Before I go any further, my objective here is not to promote a point of view, merely discuss what I have found and what has come up from it. as state many times this is apolitical. My own views are not going to be represented here. I write this because this is a topic which does split a lot of people.
Whilst looking through the pile of requests on www.whatdotheyknow.com i started to remember about a man called Andrew Wakefield. He was the man who made a link between the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. This claim was discredited later and as a result Andrew Wakefield was stripped of his ability to research medicine again. The link that he made, however, is still being researched.
Let's have a look at how the researched affected the take up of MMR jabs. I asked Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Local Health Board, Cwm Taf Local Health Board, Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board, Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board the same question which was:
1) How many people took the MMR jab in 1993, that where in your authority.
2) How many took took the MMR jab in 1998, that where in your authority.
3) How many took the MMR jab in 2008, that where in your authority.
4) How much money was spent from 1998 until 2008 in promoting the use of the MMR jab
And they all responded in the same way which was ask Public Health Wales Observatory. So I did. Here is their response. It does show the differences in the take up of the MMR vaccine. I also asked Public Health Wales NHS Trust for some info, but they haven't got back yet, at time of writing.
SO I also also asked the Department of Health:
1) How much money was spent promoting the MMR jab since 1998
2) how many studies have been conducted into the link between Autism and MMR
3) how many meetings took place in central government concerning the allegation of Andrew Wakeman's paper making a link between autism and MMR.
Which gave me some information about the reports that were made into Andrew Wakefield. They also gave the meeting minutes of the reports into the report too. The did refer me to Public Health England for the money side of it (Which has yet to get back to me, at time of writing). .
This only shows the surface level of things thought. A look through some of the pile of www.whatdotheyknow.com showed that there were other people who had been looking into this matter. Here is a response to one person asking if the people in the Department of health had a vaccine and all the reports into the study of MMR. Here is a request asking how many the the MMR vaccines had a yellow cards (The Yellow Card Scheme is the UK system for collecting and monitoring information on suspected Adverse Drug Reaction [ADR] in association with medicines and vaccines) that was asked to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. Here is the answer.
Now this isn't the end of the story. In researching this story, I was contacted by a very nice gentleman named Steve Hinks. Steve has a daughter which has been adversely affected by vaccines. As a result he has done a lot of work on vaccines and how they affect people. Now he has sent me a LOT of documentation on this matter (One document has over 1200 pages). Now as I have stated to him I am DELIBERATELY not giving my opinion on this matter, or to you. BUt I think that me and Steve Will have beautiful friendship (Judging by the thing that he has already found out).
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