Madagascar and Measles

The heading of The Sydney Morning Herald article screamed:

More than 900 dead in Madagascar measles epidemic

Geneva: At least 922 people have died in a measles outbreak in Madagascar, the majority of them children, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.

I haven't even read the article yet but I thought it would be an interesting article to dissect as its clearly sending a message, namely that measles is a very dangerous disease and you'd better make sure your children are protected against this threat. The actual article is very short and continues:

Since the beginning of the outbreak in September, more than 66,000 people in the African island nation have been infected with the highly contagious virus, the WHO said. Measles is easily preventable through vaccination. The WHO has launched a campaign in collaboration with local authorities to vaccinate more than 6 million children in Madagascar. The campaign also includes efforts to educate the population and counter negative perceptions about vaccinations.

In a report released last week, the WHO wrote that the outbreak was "unprecedented" and "occurred in a context of poor performance of routine vaccination." That report listed 300 deaths and 53,000 infections. The dramatic increase in such a short time is due to a more complete collection of data in Madagascar, a spokesman said on Friday.

There were 229,000 reported measles cases worldwide in 2018 - double the number of the previous year, according to preliminary WHO figures. WHO experts say the actual number of cases is likely to be many times higher. The former French colony of Madagascar has a population of about 25 million and is one of the 30 poorest nations in the world, according to the United Nations.

In a slightly lengthier article from Reuters, there is an inadvertent allusion to the real reason behind the deaths:

Madagascar has Africa’s highest children’s malnutrition rate, at 47 percent. The condition can increase the risk of serious complications and death from measles infection, the WHO says. 

Malnourished children are what made measles such a killer in the 19th century and that is the real killer here. Once the poverty, poor sanitation and crowded living conditions are reduced, a measles infection is easily shrugged off by a healthy immune system. The statistics quoted in the article are largely meaningless because they don't differentiate between vaccinated and unvaccinated children. The assumption is that everybody who was infected was unvaccinated and this assumption is not justified. Measles outbreaks can occur in vaccinated populations. The impact of the vaccination on the already compromised immune systems of these malnourished children is also not taken into account. The money spent by governments in Madagascar and elsewhere would be far more profitably spent in improving public health infrastructure but of course this doesn't generate any money for the pharmaceutical companies.

Meanwhile, the headlines and hysteria continue. For example, this editorial from The Sydney Morning Herald warns:

NSW must not drop its guard against measles

It's not worth the space in this blog post to quote from the nonsense contained in this editorial but it's just one of many examples of the unrelenting media message to the masses: vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate! Movies and television series about pathogen-induced zombie apocalypses reinforce this further and possibly more deeply. A worldview is being promoted of a planet full of potentially lethal pathogens that its human inhabitants need to protect themselves against. How? By regular vaccinations of course. If the vaccinations sometimes prove ineffective as children become adults, then this indicates a need for booster jabs at regular intervals throughout adulthood.

Perhaps every age has been an Age of Propaganda but it seems that the propaganda is intensifying in terms of us getting us to accept that vaccinations are good for us. When persuasion fails there is always legislation like preventing unvaccinated children from entering schools and kindergartens and withholding child support payments from parents who don't vaccinate their children. In the Australian state of New South Wales, the following describes the flu vaccine schedule for children under five:

To develop strong protection, children who are aged from six months to under five years are recommended to have two vaccine doses in the first year they receive a flu vaccine, with at least four weeks between doses. Children who have been immunised against flu previously will only require one dose each year. Source

These shots are free so if this schedule is followed by responsible parents, the child will have six flu shots (all containing Mercury of course) by the time she or he turns five years old. This is in addition to all the other vaccinations containing aluminium and all sorts of other additives. There is a nice synergy in the toxic effects of mercury and aluminium.

Crohn's Disease

 "In Germany, it is estimated that one to two in 1,000 people suffer from Crohn's disease.

The number of Crohn's disease cases is increasing worldwide," Atreya said. "You could say that it has changed from a disease of the western world to a global disease. Crohn's disease now exists in countries where it has not been described before." 

Genetic predisposition and environmental influences play a role in the development of Crohn's disease. In addition to that, there's the influence of the microbiome, which is the totality of microorganisms that colonise us and our stomach and intestines. 

"The interaction of these factors ultimately leads to the immune system overreacting in the intestine, and this is how these inflammations occur," Atreya explained. 

This was an excerpt from DW and the date is 11.07.2018. Atreya has been the senior physician at the Heisenberg Professor of Immunology for Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Diseases at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg since 2016. The statistic is insane: at least one person in a thousand in Germany is afflicted by this crippling digestive disorder. The numbers of those afflicted are growing worldwide.

Tellingly, Atreya observed that:

"More is happening in this area than ever before. We expect more and hopefully better drugs to come onto the market."

The two keywords in the above quote are drugs and market. The pharmaceutical companies fund research for the development of new drugs to combat this scourge and hopefully some will find their way into the marketplace. These drugs will of course produce side effects but further drugs can be developed to combat these. It's madness but that is the state of modern medicine's approach to the management of chronic diseases like Crohn's. My previous post discussed Forrest Maready's book "Crooked" in which he has this to say about the disease:

Your body contains a few areas of specialised lymph tissue that provide an early warning for your immune system. Some of this tissue surrounds your tonsils and adenoids and because they tend to hold a lot of white blood cells, they will also accumulate aluminium. 

Peyer’s patches are kind of like the tonsils and adenoids of the gut — they help the immune system identify invaders in your intestine. Multiple studies have confirmed that aluminium tends to accumulate in this particular area. This is significant because Peyer’s patches are located in the terminal ileum — the same location from which Crohn’s disease nearly always originates.

Could the fact that Crohn's disease now exists in countries where it has not been described before be due to the increasing frequency of vaccinations containing aluminium in these countries? This hypothesis of course will never be tested because it would be an admission of doubt, an acknowledgment that perhaps vaccines can be harmful. Instead, modern medicine will battle a bewildering array of disorders: autism, attention deficit disorder, autoimmune diseases, Alzheimers and so on, some or all of which may well be man-made: a result of a cruel rite of passage that treats babies and infants as pin-cushions in the pursuit of pharmaceutical profits.

This is in spite of concerns being raised within medical circles about the link between the aluminium as an adjuvant in vaccines and the development of Crohn's disease. This is an abstract from a 2012 paper:

Alum (AlK(SO(4))(2)) is an adjuvant commonly utilized in vaccines, and is a ubiquitous element used extensively in contemporary life. Food, air, water, waste, the earth's surface, and pharmaceuticals all represent pathways of aluminum (Al) exposure. Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic relapsing intestinal inflammation in genetically susceptible individuals and is caused by yet unidentified environmental factors. Al is a potential factor for the induction of inflammation in CD, and its immune activities share many characteristics with the immune pathology of CD: many luminal bacterial or dietary compounds can be adsorbed to the metal surface and induce Th1 profile cytokines, shared cytokines/chemokines, co-stimulatory molecules, and intracellular pathways and stress-related molecular expression enhancement, affecting intestinal macrobiota, trans-mural granuloma formation, and colitis induction in an animal CD model. The inflamation plays a central role in Al mode of action and in CD pathophysiology. It is suggested that Al adjuvant activity can fit between the aberrations of innate and adaptive immune responses occurring in CD. The CD mucosa is confronted with numerous inappropriate bacterial components adsorbed on the Al compound surface, constituting a pro-inflammatory supra-adjuvant. Al fits the diagnostic criteria of the newly described autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants. If a cause and effect relationship can be established, the consequences will greatly impact public health and CD prevention and management.

The last sentence is the most telling: If a cause and effect relationship can be established, the consequences will greatly impact public health and CD prevention and management. Despite the gap of six years since that abstract was written, it would seem that a cause and effect relationship is yet to be established. If all this does not seem crazy enough, then the following story takes the madness even further:

Professor John Hermon-Taylor of St. George’s Hospital, London, has developed a vaccination which targets MAP (Mycobaterium avium paratuberculosis) found in animals and passed into the food chain. Professor Hermon-Taylor believes that the pathogen MAP is the cause of 80% of the cases of Crohn’s disease, based on the fact that most individuals with Crohn’s tested positively for MAP. 

The Crohn’s vaccine has been tested on animals and plans exist to start human trials. The vaccine would target current sufferers of Crohn’s disease, by stimulating their bodies to rid themselves of MAP. More than 100,000 people suffer with Crohn’s disease in the UK. 

Hav Vaccines, LTD, began in 2009, is developing the vaccine which will be available for current Crohn’s sufferers along with those considered to be at high risk for developing Crohn’s disease. The phase 2 trials are predicted to be completed by January 8th, 2018.

The story from which the quote is taken however, is highly critical of this medical initiative:

While the intent of the researcher may be honourable, it is highly debatable whether another vaccination is the answer for this serious disease. 

Vaccinations have in fact been blamed for causing autoimmune disorders including Crohn’s disease. It makes little sense to use a vaccine to target a disease caused by vaccines. Crohn’s disease is a progressive, life-threatening illness correlated with gut dysbiosis and inflammation of the intestines.

It will be interesting to find out if this vaccine contains any aluminium adjuvant. It's fairly clear that this medical circus is not going anywhere except round and round. Meanwhile the vaccines containing aluminium adjuvants are still being administered to the young, the old and those in between, and more are planned.

Are You Crooked?

Following on from my last post about damage caused by vaccines, I came across a lengthy but fascinating video titled Are You Crooked?

The video is 2 hours and 15 minutes in duration but it certainly held my attention. The creator, Forrest Maready, focuses on the damage caused by Aluminium, used as an adjuvant in vaccines, and claims that white blood cells recognise this metal as a foreign substance and attack it. However, because it's not a bacteria, virus, protozoa or the like, the white blood cells cannot destroy it but it remains attached. The white cells travel to sites in the body where there is inflammation and in a vaccinated person this means that toxic aluminium arrives as well. 

He draws attention to the lymphatic system and the fact that it is divided into two very differently sized regions as shown below:

He then goes on to note that three out of the four injection sites are on the left side of the body, drained by the throacic duct (see diagram below):

The facial asymmetry that he is drawing our attention to is caused in his opinion by mild paralysis that affects the left side far more than the right. The resulting lop-sided smile is characterised by right side UP and left side DOWN because the facial muscles related to smiling are working properly on the right side but not the left. His suspicion is that this is a consequence of the greater amount of aluminium introduced by injections to those parts of the body drained by the thoracic duct as opposed to the lymphatic duct.

He identifies the cranial nerves as being particularly targeted by white blood cells during the vaccination process. In the diagram below, we see the nerves branching out from the brain stem.

Here is another view of the cranial nerves in relation to other named parts of the brain stem:

He identifies certain nerves as being associated with certain impairments when damaged by aluminium toxicity (the general area is known as the dorsal vagal complex):

 The vagus nerve has the following function:

The Dorsal Vagal Complex signals for help during the vaccination process (see below):

The more the infant or child is disturbed by the vaccination process, the more likely there is to be damage to the Dorsal Vagal Complex. He suggests it is the restraint and pain associated with the vaccination process that is the major cause of the damage to the infant. If vaccinations were delayed until the child knew what was happening, Forrest Maready claims the potential damage would be much reduced.

He also makes mention of the Polyvagal Theory of Stephen Porges that claims that there are two responses to threat: one is the well-known "fight or flight" and the other is the lesser known "play dead". The latter is also characterised as "tend and befriend" which seems a little contradictory but clearly I'll need to investigate the Polyvagal Theory further. What's relevant about it here, according to Forrest Maready is that boys tend to favour the former while girls favour the latter. The former produces more damage from aluminium toxicity and may be the reasons that autism is more common in boys than girls (various studies, together with anecdotal evidence have come up with men/women ratios ranging from 2:1 to 16:1. Source).

Forrest Maready is quick to point out that his ideas, arrived at after two years or so of investigation, are only theories and need to be validated by science. However, it is unlikely that there will be any scientific studies undertaken along these lines given that pharmaceutical companies provide most of the funds for medical research. It's only by accident that opportunities sometimes arise as when broad surveys are taken that include information about vaccinations or the lack thereof. Inadvertently, this provides researchers with an opportunity to compare a vaccinated group of people with an unvaccinated group. Andrew Moulden also identifies aluminium as the source of probems associated with vaccination but posits a different mechanism for the damage, one that involves altered zeta potentials (see this link for more information).

The point in common for both theories however, is that aluminium that is injected into the body via vaccinations is not eliminated, unlike aluminium that is ingested via food. In Maready's theory, the aluminium is faithfully delivered via the white blood cells to any areas of inflammation and may help account for problems later in life such as rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, Alzheimer's and suchlike.