Thousands of unvaccinated children enter schools

How many of those 135,000 kids with vaccine excemptions have autism. Has anyone asked?

The medical community and government can talk all they want about how it's a social responsibility to take risks with our own kids' lives, but if we don't keep complaining, they won't spend the money to find vaccines that pose less risk.

Well, the government has some interesting things posted on their websites about vaccines. I advise all to read this fascinating article here on these rather, by anyone's standards, truly unconventional ingredients in vaccines.

http://warofillusions.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/the-abbreviated/

When we vaccinate we bypass the bodys natural Secretory IgA Mucosa system. This is so the body recognizes the infection and builds the life long immunity that occurs when a child contracts a "wild" virus. Simply put, taking the "harmful" additives out will not solve the problem of building life long immunity. We are over stimulating our bodies and causing auto immune diseases. Our bodies are God made. He put this system in our body, to serves for a lifetime. All the auto immune diseases popping up are due to the over stimulation and assault of the immune system when we bypass the natural order of the Secretory IgA Mucosa, T cells, B cells. I am just starting to get the picture. We need to change our mindset, it is not simply about shots or no shots, but rather about how does our body naturally want to protect us and how do we not short circuit the process causing damage to our children

Being the parent of three children who are un-vaccinated, it outrages me when fear tactics are used instead of science. There are lots and lots of scary diseases out there, and the only ones that the CDC wants to talk about are the ones that they promote a vaccine for.

The science behind vaccines is lacking, and the ingredients are by far the only problem. The mere concept of injecting a disease, and toxic chemicals right into the blood of a baby is unconscionable. If parents want to fear something, it shouldn't be pertussis or Hib, which you can fully recover from (examples straight from this article). What they should fear are the autoimmune diseases that the over stimulation and too high antibody count is causing and scarier yet, most likely causing genetic mutations as a result. With autism rates now accepted to be 1 in 150, and reported by school districts as high as 1 in 76 for 2007 in coming Kindergartens, if parents want to fear something, it should be the vaccines and autism.

Lots of kids get sick with diseases that are 100% recoverable. That is life and that is precisely how are bodies are meant to work!!! If your child gets ill with something that there is no vaccine for, do you freak out and jump on a vaccine band wagon? No! You just get them better and go on with your lives.

Now, look at autism. Do you have any idea what these parents are going through trying to raise these children? There is no medicine, no over night hospital stay, and recovery. Just day after day with a child who is in some cases barely functioning. If we put the autism epidemic into perspective with these vaccine diseases, we should be terrified of autism! Instead we fear the chicken pox, because "they" tell us too. Wake up America!!!!!

Based on the amount of vaccinating our country does, we should all be amazingly healthy, if they were at all health contributing...but they are not. We are getting sicker and sicker.

The popularity of vaccines is the result of one thing and one thing alone: marketing. They are a multi-billion dollar per year industry and they have the CDC and FDA by the balls. They know they have messed up and know they are too afraid to admit it. The vaccine companies are livid that the government won't force the new STD vaccine on little 13 year old girls, and they are lobbing away.

When is Washington going to wake the heck up and take the health and safety of the American population into consideration more than the bottom line of the money hungry Pharmaceutical companies???

Well, Dr. Offit, according to the live-virus vaccine literature, a person vaccinated may be contagious for up to 6 weeks! In fact, numerous outbreaks throughout history were among the vaccinated. So, why is it that the medical community no longer tests people to see the strain going around? Maybe because the outbreak was caused by the vaccine?? Yes, they do use a particular strain for manufacturing vaccines. Keep in mind everyone - just because there is an outbreak going around - it doesn't necessarily mean that the unvaccinated are to blame. The medical community is just trying to find someone to blame and get you to vaccinate your children. There is a lot of money involved. Fear has been the only thing keeping vaccines going.

I exercised my right as the one who conceived and gave birth to my children, starting 23 years ago, not to inject them with the poisons that are called vaccines. I will not sacrifice my children up to the science Gods in the name of herd immunity. Our goal should be to enhance our children's immune systems rather than assault them with vaccines! There was enough evidence against it way back then so I did not make my decision based on "all the erroneous information that I found on the web" as so many promoters of vaccines like Paul Offit often spout in articles similar to this one and on the blogs. I made the decision because I wanted to give my children the best chance at a life free from chronic debilitating diseases that is too often the result of multiple vaccines given in rapid fire. There is NO safe vaccine PERIOD! I am more than ever certain that I made the best decision for my children as none of them have any sort of delayed development, chronic disease, or autoimmune disease that is so prevalent amongst their peers. None of them ever even had an ear infection as babies or toddlers and I did not subject them to "well baby visits" that are mostly designed to make sure that the vaccine makers get their products sold. I have and will continue to avoid so called modern preventative medicine. It, in my opinion, is the root of the problem and not the solution! I will not be herded into submission and you shouldn't follow the herd blindly either unless you do plenty of research and decide to. I know with all my heart that the truth will be revealed about the horrors of vaccines and that justice will be served to those who continue to push them while knowing in their hearts how harmful they really can be!

Be weary of taking advice from those who profit from the herd immunity theory. Their motives are to be questioned!

If vaccines really work then why are the vaccinated worried about the unvaccinated. We live in a country where we have a right to choose many things we are told about abortion being a women's right because it is her body her choice but yet we are told to vaccinate and mandated in some cases what a joke this country needs to assess if it is a democracy or a socialist society. My children were fully vaccinated and now have autism don't tell me it isn't from vaccines they have mitochondrial disorders proven by genetics testing and should have been exempted from vaccines but nobody offered a $400 dollar test that could have saved us and the state 1000's of dollars. As for Paul Offitt he holds to rotavirus patent and gets millions from vaccine manufacturers so of course he will support them. In my eyes the whole system is flawed and needs to be broken apart and reformed with unbiased people not in pharma's pockets.

There are many people who believe that children are "over-vaccinated" and prone to auto-immune diseases. I think we should step back and read up on all the poisons that are now in the air, the water , even the food of this country.
You think there's mercury in vaccines? Really - what about in the air and the food? You get my drift.
Big industry has been filling the land and sea with plastics and toxins for decades. Do you even know if you live near somebody's old waste dump? Have you checked it out? Do you let the gummint check it out for you? Here's news: they can't afford to! Do you live near a street full of auto exhaust? Who has buried something near your water supply, or under the local school? Has a gas station existed there? Do you think the gummint of the GOP cares if you ever find? Let's not do the research, let's just get rid of all the pollution laws! Let's drill for more oil and make even bigger cars! What we don't know. . . . . . .
Most food is now full of artificial tastes and sweeteners. As the man said - "The popularity of these chemicals is due to one thing and one thing only - marketing." And on and on. Animals are pumped full of antibiotics, and resistant bacteria are growing. Eventually the antibiotics won't work, except for some very strong ones, which really ARE dangerous.
You're so sure that medicines are weakening the kids? But a thousand things are doing it . Children are vulnerable to harm from ANY source of poison - and there are too many to count. You want to blame the medicines that protect them from infections. But what SENSE is there in that? Your kid gets brain fever from measles, you'll change your tune - but quick.
As for GOD - I don't think the Big Guy likes all the poison we are putting into HIS world. Or on second thought does the world now belong to MegaChem Inc.

I'm a college educated mom - I'm a Registered Nurse. My kids followed a delayed vax schedule when they were born. Why in the world anyone would allow a Hepatitis B vax at birth is beyond me. Anyway, we followed the vax recommendations but did it on our own timetable. I stopped vaxing completely when my youngest had a severe neurological reaction to his MMR. My child also had a dangerously high fever after a Prevnar vax. My child is okay now, but what I saw and what he experienced after the MMR was horrific!
Since then I've really researched the pros and cons and understand more what drives the recommended vax schedule (medical profits). Like with anything in life, you have pros and cons that each individual/each family must weigh. Personally, I'd never forgo the Pertussis vax for me kids but I also wouldn't judge another parent for doing so. Where I live, too many people get Pertussis and I've seen many kids hospitalized where I work with it. For my family, that vax was a must. However, I deeply regret getting my kids the chicken pox vax. I wish I would have allowed them to actually get the virus and develop a real, natural immunity to the chicken pox. The Hep B vax is a joke unless you are at high risk, such as myself working in healthcare.
My whole point is we shouldn't judge those who do or not vaccinate their kids. I don't know if mercury in vax's causes autism or not. I do know their are many parents now taking care of kids who are bedridden after neurological reactions after vaxs and who have kids who suffer seizures now. I bet they wish they had opted out of vaxs just like the parents whose kids died of Pertussis wish they'd had vaccinated. It's roulette people. Parents should get to decide what risks they are comfortable with, not the government. Afterall, it's the parent who has to live with the decision.
And for the people who make judgments without researching, do you *really* think everything the government tells you to do is in your child's best interest??? If so, research oral Polio vax and all the deaths attributed to Rotovirus vaccine. And I'm not 100% sure, but I think some of the original strains of the vax lines came from aborted fetuses. That's not a big issue for me, but some people/religions might find that questionable.
Don't be a sheep, look into pros and cons for yourself and make the best decision for YOU!

There has been no link between Autism and Vaccinatons. Would you rather see your child die of a disease that you could have prevented? No,you would rather jump on the uneducated band wagon of people that need to blame the medical field. Who do people blame when your child has Downs Syndrome?

When the day arrives that the administrating Doctor, the Pharmaceutical company and the government takes the responsibility for the shots given, I might reconsider my decision. As it stands now a parent signs papers releasing responsibility to all involved parties. I don't trust that, therefore I don't vaccinate. If they are SO safe and necessary why don't those persons promoting vaccines take responsibility for them?

There should be NO EXEMPTIONS, PERIOD!

No shots NO SCHOOL, PERIOD!

It USED to be that those not vaccinated did not pose a large threat, HOWEVER, w/ the massive illegal alien invasion many diseases that WERE EXTREMELY rare have become less rare. But it is NOT just those that are NOT supposed to be in this country illegally that pose the problem...
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If a child is NOT vaccinated & is taken to the doc's office for symptoms of an illness that the parents are NOT aware of being a DANGEROUS contagion & there are kids @ that office that have not YET gotten their shots (say infants still working on their schedule) the YET to be vaccinated WILL acquire the disease.
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This happened JUST a few months ago in CA. Parents of a 7-yr-old child NOT VACCINATED went on a trip out of the USA w/ their child & returned w/ their child infected & took him to the dr's b/c of the 'generic' symptoms of fever, sore throat & the like...their UN-VACCINATED child INFECTED 4 children in that office w/ measles INCLUDING 3 of them LESS THAN 12 months old & 1 of those infants was in the hospital for several days due to dehydration. This is ON TOP of him infecting his 2 siblings AND 4 other kids in his school (all of those 4 had parents that had gotten PBE's aka vaccination exemptions), I do not know if those 4 from the school or the 4 from the dr's office passed the infection on to any other infants not YET vaccinated...but I do know 1 of the infants from the dr's office went onto an airplane on a trip to HI WHILE infectious but the parents NOT knowing such @ the time & the last I heard (I've since lost track of the story...or more likely the media just got 'tired' of it & moved onto something else) they were trying to track down the passengers from that plane but I never heard if anybody else on it got infected let alone if they passed it onto other not YET vaccinated infants.

IMO, the parents of the 7-yr-old should be sued by the parents of the infants in the dr's office & their 3 children should be prevented from returning to school until they're vaccinated, PERIOD.

In JUST the time period of Jan '08 to April 25th 'o8 there were 64 cases of measles...the most in almost a decade for that same time period...& compared to ALL of '05 when there were only 55 (STILL 55 TOO MANY though) & 66 for ALL of '06.

Yes, your children are 'yours' BUT YOU do NOT have the right to infect the children/infants of OTHERS via your un-vaccinated child.

I have ONE caveat (YES, EXEMPTION)...the ONLY vaccine that I would EXEMPT from requirements is the vary-rarely-deadly varicella/chickenpox one...although later in life when the child is an adult if they did acquire chicken pox as a child they will have to either get the vaccine for shingles (a re-activation of chickenpox) or risk getting shingles & shingles can be DEADLY.

But my earlier statements regarding NO EXEMPTIONS STILL STANDS for ALL other vaccines.

Momo5 says "I am more than ever certain that I made the best decision for my children as none of them have any sort of delayed development, chronic disease, or autoimmune disease that is so prevalent amongst their peers. None of them ever even had an ear infection as babies or toddlers and I did not subject them to "well baby visits" that are mostly designed to make sure that the vaccine makers get their products sold."

Interestingly, I did the opposite -- I "subjected" my child to all immunizations and well-baby visits, and my child also had no ear infections, delayed development, chronic disease, or autoimmune disease. The same is true for myself, my husband, and all my immediate family members who all received their vaccinations. So if it's as you say - "There is NO safe vaccine PERIOD!" - then how did we avoid all these horrible diseases?

While I acknowledge that there may be some immune systems overwhelmed by immunizations, especially when a lot are grouped together in a single dose, I don't think that justifies skipping them altogether.

What I find appalling is that the government and other health organizations are putting all their money and effort towards propaganda like this trying to guilt parents into vaccinating out of some sense of social responsibility instead of addressing the reasons parents choose not to vaccinate.

If they would actually make an effort to make the vaccines safer by eliminating the toxins in the shots (formaldehyde, mercury which is STILL in almost all of them, aluminum, phenol, and ethylene glycol/antifreeze) and recommend a schedule that isn't INSANE (giving a 10 pound baby six shots in one day? I wouldn't even do that to myself!) then a lot of parents wouldn't have a problem vaccinating.

For most of us it isn't that we are against vaccinating on principle. It's that we have researched the vaccines and weighed the possible consequences of the disease against the documented side effects of the vaccine and decided it is not in the best interest of our child's health to get them. Maybe the pressure should be on the manufacturers to improve vaccine safety instead of pressuring parents to go against common sense. And anyone who thinks it's okay to give a baby six shots in one day and inject them with substances labeled as neurotoxins and carcinogens by the EPA, FDA and CDC lacks any sort of common sense.

Do some research, why don't you. There have been many attempts at proving autism is caused by vaccine, and none of them have been substantiated. There is NO proof that the mercury ever did cause it, and they don't even use mercury in the vaccine anymore. I guess you would rather have your child be permanently injured or die because of a disease long eradicated due to a stupid theory. By the way, the British journal that started all of that hype has retracted the article claiming it in the first place. Ignorance, ignorance ... Think for a change.

What can the medical or educational community do amongst religious sects that refuse to have children vacinated on religious grounds? To move against them is a violation of thier civil rights. Refuse them entry to a school and you have a law suite on your hands. Remove your children from the systym and you land in jail unless you home school. what is the answer?

I couldn't agree with you more. Instead of investing scarce resources and time on making loving and protective families feel guilty - more should be done to make vacines safe.

I was raised in the 60's and like millions of others, had my series of childhood vaccines. So when I was blessed with a beautiful bouncing baby boy, I thought nothing of having his first round of vaccines. That was when our horrible nightmare began. My perfect baby who was very alert, strong and cooing just hours before was now motionless, quiet and non-responsive to sound, light or touch.

After several trips to the ER, his doctors and a pediatric neurology specialist, the episode still remains a mystery. The general view was that he suffered brain and tissue swelling, due to his little body's inability to react to the vaccines. It wasn't until several weeks later that he returned to his prior state. Still, we will never know what whether he suffered any permenant harm.

So, before the almighty judge parents who choose not to vacinate... they should think about how they would feel if an episode like ours happened to them. I still think vacines are important, but more needs to be done to make them safe... and more limited. I question the real necessity for so many of them. They body is a perfect design of engineering - we need to let it work, and create its own immunities. Before we know it, we'll be vacinating for hangnails!

Reminds me of Jim Jones.