According to a new study published in Nature Microbiology, babies born via Caesarean section (C-section) are likely to fail to respond to one dose of the live attenuated MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine. In fact, researchers found it is 2.6 times more likely that the vaccine is ineffective for babies who are born via C-section than babies who are born vaginally.1 2 3
The study by researchers at the University of Cambridge and Fudan University in China concluded that the immune systems of C-section babies do not produce a robust response to the initial dose of the MMR vaccine. It is hypothesized that the gut microbiome of C-section babies is not as developed as that of vaginally born babies and, therefore, the babies do not produce an adequate immune response to the vaccine.4 According to previous studies, babies born vaginally receive more genetically diverse gut-colonizing microbes from their mothers, which boosts their immune response.5
Henrik Salje, co-senior study author said:
We’ve discovered that the way we’re born—either by C-section or natural birth—has long-term consequences on our immunity to diseases as we grow up.6
Researchers examined data of 1,505 children in the first year of life from 2013 through 2018 finding that 12 percent of babies born via C-section failed to mount an immune response to the measles shot compared to only five percent of vaginally born children.7 8
The research, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, looked at a mother-neonate cohort and a population-based cohort of children one to nine years old. Researchers followed up on the infant cohort approximately every six months from 2013 to 2016. Researchers looked at blood samples of the infants over time to determine how measles antibody levels changed over time, including pre and post vaccination.9 10
The study showed that a second dose of the MMR vaccine produced a more robust immune response in babies born via C-section.11
The implications of the first dose of the MMR vaccine being less effective in babies born by C-section are vast as approximately one-third of all pregnant women in the United States and the United Kingdom end up having C-sections. In Brazil and Turkey, more than one half of all children are born by C-section.12 13
Measles Cases On the Rise
The number of reported cases of measles in the U.S. were up in the first quarter of 2024 by more than 17-fold over the number of cases of measles reported in the first quarters of the previous three years. In an article published in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), federal health officials stated:
The rapid increase in the number of reported measles cases during the first quarter of 2024 represents a renewed threat to elimination.14
In 2023, the number of reported measles cases increased by 79 percent in the U.S. and the majority of the infections were diagnosed in children.15 There were 97 cases of measles reported in the U.S by April 2024 and, according to health officials, 83 percent of the cases were in people who had not received measles vaccine or had an unknown vaccination status, with half of all cases occurring in children under age five. The CDC pointed out that no one has died from the measles in the U.S. in the last four years.16 17
Most of measles cases in 2024 have been associated with travel outside of the country,18 The CDC has determined that to date in 2024, six of the 16 cases from abroad came from Europe and East Asia. This is a 50 percent increase in imported cases of the measles from that part of the world.19
Outbreak in Chicago Migrant Center
The CDC blamed a recent measles outbreak in a Chicago migrant center on Venezuelan immigrants, claiming that 84 percent of the measles cases were linked to the immigrants. According to a CDC report, 72 percent occurred in individuals who had not received measles vaccine or had an unknown vaccination status and were considered unvaccinated.
Patient zero at the shelter was a one-year-old boy who had received one dose of the MMR vaccine five weeks before his diagnosis. He had not traveled for five months and had not been exposed to anyone with a symptomatic case of measles.20 The boy lived in a large shelter housed 2,100 people in February, with more than 500 people residing in some rooms.21
Vaccine Failure May Be to Blame for Rise in Measles Cases
The CDC and the media have blamed the increase in measles cases on alleged “misinformation” about vaccines on social media and parents, who are not complying with the government’s measles vaccine recommendations that children receive two doses of MMR vaccine between 15 months and six years old.22
According to the CDC, in the 2022-23 school year, just over 93 percent of kindergarten students in the U.S. were up-to-date on MMR vaccinations.23 This is a total two percent decline in measles vaccine coverage rates among school children compared to the 2020-2021 school year and is two percent short of the 95 percent MMR vaccination coverage CDC officials say must be maintained in a population to prevent measles transmission.24
CDC officials admitted that the 12 month old recently vaccinated boy, who started the measles outbreak in the Chicago migrant shelter, had been living in the shelter for months without traveling and was not an “import” case but a victim of measles vaccine failure and breakthrough infection. They stated that “the index patient’s arrival in Chicago months before the illness onset suggests that the disease was acquired locally.” It is unclear as to whether he was born via C-section.
While the high 95 percent measles vaccination rate among U.S. school children may have declined slightly over the past few years, it is possible that measles vaccine failure could play a larger role in recent outbreaks in the U.S. and abroad than has been acknowledged by the media, even though MMR vaccine failures and breakthrough infections been reported in the medical literature since the 1990s. In a recent article published in The Vaccine Reaction, Barbara Loe Fisher, president and co-founder of the National Vaccine information Center (NVIC), stated:
… a more significant inconvenient truth is that there are an unknown number of mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic cases of measles circulating in highly vaccinated populations like the U.S., which are never diagnosed, reported or counted in measles outbreak statistics.25
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Click here to view References:2 Thompson D. Babies born by C-section need two doses of measles vaccine to produce antibodies. UPI News May, 15, 2024.
3 Toshniwal P. Single measles jab up to 2.6 times more likely to be ineffective in C-section born children. MSN May 17, 2024.
4 Brackley P. Children born by C-section need two doses of measles vaccine, say University of Cambridge researchers. MSN May 16, 2024.
5 Science Daily. Birth by C-section more than doubles odds of measles vaccine failure. May 13, 2024.
6 Thompson D. Babies born by C-section need two doses of measles vaccine to produce antibodies. UPI News May 15, 2024.
7 Chalmers V. JAB ALERT Children born by C-section ‘at higher risk of measles as jab is less effective for some’. The Sun May 13, 2024.
8 Toshniwal P. Single measles jab up to 2.6 times more likely to be ineffective in C-section born children. MSN May 17, 2024.
9 Science Daily. Birth by C-section more than doubles odds of measles vaccine failure. May 13, 2024.
10 Toshniwal P. Single measles jab up to 2.6 times more likely to be ineffective in C-section born children. MSN May 17, 2024.
11 Science Daily. Birth by C-section more than doubles odds of measles vaccine failure. May 13, 2024.
12 Chalmers V. JAB ALERT Children born by C-section ‘at higher risk of measles as jab is less effective for some’. The Sun May 13, 2024.
13 Science Daily. Birth by C-section more than doubles odds of measles vaccine failure. May 13, 2024.
14 Mole B. Measles could once again become endemic in the US, the CDC warns. Ars Technica Apr. 11, 2024.
15 Park A. Why Measles Cases Are Rising Right Now. Time. Feb. 28, 2024.
16 Bendix A. Measles elimination in the U.S. is under ‘renewed threat,’ CDC warns. NBC News Apr. 11, 2024.
17 Sullivan W. U.S. Measles Cases Are Rising in 2024, CDC Warns. Smithsonian Apr. 5, 2024.
18 Ibid.
19 Mole B. Measles could once again become endemic in the US, the CDC warns. Ars Technica Apr. 11, 2024.
20 Fisher BL. Measles Outbreak in Chicago Migrant Shelter Reveals at Least 28 Percent Were Vaccinated. The Vaccine Reaction Mar. 28, 2024.
21 Daily Mail. Staggering 84 percent of measles cases in major Chicago outbreak linked to Venezuelan migrants, CDC report shows. May 16, 2024.
22 Choo E. Past vaccination efforts made us forget how bad measles is. It’s back to remind us. MSNBC Feb. 8, 2024.
23 CDC. Coverage with Selected Vaccines and Exemption from School Vaccine Requirements Among Children in Kindergarten – United States, 2022-23 School Year. MMWR Nov. 10, 2023; 72(45): 1217-1224.
24 Santhanam L. Measles cases are rising in the U.S. Here’s why misinformation about the vaccine persists today. PBS Feb. 23, 2024.
25 Fisher BL. Measles Outbreak in Chicago Migrant Shelter Reveals at Least 28 Percent Were Vaccinated. The Vaccine Reaction Mar. 28, 2024.
7 Responses
I’ve read that C-section delivered babies receive an antibiotic at birth, resulting in more of a deficit.
Not true.
Why would someone give MMR to babies less than one yr old. Their immune system has not developed and cannot handle such a toxic dose. They need followup to see if they develop autism.
Good point Richard, one also has to consider the percentage of C-section births to (V)-Births regarding the ratios of those that got the Hept B Vaccine & who didn’t (further damaging the babies developing innate immune system with the 250mcg neurotoxic alumiunium Al per 500 mcg solution?? (An FDA Rated Dose for a 108LB child!)) – Lets also not forget about the Vitamin K Neurotoxic shot of 11mcg Al for a grand total of 261mcg Al Neurotoxicity on the 1st day of life..lol! Such psychopathic snake-oil-quackery….I wonder how many of those C-sections were Preemies as well and THEY still give those babies these same shot doses. Pseudo-scientists the ENTIRE lot, without a bone of Critical Thought among ANY of those Human Beings, I swear.
Believe it or not….the FDA actually has SAFETY GUIDELINES for the allowable amount of Aluminum that can be injected into a person, because it can CAUSE Central Nervous System Poisoning. The science behind Kidney Dialysis & Parenteral Nutrition Therapy helped establish these guidelines, but the CDC/FDA STILL IGNORES their OWN Science to SELL vaccines.
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=201.323
FDA’s established Safe intravenous injection limit for Al is 25 mcg per Liter solution (Liter 1,000,000 mcg) or 2.27 mcg Al per LB. of body weight.
Let’s also not forget the FACT that there has ALWAYS been a subset within the population (5-10%) that will NEVER develop antibodies to the Measles Vaccines(s) or MMR Vaccine, thus the mystical “Herd Immunity” that requires at least 95% uptake would matter not i.e. The Measles Vaccines(s) & MMR Vaccine have always been failures at establishing Herd Immunity & thus can NOT, so what’s the point of injecting these neurotoxic Retrovirus laden long-term disease/syndrome forming shots anyways? Unless of course you WANT to be a Customer of BigPharma’s your entire life with a myriad diseases/syndromes to pick from…lol! There’s a reason Vaccines are the “Sacred Cow” of the WMIC-Western Medicine Industrial Complex and it’s not the liability free-billion-dollar profit margins, rather it’s the repeat customers and Billions in addition revenue generated from the diseases/syndromes these shots cause & your Dr. will be noone the wiser. Ask him/her what a Retro-Virus is and how they got into EVERY Vaccine when the Antigen is being cultured on the dead animals/insects/humans substrates..lol! You can’t make this crap up. And…how do THEY separate these Retro-Viruses from the intended end product of the Antigen WITHOUT removing the Antigen likewise? They can’t, thus ALL Vaccines are contaminated, hence why the Gene Therapy Shots (the new horse to bet on) have been introduced. (THEY know)
1. Lets also not forget the HEALTH BENEFITS of catching the Wild Native Measles Vira’s, which boost ones Immune System for a LIFETIME!….2. Allows Moms to protect their baby at birth when the baby is the MOST vulnerable, as you said Richard (no established immune system), because Mom passes antibodies through the placenta wall, (V)-canal & later during Breast Feeding. 3. Then the child when he/she is 3 or 5 and their Immune System is bullet-proof will catch this short=term childhood illness and establish their own Lifetime Immunity as Nature Designed for millennia. Vaccinated Mom’s CAN’T offer any of these benefits leaving their child a sitting duck when most vulnerable, hence why the entire Vaccine Cult is an utter pseudo-science disaster that has damaged what took Mother Nature a millennia to establish in a very short-period of time.
4. The Wild Measles Vira’s are also CANCER CURES….once you catch these strains you now have the ability to fight off Hodkin’s & Non-Hodgkin’s Cancer. Children that have developed either of these Cancers have been Cured once infected with the Wild Measles Vira’s and sometimes, even Allopathic Medicine will make up a 10X Measles Vaccine batch and that has even Cured these terminally cancers. (That’s a lot of Neurotoxic Adjuvant though, so better to use Mother Nature’s strain(s) and then you get LIFETIME IMMUNITY to boot, whereas vaccines only provide subpar immune defense (even if) & short term, with serious disease/syndrome short & long-term consequences…very simple.))…
This paper is lipstick on a pig/an attempt to look as if they are doing genuine scientific research, to help humanity get a subpar lab-made Vira, that only has a down-side health wise for the person/patient. While ignoring the FACT that over 80% of SIDS kids got a Neurotoxic-Carcinogenic-Retro-Virus laden Vaccine within 72 hours of their Death & this is IGNORED to this day by these white-coat-BigPharma Shill lying psychopaths routinely!….(even Law Enforcement/DOJ is guilty as they’ve seen these ratios/percentages, utter ridiculous…Corruption & Pseudo-science, very simple i.e. It’s the Root Cause of all the Evil, hence why RFK Jr for POTUS if you folks REALLY want change…Trump is a Shill for BigPharma-Agra-BioChem-WMIC-MIC-Alphabet Soup Intelligence Agency’s & Regulatory Agency’s = All Equal the “Deep State”).
In Closing = There are serious Longe Term Health BENEFITS to catching the Wild Chickenpox, Measles, Rubella (German Measles), Pertussis (Whooping Cough) and THEY know this, but there’s no money in Life-Time Immunity or in strengthening a person’s Immune System to fight off Cancers, Heart Disease/Stroke, Arthritis, Allergies, etc.., which are far greater threats to Humanity than the Vira’s/Toxoids we vaccinate for today.
Peace All & keep Critically Thinking for yourself. (Measles is only dangerous if that person has a Vitamin A deficiency, so Govt’s (Mom & Dad) should provide Vitamin A Supplements for young children 3-5 yrs. old to handle this Morbidity/Mortality issue…making it a non-issue..vey simple.
I Japan it is against the law to vaccinate a child under 2 years of age
They also have the lowest infant dead rate in the developed world
pregnant mom receives antibiotics 1 hour before C-section. Antibiotics r passed to baby in milk.
1. size medical is bad.
The U.S. is the only country to vaccinate babies with the Hepatitis B vaccine within hours of birth. My c-section baby (and many others) were damaged by this because of immature/poorly developed gut microbiomes and my child developed severe colic for at least 5 months afterwards.
There is data supporting the idea that the Hepatitis B vaccine damages the gut microbiome in newborns.