Dr. Meryl Nass Testimony Before the Education Committee, Maine

by Meryl Nass, MD – Board Certified in Internal Medicine
Alliance for Human Research Protection

March 13, 2019

Senator Millett, Representative Kornfield, and members of the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee:

My name is Dr. Meryl Nass. I am here today to oppose LD798 and support LD987.

I am a physician in Ellsworth, Maine.
I graduated from MIT and the University of Mississippi School of Medicine.
In 2010, I was the chair of a commission established by you, the legislature, “to protect the lives and health of members of the Maine National Guard.”
I have testified to 6 Congressional committees, primarily on anthrax vaccine and Gulf War Syndrome, and the permanent injuries suffered by service-members who received military vaccines of questionable quality.
There is no crisis of infectious diseases caused by lack of vaccinations, here in Maine or in the rest of the United States.
The rates of vaccine preventable diseases are approximately the same as always. I have attached the official statistics, so please check me on this!
According to the CDC, effective vaccine exemption rates in Maine are not higher than they have been, and they are consistently better than the US average

The truth, not widely known, is that immunocompromised children are not catching diseases from their unvaccinated classmates, and they are not dying. Look at the numbers.

The diseases that persist and have been in the news remain a challenge, simply because the vaccines have a high failure rate–not because of the unvaccinated.

Pertussis is a problem, because the vaccine works poorly.

66% of Maine cases were fully vaccinated, 83% partially.
The TDaP pertussis vaccine is estimated 67% effective the first year after inoculation, but only 9% effective 4 years later. [1]
Almost all of us are susceptible to pertussis despite vaccination. I have had pertussis twice. I am fully vaccinated.
Given the failure rate of the pertussis vaccine, no herd immunity is possible. The bacteria regularly circulate in the community, as they would even with a 100% vaccination rate.
Pertussis is not a major problem for the immunocompromised, who are in fact regularly exposed.

Similarly, Varicella (the virus that causes chickenpox and shingles) cannot be eradicated even with a 100% vaccination rate.

A full 70% of Maine children who got chickenpox in 2017 had been vaccinated.
Adults with shingles spread the virus; a disease-free environment cannot be attained.
Fortunately, children do not die from varicella, even highly immunocompromised children, for whom several treatments are available. There is approximately one child death per year, in the entire US, from Varicella.

By contrast, influenza–the “flu”–kills about 120 children per year in the US, but again, the problem is that the flu vaccine is weak, and protection wears off quickly.

On average influenza vaccines are 40% effective, according to the CDC. [2]
Herd immunity cannot be obtained, because even if you vaccinate everyone, the majority will not be immune.
In the past ten years in Maine, 2 children have died from influenza.

There has been so much talk about measles, but there has been only one case of measles in Maine in 20 years, from a visitor who did not spread it to anyone.

The numbers speak for themselves. Maine children are already very well protected from those diseases for which we have good protection. Most cases of ‘vaccine preventable’ diseases in Maine are the result of vaccine failures, not the result of unvaccinated children.

Maine’s current vaccination rates are excellent, and have successfully kept measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, polio and other diseases from circulating.

However, the unfortunate fact is that there are no vaccines for the infections that most jeopardize the immunocompromised. Most viruses, fungi and bacteria threatening the immunocompromised have no vaccines against them. Fortunately, the immunocompromised are not catching and dying from vaccine-preventable disease.

If your committee votes to remove exemptions from families that currently avoid immunizations — because parents believe their children are at high risk of an injury — you will cause more vaccine injuries, and possibly deaths. But what you won’t do is prevent many infections in the rest of the population, since the major reason these diseases circulate is that the vaccines are simply not good enough.

The truly serious epidemics in Maine students are teen suicides and narcotic drug abuse. I hope your committee finds ways to address them.

Please look closely at the accurate numbers, from the federal and Maine CDC’s. I am confident they will lead you to oppose this bill.

Read the full article at AHRP.org.

In the video above, Maine State Senator Robert Foley testifies in opposition to LD 798 to remove religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions and in support of LD 987 to expand medical vaccine exemptions on the death of his daughter following the DTP vaccine.

References

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/rr/pdfs/rr6702a1-H.pdf
[2] https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/03/07/1749613/0/en/Vaccines-Market-worth-over-70bn-by-2025-Global-Market-Insights-Inc.html

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Published on March 20, 2019

2 Comments

Katie Hutchins March 21, 2019 at 11:15 am - Reply

My sister was born in Dec of 1948. She was born normal and at 10 months of age, after her DPT shot was not the same. In those day Doctors told parents to put their kids away in an institution. At 19 she was placed in an institution , and her life was ridden with every known drug they had. She had 3 overdoses in the institution ,where she almost died. She could not put a sentence together when we brought her to my house after my parents deaths.

I changed her diet, and began my research, which was sickening and astounding. We she lived with us for 15 years, and I refused any vaccinations the state wanted to give to her. I became the sister that refused her these wonderful(stinking shots). She over the course of these years began to talk, full sentences and laughed. Granted we had our good days and every thing in between. My sister has passed ,three years ago.

But my research went on ,because now my son had joined the military. He never had shots as I opted out of them, when he was a baby. He would be deathly sick before deploying for at least 2 weeks. Made me as a Mom sick!

He is out of the military due to an injury, and now has health problems with his immune system. I continued my research. The military are given so many shots as well, and they wonder why the committee suicide on a daily basis.

All these vaccines have side effects. The viruses lie dormant and any thing like food , can trigger them up and they rear their ugly head. It’s a vicious cycle. And doctors prescribe more drugs.

Now with the Evil laws , Babies can be killed at anytime

The elderly and the retarded , mentally ill are next

The military is sickening as well.

The big Pharma is a total money . My research , no one wants to believe , but I have seen it first hand.

Thanks for speaking out, I am totally behind the decision that it lies with the parents, and not the government or big pharm companies

God help us!

Thank you

Katie

Joe March 20, 2019 at 10:55 pm - Reply

I would argue that vaccines aren’t failing because their engineered (not advertised) purpose is not stopping disease. Their true purpose is to affect fertility and cognition.

Medical Doctor to Maine Legislators: Diseases Persist Due to Vaccine Failure – Not Unvaccinated