Measles is making a rapid comeback in African, Asian and even some European countries despite being easily avoided through vaccination, the World Health Organizations said Friday as countries pledged to sharply cut infections and deaths worldwide by 2015.
Measles making 'rapid comeback'
Seeded on Fri May 21, 2010 6:10 PM EDT (msnbc.com)


It's all Bush's fault
Speaking of measles.
Whatever happened to that worldwide pandemonium H1N1 that our governemnt spent Billions on?
Kinda just disappeared didn't it.
But hey, the White House made,,,err avoided,,,a crisis didn't they?
Bet you all forgot about that little paranioia the administration created.
So, Boldfresh, not enough people died for your tastes? The worldwide response was too effective for you? H1N1 is still out there, and it's going to kill a lot more people in the years to come.To date there have been over 14,000 confirmed deaths from that disease, many more hospitalizations and it stands to reason that many other deaths have been caused by it that simply weren't clinically diagnosed.
Luckily, it isn't as readily transmitted from person to person has first feared, so that's helped lessen the impact. It did not "just disappear" at all. It's still around, and will probably come back time and time again.
Also - do you think the administration in the US has some magical power over all the other countries worldwide to be even more worried about the flu than we are? Did you even read about how crazy China got about it? Not a very plausible scenario at all to think that the "white house" caused a crisis out of thin air.
So the "paranoia" seems to all be on your end here. I've read a lot of paranoid ramblings online, but yours goes right towards the very top of the list.
Thanks Boldfresh - I caught H1N1 last August. It turned to pneumonia within 48 hours. I spent 3 weeks in hospital and it took me almost six months to get back to operating at full speed. I still have compromised lung function. It isn’t a disease I would wish on anyone. I'm glad that you and yours did not catch it. Count yourselves lucky.
Lost an otherwise healthy 40 year old family friend and mother of two to H1N1. Yep, it was a pretty ineffectual disease among the people in our county that caught it, it failed to kill the rest; however, they will tell you that you don't want to get it, and you might want to get your flu shots. Two of the survivors had to be sent upstate to one of the major hospitals for hyperbaric treatment, that's why they survived. H1N1 kills you by sending your immune system into overdrive, whereupon your body attempts to eat its own lungs.
Yeah, yeah...tell it to Jennie McCarthy.
A million here, a million there, what the hell.......
Just put up billboards in spanish, outside every Home Depot. Hand out free money when they come to get their free vaccine. Taken care of.
Our pediatrician did not inform me when my kid's shots were due. The christian schools they attended did not keep vaccine records. I finally took my kids to the health department and go them caught up on vaccinations.
After living in India, there was NO question that my son would follow the CDC vaccination chart.
Since so many parents have chosen to delay shots for fear of ADHD there is a resurgence and spreading of the desease we almost got rid of. However, there is now more evidence that pesticides may be to blame for the ADHD.
Actually it was Autisism , and steady rapid of new cases in a short time
The "steady rapid of new cases in a short time" in autism has more o do with new definitions of the disease and new diagnostic testing than to real increase in numbers.
Mildly autistic children were considered distracted or intelectually borderline many years ago.
Yes but thats too hard to write on an SSI application, and it means the parents have another excuse. In my day it was called bad behavior, the Nuns simply beat it out of you :)
The world can thank wacko chiropractors and naturopaths among others for the drop in vacinations.
So true, Keith. I gave MMR ( mealses, mumps, rubella ) vaccines for YEARS & it is quite safe. And PLEASE! Don't tell me about your friend's uncle's 3rd cousin twice removed that got sick from it. NOTHING is TOTALLY safe. It's just that there are FAR less people dying from reactions to vaccines than are from those deseases themselves. There is a mountain of documented proof on this that NIH, CDC, WHO & others have Give me a double-blind, peer-reviewed study anyday over the rantings of non-medically knowledgeable persona.
And btw, I HAD those diseases myself. There were no vaccines available at that time.
I hope the guys who threw out that anti-vaccine paper to make a buck are proud of themselves and the blood money they earned with it. They just rescinded with a "oops my bad." and not people are skipping vaccinations and there are deaths. Real nice guys.
Wow I just received my EOB from BCBS and for my daughter her vaccination for MMR was $150. Now I know that is a trivalent shot but come on talk about insurance padding. Administration was billed separately. Probably in every other country the vaccine is $1 but with our great insurance giants we won't see that price. So on top of my $1000 a month premiums , government contract worker have to pay for own healthcare, I now get to pay ~$515 since the vaccines were not covered. Now the kicker, every illegal kid in Arizona gets these shots for free.
Nulyte: As I undertand it, the ridiculous prices for old, efficent AND cheap vaccines is for the medical malpractice insurance for the companies that make it. These very same vaccines were very cheap when my sons received them, but that was over 35 yrs ago.
And while I'm at it, this requirement of making kids before entering school take a Hep. B series of 3 shots is totally ridiculous. Health Care workers, yes, kids no.
1. Thank you Jenny Mccarthy, you uneducated dolt, for using your soft porn celebrity to spread information that your autistic sons disease was caused by vaccines. Also, Jim Carrey, a shout out to you for backing this bimbo simply because you were getting playboy tail. Thank you both for getting people to believe that vacines were going to give kids autism.
2. Thank you Islam, for thinking that vaccines are a secret way to sterilize Muslims. Where would we be without you.
3. Thank you fundamentalist Christians that believe that prayer will erase any disease by god's will.
Let the horsemen of the Apocalypse ride! Pestilence will have his day!
I was so-o-o counting on the day when it was proven and then published that vaccinations did NOT cause autism. Jenny McCarthy, are you hearing this???? How many kids have gotten measles because you have convinced their parents that this vaccine would cause autism? I hope you have a conscience and think about this. Measles didn't come back until you started this self-aggrandizing mission to get your face in front of the camera and try to legitamize yourself after years of being a playboy bimbo.
If your child has truly been "cured" is it possible that he was not autistic to start with? Many children these days are 'labeled' just so they can be medicated for the convenience of others. If a child has too much energy, well, the child must be adhd, right? Let's medicate the child and calm the child down so everybody around him can have some peace. Has anybody considered trying to spend time with this child to get at the root of this restlessness?
When my son was quite small, I was told he was born with a brain dysfunction that made him hyperactive and his body could not keep up with his brain activity. They said he had to be medicated for this problem. I said they could not medicate my child until they could prove to me that there was an actual problem. Granted, his behavior was erratic, but his life was chaotic at the time. So, prove it to me! So the doctors showed me pictures of his brainscan and exactly what the scan meant. He was then placed under the care of a psychiatrist, psycholigist and physician. I told the doctor: I want the whole 'shootin' match' if you are messing with my child's life. It took many years to fight through this disorder, even through his adulthood. Gratefully, he is a brilliant, gifted young man and very successful in his chosen career. It was not easy getting there.
We need to be careful with the lives of our children.
I should qualify this by stating that both my kids had all their vaccinations. Never would I consider not vaccinating them. Years ago, kids could not even enter school without proving that they have been vaccinated.
It should be clarified that the parents who claim their kids developed autism from vaccines VACCINATED THEIR KIDS, even when the manufacturer's description of who not to vaccinate matched their child, even when the kids were sick and shouldn't have had them, when they had allergies to the ingredients, because their doctors said it was safe...
Is everybody satisfied now? After so many years screaming with no reason based on a faux report created by an incredibly dishonest person ( I cannot even call him phyician) and on those believoing that vaccination was a worthless waste of money (in the end the kids dying were in Africa, very few in our immediate surroundings), the results are starting to be seen.
No it doesnt have to do with cuts in funding, it has to do with the media brain washing parents into thinking that the immunizations are bad for their kids.
I had the three day measles twice, the bad kind once AND the chicken pox and it was never hard on me. The worst part was staying in the dark the whole time. When I got the bad kind of measles and the chicken pox some of my friends were brought over so they WOULD catch it and get it over with. I wish someone would tell me how these things kill so many when NO one I that I ever heard of died in my home town.
When a male friend of mine got the Mumps however we had to stay away, he had to stay on his back and pee in a pot while sitting on the side of his bed. The doctor told his mother it was to stop the mumps from going down on him and making him sterile, must have worked because he has three children.
The plural of anecdote is not data. Measles has a low primary fatality rate in developed nations where supportive care is readily available but in less developed countries, it is more dangerous. Also, there are several long term complications that occur, and while not invariably fatal, can seriously diminish quality of life. One example is a form of pneumonia which can permanently scar the lungs. Another is the occasional jump to brain and measles induced encephalitis, which is far more fatal than ordinary measles, and can leave you neurologically impaired even if you do survive it.
I have been in three car accidents and I just do not know how these things supposedly kill so many people. Many of my friends have been in car accidents and none of them have died. All this talk about car accidents being deadly is just bunk because it has never happened to me.
"And btw, I HAD those diseases myself. There were no vaccines available at that time."
Oh okay, Bevis... and you (gasp) DIDN'T DIE! You're working against your point here.
It is very rare for someone to die of Measles. What they die of is the unsanitary conditions they live in. We don't worry about that here in the US. There is no vaccine-preventable disease today that can not be treated medically.
As someone who "gave those vaccines for years", you clearly didn't see the long-term outcomes. My daughter stopped talking and had considerably regressed speech and physical development immediately after a Prevnar vaccine. She is now 4 and we are still working on getting her back to where she was. I know many, many children who are/were negatively affected by vaccines. The bottom line is, if a child is genetically predisposed to not being able to break down the preservatives and other ingredients, if they have a genetic predisposition to autoimmunity, if they are premature, if they have a mitochondrial disorder, if they have a sibling who has had a reaction, if - for any reason - their immune system is compromised, we can not know what the outcome of such an assault on their immune system a vaccine will be (not to mention that we typically give young children and babies between 3-9 vaccines at a time!). It is a very flawed system and involves billions of dollars in profit and political corruption.
If you want to vaccinate your own children, so be it. I choose not to. I want my children to have intact immune systems. Without an immune system, what do you have?
I'd rather treat a sick child than injure a healthy one.
Polio. There is no treatment, other than permanent use of an external ventilator and a powered wheelchair. No cure exists.
Done in one.
"And btw, I HAD those diseases myself. There were no vaccines available at that time."
Oh okay, Bevis... and you (gasp) DIDN'T DIE! You're working against your point here.
It is very rare for someone to die of Measles. What they die of is the unsanitary conditions they live in. We don't worry about that here in the US. There is no vaccine-preventable disease today that can not be treated medically.
As someone who "gave those vaccines for years", you clearly didn't see the long-term outcomes. My daughter stopped talking and had considerably regressed speech and physical development immediately after a Prevnar vaccine. She is now 4 and we are still working on getting her back to where she was. I know many, many children who are/were negatively affected by vaccines. The bottom line is, if a child is genetically predisposed to not being able to break down the preservatives and other ingredients, if they have a genetic predisposition to autoimmunity, if they are premature, if they have a mitochondrial disorder, if they have a sibling who has had a reaction, if - for any reason - their immune system is compromised, we can not know what the outcome of such an assault on their immune system a vaccine will be (not to mention that we typically give young children and babies between 3-9 vaccines at a time!). It is a very flawed system and involves billions of dollars in profit and political corruption.
If you want to vaccinate your own children, so be it. I choose not to. I want my children to have intact immune systems. Without an immune system, what do you have?
I'd rather treat a sick child than injure a healthy one.
NO vaccine is 100% effective. Also, no vaccine lasts forever. Vaccines have a lifespan, most of which tend to be 20ish years or less. Which is why we have boosters. Some people are naturally immune to certain diseases and have naturally-occuring titers. Some people are genetically predisposed to not being able to break down the ingredients in vaccines. These are not things we know without testing for them, which we don't.
If a child has a genetic predisposition to autoimmunity, a mitochondrial disorder, was born prematurely, has a compromised immune system (as all human beings under the age of 1 year do), then they are considerably more likely to have a bad reaction to a vaccine. We do not check for mitochondrial disorders before vaccinating. We do not take a family history of autoimmunity before vaccinating. And vaccines are pushed especially hard on premature babies.
What you want to see, ideally, in a vaccinated child, is very high levels of heavy metals being emitted from the body (in proteins, hair, urine) immediately after a vaccination. If the levels are low, those metals are staying in the body, clogging up nerve pathways, settling in the intestines. We don't test for metals emitted from the body after vaccinating, even when a negative reaction is obvious. This is where the medical community goes wrong with vaccinations, and why parents are learning more and more not to trust vaccines and the pediatricians that push them.
It's important that we look at autoimmunity in the vaccine picture. Several generations ago, autoimmunity wasn't something we knew about. Very, very few autoimmune disorders existed. Since the onset of mainstream vaccination, autoimmunity has skyrocketed. We have millions of our population suffering from disorders like Lupus, Type 1 Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Endometriosis, Crohn's Disease, Guillan-Barre Syndrome, Autism (which IS an autoimmune disorder), a wide array of thyroid malfunctions, MS, psoriasis, connective tissue disorders, etc (that list really does go on and on and on). One has to consider why we suddenly have all these diseases, all in which the body begins attacking itself. One might say it's from environmental toxins, cleaning products, and the way these things have changed and become more potent over the last decades. There is probably some validity to that. You could probably throw some credit to the chemical additives in foods, the MSG, the Aspartame, hormones and antibiotics pumped standard into commercially-processed meats and dairy. There's proabably some credence to that also. But there is nothing more direct than the injection of heavy metals, animal DNA, aborted human tissue, formaldehyde, sucrose, sorbitol, aluminum, ammonia, calf skins, embryonic fluid from animals, human diploid cells, monkey kidney cells, thimerosal (yes, our vaccines still contain at least traces of thimerosal as a preservative in all vaccines). We directly inject these ingredients, which have no natural place in the human body, into newborn babies and then watch them grow up, if not negatively affected right away, to have autoimmune disorders. I'm certain the growing trend of autoimmunity will increase drastically as my generation ages, as already, a huge number of people my age, in their 20's, have autoimmune disorders. THIS is the major problem with vaccines.
Is Autism caused directly by vaccination? Not directly. But can it be caused as a side effect of having neurons clogged by toxins? Absolutely. We already know a lot about heavy metals and their affect on the brain. We have microscopic photos of what happens to a brain cell when it is exposed to aluminum (hello Alzheimer's!) and mercury (it deteriorates rapidly). This isn't new information. Is it outlandish to suppose that by putting these materials (which pass through the blood-brain barrier) directly into the body, we're creating neurological problems? No. It makes a whole lot of sense if you do the research.
There is, probably, a way to make safe vaccines. If we removed all the ingredients that are present for the purpose of preserving or motility into the body, we would have a much more basic product. Would it still have risks? Of course. I still will not choose to vaccinate my children, even in the event of truly safe vaccines, because I feel that the entire process undermines the natural immune system and literally teaches the body that it doesn't need to learn to fight off invaders since it's being done synthetically for the body. But think of the amount of people that could be saved from autoimmunity if we removed the toxic attack on the immune system! There is something to think about.
It's no use trying to convince these immoral parents to drop the whole 'anit-vax' rubbish, everytime you offer them a piece of solid proven evidence, another 2 lame, pointless stories about how 'my baby got the jab, and then got autism' pop up. I'm pretty sure it's been proven that evidence against a belief only re-enforces that very belief. If you told me Yoshimitsu from Tekken wasn't real, it would only strenthen my belief in him - sounds insane? Well apparantly that's how anti-vaxxers work. But whereas you leave a looney to his own personal beliefs without harming anyone, an unvaccinated child is a danger to rest of the children around them. I give up with these people, it's been YEARS now and they still won't admit they were wrong, jeez we'd like you SO much if you did the mature thing and admit you got swindled, just like i used to believe the moon landing was faked - i was wrong, but my pride is still intact.