Rubella

This again, is a benign childhood disease. The only danger is infection in the fetus of a pregnant woman in the first trimester.  The best way to prevent this is lifelong immunity. The only way to obtain life long immunity is to have Rubella as a child. This is what I found on the CDC's website:

Rubella virus was first isolated in 1962 by Parkman and Weller. Rubella virus is classified as a togavirus, genus Rubivirus. It is most closely related to group A arboviruses, such as Eastern and Western Equine Encephalitis viruses. It is an enveloped RNA virus, with a single antigenic type that does not cross-react with other members of the togavirus group. Rubella virus is relatively unstable and is inactivated by lipid solvents, trypsin, formalin, ultraviolet light, extremes of pH and heat, and amantadine.

The incubation period of rubella is 14 days with a range of 12 to 23 days. Symptoms are often mild, and 20%-50% of cases may be subclinical or unapparent. In children, rash is usually the first manifestation and a precursor of symptoms is rare. In older children and adults, there is often a 1-5 day precursor of low-grade fever, malaise, abnormal enlargement of the lymph nodes and upper respiratory symptoms preceding the rash. The rash of rubella usually occurs initially on the face and then progresses from head to foot. It lasts about 3 days and is occasionally marked by itching. The rash is fainter than measles rash and does not coalesce. Arthralgia and arthritis occur so frequently in adults that they are considered by many to be an integral part of the illness rather than a complication. Other symptoms of rubella include conjunctivitis, testalgia, or orchitis. Forschheimer spots may be noted on the soft palate, but are not diagnostic for rubella. Rubella is a human disease. There is no known animal reservoir. A true carrier state has not been described. However Infants with Congenital rubella syndrome shed large quantities of virus from body secretions for up to one year and can therefore transmit rubella to persons caring for them who are susceptible to the disease.

Three rubella vaccines were licensed in the U.S. in 1969: HPV- 77:DE-5 (duck embryo), HPV-77:DK-12 (dog kidney), and Cendehill (rabbit kidney) strains. The HPV-77:DK-12 was later removed from the market because there was a higher rate of joint complaints following vaccination with this strain. In January 1979, the RA 27/3 (human diploid fibroblast) strain (Meruvax-II) was licensed and all other strains were discontinued. The RA 27/3 rubella vaccine is a live attenuated virus. It was first isolated in 1965 at the Wistar Institute from a rubella-infected aborted fetus. The virus was attenuated by 25-30 passages in tissue culture, using human diploid fibroblasts. It does not contain duck, chicken or egg protein. Vaccine virus is not communicable, except in the setting of breastfeeding even though virus may be cultured from the nasopharynx of vaccinees.

Just recently a Dr. named Peter Hotez wrote an article defending MMR vaccine and he made a statement which jumped of the page at me. He stated: Ironically, the only known cause of autism is rubella, which the MMR vaccine prevents. Which really got me thinking. If autism is caused by rubella virus in utero, is it such a stretch to think it could happen in an 18 month old? First I wanted to see if anyone else had made the same statement and I found that a doctor Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer Department of Health Richmond House, said basically the same thing: "In fact, the rubella component of MMR is really our first "anti-autism" vaccine. Intra-uterine exposure to rubella (congenital rubella syndrome) is one of the few proven causes of autism. " 

I decided to write the doctor and ask some questions. I will now continue to research Rubella as a cause for autism. Here is our correspondence. See what you think.
 

Also, take a look at the this study done in 1976 by a C. Eggers. You remember Kanner first described autistic behavior in the 40's.

 1: Klin Padiatr. 1976 Mar;188(2):172-80.

[Autistic syndrome (Kanner) and vaccination against smallpox (author's transl)]

[Article in German]

Eggers C.

3-4 weeks following an otherwise uncomplicated first vaccination against smallpox a boy, then aged 15 months and last seen at the age of 5 1/2 years, gradually developed a complete Kanner syndrome. The question whether vaccination and early infantile autism might be connected is being discussed. A causal relationship is considered extremely unlikely. But vaccination is recognized as having a starter function for the onset of autism.

Publication Types:
Case Reports
PMID: 944354 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Look at these two studies and see if you think injecting kids with virus is a good idea.

" Children may also have an increased risk if they are exposed in the womb to certain drugs — such as thalidomide, valproic acid or cocaine — or to infectious diseases such as rubella, Toth says."

Prenatal viral infection has been associated with the development of autism.... please read the following research regarding the role of cerebellar genes in the pathology of autism

The role of cerebellar genes in pathology of autism and schizophrenia

Fatemi SH, Reutiman TJ, Folsom TD, Sidwell RW.
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neuroscience Research, University of Minnesota, Medical School, MMC 392, 420 Delaware Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA, fatem002@umn.edu.

Schizophrenia and autism are neurodevelopmental diseases that have genetic as well as environmental etiologies. Both disorders have been associated with prenatal viral infection. Brain imaging and postmortem studies have found alterations in the structure of the cerebellum as well as changes in gene expression. Our laboratory has developed an animal model using prenatal infection of mice with human influenza virus that has demonstrated changes in behavior, pharmacology, structure, and gene expression in the brains of exposed offspring. In the current communication we describe altered expression of cerebellar genes associated with development of brain disorder in a mouse model for schizophrenia and autism and correlate these changes with those involved in the pathology of these two disorders.

PMID: 18418686 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Maternal infection leads to abnormal gene regulation and brain atrophy in mouse offspring: implications for genesis of neurodevelopmental disorders.

Fatemi SH, Reutiman TJ, Folsom TD, Huang H, Oishi K, Mori S, Smee DF, Pearce DA, Winter C, Sohr R, Juckel G.
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neuroscience Research, University of Minnesota Medical School, 420 Delaware St. SE, MMC 392, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. fatem002@umn.edu

Prenatal viral infection has been associated with development of schizophrenia and autism. Our laboratory has previously shown that viral infection causes deleterious effects on brain structure and function in mouse offspring following late first trimester (E9) administration of influenza virus. We hypothesized that late second trimester infection (E18) in mice may lead to a different pattern of brain gene expression and structural defects in the developing offspring. C57BL6J mice were infected on E18 with a sublethal dose of human influenza virus or sham-infected using vehicle solution. Male offsping of the infected mice were collected at P0, P14, P35 and P56, their brains removed and prefrontal cortex, hippocampus and cerebellum dissected and flash frozen. Microarray, qRT-PCR, DTI and MRI scanning, western blotting and neurochemical analysis were performed to detect differences in gene expression and brain atrophy. Expression of several genes associated with schizophrenia or autism including Sema3a, Trfr2 and Vldlr were found to be altered as were protein levels of Foxp2. E18 infection of C57BL6J mice with a sublethal dose of human influenza virus led to significant gene alterations in frontal, hippocampal and cerebellar cortices of developing mouse progeny. Brain imaging revealed significant atrophy in several brain areas and white matter thinning in corpus callosum. Finally, neurochemical analysis revealed significantly altered levels of serotonin (P14, P35), 5-Hydroxyindoleacetic acid (P14) and taurine (P35). We propose that maternal infection in mouse provides an heuristic animal model for studying the environmental contributions to genesis of schizophrenia and autism, two important examples of neurodevelopmental disorders.

PMID: 18248790 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

 US Science Magazine reports 26% of children Rubella–vaccinated developed arthralgia or arthritis. Dr. Glen Dettman found that one third of Rheumatoid arthritis sufferers had live Rubella viruses in their joints. This vaccine is made with human diploid cells in other words aborted fetal tissue. In 1994 Father Chamberlain of Ampleforth College in York, England, and Moslems throughout the country protested that they didn’t want their children injected with a vaccine made from aborted fetal tissue. Vaccine makers were caught in a dilemma, because while they believed that ‘human diploid tissue’ was the medium of choice for culturing viral vaccines.  They couldn’t tell the public why aborted fetal tissue was preferable without discussing what was wrong with animal cultures.  To do that would not only reveal some very unpleasant information, but would also show the public that important information has always been kept out of their sight.   Rather than openly discussing the issues, the vaccine makers denied that the Rubella vaccine was made from aborted fetal tissue.  When confronted with the medical evidence, they quieted the dissenters by saying that if their children didn’t have the vaccine, the parents would be responsible for epidemics, disabilities and deaths. Good news! Read this latest article on

CATHOLIC WORLD NEWS:
Vatican, Jul. 19 (CWNews.com) - The Vatican has condemned the use of vaccines derived from fetal tissue, and exhorted Catholics to lobby for the development of alternative vaccines. The new instructions from the Vatican provide strong support for parents and doctors who resist the use of vaccines that are based on fetal remains. Such vaccines are commonly used today in the US to inoculate patients-- usually children-- against diseases such as measles, mumps, chicken pox, rubella, smallpox, rabies, polio, and hepatitis A. In some cases the vaccines developed from fetal tissues are the only products available to patients seeking protection from the disease.

In a careful analysis of the moral issues involved in the use of vaccines developed from fetal tissues, the Pontifical Academy for Life concludes that pharmaceutical companies have a grave moral obligation to provide vaccines that do not use fetal remains.

Although parents and doctors may be morally justified in using such vaccines, when no alternative is available, the Vatican document says that they "have a duty to take recourse to alternatives, putting pressure on political authorities and health systems" to produce morally acceptable alternative treatments. The document continues:

They should use conscientious objection and oppose by all means-- in writing, through various associations, mass media, etc,-- the vaccines which do not yet have morally acceptable alternatives, creating pressure so that alternative vaccines are prepared, which are not connected with the abortion of a human fetus. The Vatican document was produced in response to a query from an American group, Children of God for Life, which had asked for guidance from the Holy See on the use of vaccines derived from aborted babies. The reply came from Bishop Elio Sgreccia, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life. The bishop noted that this reply had been approved by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Bishop Sgreccia's response included an 8-page essay on the subject, which will soon be published in an Italian bioethics journal. The full text of that article is now available on the Children of God for Life web site. Vaccines developed from the tissues of aborted babies involve the manufacturers in an unacceptable moral compromise, the Pontifical Academy for Life observes. The document goes on to explain classic Catholic teachings regarding cooperation in evil actions, and outlining the degrees of cooperation involved in the production and use of such vaccines. This cooperation, the Vatican instruction says, is "more intense on the part of the authorities and national health systems that accept the use of the vaccines."

In the absence of effective alternatives, individuals may use the morally tainted vaccines, the Pontifical Academy argues, since their cooperation with the original immoral acts involved would be remote and passive. Nevertheless, even ordinary citizens have an obligation to fight for change, the Vatican insists: "It is up to the faithful and citizens of upright conscience (fathers of families, doctors, etc.) to oppose, even by making an objection of conscience, the ever more widespread attacks against life and the 'culture of death' which underlies them." The Pontifical Academy observes that energetic demands from the public could encourage manufacturers to develop alternative products, and prompt public authorities to curb the sale of vaccines that use morally unacceptable means of production. "In any case, there remains a moral duty to continue to fight and to employ every lawful means in order to make life difficult for the pharmaceutical industries which act unscrupulously and unethically."

When no acceptable vaccines are available, the document points out, parents put into "a context of moral coercion," when they are forced to accept a morally tainted treatment or endanger the health of their children. "This is an unjust alternative choice, which must be eliminated as soon as possible," the Vatican states.

The Pontifical Academy urges parents and doctors to consider conscientious objection to the use of any vaccines that involve morally unacceptable means of production. The document states that "it is right to abstain from using these vaccines if it can be done without causing children, and indirectly the population as a whole, to undergo significant risks to their health." Even when patients make the decision to use the vaccines, the Vatican stressed that their decision should not be taken as approval for the process by which the vaccines were developed. The document argues:

lawfulness of the use of these vaccines should not be misinterpreted as a declaration of the lawfulness of their production, marketing and use, but is to be understood as being a passive material cooperation and, in its mildest and remotest sense, also active, morally justified as an extrema ratio due to the necessity to provide for the good of one's children and of the people who come in contact with the children (pregnant women) Debra Vinnedge, the executive director of Children of God for Life, noted that the Vatican instructions support efforts to require pharmaceutical companies to disclose when their products use fetal tissues. The Fair Labeling and Informed Consent Act, a bill recently introduced in the US Congress, would have that effect.

Dr. Steven White, the president of the Catholic Medical Association, made the same observation. "We must demand that the pharmaceutical industry provide accurate information on the origin of all vaccines so that we are able to make informed decisions in accord with our moral conscience," he said; "and we must mobilize to support development of ethical alternatives." Vaccines developed from fetal tissues

In its analysis, the Pontifical Academy for Life listed the vaccines developed from fetal tissues:

A) Live vaccines against rubella:

the monovalent vaccines against rubella MeruvaxR!! (Merck) (U.S.), RudivaxR (Sanofi Pasteur, Fr.), and ErvevaxR (RA 27/3) (GlaxoSmithKline, Belgium); the combined vaccine MR against rubella and measles, commercialized with the name of M-R-VAXR (Merck, US) and Rudi-RouvaxR (AVP, France); the combined vaccine against rubella and mumps marketed under the name of BiavaxR!! (Merck, U.S.); the combined vaccine MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) against rubella, mumps and measles, marketed under the name of M-M-RR II (Merck, US), R.O.R.R, TrimovaxR (Sanofi Pasteur, Fr.), and PriorixR (GlaxoSmithKline UK).

B) Other vaccines, also prepared using human cell lines from aborted fetuses: two vaccines against hepatitis A, one produced by Merck (VAQTA), the other one produced by GlaxoSmithKline (HAVRIX), both of them being prepared using MRC-5; one vaccine against chicken pox, VarivaxR, produced by Merck using WI-38 and MRC-5; one vaccine against poliomyelitis, the inactivated polio virus vaccine PoliovaxR (Aventis-Pasteur, Fr.) using MRC-5; one vaccine against rabies, ImovaxR, produced by Aventis Pasteur, harvested from infected human diploid cells, MRC-5 strain; one vaccine against smallpox, AC AM 1000, prepared by Acambis using MRC-5, still on trial.

Although I think this is a step forward in addressing the real issues, there is a great deal more that needs to be investigated. As we believe in the true Creator, and the perfect wisdom of that Creator, it is He who created the perfect combination of mind/body/spirit along with our immune system. In a properly nourished body using the Creators instructions the body has a natural ability is to protect itself.  When tampered with through injections of vaccinations, animal or fetal cells and chemicals,  repercussions are inevitable. 

Click here: Catholic World News : Alberta province approves ethical vaccine alternative

AllAlberta province approves ethical vaccine alternative

Jan. 15, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Responding to lobbying from pro-life groups, the health ministry of Alberta, Canada, has approved an alternative to a popular vaccine developed from fetal tissues.

Health minister Paddy Meade has announced that Pediacel will be made available in Alberta beginning in March of 2007, as a substitute for PENTACEL, a vaccine that is developed from cell lines derived from aborted fetal tissues. Pediacel, which is used against the same diseases (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, and Haemophilus B), is not derived from the fetal tissues.

“This is a great victory for Canadian physicians and families,” said Debi Vinnedge, the executive director of Children of God for Life, a group that is devoted to the development of vaccines derived from ethical sources. She expressed the hope that other Canadian provinces, and the US, would follow Alberta’s lead in providing alternatives for families who object to the use of fetal tissue in vaccines.
 

Another ingredient in some MMR vaccines is porcine gelatin which is a pig  derivative.  This gelatin from pork is totally illegal under Islamic law." Mohammed Sarwar, Labour MP for Glasgow Govan, said: "I am sure if it is the case that MMR contains pork gelatin then that would be a concern for the Muslim community." Unlike Muslims, Jews are only forbidden to eat pork, and have no concerns about its use in medicines, according to Judith Tankel, who sits on the committee of the Glasgow Council of Christians and Jews. She said: "There is no problem with us wearing shoes or clothes made using pigs and certainly injections or medicine containing derivatives of pig are no problem. "Dr Syed Ahmed, immunisation co-ordinator for Greater Glasgow NHS, said he had been alerted to the problem by a Muslim GP and had contacted all GPs in Glasgow asking them to warn Muslim parents and offer the option of using the alternative MMR vaccine made by Priorix. Full article
 

Adverse Effects from package insert for MMR: 

        Otitis Media (ear infections), Arthritis,   Urticaria (skin rash), Leukocyte destruction,   Diabetes Mellitus, aseptic meningitis, encephalitis, nerve deafness, Guillain-Barré and death .