The Devastating Effects of the Measles Vaccine

Thesis:
The MMR vaccine is harmful to one’s health because it can cause sickness, degenerative diseases, and even death.

Introduction
The Measles vaccine is one of the many vaccinations children receive to supposedly keep them safe from the disease. While the effectiveness of this vaccination in combating the wild measles virus is debatable, the unintended consequences of the vaccines side effects have become increasingly alarming and may warrant the removal of this vaccine from the general populous. From the very beginning of the vaccines release studies have been linking numerous disorders that only occur after the vaccine has been given. One such example of this is a study published in 1973 shows that the measles virus vaccine can cause encephalitis, encephalopathy, and subacute sclerosing panencephalitis generally occurring within six to 15 days after being vaccinated with the measles vaccine. It was estimated in this report that the encephalitis risk after having being vaccinated is one case per 1000 patients. (Landrigan, & Witte, 1973). In 1995 a group studied the causality between the measles vaccine and inflammatory bowel disease. They compared 3,045 people vaccinated in 1964 against 11,470 people who did not receive the vaccine. The results of the study were astounding. The group found that people who were vaccinated were three times more likely to develop inflammatory bowel disease, three times more likely to develop Crohn's disease, and substantially more likely to develop ulcerative colitis. (Thompson, 1995). In 1998 Dr. Wakefield lead a study in an attempt to find the cause of autism in children. There were 12 children in the study, and most of the children's' parents indicated that their child had developed normally until they received the MMR vaccine. After this exhausting amount of testing