Measles Outbreak Traces To Vaccine-Refusing Megachurch

[namey]

A measles outbreak in Texas traces to a congregation of a megachurch whose leader, Kenneth Copeland, reportedly has warned followers away from vaccines, advocating for faith healing and pushing the debunked notion that vaccines cause autism. One of Copeland’s churches, Eagle Mountain International Church in North Texas, is the epicenter of the

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[jimmyblue]

WELL IMAGINE THAT.

[idemandjustice]

This really pisses me off. Also annoying is some schadenfreude I've seen going around my facebook, like these people are getting what they deserved, and it's totally going to be contained just to them and no one else!

[anaralia]

I live in hippie central and know so many of these types. Mostly well off, well educated women.

For the most part though, they don't consider vaxing to be an autism risk, they just spout generalities about chemicals and overloading babies's immune systems. And they post articles on FB about that one kid that was supposedly blinded by a shot or something.

[free_spoons]

It sounds like your friends hangout with my college roommate, who just posted an article about mercury in vaccines. :/

She said she won't be vaccinating her daughter. I told her that if my nephew was in the same school system as her daughter I would fight to get her daughter out of school until she had her vaccines.

[tilmon]

You know what's really funny? They no longer routinely use mercury as a preservative in vaccines, and use neomycin instead. Guess what a lot of people are allergic to? Did you guess neomycin?

[chaya]

Didn't they switch away from mercury because people were unnecessarily losing their shit over it?

[tamingheadfauna]

Ugh.

Also, a good reminder to me that I need to get a booster series in the next six to eight months.

[nicosian]

Ugh Anti-vaxxers.

Its never been a question for us, we ARE vaccinating the small new lad we have.( oh he's going to love that next month) My sister's a rabid anti vax person because "Jenny said so" and ugh, there's no reasoning with her.

Autism isn't fatal, some of these diseases can be.

[roseofjuly]

I don't even get that - Jenny McCarthy has no scientific or medical credentials whatsoever. Not even so much as a BA in biology or something. Why listen to her and not years of medical science and historical evidence showing that vaccinations work and are safe?