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from:msnbc.comMeasles cases on rise in Boston
Seeded on Thu Mar 3, 2011 9:06 AM EST (msnbc.com)
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Maybe people will see that the vaccine doesn't work as well as thought. And then they'll couple that with a 1 in 1000 chance of seizure from the vaccine.
The vaccine only works well if more than 80% of the population has had it. It'll be too bad for the dead child who's parents decided to forgo the vaccine.
And the one who decides to take the vaccine.
Really? So if my neighbor doesn't take their vaccines then mine doesn't work? How does the vaccine know to "activate" once my neighbor gotten theirs? How does it "know" when 80% have gotten theirs?
You have been confused about herd theory and vaccine mechanism of action.
Robert, you're again confused on how vaccines help stem the SPREAD of disease. Vaccines = less human hosts = less CHANCE of infection = less ACTUAL infection and further spread. It's no coincidence that infections rise with less vaccination amongst the population. It's not "neighbor A vaccinated so neighbor B will/won't activate" or garbage like that. It's "neighbor A prevented getting sick via vaccination so neighbor B never got the chance to come into contact with it". Your ignorance is astounding.
If AIDS were able to be prevented in ONLY SOME of its victims in a population via vaccination, it could go the way of polio, etc. too. Vaccinations "herd immunity" works because you prevent the SPREAD of the disease. It's risk management...less risk of contact = less risk of infection. H1N1 same thing...the more people who got vaccinated, the less ability the virus had of finding a suitable host. With H1N1 we protected the most vulnerable (pregnant, elderly, kids) and thereby stemmed the tide. The immune systems of you and I could've handled the virus for the most part, so we didn't need the vaccine. But those most susceptible did. Who gets infections when they're in the hospital -- kids and elderly. No surprise, as their immune systems are not fully developed/weakened.
Your lack of comprehension of this issue is astounding.
I was born in 1964, I did receive all my vaccinations, (my mother as well as many other people, think their children can not go to school without getting them this is a falsehood)However, I contracted German Measles (Rubella) within days of receiving the MMR, When I "needed" the booster MMR, within days I contracted the Mumps. My great niece, in the late 80s received the DPT, within days she was seriously sick with whooping cough.. I could go on and on and on, with people I know who have gotten the illness the vaccine was to prevent. I do not get any vaccines now, flu shots etc... etc... My immune systems, takes care of all illnesses I catch, including the swine flu, which I did contract last year. I have 3 children, my two older children from birth started on the vaccines "required" they were continually sick, colds, fevers, etc... my youngest has never had one shot... her immune system is amazing, she gets the cold, within 48 hours its over...
In 1979, when I was 16, I had the measles. I was coming back from Brazill along with a couple hundred other teenagers at the end of a large summer project. We were stuck in this Brazilian airport for about 12 hours because of some huricanes in Florida. I remember one of the leaders of our group was a nurse and she went to check on some kid in another American group that had a high fever. This all happened at the Brazilian airport. We finally made it home and in about a week, I came down with this high fever that the doctors didn't know was the cause. A nurse thought to look in the back of my throat and found some white spots and they tested me for measles and that's what I had. I had 105 temp and put on a cooling mattress. That same school year('79-'80) many college students got the measles and I always thought that our group coming from Brazil was ground zero.
One other thing I might add about my story is that these hundreds of teenagers that I was with,( when one of these kids had a high fever, which I think was the measles) , were from all over the United States. When we flew out of Brazil to Florida, we then all went our seperate ways to all over the United States. This was late August of 1979. I did some looking up and it looks like 1980 was a bad measles year.. HMMM! nbamj@frontier.com
Vaccines are only truly effective when the entire population gets it, or a percentage so high as to be nearly the entire population. This is because every vaccine eventually loses effectiveness. Your vaccine doesn't work because your neighbor's does. Your vaccine works because even if it is no longer clinically effective, the people around you either have a still-effective vaccine or have not had the chance to be exposed because such a high number of people have been vaccinated. Likewise, infants too young to be vaccinated almost never (up until the recent vaccine scare) contract measles because everyone they are around is prevented by active vaccines or by the presence of a large number of active vaccines within the population. It is sad for an unvaccinated child to contract measles because their parents would not vaccinate them. It is also sad when an infant below the age of vaccination or an elderly person whose vaccine is no longer effective becomes infected because the statistical likelihood of an infected person coming in contact with an unprotected person has been increased by a social trend of non-vaccination.
The microscopic chance of ill effects of vaccine serums is greatly outweighed by the proven and certain risk of death or permanent disability from measles, mumps, rubella or polio.