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Darwynnia  Title: Sugar Kibbi
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Registered: 2003-10-13 07:40:13
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3/18/09 5:17pm
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myxomatosis8 posted:
Exactly. I think that the current crop of concerned parents don't even THINK about these diseases, because they, their siblings, all their friends were vaccinated for them, so they don't even have the concept of knowing someone who is ill in hospital with something like this. They don't see the forest for the trees, essentially. So worried about the slight possibility and fearmongering about learning disorders they don't look at what the vaccines are meant to protect against! Measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough... These are NOT fun for kids to have.
These childhood diseases are on the rise again:
* In Boulder, Colorado, endemic pertussis (whooping cough) has been linked to vaccination rates of just 50% among children at a local private school.
* In Philadelphia in 1991, a measles epidemic, which resulted in more than 500 cases and seven fatalities, was traced to unvaccinated children whose families were members of two faith-healing churches.
* In San Diego in early 2008, a measles outbreak among 12 children included nine whose parents had invoked California’s personal-belief exemption to opt out of vaccination and three who were not yet old enough to receive this vaccination, which is given in two doses over several years.
http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Publications/BriefingBook/Detail.aspx?id=2266
I remember reading an article about how the towns around Boulder were getting pissed because pertussis was being transferred over to THEIR towns and to kids that weren't able to be vaccinated (as well as those that just weren't.)
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Ah-Schoo  Title: Fuzzy Caterpillar of Friendliness
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I wasn't able to get vaccinated for most stuff.
I did get the measles. Holy hell did that suck. Got them the same year as chicken pox. I avoided mumps though.
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Date Posted:
3/18/09 5:18pm
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Getting my child vaccinated was never an option for me, more of a requirement.
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Lyli  Posts: 215
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The only vaccine that pisses me off is the chicken pox vaccine
Maryland required it.
I would rather my kid get the chicken pox when he was little instead of being 30something and POOF vaccine wears off and he gets em.
Strangely enough, he was vaccinated when he was tiny then got the chicken pox when he was in 1st grade .....
what kind of CRAP is that?
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Silverwuf Title: Have trike will babble
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Lyli posted:
The only vaccine that pisses me off is the chicken pox vaccine
Maryland required it.
I would rather my kid get the chicken pox when he was little instead of being 30something and POOF vaccine wears off and he gets em.
Strangely enough, he was vaccinated when he was tiny then got the chicken pox when he was in 1st grade .....
what kind of CRAP is that?
Stuff happens. My step daughter got chicken pox really bad as a baby and was hospitalized. She got them again in Junior High.
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myxomatosis8  Title: amateur zookeeper
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3/18/09 5:18pm
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Pretty sure the chances of a vaccine like that "wearing off" are only slightly lower than the chances of losing immunity after having the disease, if the vaccine was accepted properly.
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BluSkye Title: Wild Blu Yonder
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Registered: 2003-2-24 19:26:39
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Gaevren posted:
My one thought is simply this:
The benefits outweigh the risks
This is exactly how I feel. Zoe and Gwen have and will get all shots recomended by my pediatrician. I feel that she knows best and knows what she's talking about, that's why I picked her.
And Lyli, vaccines aren't 100% guaranteed to prevent the disease you are being immunized against. But they do GREATLY reduce the chances of contracting the disease and even will greatly reduce the severity of the disease if it is contracted.
My cousin had the chicken pox vaccine as an infant and when he was 2 1/2 he actually got the chicken pox and it killed him. My family doesn't blame the doctor and they know that even with the vaccine, it didn't mean he for sure would never get them.
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Darwynnia Title: Sugar Kibbi
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I had a classmate that had the measles twice.
It sucked to be him.
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Lynea Title: Dances with Trolls
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3/18/09 5:19pm
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I had chicken pox twice, back to back. When the scabs were falling off from the first outbreak, I started breaking out with them again. I was in 7th grade. It sucked.
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Varece Posts: 1,096
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My whole family has had the chicken pox. I had measles twice as a kid. Once was the German measles and I still remember the hallucinations from the real high fever.
There needs to be more information now, on the diseases that these vaccines prevent, since so many parents don't get it.
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