Posted on 09/03/2014 9:02:40 PM PDT by chessplayer
California parents are deciding against vaccinating their kindergarten-age children at twice the rate they did seven years ago, a fact public health experts said is contributing to the reemergence of measles across the state and may lead to outbreaks of other serious diseases.
The percentage of kindergartens in which at least 8% of students are not fully vaccinated because of personal beliefs has more than doubled as well, according to data on file with the state. That threshold is significant because communities must be immunized at a high rate to avoid widespread disease outbreaks. It is a concept known as herd immunity, and for measles and whooping cough at least 92% of kids need to be immune, experts say.
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????? I want to read the article later, what are you raging about?
Calm down.
I think kalee was just bookmarking the thread.
Its going to be the perfect storm. Lots of unvaccinated kids mixed with lots of illegal kids with lovely diseases like Polio, Diptheria, Measles etc. And when the inevitable epidemic occurs the hoards of California Shysters will be off looking to strike it rich because SOMEONE MUST PAY!
“When you’re in hell, I’m going to lean over heaven’s balcony to spit in your agonized face.”
I wouldn’t be so sure of my position in the line if I were you.
Christianity fail.
1-in-68 children are afflicted by ASD. The effects of the MMR vaccine are much worse than the associated diseases ever were.
First . THERE IS NO CONNECTION BETWEEN THE MMR AND AUTISM. NONE.
It’s been studied to death and there is ZERO evidence of causality.
Second. Measles mumps and Rubella all have significant morbidity and some mortality associated with infection. I remember when young girls had “German Measles parties” so they could get infected to avoid getting later when pregnant.
Don’t want to get your kids vaccinated? DON’T.
Good points.
I am not opposed to vaccinations. I am opposed to giving them to infants vs. 4 year old Pre-Ks or 5 year old Kindergarteners. At these ages I believe the children are developed enough to handle the vaccines without the adverse effects seen in infants.
I’m not going to waste my time going into the Autism - vaccination link. There is much on the web for you to read for yourself including a recent study just pulled by it’s publisher btw, which directly links infant immunizations with autism.
1-in-68 brain damaged kids is not something a humane person would turn their back on or casually dismiss. What is it in our country that 3rd world, non-infant immunizing countries don’t have or do to their infants which accounts for the US’s 1500 per 100,000 ASD cases?
No one knows why autism rates are up. Some of it is a change in the diagnostic criteria, but that doesn’t explain it all. BUT, the vaccine autism link has been studied and restudied and again, there is NO CREDIBLE EVIDENCE. Most of the stuff on the internet on the topic is crap.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/?tool=pubmed
What needs to be looked at is the ages of these kids when given vax, the health conditions of those babies when they are vaccinated (even a minor cold or infection could have causative repercussions) and the number of vaxes all dumped into little bodies at one appointment because it's cheaper, easier and more convenient for the pediatrician to do them all at once
Since the vax-autism deniers are still holding sway (kinda like the global warmists), it is hindering research into the connection of the body's reaction to multiple vaxs administered simultaneously or in short intervals, preservatives in those vax’s (another controversy, lab conditions and controls where those vaxs are made, and predispositions of some kids to being high risk because of their ethnicity, genetics, parental age, prenatal exposures or their sex
No one has explained why autism and ADD/ADHD (which are on the autism spectrum according to the long time pediatrician and neuropsychologist treating my kid) is skyrocketing, especially among boys.
and no, it's not because the doctors parents teachers and schools are trolling for behavior modification medication
A few good epidemics and the number of unvaccinated children will be reduced by the laws of nature.
Here is a recent article by Sharyl Atkinson on vaccines and how the CDC held back some data:
Nope - this will, times millions.
So the trillion dollar pharmaceutical industry moved its lawyers into position and got an article pulled and a whistleblower crushed by impugning his name?
Wow, what a surprise.
Believe what you want.
If you're so sure of that, why claim the unvaccinated endanger the vaccinated?
I think, rather, that the problem is that the unvaccinated will have the healthy immune systems and survive. Can't have that, now can we?
Perhaps.
But if Jesus demands placid silence in the face of the forced poisoning millions of babies, then I'd rather go to hell so as not to have to look at Him happily holding hands with the poisoners.
You think this is some word game? You're a child.
Ah, FRiend, I never said the unvaccinated endangered the vaccinated.
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