Thanks, Anti-Vaxxers. You Just Brought Back Measles in NYC.
There is currently an outbreak of measles in New York City. Considered eliminated in the United States in 2000, last year saw a record number of outbreaks around the country. It’s only three months into 2014, and not only is the nation’s largest city seeing cases in several boroughs, but other major metropolitan areas are warning of new cases as well.
This is not some inconvenience to be laughed off. Measles is a highly-contagious illness caused by a virus. It usually presents with a combination of rash, fevers, cough and runny nose, as well as characteristic spots in the mouth. Most patients recover after an unpleasant but relatively uneventful period of sickness. Unfortunately, about one patient in every 1,000 develops inflammation of the brain, and one to three cases per 1000 in the United States result in death.
Vaccine-deniers are responsible to the resurgence of once-eliminated illnesses. Their movement is responsible for sickening people. They are to blame for the word “outbreak†appearing in headlines from coast to coast.
Reports from New York note that several people have been hospitalized, and infected patients include infants too young to be vaccinated themselves. Because the American public hasn’t needed to worry much about this once-contained threat in quite some time, most people probably don’t know that measles can kill, or leave children permanently disabled.
We vaccinate people for a reason.
more at the link
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/13/thanks-anti-vaxxers-you-just-brought-back-measles-in-nyc.html
Couldn't possibly be due to all the illegal f'n immigrants in the city. :whatever:
Couldn't possibly be due to all the illegal f'n immigrants in the city. :whatever:
Couldn't possibly be due to all the illegal f'n immigrants in the city. :whatever:My very first thought.....and next will be polio from the religion of pieces.
My very first thought.....and next will be polio from the religion of pieces.
Africa looks like a nice place.You would think that Al, Jesse, the one not proud of America and Obama would want to go home, wouldn't you.
The only famous Republican I can think of is Michele Bachmann - who believes that Guardacil is harmful and was released without sufficient testing because of an adverse reaction with her daughter.
My lung doctor just made me get a whopping cough vaccine because he said that people are not immunizing their children. Even though we got the shot as children they are now no longer effective. I can see from the map why he wanted me to get one.
They are putting the vaccine for the whooping cough in the same shot as the tetanus vaccine now as well.
For all the old timers, remember the round scars on the upper arm that we would get from the small pox shots ?
Ugly and disfiguring, some savvy moms would have the scar placed on a child's hip, mine did as her mother had done for her.
Growing up there was no shots to prevent measles, chicken pox, whooping cough or mumps. We just had to live with all these diseases as a right of passage. Sad as today any of us who had chicken pox now as adults have to worry about getting shingles.
Measles was a worry, had to be kept out of the sun due to eye damage, mumps darn near killed my BIL as the fever burned out part of his brain.
Heard of some women that had been around people while early pregnant that had been in contact with someone with chicken pox or measles and had baby's born with wicked problems. See the movie, The Mirror Cracked, classic.
As far as all the problems today with autism, ADD and odd behavior in children, I still believe these are due to misdiagnose and the need to explain problems due to the changes in society. Much of this is due to the need to control their environment and learn early how to do so.
I have seen some really messed up kids due to physical or mental problems, no blame on their parents or their life style, genetics comes in here. Then there are children born to the drug or boozers that have to go into with draw at birth.
It is possible some vaccinations may be given too soon before the child's immune system kicks in and cause problems.
I cannot remember a child under say 24 months getting any of the above diseases except whooping cough. I am sure there are a lot of people out there that did have a baby come down with these diseases but not in my personal experiences.
Devils advocate,-------- I am not forgetting the drug given to woman--in the 60's that caused the baby's to be born with flippers and other deformities.
Has to be an answer here, Me I got my kids most of them anyway when they were older, with two boys the tetanus shots twice as often then the girls.
OK, everyone who looked at your upper arm just now for the "thimble mark" raise your hand (*raises hand*). I don't recall anything about flipper babies but that might have been before my time...Thalidomide(sp)...sedative for nervous DUmmie wymins.
I'm just young enough to not have the smallpox vaccine scar. (I was born in 1970, and they stopped the program entirely in '72)
Thalidomide(sp)...sedative for nervous DUmmie wymins.
I took the smallpox vaccination 3 times before I got a little tiny white mark on my arm and they stopped giving it to me. I guess being around cows so much and drinking farm fresh whole milk may have already made me immune to smallpox.