Measles outbreak, 3 children have died - The Romania Journal

While I was a child, I recall my mom throwing a measle party, that my whole class attended, to get measles out of the way.

It's a bit surprising but a number of parents even here in TX are firmly against their kids getting any vaccinations of any type for various reasons, personal, religious, etc. Many school districts are sending kids home who don't have vaccinations. Parents may be limited to homeschooling if they object strongly to the health and safety of vaccinations.

I'm not anti-vaccine, but I'm not blindly pro-vaccine either. Decisions regarding vaccination must be made thoughtfully. It has been shown that it is safer to delay MMR vaccination by just a couple years, and to vaccinate children at 3 years for MMR instead of at 12-18 months. Delaying just these few years reduces the risk of regressive autism (a condition where a previously healthy and developmentally normal child begins to lose the ability to walk, make eye contact, talk, etc) by 700%. That's huge. Most parents do not realize that a child's immune system is not developed until 2 years old, and the only real immune support he or she is getting until that time is from the mother, and that is only if he or she is breastfeeding. There is still much we do not understand scientifically about the connections between the gut, the brain, and the immune system. I encourage all new mothers to vaccinate, but to do so on a much slower, more thoughtful, and more gentle schedule than the current one. After all, you have to remember that vaccine companies are a "for-profit" industry, and they make billions of dollars every year for each vaccine added to the schedule. There are undeniable connections between the CDC and powerful pharmaceutical companies like Merck. I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I am a realist, and I understand human nature and what we know (and don't know) about the human body. We must be reasonable and wise about what we expect a toddler's body to be able to process. Currently, in both my opinion and experience, our CDC vaccine schedule is too aggressive for systems that we still barely understand. (And I say that because immune dysfunction and related issues like systemic inflammation, brain disorders like autism and ADHD, and digestive disorders like IBS and Crohn's are some of the most poorly understood and difficult disorders to treat in modern healthcare.) A very well-researched and well-presented documentary just came out this year about vaccination -- its called VAXXED. Regardless of your stance on vaccination, I highly recommend it.