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Current childhood vaccine programs: An overview with emphasis
on the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine and of its compromising of the
mucosal immune system
Harold E. Buttram, MD
Email:
hbuttram1304@comcast.net
Abstract
Both common observation and official statistics confirm that there have been
dramatic increases in chronic physical and mental illnesses in American
children, such as autism, asthma, and allergies since the introduction of the
MMR vaccine in 1978. Government health officials have denied a relationship with
vaccines, but U.S. Congressional hearings on vaccine safety (1999 to Dec. 2004)
revealed a total absence of vaccine safety tests that would meet current
scientific standards, so that it can be assumed that many vaccine reactions are
taking place unrecognized. Prior to the introduction of vaccines, the Th1
cellular immune system of the gastrointestinal and respiratory systems served as
the primary defense systems with the Th2 humoral immune system in the bone
marrow, serving a secondary role.
There is a school of thought that the “minor childhood diseases” of earlier
times, including measles, mumps, chicken pox, and rubella, which involved the
epithelial tissues of skin, respiratory, and/or gastrointestinal tracts, served
a necessary purpose in challenging, strengthening, and establishing the
dominance of Th1 cellular immune system during early childhood. Current vaccines
against these diseases, in contrast, being directed at stimulating antibody
production in the bone marrow, are bypassing the cellular immune system and
thereby tending to reverse the roles of the cellular and humoral systems, with
the former suffering from a lack of challenge. In addition, the cellular immune
system is being further compromised by the powerfully immunosuppressive effects
of the MMR vaccine. The time is overdue to totally rethink and redirect our
current childhood vaccine program.
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Keywords: cellular immunity, humoral immunity, MMR vaccine, immunosuppression,
autism, asthma, allergies, autoimmune diseases.