Hey everybody! MEASLES PARTY!!!
Apr. 14th, 2008 11:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
substituteLooks like that "no vaccination" strategy is working out great for you.
1st Measles Case In 6 Years Reported In LA County
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is confirming a young child in the area has the measles. The case is the first since 2002.
Officials said Monday they did not know the source of the disease, but added that the child had not been vaccinated. Measles is a respiratory disease caused by a virus, with symptoms of rash, high fever, cough, runny nose and red watery eyes. In about one in five cases they can lead to complications including diarrhea, ear infections, pneumonia and sometimes death.
Earlier this year nearly a dozen children contracted measles during an outbreak in San Diego County. Health officials say such outbreaks can be prevented if children are vaccinated.
1st Measles Case In 6 Years Reported In LA County
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is confirming a young child in the area has the measles. The case is the first since 2002.
Officials said Monday they did not know the source of the disease, but added that the child had not been vaccinated. Measles is a respiratory disease caused by a virus, with symptoms of rash, high fever, cough, runny nose and red watery eyes. In about one in five cases they can lead to complications including diarrhea, ear infections, pneumonia and sometimes death.
Earlier this year nearly a dozen children contracted measles during an outbreak in San Diego County. Health officials say such outbreaks can be prevented if children are vaccinated.
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Date: 2008-04-15 05:35 pm (UTC)Until you are faced with the choice of either possibly killing your infant, brain damaging them, or filling their bodies with triple the advised limit of things like aluminum, or chancing that someone might get sick from the measles, I just don't see room for personal debate. Having babies makes you crazy, in case you haven't noticed. Every single thing is about your child and how it will survive the longest with the best possible odds for thriving well ito old age. Throw some words like dementia, arthritis, even shingles, into the mix and it becomes a scary thing to give them a job in the arm.
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Date: 2008-04-15 05:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-15 05:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-15 08:44 pm (UTC)If everyone on your block vaccinates, and you don't, then you get a significant benefit: you eliminate the risks associated with vaccination, with no increased risk of measles (because everyone else is vaccinated, risk of an outbreak is low).
But that's not how it is. Other people on your block have thought it through the same way, and decided against vaccination, too. If a large number of people on your block now decide NOT to vaccinate, then the whole population, including your child, is now at risk. As evidenced by the above story.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-15 11:27 pm (UTC)That is so true!
Like you I read far, deep and wide on the subject when the time came to make the choice for my children. My sister has autistic twins, so the question was particularly crazy-making. Ultimately, I chose to go with vaccinating. Vaccines carry dangers of their own, to be sure, but my girls are in day care full time. I felt the odds were too good that they would run into these nasty bugs if they were not vaccinated against them.
I appreciate your open attitude. Too many of my friends who have chosen not to vaccinate respond to their own choice by behaving as though to choose differently is practically child abuse. This is also crazy-making.