is the latest , probably drug company inspired , apologia for the serious effects of vaccination.


The MMR vaccine has been cleared of causing long-term developmental problems, such as autism, in what is claimed to be the most systematic review of evidence concerning the effectiveness and safety of the jab.
An international team of researchers suggests that lack of confidence in the vaccine following controversial suggestions of a link has damaged public health by undermining campaigns to end the scourge of mumps, measles and rubella.

Vittorio Demicheli, of the Servizo Sovrazonale di Epidemilogica in Allesandria, Italy, who led the review of 31 studies, said: "We conclude that all the major unintended events, such as triggering Crohn's disease or autism, were suspected on the basis of unreliable evidence. Public health decisions need to be based on sound evidence.

"If this principle had been applied in the case of the MMR dispute then we could have avoided all the fuss."

MMR, first introduced in the United States in the 1970s and now in use in more than 90 countries, has been routinely offered for infants in Britain since 1988, but the publicity surrounding a medical research paper published in the Lancet in 1998 prompted a long-running dispute over its safety.

The new review of MMR, for the Cochrane Collaboration, an international charity based in the UK, is published by the Cochrane Library today. It examined 139 research articles but discarded more than 100 because they had been conducted in a way that could not rule out bias or error.


Arnt they making enough money out of ineffective flu jabs?

Tamivir my left elbow!