Measles Outbreak Triggered by Unvaccinated Child

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Drug companies run the CDC and the world... kind of like Monsanto. Quite unfortunate for us.
I don't think vaccinations are for everyone. Maybe immune impaired? But even ppl with compromised immune systems, I don't think their bodies would handle vaccines well either.

tatsu of CA 9:47PM May 29, 2011

Jen, look into your unvaccinated kids' eyes, and think of mumps, measles, pertussis, tetanus, meningitis, and pneumococcus being introduced to the kids while they are in an immunologically naive state. Why don't you expose yourself to ebola or lassa fever to show that all it takes is a positive attitude and clean living to overcome pathogens? You'll develop "natural" immunity, if you survive. Surely superior to any vaccine!

Maura Smith-Mitsky of PA 2:02PM October 24, 2010

My child had the mumps..was it fearful, um no..so Im talking from Experience. Was chicken pox fearful for you, not sure how old you are Jon, but it was NOT fearful to get it when I was younger. Mothers used to send their kids over to whoever had it in the neighborhood. Now there is a vaccine, and all of a sudden it is a dangerous infectioin. If you actually look at what is IN vaccines, which is listed on all the sites of the pharmaceudical companies, then come back and let me know if you would willingly inject these into your infant child, to preven things like mumps and measles..oh these are such dreaded diseases. Then all the "new" ones they are coming out with like the Rota Virus a few years ago, when all our kids were there guinea pigs, then a shortly after they had to take it off the market. .oops it was killing kids. This generation of kids is sadly the guinea pigs for the vaccine companies.. As a nation, we are so afraid of diseases and dying but yet we have one of the most overweight countries..people dont want to get the measles or mumps but they will go and shove a big mac in their mouth. You use a lot of fancy words but in the end we need to agree to disagree. People have a choice, and that is what matters. If you would like to call me a mushy thinker, go for it, Im an educated woman, who had done extensive research on each individual vaccine..how many people who vaccinate did ANY research? No, they just say, oh my child did so good today, they didnt cry and got 7 vaccines.OK..do you know what they got. reply is usually..oh no I didnt ask, just whatever they need at this age. I call THAT type of mentality mushy thinking. If you have decided to vaccinate your child, and have made an informed, educated decision..then I say that is great..but dont judge those who dont. I dont run my life and make my decisions based on what the government wants me to do..believe or not, I make decisions based on what I feel is best for myself and my children.

Jen of AZ 2:47AM October 10, 2010

After a great deal of inciting fear of medical/Big Pharma conspiracies, Jen complains about the use of fear to drive vaccination.
However: fear of the diseases and consideration for the others in our communities are excellent reasons to get vaccinated. So fear, in the sense of a real danger, is an entirely healthy thing to invoke on the pro-vaccine side, and fear, in the shape of a nameless dread of conspiracies, is a good reason to ignore the paranoid ramblings of the anti-vaccinators.
Ben Elton's book "Blind Faith" is a good imagining of a future dominated by the extremes of mushy thinking like Jen's and Daniel's.

Jon 5:29PM September 23, 2010

Great thoughts..Its amazing how when the vaccine companies come out with a vaccine for a particular disease, all of a sudden the disease is deadly. Nice way to promote vaccines..lets just scare the crap out of everyone. People need to do their research and decide what is best for them and their child/children. No goverment is going to admit that a death or serious reaction, or most importantly, long term issues from the crap that is put in vaccines, will harm the child. They will list it as SIDS or something. Id love to know how many serious reactions are actually reported from vaccines. The drs know how to keep this on the down low. If you dont beleive this, then why are the pharmaceutical companies billion dollar businesses?? Anyway, the person writing this article mentioned the baby went to the hospital..he didnt mention any other serious reactions or deaths from all of those people who were infected. And Id love to see a large study done on adults who were vaccinated..and see how many of them are actually showing immunity? I saw an article the other day showing the "often" college students are having to get revaccinated because they are not showing immunity from their vaccines. And now if you look at the list of vaccines required for babies/children, they are receiving boosters at 11/12..WHAT?? Why after all these years are you having to now give boosters..and babies getting a tetanus shot??Are you kidding..first of all there are shots you would receive in the hospital that are given if tetanus is suspected...with is like an serum. And how many of us really get tetanus boosters every 10 yrs like required?? Is there a tetanus outbreak that I dont know about happening? OK done rambling..lets not use fear to make people vaccinate..

Jen of AZ 3:10PM August 20, 2010

Daniel J. Franco, the real question is whether you can point to a single scientific study showing that there's a link between vaccination and autism. There is no such study. The paper that got published in the UK in the '90s was a joke, based more or less on a few bits of anecdotal evidence. How it got past the peer-review system is beyond me.

Adam of 12:26PM May 24, 2010

Dear Ms. Gordon,
You stated, "In recent years, however, the virus has resurged as many parents choose not to vaccinate their children, often because of fears about serious side effects. In fact, a recent study from the University of Michigan found that even among those who do vaccinate, more than half are concerned about serious side effects. Many of these fears stem a reported link between the MMR vaccine and autism. This link has been disproved in numerous studies, however." If you could, I would truly appreciate if you would provide the disproving studies by independent third-parties, if any, which would therefore not include any vaccine producer or parties which had ever been paid or would expect to be paid by a vaccine producer or other pharmaceutical producing company or person. In advance, I thank you for you cooperation.
Sincerely,
Daniel J. Franco

Daniel J. Franco of NY 3:37AM May 11, 2010

All those people in this article who were never vaccinated and contracted measles (which I don't believe it mentioned any of them dying or having permanent complications, including the baby hospitalized for 3 days with the 106 degree temp), THEY ARE NOW IMMUNE TO MEASLES! And chances are they will never contract the disease again, as opposed to those who have been vaccinated (vaccines are not 100% effective, as mentioned about the church who had 3 vaccinated people who contracted the measles, and they also have not been studied long enough to see how long the immunity lasts).
When it comes to the "common" childhood illnesses (measles, mumps, chicken pox, etc) it's best to contract these diseases as children and retain the immunity through adulthood. It is a well-known fact that adults who get chicken pox often have a much more severe case than children do, so our children who now receive a chicken pox vaccine in early childhood will probably only retain that immunity for a short period of time, thus resulting in adult-contracted chicken pox, a worse case of the disease, and much more difficult complications.
I was a child of the early 80s. When I was four I got the chicken pox at my church (and christian school that was in that same church). All of the kids who hadn't had it before got it during that time. None of us died or had long-term complications from it. We are all now immune. We didn't need a dangerous vaccination in order to get that immunity, and chances are our immunity is much stronger than those who are vaccinated. I had a friend who received a chicken pox vaccine as a child, and still ended up contracted chicken pox. Good thing we vaccinate, right?

Melissa Joy of WV 9:50AM May 07, 2010

Was she vaccinated? It says she brought Measles back home with her and exposed a ton of people at her church and that 31 of 35 "unvaccinated people" contracted the disease, but it didn't mention whether or not SHE was vaccinated.
Either way I find it amusing that you usually hear about the cases where unvaccinated people expose people.
I also find it interesting that parents who are college-educated, and who's income level is higher than the average American, are choosing not to vaccinate. It seems to me that they wouldn't be doing it out of neglect, but rather because they have studied both sides, the pros and cons of each side, and have made an *informed decision* vs just "going with the flow" because someone told them to. ;)

Kay of KS 1:22PM May 04, 2010