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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm guessing it's up to the school or the state.

If you're delaying because of actual health reasons, I think you should wait until you're caught up before sending your kid to school, otherwise you are at elevated risk for catching a preventable (and possibly serious) illness if there's an outbreak.

If you are delaying for "philosophical" reasons, you aren't rational so I don't have any advice for you.[/quote]

Nor do I want my children going to school with yours. And I want to know who you are so I can publicly humiliate and shame you.[/quote]

There are far worse things parents do to their kids than not getting them vaccines.  I would not want my kid to be anywhere near you and question if you should be raising kids given your mentality.  No wonder there are so many bullies at school.  It starts with parents like you.  I don't get into my child's medical history.  [b]I just say I am choosing to delay them and that's it.  Its none of your business.  [/b]You wouldn't tell a stranger on the street your business, so why are you entitled to their child's personal information.[/quote]

This is where you are dead wrong.  It is my business.  It is our business as a society.   Your unvaccinated child poses a risk to others.  Do anti-vaxers really not get it?[/quote]

They don't. It is mind boggling. And then something like this happens http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/boy-dies-diphtheria-spain-parents-rejected-vaccine-32069410[/quote]
I don't mind anti-vaxers putting their own children at risk. What I mind is how that translates as a risk to all.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/woman-dies-measles-first-us-death-12-years-n385946

The woman was vaccinated, but taking medication that caused her immune system to be repressed. She was exposed to someone at the health care facility that had measles because they didn't vaccinate. She contracted measles, and died. All from exposure thanks to an anti-vaxxer.
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This story might make for good journalism, but the science is quite fuzzy. The woman, who had a number of health problems, died of pneumonia, the story said. It said pneumonia can accompany measles, but it did not say that the woman's measles infection caused her pneumonia. It also neglected to say her age or elaborate on her other health conditions.

Why did they test her for measles if she had no symptoms of the disease?

The story also said she had been a patient in a health care facility at the same time as a person who later tested positive for measles. It did not say whether or not that person had been vaccinated for measles. In the California measles outbreak, many of the people who contracted measles were vaccinated for the disease.

It seems to me that the Washington department of health put out this story to scare people into getting vaccinated for measles, but the facts as presented in the news story do not indicate that the woman who died either 1) died of measles or 2) caught measles from an unvaccinated person.

Ergo, I don't think this particular story demonstrates the supposed threat PP is trying to show.  The story says the woman tested positive for measles, but that does not mean she died of measles, nor does it prove she contracted measles from another patient.

Assumptions do not make for solid science. [/quote]

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