Posted on 09/18/2011 10:40:55 AM PDT by Niuhuru
Some California schools are turning away middle and high school students who have not received a required whooping cough vaccine while others are defying a law passed last year after a historic spike in cases of the potentially fatal disease.
The law approved last September initially required all students entering grades seven through 12 to get vaccinated by the start of the 2011-2012 school year.
Lawmakers passed a 30-day extension this summer as districts worried many students wouldn't meet the deadline.
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As much as I hate vaccinations and pills, they are necessary evils to hopefully eradicate diseases and ease symptoms of illnesses.
All have side effects but I doubt very few turn them down because of side effects.
No, they shouldn’t, not if they don’t want to. Let’s assume your children are vaccinated. What harm does it do them then if other children are not? It does no harm. Laws should not force us to vaccinate our children or make them wear rain coats and over shoes, which would fall in the same category. Some children not being vaccinated will not harm the ones who are. Stop the frickin’ nanny state crap.
That’s the way it is in Florida. No Original Blue Immunization Card, no register for school.
That will make a whole new underground forging process for the illegals in Cali. Notice the whooping cough commercials with the Hispanic mom holding the baby?
Pertussis vaccines have been around forever, but I guess not in Mexico.
Not true. This is not limited to being a Texas or border state problem.
Approximately 20 million Americans are currently infected with HPV. Another 6 million people become newly infected each year. HPV is so common that at least 50% of sexually active men and women get it at some point in their lives.
http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stdfact-hpv.htm
Most people naturally fight off the infection without significant problems. But enough do not that 12,000 per year are diagnosed with Cervical Cancer. This is not a Texas only problem.
Other cancers that can be caused by HPV are less common than cervical cancer. Each year in the U.S., there are about:
•1,500 women who get HPV-associated vulvar cancer
•500 women who get HPV-associated vaginal cancer
•400 men who get HPV-associated penile cancer
•2,700 women and 1,500 men who get HPV-associated anal cancer
•1,500 women and 5,600 men who get HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancers (cancers of the back of throat including base of tongue and tonsils) [Note: Many of these cancers may also be related to tobacco and alcohol use.]
Most states have considered HPV legislation in the past few years. So far only Viriginia and Washington D.C. have required the vaccination but other non-madating legislation has passed a few states.
Some people are against the government just for the sake of being against the government. This vaccine solves a problem and that’s the end of it. It doesn’t create an ever-expanding bureaucracy and cycle of govt dependence.
Do you realize how stupid you sound? How can the child who is not vaccinated infect children who are? It doesn't matter if the other kids are exposed, they won't catch it if they are vaccinated. What ever happened to freedom in this country? Gone with the wind and stupid nanny state people who really shouldn't be on a conservative forum.
It’s not a texas only problem but the problem is more magnified because it is a border state.
I think the contention being made was that the rate of HPV infection, and resulting rate of cervical cancer, is relatively high in Texas.
Justified and intrusive government action is usually very localized. See typical quarantine, shutdown and (not disease-related, but still intrusive) curfew.
Flawed analogy.
Bad BMIs are not communicable. If my kid sits next to a fat kid, obesity is not likely to jump on him.
Unlike measles, mumps, polio, whooping cough, etc.
I am wondering why all of a sudden we are hearing about it...I think its because its coming across the border from 3rd world illegals...In decades past, if you were sick and coming in as a legal immigrant, you couldn’t get off Ellis Island if you were sick. You went back home and we had health inspectors to check you...now we let in Legally, even those with Aid’s or any other disease...
Whooping cough is highly contagious and potentially fatal - particularly for youger kids. The vaccine has been around for a long time and is not at all expensive.
Would you show me a single statistic claiming HPV or cervical cancer is more common in Texas or border states?
Whooping cough is highly contagious and potentially fatal - particularly for youger kids. The vaccine has been around for a long time and is not at all expensive.
I would like to see that claim supported.
Vaccines aren’t 100% effective but herd immunity provides a strong second line of defense.
The public health calculus is a numbers game - it does not account for individuals. A disease outbreak that hospitalizes 5% of the population for treatment is a BIG DEAL.
I wonder what the rate of vaccination/immunity is, for this one. Researching the Texas laws and public policy, found Texas was at or close to the bottom of the "vaccination rate" contest, with 71% participation.
“Exactly, it’s the illegals putting our kids at risk. I never realized it before, but that is a huge reason that I am supportive of vaccinations. Our kids a precious and need to be protected.”
It’s also why I support Perry on vaccinations but not crazy about his attitude towards illegals...
With all the illegals bringing back diseases long gone in America...IF I lived in Cali..I’d make sure my child if going to a public school had that vaccination.
No vaccine is 100% effective.
As for freedom, the parents who refuse to take required measures to keep their kid from being a menace to public health have full freedom to educate the child themselves or to pay someone to do it for them.
It is ridiculous to argue that government doesn’t have a role in preserving public health.
Read about the flu epidemic of 1918 or the polio outbreaks prior to development of that vaccine, then count your blessings that everyone doesn’t think like you.
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