by Dr.Harald Wiesendanger– Klartext
What the mainstream media is hiding
Measles breaks out in the USA, and an unvaccinated child dies. Are evil vaccine refusers to blame? Stirring up panic, the “jab” propaganda is once again in full swing.
What fate could be more heartbreaking than a death that was avoided far too early? As soon as an unvaccinated child dies from the consequences of an infection somewhere between Los Angeles and Leipzig, the leading media, as if synchronized, fall into hair-raising scaremongering. With strangely similar headlines, the tenor is always: If only everyone were vaccinated, the little victim could still be alive.
Irresponsible vaccine refusers and their whisperers are considered solely to blame for such tragedies. To hell with them – we supposedly need a general, comprehensive vaccination requirement against everything and anything, without exceptions. Ideally, combined with the withdrawal of custody for parents who withhold supposedly protective “jabs” from their children and merciless prosecution of “disinformers.” No more excuses, reasons of conscience, unscientific reservations, and irrational fears of side effects! After all, vaccines are effective and safe, period. Follow the science!
Following this tried and tested pattern, the media are currently exploiting the case of a US schoolboy who recently died in the Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, from the effects of a measles infection – he had not been vaccinated against it. (1) This is the culmination of “the largest outbreak in 30 years,” the news channel N-TV predicts. Vox, the Washington Post, and the New York Times are predicting an “impending public health emergency.” On what basis? By the end of February, 146 people in the rural region of West Texas had contracted measles. The neighboring state of New Mexico reported a further nine cases, and New Jersey registered two. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has also found isolated cases in Alaska, Georgia, Kentucky, New York City, and Rhode Island.
How frightening is that?
“Harbingers of a catastrophe”
Very bad, so we read and hear. This outbreak is “a big deal,” explains the clinician, Dr. Amy Thompson, who treated the boy until the end. The omnipresent TV “expert” Paul Offit sees it as the “harbinger” of an imminent health crisis; in view of falling vaccination rates, it is “a catastrophe waiting to happen, and it will happen” (2) – especially under the new US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr., previously a notorious vaccine skeptic. However, to everyone’s amazement, the same person is also causing panic: This outbreak “challenges us all to act,” he just declared “deeply concerned” on Fox News. The measles vaccination is “crucial to preventing a potentially fatal disease.”
To clarify, measles is highly contagious but is almost always harmless. Serious, and in the worst case, fatal, complications that can scare caring parents are extremely rare: at least healthy children without previous illnesses or special impairments are reliably spared pneumonia, blindness, and brain swelling. Families, health authorities, and doctors were accordingly careless about it until the 1960s. Measles were considered valuable strength training for the immune system. If a child developed the typical large red spots on their skin – first behind the ears, then spreading over the whole body – combined with a high fever, cough, runny nose, and hoarseness, some mothers would throw real “measles parties” with their siblings, neighbors’ children, and classmates. The infection was allowed to make the rounds, and the nightmare was over after a week.
Hair-raising carelessness?
After measles has healed, mental and physical development spurts often set in before the eyes of astonished parents. Medical case documentation and studies confirm that children are also less susceptible to other infectious diseases afterward. The risk of later allergies, multiple sclerosis, and even cancer is reduced (3), as is the probability of developing atopy, Crohn’s disease, or ulcerative colitis at some point – not to mention autism.
How often do measles infections end in death? In developed countries, on average, it once a year, sometimes even less frequently. There, the fatality rate is between 1 in 1000 and 20,000 – AIDS is killing more children. Road accidents cost around 500 children under the age of 15 their lives every year.
And this figure should also be included in a risk assessment: in Germany alone, depending on the survey, between 1000 and 30,000 people die each year from infections caused by multi-resistant hospital germs. That would be at least 12,000 deaths between 2001 and 2012. This means that thousands of times more people fall victim to pathogens they catch in the hospital than to measles. Shouldn’t parents, therefore, keep their children away from hospitals to save their lives rather than from pediatricians’ offices that administer injections like an assembly line?
The measles death in Lubbock was the first in the United States since 2015. Since 2000, there have only been three deaths from measles in the United States: one in a 75-year-old man who contracted the disease in Israel; another in an immunocompromised 13-year-old who had received a bone marrow transplant three months earlier; the third in a woman who was also immunocompromised and had several comorbidities. Incidentally, in all three deaths, it remained unclear whether it was the administered live vaccines that had caused them – they can become virulent, especially in immunocompromised hosts.
In Germany, between 2001, when mandatory reporting began, and 2012, 15 measles deaths were recorded – alleged because how they can be determined with certainty is anything but undisputed. Whether measles viruses were involved is examined during an autopsy using tissue samples. The ELISA antibody test and/or the PCR gene test are used. They search for protein molecules or gene fragments that can be attributed to the measles virus. But how meaningful are these methods? In reality, they are not sufficient for an infection diagnosis – and certainly not for a crystal-clear assignment of blame. Even if measles viruses are detected, it is by no means clear that they were the ones that killed the person affected. Fatal encephalitis can also be a side effect of the medication used, as a careful look at the package inserts makes clear. (4)
Even if all children were vaccinated, not all of them would be successfully immunized. While it was once believed that protection lasted for a lifetime, even the WHO now acknowledges the phenomenon of “secondary vaccination failure”: even people who have been vaccinated against measles twice can get measles again over time due to declining antibody levels. After a first dose, the measles vaccine is 85 to 95% effective, and after two doses, 90 to 98% effective. In measles outbreaks in the USA and Canada, up to 50% of those infected had previously received two doses of MMR. This means that it will continue to occur even after all exemptions for vaccinations have been abolished.
The idea that measles deaths can be prevented by mass vaccination alone is a marketing myth that official statistics refute. In the 20th century, the mortality rate had already fallen by over 99% before the measles vaccination was introduced in 1963 – thanks to better hygiene, nutrition, drinking water quality, housing, and medical care.
A decline in measles mortality 1900-1963
The number of deaths from measles fell by 98% from 1900 to 1963, before the measles vaccination was introduced.
Is the “protection” perhaps more dangerous than the threat?
How much safety would this provide? Anaphylactic shock, febrile convulsions, encephalitis, and Guillain-Barré syndrome occasionally occur immediately after a measles vaccination. Extremely rare? In the last 30 years, around 89,000 adverse reactions to measles vaccinations have been reported to the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) for measles vaccines, including around 450 deaths. (5) But these figures only mark the tip of the iceberg. Suppose one takes into account the underreporting (6) at such reporting centers. In that case, studies show that they record at most one to five percent of all actual vaccine injuries – then tens of thousands of children in the United States alone are likely to have been “pricked” to death by measles vaccines.
In reality, warn the US medical initiative Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC) that the risk of the MMR vaccine leading to permanent disability or even death is higher than with an infection with measles, mumps, or rubella.
But what about the protection of all those who cannot be vaccinated? Cancer patients, especially those with leukemia or lymphoma? Organ transplant recipients who have to take immunosuppressants? Patients with congenital immune defects such as SCID syndrome? HIV-infected people with severe immune deficiency? Pregnant women? People who are allergic to vaccine components, such as neomycin or gelatin? 400,000 to 800,000 million Germans belong to this group of people. For their sake, shouldn’t everyone else get vaccinated so as not to endanger this minority? Aren’t they morally obliged to do so? Would they otherwise be potential murderers?
Getting injected for the sake of others would be reasonable if it meant protecting them from danger without putting yourself in danger. But because the vaccination does not work reliably, infection would still be possible even with a 100.00% vaccination rate – it would just be less likely. And is it really ethical for 80 million people to get injected with substances that put them at risk of serious side effects – just so that every tenth to twenty people can feel a little safer without being fully protected? If things go wrong – and they do again and again – then the vaccinated viruses, more alive than expected, will cause the very outbreaks they are supposed to prevent. Reliable protection of minorities is different. Anyone who, for their sake, aligns hygiene guidelines with the weakest link in the chain of infection is opening the floodgates to a medical dictatorship, with controls and coercive measures at every corner. The corona crisis gave a foretaste of this.
The smarter precaution
What, if not injections according to the STIKO scheme, does my AUSWEGE foundation /Ways Out Charity recommend for measles prophylaxis? It recognizes the state of research that no real fact check can ignore: Unvaccinated children are healthier. Infections of all kinds are generally milder in them, and they end more quickly. Complications are much rarer, and long-term damage almost never occurs. Anyone who wants to prepare their child as best as possible for measles, therefore, does everything they can to strengthen their immune system: through good nutrition, plenty of exercise, sufficient sleep, real rather than digital social contacts, and not least, a safe home.
And what if they do get infected? Informed parents do not see this as a terrible misfortune – they understand that infectious diseases can make sense in children by training and arming the immune system. (7) So there is no need to panic. At the very first suspicious symptoms, the child is immediately isolated in a quiet, protected, darkened environment, given plenty of fluids, supplied with additional immune-boosting vitamins and minerals from orthomolecular medicine, and high fever is reduced with calf compresses instead of paracetamol. As anthroposophical doctors report, measles treated in this way practically always heals without complications – and usually provides lifelong immunity, whereas vaccination only perhaps does so.
Measles: This is what a naturopathic doctor advised 92 years ago
Translation:
2. Measles (Morbilli)
Development time: Ten days until the onset of a runny nose, sensitivity to light, and cough; fourteen days until the rash breaks out.
Course: Generally favorable. In the second week of the illness, small-scale peeling of the skin begins. The fever should have disappeared on about the seventh or eighth day after the rash breaks out.
Surviving the disease once usually (but not always) protects against reinfection for life.
Treatment: see page 476. Covering the windows or sticking red paper over them is unnecessary. Eye sockets and mouth should be washed or rinsed regularly with camomile tea. For capillary bronchitis, ascending brush baths with cold water poured over the back. For coughs, use the previous treatments described under “bronchitis.” To speed up the exfoliation, brush baths. Weak children require careful care during the recovery period (sunbathing if possible, lying outside, air baths with dry brushing of the skin, breathing exercises, raw vegetarian or mixed diet).
Sixth principle of treatment: From our point of view, medication to suppress fever and ice packs to combat local inflammation are rejected. Inflammations are treated with hot or cold or alternating-warm compresses, depending on whether warm or cold suits the patient’s instinct better. In addition, cold and moist Priessnitz compresses, which warm up quickly on the body.
From the Handbook of Naturopathy (1933, 6th edition 1942) by Dr. Med. Habil. Alfred Brauchle, head physician of the clinic for naturopathy at the Gerhard Wagner Hospital in Dresden
No “quality media” questions were asked by vaccination experts.
Whenever there is a drumbeat for vaccination campaigns, Paul Offit, quoted at the beginning, is mentioned on all channels with strange regularity. The news channel N-TV praises him as a “renowned pediatrician and infectious disease specialist,” as do Deutschlandfunk and Der Spiegel. Honor where honor is due? After all, Offit is the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and a professor of vaccinology and pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He has won multiple awards and has written numerous books on medical and scientific topics, including Autism’s False Prophets – Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure (2007), Vaccines and Your Child: Separating Fact from Fiction (2011) and Bad Advise (2018). A luminary, then – and “literally a lifesaver,” as the skeptics’ association CSICOP raves? (8)
What the leading media consistently sweep under the carpet are massive, long-exposed conflicts of interest of this supposed authority on vaccine safety. As a highly paid “consultant,” Offit has been working for the pharmaceutical giant Merck – one of the world’s largest manufacturers of measles vaccines – for almost half an eternity. Merck’s best-known product is M-M-R® II, a combination vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR). It also offers ProQuad®, which also covers chickenpox (varicella). Merck is funding Offit’s research chair at Philadelphia’s Children’s Hospital (CHOP) with $1.5 million. Offit received a grant of $350,000 from Merck for the development of a rotavirus vaccine called RotaTeq. CHOP eventually sold this vaccine to the generous sponsor for $182 million. In 2006, Merck obtained approval for RotaTeq. Offit and his co-inventors retained the patent rights. This entitled them to ongoing royalties in the millions – truly “like winning the lottery,” Offit admitted in a 2008 Newsweek article. The information portal Age of Autism estimates his share at at least $29 million. (9)
Given such significant financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry, every real journalist should be asking the following question: Are Offit’s unreserved praises of vaccines influenced by no other factors than impeccable scientific research? Can I be responsible for presenting such a two-legged pharmaceutical mouthpiece to my readers as an independent expert? “They should put him in jail and throw away the key,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is said to have said of Offit back in 2013. (10) Does Offit belong there? (11)
Follow the Science? Follow the Money.
(Harald Wiesendanger)
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Notes
(1) https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/texas-announces-first-death-measles-outbreak; https://apnews.com/article/measles-outbreak-west-texas-death-rfk-41adc66641e4a56ce2b2677480031ab9; https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyderx4v8go
(2) Zit. nach https://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Experten-warnen-vor-Masern-Katastrophe-in-den-USA-article25594022.html
(3) https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/123/3/771/71635/Allergic-Disease-and-Atopic-Sensitization-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext ; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030698779890055X?via%3Dihub, https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/123/3/771/71635/Allergic-Disease-and-Atopic-Sensitization-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext
(4) Siehe http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10589903; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7202137; http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/114/5/e657.full
(5) Für Deutschland verzeichnete die Meldedatenbank des Paul-Ehrlich-Instituts (PEI) zwischen 2001 und 2012 knapp 1700 „Verdachtsfälle von Nebenwirkungen“ sowie 15 „Verdachtsfälle“ von Toden nach Masernimpfung; einen „ursächlichen Zusammenhang“ zwischen Piks und Ableben konnte das PEI niemals „als ‚gesichert‘, ‚wahrscheinlich‘ oder ‚möglich‘ bewerten“. (6) Siehe „‘In Sorge um Dich‘ – Eine Covidiotin trägt einer Geimpften 10 Argumente vor“ und „Das Piks-Massaker“.
(7) Siehe Bert Ehgartner: Was Sie schon immer über das Impfen wissen wollten, Hamburg 2023, S. 351 ff.
(8) “CSI Announces Paul Offit As Winner of the 2013 Balles Prize”. Skeptical Inquirer, Juli 2014 CSICOP, https://web.archive.org/web/20190119174727/.
(9) Siehe https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781632206015/thimerosal-let-the-science-speak/
(10) Zit. von Paul Offit selbst in seinem Buch Bad Advise (2018), Kap. 11.
11) Siehe meine Artikelserie “Dressierte Halbgötter”.