I’ll repost my original comments on this subject later, but for now please watch this video of a baby who died of a disease because somebody wasn’t vaccinated against whooping cough, and he was too young:
A vaccine against pertussis (whooping cough) has been available since the 1920’s.
Although cases of pertussis have dropped dramatically in the United States since the introduction of the pertussis vaccine, the disease has caused widespread outbreaks in recent years. In 2012, nearly 50,000 cases of pertussis were reported in the United States, the most cases since 1955. Twenty pertussis deaths were reported in 2012. Fifteen of those deaths occurred in infants too young to have received the vaccine.
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Treatment for pertussis is generally limited to supportive care. Antibiotics are sometimes used; however, this is primarily done to remove the Bordetella pertussis bacteria from an infected patient’s secretions, thus reducing her ability to infect others. Antibiotic treatment is unlikely to affect the course of the illness unless administered very early on.
http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/pertussis-whooping-cough
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I got the pertussus shot right after my granddaughter was born last summer. My son and his wife asked me to. However, of course two other vaccines were FORCED on me, the diptheria and tetanus. They are all in one shot and I couldn’t find a way (in a reasonable amount of time) to get just the one vaccine. So, I lied. A straight out lie. I told them I had never had a problem with any of the vaccines. I had had a reaction years ago to the tetanus. I think it is probable that it was the horse serum that they used to use. But, it made me mad that I didn’t really have a choice.
And, this is the same problem I have with the MMR vaccine. They evidently won’t break this up anymore.
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There should be a way to get the separate vaccine, I agree. I wonder if it is possible?
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I really don’t know. My doctor doesn’t give vaccines. And, one of the pharmacy’s I went to couldn’t give it to somebody over 65 at that time. I finally found one that would. That had taken two weeks to find out. Then, you have to wait two weeks, I think it is, before you are immune.
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I’m pretty sure there is, because I’m pretty sure that’s all they gave my daughter when she was pregnant. They told her if she received it while she was pregnant it would give him immunity.
MMR I think it has been one shot for many years.
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Growing up an older girl, Maxine, was crippled, braces on both legs with elbow crutches. She had polio before the vaccine came around. Every day we went to the pool I thought of her. She could never go, never run, play tetherball, or anything else we neighborhood kids all did together. I have never forgotten her. When my son was 16 I had him re-vaccinated as they were saying his were not effective long enough. I have always thought it was worth the risk. I think were more people aware of the effects of not vaccinating they might feel differently.
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Yes, but there are also stories of children who got the vaccine and suffered from it. By the way, I was a Polio vaccine Pioneer.
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I was too a pioneer (first control group, and the only one in my class to get the real vaccine). Yes, there are always some children who are injured or killed by vaccines, but nothing like the numbers who died or were permanently paralyzed every year before the vaccine. I have a friend who had a mild case in childhood (she’s a few years older than I), and is now having side effects as an adult.
Every medical intervention carries a risk. It is important to weigh the risk against the benefit. Because so few children die of these childhood diseases today, people who didn’t see the results of the actual diseases feel at ease making the decision not to vaccinate. That won’t continue if diseases continue to proliferate.
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I just read that there has been a polio epidemic in Syria. Because they haven’t been able to vaccinate during the war, the disease has once again established itself. Makes you wonder about the status of the “refugees” in Europe and in the United States.
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Yep. But, if the vaccine works and Americans are vaccinated, it shouldn’t be a problem.
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That’s the issue – IF Americans are vaccinated. And then there are newborns, who are not vaccinated.
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Oh, right.
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All you have to do is spend a few hours on FB and you’ll see a bunch of anti-vaxers. Scares the bejeebers out of me that there are so many people who don’t do it, primarily because of a relatively discredited theory about the autism link.
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My daughter has had numerous run-ins with such folks on FB.
Let’s just say she doesn’t take being told she’s abusing her son or poisoning her son for her allowing him to be vaccinated very well. She’s a mixture of her mom and dad and sometimes the bad genes from us both come to the surface.
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We used to visit a young girl at home. She lived in an iron lung in her parents’ living room.
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Woman Lives Full Life in Iron Lung (May, 2008)
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4959248&page=1
By 1959, the Smithsonian Institution estimates that there were 1,200 people using iron lungs in the United States.
By 2004, this number had dwindled to 39 — thanks in large part to widespread vaccination, which has nearly wiped the scourge of polio off the U.S. map.
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Speaking of diseases, malaria epidemic in Venezuela:
http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/160116/a-total-of-131074-malaria-cases-reported-in-venezuela
With a malaria epidemic described as “dangerous” by the Venezuelan “Red Defendamos la Epidemiología” (Let’s Defend Epidemiology Network), malaria cases recorded until December last year totaled 131,074, a surge from the same period in 2014, when 86,408 events were recorded.
Such cases are estimated to be higher, since the two last weeks of 2015 had not been recorded when the communiqué was issued.
Nothing to do with vaccinations, but don’t get me started on DDT.
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Me.Either. (on DDT) Rotten gubmint bastages……
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Did anyone else see the segment on CBS Sunday Morning about GMO’s. Some nitwit on there mentioned how our gubmint got that evil DDT off the market. 🙄
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Not this time, but I know all about it.
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There isn’t much left these days that will kill a darn insect thanks to the EPA.
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Looks like my hingus or dinky or whatever is workin’ again. Must’a had somethin’ to do with the snow. 🙂
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It wuz prolly froze. Mine is.
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😯 You have a dingus or a hinky and it quit working? That must have been awful .
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I got in trouble when I used the word you used so I shall neither confirm nor deny the existence thereof. 😉
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I had to stop laughing before I could type “LOL”.
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I am not against vaccinations, but I am against the lack of transparency about pharmaceuticals of all kinds. This article by Sharyl Attkisson shows both sides of the discussion more than any other I have come across. She doesn’t say what is right or wrong, just how the information is handled.
https://sharylattkisson.com/what-the-news-isnt-saying-about-vaccine-autism-studies/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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There are studies about all kinds of medical / diet issues that are sponsored by groups with an axe to grind, and they often end up in the news. I think we all know that.
It doesn’t change the facts that there is still no study that absolutely proves a link between vaccines and autism, that there are other possible causes of autism that aren’t being given the publicity that the supposed vaccine/autism link is given, and that the damage from the diseases that most vaccines target was/is real and documented.
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