Posted on 03/08/2019 7:17:17 PM PST by Simon Green
A new case report from the Centers for Disease Control released Thursday starkly highlights the costs of not vaccinating children. It details an unvaccinated 6-year-old boy’s encounter with tetanus—and the hugely expensive, two-month-long effort it took to save his life.
Tetanus is caused by the namesake bacteria Clostridium tetani. More accurately, it’s what happens when the soil-loving C. tetani gets into your body—usually through an open cut—and spews out an extremely potent toxin. This toxin can quickly paralyze and send your muscles into constant spasms, beginning with the jaw (if you know anything about tetanus, it’s probably that it causes lockjaw). These spasms can then spread to the chest, back, and gut, leading to painful fractures, problems breathing, and even the complete loss of bowel control. It’s a brutal disease, one that can take months to fully recover from. Even with treatment, 10 percent of victims ultimately die.
Thankfully, we’ve had a working vaccine for tetanus since the 1920s, and vaccination has virtually eliminated the disease in countries with decent healthcare. Most every person in the U.S. is fully vaccinated for tetanus by the time they enter school, with the first of five shots happening at the age of 2 months (booster shots every 10 years afterward are recommended). Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case for the unnamed child in this report, since his family had chosen to not vaccinate him for any condition.
According to the authors, the 6-year-old boy from Oregon had gotten a forehead scrape while playing outside on a farm sometime in 2017. The wound was cleaned and sutured at home, but six days later the boy began experiencing lockjaw and muscle spasms. He then started arching his back and neck involuntarily and eventually could barely breathe, prompting his family to call for help.
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Not the right time and place. One of our own FReepers has a relative 18 months old who has recently suffered paralysis from a vaccine. We are active;y praying he can recover fully.
Best for a site like Free Republic to be pro-freedom re medical “treatments.”
What’s their point?
When I was growing up, if you stepped on something rusty, etc you got a tetanus shot
Someone is really pushing the vaccine cures all bit.....
....when most Americans have and are vaccinated...
It’s the illegals bringing in the diseases
And it is also disengenuous to equate people objecting to the incredibly huge vaccine schedule kids are forced onto now, and someone who would take a tetanus vaccine because they have a medical accident and are deciding its an acceptable risk to take the vaccine in their particular situation.
Totally not the same things. this author tries to say any reasons are all equally bad. People have the rights to decide thier own risks. You cant undo a surgery, vaccine or meds put into your body. No one cares moreabout your body than you do, you have to live in it the rest of your life.
“The wound was cleaned and sutured at home...”
Eh, could we have a break?
yes and they are being let in deliberately sick because this is how they wedge issue people and get to attack the group of people not blindly taking whatevers in the needle.
There’s a pen and ink drawing of a British Soldierin the throes of tetnus. It’s a graphic picture of a terrible disease. I try to get my booster occasionally just to be safe. This stuff is nothing to mess with.
Whatever the intention, this is not an argument for compelled vaccinations.
Anti-Vaxxers deserve all the karma they can get.
‘Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought.’ I would rather get a ticket on a train that proclaims truth. “Common men” are nothing more than that, so are rich men, poor men, and stupid men. “Thought” does not dictate or proffer anything but itself.
Orange vaccine bad
But tetanus is usually given when a child is an infant then a toddler. After that a booster is recommended around primary school age. But I think many parents still just make sure they child gets the booster if there is a puncture wound.
Just how did they bring in Tetanus? It is always in the soil. Most of the time tetanus is not considered a risk for a scrape.
If you read the comments, you’ll find out that the child DID have a tetanus shot. But he didn’t have FIVE tetanus shots.
That’s right. Just checked - apparently, now the recommended schedule is 5 tetanus shots by age 5.
15-20 years ago, the recommended schedule was 4 tetanus shots (as per my records). Now it’s 5.
So, this boy had one tetanus shot. Then he contracted tetanus and received a second tetanus shot in the hospital. The commenters are complaining that he hasn’t had 3 more shots since then. Really, they’re calling to let him die in the comments section over there. That’s how crazy the mandatory-vaxxers are.
You may find this interesting:
FDA approves vaccines and everyone trusts them to do no wrong? Really?
Is that the same FDA that has 27 inspectors in India inspecting over 5,000 labs making our drugs? Anyone believe all their medications are being inspected for fillers like ground glass, monkey intestines, etc. in some third-world hole?
If you don’t like my tag line don’t read it and PO.
I grew up on 40 acres and my parents bought us just about every farm animal available at one time or another, although we always had horses, cows, chickens, geese pigs, dogs and cats. We were always falling off of horses, stepping on nails, getting kicked in the head, or crashing on bicycles, motorcycles, or tractors. Fortunately, my mother was an RN, but I can’t even remember how many tetanus shots I got.
My mom patched us up, but it seems like part of the first aid routine was going to get another tetanus shot every time we presented some type of ugly wound to her. My mom of course was from a generation where they still remembered people getting sick and dropping over dead or being permanently damaged by illnesses which could be prevented by vaccinations.
My dad had has growth stunted and suffered from a life long heart condition that got him kicked out of flight training in the Air Force from an illness he contracted during his childhood. Refusing to get your shots was not an option in our family.
It seems like it was part of the first aid routine in my family to get a fresh tetanus shot immediately after we bashed ourselves up. Waiting to get another tetanus shot until after you have got tetanus is obviously not going to help much. So if any of the posters have complained about anything... that would probably be numero uno.
Wonder if the moron mom is still an anti-vaxer?
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