Posted on 03/17/2014 7:41:27 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I contracted measles at 3 months of age and rubella at 9 months(far too young to have been vaccinated) and suffered permanent hearing loss.
I have 2 children on the Autism spectrum and while I’ll try many things to make their lives easier, I have NEVER considered not vaccinating. We even vaccinated at their “actual” age instead of “adjusted” age (both were preemies).
Adults should be aware that you need a pertussis (whooping cough) booster. This can be administered in combination with your tetanus booster. Those with weak or compromised immune systems should also consider an MMR booster as well as the pneumococcal and shingles vaccines.
Yeah shingles is one of those diseases that I’m convinced are some sort of horrible curse. I literally cried in my doctors office when he told me you could have shingles MULTIPLE times.
The nation pays a steep price for NYC.
Stupid article.
Sixteen people got the measles in New York. Two were unvaccinated by choice. Two others were infants too yng to be vaccinated. TWELVE PEOPLE WERE ALL VACCINATED.
If vaccinations were so great, who cares if some people aren’t vaccinated? But vaccinated does not equal immune. And it does equal a lot of neurotoxins in the brain. A FREE REPUBLIC would allow freedom to choose and this outbreak is a perfect example.
Don’t support following governments blindly.
I’ve had FIVE rubella boosters in the space of about 15 years. Had ZERO titer when tested approximately 1 year after the latest one.
How many boosters would you have me get?
In some people they wear off after a year. Others it’s 2 or 3 or 5 or 10 years. Titers aren’t inexpensive medical procedures. Would you have every single person get a booster of every single vaccine yearly? You just THINK healthcare overhead costs are high now...
The cases seem relatively small but I wonder what the mathematics are for one unvaccinated child to come in contact with and expose another child having no immunity? My hunch is that these kids expose each other at some leftist private school.
Good God. Looking at the responses on this thread is amazing, but having seen it before, not surprising.
I find this response amazing, but I shouldn’t, because most of these people didn’t live through the cold fear of wondering if their beloved child was going to come down with some terrible and irreversible disease. They didn’t have to live during times when a horrible, disfiguring, disabling, or deadly disease swept like a wildfire through the community, and even locking your family and yourself in your house wasn’t protection enough.
These addled people haven’t experienced the terror of waiting in a panic for the first itching, pain or skin change that would be a harbinger of a terrible disease against which there was no cure or remedy, and the only people who survived were those who were lucky, not those who were careful.
Most of these people are lucky enough to live in a society that virtually eradicated many of these diseases through vaccination, so they don’t have to experience those kinds of terror.
Well, if a kid gets polio because their parents are against vaccines, the kid might not be able to walk without braces or breathe without an iron lung, but the parents at least will have their principles.
And that is, after all, what is most important. Right?
Mumps is making a comeback, too, at Ohio State.
Thimerosal has been removed from or reduced to trace amounts in all vaccines routinely recommended for children 6 years of age and younger, with the exception of inactivated influenza vaccine (see Table 1).
http://www.fda.gov/biologicsbloodvaccines/safetyavailability/vaccinesafety/ucm096228
Herd immunity would protect people, if everyone eligible to be vaccinated were vaccinated. With the minimum of about 90% of the population vaccinated, an occasional infected immigrant would not be able to cause an epidemic. What we are seeing in New York is measles spreading between unvaccinated Americans.
Maybe we should take Jenny McCarthy and the other anti-vax loonies and send them to some hell hole in Africa, so they can see first-hand what disease does to unvaccinated children. There is no reason to bring them back afterwards.
My grandfather's brother died of pertussis at age seven. I have heard the story of his death in all its agonizing detail.
I've not yet gotten to the point of wishing the anti-vax fools could experience such an event in their own households.
But I'm getting close.
For various reasons, some still not understood to science, some people do not become immune after vaccination. They can get very severe, potentially life-threatening disease if they are exposed. Also, children too young to be vaccinated are at risk, as are those who have immune system disorders.
The “totalitarians” in your state say you have to drive on the right side of the road. Do you exercise your freedoms and prove you are a Real Patriot by driving on the left??
I will never understand the people who ignore mountains of evidence about the safest, most effective medical intervention ever invented. It would be one thing if only your children were at risk from your refusal to protect them, but you are endangering other people's children. And I don't think those other people are very happy about that.
There's a big clue or two as to why Saunders defies logic to present his opinion in public.
Wow! I've never heard of that happening before. Usually, people get the chicken pox the first time, but get shingles from the same virus later on.
The chicken pox virus is never eliminated from your body, so it can make you sick again. I got shingles a couple of years ago, and it took well over a year for the pain to stop--long after the lesions healed. It felt like I was being stabbed in the neck.
You can have an antibody titer done, if you are really worried about your immunity.
Personally, I'd rather get vaccinated again than have blood drawn for a titer.
This year's vaccine was an excellent match to the circulating strains. It was over 60% effective as a result.
I've never had the flu (that I know of), and I receive the vaccine every year. Because of my job, I don't have a choice about getting vaccinated, so I stand in line with everyone else on the day they set up a vaccine clinic at work.
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