"M.a.r.k P.r.o.b.e.r.t-April 5, 2004" <M.a.r.k P.r.o.b.e.r.t
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time.com0,9171,1101040412Open ↗
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(Yet another example of crappy reporting!)
Quoted message said:Who Needs Shots? A lot of parents are still choosing not
to vaccinate their babies. But
at
Quoted message said:what risk?
Quoted message said:By CHRISTINE GORMAN
Quoted message said:Monday, Apr. 12, 2004 When an Iowa College student
returned from a class trip to India last
month,
Quoted message said:he brought back more than the usual souvenirs. The
man, 19, was
infected
Quoted message said:with measles, a disease that is largely under control in
the U.S. but
is
Quoted message said:endemic in India and can cause high fevers, deafness,
inflammation of
the
Quoted message said:brain and even death.
lol....Virtually *anything* can cause death.
He wound up infecting at least one other person on the
Quoted message said:plane, and Iowa health officials confirmed last week
that a third
person
Quoted message said:later developed the disease on the ground.
Ages? Vaccination status? I'm betting those infected were
also adults, simply because if they were kids, health
officials would use that fact in their propaganda.
Quoted message said:What happened? It turns out the young man, like several
others in his college group, comes from a family that
doesn't believe in
vaccination, and
Quoted message said:so he had never had his measles shots. Altogether, six
people in the
group
Quoted message said:developed the illness while in India.
Again, age and vaccination status? I'm inclined to believe
most, if not all, of the others infected *were* vaccinated,
for the same reason as above. (I think health officials
would announce that they--the others infected--also were not
vaccinated, if that was the case. No value, and perhaps some
harm, in publicizing the fact that they were vaccinated.)
When doctors at the Iowa Department of
Quoted message said:Public Health learned about their condition, they asked
the ailing
students
Quoted message said:and their unvaccinated traveling companions to delay their
return to
the
Quoted message said:U.S. so as not to spread the infection. Instead, says
Kevin Teale, a spokesman for the public-health department,
the 19year-old "came back
early
Quoted message said:against our advice."
Quoted message said:----
Comment: An excellent example of 'free choice not to
vaccinate'
arrogance.
Quoted message said:With any luck, the Iowa outbreak may be limited to just
the three
cases. But
Quoted message said:it raises an important question: Why would anyone choose
not to get vaccinated? For some it's a matter of religion.
For others it's a
concern
Quoted message said:about possible side effects. All vaccines have some small
risk. Some
parents
Quoted message said:and even a few doctors also are worried that recent
increases in the
rate of
Quoted message said:autism and earlier occurrences of Type 1 diabetes could
have been
caused by
Quoted message said:routine childhood vaccines.
Forgoing vaccination boils down to three reasons: Safety,
efficacy, and/or necessity. IME, the majority of non-
vaccinators cite the third reason, and their
beliefs/opinions are not predicated upon "herd immunity";
they're simply, despite the dire warnings of possible
complications/sequelae of a disease, no more afraid of
formerly routine (endemic) diseases than they are of, say, a
cold or the flu.
Quoted message said:It has taken a while, but the best and largest studies
have shown that
not
Quoted message said:to be the case. Eighteen months ago, a giant study of
practically
every
Quoted message said:child in Denmark found no causative link between
autism and the
so-called
Quoted message said:MMR shot - the triple vaccine against measles, mumps and
rubella.
Another
Quoted message said:big Danish study last week found no link between various
childhood
vaccines
Quoted message said:and Type 1 diabetes.
Guess Ms. Gorman decided to cram as many vaccine/vaccination
issues into her article as possible! <g>
Quoted message said:The Iowa incident reminds us that when people decide
- for any
reason - not
Quoted message said:to vaccinate, they are endangering not just themselves but
everyone
around
Quoted message said:them.
Gee, just like when they drive, or ski, or golf, or hunt,
or (if a physician/surgeon) prescibe drugs/operate, or...
Being unvaccinated, in and of itself, poses a danger TO NO
ONE. You might assert that an individual poses a
*potential* danger once he/she is infected, but vaccinated
individuals who've nonetheless contracted a given disease
pose the same danger.
Quoted message said:From the Apr. 12, 2004 issue of TIME magazine
(If you want to read the vaccination opinions views of
another Gorman [Linda; the director of the Independence
Institute's Health Care Policy Center], you can find some at
i2i.orgauthor.aspxOpen ↗. The II HCPC's
February bulletin had a good article, "Do We Spend Too Much
on Immunizations?" in its February issue;
i2i.orghcpcfeb2004.aspxOpen ↗.)