Posted on 03/11/2019 6:43:44 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Measles, a virus that invades the nose and throat, causing fever, cough and phlegm, is one of the most contagious pathogens on the planet. Before 1963, it infected some four million people every year in the United States alone. Nearly 50,000 of them would land in the hospital with complications like severe diarrhea, pneumonia and brain inflammation that sometimes resulted in lifelong disability. Of the 500 or so patients who died from these complications each year, most were children younger than 5.
Until recently, those numbers were a matter of history. The measles vaccine, which was introduced to the United States in 1963, drove the annual case count from four million to zero inside of four decades. Measles was officially eradicated in America in 2000 and was largely wiped from our collective memory soon after.
But in the shadow of that memory lapse, a different virus has spread: anti-vaccine propaganda and vaccine misinformation. Both have persuaded a small but growing number of parents that vaccines designed to inoculate against infectious diseases pose a greater health risk than the diseases themselves. As a result, these parents are skipping crucial shots for their children. And as the number of unvaccinated children grows, some vaccine-preventable diseases are making a comeback.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has logged at least six measles outbreaks so far this year, across five states, involving more than 100 patients. In recent weeks, as those numbers have ticked upward, both houses of Congress have held hearings to discuss the issue, while more states have considered limiting vaccine exemptions for school-age children and several prominent social media platforms have pledged to block anti-vaccine propaganda and vaccine misinformation from their sites.
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I had measles, mumps and chicken pox.
Yep. Build the wall and a lot of nasty things would stop.
Me and all of my siblings got measles and chicken pox. I had a very high fever with measles. Wasn’t fun. With chicken pox mothers would expose all their kids just to get it over with.
And why do people from south of the border have measles? Think hard, there is something we do in America that we don’t do there.
lol
The gist of this whole piece, of course, is forced vaccination of people regardless of their wishes, and essentially making children the property of the state.
I’m pro-vaccination. But I’ll never settle for the state imposing it.
Again , two words
COLLOIDAL SILVER
Its coming back alright. If I were to make a movie about it then I would call it:
“It Came From Across The Border”.
Ditto for TB, mumps and a host of other communicable diseases made into major outbreaks thanks to the flower people of the 80’s and 90’s who figured vaccinations would prevent them from being as weird as they wanted to be. Non-immunized kids meet illegal kids = tragedy, totally preventable by adults.
“Back in the ‘50s and ‘60s, I didn’t know anyone who didn’t get measles. I vaguely remember Mom putting me in bed in a dark room for a few days when I had it.”
Same experience here. Remember also that our folks kept brothers and sisters home to catch the disease also so that it didn’t get passed amongst all and prolong the problem.
Got that right!
If you’re going to espouse the Kool-aid you’re drinking, elaborate upon your biased conflict of interest to all concerned.
To be clear - before some here throw knives in my back and label me an anti-vaxxer like rabid libs - I’m not anti-vaccine: I’m anti-stupid.
The schedule is dangerous, manufacturing is unable to ensure a reliable & safe product, the industry has used toxic substances as a preservative and denied its toxicity while quietly-removing it from most vaccines and, most-importantly, cannot be sued for liability.
The blind support that some people have for vaccines - including medical professionals - is rather appalling.
Stupid is contagious, too. I wonder why there’s no “vaccine” for that...
Before the vaccine is my point.
I had German measles, chicken pox and measles in that order. No mumps.
I remember walking into the school gym with my parents and getting some vaccine on a sugar cube in the 1960s. Anyone remember what that was?
That was most likely a polio vaccine. In the 50s there was a shot-that’s what I got.
Excellent Summary-100% opposed to forced vaccinations. Many are not ok. The more they pile into one, the more likely of a bad reaction too. The younger the child, the more likely there is a problem.
Thanks greeneyes. Thats what I vaguely remembered.
So if everyone is vaccinated and the disease is eradicated in America. Then how does it come back? That is my point.
You are welcome.
I passed measles and chicken pox to my sibling. But didn’t pass on the German measles to him. He was a month old. I often wondered why not. Then read that babies have immunity to ruebella from their mom’s for about 6 months.
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