Posted on Sep 22, 2016
Measles outbreak, 3 children have died - The Romania Journal
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And this is why I believe in vaccinations... in the past eight months there were 675 confirmed cases of measles, against only 7 last year, digi24.ro informs. I'm sure there are many other factors presented besides the anti vaxxer movement even over there, but that is quite a jump from the 7 the previous year
Measles outbreak, 3 children have died - The Romania Journal
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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.
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SPC Britanny *Winnie* Balthaser
Measles cases, for example, numbered anywhere from 300,000 to 800,000 a year in the United States between 1950 and 1963, when a newly licensed measles vaccine went into widespread use. By 1965, U.S. measles cases were beginning a dramatic drop. In 1968 about 22,000 cases were reported (a drop of 97.25% from the height of 800,000 cases in just three years); by 1998, the number of cases averaged about 100 per year or less. A similar post-vaccination drop occurred with most diseases for which vaccines are available.
Perhaps the best evidence that vaccines, and not hygiene and nutrition, are responsible for the sharp drop in disease and death rates is chickenpox. If hygiene and nutrition alone were enough to prevent infectious diseases, chickenpox rates would have dropped long before the introduction of the varicella vaccine, which was not available until the mid-1990s. Instead, the number of chickenpox cases in the United States in the early 1990s, before the vaccine was introduced in 1995, was about four million a year. By 2004, the disease incidence had dropped by about 85%.
http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/misconceptions-about-vaccines
Perhaps the best evidence that vaccines, and not hygiene and nutrition, are responsible for the sharp drop in disease and death rates is chickenpox. If hygiene and nutrition alone were enough to prevent infectious diseases, chickenpox rates would have dropped long before the introduction of the varicella vaccine, which was not available until the mid-1990s. Instead, the number of chickenpox cases in the United States in the early 1990s, before the vaccine was introduced in 1995, was about four million a year. By 2004, the disease incidence had dropped by about 85%.
http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/misconceptions-about-vaccines
Misconceptions about Vaccines — History of Vaccines
The improved American sanitary conditions of the early 1900s meant that exposure to polio was delayed until later in life, when a child had lost maternal protection and was also more vulnerable to the most severe form of the disease. Read more in our polio timeline.
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Cpl George Crab
Mom did a measle party, then also a chicken pox party. I wonder if she would've done a Hansen's disease (leprosy) party, if I had come down with that. Back then, in the early '60s, my mom loved to party, I guess. "C'mon, Connie! Take a sip out of Georgy's glass! It'll be good for you, I promise!"
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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.
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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.
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