Impact of Measles Vaccination on Public Health

To look at the whole picture. What is the entire impact holistically on

public health

of using this product, right? Meaning, does eliminating

a measles from being endemic, from circulating the population, a

net health benefit or a net health detriment?

And as, you know, I point out in my- as I go through in detail in the book,

um, and I've talked about in public before,

when you actually look at the

science, let's look at one side of the equation.

What was the benefit of, uh, vis-à-vis introducing the vaccine from

eliminating measles vis mortality?

Well, in the United States, as is true by the way, in the UK

and other developed

countries,

between 1900 and the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963 in the United

States, measles mortality declined by over 98%.

In the U- in England, between nine- it was s- between 1900 and

1968 when it was introduced, it declined by over 99%, okay?

What caused that reduction in mortality? I could tell you what didn't.

It wasn't vaccines. They didn't exist, okay?

By the time they introduced the vaccine, there were about 400 deaths a year from

measles in the United States.

At a time when parts of America were still like a

developing country, right? Where people will die of all kinds of

disease, of, of

any kind because they're, you know, they don't have clean water,

they don't have...

and so forth. Now,

so those 400 folks who died was probably gonna continue to decline

even

without a vaccination, as occur with many d- diseases, where they

tried to make a vaccine and didn't, like scarlet fever and so forth, okay?

They become less pathogenic over time.

But let's just assume

the vaccine saves 400 lives a year in America, which by the

way, at that point translated to 1 in

450,000 in- Americans died of measles.

1 of 450,000. Far from the killer. Mer- most- our health

department promotes measles as if millions in America died before there

was a

vaccine, okay? It's 1 in 450,000 people a year,

at a time when

everybody got measles. Now, what's the flip side to that?

Well, let me tell you what the studies show.

They show that those who don't get measles, okay,

this was, uh, have a statistically significant increased

rate of death from cardiovascular disease and from cancer.

Statistically significant. For example, there was 100,000-person

study in Japan that tracked Jap- 100,000 people in Japan for over

20 years. Okay? Government study.

Government-funded, government-involved study.

What they found is that after 22 years,

those that had measles and mumps

had a 20% statistically significant reduction in

death from cardiovascular disease.

Think about that. 20%.

Cardiovascular disease kills 800,000 Americans a year.

800,000. If eliminating measles and mumps,

forget 20%, let's say 1%,

had a 1% effect, well, you're way past your 400 deaths.

You're way past. You've already inverted your public health

benefit.

Cancers. The studies show that, for example,

uh, getting measles, uh, reduces, those who have had

measles have a reduction of 66% decreased, uh,

rate of Hodgkin's lymphoma and 166 reduction rate

in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Those kill 20,000, mostly kids, a year.

It- if you've had measles, you have half the rate of ovarian cancer.

I didn't do these studies. These are by major institutions around the

world.

They're all there in PubMed. They're in my book. I cite to them.

You can go see them. They're all in peer-reviewed literature.

They're done by major institutions. And here's the thing about those studies.

Some of them are bigger, like the Japan study.

Some of them are smaller and retrospective,

like some of the cancer studies, but

they're pretty consistent. They all end up showing the same thing.

So from a public health perspective, did we have a net benefit?

Pathogens over time have come and gone and disappeared.

Measles didn't.

It could be because it has a survival benefit, that having this, what

was considered generally innocuous, generally, you know, for a wild child

infection,

um, a conferred a survival advantage.

So, you know, um, now that, now that, what I just said might make people

mad,

but that's just the data.

That's just the data. Don't get mad about it. Don't get angry.

Don't get upset.

It's just data