Posted on 04/22/2011 8:44:53 PM PDT by decimon
GENEVA – Europe, especially France, has been hit by a major outbreak of measles, which the U.N. health agency is blaming on the failure to vaccinate all children.
The World Health Organization said Thursday that France had 4,937 reported cases of measles between January and March — compared with 5,090 cases during all of 2010. In all, more than 6,500 cases have been reported in 33 European nations.
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To prevent measles outbreaks, officials need to vaccinate about 90 percent of the population. But vaccination rates across Europe have been patchy in recent years and have never fully recovered from a discredited 1998 British study linking the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella to autism. Parents abandoned the vaccine in droves and vaccination rates for parts of the U.K. dropped to about 50 percent.
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What these outbreaks mean is that Europe will have more blind people than they planned on in the future.
Strange that there are people who imagine unproven autism relationships and simply ignore the exceedingly high probability of blindness.
People who are afraid of getting their children vaccinated should ask themselves if they would prefer that their kids get measles and possibly be blinded by the disease, or die. These were but two of the many ramifications that measles can and used to impart to some who caught the disease, prior to the vaccination.
People who are afraid of getting their children vaccinated should ask themselves if they would prefer that their kids get measles and possibly be blinded by the disease, or die. These were but two of the many ramifications that measles can and used to impart to some who caught the disease, prior to the vaccination.
oooooooopppppppps..........sorry for the dup.
Not just old people.........all ages can go blind from this disease and it also kills. Lord Byron died from having measles and he wasn’t all that old; though not a child.
Thanks decimon.
Autism doesn't have a death rate, and doesn't happen as a consequence of vaccination anyway.
And how come, I always want to ask the anti-vaccination folks, there were autistic kids, long before there were any modern vaccinations.
So you are sure that “vaccinations” prevent disease? Sure enough to allow your children to have over 40 juicy needle stabs in the hope that they are “protected”?
And I suppose you'd prefer your kids to be blind.
Yes, I believe the evidence that vaccinations (what’s with the scare quotes, anyway?) protect children from diseases. The fact that we live longer, healthier lives than at any time in human history suggests we’re doing plenty of things right.
We (humans) have known that vaccinations prevent disease for over 200 years. There's very little in modern medicine that we're more sure of. Is there anyone in a developed nation over the age of about 10 who's unaware of this?
Do you want to get shingles ? How about your kids? And yes, children as young as 8, if they have had chickenpox, can and DO get shingles, a devestatingly painful disease, which can also cause blindness and worse.
How about Polio? You want your kids and/or grands to get that one?
Need I go on?
There were lots of cases of autism, long long before there were modern vaccinations...........you just never heard about them.
They don't care it was a fraud. They're sure it's real. Like the great pumpkin. Talk about herd immunity and how they're putting us all at great risk, they'll put fingers in their ears and say, "La-la-la!"
We've seen these kinds of breakouts in San Diego city schools, it was whooping cough in Feb, thanks to nitwit vaccine deniers.
Along with research fraud Andrew Wakefield, Hollywood kooks like Jenny McCarthy have been culpable. A "body count" site claims 713 preventable deaths and 77,441 preventable illnesses happened since she started her anti-vaccine campaign in 2007.
Anyone who has doubts about vaccinations should simply ask someone like me, who lived through the 40s and 50s as a child, what it was like every summer when polio season rolled around. The fear was palpable and all parents lived in terror that their child would come down with polio. Thanks to modern vaccines polio is no longer feared every summer as it was only about 55 years ago.
There were very few vaccinations available when I was a child and most of us came down with measles, whooping cough, mumps and other diseases. We did have chicken pox vaccinations and I am glad we did. As soon as the polio vaccine came out, I made sure I was vaccinated and then again when I went into the army, was vaccinated for it.
Actually we have made an educated decision(have several family members with PhDs in Pharm/medicine) not to load our children down with "vaccinations" So far we have raised 2 teens that have never had to see a doctor for any illness. By the grace of God go I....but we don't live in fear of every disease. Maybe you have "faith" in the system that is telling you to drag your child in to get their "shots" but I have a different perspective
I know for a fact that vaccinations prevent disease. That is how polio and small pox were eradicated.
The other way to know that your child has immunity from diseases through vaccination, have the Ab(antibody) levels checked, also called titers. Then you know for sure.
The only reason your children didn't get sick with something, such as measles, is because of the vaccination rate in the USA, which has all but wiped out many childhood diseases. So, if your children have made it through to adulthood without the childhood diseases that were quite common when I was a child, before all the vaccinations, then you need to thank all the parents who DO have their children take their shots, because they are the reason your children haven't gotten sick.
I speak from experience, every friend of mine when I was growing up, contracted measles, mumps and whooping cough at the very least(both types of measles, BTW). That doesn't happen today thanks to modern medicine and the research that led to the vaccinations that have all but wiped out these illnesses.
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