Posted on 02/27/2015 11:04:20 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
Anti vaxer Mom takes her kids to Disneyland. They get the measels. They go home and expose 1000 more people to measels.
Freaking hippies.
The only reason that she had to deal with being “the measles family” is because apparently a lot of other parents thought herd immunity was so strong they didn’t need to vaccinate their kids. Otherwise, it would have been, “That loony family down the street has the measles, which they could have prevented.”
article is garbage.
Whether you have the vaccine or you don’t you can be a carrier. Viruses don’t jump out of your body if you have the vaccine. They only are contained.
There is no herd immunity. Many who caught the virus had the measles vaccine.
MMR Vaccine almost killed my son. Don’t come around me with your “FORCIBLY VACCINATE EVERYONE” Schtick…..I’ll vaccinate you with a .45.
So, this was patient Zero?
All I know is, medical authorities here are still stumped at how so many healthy twenty-somethings on the local pro hockey team, who all had their mumps shots up to date, kept coming down with the mumps.
I got measles in 1995, and I happen to be the person who got every shot the doctor said I should get. It happens. Although hopefully actually getting measles with the rash and coughing gave me natural immunity though.
“... apparently a lot of other parents thought herd immunity was so strong they didn’t need to vaccinate their kids.”
Maybe try and read the article first before you post ignorant comments? One of the exposed was too young to be vaccinated for it, and another was being treated for leukemia and had a compromised immune system, so they couldn’t be vaccinated either.
Same here. My family of 10 siblings got all the vaccinations, but we got all the kiddie diseases. I was the one who brought the mumps in, boy was that fun-I found out that I had it from trying to eat a big dill pickle but it hurt too much.
My memory is so bad these days-i remember some vaccination we got where we had to wear some plastic bubble over shot site, it was the only one we had to do that for, so it couldn’t have been just so we wouldn’t scratch. Does anyone happen to know what that would have been?
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“Whether you have the vaccine or you don’t you can be a carrier. Viruses don’t jump out of your body if you have the vaccine.”
That’s not true. Viruses like measles have an infectious stage that only occurs after they have successfully infected the host. They must successfully infect the host before they can incubate and reproduce enough new viral material to infect others.
“They only are contained.”
False. Immunity to a virus means that your body can effectively kill that virus, not contain it.
“There is no herd immunity.”
Also not true.
“Many who caught the virus had the measles vaccine.”
Many had only one dose of the vaccine, and never bothered to get their booster, so of course they were not immune.
Thus proving that the ability to think is not necessary to the category "moms". Only a functional reproductive system and a male willing to copulate with it is necessary and sufficient condition to be a "mom."
TB
Sorry but you are spewing false or distorted information.
Thanks!
Articles like this always seem to bring out the whackjobs and the Luddites...
The two who couldn't be vaccinated because of their condition are a sad happening. I'm not blaming them or their parents. However, I heard that the reason this episode came to our attention was that the infected family led to a significant outbreak...much more than those of the two unfortunate kids who couldn't be vaccinated.
Most of those other kids had parents who decided they didn't need to be vaccinated. Did they do it for medical or other reasons? If their decision was "other," than shouldn't an estimate of how common vaccination was around them be part of that decision?
“However, I heard that the reason this episode came to our attention was that the infected family led to a significant outbreak...much more than those of the two unfortunate kids who couldn’t be vaccinated.”
The two kids were part of those exposed, luckily, they did not get infected. The actual outbreak was not large:
“Arizona has diagnosed only seven cases of measles, but those infected people have exposed as many as 1,000 others, including babies too young to have had their first measles shot, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services.
The Arizona measles cases began with one unvaccinated family of four from Pinal County that went to Disneyland, according to state health officials. Back at home, one of the children went to two urgent-care centers for medical attention, exposing 18 children, 13 of whom were unvaccinated. That family also exposed a woman from Maricopa County, who then exposed as many as 195 children at a child care center. A man who caught measles from the family then exposed others.”
So they infected seven people, five from their hometown, and I believe two from Maricopa county. Thousands were exposed, but thankfully, the immunity from vaccinations seems to have prevented a wider outbreak.
An interesting thing to know would be what percentage of the exposed were vaccinated.
Since I remember hearing that measles was highly infectious, I’d venture to guess that almost all of those who caught it had not been vaccinated. But, if they were, that would be interesting to know, because it speaks to the efficacy of the vaccine.
The scab with the dome over it would have been smallpox vaccine
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