Melanie's Marvelous Measles BOOK
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:12 pm
Melanie's Marvelous Measles BOOK
WE NEED more books like this
Written by a mom who lost her child to vaccine injury (Mom's story below)
Melanie's Marvelous Measles takes children on a journey to learn about the ineffectiveness of vaccinations and to know they don't have to be scared of childhood illnesses, like measles and chicken pox. There are many health messages for parents to expand on about keeping healthy. For an information pack on vaccinations to be sent out free in Australia, people can e-mail growingawareness@yahoo.com and provide their postal address.
BUY THE BOOK:
(also we need your review of the book on AMAZON to offset all the pro-vax people's reviews and your review carries more clout if you have purchased the book)
US
BOOK http://astore.amazon.com/wellwithin/detail/1466938897
KINDLE http://astore.amazon.com/wellwithin/detail/B00APUNP7U
UK
BOOK or KINDLE
Articles below by author and by Suzanne Humphries, MD
http://naturematters.info/
So how does a mother feel when her baby is dead from vaccines and all she hears from doctors, the government and media is that vaccines are safe and effective?
This is my journey..
I can't say I believed in vaccination. I knew nothing about it, but had it done anyway. It's what you do, right? You do what doctors and baby health clinics tell you and what your parents and the media advise you to do. Well I did it, without so much as a question or thought into it. Within moments of my son receiving his immunisations he was screaming. This continued for most of the day and when he wasn't screaming he was crying. This was unusual as he was a very happy, placid baby, who was already rolling over at 8 weeks and gooing and gahing at the first sight of his mother. The doctor told me his reactions were 'normal' and he'd be OK in a couple of days.
After the first day he had almost recovered with only some irritability and restlessness noticeable. As the weeks passed he continued to reach milestones and all appeared Ok.
At 4 months of age I dutifully took him for his next round of vaccinations. This time he screamed louder and I could not console him at all. I would breastfeed him, only to have him projectile vomit it back up and still the screaming continued. He had never before vomited at all, ever. After he had vomited 2 feeds I called the doctor and told her what was happening and she said to stop breastfeeding and give him juice only. He kept some of it down but still vomited often.
The next day I called the doctor and told her I think the vaccines have done this and she told me ' no, it's just a coincidence' but to bring him back in, which I did. She referred me to a specialist. While waiting for the specialist appointment in a few days, my baby boy started doing strange things. He started arching his back and crying out in pain. He was as stiff as a board. His eyes would roll into the back of his head. He didn't have a temperature. He had also started shuddering but he wasn't cold. (I later learnt from the doctor these were convulsions and seizures). The vomiting continued and I was convinced to give up breastfeeding by the clinic sister. He vomited up the formula also. I was getting very scared.
We went to the specialist appointment and he took some blood for tests and then we had to wait. His symptoms continued and after several days word came from the specialist that the tests showed he was allergic to wheat. I stopped giving him the cereal I had started him on weeks before, but none of the symptoms went away. (when I thought about it later, it was actually rice cereal anyway)
I decided to move to a large city to get more help. Once I saw a doctor there he was immediately admitted to hospital for a battery of tests - many of which were conducted under anaesthetic, which of course required my signature to say I have been notified that my baby could die while under. I had not been advised of this, but I signed it not knowing all the medical jargon as I needed to get my baby well again and trusted they knew what they were doing.
By this time my dear little son had lost a lot of weight and nothing I was doing (under advice from doctors and baby health clinics) was working. After months of tests in the hospital (he stayed there) we were summoned in to an office to be told that they 'didn't know why my baby was deteriorating, but they estimate he will pass away within a couple of months'.
I remember thinking at the time, that all this happened twice, straight after his vaccinations, but I said nothing as I still had trust in the doctors. My mother was with me and she said, "I can't believe you have been using this baby as a guinea pig for months and you have come up with nothing." The two older doctors left the room and the younger ones took over. They had a different 'spin' on it all. They said they thought it could be a condition called Alexander's disease. They said it was genetic. They went on to explain why I should never have any more children as they could all be inflicted with this condition.
My sister-in-law was working for a doctor so I asked her to look up Alexanders disease. She gave me 3 pages of information which listed the symptoms. My little one had two of the listed symptoms - projectile vomiting and seizures. (I came to learn many conditions have these two symptoms).
Soon after I took my baby home to die.
It was an interesting time. You don't notice things have changed that much when you are with someone everyday. I would go shopping and people would not look at my baby, but rather look the other way. I remember going into the butcher and ordering what I wanted. The butcher refused to take my money as his eyes were transfixed on my son. I didn't understand any of this. Just people behaving strangely I thought. I didn't realise how sick he looked - much like the starving babies on T.V. we are now used to seeing in African countries.
My dear little boy was no longer rolling over, gooing or gahing, in fact he wasn't doing anything anymore. He was now over one year of age and had not progressed past 4 months of age, when he had his last immunisations. He had in fact regressed to a newborn state, although now he was the length of a toddler. I carried him around in a sling close to my heart and waited for the day he would leave me forever.
When blood started coming from his mouth and I was not getting much sleep at all so I could watch over him, he was admitted to hospital again. He passed away a few weeks later.
Vaccination killed him, I have no doubt. If he crawled under the sink and drank the same poisonous concoction of heavy metals, formaldehyde, foreign proteins, multiple viruses and a host of other toxins, the emergency room would have called it poisoning. Because it was injected into his body, it's called 'a coincidence'! Funny about that. I have since met many parents with similar stories.
My dear aunt who worked in the paediatric ward at a major hospital told me outright that she has seen many babies in the wards who looked just like my baby and the thing they all had in common was they were just vaccinated. She went on to say it never goes on the charts as vaccine damage, but she discusses the timing with the parents to confirm this.
A few years passed and I went on to have another child. This time I was not going to be complacent. I had over the years researched the vaccination issue at length. I read the product inserts and found the reactions all printed there so my suspicions were confirmed by the drug company (the makers of the product) even if not by the doctors.
I had been lied to and my concerns about his immunisations were never followed up in any way. My concerns were met with denials and due to my blind faith in the medical profession I didn't question.
I have since gone on to read hundreds of books, some written by very courageous doctors who have bothered to investigate this issue thoroughly, read medical journals and also watched some DVD's done by doctors all to warn parents about the dangers of vaccination.
I have 3 healthy, totally unvaccinated children, who have never had a childhood disease. Unlike their vaccinated friends who have often succumb to the diseases they have been vaccinated against. I kept these children fit and well using what is provided by nature - natural foods, clean water, sunshine, clean air, exercise, adequate sleep and a loving and nurturing environment.
A few simple facts for people to check out:
1. SIDS in Australia mostly happens at 2, 4 and 6 months - some will definitely be vaccination deaths!
2. The U.S.A. has paid out billions in compensation for vaccine injury. Why do doctors here deny it is happening - are they scared of being sued?
3. There is absolutely NO SCIENTIFIC PROOF a raised antibody level equals immunity. Apparently doctors want scientific proof of reactions, yet there is no scientific proof a raised antibody level gives immunity. There is proof it does not, when most of the cases of whooping cough are in the vaccinated as they are for this current epidemic.
It saddens me to know there are thousands of babies out there being damaged, disabled or lost every year and they have no voice to stand up against the powerful drug companies and, what is now an industry, and scarcely a profession - medicine.
I suggest you all look up the definition of safe and effective. You will soon learn it does not say what doctors and drug companies would have us believe. While we have a system when vaccine side effects are denied and played down and the risk of the disease is exaggerated we will never really know the true risk/benefit ratio. But remember, the risk was 100% when damage happens to your child!
There is so much information out there now from people who do not have a vested interest in vaccinations - I suggest you look into it thoroughly and put your fears to one side.
Education conquers fear.
Go to some of these sites:
http://www.thinktwice.com
http://www.whale.to
http://www.nvic.org
http://vactruth.com/2012/01/19/baby-die ... source=The
http://iansvoice.org/default.aspx
http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/04/i-am ... s-mmr.html
or email Naturematters to ask questions or access our library
Info pack is for Australia ONLY
If my son's purpose on this earth was to teach me to be a better, more responsible parent, he succeeded. Had he not lived and died, I would possibly still be the complacent parent I was when I took him to be immunised. For that, I, and his brothers and sister are forever in his debt. Maybe one day, I'll get to thank him. In the meantime I wonder what he would be like today. When I was placing a 21st key around his headstone I could only be sorry I wasn't placing it around his neck.
My unvaccinated children are alive and well and my vaccinated child is dead!
That's what I know and live with every day.
Yours in health and wellbeing,
Stephanie Messenger
0412 671922
growingawareness@yahoo.com
Please feel free to pass this web address on to others or print it and give it to parents even though it is copyright material, however the content cannot be altered
©Stephanie Messenger 2010
-________________________________
http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2013/ ... phries-md/
Melanie's Marvelous Measles: Is the provaccine backlash rational or hysterical? ~ Suzanne Humphries, MD
- January 13, 2013
There is a new children's book available that teaches children that they don't have to fear childhood illnesses. It is entitled "Melanie's Marvelous Measles" and can be purchased HERE
Mass hysteria has broken out among the provaccine with ideations of banning the book due to its perceived danger. See article HERE
So what are the arguments in favor of shedding the mass fear that has been ingrained since the 1960s when the vaccines became available, prior to which measles was an acceptable childhood illness? In the developed world, mortality was reduced over 98% before the vaccine came along and before antibiotics were available. In England and in the United States, the chance of dying from measles had dropped to 1-2% by the 1930s.[1]
Immunology textbooks[2] point out that children who can't make antibodies, usually get through measles as well as children who can, because it's the innate or cellular immune system that is the key for measles (or any first time disease for that matter) not the humoral or the antibody system.
The cellular immune system is dependent on good nutrition for optimal functioning. Bad nutrition comes in two forms: Plenty of food but all empty calories or not enough food of any calories at all. In the United States, studies have found that vitamin A deficiency is not just a thing of the past, but that even children with normal diets were vitamin-deficient upon measles infection. This 1992 study in California children showed that 50% of hospitalized measles cases had vitamin A deficiency. But there was also vitamin A deficiency in 30% of the sick controls who did not have measles. None of the uninfected controls showed significant deficiency.
So we could say that any child that lands up in a hospital in USA, or any developed country is suffering because their parents need educating about proper nutrition, or because their doctor is totally clueless about the nearly 80 years of proven benefit of vitamin A supplementation in acute measles.
Take note that measles vaccines also deplete vitamin A.
In parts of Africa, measles rampages precisely because there is no nutrition worth talking about. Are vaccines the answer?
And, measles infections can be beneficial. Dr. Peter Aaby et al. and his team found that children who survived natural measles had a much higher survival rate from all other infectious causes than other children. Children who had had the measles vaccine, had a lower rate of survival and the worst group in terms of overall survival from infections, was the group which had neither measles vaccines nor measles disease. That's published research.[6] Their compromise conclusion was that it would be necessary to use the measles vaccine forever, because of the value of the vaccine in protecting against all cause mortality in the absence of actual infection.
Obviously, no research has been done in the developed world to see if there is a parallel here. Indeed, the ONLY reason that discovery was made in developing countries was because the high titer Edmonston measles vaccines (subsequently abandoned) resulted in excess all cause mortality, and they wanted to find out why. Had not that disaster occurred, they might never have discovered that measles infection actually reduced all cause mortality in the real world and that it's something worth having.
Therefore it could be said that measles does something worthwhile.
Now, back to the book under attack.
"Here's how to turn a children's book into a hysterical controversy. Just declare any positive discussion of the benefits of childhood illness to be so evil that censorship is the only possible response. As a librarian, I'm shocked to find so-called "skeptics" advocating book banning. Why do they think this book has to be banned? Because the book in question tells the story of a little girl experiencing a mild case of measles. Here is an excellent review by PhD Immunologist, Dr. Tetyana Obukhanych, which gives a carefully referenced overview of measles and backs up Melanie's Marvelous Measles with the scientific facts."
~ "O" of insidevaccines
Click HERE for Dr. Obukhanych's review of Melanie's Marvelous Measles.
1. Richard D. Semba, Vitamin A as 'Anti-Infective' Therapy, 1920-1940, The American Society for Nutritional Sciences, 1999, p. 786.
2. Sallie R. Permar, Sherry A. Klumpp, Keith G. Mansfield, Angela A. L. Carville, Darci A. Gorgone, Michelle A. Lifton, Jörn E. Schmitz, Keith A. Reimann, Fernando P. Polack, Diane E. Griffin and Norman L. Letvin, Limited Contribution of Humoral Immunity to the Clearance of Measles Viremia in Rhesus Monkeys, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 190, No. 5, 2004, p. 998
3. Measles as an Index of Immunological Function, The Lancet, September 14, 1968, p.611.
4. Antonio C. Arrieta, MD, Margaret Zaleska, RN, Harris R. Stutman, MD, and Melvin I. Marks, MD, Vitamin A levels in children with measles in Long Beach, California, The Journal of Pediatrics, July 1992, p.75.
5. Yalçin, S. Songül M.D.; Yurdakök, Kadriye M.D , Sex-Specific Differences in Serum Vitamin A Values After Measles Immunization, The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 1999, p. 747.
6. Aaby P, Simondon F, Samb B, Cisse B, Jensen H, Lisse IM, Soumaré M, Whittle H.Low mortality after mild measles infection compared to uninfected children in rural west Africa. Vaccine. 2002 Nov 22;21(1-2):120-6.PMID:12443670
- See more at: http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2013/ ... 6NGXm.dpuf
WE NEED more books like this
Written by a mom who lost her child to vaccine injury (Mom's story below)
Melanie's Marvelous Measles takes children on a journey to learn about the ineffectiveness of vaccinations and to know they don't have to be scared of childhood illnesses, like measles and chicken pox. There are many health messages for parents to expand on about keeping healthy. For an information pack on vaccinations to be sent out free in Australia, people can e-mail growingawareness@yahoo.com and provide their postal address.
BUY THE BOOK:
(also we need your review of the book on AMAZON to offset all the pro-vax people's reviews and your review carries more clout if you have purchased the book)
US
BOOK http://astore.amazon.com/wellwithin/detail/1466938897
KINDLE http://astore.amazon.com/wellwithin/detail/B00APUNP7U
UK
BOOK or KINDLE
Articles below by author and by Suzanne Humphries, MD
http://naturematters.info/
So how does a mother feel when her baby is dead from vaccines and all she hears from doctors, the government and media is that vaccines are safe and effective?
This is my journey..
I can't say I believed in vaccination. I knew nothing about it, but had it done anyway. It's what you do, right? You do what doctors and baby health clinics tell you and what your parents and the media advise you to do. Well I did it, without so much as a question or thought into it. Within moments of my son receiving his immunisations he was screaming. This continued for most of the day and when he wasn't screaming he was crying. This was unusual as he was a very happy, placid baby, who was already rolling over at 8 weeks and gooing and gahing at the first sight of his mother. The doctor told me his reactions were 'normal' and he'd be OK in a couple of days.
After the first day he had almost recovered with only some irritability and restlessness noticeable. As the weeks passed he continued to reach milestones and all appeared Ok.
At 4 months of age I dutifully took him for his next round of vaccinations. This time he screamed louder and I could not console him at all. I would breastfeed him, only to have him projectile vomit it back up and still the screaming continued. He had never before vomited at all, ever. After he had vomited 2 feeds I called the doctor and told her what was happening and she said to stop breastfeeding and give him juice only. He kept some of it down but still vomited often.
The next day I called the doctor and told her I think the vaccines have done this and she told me ' no, it's just a coincidence' but to bring him back in, which I did. She referred me to a specialist. While waiting for the specialist appointment in a few days, my baby boy started doing strange things. He started arching his back and crying out in pain. He was as stiff as a board. His eyes would roll into the back of his head. He didn't have a temperature. He had also started shuddering but he wasn't cold. (I later learnt from the doctor these were convulsions and seizures). The vomiting continued and I was convinced to give up breastfeeding by the clinic sister. He vomited up the formula also. I was getting very scared.
We went to the specialist appointment and he took some blood for tests and then we had to wait. His symptoms continued and after several days word came from the specialist that the tests showed he was allergic to wheat. I stopped giving him the cereal I had started him on weeks before, but none of the symptoms went away. (when I thought about it later, it was actually rice cereal anyway)
I decided to move to a large city to get more help. Once I saw a doctor there he was immediately admitted to hospital for a battery of tests - many of which were conducted under anaesthetic, which of course required my signature to say I have been notified that my baby could die while under. I had not been advised of this, but I signed it not knowing all the medical jargon as I needed to get my baby well again and trusted they knew what they were doing.
By this time my dear little son had lost a lot of weight and nothing I was doing (under advice from doctors and baby health clinics) was working. After months of tests in the hospital (he stayed there) we were summoned in to an office to be told that they 'didn't know why my baby was deteriorating, but they estimate he will pass away within a couple of months'.
I remember thinking at the time, that all this happened twice, straight after his vaccinations, but I said nothing as I still had trust in the doctors. My mother was with me and she said, "I can't believe you have been using this baby as a guinea pig for months and you have come up with nothing." The two older doctors left the room and the younger ones took over. They had a different 'spin' on it all. They said they thought it could be a condition called Alexander's disease. They said it was genetic. They went on to explain why I should never have any more children as they could all be inflicted with this condition.
My sister-in-law was working for a doctor so I asked her to look up Alexanders disease. She gave me 3 pages of information which listed the symptoms. My little one had two of the listed symptoms - projectile vomiting and seizures. (I came to learn many conditions have these two symptoms).
Soon after I took my baby home to die.
It was an interesting time. You don't notice things have changed that much when you are with someone everyday. I would go shopping and people would not look at my baby, but rather look the other way. I remember going into the butcher and ordering what I wanted. The butcher refused to take my money as his eyes were transfixed on my son. I didn't understand any of this. Just people behaving strangely I thought. I didn't realise how sick he looked - much like the starving babies on T.V. we are now used to seeing in African countries.
My dear little boy was no longer rolling over, gooing or gahing, in fact he wasn't doing anything anymore. He was now over one year of age and had not progressed past 4 months of age, when he had his last immunisations. He had in fact regressed to a newborn state, although now he was the length of a toddler. I carried him around in a sling close to my heart and waited for the day he would leave me forever.
When blood started coming from his mouth and I was not getting much sleep at all so I could watch over him, he was admitted to hospital again. He passed away a few weeks later.
Vaccination killed him, I have no doubt. If he crawled under the sink and drank the same poisonous concoction of heavy metals, formaldehyde, foreign proteins, multiple viruses and a host of other toxins, the emergency room would have called it poisoning. Because it was injected into his body, it's called 'a coincidence'! Funny about that. I have since met many parents with similar stories.
My dear aunt who worked in the paediatric ward at a major hospital told me outright that she has seen many babies in the wards who looked just like my baby and the thing they all had in common was they were just vaccinated. She went on to say it never goes on the charts as vaccine damage, but she discusses the timing with the parents to confirm this.
A few years passed and I went on to have another child. This time I was not going to be complacent. I had over the years researched the vaccination issue at length. I read the product inserts and found the reactions all printed there so my suspicions were confirmed by the drug company (the makers of the product) even if not by the doctors.
I had been lied to and my concerns about his immunisations were never followed up in any way. My concerns were met with denials and due to my blind faith in the medical profession I didn't question.
I have since gone on to read hundreds of books, some written by very courageous doctors who have bothered to investigate this issue thoroughly, read medical journals and also watched some DVD's done by doctors all to warn parents about the dangers of vaccination.
I have 3 healthy, totally unvaccinated children, who have never had a childhood disease. Unlike their vaccinated friends who have often succumb to the diseases they have been vaccinated against. I kept these children fit and well using what is provided by nature - natural foods, clean water, sunshine, clean air, exercise, adequate sleep and a loving and nurturing environment.
A few simple facts for people to check out:
1. SIDS in Australia mostly happens at 2, 4 and 6 months - some will definitely be vaccination deaths!
2. The U.S.A. has paid out billions in compensation for vaccine injury. Why do doctors here deny it is happening - are they scared of being sued?
3. There is absolutely NO SCIENTIFIC PROOF a raised antibody level equals immunity. Apparently doctors want scientific proof of reactions, yet there is no scientific proof a raised antibody level gives immunity. There is proof it does not, when most of the cases of whooping cough are in the vaccinated as they are for this current epidemic.
It saddens me to know there are thousands of babies out there being damaged, disabled or lost every year and they have no voice to stand up against the powerful drug companies and, what is now an industry, and scarcely a profession - medicine.
I suggest you all look up the definition of safe and effective. You will soon learn it does not say what doctors and drug companies would have us believe. While we have a system when vaccine side effects are denied and played down and the risk of the disease is exaggerated we will never really know the true risk/benefit ratio. But remember, the risk was 100% when damage happens to your child!
There is so much information out there now from people who do not have a vested interest in vaccinations - I suggest you look into it thoroughly and put your fears to one side.
Education conquers fear.
Go to some of these sites:
http://www.thinktwice.com
http://www.whale.to
http://www.nvic.org
http://vactruth.com/2012/01/19/baby-die ... source=The
http://iansvoice.org/default.aspx
http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/04/i-am ... s-mmr.html
or email Naturematters to ask questions or access our library
Info pack is for Australia ONLY
If my son's purpose on this earth was to teach me to be a better, more responsible parent, he succeeded. Had he not lived and died, I would possibly still be the complacent parent I was when I took him to be immunised. For that, I, and his brothers and sister are forever in his debt. Maybe one day, I'll get to thank him. In the meantime I wonder what he would be like today. When I was placing a 21st key around his headstone I could only be sorry I wasn't placing it around his neck.
My unvaccinated children are alive and well and my vaccinated child is dead!
That's what I know and live with every day.
Yours in health and wellbeing,
Stephanie Messenger
0412 671922
growingawareness@yahoo.com
Please feel free to pass this web address on to others or print it and give it to parents even though it is copyright material, however the content cannot be altered
©Stephanie Messenger 2010
-________________________________
http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2013/ ... phries-md/
Melanie's Marvelous Measles: Is the provaccine backlash rational or hysterical? ~ Suzanne Humphries, MD
- January 13, 2013
There is a new children's book available that teaches children that they don't have to fear childhood illnesses. It is entitled "Melanie's Marvelous Measles" and can be purchased HERE
Mass hysteria has broken out among the provaccine with ideations of banning the book due to its perceived danger. See article HERE
So what are the arguments in favor of shedding the mass fear that has been ingrained since the 1960s when the vaccines became available, prior to which measles was an acceptable childhood illness? In the developed world, mortality was reduced over 98% before the vaccine came along and before antibiotics were available. In England and in the United States, the chance of dying from measles had dropped to 1-2% by the 1930s.[1]
Immunology textbooks[2] point out that children who can't make antibodies, usually get through measles as well as children who can, because it's the innate or cellular immune system that is the key for measles (or any first time disease for that matter) not the humoral or the antibody system.
The cellular immune system is dependent on good nutrition for optimal functioning. Bad nutrition comes in two forms: Plenty of food but all empty calories or not enough food of any calories at all. In the United States, studies have found that vitamin A deficiency is not just a thing of the past, but that even children with normal diets were vitamin-deficient upon measles infection. This 1992 study in California children showed that 50% of hospitalized measles cases had vitamin A deficiency. But there was also vitamin A deficiency in 30% of the sick controls who did not have measles. None of the uninfected controls showed significant deficiency.
So we could say that any child that lands up in a hospital in USA, or any developed country is suffering because their parents need educating about proper nutrition, or because their doctor is totally clueless about the nearly 80 years of proven benefit of vitamin A supplementation in acute measles.
Take note that measles vaccines also deplete vitamin A.
In parts of Africa, measles rampages precisely because there is no nutrition worth talking about. Are vaccines the answer?
And, measles infections can be beneficial. Dr. Peter Aaby et al. and his team found that children who survived natural measles had a much higher survival rate from all other infectious causes than other children. Children who had had the measles vaccine, had a lower rate of survival and the worst group in terms of overall survival from infections, was the group which had neither measles vaccines nor measles disease. That's published research.[6] Their compromise conclusion was that it would be necessary to use the measles vaccine forever, because of the value of the vaccine in protecting against all cause mortality in the absence of actual infection.
Obviously, no research has been done in the developed world to see if there is a parallel here. Indeed, the ONLY reason that discovery was made in developing countries was because the high titer Edmonston measles vaccines (subsequently abandoned) resulted in excess all cause mortality, and they wanted to find out why. Had not that disaster occurred, they might never have discovered that measles infection actually reduced all cause mortality in the real world and that it's something worth having.
Therefore it could be said that measles does something worthwhile.
Now, back to the book under attack.
"Here's how to turn a children's book into a hysterical controversy. Just declare any positive discussion of the benefits of childhood illness to be so evil that censorship is the only possible response. As a librarian, I'm shocked to find so-called "skeptics" advocating book banning. Why do they think this book has to be banned? Because the book in question tells the story of a little girl experiencing a mild case of measles. Here is an excellent review by PhD Immunologist, Dr. Tetyana Obukhanych, which gives a carefully referenced overview of measles and backs up Melanie's Marvelous Measles with the scientific facts."
~ "O" of insidevaccines
Click HERE for Dr. Obukhanych's review of Melanie's Marvelous Measles.
1. Richard D. Semba, Vitamin A as 'Anti-Infective' Therapy, 1920-1940, The American Society for Nutritional Sciences, 1999, p. 786.
2. Sallie R. Permar, Sherry A. Klumpp, Keith G. Mansfield, Angela A. L. Carville, Darci A. Gorgone, Michelle A. Lifton, Jörn E. Schmitz, Keith A. Reimann, Fernando P. Polack, Diane E. Griffin and Norman L. Letvin, Limited Contribution of Humoral Immunity to the Clearance of Measles Viremia in Rhesus Monkeys, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 190, No. 5, 2004, p. 998
3. Measles as an Index of Immunological Function, The Lancet, September 14, 1968, p.611.
4. Antonio C. Arrieta, MD, Margaret Zaleska, RN, Harris R. Stutman, MD, and Melvin I. Marks, MD, Vitamin A levels in children with measles in Long Beach, California, The Journal of Pediatrics, July 1992, p.75.
5. Yalçin, S. Songül M.D.; Yurdakök, Kadriye M.D , Sex-Specific Differences in Serum Vitamin A Values After Measles Immunization, The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 1999, p. 747.
6. Aaby P, Simondon F, Samb B, Cisse B, Jensen H, Lisse IM, Soumaré M, Whittle H.Low mortality after mild measles infection compared to uninfected children in rural west Africa. Vaccine. 2002 Nov 22;21(1-2):120-6.PMID:12443670
- See more at: http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2013/ ... 6NGXm.dpuf