MMR compromises mucosal immune system

Current childhood vaccine programs: An overview
with emphasis on the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine
and of its compromising of the mucosal immune system

Harold E. Buttram, MD
Email: hbuttram1304@...

Abstract
Both common observation and official statistics
confirm that there have been dramatic increases
in chronic physical and mental illnesses in
American children, such as autism, asthma, and
allergies since the introduction of the MMR
vaccine in 1978. Government health officials have
denied a relationship with vaccines, but U.S.
Congressional hearings on vaccine safety (1999 to
Dec. 2004) revealed a total absence of vaccine
safety tests that would meet current scientific
standards, so that it can be assumed that many
vaccine reactions are taking place unrecognized.
Prior to the introduction of vaccines, the Th1
cellular immune system of the gastrointestinal
and respiratory systems served as the primary
defense systems with the Th2 humoral immune
system in the bone marrow, serving a secondary role.

There is a school of thought that the "minor
childhood diseases" of earlier times, including
measles, mumps, chicken pox, and rubella, which
involved the epithelial tissues of skin,
respiratory, and/or gastrointestinal tracts,
served a necessary purpose in challenging,
strengthening, and establishing the dominance of
Th1 cellular immune system during early
childhood. Current vaccines against these
diseases, in contrast, being directed at
stimulating antibody production in the bone
marrow, are bypassing the cellular immune system
and thereby tending to reverse the roles of the
cellular and humoral systems, with the former
suffering from a lack of challenge. In addition,
the cellular immune system is being further
compromised by the powerfully immunosuppressive
effects of the MMR vaccine. The time is overdue
to totally rethink and redirect our current childhood vaccine program.