The measles vaccine was introduced in 1963. From all the propaganda surrounding the shot, you would think that the vaccine was responsible for the rapid decline measles mortality. Think again.

The powers that be claim that vaccines markedly lowered the death rate of common childhood illnesses such as measles.

However, deaths from this illness were falling rapidly long before mass vaccination began.

In fact, by 1963 the death rate from measles had dropped more than 98 percent since the turn of the 20th century.

But how could the death rate decline before the introduction of the vaccine?

We’ve all been told that childhood vaccines lowered the rates of death from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, and other illnesses. But the truth is otherwise.

Like measles, the death rate for those illnesses was already declining sharply before the introduction of the vaccine.

How did this happen? Because of the real public health miracle that occurred in the 20th century — not vaccinations, but better sanitation and sewage removal.

I’m not saying that no vaccines work. I know that some of them do.

For instance, the chickenpox vaccine has clearly lowered the incidence of chickenpox.

But shingles cases have skyrocketed since the mass vaccination of chickenpox began. In fact, it was known from the start that shingles cases increased when chickenpox vaccinations were given.

Which makes you think: Maybe children’s immune systems need to be stimulated with childhood infections to become strong.

The MMR vaccine contains the lung tissue cells from a fetus that was aborted due to maternal psychiatric reasons in September 1966. The MMR2 vaccine contains lung tissue cells from an aborted three-month-old human female fetus.

These fetal cells are used to grow the measles virus. But there is concern that the increase in autism may have been caused by the introduction of human DNA — from the fetal cells — in the MMR and chickenpox vaccines.

Dr. Helen Ratajczak, a former scientist for a pharmaceutical firm, reviewed the body of published research since autism was first described in 1943. She wrote, “What I have published is highly concentrated on hypersensitivity. The body’s immune system is being thrown out of balance . . .” by an increasing number of vaccines given in a short period of time.7

Dr. Ratajczak also suggested that the introduction of human DNA contained in vaccines has markedly increased the risk of developing autism. Currently, human tissue is used in 23 different vaccines.

She explains that foreign DNA from vaccines can be incorporated into the host DNA, which causes the immune system to fight against the cells containing the foreign DNA.

That could start an inflammatory process that never ends, leading to chronic illnesses such as autoimmune diseases and allergies.

This may be the reason we are seeing so many children with severe, life-threatening allergies to common foods like peanuts.