[Notice here how Authority ploy has fooled this journo: "the list of organisations backing MMR is impressive - all the royal colleges,
the Department of Health and the vast majority of doctors and nurses." Works well doesn't it.]

'Why I am terrified of trusting MMR'
By Beezy Marsh
(Filed: 12/02/2006)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/12/nmmr112.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/02/12/ixhome.html

As a health correspondent, I have read endless studies and spoken with
experts on both sides of the argument over the safety of the MMR
vacination. Now, as my 14-month-old son Idris has been called by the NHS to
have his jab, I face the same dilemma as thousands of other parents.

Despite the Government's assertion that the MMR controversy is "over", I
can assure you that, at grassroots level, it is not. When I hold my son I
am terrified of making the wrong choice for him. I am not anti-vaccination
- he has had the combined DTP, Hib, polio and meningitis jabs - but I am
not convinced that MMR is safe.

Naturally, I do not want Idris to catch measles, mumps or rubella, and the
list of organisations backing MMR is impressive - all the royal colleges,
the Department of Health and the vast majority of doctors and nurses.

However, critics say population-based studies are not sensitive enough to
pick up problems that may affect a tiny minority of children. And, in 10
years, there has been no government study on the 2,000 or so children whose
families claim they have been damaged by the vaccine.

I am haunted by the memory of meeting a teenage autistic boy who was found
to have traces of the measles virus from the MMR jab in his brain and
spinal fluid. No one within the NHS could explain how that virus got there.
If I choose MMR and it goes wrong, will the authorities listen to me and
investigate my concerns? Based on the experiences of the "MMR families", it
would appear not. And, with that in mind, it is difficult to see how any
parent today can have full confidence in MMR.

As a parent, I also have a growing unease about the expanding cocktail of
viral and bacterial DNA being pumped into little arms and legs. Many of
these fears may be unfounded - babies born in Britain today have a greater
life expectancy than ever before. But they also face more vaccinations: 25
before the age of two.

Could so many jabs be doing more harm than the diseases they are designed
to protect against? Is it possible that immune systems could sometimes be
"overloaded" by all those jabs?
 
 

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