The most important thing to do so as not to become a panic wave and to prevent the increase in measles cases recently diagnosed in our country is to get vaccinated against measles. However, due to some unfounded accusations from a British so-called doctor. “anti-vaccine” has been around for a while.

By causing such a misperception, it plays an important role in the daily increase in measles cases in Turkey. Let’s see who the imposter Andrew Wakefield is and what he has done in this regard.

First of all, let’s talk about the main causes of measles in our country. In fact, the resurgence of this disease comes together under two different headings: Anti-Vaccination and Irregular Migration.

With the effect of being free, Turkey has been one of the countries with a very high measles vaccination rate to this day. However, the unfounded claims that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic also apply to vaccines used for other conditions besides this disease. much doubt caused it.

With the addition of asylum seekers to this prejudice, things started to get messy. asylum seekers, often reject these vaccination practices due to various cultural differences; Sometimes even the voices of the health care workers about the effects of measles were ineffective.

Although measles has not yet become an epidemic, The necessary warnings have been given by the government andVaccination campaigns should be started if necessary.

measles vaccine, It has been in use since the 1960s and the long-term effects of this vaccine are fully established..

In addition, the measles vaccine, along with rubella and mumps, is a must-have for every person. among the essential vaccines. Again, although this condition mainly affects children, adults can also get this disease and the consequences can be quite serious.

Let’s go to our main topic. There is someone who caused the anti-vaccination and started to influence the whole world with this misperception: Andrew Wakefield.

Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist who worked with 12 colleagues in 1998, wrote in a widely read medical journal in the world. A link between the MMR vaccine (measles, rubella, mumps mix) and autism He published an article he claimed to be.

In this study, a live virus was found in the MMR vaccine It increases the permeability of the intestinal mucosa and then passes to the blood and brain, causing autism. was pushed forward. The reason for the team to make such a claim was that the same gut samples were found in all 12 children who received the MMR vaccine at the clinic, after just one month.

In fact, in the article by Andrew Wakefield and 12 colleagues serious methodological shortcomings and for this reason it was viewed with suspicion by several scientists and began to be questioned.

At the time, about 50,000 children a month in the UK were receiving the MMR vaccine, and the fact that the study was done on just 12 children was unscientific.

In this study, there was no control group, which is considered an indispensable criterion for scientific experiments, and the findings were It was not compared to samples from children not vaccinated with MMR.. In addition, contrary to what is stated in the article, no harmful substance was found such as the transition from the intestine to the blood and from the blood to the brain, and the remains of this vaccine were not found.

Despite the inaccuracy of most of the information presented in this article, which was written under the direction of Wakefield, the issue raised was quite remarkable as human lives were at stake, and Various media try to report this quickly. started.

Then there was the fear and waves of panic spread among families in England between 1998-2003. Reduce MMR vaccination rate from 92% to 80% causes.

After such a massive smear campaign on vaccine studies, scientists began to scrutinize the relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism.

For example in Denmark 500,000 children With a study on “There is no correlation between MMR vaccines and the incidence of autism, disease frequency is the same in vaccinated and unvaccinated children” detected.

Thereafter 28,000 children in Canada and 1.8 million in Finland As a result of extensive research involving Andrew Wakefield’s allegations are completely baseless. was clearly detected.

There were also serious ethical issues and conflicts of interest in Wakefield’s work.

In this kind of scientific work, case studies should always be chosen at random, but this scam artist is working on it. 5 of the 8 children were the same clients of the lawyer suing the vaccine manufacturers.

Again, any financial support received in ethical terms should protect the impartiality of the studies, but Wakefield received £50,000 from the lawyers of these 5 children and he did not use this money in any work related place.

Finally during this research Wakefield’s patent for a competitive mumps vaccine It was clear that the study was aimed at defaming the currently used vaccine and launching the vaccine from the company of which he is a partner.

In 2004, after these startling details came to light, 10 of the 12 people on the crook’s team announced that they had withdrawn from the investigation.

The magazine, which published the article in 2010, made a public statement, for falsifying the results of the investigation and unethical practices. He stated that he had withdrawn the article.

In addition, Wakefield, who became a sensation with his studies and the article he published, was awarded the title of doctor by circular on May 24, 2010. serious professional misconduct withdrawn for reasons.

If we have to summarize; At such an important point where human life is above all else, it should be unscrupulous to perform unrealistic works by pursuing certain interests. Because these baseless accusations It negatively affects thousands and even millions of people and pushes them to become “anti-vaccine”. and the cost of this goes to serious places that cost lives.