Doctors Warn Against Revival of ‘Measles Parties’

Breitbart California ^ | February 8, 2015 | Michelle Moons

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Doctors are warning parents against reviving “measles parties” intended to expose children to the disease at a gathering with at least one infected person.

The parties ostensibly help children build immunity against the disease and are used instead of vaccinating or leaving exposure up to chance. Such practices have been discouraged despite similar events such as “pox parties” which expose children to chickenpox for the purpose of building immunity.

“CDPH strongly recommends against the intentional exposure of children to measles as it unnecessarily places the exposed children at potentially grave risk and could contribute to further spread of the outbreak,” Dr. Gil Chavez of the CDPH said in a statement reported by CBS Los Angeles.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states, “Measles can be serious, especially for children younger than 5 years old. It can lead to pneumonia, encephalitis (swelling of the brain), and death.”

A recent study of children’s electronic medical records in northern California revealed higher levels of under-immunization among graduate-level educated as well as low-income communities.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Measeles parties. Dumb.

PING!

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Don’t tell me America hasn’t been “dumbed down” by our so-called “education” system. I won’t be surprised when Witch Doctors will soon be allowed to get a license to practice in this country. Probably the blue states first?

[God luvs America]

wow- how pathetically stupid can people be...”yes- give my child disease!!”

[skeeter]

Doctors need to warn against unregulated, unmonitored immigration, while they’re at it.

[God luvs America]

when witchdoctors will get a license to practice??? what do you call the child presently occupying the WH??

[Georgia Girl 2]

When I was a kid my best friend was an only child. Everytime I got something her Mom would send her over to sit with me and then she would get it and then be done with it. That was the old days. Measles, Mumps, Chickenpox. We all got it and nobody died. Not one person I even heard of died of any of those childhood diseases.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

There was no measles party in 1960 (6 years old) when I had the measles. I spent the entire time in my room in isolation and the only person who could come in was my oldest cousin who had already had the measles.

I don't know where they get this measles party thing from. It was considered a serious illness with serious side effects. The only light I could have at night was one with a brown grocery bag over the lamp shade. It was thought the light sensitivity might lead to the ophthalmic complications of measles.

An interesting read from 2004:
http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/189/Supplement_1/S4.full.pdf

[Roos_Girl]

From the article: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states, “Measles can be serious, especially for children younger than 5 years old. It can lead to pneumonia, encephalitis (swelling of the brain), and death.”

From the CDC website:
Side effects from the MMR vaccine (http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/mmr.html)

Mild problems

Fever (up to 1 person out of 6)
Mild rash (about 1 person out of 20)
Swelling of glands in the cheeks or neck (about 1 person out of 75)
If these problems occur, it is usually within 6-14 days after the shot. They occur less often after the second dose.

Moderate problems

Seizure (jerking or staring) caused by fever (about 1 out of 3,000 doses)
Temporary pain and stiffness in the joints, mostly in teenage or adult women (up to 1 out of 4)
Temporary low platelet count, which can cause a bleeding disorder (about 1 out of 30,000 doses)

Severe problems (very rare)

Serious allergic reaction (less than 1 out of a million doses)
Several other severe problems have been reported after a child gets MMR vaccine, including:
Deafness
Long-term seizures, coma, or lowered consciousness
Permanent brain damage
These are so rare that it is hard to tell whether they are caused by the vaccine.

Both sides of the story would be nice and allow people to decide for themselves which set of risks they find acceptable. In the decade prior to the vaccine being introduced the death rate from measles was 0.017%, the permanent injury rate was 0.03%. Of the “moderate” problems listed as possible side effects from the vaccine is “temporary” pain and stiffness in the joints. From my reading I see that their use of the word “temporary” is not what I would really call temporary in that for some people it can last several years. I doubt that longer term pain is in 1 out of 4 people, but it seems to me that this is being glossed over a bit.

[FreeInWV]

Better look out Georgia Girl! They are about to descend on you screaming child abuse and calling you a bad mother and threat to national security. That and a stupid & dangerous conspiracy nut.

BTW I had mumps and chicken pox when I was a kid. That’s how I got em.

[erkelly]

I nearly died from measles as a child but then there was no vaccination avialable. Why would anyone willingly expose their children to such a terrible disease rather than getting them vaccinated?

[Rodamala]

Something I never seem to hear anyone say (because it must not be PC) is that there is a reason these viral infections exist in the natural world. Modern medicine basically allows those with weak immunity systems to survive and pass on poor traits.

I’ll shut up now before someone comes along and gets so bent out of shape the call me Sanger.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yeh me too. I had whooping cough at 6 mos, both kinds of measles, mumps on both sides, and chicken pox. My two younger sisters had everything except whooping cough.

Some vaccines are good. I would definitely vaccinate my kids agains’t whooping cough, polio and small pox. Some of the other stuff I don’t know. Not as babies. I think its better to wait until a kid is over 18 mos to star injecting them with this crap.

[Mears]

I heard of them years ago,but they were for German Measles.

It was to avoid sterility in girls.

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[Protect the Bill of Rights]

http://roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/timeline/1960s/november-1962

Another good read. You will probably appreciate it more than others.

[eyedigress]

Never heard of it.

These morons might as well have a meningitis party.

[Fraxinus]

Here is the reason I support vaccination, most of what are listed as mild or moderate reactions to the vaccine are considered normal if you catch the disease itself.

I had an unpleasant reaction after getting MMR and pertussis booster. Fever and vomiting about ten hours later, I was fine by morning. I still think that was much better than getting any of the diseases that vaccine protected me against.

[fini]

It must be different parts of the country and what year. We had those parties in the early 60s when I was growing up. You needed to get the disease before you were 6, that way you didn't miss any school.

No one seemed to think it was dangerous, but then again people still die of the flu and we don't think anything about getting the flu. But also remember, during those years we didn't wear seat belts either. People accepted more risk than we do now.

I do remember in the 1990s discussing with my wife the merits of measles versus a vaccination when my kids were little. My wife shut down the discussion by saying, "OK, when they get sick you take care of them." Ha, ha, that made the decision very easy.

[skimbell]

Worked pretty well while I was growing up in the late 50s/early 60s. Baby boom and all. Seems to me that at any given time there were 20-30 kids running around the neighborhood. When anybody caught something everybody caught something. I remember hearing that I needed to get whatever was going around and be ready for school.

I heard today that this "epidemic" spread to another state and now numbers around 125 cases nationally. That sounds like a mild year in a 1960's grade school.

Times sure do change.

[Rusty0604]

I had all those diseases. The chickenpox really itched, so much so that I begged my mom not to ever feed me fried chicken again.