, PhD

Ken Stoller, MD

Carol Stott, PhD

Arnold J. Stromberg, PhD

Z. L. Sulkowski, PhD

Louise Swarbrick, PhD

Rena C. Tabata, PhD

Sherri Tenpenny, DO

Jaime Tomko, PhD

Lucija Tomljenovic, PhD

Anju Usman, MD

Eva Vanamee, PhD

Chiara Villac, PhD

John Walker-Smith, Professor

Judy Wilyman, PhD candidate

Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD

Margaret C. Wong, PhD

V.C. Yang, PhD

Amy Yasko, MD

Edward Yazbak, MD

Judy Van de Water, PhD, Immunology, UC Davis

Chiara Villac, PhD

Walter Zahorodny, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

A. M. Zavacki, PhD

Bayareamom,
I knew there had to be a connection between Krawitt and Pharma. Filling a 7 year old's head with fear of measles for the purpose of using him as a political prop, in this case a child suffering from the physical and psychological trauma of leukemia no less, is extreme child abuse.

And of course, while the focus is on measles, no one has the sense to ask, why do so many little kids now have leukemia? Measles infection in the 1950s was mild for the great majority and in those days no one was concerned about measles being a threat to immune suppressed children because immune suppressed children were rare.

Good try Julie!! But the way the CDC presented the Disney measles cases is an excellent example of how data can be pulled about to misrepresent what's REALLY happening.
Let's do it another way. (Julie's stats are current as of 13-02-15):-

Of the 110 California patients 49 were unvaccinated (known status)

12 of these patients were babies too young to be vaccinated.

Of the remaining 37 patients, 28 were unvaccinated due to personal beliefs

Of these 28 patients, 10 were adults (so were old enough to be responsible for their own vaccination status), and 18 were children< 18 years)

One patient was on an alternative vaccination schedule, (so might have been measles vaxed with monovalent vaccine).
We are NOT given any details about the reasons or ages of the remaining 8 known to be unvaxed patients, so we can only make assumptions here. My guess is these persons were all too old for MMR jabs, but the CDC should come clean about this.

So if we leave out the 47 persons without vax documentation, (since we can’t make any assumptions here), then we have a grand total of 18 children, whose parents did not vax due to personal beliefs.
In percentage terms that’s a rounded 16%

13 persons had 1-3 measles containing vaccine doses, and one had antibodies indicating a prior measles vaccination or dose of natural measles.

That makes 14 persons vaxed or a rounded 13% of the total.
This is a significant percentage of measles vaccine failure, even allowing for some persons having had just one dose, (possibly 1-4 years cohort, not old enough for a booster).

Julie says the 47 persons with unknown status "are highly likely not to be fully vaccinated". I can't imagine how she thinks she knows this, but it's equally likely a fair proportion of these 47 persons WILL have received measles vaccinations. It is not at all unusual for vax documentation to be lost or missing.

@Linda L.:

I just wrote to Aaron Dykes over at Truthstream media. When/if I receive word from Aaron, I will let you know. You may try writing to him as well, but in the meantime, it may be possible to download a copy of that document on the Net. I'll see if I can find it, but with the two of us looking, maybe one of us will get lucky.

I'm going to search for a copy of that document now. If you by chance find same, please let me know.

Yes, Anne S, recent polls show 40% in Canada are uncertain about the science supporting vaccines. Obviously many people, especially the younger ones who see and live with the higher autism numbers are not believing the spin. It must burn that all that money and media savvy try (reddit, Scienceblogs...) hasn't worked.

I don't know where you got those numbers Bob...CDC reads this: "Among the 110 California patients, 49 (45%) were unvaccinated; five (5%) had 1 dose of measles-containing vaccine, seven (6%) had 2 doses, one (1%) had 3 doses, 47 (43%) had unknown or undocumented vaccination status, and one (1%) had immunoglobulin G seropositivity documented, which indicates prior vaccination or measles infection at an undetermined time. Twelve of the unvaccinated patients were infants too young to be vaccinated. Among the 37 remaining vaccine-eligible patients, 28 (67%) were intentionally unvaccinated because of personal beliefs, and one was on an alternative plan for vaccination. Among the 28 intentionally unvaccinated patients, 18 were children (aged <18 years), and 10 were adults. Patients range in age from 6 weeks to 70 years; the median age is 22 years. Among the 84 patients with known hospitalization status, 17 (20%) were hospitalized"

50% of this outbreak are not fully vaccinated...plus another 43% unknown (which are highly likely not to be fully vaccinated). If you're going to write ridiculous comments do your research properly.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm64e0213a1.htm

Well, this just keeps getting better and better.

Remember the little boy of late who has leukemia; he's being used as the front guy (and an admittedly adorable one) for his Dad who is postulating that it is the UNVACCINATED kids who need to stay away from school so that his immunocompromised son doesn't 'catch' whatever these unvaccinated kids have (does it get any more absurd than this?).

Here's the link to this article:

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/02/vaccine-wag-dog-underway-to-take-away.html

SNIP (with a little surprise):

"Enter Rhett Krawitt. His face has been everywhere lately that the measles vaccination controversy has been.

That’s because the 7 year old, who is recovering from child leukemia, is being exploited by his father as a key reason why the vaccinated should not be allowed in schools.

Though Rhett Krawitt is too young to understand it, his image as a vulnerable child is being used to manipulate support for this draconian restriction of medical freedom – even in spite of the facts!

It is vaccinated children – not unvaccinated children – that immunocompromised people like Rhett, who is recovering from chemotherapy treatments for his leukemia, are advised to stay away from. Check out what is written on page 113 of this Johns Hopkins patient guide for recovering cancer patients:

Can I have visitors?

• Tell friends and family who are sick, or have recently had a live vaccine (such as chicken pox, measles, rubella, intranasal influenza, polio or smallpox) not to visit.
• Avoid contact with children who were recently vaccinated.

Here the “adorable” Rhett is referred to as the “what can only be described as the cutest, if not most convincing, call for parents to vaccinate their children.”

Prompted by his father, Carl Krawitt, he is asking the government to restrict parents’ rights to choose whether or not their children are vaccinated..."

Now here's the interesting surprise:

"But what the dozens of prominent stories on the heartwarming – or alternately heartbreaking – case on Rhett Krawitt DON’T discuss, however, is that Rhett’s grandfather is a medical doctor and a consultant to GlaxoSmithKline.

That’s a conflict of interest, no matter how unimportant it may seem.

Vermont gastroenterologist Dr. Edward Krawitt, MD, who specializes in hepatitis cases, has been a paid consultant to GSK for years. It shows up in Glaxo disclosures, and in the fine-print conflict of interest reports in Dr. Krawitt’s scientific papers – but it doesn’t factor into the media debate on twisting arms and forcing parents to vaccinate in California and, perhaps, the rest of the country.

That part is the dirty little secret. Or, alternately, the boring detail not worth mentioning.

But it makes a difference – not just in the public example being made of Rhett Krawitt, but in the Big Pharma-funded politicians who are pushing the bill through in California..."

Thanks Jenny & Angus (below)

Interesting Alex Jones interview, the MMR package insert is a disaster all by itself...

Sadly, a "7th grade health test" now even includes a UK doctor MMR fraud question...

The correct answer to this question will come out soon.

And not to forget Carmel...

http://www.whale.to/vaccines/wakefield9.html

MMR RIP

http://www.jeffereyjaxen.com/blog/dr-wakefield-speaks-puts-critics-forced-vaccination-to-rest

In this Alex Jones interview, Dr Wakefield makes many of the points also recently made in many AoA articles.
Please watch and listen.

As the Chinese say .. "every crisis presents opportunity" .. which explains why .. our public health authorities and their "sock puppets" in the media .. have created a "crisis" where none exists .. and .. have used that "crisis" as THEIR "opportunity" to further demonize parents reluctant to vaccinate their children .. as well as .. osctracize the children of those demonized parents.

It is a win - win .. for them.

Howwever .. just read the CDC has reported that only 16 of the 110 people who contracted measles in California .. were unvaccinated .. which means .. 86% were vaccinated .. and .. still got measles.

If that statistic proves true .. it is no longer a "win-win" for them ..

Imagine a measles vaccine that has an 86% failure record .. in a world where we are constantly being told .. measles is only a short plane ride away ...

Now that would be a "crisis" even the sock puppets will have a hard time turning into an "opportunity'"