An artist from Constanta posted on her Facebook account a clip in which it suggests that the MMR vaccine harms the children who receive it. He asks, rhetorically, addressing doctors and health authorities:
“Tell us if there is any risk for those children who, probably in this epidemic, have already contacted the virus and are in that incubation period of 10-14 days, a rather long period and, during all this time, there are also vaccinated, can anything happen to those children? Not? Do you give it to us in writing and answer in person?”
It is a clip of approximately 7 minutes, which has collected, up to the time of this verification, over 245,000 views and 8,600 reactions.
In the comments, the woman is even more blunt:
“That’s right, this ROR mutilates and destroys babies. I know many parents whose children were miserable for life… How is it possible that healthy children TUN up to the age of 5-6 (some had just started a team sport) remain vegetables in bed immediately after this poison been inoculated???? How is it possible for 1-year-old children, who started to walk, to say “goodbye” with their hand, to play, to do everything that children do at the age of 1 and then remain vegetables?”
Ideas that vaccines cause disease are extremely widespread and gaining ground in social media. Another messagealso spread on Facebook, sounds like this:
“Children should not be vaccinated at birth, but only after the age of two, when the brain and immune system are formed, pediatricians warn. Romania’s harsh vaccination scheme, with unnecessary vaccines in newborns, has caused the emergence of autism, ADHD, as well as countless neurological, autoimmune and digestive diseases, which no one talks about.
In fact, it’s all a bargain, because instead of three doses of the vaccine, children should receive only one, every two years.
The biggest business for bigpharma is by far the production of vaccines. Vaccines for any disease, if possible.”
The clip recorded by this woman comes in the context in which the Romanian authorities they decreed a measles epidemic on the territory of our country, after approximately 2,000 cases were registered nationally, in 29 counties.
Anti-vaccination messages on social networks spread during the height of the measles epidemic and fueled by conspiracy theories during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Is vaccination dangerous after contracting the measles virus?
Conform Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)vaccination after a patient has had contact with the measles virus is not dangerous.
“It is not harmful to get the MMR vaccine after you have been exposed to measles, mumps or rubella, and it can prevent further illness.
If you get the MMR vaccine within 72 hours of your initial exposure to measles, you may get some protection against the disease or have a milder illness. In other cases, you may be given a medicine called immunoglobulin (IG) within six days of exposure to measles to provide some protection against the disease or to make the disease less severe.”
For mumps and rubella, post-exposure vaccination is not recommended, but for measles it is not dangerous and can even help.
“Unlike measles, MMR has not been shown to be effective in preventing mumps or rubella in people already infected with the virus (ie, post-exposure vaccination is not recommended).”
Ştefan Dascălu, immunology researcher at Oxford University, explains for Factual.ro:
“The vaccine administered together with the exposure of the child to the disease and practically to the risk of infection, during the incubation period of the virus which can be from one week to, in the most extreme cases, three weeks, until the symptoms of measles appear, does not constitute a additional danger to the child. On the contrary! If the vaccine is administered in the first six to seven days after exposure and before the onset of the disease, it can help the child’s body fight the disease. In no case does it cause bad or side effects! Before the disease starts, the body is exposed to the inactivated virus in the vaccine and, practically, it manages to acquire a defense even if the child in question is infected.
The infectious disease doctor Adrian Marinescu, the medical director of the Matei Balş Institute, reinforces the belief that possible vaccination during the incubation period of the virus has no harmful effect:
“The fact that he is in the incubation period is of no importance, just as it would be of no importance even if he had passed through the measles. There are people who have passed through measles. Of course, there should be no more vaccination for them, but let’s assume that they didn’t do their tests and that they got their vaccine. Absolutely nothing is happening from any point of view. After all, vaccination has the effect of obtaining antibodies from the body. The fact that I have antibodies before does not play any role, the fact that I am in the incubation period when I do not have antibodies anyway, again and even more so has no relevance.
Rep.: Regardless of the incubation period, that it is in the first days or towards the end of the period?
Indifferent!”
Adverse effects of vaccines
Vaccines have side effects similar to those of any medicine. Pharmaceutical companies are required to display adverse side effects, depending on the degree of severity and frequency of occurrence. In the case of the measles vaccine, adverse effects are:
- Minor (common and usually occur 6-14 days after vaccination): fever, mild rash, lymphadenopathy
- Moderate: febrile convulsions, transient arthralgias, arthritis, transient thrombocytopenia
- Severe (rare and very rare): severe allergic reaction, transient paresthesias and pain in extremities, orchitis, parotiditis, aseptic meningitis, pruritus, purpura
The vaccine does not cause autism, not even a single case has been documented over the decades since this vaccine has existed, by any medical institution. As a result, it is a coincidence that some children develop an autism spectrum disorder around the time they were vaccinated.
Dr. Adrian Marinescu:
“It can still happen, just like it was with the vaccination against SARS-CoV-2: I was run over by a passing car and I was asking myself, yes, I was run over by a passing car because I was vaccinated. It has nothing to do with it, it was kicking me anyway, unfortunately, regardless of whether I was vaccinated or not. The fact that another pathology appears at a given time in that child, as long as there is no causal relationship, obviously has no connection”.
The fake news that vaccines cause autism has a history, recorded by the WHO:
“A minor setback to the success of the measles vaccination program occurred in 1998 when a fraudulent research paper was published in The Lancet claiming a link between the MMR vaccine and autism without any solid scientific evidence.
The influence of this work, together with systemic misinformation by anti-vaccination groups in high-income countries, has led to a drop in vaccination rates below the level needed to protect the community, causing a resurgence of measles in England and the UK Wales, as well as parts of the US and Canada.
In 2010, the British General Medical Council ruled that the study’s lead author had engaged in misconduct. The paper was officially retracted by “The Lancet” and its author was banned from practicing medicine.
Regarding the number of doses required, throughout history, for measles, there were also vaccines that were inoculated in a single dose, without a booster. But, according to the WHO, the current vaccine needs a second or two to increase the level of immunity for about 15% of the population, that segment that does not get protection against the disease from the first dose.
This fact is supported by European Center for Disease Prevention and Control. More information about the measles virus, its prevention and treatment can be found here HERE.
CONCLUSION
The rhetorical question of the artist from Constanţa is a tendentious one, given the fact that worldwide, European and national institutions support with medical studies that vaccination during the incubation period of the virus does not present any danger. In addition, her statement that there are children who are “mutilated” or “destroyed” by the virus is totally FALSE.
Likewise, the claim that the vaccine can cause autism is also false. A single scientist published, in 1998, in The Lancet, a study that supported this fact, but without solid scientific arguments. His work was later contradicted by the medical authorities, it was retracted, and the author’s right to practice was withdrawn.
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2024-01-02 15:48:04
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