Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Of course, it's not an issue if your DC is vaccinated.
This is too easy, PP. If you hate anti-vaxers, life itself is a constant source of germs, fear, anger and hatred. There is no time to breathe easy, even if you vaccinate. Get with the program or be stoned to death.
Different poster here. Do you spout this kind of idiotic nonsense IRL? There is no correlation in what you are saying.
This person shows up in every vaccine thread and says the same thing. It is her thing. Just ignore. She is dumb.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Some facts since PPs were asking.
1. You can be vaccinated for measles and still be one of the unlucky people for whom the vaccine was not perfectly effective, and therefore still contract it. It is about 95% effective. With herd immunity intact, that level of effectiveness would eventually wipe out the disease (if everyone were vaccinated).
2. This is not a "mutated" strain of measles.
3. Infants under 1 cannot be vaccinated and are at highest risk.
4. People with compromised immune systems or people who cannot be vaccinated (because of actual medical reasons and not Jenny McCarthy) are also at high risk.
5. Measles is extremely contagious and can be contracted just by being in a room someone with measles was in -- not concurrently, but hours earlier.
6. 90% of people not immune will contract measles from being close to someone with measles.
7. Measles is a human-only virus (it has no animal reservoirs) and could be completely eliminated if it weren't for the anti-vaccine movement.
8. The death rate for measles is about 3 in 1000 for healthy children, but it is 30 in 100 for people with immune issues, and can cause other serious complications, including brain damage, even if it doesn't kill (there is a reason it's vaccinated for!).
Source: CDC website
Where on earth did this statistic come from?
I had measles as did everyone I knew when I was a child. There was no vaccine for measles, and it was not in any way a deadly disease. Everyone got it, and no one died.
There are lies, damned lies and statistics -- this is a case of statistics.
In a vaccinated population, very few healthy children will come down with measles. In developing countries, this statistic might be plausible, but that's because those "healthy" children suffer from malnutrition, parasites, poor hygiene, poor access to clean water, etc, all of which contribute to the death rate in these supposedly "healthy" children.
In America, well-nourished middle class children with no immune issues are not likely to die of measles ever.
Anonymous wrote:Couples questions
1) has it been concerned that both cases were people/kids who were vaccinated..if so is there concern as to whether the vaccination works.
2) I think I remember my OB checking to see if I was immune to measles when pregnant--is this standard "best practice care? I remember saying I was fully vaccinated per standard for the 80s and doc still wanted to check.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Of course, it's not an issue if your DC is vaccinated.
This is too easy, PP. If you hate anti-vaxers, life itself is a constant source of germs, fear, anger and hatred. There is no time to breathe easy, even if you vaccinate. Get with the program or be stoned to death.
Different poster here. Do you spout this kind of idiotic nonsense IRL? There is no correlation in what you are saying.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well, to the anti-vax haters, two things: First, it seems that we need these bugs floating around to keep up some level of immunity after all. See the link between the chicken pox vaccine and the shingles outbreak we are experiencing. Second, they have just injected a woman with cancer with measles and it cured her cancer. Maybe the measles vaccine is connected to a rise in cancer?....
We don't know all there is to know about our bodies.
This amount of stupid causes me physical pain. What do you do for a living that you are allowed to have this cloudy kind of thinking?
Anonymous wrote:
Allergy to vaccine? Bullshit.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Of course, it's not an issue if your DC is vaccinated.
This is too easy, PP. If you hate anti-vaxers, life itself is a constant source of germs, fear, anger and hatred. There is no time to breathe easy, even if you vaccinate. Get with the program or be stoned to death.
Anonymous wrote:Well, to the anti-vax haters, two things: First, it seems that we need these bugs floating around to keep up some level of immunity after all. See the link between the chicken pox vaccine and the shingles outbreak we are experiencing. Second, they have just injected a woman with cancer with measles and it cured her cancer. Maybe the measles vaccine is connected to a rise in cancer?....
We don't know all there is to know about our bodies.
well, that is severe. how do you look at yourself in the mirror?Anonymous wrote:Hopefully these anti-vaccine parents kids will get really sick or die of the disease that could have been prevented and they will reconsider their selfish and stupid stance on the issue!
Anonymous wrote:Of course, it's not an issue if your DC is vaccinated.