Posted on 12/21/2006 2:12:31 PM PST by Kimmers
From this link....
Children usually do not die directly of measles, but from its complications. Complications are more common in children under the age of five or adults over the age of 20.
Which is apparently less likely in a well-nourished and healthy population, but why risk it? :)
A week into my scheduled 2, I came down with Rubella - always did wonder how many Jarheads I infected.
Wow. I hadn't realized the disease was now so rare.
C'mon, man, they can't get that big,..what are they, 1/2", 3/4" tops?
Okay, why weren't the 34 others who caught measels vaccinated?
I had it as a kid and that is the sickest I have ever been, had to stay in a dark room.
I know two children with autism and have read enough about it to think there may be a correlation between that and the thimerosol preservative in vaccinations.
From Autism Today:
"...it was found that three studies showing a link between thirmerosal and autism did not meet any of the eight established epidemiologic study quality criteria, while four studies finding no link met between five and seven of the quality criteria.
In addition, when an Institute of Medicine committee reviewed published and unpublished studies in 2004, the group found no supporting evidence for a causal relationship between thimerosal-containing vaccines or the MMR vaccine and autism.
Current vaccines given during the first six months of life have essentially no mercury, except trace amounts, Dr. Orenstein said. "There is virtually no mercury."
Vaccines today are much more highly purified than in the past, he said. "They are not being overloaded with antigenic proteins."
In addition, Dr. Orenstein concluded, "epidemiological evidence shows no relationship between those with multiple immunizations and asthma nor infections."
"There have been enough studies done trying to link autism to vaccines," Carden Johnston, MD, past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics of Birmingham, AL, told Medscape. "Ever since Ed Jenner started smallpox vaccinations, there have been public groups trying to link vaccines to morbidity." Research funds should be spent on more productive areas, he concluded.
I grew up in a large family before vaccines, and had every one of the so-called "childhood diseases." I almost died from whooping cough, and lost six months of second grade as a result. I think people have forgotten that measles, mumps, chicken pox and whooping cough are not necessarily benign. There can be serious complications, and when my kids came along, I was grateful for the vaccines.
they say he is on dialysis(?)
Have a safe and "healthy trip....seriously I do hope you have a great trip.....k
No doubt there are both advantages and disadvantages to vaccination in general, but it's not automatically true that contracting diseases in childhood confers a net benefit. Regular measles can cause brain damage, mumps can cause meningitis, deafness, and other serious problems, and German measles, though fairly mild even in an adult, causes birth defects and miscarriage (the unvaccinated girl discussed in this article had reached childbearing age without having these diseases). Some of these diseases are much more severe if contracted in adulthood. And then there's sneaky chickenpox, which tends to lie dormant for decades after a childhood infection, and then pop up in old age as painful shingles (sometimes with permanent nerve damage).
Then again, I have a cousin who was "normal" before catching measles as a toddler, but the disease left her mentally retarded. I also had a classmate who was in braces due to polio.
A direct result of the MMR vaccine.
Are you an immunologist?
I'll agree. I also think they need to do more research into the cause of autism and into the safety of vaccines.
I think there is a genetic link to autism because it does tend to run in families (between those that have been vaccinated and those that have not).
There is no harm done trying to make vaccines safer.
And I have a nephew who was severely brain damaged by his DPT shot.
Some children should NOT be vaccinated.
True. I had measles as a child but when tested as an adult had no immunity.
Is there any way to tell which ones?
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