German measles (Rubella or Rose Measles) is a mild acute infection with a rose coloured rash which develops at the onset of the disease. There are enlarged tender glands in the neck and sometimes in the axillae and groins, and slight malaise. The disease is very infectious and spreads by direct contact. The quarantine period is twenty-one days, and the incubation period fourteen to twenty-one days. There may be headache and slight fever, and some inflammation and watering of the eyes. The rash breaks out first on the face, body or arms, and spreads downwards causing slight irritation; it then usually disappears after two days. The spots are small and separate and of a brighter pink than in measles. Complications in children very seldom develop. In pregnant women who have not had the disease an attack of German measles at about the 4th to 12th weeks of pregnancy may cause permanent defects in the baby. The possible defects are cataract, deafness, and heart imperfections. Formerly, certain doctors therefore considered that all girls should be allowed to have the illness in childhood when their blood will make preventive antibodies for life. Today it is standard practice to innoculate all girls around the time they reach puberty. It is a controversial point as to whether an abortion should be advised for women in early pregnancy who develop measles for the first time. Research German Measles
Measles or Rubeola is a highly contagious, acute viral disease characterised by Koplik's spots and a spreading maculopapular rash caused by a paramyxovirus and is spread by airborne droplets or direct contact with nasopharyngeal secretions. The disease is communicable from four days before the rash appears until the rash disappears. Research Measles
A vaccine was originally a preparation of cowpox from a cow (whence the name) for protection against smallpox. Today, a vaccine is a preparation of modified pathogens (viruses or bacteria) that is introduced into the body, usually either orally or by a hypodermic syringe, with the view to induce the specific antibody reaction that produces immunity against a particular disease. In 1796, Edward Jenner was the first to inoculate a child (supposedly) successfully with cowpox virus to produce immunity to smallpox. His method, the application of an infective agent to an abraded skin surface, is still used in smallpox inoculation. However, officially vaccinations are only 80% effective, and reviewing the decline of instances of polio and other diseases both before and after inoculations started over the past hundred years reveals a uniformcurve, questioning whether inoculations are effective at all.
The side-effects of many inoculations are similarly dangerous and may induce severe brain damage, for example (since the introduction of the MMR vaccine in the UK for measles, mumps and Rubella, incidences of autism in children rose 400% from 1 in 1000 to 4 in 1000, as the vaccine can rupture the intestine wall allowing proteins to escape into the blood system and damage the brain). The problem for independent thinkers, is that it is impossible to prove or disprove whether an inoculation has succeeded, unless the patient then contracts the disease against which they were inoculated, in which case the inoculation obviously failed. However, in cases where an inoculated patient does not contract a disease who can say with certainty that their own immunity system would not have prevented the disease being contracted without the inoculation.
Vaccines have long been controversial, propagated by propaganda. The original concept was to immunise against smallpox by infecting patients with cowpox. However, there is serious doubt that the original vaccinations were effective at all. During the smallpoxepidemic of 1871, 91.5% of the patients suffering from smallpox at the HighgateSmallpoxHospital in London had been previously vaccinated - while only 90% of the London population as a whole had been vaccinated, and in 1881 96% of the patients suffering from smallpox at the HighgateSmallpoxHospital in London had been vaccinated, while again only 90% of the general population of London had been vaccinated. Despite strong evidence then and now that vaccines are ineffective at all but making profit for their manufacturers, and in many cases are actually very dangerous to the patients to which they are administered, in 1853 the British government introduced compulsory vaccination and popular belief among the less educated population is still one of the effectiveness of vaccines. Research Vaccine
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