Posted on 10/15/2006 8:15:21 PM PDT by neverdem
BALTIMORE, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. states that have easily obtained personal belief exemptions for school immunization requirements have higher rates of new cases of pertussis.
All states and the District of Columbia require children entering school to provide documentation that they have met the state vaccine requirements, but as of March 2006, all states permitted medical exemptions to school and daycare immunization requirements.
Saad B. Omer, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and colleagues analyzed state-level rates of non-medical exemptions at school entry from 1991 through 2004 and data for incidence of pertussis, or whooping cough from 1986 through 2004 for individuals age 18 years or younger.
Almost all states allow religious exemptions; but 19 states allow personal belief exemptions, such as religious, philosophical and any other unspecified non-medical exemption.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that easier granting of exemptions was associated with a 53 percent increased incidence of pertussis and the availability of personal belief exemptions was associated with a 48 percent increased incidence.
Increase in deaths from pertussis among young infants in the United States in the 1990s.
But if vaccinations actually gave immunity - then why would people already vaccinated need more - and why wouldn't it work for people already vaccinated?
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Vaccinations are not 100% effective for everyone. Also, some people cannot be vaccinated due to allergies. If the vast majority of the population is vaccinated, these people will be just fine.
You don't necessarily get lifetime immunity from a vaccine. For instance, I (and pretty much everyone else born before 1971) have a smallpox vaccine scar.
But the estimates I've heard are that only about 50% of the people who were vaccinated would have enough immunity to fight it off.
It's not an exact science. Immunity wanes over time. Experience has shown that a single vaccination for most diseases doesn't do the trick, IMHO.
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I think they are just ticked that people are waking up about vaccines. The Medical establishment hates it when people start to think for themselves.
Gee. Master of the obvious. Now if the looney tune parents will get the children their vaccines.........
Yes, but they did nothing to get a handle on the immigrant contribution. That's the reason for my comment, quote and the 2nd link in comment# 1.
baaaaaah!
Not enough though -
But if we concentrated on boosting the immunity system naturally - who would really be profiting?
At least that'd help to isolate the infectious.
Good grief. The trouble with the present generation is that they never got to see anybody in an iron lung from polio--
The problem with this generation is that we have aunts and uncles that were paralyzed from the polio vaccination.
Polio has been eradicated EXCEPT from vaccination issues.
Those who thought that having chicken pox better than the vaccine...I do hope you remember that when you come down with shingles later on down the road.
In my own family cematery there's a row of little tombstones from the early part of the twentieth century--four children dead in the same year from diptheria.
Exactly.... I keep telling people: if a doctor cures you he loses a patient, if a drug cures you the drug company loses that prescription. Why does the WHO want to take away our access to vitamins, herbs, homeopathic remedies? Because then we'd have to seek out a doctor and pay through the nose for what we get now without a doctor.
Don't forget the polio vaccine was contaminated with a Monkey virus that keeps showing up in cancer cells of people who were giving that vaccine. That is not coincidence.
Of course the only casualties now are from bad reactions. Our population has increased enormously due to advances in the control of decimating disease. That makes the few failures all the more traumatic. The disease itself is virtually gone from the US population--but it could come back, the way TB is making a comeback.
I'd like to see the anti-vaccine crowd start their own country. They could use the old Hansen's colony on Molokai and spend their time swapping pathologies...wouldn't last very long.
Plus, whooping cough vaccines does not work on kids under 2 months old and it is endemic in adult population.
The disease is virtually eliminated from the planet - again, the few places where polio occurs, is ALWAYS associated from a vaccination - and has been for at least 10 years.
so is your beef vaccinations or TB? Two very different subjects.
One of the reasons TB is making a comeback is because antibiotics are so overused - they are not as effective (good thing for the drug makers who keep having to come up with stronger ones huh?
So nothing is perfect so let's hope this is the one that works.
That's some kind of health plan and maintenance.
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