“Study after study has demonstrated that many women immunized against rubella as children lack evidence of immunity in blood tests given during their adolescent years. Other tests have shown a high vaccine failure rate in children given rubella, measles, and mumps shots, either separately or in combined form.”
—Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D.
The greatest risk associated with rubella is that women may contract the rubella virus during pregnancy, infecting the embryo and causing a condition known as Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS).481 CRS can cause deafness, eye defects, cardiac defects and neurological abnormalities.482 The greatest risk of a child being born with CRS is if rubella infection occurs during the first twenty weeks of pregnancy.483 The CDC states “defects are rare when infection occurs after the 20th week of gestation.484 The overall risk of defects during the third trimester is probably no greater than that associated with uncomplicated pregnancies.”485
What is the risk that an embryo may contract the rubella virus and develop CRS? Aside from the 1964/65 rubella epidemic, the largest annual number of cases of CRS was reported in 1970—only 67 cases.486 Another important fact to consider, this outbreak occurred the year following the licensing of the vaccine—1969.487 This outbreak can largely be contributed to the universal use of vaccination. Today there are approximately five to six cases annually of CRS.488 Out of four million births, your potential baby has a 99.99988 percent chance that he/she will not be born with CRS! Other steps can be taken to reduce the 0.00012 percent risk. Those steps include staying away from the pediatrician’s office, avoid close and prolonged contact with recently vaccinated children, and avoid the vaccine.
Three vaccines were licensed for Rubella in 1969.489 One vaccine contained the rubella virus that was grown in duck eggs, the other two rubella viruses were grown in dog and rabbit kidneys.490 The vaccine grown in duck eggs was worthless and pulled from the market because it caused arthritis.491 The other two vaccines were also worthless and pulled form the market in 1979.492 A new vaccine was licensed in 1979; this one contained the rubella virus that was made in aborted fetal cells.493 But is this vaccine effective?
Actually this vaccine is worthless as were the other three licensed vaccines. Today children are vaccinated at 12 to 15 months of age and again at four years of age.494 The CDC claims that the vaccine only provides immunity for fifteen years following inoculation.495 So this means that by the time a young woman is 19, she has no immunity to the rubella virus in her childbearing years! The only way to confer permanent lifelong immunity is to acquire the infection naturally.496
