I hate it when parents get preachy with this topic. Good parenting shouldn't be judged by whether or not you want to risk serious or not so serious side effects from something like vaccines. There's a significant amount of parents comfortable taking that risk to keep diseases controlled and what not. It's not like everyone is going to stop taking their kid to the doctor because they're not comfortable with vaccinations.
I think that most kids born in the 80s/early 90s only got the first shot for MMR but didn't get the second one you need (or is it most get the first 2 and not the 3rd).
I thought it was two shots, one really early in babyhood (w/e w/e growth and development class, I shun your terms) and one sometime before kindergarten?
Yeah, I think that's what it is, according to my research the second dose was only introduced in the mid-90s. So that could explain a lot of the outbreaks.
I was born in 1981 and was one of the first kids to get the MMR in the UK in 1987. I'd just recovered from viral meningitis which was triggered by a bout of Rubella. They gave me the vax because there was a risk I could get Rubella again and then meningitis again. The meningitis has left me partially deaf in my left ear and no peripheral vision in my left eye as well as with severe migraines (and we're talking 21 years ago now!). If the MMR had been available a year earlier and I'd had it I wouldn't have these issues. So yeah, I pick the MMR over brain damage. I have been proven to be now immune to Rubella so there was no birth defects risk caused by that for my son!
Also, one study published by one guy (the rest of the researchers withdrew their names from the paper) which was fabricated and everyone believes that over multiple controlled and replicable studies which show there is no link. It just shows how people like to have a cause for everything, even if it's been proven to be untrue.
I don't think half of the people that refuse the meningococcal vaccine know exactly what side effects can happen even if you don't die. Thank you for sharing this!
You're welcome. I like to do my part for awareness! I even had the viral type which doesn't kill you and for which there is no vax. With my other health issues I guess I'm just unfortunate. In bacterial types if you don't die you can even lose limbs - I've seen kids with no arms or legs (and even only partial noses) because of meningitis.
I wasn't familiar with the one from earlier this year (if that's what you're talking about) until I wikid it just now. But I'm referring to optional vaccinations that cause controversy with side effects. I believe the required ones pose lesser risk than the non-required.
Yeah, it's kind of odd that this article came up, since just today the doctors I work with were discussing the multi-state outbreak.
What non-required ones are you talking about? A lot of the time it's the "required" vaccines that parents might skip on-- the vaccine has proven to be so effective that you don't really see it in the U.S. anymore, so parents think they're safe.
For the record, I'm not a parent, I'm not looking to have kids and I'm not looking to tell other people how to raise kids, I'm just looking at it from a public health point of view. I don't mean to be rude or pushy, I hope I'm not coming off that way.
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Measles outbreak say whaaaat
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Also, one study published by one guy (the rest of the researchers withdrew their names from the paper) which was fabricated and everyone believes that over multiple controlled and replicable studies which show there is no link. It just shows how people like to have a cause for everything, even if it's been proven to be untrue.
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What non-required ones are you talking about? A lot of the time it's the "required" vaccines that parents might skip on-- the vaccine has proven to be so effective that you don't really see it in the U.S. anymore, so parents think they're safe.
For the record, I'm not a parent, I'm not looking to have kids and I'm not looking to tell other people how to raise kids, I'm just looking at it from a public health point of view. I don't mean to be rude or pushy, I hope I'm not coming off that way.
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