Measles rears its ugly head again. Here is the data
A friend wrote about current TV warnings in Maine re measles: “One kid tested positive for measles AFTER being inoculated. Now there are warnings out for anyone who was anywhere near the kid in a variety of locations and times. Talk about building a fear porn extravaganza!”
“The Maine CDC said in the release it is not possible to contract measles from the vaccine.”—WABY TV
But what do the experts say?
Viruses. 2019 Jul 10;11(7):636. doi: 10.3390/v11070636.
Measles vaccines have been in use since the 1960s with excellent safety and effectiveness profiles. Limited data are available on detection of measles vaccine virus (MeVV) RNA in human subjects following vaccination.
Available evidence suggests MeVV RNA can be identified up to 14 days after vaccination, with detection beyond this rare. In routine diagnostic testing, we used two real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-rPCR) assays targeting M and F genes to identify measles virus (MeV) and MeVV RNA.
Confirmatory testing was performed with an N gene RT-rPCR, followed by sequence confirmation of RT-rPCR positives by semi-nested conventional RT-PCR assays targeting portions of the N, H, and L genes.
We report detection and confirmation of MeVV RNA from the respiratory tract of 11 children between 100 and 800 days after most recent receipt of measles-containing vaccine.
These novel findings emphasize the importance of genotyping all MeV detections and highlight the need for further work to assess whether persistent MeVV RNA represents viable virus and if transmission to close contacts can occur.
Conflict of interest statement
Jamie McMahon—no conflict; Ian M Mackay—no conflict; Stephen B Lambert—SBL is the current Chair of the National Measles and Rubella Elimination Working Party.
What does the CDC say? How Well Does the MMR Vaccine Work?
MMR vaccine is very effective at protecting people against measles, mumps, and rubella, and preventing the complications caused by these diseases. People who receive MMR vaccination according to the U.S. vaccination schedule are usually considered protected for life against measles and rubella.
While MMR provides effective protection against mumps for most people, immunity against mumps may decrease over time and some people may no longer be protected against mumps later in life. An additional dose may be needed if you are at risk because of a mumps outbreak.
One dose of MMR vaccine is 93 percent effective against measles, 78 percent effective against mumps, and 97 percent effective against rubella.
Two doses of MMR vaccine are 97 percent effective against measles and 88 percent effective against mumps.
MMR is an attenuated (weakened) live virus vaccine. This means that after injection, the viruses cause a harmless infection in the vaccinated person with very few, if any, symptoms before they are eliminated from the body.
The person’s immune system fights the infection caused by these weakened viruses, and immunity (the body’s protection from the virus) develops.
Some people who get two doses of MMR vaccine may still get measles, mumps, or rubella if they are exposed to the viruses that cause these diseases.
The [Nass] bottom line:
- Measles is a live virus vaccine that can reproduce and potentially shed for years from vaccinated individuals.
- We don’t know how many active US measles cases are due to vaccine strains because the CDC won’t tell us the results of testing, in order to avoid any negative effect on vaccination rates.
- Vaccination initially leads to 93 percent protection from 1 dose and 97 percent protection from 2 doses. Protection wanes over time, yet there are very few measles cases in the US yearly (usually under 100) and most can be traced to a case that came in from overseas.
- The last time a child died from measles in the US was 2003. He had had a bone marrow transplant and his natural immune system had been deliberately wiped out for the transplant. It was never announced whether his measles case was due to a vaccine strain or not.
- Don’t worry about measles! It is very rare; if you do get it you will have life-long immunity (unless your immune system is wiped out) and it can be effectively managed.
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VOWG
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We had measles as kids. Not much else to say about it. Has vaccination made measles worse? Yes or no.
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Chris
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When I was a child measles, mumps and chicken pox , were treated as mild children’s diseases. It was considered best practice to have them as a child rather than as an adult. We were encouraged to play with kids who were sick. No vaccines for us. Clean water, good nutrition and plenty of outdoor fun kept us healthy.
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Alan
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I read recently the people are more likely to get shingles when they have measles as an adult.
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Moffin
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Chickem pox. Both from varicella-zoster virus.
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Chris
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As Moffin says, you catch the virus as a child and it presents as chicken pox. The virus does not die it hibernates in the ganglia until such time that your immune system is old and not so efficient. It breaks out as the potentially deadly shingles. Shingles is recognised as an adverse reaction to the covid injection. Clearly an indication that the injection damages the immune system.
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Tom
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In my 73 years, no measles ever. So what? The risks of dying from measles are extremely low yet we have childhood vaccinations as if it was a religion. It’s amazing that there are all these vaccines, which I do not believe in, for many diseases and viruses, yet the common cold which they say is a rhinovirus remains without a vaccine.
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Seriously
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Wrong there Tom…they turned a common corona cold virus into c-19 & tried to force everyone to take the vax. That’s it in a nutshell – took over the entire world using a cold virus. Scary how they succeeded SO easily.
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Jay
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Nailed it!
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