Posted on 02/13/2014 8:51:41 PM PST by CorporateStepsister
Thousands of San Francisco Bay Area residents may have been exposed to measles last week when an unvaccinated student at the Unversity of California, Berkeley, attended classes and rode the area's BART transit system.
Public health officials in Contra Costa County, outside of San Francisco, said anyone riding BART from Feb. 4 to Feb. 7 during the morning or late evening commutes could have been exposed to the highly contagious respiratory virus. The young man in his 20s lives in the county and was confirmed to have measles on Wednesday. He was likely infected while traveling recently in Asia, health officials said.
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It’ver very bad for pregnant women to get measles. It can cause birth defects.
This is Hugh and Series.
If one kid caught it our moms would take us over to expose us.
“No, that was chicken pox only and those chicken pox parties still go on.”
It was measles also.
Maybe that was then, but in the last 50 years, people are vaccinated against measles but not chicken pox.
That is German Measles. A completely different virus.
There is a chicken pox (varicella) vaccine.
Maybe now...but not 20-40 years ago.
Between my childhood shots, my military shots, and my health care professional, I thinki I have been immunized against measles, mumps, and rubella about a dozen times.
Children of God for Life’s latest list of vaccines using aborted human cell lines: http://www.cogforlife.org/vaccineListOrigFormat.pdf
Measles can make a pregnant woman have a miscarriage or give birth prematurely.
Here’s why.
vaccination is not 100% effective.
They may be immunocompromised and at risk for measles.
They may have an infant too young to be vaccinated.
Get it?
The measles virus has been eradicated in the US thanks to vaccination.
Rest of the world, not so much.
EVERY SINGLE outbreak of measles now starts with someone bringing it here from overseas. Frequently by an unvaccinated US resident.
Some folks have immunization failures. Meaning they took the shot but their immune system failed to react in such a way as to safeguard against future infection.
It’s a game of statistics.
Absolutely.
But it doesn't mean that a person is immune. Not all vaccinations *take* and not all take completely.
When my older brother was 12 years old, he came down with the mumps and seemed to be getting over it but then developed encephalitis and meningitis that very nearly killed him. He lapsed into a coma, the doctors were not optimistic that he would live and if he did, they feared permanent brain damage. My brother did eventually fully recover and didn’t have any permanent brain damage but he was hospitalized for nearly 2 months and it took quite a while for him to relearn how to walk and talk and feed himself, his motor skills were so screwed up. I have family photos of my brother before and after and it doesn’t look like the same person. The before photos show a rather robust, athletic and healthy kid, the shortly after photos shows a very skinny and pale kid. I was just a baby but you can be sure that after what happened to my brother, that my parents made sure that I got all my vaccinations, at least all the ones that were available at the time.
What many people don’t understand about vaccinations is the herd immunity effect. You not only get vaccinated to protect yourself, you also get it to protect others; people who might have compromised immune systems such as cancer patients or those who can’t get vaccinated because of allergies or other health problems, those too young to get vaccinated, those who had vaccinations as a child but never got the booster shots that are necessary for some diseases or those for whom for whatever reason, the vaccination didn’t take or they only recently got the vaccination but hadn’t yet developed the optimal immune response. While most vaccinations take and are highly effective, no vaccine is 100% effective 100% of the time for 100% of the people who received them.
I was one of those who got vaccinated for measles about a year before I got it but I still came down with it, the vaccination didn’t take. But if the person, my school classmate who infected me had been vaccinated, he wouldn’t have contracted it and he wouldn’t have passed it on to me. Fortunately while I remember being very sick, the blinding headache, not being able to tolerate light, being very weak and missing a week of school was what I remember most, I recovered without any complications. One of my classmates wasn’t vaccinated was not so fortunate. She didn’t die but developed pneumonia and spent a month in the hospital.
Now days we have people here in the US who are refusing to get their children vaccinated over false fears of vaccinations causing Autism or incorrectly believing that all vaccinations are made from aborted babies (not true), and then we have those who eschew modern medicine all together opting for “natural cures”, herbal remedies or the misguided beliefs that “childhood diseases” are some sort of normal rite of passage and basically harmless.
Isn’t it mumps that renders some sterile?
Planted by the Administration so to get the yuts to buy Oamacare.
My son and I got whooping cough over 15 years ago. We were both vaccinated. And my titres were high enough only 4 years before when I was checked in nursing school.
I wanted to die. 6 weeks of wanting to die.
Do vaccines protect you or not? If they do this a non-story. If they don’t then why get them?
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