Posted on 03/17/2014 7:41:27 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Of all the things to be nostalgic for, infectious diseases probably don’t make it onto many lists.
However, if you happen to pine for the good old days when measles was an active public health threat, I have good news for you. The anti-vaccine crowd is bringing it back.
There is currently an outbreak of measles in New York City. Considered eliminated in the United States in 2000, last year saw a record number of outbreaks around the country. It’s only three months into 2014, and not only is the nation’s largest city seeing cases in several boroughs, but other major metropolitan areas are warning of new cases as well.
This is not some inconvenience to be laughed off. Measles is a highly-contagious illness caused by a virus. It usually presents with a combination of rash, fevers, cough and runny nose, as well as characteristic spots in the mouth. Most patients recover after an unpleasant but relatively uneventful period of sickness. Unfortunately, about one patient in every 1,000 develops inflammation of the brain, and one to three cases per 1000 in the United States result in death.
Reports from New York note that several people have been hospitalized, and infected patients include infants too young to be vaccinated themselves. Because the American public hasn’t needed to worry much about this once-contained threat in quite some time, most people probably don’t know that measles can kill, or leave children permanently disabled.
We vaccinate people for a reason.
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There a4e multiple strains of the flu each year and the timeframe from exposure to infection doesn’t work well with innoculation effectiveness.
It’s a really poor example to compare a mildly effective flu vaccine to a wildly effective vaccine like mmr.
we’used to turn away immigrants who were sick with serious contagion. european ones. they weren’t spared.
Well stated. Thanks.
The writer doesn’t think it is from illegals from all the cesspools of the world? My pediatrician said, “If you are putting off vaccinations, do not go to Target or Walmart.”
Millions of folks tried to build a natural immunity to various diseases before modern vaccines. And it only killed a sizable percent of them.
I’d rather not see millions suffer and die because they don’t like needles.
It is; they are carrying these things over with them since their living standards are drastically lower in their own native countries.
you can google or search fr, that’s where i saw it. i will give you one:
http://www.vaccineinjuryhelpcenter.com/flu-shot-issue-not-canadian-problem-study-suggests/
yeah b/c me not getting a shot is exactly that. idiot.
“We COULD advocate rational border protections”
Not if the Bush wing of the GOP has any say in it.
Only xenophobic nativists oppose third world viruses that only wish to do the infections that Americans won’t do anymore.
Also, a foreigner from a cesspit of a country not getting vaccinated is making the same choice as the anti-vaccines advocates in the US.
To blame them for a disease being spread but absolve those here is capricious and narrow-sighted.
Really people. We were sooooo close to making sure no child was ever cripled by polio. So incredibly close. Then this nonsense about vaccines popped up and tribal areas in Pakistan stopped trusting doctors and now polio is coming back.
We could have elimated some of the greatest plagues that have ever existed... but then we had to go and throw away common sense.
“The pharmaceutical corporation Eli Lilly and Company gave thiomersal the trade name Merthiolate. It has been used as a preservative in vaccines, immunoglobulin preparations, skin test antigens, antivenins, ophthalmic and nasal products, and tattoo inks. Its use as a vaccine preservative was controversial, and it was phased out from routine childhood vaccines in the United States, the European Union, and a few other countries to assuage popular fears. The current scientific consensus is that no convincing scientific evidence supports these fears”
Yup. It’s exactly that.
As I am right there’s nothing more for you to say. Your advocacy injures people.
The first mass inoculation of Americans was done by a General George Washington who somehow thought that vaccination was a better idea than having smallpox kill off a bunch of his soldiers.
I guess he didn’t know as much as Alex Jones and other assorted 21st century geniuses.
I don’t know anyone that didn't have german measles.
The only thing I didn't like was the 2 weeks quarantine!
Four things I see:
1. Illegal immigrants are certainly reviving illnesses that were all but wiped out in the US. Whooping cough is a good example.
2. Some vaccines have passed the test of time and worth receiving.
3. Big pharma wants a steady stream of income to replace drugs going out of patent. The legal protection and steady schedule of vaccines looks like a winner. Pay attention to the news and you will hear about vaccines for everything from cervical cancer to gambling addiction or alcoholism prevention. Be wary.
4. You cannot find reliable reporting on the dangers of vaccines or pharma products in general. No organization wants to lose the revenue dollars generated by advertisements. Especially egregious are PBS and NPR. Underwriters my foot.
Yes...that’s what I thought. .merman measles were a rite of passage...we survived
Well except for the ones who were miscarried due to their mothers getting it.
your vaccines injure people and you don’t give two craps about them b/c you think it makes you safer. you’d rather they be permanently injured or die for your personal safety.
so go huck yourself.
not true. the problem in your example is’letting contagiois people in the country in the first place. we didn’t do this before and it worked well.
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