Hello friends, I'm Dr. Mark Troese reporting for the Iron Wire Daily. Recently, there has been extensive fear-mongering in the old order media regarding measles. A child, for instance, in Texas was reported as having died from measles, creating a panicked rush for more measles vaccination of children.   However, a chart review of that child's hospital care reveals that she died of secondary bacterial pneumonia and medical neglect, in our opinion, due to not being treated on time with adequate and appropriate antibiotics for the secondary bacterial infection. So please friends, please share this information. It is our hope that rather than getting frightened and injected, people will get educated and make intelligent individual choices for themselves and their family.   So let's talk about measles. Measles is a viral illness. It is caused by an RNA virus of the family Paramyxotoviridae.   Measles is spread by sneezing and coughing. When someone has the infection and is in within that infectious period, they sneeze, they cough, that spread droplets which one can inhale, as well those droplets can persist on surfaces for up to two hours and one can contact the infection that way. If someone does not have immunity and contacts measles infection this way, they then begin a 10 to 12 day incubation period.   During this period, they feel fine, they have no symptoms, they're not coughing or sneezing, they're not producing droplets, and they are not spreading infection. After that incubation period comes the first phase of illness and this is the phase at which the person now becomes infectious. This stage of the disease involves visible illness of the child or person and it begins with a runny nose, cough, and a slight fever.   Also as the infection progresses, the person's eyes may become red and sensitive to light. After that four or five day first stage comes the second stage when there is a higher temperature, sometimes as high as 103 to 105 degrees Fahrenheit, and the classic rash typically appears. It starts as a red slightly raised spots that may join together to form blotchy patches and appears first on the face and head before spreading down the body.   Itchiness minimal or often absent. Also, after about five days from the beginning of the rash, the rash begins to fade in the same order as it appeared this spring first on the head. Also, some patients may demonstrate tiny white spots on the inside of their cheeks called coplic spots.   Remember that a person who has measles can spread the infection from the beginning of the first phase, that is from the beginning of the coughing and sneezing up until the appearance of the rash four or five days later and for about another four or five days after the rash first appeared. Before that, during the incubation period and after that, the person does not spread measles. They are not infectious.   One of the most important things to understand about measles and a lot of infectious diseases, especially when we're being driven through fear towards making broad interventions on the entire population is to look at the history. If you look at measles infections fatality rate in the United States, even in 1900, it was relatively low. It was about 12 in 100,000 persons.   However, long before any measles vaccines were introduced, the mortality or the death rate for measles declined by 98%. It declined by 98% over the first half of the 1900s because of nutrition, plumbing, hygiene, and refrigeration. Basically, farmers and plumbers solved the death from measles, not vaccination.   The measles vaccine was introduced later in the 60s after 98% of the death had been eliminated. So when someone suggests that people declining measles vaccination will bring back massive dying from measles, they are wrong. Eliminating modern plumbing, septic refrigeration, and good food supply, that would bring back the dying.   One of the most fundamental principles of medicine, in fact, the most fundamental philosophical and ethical principle of medicine is derived from the Hippocratic Oath and is first, do no harm. And what that means, if nothing else, don't hurt people. This is very important when you consider the idea of an infectious disease like measles that had a 12 per 100,000 mortality rate, 98% of which was gotten rid of before any measles vaccination.   And there are some questions we'll discuss about the actual effectiveness of the measles vaccine. But the idea of injecting the entire population, in other words, potentially doing harm to a lot people who were in no risk to begin with, that violates the Hippocratic Oath, that violates the precautionary principle, first do no harm. Measles has long been a childhood infection which renders lifelong immunity.   People have measles as a child, they're immune for life. Natural immunity outperforms vaccine immunity. Vaccine-induced immunity is incomplete and it wanes on average by about 10% per year, so there's no protection left for a lot of people after a decade.   Also, measles vaccination carries higher risks of injuries and death than measles itself in our current context. It was sanitation, clean water, hygiene, and good nutrition that eliminated more than 98% of the rare fatalities. Now, for rare people, for rare children who do get very sick, generally due to malnutrition, there are treatments.   So let's talk about that. Instead of doing harm to the entire population who don't face a risk if they have good nutrition and good hygiene, let's talk about what we can do for the rare people or the rare children that do get sick. So again, preventing severe disease with measles is about nutrition.   It's about feeding young mothers a healthy diet and having them breastfeed their infants. It's about families and children eating a broad spectrum of natural, organic, healthy foods. Vitamin A is one of the important nutrients with regards to reducing measles disease severity, and vitamin A is found in a lot of foods.   It's not a hard nutrient to find. One supplement that is extremely high in the most important activated form of vitamin A, which is retinol, is good old-fashioned cod liver oil. So it turns out that that old practice of giving children a teaspoon of cod liver oil once a week did an excellent job of supplementing their vitamin A and did an excellent job of reducing the risk of multiple severe diseases, including measles.   The recommended daily allowance of vitamin A is for adults 900 micrograms daily, for women 700 micrograms daily, for children 1 to 3 years old it's 300 micrograms daily, and for children 48 years old it's 400 micrograms daily. Those are not hard amounts of vitamin A to accomplish ingesting with a reasonable healthy diet. And by the way, one teaspoon of cod liver oil typically contains about 1,350 micrograms of vitamin A in its active form retinol, and that's multiples more than the requirement that a child has.   Now in terms of treating measles, it turns out once again vitamin A works. The administration of vitamin A to acutely ill children with measles reduces the risk of death from measles by 87%. So there's already a low risk, but if you're in malnourished regions of the world where the risk is higher, giving an acutely ill child two large doses of vitamin A on two consecutive days reduces the risk of death by 87%.   Interestingly, we've recently had a big shift in the administration of human health services in the United States with the confirmation of RFK Jr., who is both a critic, rightfully so, of the vaccine industry and also a proponent of nutrition. And it's interesting to see that the CDC's statement regarding measles has updated information including the vitamin A dosing. Now achieving those large doses of vitamin A for acute illness, which are 50,000 IUs for infants younger than six months, there are 100,000 for infants six to 11 months of age, and 200,000 IUs for children 12 months of age.   And again, that's a dose to be given one day and the next day. Achieving those doses is hard even with cod liver oil. Most children are not going to want to take that much cod liver oil.   However, doctors should be licensed to provide a prescription for those high doses of vitamin A for measles. Keeping in mind, however, maintaining your children with good nutrition all the time is much better than trying to give the massive dose of vitamin A when they're sick. There are also a large variety of traditional treatments and medicines, including herbal medicines, for measles.   And we'll provide a list of those for you to look at. They include propolis, iodine, they include calamine topically, they include, of course, vitamin A as well as vitamins D and vitamin C, cod liver oil, and breastfeeding. Nothing could be better for a child while it's experiencing its inauguration into measles than breastfeeding from a mother with a good immune system and a good diet.   Another important and surprising finding is that we're learning that there are also health benefits to having had measles. And these are health benefits which might not be experienced by people who avoid measles infection and rather go through repeated injection to stimulate the less than optimal immune response maintained through repeat injections. There may be very real health and evolutionary benefits to that, and we'll provide a list of some of those along with some links so you can research scientific articles regarding that.   I hope that this presentation gives the audience at IronWireDaily some solid footing on the subject of measles. May we just close with a comment on immune health in general. The key to not getting very sick with infections of all sorts and not dying of infections of all sorts is by far largely the result of healthy natural immunity.   A great mnemonic for you to use to help remember what you can do to maximize your immune system health and the immune system health of your family is NU-START. Each of the letters in NU-START represents a reminder. N is for nutrition.   Shop the outside aisle of the grocery store. Feed your family a large variety of natural organic foods including a variety of natural organic products. The E in NU is exercise.   Whether you're an old person practicing quiet tai chi or a young person lifting weights, exercise is an important stimulant of immune system health. The W in NU is for water. Be well hydrated.   Drink liters of clean fluoride-free pure water every day. The S is for sunshine and the sunshine vitamin D. If you are in a zone where you currently have good summer sun, during the high sun your body will produce large amounts of vitamin D just through sun exposure. But when you do not have that exposure, whether it be because of the time of year or where you live or the fact that you're not out sunbathing during those hours, supplementing your diet with vitamin D and ideally targeting vitamin D levels that are optimal through blood tests every few months will optimize your immunity.   You can find out more about vitamin D and those levels at drtrozee.news. Next in the NU Start mnemonic is T for temperance. To be a person of healthy habits. Abusing drugs, alcohol, smoking, etc.   These things are terrible inhibitors of a healthy immune function. The A in start is for air, fresh air. Get outside, get fresh air, breathe fresh air, be surrounded by plants, get out in the forest, breathe high quality air and lots of it.   The R is for rest, quality sleep, and good rest. And the T is for trust or spiritual health. Friends, please take care of your immune system.   Thank you for taking time to get yourself foundational knowledge on measles so you can make smart decisions. Don't get frightened, get educated. Blessings.