Why You Should Vaccinate
Apparently there is a Measles outbreak in the US. It looks like it was spawned by a combination of international travel and people who weren't vaccinated. Britain apparently has a measles epidemic due to parents declining to vaccinate their children.
For those who say this isn't a big deal this has happened in the US in the recent past. From 1989-1991 55,000 people got the measles with 123 deaths.
Go get Vaccinated, don't assume that living around others who do will protect your children.
For those who say this isn't a big deal this has happened in the US in the recent past. From 1989-1991 55,000 people got the measles with 123 deaths.
Go get Vaccinated, don't assume that living around others who do will protect your children.
Labels: child rearing, headlines
posted by NerdMom at
3:23 PM
3 Comments:
One of the big issues in the U.K. is that the government does not allow the separate measles, mumps, and rubella shots like there are here in the U.S. There is disturbing evidence that the combined MMR shot is linked to autism. So British parents have to choose between the combined MMR or nothing. There's no middle ground of giving the individual shots spread out over time like I've chosen for my kids :-(
By
Crimson Wife, at 8:22 PM
Is it the fact that it is combined or the preservative they use in the combined version?
By
NerdMom, at 8:28 PM
It's the thimerisol preservative that people object to and the last time I read the research, the autism link had been discredited.
Ooh, this topic really burns my biscuits! We've had two recent whooping cough outbreaks in our town over the past four years. Fortunately child deaths statewide were in the single digits, but the fact is, there shouldn't have been ANY deaths. There has been vaccination against whooping cough available since I was a child. There is no reason--other than scare tactics and ignorance--why every child in this country (and the UK for that matter) should not be immune.
We've become complacent, now that few people know someone who died of these diseases we immunize for. It's just absurd that the same people who would only feed their children organic food and never think of letting them ride a bike without a helmet, would send them out into the world unprotected from known child killers like measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus.
By
The Princess Mom, at 9:34 AM
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