There is an outbreak in Vancouver of a deadly yet preventable disease, measles. Of the 14 cases in the last month, 10 are from one household who were not vaccinated and caught the disease from out of country visitors. Of the rest, none of them had the recommended two doses to provide the best protection. A 15th case has been identified, though not yet confirmed by laboratory analysis.
The outbreak took place during the Olympics, when many people were visiting the lower mainland. An outbreak of the mumps in 2008 was similarly started in a population of anti-vaccine folks in BC.
These days, it's very rare to see any cases of the measles at all, when only a generation ago, there were yearly over 4 million cases a year in the US alone.
Officials are watching in Washington, as there is a large population of anti-vaccine folk in the state.
This disease is one of the most highly contagious viral diseases, but is easily prevented with up-to-date immunization. Unfortunately a large number of folk are being persuaded to avoid these jabs over unfounded fears of links to autism.
One family is all it takes. Many people forget or just don't bother to get their boosters, and then an outbreak occurs.
Insanity.
If you're vaccinated, what do you care? The only real risk is towards others who never got the shots, thus if you don't like the fact that some people don't get vaccinated, don't worry, based on your assumptions, they'll all be dead soon enough from their illnesses and the only people left alive are those already vaccinated..... problem solved.
I got shots for it all growing up and I still got the chicken pox and the measles as a kid.
Just because a child gets one of these things, doesn't automatically mean they're going to die.
You speak about one single family putting everybody else at risk (which isn't even the case) thus it sounds to me like you're trying to justify mandatory vaccinations even without a person's approval..... you complain about these people spreading unfounded and exaggerated arguments over remote chances of side effects like autism, yet you're doing the exact same thing over a very small amount of cases.... acting like these very few cases will somehow create the next black plague.
Pot meet kettle.
You think the chances of autism from shots is remote.... and others can argue that the chances of one or two people not getting the shot and causing some massive outbreak in illness is just as, if not more, remote.
Besides, the whole argument on Measles and children dying from them is a bit skewed, since the majority of children who die from measles are under the age allowed for vaccines in the first place.
Vaccination Statistics
Vaccination Statistics
A 1992 study published in The American Journal of Epidemiology shows that children die at a rate 8 times greater than normal within three days after getting a DPT vaccination.
A preliminary study by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) found children who received the HiB vaccine ... were found to be 5 times more likely to contract the disease than children who had not received the vaccine.
In the New England Journal of Medicine July 1994 issue a study found that over 80% of children under 5 years of age who had contracted whooping cough had been fully vaccinated.
In 1977 Dr Jonas Salk (inventor of the Salk polio vaccine) testified with other scientists that 87% of the polio cases which occurred in the US since 1970 were the by-product of the polio vaccine.
The Sabin oral polio vaccine (OPV) is the only known cause of polio in the us today.
The February 1981 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 90% of obstetricians and 66% of pediatricians refused to take the rubella vaccine..........
Lots of interesting info on that link.
I think the last shot I ever got was when I was about 15-16 years old and got my flu shot at school.... in about the span of 1-2 days I went from being normal and healthy, to being bedridden for a week, hallucinating, vomiting every time I moved, unable to eat, couldn't sleep because of nightmares, high fever, and was the worst illness I ever experienced in my entire life..... and the only thing that was different in the last month up to that point was me getting vaccinated the day or so before.
Since then I refused to get vaccinated and I never had a flu, or any other illness since (besides the typical common cold from time to time which has always been minor)- 15 years and counting...... meanwhile in the first 15 years of my life, I was continually sick from one thing or another..... and given regular vaccinations too.
So unless you can explain to me some sort of justification for me to stick that crap back into my body and suffer weeks on end with one illness or another, just to give you peace of mind, you can all kiss my pucker.
