What’s the Deal with Measles? (HIDDEN FACTS You Need to Know)

Every year, we see an “outbreak” of measles, which gets various degrees of media coverage. The recent “outbreak” (I’ll explain my use of quotations around the word) garnered major airtime from Fox News to CNN, and media blamed unvaccinated children for spreading the disease.

How much of this is true? How helpful and effective are measles vaccines? What’s the real story behind the media fervor?

Let’s explore those questions.

The History of Measles Mortality

Roman Bystrianyk and Suzanne Humphries, authors of Dissolving Illusions, compiled the data on measles mortality from the US and England.

In the United States, the mortality rate from measles declined by over 98% by the time the corresponding vaccine was in widespread use in the 1963:

In England and Wales, the mortality measles declined by over 99% by the time the corresponding vaccine was introduced in 1968:

A similar chart for measles mortality can be found in a report from the U.S. Department of Health, published 1968:

Given this data, the measles vaccine is responsible (if at all) for a < 2% decline in measles mortality in the United States and England.

This raises the question, what other factors might be responsible for this pre-vaccine mortality decline?

Interestingly, we see a common pattern with the mortality pattern of other “infectious” diseases (note those quotations again), declining by at least 95% before the associated vaccine was introduced. Take note of the whooping cough mortality rate on the following chart.

Further, mortality rates for diseases for which a vaccine does not exist (including scarlet fever, see chart below) show a similar data pattern:

Significant and radical improvements in water quality, nutrition, transportation, and food storage happened during these consistent mortality decline. Sewage-infected water, streets with animal feces, rotten foods, chronic malnutrition were prevalent in populated areas when rates of disease mortality were highest. As basic sanitation, sewage, and nutrition quality improved, so did health outcomes.

According to old newspaper clippings, TV clips, and people born before 1970, measles was once considered a childhood rite-of-passage, like chicken pox.

Consider this clip from The Brady Bunch, aired in 1969:

Someone posted that clip on X, and the comment section filled with the experiences of individuals reflecting on their childhood experience of measles.

Numerous people remember catching measles from a sibling, or even attending a “measles party” to catch the illness on purpose. You might be more familiar with the concept of “chicken pox parties,” where the goal is catching the mild illness to establish immunity.

While “catching” measles and chicken pox is an observable phenomena, it might be due to factors outside our scientific awareness.

It turns out, these illnesses may not be attributed to viruses, as so many people believe!

If you value having a scientifically-informed perspective, then you’ll want to keep reading. However, if you prefer to hold to maintain popular pseudoscientific opinion (it’s often easier to believe the falsehoods other people believe), then you’ll want to stop reading right here.

Are you ready?

The Truth Behind the Measles Vaccine

According to a CDC webpage:

In 1954, John F. Enders and Dr. Thomas C. Peebles collected blood samples from several ill students during a measles outbreak in Boston, Massachusetts. They wanted to isolate the measles virus in the student’s blood and create a measles vaccine. They succeeded in isolating measles in 13-year-old David Edmonston’s blood.

In 1963, John Enders and colleagues transformed their Edmonston-B strain of measles virus into a vaccine and licensed it in the United States.

To recap, the CDC purports that Enders and Peebles succeeded in isolating measles in a blood sample. They found a measles virus, and turned it into a vaccine.

But that didn’t happen.

Here’s what actually happened:

John Enders developed the process that became the basis for developing “viral cultures.” In 1954, he pioneered the cell culture process using monkey kidney cells and additional ingredients, as described above.

He “inoculated” these cell cultures with swabs taken from the throats of children who had the symptoms of measles. The cell broke down into small particles, and Enders concluded that this cellular breakdown was proof of the measles virus from the throat swabs.

Yet Enders also produced a cell culture without adding the throat swab. He stated:

“A second agent was obtained from an unincoulated culture of monkey kidney cells. The cytopathic changes it induced in the unstained [uninoculated] preparations could not be distinguished with confidence from the viruses obtained from measles.”

To reiterate: a measles virus was never isolated! The same cellular particles Enders extracted from the inocculated sample occurred in the sample without human mucus.

In 2021, German microbiologist Stephan Lanka did a properly controlled study to examine cell cultures containing human mucus (the supposed virus source) and cell cultures without human mucus.

The same cytopathic effect (and the release of viral-sized exosomes) occurred in cell culture without any infectious material added.

(Lanka’s study results are here. I recommend watching this brief, clear analysis by Ekatrina Sugak to understand the study results.)

The Scientific Method + Viral Isolation

The scientific method requires using a control group for such an experiment, to determine what would happen without the experimental variable (the sample of mucus).

Because a control group is not used to isolate viruses from human samples, the technique of “viral isolation” is pseudoscience — it doesn’t follow the scientific method.

Only a few instances of a control group have ever been used in viral “isolation” studies, and these studies produced virus-like particles in both the experimental and control cell cultures (see Lanka’s study, above).

There is not one published scientific paper where any particle you could call a virus […] [is found] in any biological fluid of any sick human or animal. All the virologists agree. – Dr. Thomas Cowan in A Farewell To Virology documentary

“How can you claim an entire field of study is wrong?”

When I share this information about viruses, some people say:

“But virologists have dedicated their entire careers to studying viruses!”

“How can you claim to know more than the experts in this field?”

“If the false premise of virology was as obvious as you claim, wouldn’t the experts be aware of this?”

Yet none of these comments share valid scientific data or rational arguments that refute the information I share. These are emotional reactions, not logical arguments.

Concluding Questions

I hope this articles leaves you with more questions than it does answers.

• It appears that diseases attributed to viruses have a contagious quality. What unexplored or unrecognized factors might explain that?
• What if the headlines around the measles outbreak is designed to improve pharmaceutical profits, rather than patient wellbeing?
• Are there other factors such as medical malpractice might influence deaths attributed to diseases like measles?

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