LETTER: Media goes ballistic over small measles outbreak

National news is going ballistic again over a small outbreak of measles in Washington.

Is this rabid reporting influenced in any way by pharmaceutical advertising in news?

Is the public hysteria over measles needed by pharma to put pressure on more states to follow the California vaccine mandate that is using the educational system to coerce parents to vaccinate their children with extra, questionable vaccines?

Because, contrary to all the press about anti-vaccinators, many California parents who vaccinated their children with basic vaccines such as DPT and MMR balked at additional vaccines.

One concern is the lame voluntary reporting system of adverse drug and vaccine effects in the United States, which is known for gross underreporting.

Our mass media disclose little if anything about the risks from idiosyncratic drug-induced complications damaging the liver, pancreas, heart, muscles, kidneys, bone marrow, nervous system, skin or immune system, as in drug-induced lupus.

Who's to say what long-term effects are not the result of excessive vaccinations in children and adults, including autoimmune diseases that have risen right alongside autism?

I can remember the 1970s and a fellow employee who was unable to work for six months after he developed Guillain-Barré Syndrome from the swine flu vaccine.

Vaccine mandates along with the 2002 use of anthrax mail and sneaky Homeland Security legislation to block vaccine lawsuits is cold comfort with a have and have-not medical system that appears to be devoted to pharmaceutical profits.

Cheryl Nash,

Port Angeles