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Comment: The following article contains a wealth of misinformation meant to frighten parents into taking risks with their children's health. In recent months, courts, governments and vaccine manufacturers have conceded that the MMR vaccine causes autism. Other studies have shown that vaccines have no benefit, and vaccinated children have 2 to 5 times MORE diseases than un-vaccinated children.
The number of California parents not vaccinating their kindergartners has doubled since 2007 (5 percent) to 11 percent in 2014.
Public health experts claim that the failure to vaccinate is the reason why measles have made a comeback in California after being eradicated.
California law says that kindergartners have to be vaccinated against "measles, whooping cough, polio, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, chicken pox, diphtheria and tetanus," notes The Los Angeles Times, but parents who object to immunizations based on their deeply-held, sincere, personal beliefs can get exemptions for their kids, which places those kids and other people's children in danger.
For decades, high vaccination numbers have prevented children from suffering diseases of the past, but the refusal of many parents to vaccinate is slowly moving California back to the Stone Age.
"Five days a week, [children are] in their small classroom," Shannon Stokley, an epidemiologist at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told The Los Angeles Times. "That's the perfect condition for spreading germs and spreading infections."
The anti-vaccination movement is based on the false claim that vaccines somehow cause autism. Because autism is detected at an earlier ages, some parents point the finger at vaccinations, rather than any possible genetics passed down from their DNA. The anti-vaccine myth is perpetuated on the web, which is full of false claims and junk science.
"Most parents want to do the... healthiest thing for their child," Holly Blumhardt, a mother of three unvaccinated children, told The Los Angeles Times. "It should be their choice."
Dr. Eric Kodish, director of the Cleveland Clinic's Center for Ethics, Humanities and Spiritual Care, recently wrote in The Washington Post:
Some parents believe that vaccinating their children is a decision that only affects them and their families. Not true. Vaccinations are based on the premise of "herd immunity." A certain percentage of the population must be immunized to fully protect against the disease.
Comment: Although the evidence for vaccination-based herd immunity is yet to materialize, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. Just a single publication by Poland & Jacobson (1994) reports on 18 different measles outbreaks throughout North America, occurring in school populations with very-high vaccination coverage for measles (71% to 99.8%). In these outbreaks, vaccinated children constituted 30% to 100% of measles cases. Many more similar outbreaks, occurring after 1994, can be found by searching epidemiologic literature. See: Herd immunity: Myth or reality?
Once that number falls below a certain level, people are at risk, especially children too young to be immunized, pregnant women and immuno-compromised individuals such as those being treated for cancer. Parents who choose not to vaccinate their children also are putting other peoples' children at risk along with their own younger children, whose immune systems may not be developed enough to fight off these infections.The LA Times shared this infographic to better illustrate the concept:
Principal Kathy Rideout, of the Santa Cruz Montessori school, says that educating parents with a doctor and pamphlets of medical facts doesn't make much of a difference. In 2007, 7 percent of parents of kindergartners got exemptions from vaccinations, but last fall it was a whopping 22.6 percent.
Dr. Gil Chavez, deputy director of the California Department of Public Health's Center for Infectious Diseases, added, "We have schools in California where the percent of children who exercise the personal belief exemption is well above 50 percent. That's going to be a challenge for any disease that is vaccine preventable."
Sources: The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post
the rise in measles and the whopping cough are from the influx of illegal immigrants bringing it with them and are now trying to vilify the people who chose not to vaccinate as their scapegoat. They really screwed a lot of people over trying to bring in new voters I sure hope people can see that.
We could have helped those immigrants the right way and kept people from getting sick but no a political point just had to be made and we all know time is of the essence for them, so they said screw the people even their own constituents and just started trucking them all over the country and released them.
No doubt these politicians will be followed blindly still though *sigh*.