Generation Wakefield

[Mark Probert]

http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/news/story.asp?datetime=14+Oct+2005+08%3A20&tbrand=EADOnline&tCategory=NEWS&category=News&brand=EADOnline&itemid=IPED12+Oct+2005+22%3A04%3A31%3A307

In the first eight months of this year, there have been 208 reported
cases affecting people from across Suffolk, compared to 80 last year,
two in 2003 and none in 2002.

Dr Vivancos said there was now a group of people aged between 16 and 25
who were never vaccinated against mumps, as the Measles Mumps and
Rubella (MMR) immunisation was only introduced in 1988.

Other children in the age bracket may have only received one dose of the
vaccine, meaning they are not totally covered against the virus. There
was a “catch-up campaign” for the vaccine against rubella and measles in
1994, but mumps was not included.

....

Mumps is normally a mild illness, although in a minority of cases there
can be severe complications, such as deafness in one ear (which happens
in around one in 15,000 cases), meningitis and inflammation of the brain
- encephalitis, thyroid or pancreas. One in four adolescent boys or men
may experience swelling in the testes and around 5% of females may have
swelling of the ovaries.

[john]

that's the propaganda, now the real story
http://www.whale.to/v/mumps.html

[Mark Probert]

john wrote:
> that's the propaganda, now the real story
> http://www.whale.to/v/mumps.html
>

John defines anything that refutes him as propaganda. Here is the truth
(which he snipped):

http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/news/story.asp?datetime=14+Oct+2005+08%3A20&tbrand=EADOnline&tCategory=NEWS&category=News&brand=EADOnline&itemid=IPED12+Oct+2005+22%3A04%3A31%3A307

In the first eight months of this year, there have been 208 reported
cases affecting people from across Suffolk, compared to 80 last year,
two in 2003 and none in 2002.

Dr Vivancos said there was now a group of people aged between 16 and 25
who were never vaccinated against mumps, as the Measles Mumps and
Rubella (MMR) immunisation was only introduced in 1988.

Other children in the age bracket may have only received one dose of the
vaccine, meaning they are not totally covered against the virus. There
was a “catch-up campaign” for the vaccine against rubella and measles in
1994, but mumps was not included.

....

Mumps is normally a mild illness, although in a minority of cases there
can be severe complications, such as deafness in one ear (which happens
in around one in 15,000 cases), meningitis and inflammation of the brain
- encephalitis, thyroid or pancreas. One in four adolescent boys or men
may experience swelling in the testes and around 5% of females may have
swelling of the ovaries.

[CWatters]

"Mark Probert" > wrote in message
...
>
> In the first eight months of this year, there have been 208 reported
> cases affecting people from across Suffolk, compared to 80 last year,
> two in 2003 and none in 2002.

and not just Suffolk...

http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/immunisation/news.html
Mumps on the increase
A paper published this month in the British Medical Journal describes how
the number of cases of mumps last year was much higher than it has ever been
since the MMR vaccine was introduced in 1988.

<insert scary graph.>
http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/immunisation/images/graph_mumps_1996-2004.gif

In 2004 a total of 8014 cases were confirmed compared with a total of 3,907
in the previous five years. Cases were mainly among older teenagers and
adults who were born before 1987 and most cases were in those born between
1983 and 1986. MMR vaccine was introduced in 1988 (single mumps vaccine was
never used) and although there was a catch up programme which included
children up to 5 years old, many missed out. In addition this group would
not have routinely been given two doses. People born before this time almost
all caught mumps as children and so would be immune.

[Mark Probert]

CWatters wrote:
> "Mark Probert" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>In the first eight months of this year, there have been 208 reported
>>cases affecting people from across Suffolk, compared to 80 last year,
>>two in 2003 and none in 2002.
>
>
> and not just Suffolk...
>
> http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/immunisation/news.html
> Mumps on the increase
> A paper published this month in the British Medical Journal describes how
> the number of cases of mumps last year was much higher than it has ever been
> since the MMR vaccine was introduced in 1988.
>
> <insert scary graph.>
> http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/immunisation/images/graph_mumps_1996-2004.gif
>
> In 2004 a total of 8014 cases were confirmed compared with a total of 3,907
> in the previous five years. Cases were mainly among older teenagers and
> adults who were born before 1987 and most cases were in those born between
> 1983 and 1986. MMR vaccine was introduced in 1988 (single mumps vaccine was
> never used) and although there was a catch up programme which included
> children up to 5 years old, many missed out. In addition this group would
> not have routinely been given two doses. People born before this time almost
> all caught mumps as children and so would be immune.

I wonder how many had permanent problems after the infection.