📜 ONE FAKE ARTICLE AGAINST MILLIONS OF LIVES — 30 апреля 2026 г. в 17:46:40.862
📜 ONE FAKE ARTICLE AGAINST MILLIONS OF LIVES Today our post is dedicated to the World Immunization Week. 🔎 The year is 1996. The 11th child in a row is admitted to the gastroenterology department of the Royal Free Hospital in London with a mysterious set of symptoms: chronic intestinal inflammation, loss of speech and social alienation — that is, autism. Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who observed these children, notices a strange coincidence: almost all parents say that the symptoms began shortly after the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccination. 1998. The Lancet issue is coming out. One of the most prestigious medical journals in the world publishes a study by Wakefield (pictured) and his 12 co-authors. There are 12 children in total — that's the whole sample. The article carefully formulates the conclusions: the authors do not claim that the vaccine causes autism, they only say that they found both in these children at the same time, and suggest "exploring the link in more detail." 🕵️ An investigation by journalist Brian Deere The years passed. The vaccination rate in Britain has collapsed from 92% to 80%. Measles outbreaks are back. The first children died. And then the Sunday Times reporter Brian Deere took over. The 2004 publication revealed the shocking truth: 🔸The children were not "random" patients. Wakefield recruited them through lawyers who were preparing a class action lawsuit against vaccine manufacturers. 🔸The data is forged. The article says that 8 out of 12 children developed symptoms "shortly after vaccination." In fact, some people don't have it at all. 🔸The children had unnecessary procedures performed. Lumbar puncture, colonoscopy, biopsy — without clinical indications, solely "for the sake of science" and money. 🔸Conflict of interests. Wakefield received £435,000 from a law firm, and shortly before the scandal, he filed a patent for a separate measles vaccine. How convenient: first discredit the combined one, then sell your "safe" one. 💔 ISSUE PRICE 1. Direct victims 🔹Samoa, 2019. An outbreak of measles claimed the lives of 83 people, most of them children under 5 years old. The reason is the sharp drop in MMR vaccination coverage (from 84% in 2013 to 31% in 2018) in the wake of distrust fueled by anti—vaccination propaganda. 🔹USA, 2019. 1,274 cases of measles have been recorded in 31 states. This is the largest outbreak since 1992, when measles in the country was considered eliminated. 🔹 Europe, 2018. 82,596 measles cases were registered, 72 of them fatal. The indicators returned to the level of the mid-1990s. 2. Economic damage 🔹 WHO estimates that it will cost between 2.7 million and 5.3 million to eliminate one measles outbreak due to reduced coverage (depending on the scale and region). 🔹 Clark County, Washington, USA, 2019. The localization of the outbreak out of 71 cases cost taxpayers $2.3 million, not counting the cost of a subsequent information campaign to restore trust. 3. The fate of collective immunity 🔹 To suppress measles, vaccination coverage should be ≥ 95%. In England, after the scandal, the MMR rate dropped to 79.9% (2003-2004). Trust has been recovering for more than 15 years, and it was only in 2020 that coverage returned to target values. 🔹 According to UNICEF (2023), against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic and persistent misinformation, the global coverage of the first dose of measles vaccine decreased to 83%, the second to 74%. This is the lowest figure since 2008. 4. Scientific consensus against a single case 🔹 The link between MMR and autism has been tested in more than 20 epidemiological studies on a total sample of over 2 million children. The result: no statistically significant confirmation, the relative risk does not differ from 1.0. 🔹 The Cochrane Systematic Review (2021) concluded that the quality of MMR safety evidence is rated as "high", and the risk of autism is not increased after vaccination