The Danger of Not Vaccinating

[Braggi]

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21vaccine.html?hp

"... The parents who objected to their children being inoculated are among a small but growing number of vaccine skeptics in California and other states who take advantage of exemptions to laws requiring vaccinations for school-age children. The exemptions have been growing since the early 1990s at a rate that many epidemiologists, public health officials and physicians find disturbing.
Children who are not vaccinated are unnecessarily susceptible to serious illnesses, they say, but also present a danger to children who have had their shots — the measles vaccine, for instance, is only 95 percent effective — and to those children too young to receive certain vaccines.
Measles, almost wholly eradicated in the United States through vaccines, can cause pneumonia and brain swelling, which in rare cases can lead to death. The measles outbreak here alarmed public health officials, sickened babies and sent one child to the hospital. ...

Do click the link at the top of this page and read the whole article. By not vaccinating you endanger the whole community as well as your child. Measles can and does kill and cause permanent damage including brain damage.

If you love your kids vaccinate them. If you want to be a responsible community member encourage everyone to vaccinate their kids.



-Jeff

[MsTerry]

“When I began to read about vaccines and how they work,” she said, “I saw medical studies, not given to use by the mainstream media, connecting them with neurological disorders, asthma and immunology.”


Roughly 20 percent of his patients do not vaccinate, Dr. Sears said, and another 20 percent partially vaccinate. “I don’t think it is such a critical public health issue that we should force parents into it,” Dr. Sears said.

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Same article, Jeff

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21vaccine.html?hp

"... The parents who objected to their children being inoculated are among a small but growing number of vaccine skeptics in California and other states who take advantage of exemptions to laws requiring vaccinations for school-age children. The exemptions have been growing since the early 1990s at a rate that many epidemiologists, public health officials and physicians find disturbing.
Children who are not vaccinated are unnecessarily susceptible to serious illnesses, they say, but also present a danger to children who have had their shots — the measles vaccine, for instance, is only 95 percent effective — and to those children too young to receive certain vaccines.
Measles, almost wholly eradicated in the United States through vaccines, can cause pneumonia and brain swelling, which in rare cases can lead to death. The measles outbreak here alarmed public health officials, sickened babies and sent one child to the hospital. ...

Do click the link at the top of this page and read the whole article. By not vaccinating you endanger the whole community as well as your child. Measles can and does kill and cause permanent damage including brain damage.

If you love your kids vaccinate them. If you want to be a responsible community member encourage everyone to vaccinate their kids.



-Jeff

[Braggi]

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Same article, Jeff

Yup. An honest presentation. Refreshing, eh?

There are costs and benefits to every course of action or inaction. The vaccination one yields far more benefits than costs.

-Jeff

[MsTerry]

even though though they quote a 95% effective rate, in actuality the effectiveness is lower more in the low 80% (like russian roulette?) I believe. Considering the possible side effects what good is it to vaccinate when you are not sure of the outcome?

Yup. An honest presentation. Refreshing, eh?

There are costs and benefits to every course of action or inaction. The vaccination one yields far more benefits than costs.

-Jeff