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1 posted on 06/30/2010 5:54:41 AM PDT by mlizzy
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To: mlizzy
What kind of vaccine is it?
DTaP and Tdap vaccines are "inactivated" vaccines. Inactivated vaccines do not contain live bacteria or virus and cannot reproduce, which is why multiple doses are needed to produce immunity.

Not an issue.
2 posted on 06/30/2010 6:01:58 AM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: mlizzy

Interesting, but irrelevant. The only relevant issue is whether more people contract the disease if everyone gets vaccinated or not.

It’s a statistical question, nothing more.

If I showed you had a statistical chance of 1 in 10,000 of contracting polio if you took the vaccine, you might think that is terrible.

But if I then point out that without the vaccine your odds are 1 in 50, it should change your point of view.


3 posted on 06/30/2010 6:05:15 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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I actually heard a so called health care expert insist that there is something called ‘herd immunity’ meaning that if most of a group are inoculated then all are inoculated.

It made no sense at all but then nothing coming from any experts makes sense. Not just about inoculations, but about everything coming from ‘experts’.


4 posted on 06/30/2010 6:07:08 AM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: mlizzy
From the website of Boston Children's Hospital: The injected vaccine is made from dead virus and the "misted" type is made from live virus. The live virus is "attenuated" meaning it produces immunity but does not produce the disease. The site goes on to say that this "attenuated" virus produces a mild infection.

So. . .if it produces an infection, however mild, how can they say it does not produce the disease?

Sounds to me like the injected vaccine is the way to go.

At any rate, below is the site address. Sorry, don't know how to paste as a hyperlink.

http://childrenshospitalblog.org/live-virus-vaccine-vs-killed-virus-vaccine-whats-the-difference/

5 posted on 06/30/2010 6:08:13 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: mlizzy

it can...I recently spoke to a woman who swears her child was infectected by a vacinated child in day care.


6 posted on 06/30/2010 6:08:19 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: mlizzy

What a load of cr*p. The article cited in the post says the reason for increasing pertussis infections is lack of vaccination.

The rate of pertussis peaked in the 1930s, with 265,269 cases and 7518 deaths reported in the United States. This rate decreased to a low in 1976, when 1010 cases and 4 deaths occurred because of vaccines.

It is these anti-vaccination people who are killing others, not vaccinated healthcare workers who are immune to the disease. If all adults would get their TDAP boosters, the disease would be back to 1976 levels.

Pertussis vaccines do not confer lifetime immunity. It is the unvaccinated parents and caregivers that are the problem.


9 posted on 06/30/2010 6:19:28 AM PDT by HospiceNurse
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There is a mini-epidemic of pertussis out there.

I got it last year. It had been about 9 years since my last tetanus shot - before they put the pertussis vaccine into the adult tetanus shot - and I got exposed somehow.

The good news is that whooping cough is not dangerous in adults. You cough til you puke, but you aren't likely to die.

The bad news is that I probably exposed a lot of people to the virus before it was diagnosed. In adults it just looks like a bad cold followed by a lingering cough . . . so by the time you eliminate the other possibilities and get the titer done, it's been 6 weeks or so.

More good news: the folks I work with have their kids vaccinated, and keep their own vaccines up to date. So nobody caught it from me (that we know of). My dear husband had his tetanus booster just 2 years ago, and he did not cough the first cough.

Thank goodness for herd immunity, or I could have made a lot of people sick. I have no idea who made me sick!

19 posted on 06/30/2010 6:48:17 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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Poking holes ping.


20 posted on 06/30/2010 6:48:52 AM PDT by decimon
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To: mlizzy
This should get all of the Ron a-Paul-ists shook up...
21 posted on 06/30/2010 7:14:06 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: mlizzy

Whooping cough vaccines have been in use since the 1930’s.

If we don’t know the answer by now, we’re getting screwed.


23 posted on 06/30/2010 7:27:48 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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