Dr C: “Jabs are safe, but measles can kill”

A study has proven the MMR vaccine doesn’t cause autism, yet kids are e still dying of measles. Dr C says enough is enough

Research on the MMR jab, which protects children against measles, mumps and rubella, followed more than 650,000 kids for a decade and found no increased risk for autism among vaccinated children, even those who had a sibling with autism.

TRUST THE FACTS

I can’t believe we’re still spending money on studies like this because a troubled few just won’t leave the subject alone. Parents have worried since disgraced former doctor Andrew Wakefield claimed the MMR vaccine increased risk of autism in 1998, but that paper was fraudulent and it has been proven without doubt that this vaccine doesn’t cause autism. Since measles vaccines were introduced in 1968, 20 million measles cases and 4,500 deaths have been avoided in the UK.

IGNORE PROPAGANDA

The anti-vax community make films and memes and share scaremongering nonsense all over the internet, which scares parents, but what we need to worry about is unvaccinated kids spreading this disease. We don’t see measles and its horrible consequences, so we’ve become complacent, but it can leave kids blind, brain damaged or disabled. People say they don’t want “toxins” like mercury injected into their children, but it’s a mercury salt, which isn’t stored in the body like the mercury in your thermometer – they’re completely different things. People say they won’t give their kids vaccines because they have done their own research, but Googling it is not good research. It’s borderline offensive when people have dedicated their careers to this research, for someone with an angry blog to think they know better. People also claim that their child was vaccinated, then got ill. They went to a GP surgery full of ill people for a jab – the child caught a germ! One in 15 kids develops complications with measles. For some that’s gastroenteritis, but it could be pneumonia or encephalitis – both of which can kill or leave people seriously disabled or brain damaged. We can’t tell who that would happen to, but you can vaccinate against measles – so take the jab, not the risk.

CHECK WITH YOUR GP

If you or your kids haven’t been vaccinated, tell your GP and you can be. If you’re not sure, it’s also fine to be vaccinated again. Up until 2016 cases had been dropping, but since 2017 measles cases have soared thanks to lies. It needs to stop.