MMR Reduces Effectiveness of Chickenpox Vaccine

About 4 million cases of chickenpox occur in the US each year, and 95% of people have had the virus by the time they reach adulthood. The illness can be severe, but fatalities are rare.

Chickenpox (varicella) vaccine is recommended in the United States for children aged 12 to 18 months and for susceptible older children, adolescents and adults.

CDC researchers report that when the two vaccines are given less than 30 days apart but not simultaneously, there is a 2.5-fold increased incidence of "breakthrough disease," which they define as a case of chickenpox that occurs more than 42 days after varicella vaccination.

The amount of antibody in the blood doesn't increase enough to confer immunity if one shot follows the other within 30 days.

You need that 30-day period for the body to respond well to the second vaccine.

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report November 30, 2001;50:1038-1041

DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:

The entire concept of a chickenpox vaccine doesn't make much logical sense. But then, neither did hepatitis B vaccine, but that didn't stop them from doing it.

With respect to hepatitis B vaccine, can anyone explain to me why one would give infants with an immature immune system an immunization a vaccine that has clearly been shown not to provide immune protection for greater than ten years to these kids?

Are they really expecting them to abuse drugs, IV drugs or have multiple sexual encounters?

Oh, I heard one person in the back say, "What about babies born to mothers infected with hepatitis B, shouldn't they get the vaccine?"

Good question, except, even in this situation, where there is a real risk, it is highly likely the child has already been exposed to the hepatitis B as they were inside the mother's uterus for the better part of a year. So, at the very least, they should have their antibody levels checked prior to giving them a potentially unnecessary and dangerous vaccine.

Oh, I heard someone else say, "Well the major problem with hepatitis B vaccine was the mercury (thimerosal) and our wise government had them take them out, so it is safe now."

Well, do you know what they replaced it with? Aluminum.

Isn't that nice. Exchanging one neurotoxin for another and we will have to wait another decade before another federal agency realizes that the cumulative aluminum exposure exceeds EPA safety standards.

Well, you say you veer off the track, What about chickenpox?

Let's review the stats.

Chicken pox is not a fatal disease, but rather a very common, benign inflammatory condition.

In the U.S. there are approximately 100 deaths (about half of these in children) and 10,000 hospitalizations each year for complications from chicken pox.

Nearly all of these deaths were a result of over aggressive medical care. Physicians would treat the children with antibiotics, analgesics, or steroidal medications as their condition grew progressively worse.

Physicians respond to each new symptom with yet another drug, until the children die.

Of course there is no way to know if the 100 children who die from chicken pox every year would survive if they were not treated with such aggressive medical interventions.

The study will also never be done, as no institutional review board would ever approve it. But I believe it is highly likely that if these children are provided with natural therapies, rather than immune suppressing ones, their bodies would easily recover and they would actually have a stronger immune system.

But even more foundationally, one needs to examine why these children even became sick in the first place. In the vast majority of the cases, it is because they are being fed foods that are devastating their immune system.

One cannot drink soda, fruit juice, milk, processed foods, and regular amounts of grains and sugar without severely impairing one's immune system and increasing one's risk of acquiring all sorts of infections.

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