Indian vaccine campaigns creating resentment.
The Measles Rubella (MR) campaign has
caused widespread resentment among parents throughout India. The Government
admits to deaths and hospitalizations but says they are coincidental.
The whispers of the campaign began
after a vaccine behemoth of India accumulated huge unsold stock of the vaccine
and found it difficult to dispose. Then the system went on an overdrive.
Has the vaccine been declared
mandatory? No vaccine can be mandatory in India unless the Government officially and procedurally declares a public health
emergency. Parental concern about safety is being countered by saying the WHO
says it is safe. Who funds the WHO? It is hugely funded by the BMGF which along
with a conglomerate of pharma companies effectively controls it. The world's
largest vaccine manufacturer Merck Pharmaceuticals supplies "free
medicines" for its programmes.
While the Govt
is indiscriminately giving it to each and every child without investigating for
contraindications, there is also no effort to follow up the vaccinated children
to ascertain long term impacts and compensate for death and disability.
The Muslim
community fears that the vaccine will render children infertile. While their
fears are being brushed aside it cannot be denied that the vaccine has never
been tested for either carcinogenicity or for effects on fertility.
There is a huge
network of lobbyists advocating the vaccine. What are they gaining from it?
Research today reveals measles has a purpose. It protects from many chronic
diseases and cancers. The measles virus is being used to treat cancers. Indian
doctors also say Indian girls naturally acquire immunity to rubella as they
grow up. The impact of the vaccine is also short lived. Thus giving the vaccine
to small children serves no purpose unless they plan to get pregnant.
Research on the
measles vaccine has shown that when the vaccine coverage increases measles
becomes a disease of the vaccinated.
So who is
benefiting from this drive? What are the real objectives behind it? One thing
is sure; the drive has created tremendous resentment among people against
forceful medication in educational institutions. It has also revealed the
callousness and carelessness of the system which has been exposed playing
second fiddle to the pharmaceutical industry. Perhaps this is the only gain.
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