The legacy of Andrew Wakefield continues

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16. "Trifles make perfection (or science), but perfection is no trifle." - Michelangelo

http://www.ageofautism.com/2013/05/trumped-up-march-uk-measles-epidemic-1-lab-confirmed-case-in-182.html

COMMENT REFERENCED ABOVE:

It's extremely difficult to cut through all the official mininformation, scaremongering and sheer MMR vaccine promoting propaganda, concerning the Welsh measles outbreak.

The ONLY reliable statistics are the laboratory confirmed numbers. These amount to a total of 26 confirmed cases since the start of 2013, for the whole of Wales, including 8 confirmed cases in March 2013.

The confirmed numbers of measles cases for April 2013 are still being compiled, but the UK media seem to have gone quiet during the last few days, since Child Health Safety raised the issue of what seems to be a totally manufactured Welsh measles "epidemic", created out of a small local outbreak. Scroll down alphabetically through large numbers of notifiable diseases to find the measles stats.

http://www2.nphs.wales.nhs.uk:8080/CommunitySurveillanceDocs.nsf/3dc04669c9e1eaa880257062003b246b/38c4ee86b5fd701e80257b41003cdc52/$FILE/monthly%20lab%20201303.pdf

The large numbers of Welsh measles reported in the press and media, were all cases notified via GPs as suspected measles cases. Those 85 reported hospitalised cases obviously refer to persons who are mostly ill with other conditions. All this whipped up media frenzy has resulted in what seems to be a lot of mass hysteria cases!

The following link is to Welsh suspected measles cases which were notified November 2012- end of April 2013.

Scroll down to the block graph and you will find the largest 'spike' to be children aged 1-4, a cohort group officially stated to be 90-95% MMR vaccinated. All this rubbish about large numbers of 'teenagers' catching measles as a result of not being vaccinated as infants, is complete rubbish, an obvious attempt to blame Andrew Wakefield yet again!

http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/888/page/66389#d
(Total of 1011 notified measles cases up to 29-04-13)

Finally that good old Government and corporate propaganda machine the BBC produced this News Story 4 days ago:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22385218

2nd May 2013
Swansea measles: Cases in epidemic rise to 1,039
"The number of cases in the Swansea measles epidemic has risen to 1,039, an increase of 28 in the past two days.
Public Health Wales (PHW) said across Wales the total has reached 1,170, and 85 people have been hospitalised.
It said that 33,000 non-routine MMR vaccinations have been given around the country during the outbreak.
But it said that too few 10-18-year-olds were receiving the jab, and they were the hardest hit by the epidemic.
Large numbers of children in that age group were never given the MMR vaccine, the result of a scare that caused panic among parents."

Posted by: Jenny Allan | May 06, 2013 at 08:10 PM