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    Vaccination conundrum Angelo Carrion Once upon a time… Decades ago many children and adults contracted communicable diseases, including Tetanus, Polio, and Pertussis. During that time, most people were much more frightened of the diseases than of the side effects of the vaccinations. In Reality… Today the situation is reversed. In the era of helpful vaccines, many parents are becoming more concerned about the possible adverse effects. Many parents of today have never experienced the…

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    Rubella Vaccines

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    It all started with the 1964 Rubella epidemic, doctors advised that patients abort their babies due to the exposure to rubella. From these abortions the rubella vaccine was cultivated from the fetus tissue containing the active rubella virus. Hepatitis A and B, chicken pox, and rubella all originated from this aborted fetal tissue. This fact alone has stirred controversy with many religion’s views on vaccinations…

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    Rubella Virus

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    children’s immunizations do so because of persistent misinformation about a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and autism (Breeding). The misinformation that Witolf Migala is referring to, is the article published in 1998 in the British journal, The Lancet, in which Dr. Andrew Wakefield said this, “Rubella virus is associated with autism and the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine… has also been implicated.”(Willingham,…

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    Jay Carlos and his wife Leigh owned homes for those with developmental disabilities of mild to moderate levels for 15 years. They were in the process of beginning a third home when OSHA visited their facility. The visit was not a planned visit and the OSHA inspector asked to audit the procedures set in place for blood-borne pathogen and employee hepatitis vaccination strategies. The company policy implemented was to vaccinate residents already admitted and requiring that any residents applying…

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    for performing an abortion in Minnesota, where the procedure was illegal except when necessary to save the life of the mother.” (36) Many people were outraged because Hodgson was only trying to save the mother who had contracted rubella during her pregnancy. The rubella epidemic in the spring of 1965 was putting many mothers at risk. They weren’t able to have abortions regardless of being ill which caused many problems…

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    Rubella Theory

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    The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) theory of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) The initial theory of MMR, in connection with ASD, being due to an article published by Wakefield et al., (1998). The editorial, that was published in ‘The Lancet’, caused a worldwide panic. Godlee, Smith and Marcovitch (2011) explain how Wakefield’s 1998 paper was fraudulent, and also seen as an unethical research project. Furthermore, Wakefield’s paper was retracted from ‘The Lancet’ and has since been stripped of…

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    immunisation rates to help eradicate communicable disease, which is in line with the World Health Organisation (WHO) strategy of global eradication of Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) where by 2020 to achieve a minimum of 95% immunisation coverage and to then establish a target date for the global eradication of rubella and CRS (Congenital Rubella Syndrome) (WHO, 2012), the benefit to the community is greater than the benefit to the…

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    Fri Sci telegraph The Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccine In making the MMR Vaccine, medical professionals tend to use the strategy of weakening the virus through a process called ‘cell culture adaptation’. Through this process, the live natural virus is taken from someone infected with either measles, mumps of rubella and then grown in a chick embryo cell (for measles and mumps) or human embryo fibroblast cells (for rubella). The attenuated (weakened) virus is now unable to successfully…

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    The MMR or Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccination is one of the most controversial vaccines to date. Even though the advantages of being vaccinated with this vaccine extremely outweigh any problems, many still question whether the vaccine is beneficial for themselves, and their children. Originally measles, mumps and rubella were all treated with separate vaccines. However, in the 1980’s the vaccine was combined into a three-in-one shot (MClean 6). The producer for this spectrum of vaccines,…

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    Signs and Symptoms German measles is a viral infection most distinguished by a red rash that appears all over the body. Commonly known in the United States as rubella, it is one form of the measles virus. Generally a mild febrile viral disease it is identified by its maculopapular rash. Rubella can be difficult to diagnose due to symptoms similar to that of dengue, scarlet fever, measles, parvovirus, and the herpes 6 virus amongst others. Children often times do not present symptoms,…

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