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In reply to the discussion: Measles is back: A mother's story, from today's LA Times: [View all]cureautismnow
(1,870 posts)Here's what the Merck insert says regarding immunocompromised humans:
CONTRAINDICATIONS:
..."Primary and acquired immunodeficiency states, including patients who are immunosuppressed in association with AIDS or other clinical manifestations of infection with human immunodeficiency viruses;{41-43} cellular immune deficiencies; and hypogammaglobulinemic and dysgammaglobulinemic states. Measles inclusion body encephalitis{44} (MIBE), pneumonitis{45} and death as a direct consequence of disseminated measles vaccine virus infection have been reported in immunocompromised individuals inadvertently vaccinated with measles-containing vaccine."
Shouldn't pediatricians be checking for the existence of a healthy immune system and the non-existence of immuno-suppressive infections before injecting them with even more infections for the immune system to fight off?
As for borrelia (with 2 r's), penicillin CAN cure it if caught early, but that's not always the case. "Antibiotics have varying effects on the different morphological forms of B. burgdorferi. Persistence of viable organisms in round body forms and biofilm-like colonies may explain treatment failure and persistent symptoms following antibiotic therapy of Lyme disease." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3132871
Of course, a pediatrician will not Rx penicillin for borreliosis if they never check the infant for it and just shoot them up with more viruses and bacteria willy-nilly.
BTW, wild type measles encephalitis is 1 in 1,000.