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There have experienced the flushing, headaches, muscle heart disease,” published in the journal Athero-

been multiple tightness, numbness, tingling and weakness that sclerosis, concluded that contagious childhood
MSG can provoke. With long-term exposure, diseases not only had a protective effect against
outbreaks of other common MSG symptoms include asthma, acute coronary events but that each additional
chickenpox neurodevelopmental delays and seizures. The contagious disease contracted during child-
among fully Mayo Clinic reports that the substance can cause hood—such as chickenpox, measles, mumps
disorientation, fatigue and heart palpitations. or rubella—increased the protective effect by
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vaccinated As an “excitotoxin,” MSG can mediate the 14 percent.
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schoolchildren, death of central neuron receptors in the brain. 11 Another study—“History of chickenpox in
and Despite these findings, the FDA classifies MSG glioma risk: a report from the Glioma Interna-
as “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS).
tional Case-Control Study (GICC),” published in
vaccinated Bovine calf serum (called BSA) and fetal 2016 in Cancer Medicine—found that a history
students are bovine serum are cow-derived products used of chickenpox infection was associated with a 21
frequently to grow viruses in live vaccine production. percent lower probability of later experiencing
BSA has been found to cause allergic reactions glioma, a deadly brain cancer. The protective
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found to be in humans. In addition, a study published in effect was even stronger for high-grade brain
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responsible 2011 in The New England Journal of Medicine cancers.
for the described the plausible association of BSA and
a very difficult-to-treat form of kidney disease DIMINISHING RETURNS
outbreaks. called idiopathic membranous nephropathy. Over time, universal chickenpox vacci-
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MRC-5 is a diploid human cell culture nation has become less effective, prompting
line composed of fibroblasts derived from lung booster doses that are not as protective as the im-
tissue of a healthy fourteen-week-old aborted munologic boosting that occurred naturally in
Caucasian male fetus. Varicella vaccines do the pre-vaccine era. A 2017 study of Air Force
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not contain the original aborted cells, but they recruits (comparing varicella vaccination and
do contain traces of human DNA, as do the natural infection) found that vaccine-induced
MMR II vaccines that Merck combines with its immunity decreased by 8 percent with each year
varicella vaccine. The FDA has acknowledged post-vaccination—and varicella-vaccinated
that residual human DNA has the potential to young adults were at increased risk for varicella
cause cancer or to change one’s genetic code, so outbreaks compared to those who had experi-
it is hardly reassuring that all vaccine package enced ordinary chickenpox infection.
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inserts include a section stating that the vaccines Individuals can also contract chickenpox
have never been evaluated for carcinogenic or due to vaccine failure, known as “breakthrough”
mutagenic effects. A comprehensive study by varicella disease. Breakthrough illness is
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Dr. Helen Ratajczak, a former senior scientist considered to occur when a vaccinated person
at a pharmaceutical company, found that spikes contracts wild-type varicella virus more than
in the incidence of autism in the late 1980s and forty-two days after vaccination. FDA research-
again in the mid-1990s coincided with the in- ers report that approximately one in ten vac-
creased use of the human-DNA-contaminated cinated children develop breakthrough disease
MMR II and varicella vaccines. 15 following exposure to chickenpox.
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According to the National Vaccine Informa-
LESS PROTECTION tion Center (NVIC), there have been multiple
When varicella vaccine proponents make outbreaks of chickenpox among fully vacci-
their case for vaccination and the suppression of nated schoolchildren, and vaccinated students
wild chickenpox, chances are they are not dis- are frequently found to be responsible for the
closing the benefits of actually getting chicken- outbreaks. Describing the period from 2001
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pox. One of those benefits is protection against to 2005, NVIC notes that at the same time that
heart disease, including heart attacks and the CDC was claiming vaccine effectiveness of
angina pectoris. In 2007, a study titled “Dual 72 to 85 percent, some schools were reporting
role of infections as risk factors for coronary chickenpox in up to 40 percent of vaccinated
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