Dr. Andrew Wakefield Is Being Blamed For The Decline In MMR Vaccination In The UK. But That’s Not What Really Happened. The Trend Started Years Before He Published His Initial Research On Regressive Autism
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In 1998, Dr. Andrew Wakefield identified a new bowel disorder in children with regressive autism, and suggested a possible link between MMR vaccination and autism. He also called for more research. Since then, the health authorities in the United Kingdom have put forth much energy, and in excess of £3 million, trying to defend the image of the triple vaccine instead of investigating the causes of the documented autism epidemic. In addition, the UK Department of Health (DOH) has insisted that only the MMR vaccine be made available. This has forced parents, who are concerned about the safety of the triple vaccine, to privately purchase (if they can afford them) monovalent vaccines for their children, or to forgo vaccination altogether. The stand that the DOH has chosen to take goes against its own directive in “Immunization against Infectious Disease 1988”: “For children whose parents refuse MMR vaccine, single antigen measles will be available.”
Although Andrew Wakefield has done nothing but echo that both the triple and single vaccines should be made available, he has been accused of endangering the life of children whose parents are opposed to MMR vaccination. The fact is that the responsibility for endangering lives falls entirely on the shoulders of the DOH. By adopting such a rigid stance, to defend a triple vaccine that does have proven alternatives, it is the DOH that has put children in harm’s way.
A recent Channel 5 drama “Hear the Silence” has rekindled the argument and the accusations.
This investigation, which is based strictly and entirely on DOH data, will show conclusively that MMR vaccination rates were down before Dr. Wakefield published his initial paper on the subject in The Lancet, in February 1998.
The two documents used as references can be found as PDF files at www.doh.gov.uk.
The first document (D1) entitled “NHS Immunisation Statistics, England: 1997-98” can be accessed at www.doh.gov.uk/pub/docs/doh/imstat98.pdf This particular document also covers the 10-year period after 1988 when MMR vaccination was introduced.
The second (D2) is entitled “Immunisation against Infectious Disease 1996. The Green Book” The chapter on measles, mumps and rubella spans from pages 125 to 146 and is accessible at:
http://www.doh.gov.uk/greenbook/greenbookpdf/chapter-22-layout.pdf
This reference was chosen because it was also published before the Wakefield report but shortly after a rather significant national vaccination effort.
During the period reviewed, the officially recommended (and available) primary pediatric vaccinations in the UK [Table A (D1)] were:
D/T/P and HIB, Polio: First dose: 2 months
Second dose: 3 months
Third dose: 4 months
Measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) 12-15 months (any age over 12 ms).
The following table, a replica of Table 5 (D1), shows the number (x1000) of children who completed the primary series of vaccination yearly between 1988-89 and 1997- 98.
Diphtheria | Tetanus | Pertussis | Polio | MMR | HIB | |
1988-89 | 604 | 644 | 517 | 607 | 1005 | |
1989-90 | 643 | 691 | 582 | 650 | 1396 | |
1990-91 | 891 | 946 | 837 | 899 | 1069 | |
1991-92 | 647 | 695 | 618 | 654 | 811 | |
1992-93 | 628 | 670 | 609 | 637 | 628 | |
1993-94 | 603 | 636 | 588 | 614 | 640 | 855 |
1994-95 | 609 | 628 | 593 | 615 | 671 | 589 |
1995-96 | 587 | 601 | 574 | 593 | 572 | 596 |
1996-97 | 572 | 576 | 574 | 564 | 561 | 553 |
1997-98 | 576 | 578 | 589 | 577 | 563 | 565 |
DTP and polio vaccines had been in use for years before the introduction of the MMR. HIB statistics start shortly after the vaccine was licensed in 1993-94. Many more children were vaccinated during the 3 years that followed the introduction of a new vaccine: 1988 to 1991 for the MMR and 1993 to 1996 for HIB. It is likely that children older than 2, who received MMR for the first time, were included in the statistics for the first 3 years listed, when more than 1 million children a year were vaccinated.
It is not clear why the number of children receiving 3 doses of DTP/ Polio vaccines and one dose of MMR vaccine, decreased between 1994 and 1998, as shown in the following table, also based on Table 5 (D1). It is interesting that the DOH never mentioned, nor found significant, the fact that the decrease was substantially more significant for the MMR vaccine.
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