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Measles returns: Of vaccines and vacuous starlets
The Economist ^ | 1/31/2015

Posted on 02/02/2015 4:31:20 AM PST by iowamark

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1 posted on 02/02/2015 4:31:20 AM PST by iowamark
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We’ve got an entire horde on this forum of anti-vaccine freaks.

I’m all for choice. If you want to get sick and have a risk of death, fine. But educate yourselves, morons.


2 posted on 02/02/2015 4:36:56 AM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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Reports of autism cases per 1,000 children grew dramatically in the U.S. from 1996 to 2007.
It is unknown how much, if any, growth came from changes in autism's prevalence.[22]
 

3 posted on 02/02/2015 4:42:37 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: iowamark

Interesting that this outbreak happened in California and not, say, Kansas.

What does California have that Kansas does not?


4 posted on 02/02/2015 4:54:07 AM PST by upchuck (Entrenched incumbency is the disease. Fresh blood is the cure.)
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To: Crazieman

“If you want to get sick and have a risk of death, fine. But educate yourselves, morons.”

Yes, agreed.

I had measles as a child. I missed a month of school and had a terrible deep whooping-like cough for six months afterwards.


5 posted on 02/02/2015 4:54:26 AM PST by OpusatFR
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6 posted on 02/02/2015 4:59:18 AM PST by eartrumpet
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To: iowamark

Yeah, it’s the anti-vaccine people, not the unvaccinated illegal immigrants......


7 posted on 02/02/2015 5:03:55 AM PST by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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This ahole “doctor” is the genesis for much of this autism claim...I wouldn’t be so quick to blame the playmate as I would vermin like 0prah and others for giving the playmate a forum by which she could spread the falsehoods.

IMO,she’s looking to blame others vs. genetics.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/health/policy/25autism.html?_r=0

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/01/05/autism.vaccines/index.html

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-01/british-doctor-faked-data-linking-vaccines-autism-and-hoped-profit-it

http://www.webmd.com/children/news/20100129/mmr-autism-doctor-acted-dishonestly-irresponsibly

http://phys.org/news193912443.html


8 posted on 02/02/2015 5:05:30 AM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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Hey - I was one of those cases in 1962. I was only 3 years old, but I remember laying on the couch in our living room, being really sick, and the doctor coming to the house to see me.

Thank goodness my older kids just had to go through the chicken pox. That had a vaccine by the time the youngest came along so he got to miss that.

What about all those unvaccinated, can’t-call-them-illegal immigrants? Are we vaccinating them in these holding centers or or we just going to set up stations at the border?


9 posted on 02/02/2015 5:10:38 AM PST by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: eartrumpet

Proof positive. Autism causes organic food sales.


10 posted on 02/02/2015 5:17:30 AM PST by Blennos
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To: iowamark

Stop illegal immigration and the Measles outbreaks as well as other contagious infections will dramatically drop in number.


11 posted on 02/02/2015 5:21:10 AM PST by RichyTea (To those offended - take off your blinders)
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To: Elsie

Mostly due to expansions in the “autism spectrum” which replaced ADD/ADHD as the disability of choice for boys that single moms and teachers want tranquilized.


12 posted on 02/02/2015 5:34:54 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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RE :”We’ve got an entire horde on this forum of anti-vaccine freaks.”

Its a government conspiracy for sure.

They are injecting GPS trackers that also can read minds and report our thoughts back to NSA.

In fact how do know that measles really exists? It turns us into living smart phones.

13 posted on 02/02/2015 5:37:36 AM PST by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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14 posted on 02/02/2015 5:40:00 AM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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I’m all for choice. If you want to get sick and have a risk of death, fine.

If it were only that easy. People don't live in a bubble. Those who deliberately choose not to vaccinate and who then get the disease are a threat to others was well.

15 posted on 02/02/2015 5:40:20 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Elsie
Reports of autism cases per 1,000 children grew dramatically in the U.S. from 1996 to 2007.

How do you know the increase in cases isn't due to improvements in our ability to diagnose it?

16 posted on 02/02/2015 5:41:39 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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What does California have that Kansas does not?

Disneyland. That's believed to be ground zero for the outbreak.

17 posted on 02/02/2015 5:42:40 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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Yeah, it’s the anti-vaccine people, not the unvaccinated illegal immigrants......

A lot of undocumented illegal immigrants go to Disneyland, do they?

18 posted on 02/02/2015 5:43:37 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Elsie

More likely from changes in what we call Autism.

For instance, I’m on the Autism spectrum. They didn’t know that until I had kids of my own.


19 posted on 02/02/2015 5:44:15 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Crazieman

This is a forum about a Free Republic. Parents who choose not to vaccinate their kids may be perfectly well informed. I’ve been engaged in some email debates about the subject these past weeks and no pro vax person has given me stats on the MMR that don’t come from Merck or the CDC. Sorry if they don’t sway me.

In the late 1960s, measles was thought of as a benign childhood disease, funny enough to be joked about on the Brady Bunch when the whole family catches it. YES, there can be serious complications.

There can be serious complications from the vaccine as well.

A lot of us did trust our pediatricians the first time around. Piled shots in multiple groups into our newborns. And our children will now never be neurologically normal. We have studied what the immune system really is, and how it works, and we have studies the ingredients of vaccines. And we have prioritized things differently.


20 posted on 02/02/2015 5:46:57 AM PST by Yaelle (No Cruz? Then "I'm Ready for Hillary; What Difference Does It Make?")
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