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8:22am Friday 19th March 2010 in
HAMPSHIRE residents are being urged to get vaccinated following an outbreak of Mumps in the south.
Health chiefs at NHS Hampshire are calling on people of all ages to get an MMR jab to help prevent the spread of Measles, Mumps and Rubella (German measles).
The warning comes after 45 students were struck down with the virus at both of Oxford's universities in the last three weeks.
There have been no outbreaks across Hampshire but doctors want to prevent the spread of the disease, which can cause deafness and meningitis in extreme cases.
Noeleen McFarland, public health manager at NHS Hampshire, said: "Mumps is an acute viral illness transmitted by direct contact with saliva or droplets from the saliva of an infected person.
"Mumps is as infectious as influenza. It can take 14 to 21 days from exposure to the virus to the onset of symptoms. Symptoms begin with a headache and fever for a day or two before glands in your neck swell, which may be on one or both sides.
"Exposed individuals should be considered infectious from 12 to 25 days after exposure."
Dr Stuart Ward, clinical director at NHS Hampshire, added: "There is no specific treatment for Mumps. Treatment should be based on alleviating symptoms, as discussed with your GP. If you or your child hasn't been vaccinated or you're not sure if you have been just contact your GP practice."
Children are vaccinated against mumps when they have the MMR vaccine, although adults need another dose to make sure it is effective.
The introduction of the vaccine in 1988 helped halt a three yearly cycle of mumps epidemics.
If you are unsure whether you or your children have been properly vaccinated you should contact your GP.
HOW TO SPOT IT MUMPS is an acute viral illness, which is transmitted through coughs, sneezes and saliva.
Symptoms include painful swelling of the testicles or ovaries, swollen glands below the ears and difficulty swallowing.
It usually takes between 16 and 18 days for the symptoms to develop, and people are infectious between two days before and four days after the start of symptoms.
Mumps is normally a mild illness, but in a minority of cases there can be severe complications.
Comments(59)
Luda.
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8:56am Fri 19 Mar 10
Linesman
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9:10am Fri 19 Mar 10
Pete_the_socialist
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9:25am Fri 19 Mar 10
Linesman
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9:40am Fri 19 Mar 10
Pete_the_socialist wrote:Proof that not all nuts grow on trees!
well i no cos i went to a meeting an asked kwestuns, mumble mumble dribble.... if u go 2 meetings u will be has clefer has wot i is, all this started wiv fatcher when she shut down the mines cos peple mumble mumble dribble, there his no need for mumps an the SP will do away wiv it cos its the rich that get it werse an they should share it out like wot i wuld if hi was in charge like i sed it wuld be at the meeting i went to to ask kwestuns
Walter Kurtz
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9:48am Fri 19 Mar 10
Pete_the_socialist wrote:Grow up....
well i no cos i went to a meeting an asked kwestuns, mumble mumble dribble.... if u go 2 meetings u will be has clefer has wot i is, all this started wiv fatcher when she shut down the mines cos peple mumble mumble dribble, there his no need for mumps an the SP will do away wiv it cos its the rich that get it werse an they should share it out like wot i wuld if hi was in charge like i sed it wuld be at the meeting i went to to ask kwestuns
Duckorange
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9:58am Fri 19 Mar 10
Smiley69
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10:09am Fri 19 Mar 10
freefinker
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11:06am Fri 19 Mar 10
Pete_the_socialist wrote:Not a very cleaver impersonation of our southy. Grow up.
well i no cos i went to a meeting an asked kwestuns, mumble mumble dribble.... if u go 2 meetings u will be has clefer has wot i is, all this started wiv fatcher when she shut down the mines cos peple mumble mumble dribble, there his no need for mumps an the SP will do away wiv it cos its the rich that get it werse an they should share it out like wot i wuld if hi was in charge like i sed it wuld be at the meeting i went to to ask kwestuns
freefinker
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11:11am Fri 19 Mar 10
freefinker
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11:20am Fri 19 Mar 10
Linesman wrote:Not sure your analogy stands up to scrutiny. There are many scientists and medics who ARE opposed to the current proposal to fluoridate our water supplies, whereas the medical community are in almost complete agreement over MMR
A few years ago a doctor, lacking in experience, claimed that the MMR vaccination was the cause of learning problems in some children, which resulted in many parents not getting their children vaccinated.
Despite reassurances from the medical profession that the vaccination was not to blame, their advice was not taken, and many children have suffered as a result.
A similar thing is happening with the flouride situation. Those in the know assure us that its introduction is not a health risk, but we have groups, with no scientific background, claiming that it is harmful.
I wonder how many of these anti-flouride protesters use salt, which is a combination of two poisons?
Condor Man
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11:33am Fri 19 Mar 10
Walter Kurtz
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12:34pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Condor Man wrote:Another Party Political Broadcast by Condor Man......it all becomes pretty tiresome.
Had Blair come out and publically endorsed the MMR jab this would never have happened. My sons have had the single jabs.
DCM
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1:02pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Walter Kurtz wrote:In this case he's right - Blair was more than happy to use his kids when it suited him but very publicly failed to endorse the MMR jab.
Condor Man wrote: Had Blair come out and publically endorsed the MMR jab this would never have happened. My sons have had the single jabs.Another Party Political Broadcast by Condor Man......it all becomes pretty tiresome.
Linesman
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1:35pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Condor Man wrote:And if Tony Blair had endorsed it, with his medical qualifications, you would have been convinced?
Had Blair come out and publically endorsed the MMR jab this would never have happened. My sons have had the single jabs.
Walter Kurtz
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1:39pm Fri 19 Mar 10
DCM wrote:I would have thought saying at the time that he wouldn't endorse something that wouldn't be safe for his own child is pretty unequivocal. His own childs' medical records are rightly confidential as are all of ours. The Conservative Party were typically opportunistic by changing their policy to endorse the 3 x single vaccinations which only served to fuel the uncertainty surrounding the MMR jab.
Walter Kurtz wrote:In this case he's right - Blair was more than happy to use his kids when it suited him but very publicly failed to endorse the MMR jab.Condor Man wrote: Had Blair come out and publically endorsed the MMR jab this would never have happened. My sons have had the single jabs.Another Party Political Broadcast by Condor Man......it all becomes pretty tiresome.
DCM
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3:13pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Walter Kurtz wrote:Telling people that his kids have had the MMR jab is hardly the same as releasing their medical records. He should have said that his kids had had it, if it were true of course. I'm no Tory by the way, they disgust me in pretty much everything they say or do.
DCM wrote:I would have thought saying at the time that he wouldn't endorse something that wouldn't be safe for his own child is pretty unequivocal. His own childs' medical records are rightly confidential as are all of ours. The Conservative Party were typically opportunistic by changing their policy to endorse the 3 x single vaccinations which only served to fuel the uncertainty surrounding the MMR jab.Walter Kurtz wrote:In this case he's right - Blair was more than happy to use his kids when it suited him but very publicly failed to endorse the MMR jab.Condor Man wrote: Had Blair come out and publically endorsed the MMR jab this would never have happened. My sons have had the single jabs.Another Party Political Broadcast by Condor Man......it all becomes pretty tiresome.
freefinker
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4:21pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Linesman
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4:54pm Fri 19 Mar 10
freefinker wrote:Not such a mild disease for boys. It often causes sterility.
Mumps is actually a very mild disease in children, although I agree there can be complications in adults. It very rarely causes fatalities. Measles, while not quite so mild as mumps, causes few problems in well nourished children. Rubella presents almost no problems if infected in childhood. While I accept vaccination/immunisa tion has been a great benefit in the prevention of some seriously dangerous and deadly illnesses (smallpox, polio, TB, etc), I do question it's benefits for these relatively mild illnesses, particularly in a developed society. I think far better to get these diseases in childhood, as almost everybody did until 40 years ago. This gives lifelong future protection - not necessarily the case with MMR. These vaccines can then be reserved for the very few who are unfortunate not to become infected in childhood. The problem we have at the moment, due to the unfounded MMR scare, is there are many individuals who have no protection what-so-ever and will enter adulthood with the risk of severe complications if they do subsequently catch any of these diseases. The body’s natural defences against these 3 diseases have been honed by natural selection over the past few millennia so that they are now mild illnesses in healthy children. Vaccination threatens to upset this state of affairs (unless there is a worldwide 100% uptake) by reducing considerably the likelihood of experiencing infection in childhood. It seems to me the pharmaceutical industry has sold us a product we had no need of – and not for the first time I may add.
freefinker
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5:02pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Linesman wrote:Often? No.
freefinker wrote:Not such a mild disease for boys. It often causes sterility.
Mumps is actually a very mild disease in children, although I agree there can be complications in adults. It very rarely causes fatalities. Measles, while not quite so mild as mumps, causes few problems in well nourished children. Rubella presents almost no problems if infected in childhood. While I accept vaccination/immunisa tion has been a great benefit in the prevention of some seriously dangerous and deadly illnesses (smallpox, polio, TB, etc), I do question it's benefits for these relatively mild illnesses, particularly in a developed society. I think far better to get these diseases in childhood, as almost everybody did until 40 years ago. This gives lifelong future protection - not necessarily the case with MMR. These vaccines can then be reserved for the very few who are unfortunate not to become infected in childhood. The problem we have at the moment, due to the unfounded MMR scare, is there are many individuals who have no protection what-so-ever and will enter adulthood with the risk of severe complications if they do subsequently catch any of these diseases. The body’s natural defences against these 3 diseases have been honed by natural selection over the past few millennia so that they are now mild illnesses in healthy children. Vaccination threatens to upset this state of affairs (unless there is a worldwide 100% uptake) by reducing considerably the likelihood of experiencing infection in childhood. It seems to me the pharmaceutical industry has sold us a product we had no need of – and not for the first time I may add.
Redback
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7:03pm Fri 19 Mar 10
southy
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10:29pm Fri 19 Mar 10
southy
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10:37pm Fri 19 Mar 10
DCM wrote:because of the problems with the mmr jab, i think you find the advice was for each parent/s to decide for them selfs. having each of the jabs singly over a 6 week period in young adults on reaching puberty seems it dont cause problems like they use to do it 30 years ago, but giving the multi jab is running a risk.
Walter Kurtz wrote:Telling people that his kids have had the MMR jab is hardly the same as releasing their medical records. He should have said that his kids had had it, if it were true of course. I'm no Tory by the way, they disgust me in pretty much everything they say or do.
DCM wrote:I would have thought saying at the time that he wouldn't endorse something that wouldn't be safe for his own child is pretty unequivocal. His own childs' medical records are rightly confidential as are all of ours. The Conservative Party were typically opportunistic by changing their policy to endorse the 3 x single vaccinations which only served to fuel the uncertainty surrounding the MMR jab.Walter Kurtz wrote:In this case he's right - Blair was more than happy to use his kids when it suited him but very publicly failed to endorse the MMR jab.Condor Man wrote: Had Blair come out and publically endorsed the MMR jab this would never have happened. My sons have had the single jabs.Another Party Political Broadcast by Condor Man......it all becomes pretty tiresome.
stay local
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1:13am Sat 20 Mar 10
southy wrote:Well Southy I have no memory of a girl receiving a vaccine damage payout due to the MMR vaccine, so I looked around the web. The Echo, does not have any story of a payout for vaccine damage. Jenny McCarthy's site generation rescue does not have any link to a child receiving a payment of the MMR damage (Jenny McCarthy runs an aggressive anti-vaccination campaign) the BBC News site when you look back through its archive has no link to any child receiving money for damage due to the MMR vaccine. There is a link to a child in Wales who received the DTP vaccine. There is a suggestion of a class action against the drug manufacturer in this case. But yet again there is no evidence of this and the company concerned has yet to be fined, or even found responsible.
what short memory you lot got. a case ended last year after 16 years of court battle a pay out of over 1million plus court costs all because of that jab mmr cause brain damage to a young baby girl here in southampton there is a high number of cases around the country that are drawing to an end because of this mmr jab can cause brain damage. check with back dated echo it was published.
southy
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12:17pm Sat 20 Mar 10
Cyber-Fug
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12:59pm Sat 20 Mar 10
Redback
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1:29pm Sat 20 Mar 10
stay local
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1:45pm Sat 20 Mar 10
southy
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2:32pm Sat 20 Mar 10
Redback wrote:once maybe you be right, but its happened to many times, and there is a problem with this multi jab. and the case that i mention is just one of many.
Just because a vaccine caused damage to an individual does NOT mean it should be withdrawn. It has to be balanced against the harm of NOT giving the vaccine.
Sorry Southy, but you're no Goldacre.
southy
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2:39pm Sat 20 Mar 10
stay local
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3:16pm Sat 20 Mar 10
southy
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3:40pm Sat 20 Mar 10
stay local
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4:25pm Sat 20 Mar 10
stay local
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4:36pm Sat 20 Mar 10
Cyber-Fug
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4:41pm Sat 20 Mar 10
southy
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Paul Linford
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4:52pm Sat 20 Mar 10
Get it right
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5:06pm Sat 20 Mar 10
southy
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5:16pm Sat 20 Mar 10
Get it right wrote:well tell that to stay local.
Southy,
The best advice to someone finding themselves in a hole is "stop digging".
stay local
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6:01pm Sat 20 Mar 10
Paul Linford wrote:Please address this to Southy he is the one who has made the suggestion that someone he knows goes near the bridge at Redbridge in the summer, went to court by themselves, but were represented by a lawyer and was awarded a sum of money.
Stay Local widen your search, Before you put your foot init, I have come across a 1.2 Million pounds pay out. Awared by the courts in April 2009 to a Southampton family for a brain damage child.
Paul Linford
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7:11pm Sat 20 Mar 10
stay local wrote:Stay Local If I can find out abit about it, then surley there is more to it.
Paul Linford wrote:Please address this to Southy he is the one who has made the suggestion that someone he knows goes near the bridge at Redbridge in the summer, went to court by themselves, but were represented by a lawyer and was awarded a sum of money.
Stay Local widen your search, Before you put your foot init, I have come across a 1.2 Million pounds pay out. Awared by the courts in April 2009 to a Southampton family for a brain damage child.
He claims this was compensation for injuries caused by the MMR jab or may be for bad advice.
It was Southy who suggested this was the case and therefore he should be the one showing where his information can be found.
He is the one who frequently comes up short to mention a few.
The lost ice rinks of Tower Park and Bideford. The SBS Air rifles.
The Standard Southy rant is
1 An outlandish claim.
2 The claim changes and the previous claim is denied.
3 We are told to go and look it up for our selves but with out any reference (try googling “family who go near the bridge in Redbridge in the summer”)
So Southy the hole is your please keep digging!
stay local
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1:11am Sun 21 Mar 10
freefinker
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10:20am Sun 21 Mar 10
stay local wrote:"You will see people in the paper and on the news saying they have seen Jesus in a piece of toast"
Unless Southy can provide a good, reliable and checkable source for his information it is not possible to confirm it.
Southy claimed that a girl finally received a payment of some 1.2 million for medical damage due to vaccine.
When asked how he knew this and where it can be verified there is nothing.
Southy needs to be able to back up his claims.
You will see people in the paper and on the news saying they have seen Jesus in a piece of toast… But they still have the piece of toast so you can also look and make an assessment.
Evidence is not…well I heard it from a friend. If that as the case we would all believe that the royal family were in fact giant lizards who suck human blood (See David Icke)
So Southy you stated
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southy, redbridge says...
10:29pm Fri 19 Mar 10
what short memory you lot got. a case ended last year after 16 years of court battle a pay out of over 1million plus court costs all because of that jab mmr cause brain damage to a young baby girl here in southampton there is a high number of cases around the country that are drawing to an end because of this mmr jab can cause brain damage. check with back dated echo it was published.
So the evidence needed is quite specific.
The details of a payout for damage caused by the mmr jab. Not for medical negligence.
SOUTHY PROVIDE EVIDENCE NOT ANECDOTES
southy
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10:44am Sun 21 Mar 10
stay local
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11:55am Sun 21 Mar 10
southy wrote:Come on this is rubbish.
stay local its not my problem if you have a short memory now is it (that is if you read the echo), like i said go to the echo office and look it up in back issues of the echo. the evidence is there for you to check up on. and/or go to the bridges in the summer and get it from the horses mouth, that is your second place to look for the evidence. this is also not my problem if you cant be bothered to do for your self. its not my fault if you rely on internet information only, that is in-correct, has errors, or in-compleat or a combination of all 3, any person that is in search for good true knowledge only use web sites has a starting point, and do not rely on it. and your specific evidence would be going to the bridges in the summer and chatting the guy in concern this would be your best and first hand evidence, where if you ask he will show you the letters, he has shown me enough of them over the years.
southy
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12:30pm Sun 21 Mar 10
stay local wrote:stay local you been told where to get the first hand information its not rubbish at all, its just you unwilling to go and find out for your self and expect every one else to hand things on a plate to you. the best evidence comes from the base first hand knowledge, and that takes any individual to go and find out for them selfs, and theres no outlandish claims, all it will take is you to go to the bridges in the summer and ask, there is 6 people that go there regular very summer just for a chat and the bass fishing. even any one of those 6 people will tell you the same, and they will also give you the pointer to the guy in concern. i do not do other peoples work for them.
southy wrote:Come on this is rubbish.
stay local its not my problem if you have a short memory now is it (that is if you read the echo), like i said go to the echo office and look it up in back issues of the echo. the evidence is there for you to check up on. and/or go to the bridges in the summer and get it from the horses mouth, that is your second place to look for the evidence. this is also not my problem if you cant be bothered to do for your self. its not my fault if you rely on internet information only, that is in-correct, has errors, or in-compleat or a combination of all 3, any person that is in search for good true knowledge only use web sites has a starting point, and do not rely on it. and your specific evidence would be going to the bridges in the summer and chatting the guy in concern this would be your best and first hand evidence, where if you ask he will show you the letters, he has shown me enough of them over the years.
“I met a man in the park near the bridge but don’t know his name. We are so friendly he showed me the court papers relating to the brain damage of his daughter as he happened to have them with him.”
Sadly it is your problem to provide the evidence to back up your claim and the fact that you have never done this only indicates that you are deceitful, ignorant or deluded.
Please go to your local library and get the book numbered 397 744 It will help to clarify for you the need to provide evidence when you make outlandish claims. There are copies available at the Shirley library but the one at Lordshill is out on loan.
stay local
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1:21pm Sun 21 Mar 10
southy wrote:This is getting really silly.
stay local wrote:stay local you been told where to get the first hand information its not rubbish at all, its just you unwilling to go and find out for your self and expect every one else to hand things on a plate to you. the best evidence comes from the base first hand knowledge, and that takes any individual to go and find out for them selfs, and theres no outlandish claims, all it will take is you to go to the bridges in the summer and ask, there is 6 people that go there regular very summer just for a chat and the bass fishing. even any one of those 6 people will tell you the same, and they will also give you the pointer to the guy in concern. i do not do other peoples work for them.southy wrote: stay local its not my problem if you have a short memory now is it (that is if you read the echo), like i said go to the echo office and look it up in back issues of the echo. the evidence is there for you to check up on. and/or go to the bridges in the summer and get it from the horses mouth, that is your second place to look for the evidence. this is also not my problem if you cant be bothered to do for your self. its not my fault if you rely on internet information only, that is in-correct, has errors, or in-compleat or a combination of all 3, any person that is in search for good true knowledge only use web sites has a starting point, and do not rely on it. and your specific evidence would be going to the bridges in the summer and chatting the guy in concern this would be your best and first hand evidence, where if you ask he will show you the letters, he has shown me enough of them over the years.Come on this is rubbish. “I met a man in the park near the bridge but don’t know his name. We are so friendly he showed me the court papers relating to the brain damage of his daughter as he happened to have them with him.” Sadly it is your problem to provide the evidence to back up your claim and the fact that you have never done this only indicates that you are deceitful, ignorant or deluded. Please go to your local library and get the book numbered 397 744 It will help to clarify for you the need to provide evidence when you make outlandish claims. There are copies available at the Shirley library but the one at Lordshill is out on loan.
southy
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1:55pm Sun 21 Mar 10
stay local
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2:31pm Sun 21 Mar 10
southy
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3:14pm Sun 21 Mar 10
stay local wrote:i not a liar it a case of you being bloody lazy to get off your back side and going to see and talk to people. you rely on information from the net and you take it that has being gospel when its not more often the case it has errors.
Southy you are a liar and cannot provide the information you rely on.
Give us the details of the girl you say has received compensation for damage caused by the MMR jab.
Or perhaps admit you made a mistake, and it was not the vaccine but some other cause as you suggested in one of your waffles.
Show or shut up.
southy
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3:17pm Sun 21 Mar 10
stay local
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4:52pm Sun 21 Mar 10
southy wrote:Southy the court case is a matter of public record and some what more reliable than a fisherman, this is a document in the public domain (on the web), it would have been widely reported in news papers, not only that worldwide anti vaccination groups have been seeking the holy grail of a successful case in the uk.
stay local wrote: Southy you are a liar and cannot provide the information you rely on. Give us the details of the girl you say has received compensation for damage caused by the MMR jab. Or perhaps admit you made a mistake, and it was not the vaccine but some other cause as you suggested in one of your waffles. Show or shut up.i not a liar it a case of you being bloody lazy to get off your back side and going to see and talk to people. you rely on information from the net and you take it that has being gospel when its not more often the case it has errors. one of the systems ( side effect ) to this vaccine is a fever a high temperature, it is well known that if your body temperature gets to high it can kill, or it could cause brain damage and this could of been the case here, and if you done your research right you would of come across known deaths cause though this vaccine. if want to find out do what paul linford is willing to do and that is go round to the echo office and having a wonder over the bridges, but you will not your to lazy to get out there and find out. the internet is not a reliable source of information but its a reasonable point to get started from. you will find that very good politicians, news paper reporters and others that want good information do not quote from the internet because its to unreliable and full of errors
southy
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8:12pm Sun 21 Mar 10
stay local
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10:54pm Sun 21 Mar 10
southy wrote:Southy I realise that you are finding it difficult to understand the idea of the burden of proof.
stay local it is not a lie, like i said if you can not be bothered to spare a moment of your time to go over there and find out for your self, then there is nothing any one can do, and not all court cases are open to the public to see. go over there and find out for your self, best knowledge is all ways first hand information, you be able to talk the man him self or is it that this part scares you to much, that you been relying on the internet for your information for so long that it scares you to much to find out a lot of internet information is wrong. because that what its sounding like. hard cold facts are not found on the internet. the proof is there to prove your wrong but you are not willing or unwilling to go and find out for your self in a person to person contact, and let this man show you his evidence in letters and documents.
southy
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11:48pm Sun 21 Mar 10
stay local
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5:10am Mon 22 Mar 10
Paul Linford
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11:56am Mon 22 Mar 10
Paul Linford
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12:01pm Mon 22 Mar 10
stay local wrote:AT no point has Southy said he heard it from fisherman, He has said that they know about it also. You do like to twist people words.
For goodness sake can you not understand it?
You have made a claim.
I have asked for the details of that claim.
You tell me you heard it from fishermen and I am supposed to accept that as fact. What planet are you from?
“I heard it from fishermen” is an anecdote.
From me here are the details from January this year to say that no one in the UK has made a successful claim for damage due to the MMR vaccination.
This completely counters your lies (claim), that some you met fishing who know some one else when to high court on their own but were supported by a solicitor won a land mark case for injuries due to the MMR vaccine.
Details here:- (copy and paste the link into your browser and it will then take you there.)
http://www.familyhea
lthcare.org.uk/news/
mmr-jab-victory-for-
government-compensat
ion.shtml
Or are you just a liar who cannot tell the truth?
So now you must provide evidence to the contrary
stay local
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1:42pm Mon 22 Mar 10
Paul Linford wrote:So why not tell people what the story is??
I have just got back from the Echo Office, You owe Southy an apology Stay Local. The story is there for you to and check up on.
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