DR. TONI BARK, MD - PUBLIC TESTIMONY ON MYTH OF HERD IMMUNITY VIA MEASLES VACCINATION - 2019

Posthumously re-published in honor of her memory. She is gone but never forgotten. Dr. Bark sent this to me in 2019. We can honor her legacy by seeing the truth.

NB: CBS NEWS has published an app on vaccination rates in school districts across the country, and their pitch is filled with disinformation and the myth of herd immunity to measles from the MMR vaccine.

2019 Federal Public Hearing

February 28, 2019

My name is Dr. Toni Bark and I am a licensed MD in the state of Illinois. I am trained in pediatrics and rehabilitative medicine and I directed a pediatric emergency room in the inner city of Chicago, During that time, I witnessed several children, after being in the vaccine clinic, presenting to the emergency room in status epilepticus, with asthma and even respiratory arrest. That was a while ago. Since that time, there has been an emerging field called epigenetics,  Epigenetic is the field of looking at the link between genetics and environmental toxins affecting people individually.

Vaccines are not safe and effective for everyone. They cannot be one size fits all,  no other medical procedure is mandated for everyone regardless of risk. Not everyone has the same risk factors.

 In the last 20-30 years we have elucidated some things that are known as risk factors and they are called Single Nucleotide Polymorphic Variants. These interface with things like drugs and vaccines very differently for different people. Serious adverse reactions to vaccination are not a one-in-a-million event. There can be maybe up to 10-15% of people who are quite susceptible to different vaccines. This is a sizable minority, a susceptible minority, who are being left out in the rain without an umbrella. So, while it sounds good and well that vaccines are safe and effective, just so you understand, they are legally classified as unavoidably unsafe and the manufacturers are not liable.  This is a liability-free product that is being mandated on children who may have epigenetic susceptibility to injury from these liability-free products. The injuries are serious, too, and include death and chronic encephalopathies as well as chronic auto-immunity.

 While there have only been two deaths from measles in this country since 2003, there have been at least 450 or so children who have died from the vaccine. And, since CDC’s own Harvard Pilgrim HMO study of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System wooed less than 1% of vaccine adverse events arriver reported, the death rate could be many times greater. Gregory Poland, who is a vaccinologist at Mayo Clinic,  has written an article that cites The Paradox of Measles which states that you cannot eradicate a virus like measles with a live viral vaccine (due to shedding of live virus and failure of the vaccine).

You also will see that the majority of outbreaks of measles cases around the country are actually in the vaccinated. So, this is a complex picture, it is not one-sided, there are a lot of grey areas; this is a complex issue. The other side would have you believe that it is not complex, that vaccines are safe and effective, that the vaccine prevents measles, and that if everyone was vaccinated there would not be measles and that is not true.

The largest outbreak New York City has seen in recent years was just a few years ago  (2011) and it was started by a 22-year-old recent recipient of an MMR booster. And 35-40 people who had all been vaccinated got a vaccine strain measles. In Corpus Christi 1983 there were over 400 students who had all been vaccinated, 98% vaccination rates, 97% of which had antibodies, memory antibodies and they still got measles. There are dozens one examples of outbreaks in highly (97% and above)  vaccinated populations.  This is not a clear black-and-white picture.

And, while the Disney outbreak was assumed to be due to the unvaccinated, this is far from the reality. During the 2015 California measles outbreak, many suspected cases occurred in persons who were recently vaccinated. One-hundred-ninety-four (194) measles virus sequences were collected in 2015, with 73 cases found to have actually been vaccine-strain measles. (Roy F, Mendoza L, Hiebert J et al. Rapid Identification of Measles Virus Vaccine Genotype by Real-Time PCR. J Clin Microbiol. 2017 Mar;55(3):735-743).

 The CDC-recommended requirements for medical exemption are lagging about 30 years behind the science of the epigenetic risk factors entering medical exemptions far and few. In addition, most doctors are fearful of writing such exemptions as they worry they will be labeled “anti-vaxxers” and possibly brought before their state’s ethics committee. If you eliminate the exemptions you are making a large minority of people susceptible to very serious risks including death. You are also going to see many students opting for homeschooling until that becomes illegal. You are also creating a mood of extreme distrust of government.

I consult with patients all over the country, as a specialist treating vaccine-related injuries including seizures, and GI disorders.  I have also testified as an expert witness for injured families in the VICP. The Federal Table Of Injuries for the MMR includes injuries such as encephalitis, chronic encephalopathy, chronic arthritis, measles, chronic thrombocytopenic purpura, and more. In addition, over 450 deaths have been reported to VAERS due to the vaccine but with less than 1% of adverse events being reported and in light of the manufacturer itself deciding if deaths are related to the vaccine, it is doubtful this number reflects the actual number of deaths from the vaccine.

I oppose any bill that mandates medical procedures, which come with risks, immunizes the manufacturer of liability, and violates informed consent/international law on informed consent. As a physician, I took an oath to do what is best for my individual patients and to first do no harm. I don’t plan on acting against my oath.

Thank you

Toni Bark MD MHEM LEED AP

References for vaccine failures in vaccinated populations or measles outbreaks cause by vaccine strain in vaccinated populations:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/04/measles-outbreak-traced-fully-vaccinated-patient-first-time

http://www.biomedsearch.com/nih/Modelling-measles-re-emergence-as/14575773.html

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6742a4.htm

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1646939/

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-Minor edits 2/1/2024 by jlw