{"id":45682,"date":"2023-07-07T07:07:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T21:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=45682"},"modified":"2023-07-07T07:07:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T21:07:52","slug":"andrew-wakefield-we-should-be-concerned-about-measles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=45682","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Wakefield: We Should Be Concerned About Measles."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-45683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Measles_Mutant_Escape-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"Measles Mutant Escape\" width=\"615\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Measles_Mutant_Escape-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Measles_Mutant_Escape-1024x534.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Measles_Mutant_Escape-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Measles_Mutant_Escape.jpg 1268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Measles Is Not the Same Disease as It Was Before Vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>A study from a blood transfusion unit in Boca Raton evaluating measles virus antibody titers revealed an alarming 3-fold decline over the 59 years following mass vaccination, while donors exposed to natural measles maintained excellent levels of neutralizing antibodies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of being vaccinated, and not receiving the live virus itself, they were no longer protected,\u201d Wakefield explains. \u201cThis is really alarming. These ostensibly healthy individuals had no neutralizing antibody to measles virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an escape mutant &#8230; It\u2019s the vaccine that got us into this problem in the first place, and it will not get us out of it \u2026 it\u2019s a very, very concerning situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.childrenshealthdefense.org\/chd-tv\/events\/andrew-wakefield-we-should-be-concerned-about-measles-measles-is-not-the\/andrew-wakefield-concerned-about-measles\/\">https:\/\/live.childrenshealthdefense.org\/chd-tv\/events\/andrew-wakefield-we-should-be-concerned-about-measles-measles-is-not-the\/andrew-wakefield-concerned-about-measles\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measles Is Not the Same Disease as It Was Before Vaccination. A study from a blood transfusion unit in Boca Raton evaluating measles virus antibody titers revealed an alarming 3-fold decline over the 59 years following mass vaccination, while donors exposed to natural measles maintained excellent levels of neutralizing antibodies. \u201cBecause of being vaccinated, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=45682\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Andrew Wakefield: We Should Be Concerned About Measles.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45684,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45682\/revisions\/45684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}