On November 15, 2025, the MWGFD held a press symposium near Passau, directly on the beautiful Danube, on
the topic of "Measles Protection Act under scrutiny".
According to the measles protection law working group, consisting of doctors, scientists and lawyers, the law
unconstitutionally encroaches on physical integrity and parental rights. They are calling for its immediate repeal.
Kla.TV was there live and supports the cause by broadcasting the individual presentations, which are well worth seeing.
Below the program you will find informative flyers on the topic and ways in which you too can support this cause.
Below you can see the article by Prof. Dr. Andreas Sönnichsen on the topic "Is the measles vaccination contraindicated?".
I am pleased, dear Andreas, that you arrived in time.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Sönnichsen. I am delighted that you are part of the working group.
And today you will actually be presenting our main argument against compulsory measles
vaccination, against measles vaccination in general.
And you've gone to a lot of trouble to work out what the situation is, the risk-benefit analysis.
But I would like to introduce Andreas Sönnichsen a little.
He was born in Hamburg, but from a Bavarian point of view, thank God he came to Munich and was raised and grew up there.
He studied medicine in the USA, in Illinois and at the LMU Munich and after his specialist training he worked for a time from 1997
to 2012, first in his own practice as a general internist, but at the same time began scientific work on
evidence-based medicine, patient safety and medication safety.
And in 2006 he was appointed Professor of General Medicine at the Paracelsus University of Salzburg.
This was followed by further professorships at the University of Witten-Herdecke and at the Medical University of Vienna.
In 2013, Andreas Sönnichsen received the David Sackett Prize for evidence-based medicine and he was also the chairman of the
German Network for Evidence-based Medicine from 2019 to 2021.
So when he looks through studies and looks at himself, that's when he knows what he's talking about and where to look.
He is also the author of the textbook "Scientific Competence in Medicine" and the book "The
Fear and Lies Pandemic" on the coronavirus crisis.
And he also has over 100 internationally listed specialist publications to his name.
And I am now looking forward to your lecture, which will answer the important question:
"Is the measles vaccination contraindicated?".
Yes, my conflicts of interest are very modest.
I don't have any dealings with the pharmaceutical industry, so I move on very quickly.
The Infection Protection Act is actually tripping itself up here.
Section 20 (9) states that persons who are cared for or work in communal facilities must submit vaccination documentation
or cannot be vaccinated due to a medical contraindication.
And now let's take a look at whether such a contraindication for the measles vaccination
actually exists for all healthy children in Germany.
And to do this, you first have to deal with what a contraindication actually is.
The contraindication is defined as follows.
This is a circumstance that excludes or restricts the use of a diagnostic, therapeutic or preventive medical
measure in principle or under special risk assessment.
Now you have to differentiate. There are absolute contraindications and relative contraindications.
An absolute contraindication for measles vaccination, for example, would be a severe congenital
immunodeficiency, where no live viruses may be vaccinated because the person would become seriously ill.
A relative contraindication is a medical measure whose potential harm or risk is greater than the benefit.
This is not forbidden in principle, but it is of course only possible to implement such a measure after -
as Paul has already said wonderfully - an informed, participatory decision-making process.
If the patient decides freely - of his own free will, so to speak - to have this measure despite the risk.
Yes, and now let's look next at whether the measles vaccination doesn't actually contain a relative contraindication.
And you simply have to weigh up the benefits of vaccination against the harms of vaccination.
To reiterate, the Infection Protection Act does not distinguish between absolute and relative
contraindications, but simply refers to contraindications.
Yes, let's take a look at the measles cases in Germany. Last year there were 645.
The average for the last ten years was 505 per year out of a population of 83 million.
The risk of getting measles is not that great.
There were no deaths in 2023 and 2024. There have been 14 reported measles deaths in Germany
since the start of mandatory reporting of measles.
However, we do not know in detail whether the people died with or from measles.
In 2023 there were 34 hospitalizations, in 2024 we do not know.
And yes, the serious complications - figures of between 1 in 1000 and 1 in 10,000 are quoted - are ultimately extremely rare
and have been virtually non-existent in Germany for decades.
In other words, the risk of being harmed by measles is very manageable, yes?
Here are the measles cases again. And one of the main arguments for introducing compulsory vaccination
was the claim that measles was now on the rise again.
And this graph clearly shows that measles cases have actually fallen continuously since
records began in Germany, namely since 2001.
And we had virtually no cases at all during the two coronavirus years.
We have now seen a slight increase back to pre-corona levels.
But we can by no means speak of a measles epidemic or an epidemiological emergency situation, that we now have
so many measles here that we urgently need to introduce compulsory vaccination or something to contain it.
The measles complications: We now have data from the ECDC from 2024. There were 35,000 measles cases.
Today, many people are hospitalized more or less prophylactically, even if there is no actual complication.
The real complications - that's also exciting in the ECDC statistics - 65 percent of complications are
"other" and probably hospitalization was already considered a complication in some cases.
Pneumonia is actually the most common complication.
And Sucharit Bhakdi has already explained that this is no longer a danger today because it is usually a
bacterial superinfection that can be treated with antibiotics.
The diarrhea is not so problematic now, nor is the otitis media.
Encephalitis: there were ten cases across Europe in 2024. And there were 23 measles deaths.
None of these cases were in Germany.
So the risk of contracting measles in Germany - if you convert it to a percentage, so to speak - is 0.0006 percent.
And the risk of suffering a serious measles complication is, yes, let's put another three zeros
in there, because it's about one in a thousand.
And the lifetime risk, well, if we multiply that by 80, then we're still at 0.0005 percent, yes?
So ultimately there is no risk from measles.
Yes, but if the vaccination can have no benefit at all because there is no risk from measles,
then the harm inevitably outweighs the benefit.
And let's take another quick look at it now.
A slide in between - here - comparison with other risks.
Yes, what do children die of in Germany? They die from tumors, accidents, congenital damage to
the nervous system, other infectious diseases.
So 135 children died from infectious diseases in 2023, but not a single one from measles.
And other illnesses, I won't go into them in detail now.
The case mortality rate for measles varies greatly around the world.
In Germany, we are at 0.05 percent - calculated over time, now since records began - we
are at about half the influenza mortality rate.
So influenza is twice as dangerous as measles and of course much, much more common.
There are actually regions in the world where measles is still very complicated.
In Africa, for example, with a case mortality rate of 1.5 percent.
However, this is not relevant for Germany.
If you look at the global risk of dying from infectious diseases, you can see that measles plays no role at all in the world.
There are 1.7 deaths per 100,000 world citizens per year out of a total of 750 deaths per 100,000 per year.
So the measles are completely insignificant.
Conclusion: The risk of contracting or dying from measles is negligible.
There is no epidemic emergency that would justify a restriction of fundamental rights.
And compulsory measles vaccination is therefore clearly incompatible with the Basic Law.
So, now we come back to the benefits of vaccination.
The effectiveness of the measles vaccination is around 80 percent.
You can see that the green bars, the light green bars, are the unvaccinated measles cases in
the ECDC report. That's between 50 and 80 percent.
And the others are either vaccinated once, twice or unknown number of doses or unknown.
So the measles vaccination isn't even really effective, and it doesn't really have to be, because
there are virtually no measles in Germany anyway.
Does the measles vaccination prevent deaths?
Very questionable. Sucharit Bakhdi has already said that. These are now figures from the USA.
The measles mortality rate was actually still relatively high at the beginning of the 20th century.
By the 1960s, however, it had fallen to virtually zero.
And vaccination was only introduced in the USA in 1963 and in Germany in 1973.
So the vaccination definitely came too late here.
It can no longer prevent deaths because the deaths have already been prevented.
Is the measles vaccination harmful? There is a Cochrane review on this.
And it is quite clear that vaccination has the potential to cause harm.
My time is already up, so I'm going to go over it quickly.
So the main side effects are aseptic meningitis.
Sucharit Bhakdi has already said that.
These are living viruses, they spread throughout the body, they also enter the nervous tissue,
they also enter the brain, they also multiply. Yes?
They do not cause such an obvious disease as measles, the wild virus.
But this is a virus that is injected and multiplies in the body and also causes damage.
For example in the brain and nerve tissue. It leads to febrile convulsions and epilepsy.
It leads to autoimmune diseases such as ITP, which is idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, a deficiency of blood
platelets where the immune system breaks down its own platelets.
Purpura-Schönlein-Henoch is a vascular autoimmune disease of the blood vessels.
There are also possible indications of inflammatory bowel diseases, i.e. ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease,
developmental delays in childhood, dermatitis, eczema, type 1 diabetes, allergies, asthma, autism spectrum disorder.
There is still a lot of uncertainty in the data.
But the Henry Ford study, which has now at least been reported in the alternative media, has shown
that there is a serious risk for vaccinated children.
These are the reports to the Paul Ehrlich Institute from 2001 to 2012.
There were almost 1,700 suspected reports with 5,300 vaccination reactions, including
1,300 suspected reports with severe side effects.
This corresponds to 5.7 reports per 100,000 vaccine doses.
And around 1.2 million vaccinations are carried out in Germany every year.
So that's a considerable amount of money.
Permanent damage is reported in 3.4 percent of reports and a fatal outcome in 0.9 percent.
And the PEI itself considers a causal link to be probable or possible in about half of these reported cases.
The conclusion is quite clear: the harm-benefit ratio from the point of view of the individual child, and that is what we are
talking about, is definitely negative, because the risk of contracting measles or
suffering a measles complication is virtually zero.
And the risk of suffering a serious vaccination side effect with 1.2 million vaccinations per year - and I have now halved the 110
serious reports that the Paul Ehrlich Institute receives, because the Paul Ehrlich Institute only sees causality in half of the
cases - the risk of damage is still 0.005 percent and therefore ten times higher than the risk of contracting
measles and a hundred times higher than the lifetime risk of a serious measles complication.
In addition, it can be assumed that vaccine injuries are underreported by a factor of 10 to 20, i.e. we must assume
that 10 to 20 times as many side effects actually occur.
This is a relative contraindication to the measles vaccination for every healthy German child at the individual level and
therefore a reason to issue a vaccination exemption in accordance with Section 20 (9) of the
Infection Protection Act, which is completely legal.
I also do this in my practice and am happy about every child I can save from this vaccination. Thank you very much!
Four hours of highly competent expertise shortened to 40 minutes.
Watch the Kla.TV summary of the MWGFD symposium on the "Measles Protection Act under
scrutiny" . Do you want to take action yourself?
So how can you support our campaign to repeal the measles protection law and the vaccination obligation formulated therein?
So, please take a look at the website that has been made available as of today: https://masernschutzgesetz.mwgfd.org.
And on this website you will be kept up to date on all our activities and results.
We have produced a flyer, including our working group, which you can distribute and which can be used for signature campaigns
- in other words, campaigns throughout Germany are best.
This flyer is downloadable. And you can also download the signature collection sheets.
And it is important that our petition demands, which I have now also submitted to the
Bundestag, should always be on the signature sheet.
So talk to your MPs, to the politicians! We must exert pressure from below!
Talk to your doctors, talk about it with friends and colleagues!
Talk to affected families, to all young families!
This affects 700,000 people a year. And bring the issue to the public!