In two combined animal vaccines being tested for safety, one measles-rubella the other measles-pneumonia, the measles element was shown to interfere with the second component and damage the animals’ immune systems. The vaccines were abandoned as unsafe, but no-one is calling for further investigation into the safety of the human MMR triple jab.

Dr John March from the UK Government-funded Moredun Research Institute warned that three simultaneously delivered live vaccines (as in MMR) may well cause problems for some, perhaps one in 200, children and that adequate safety research has simply not been done. He stated that research on animal vaccines is far more thorough. Whereas, for a human vaccine, blood samples are only taken once and the separate results pooled and averaged out (which minimises the chance of picking up individual reactions), for animal vaccines blood samples are taken at regular intervals over months and years, and logged individually, to measure whether the immune system is suppressed or modified, and for how long.

Ed.- There is growing agreement that the results of drug tests using one species say nothing certain as to their effect on another species. A drug shown to be probably safe for and benefit mice may kill a human, so needs to be rigorously tested on both human adults and children. How much more important to do so when the tests on another species indicate possible damage!