{"id":5904,"date":"2024-02-14T09:36:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5904"},"modified":"2024-02-14T09:36:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:36:56","slug":"now-disgraced-doctor-andrew-wakefield-targets-mumps-vaccine-with-new-hollywood-feature-film-which-claims-dangerous-jab-causes-serious-long-term-health-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/02\/14\/now-disgraced-doctor-andrew-wakefield-targets-mumps-vaccine-with-new-hollywood-feature-film-which-claims-dangerous-jab-causes-serious-long-term-health-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Now disgraced doctor Andrew Wakefield targets mumps vaccine with new Hollywood feature film which claims &#8216;dangerous&#8217; jab causes serious long-term health issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-my\/news\/other\/now-disgraced-doctor-andrew-wakefield-targets-mumps-vaccine-with-new-hollywood-feature-film-which-claims-dangerous-jab-causes-serious-long-term-health-issues\/ar-BB1i5MKD\">MSN<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disgraced doctor Andrew Wakefield \u2013 whose fake anti-vax data has been blamed for the current measles epidemic \u2013 has set his sights on discrediting the mumps vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 67-year-old, who fled to the US after being struck off in the UK for fraudulently connecting the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism, is seeking Hollywood fame with his first feature film Protocol-7, which claims the mumps jab causes serious long-term health issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film&#8217;s extended trailer debuted at the Autism Health Summit in San Antonio,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/texas\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Texas<\/a>&nbsp;last weekend, with Wakefield telling the conference&#8217;s 500 guests that the vaccine, which has been used for decades, is &#8216;dangerous&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attendees \u2013 who paid \u00a3310 each for the two-day event \u2013 gasped as scenes showed a child convulsing after receiving a mumps shot.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSN Disgraced doctor Andrew Wakefield \u2013 whose fake anti-vax data has been blamed for the current measles epidemic \u2013 has set his sights on discrediting the mumps vaccine. The 67-year-old, who fled to the US after being struck off in the UK for fraudulently connecting the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5905,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions\/5905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}