Posted on 08/31/2013 10:54:12 PM PDT by iowamark
A Texas megachurch connected to a pastor who has openly questioned the benefits of modern medicine has been forced to host vaccination clinics after 21 members of the congregation contracted measles.
The outbreak started when a person who contracted measles overseas visited Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark, located about 20 miles north of Fort Worth, Texas.
Officials with area health departments said those affected by the outbreak range in age from 4-months to 44-years-old.
All of the school-age children with measles were homeschooled, and the majority of those who were infected had not been vaccinated.
'If it finds a pocket of people who are unimmunized, and the majority of our cases are unimmunized so far, then if you are around a person with measles, you will get sick,' Russell Jones, chief epidemiologist for Tarrant County Public Health, said Monday...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that children get two doses of the combined vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, called the MMR.
The first dose should be when they are 12 to 15 months old and the second when they are 4 to 6 years old.
Vaccination opt-out rates nationwide have been creeping up since the mid-2000s, spurred in part by the belief the battery of vaccinations routinely given to infants could lead to autism despite scientific evidence to the contrary and the debunking of one of the most publicized studies that first fueled vaccine fears years ago...
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I remember chicken pox parties. Can’t remember measle parties. I had both types of measles, the mumps and chicken pox when I was little. My sisters eyesight was affected when she had the measles. I had No lasting effects. Wasn’t fun having them, but I think I have a pretty good immune system maybe due having these diseases?
Vaccines are not 100% effective, and the effect fades over time so if they haven’t had a booster they were probably not fully protected. Many people (myself included) haven’t had the shots since high school.
‘zackly.
Me too.
I entered public school in the 2nd grade. Came down with all of them that year. Missed so much school I had to take the grade again
Think I felt worse with the measles. Ran a fever so high I had hallucinations. Common practice was to keep the light in the patient's room very low.
Even when immunized some people do not respond by producing anti-bodies. They have a high probability of getting sick if exposed to the disease.
For example, I took the full course of Hepititis B vaccines but have never responded with antibodies.
That should be Hepatitis.
Clearly, the vaccination was ineffective for many who were vaccinated. This story is evidence against vaccination.
Of the 21 people who contracted measles linked to the church, 16 were unvaccinated. The others may have had at least one vaccination but had no documentation.
Clearly the evidence is to the contrary. The majority of the people who were vaccinated did not contract measles, of the 21 who were initially infected, 16 of the unvaccinated became infected and infected other who were also unvaccinated. With the other 5, they may have been vaccinated but there is no documentation or they may have only received one shot and not the booster.
Spandex is the work of the devil!
Blame the preacher crowd goes wild. Over the past several years children have not been vaccinated due to the autism link. I am not debating whether it exists or not, but that is a big deal to patents now. Public screwls demand vaccination compliance, so that leaves home schoolers as the pro choice crowd.
it is chicken pox that resurfaces as shingles.
While German measles is a bit more dangerous (I had it as a child), mumps/measles/chickenpox seemed to be cause for party time (in the '50s anyway) to get the kids in the neighborhood exposed and over them childhood diseases.
I did recently get a shingles vaccination in hopes I don't have to go through the discomfort in my old age...
I have no religious objection to vaccination (and find such objections to be without merit) but the rhetoric employed against this church has worrisome implications. A government that can vaccinate your child against your will can also force your daughter or wife to take an abortifactant drug against her will or your elderly self to take a euthanasia drug against your own will. It’s for “the greater good,” you see.
What about the one where he claims being cured by anything created by man is a sin? Thanks.
Cool. But if you choose not to get your kid vaccinated and your kid contracts measles and infects someone who; couldn’t get vaccinated because of a health problem; or another child that had their first shot but hadn’t yet gotten the booster; or someone that just got their vaccination but hadn’t yet built up sufficient immunity; or your kid infects a pregnant woman and causes a miscarriage or a birth defect; one of those you kid infects dies from a complication like pneumonia or meningitis, then would you agree that they should have the choice to sue you for damages?
Another sky-pilot augers in!
Nope.
Rubella is the German measles. So called because it was first described by German physicians in the mid-eighteenth century.
and 2) I queried how many during this outbreak in 2013 (not 1962-65) have serious, long-term consequences.
For the child that contracts the disease, there are little long-term consequences.
But pregnant mothers that are exposed to those children are a different story.
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Wow! All in the same year!? I had a high fever with the measles too. I remember my mother tightly wrapping me in blankets and trying to break my fever. It did finally work, but wasn’t pleasant.
We had to travel while I had the measles and remember them covering windows in the back seat to keep the light down. I can’t reMember why the light needed to be lowered, maybe the eyes were light sensitive?
It’s all fun and games and a “party” until someone develops meningitis and dies or nearly dies like my brother did in 1961 as a complication of the mumps (and meningitis and encephalitisis are also complications that can develop from having measles and chicken pox not to mention the danger they pose to pregnant women and their babies).
Let’s see - he spent several days partying in a coma, the doctors told my parents that even if he came out of it that he might have permanent brain damage, his veins started collapsing, organs started shutting down, was given Last Rites. He did recover and eventually fully recovered but that was after a two month hospital say where he had to re-learn to talk and walk and even feed himself because the meningitis left his brain pretty scrambled. He does have fond memories of wheelchair races in the hospital ward and of the tough but kind hospital administrator who was also a Catholic nun, but not so much about spending his summer once he came home, making up the two months of school work he missed so he could move on to the next grade.
I have the photos of my brother before and after and he doesn’t look like the same person. Before – healthy, an athlete, even if a bit on the chubby side, rosy cheeks – after – pale, painfully thin, it took a good year for him to get back to a normal weight and regain muscle strength.
And fortunately even just having the mumps didn’t leave him with permanent hearing damage or sterility which while very rare, can occur.
Of course most kids who get measles, mumps or chicken pox will be sick and miserable for a week or so, but for some, it can be deadly:
I did recently get a shingles vaccination in hopes I don't have to go through the discomfort in my old age...
Good for you but also good for others as a person with an active shingles outbreak can transmit full blown chicken pox to unimmunized persons.
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