ShareThisHundreds of thousands of children are going to school this fall without protection from deadly diseases.More parents are deciding not to vaccinate their children against mumps, measles, rubella, polio and other dangerous diseases. The parents are refusing to vaccinate because of concerns that the vaccinations themselves are harmful, or because of the growing cost and complexity of getting the shots.A Scripps Howard News Service review of incomplete surveys submitted to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows at least 135,000 children (out of about 4 million new students) started kindergarten last fall exempt from vaccine requirements. In some states, one in 10 children did not get vaccinated, and in some communities 30 percent of the children were unprotected.The same CDC survey system reported that at least 76,000 middle school students around the country started the last school year with exemptions that allowed them to be incompletely vaccinated.The surveys are incomplete because not all school districts in all states file complete reports to CDC.Even so, experts who track the surveys say the number of exemptions has expanded from fewer than 1 percent to at least 2 percent or 3 percent of students in many states.More worrisome was a CDC report issued in April that found more than one in four toddlers under age 2 are not being vaccinated as recommended, mostly due to doses being missed rather than no shots at all."I'm afraid those numbers may more accurately reflect what's happening with the vaccination of young children,'' said Dr. Paul Offit, chief of infectious diseases and head of the vaccine institute at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia. "It's unlikely that many will catch up before they enter school, and with exemptions so easily granted, they don't have to."Referring to the protection of the entire population, Offit says he's afraid "we've already dropped below the level of vaccine coverage where herd immunity exists for some diseases. At some point, we're going to be forced to decide whether it is an inalienable right to catch and transmit potentially fatal infections."A Scripps Howard News Service poll found that 56 percent of Americans think parents should be able to exempt their children from vaccinations for "philosophical reasons."A series of measles outbreaks through July represented the greatest surge of the disease in this country in more than a decade. It has infected at least 131 people in 15 states and underscores the danger posed by pockets of unvaccinated people, the CDC says. Most of them, 112, were not vaccinated, and of the 95 eligible for vaccination by age and medical status, 63 had not gotten shots because of religious or philosophical beliefs.Seventeen of the victims picked up the disease overseas, but the rest were infected in the United States. "That's what's so concerning to us,'' said Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease. "Measles is imported into this country all the time, but this year, we've seen it spread to much larger groups of unvaccinated people --as many as 30 in one group of home-schooled children in Illinois -- than we've had in recent years.''Saad Omer, assistant professor at Emory University's School of Public Health in Atlanta and several other leading vaccine researchers reported two years ago that in states that more readily grant exemptions, not only are more children opted out, but the rate of pertussis, or whooping cough, infections are 50 percent higher in those states.Omer and others warn the unvaccinated can put not only others who haven't gotten shots at risk of exposure, but even some who think they're immune."Most first-line vaccines are about 85 to 95 percent effective, so even those who have done the right thing by getting vaccinated on time have a 10 to 20 percent chance they're still unprotected,'' Omer said. "So if I'm one of those people, what are the consequences of people around me not doing the right thing? It puts me in a great deal of danger."In all but two states, parents can obtain exemption from mandatory school vaccinations if they declare immunization contrary to their religious beliefs. Twenty states also allow exemptions based on "personal belief" or philosophical objection to vaccines. Every state allows children to be excused from vaccine requirements if a doctor finds the shots might jeopardize their health.But public health officials say unvaccinated children -- and some unvaccinated adults -- are at the center of increasingly frequent outbreaks of illnesses that most doctors have studied in books but never seen.That's how Kelly Lacek's youngest son, Matthew, came to be something of a celebrity patient at Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital two years ago, at age three. Few doctors there had ever seen a child infected by the bacteria Haemophilus Influenzae Type b. Before Hib vaccine for infants was introduced in 1990, the disease struck down 20,000 American children a year and killed 600.Matthew "got so sick, so fast. He was hunched over and couldn't breathe (the infection often causes severe swelling in the throat),'' Lacek recalled. "We took him to our local emergency room and they were treating him like it was an asthma attack. But this one young doctor asked me if he'd been vaccinated. I said no and within seconds he realized how life-threatening Matthew's condition really was. He saved his life.''Looking back, Lacek considers how she came to doubt vaccines for her kids. With her firstborn, Ashley, "I didn't think twice about shots, but then we started hearing about the autism concerns and it seemed like I was surrounded by friends with children getting diagnosed with those conditions."Working as registrar at the private school her children attend in Monroeville, Pa., "I saw so many cards come through stating the mother wanted a religious exemption from vaccination."Her second child, Stephen, had gotten his first "baby shots,'' but when Lacek asked her pediatrician if she could prove to her there was no mercury in the vaccines, "she couldn't and I said, okay, we're not doing it. I got a religious exemption for him and Matthew when he was born."Today, all the Lacek kids are fully vaccinated. Kelly Lacek is part of a national network called Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases, urging families to immunize."I think making people aware of real-life stories like ours, letting them know that these killer diseases vaccines are meant to prevent are still out there, helps put the risks in a different light,'' Lacek said.Mary-Clayton Enderlein of Mill Creek, Wash., was in her early 30s when she became infected with pertussis from a baby whose family did not immunize. She was also 9-months pregnant with her second son, Colin.Although she'd been vaccinated, her immunity had worn down. She thought she had a respiratory infection when Colin was born, but "I gave him pertussis with my first kiss." Her son was sick for many weeks, but survived and is now finishing high school."I still have friends that don't immunize and I understand their reasons, but you need to balance those fears with social responsibility,'' Enderlein said. "I worry at some point we're going to hit some critical mass of unvaccinated kids and see an epidemic that's a lot more compelling than the possibility of adverse reactions to vaccines."(E-mail Lee Bowman at bowmanl(at)shns.com. Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.scrippsnews.com)
Thousands of unvaccinated children enter schools
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Vaccines/Autism
How many of those 135,000 kids with vaccine excemptions have autism. Has anyone asked?
There has been no link
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?
You can't find a link if nobody is looking for one.
That doesn't really answer the question, does it?
If there is no link between autism and vaccines then one would expect to see a similar percentage of children who have not been vaccinated who exhibit autistic behavior. Is that what we see? Has anyone done a study? I am willing to accept there is no link, but I would like to see the statistics.
What I do see is vaccine companies say there is no link just like tobacco companies used to say cigarettes don't cause cancer. Then these same companies lobby Congress for protection from lawsuits. If the vaccines are safe, why did they seek protection? The FDA was founded to protect people from dangerous drugs, but the situation is now such that the drug companies are protected by the government from having to pay for damage their products cause instead.
Actions speak louder than words.
Perhaps there is no link, but people are sometimes severely injured by vaccinations. It is possible other times the damage is more subtle and a link is harder to establish - particularly if there is a strong incentive not to find one.
It is a simple question, link or not, what percentage of unvaccinated children develop autism? Is it 1 in 110? Is it 1 in 100,000?
Vitamin D deficiency is also suspected in the development of autism. What is the vitamin D status of children with autism and how does that compare with the general population?
I don't know what causes autism and since the diagnosis is based on the description of behavior, it could be a number of things produce similar symptoms.
vaccine /autism connection
Vaccine producers and polititians and people who earn their livings promoting vaccines have all the power. The majority of people are followers who are intellectually lazy, and would more likely accept any form of vaccine if it meant they didn't have to do research first. Many are trustful, but gullible.
In todays world we are being primed and are already accepting that death is an acceptible side effect of vaccines and pharmaceuticals. What other business could get away with killing people and get off with a pat on the back for their humanitarianism.
When governments work to protect them from us rather us from them, you understand who runs that government.
with autism rates increasing from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 150 in a few decades, in another decade we may see practically all children suffering from it. This however, raises no alarms, in fact governments oppose research directed at autism etiology, because they prefer to keep it out of site/out of mind. If you follow the crucification and professional castration of Dr Andrew Wakefield, you'll understand what fate awaits those who speak out.
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Intellecutally lazy?
Wow, really? I've spent hours and hours and hours looking for a credible link between autism and found nothing but superstition, fear and plain old ignorance as evidence. Every single bit of science worth is merit show no link of any kind. The idea that "they're all in on it" is stupid. I've know way to many doctors, scientist and health care providers who's only want in life is to make peoples lives better, but I guess they're in on it too eh?
If your biggest argument is "It's a conspiracy man!" then please sit down and make room for those of us who want to have an informed discussion. Don't let silly little facts get in the way of your baseless ideas.
If there's ever an overwhelming mountain of evidence to the contrary, I'll change my mind, but for the moment the anti-vaccine folks seem to rely on fear, conspiracy, anecdote, and ignorance as the basis for their beliefs.
Really? maybe you could spend
Really? maybe you could spend sometime doing research. DS is a cromosone defect. But if you'd like, maybe we can blame that defect on the vaccinations the mother received all her life?...
you dont find it a little coincidental that autism hardley ever existed (coincidentally before vaccinations existed) and also coincidental 95% of these cases creep up on completely healthy children right around the same age that these poor innocent children are vaccinated for MMR ?
think about it a little.
Spontaneous genetic mutations
Vaccines have been shown to cause spontaneous genetic mutations. What do you think the body does with the chemical soup vaccines contain. They are not pristine medicines. Read about their ingredients. The body has to somehow process these unnatural ingredients that are injected in such an unnatural way. We have not evolved an immune system that can handle this type of invasive assault. Why does the US have a National Vaccine injury Compensation Program if vaccines are safe? There are two reasons, 1( vaccines are not safe 2) The program was created because vaccine producers were nearly litigated out of business, and this program protects them from new litigation. They are being protected while their products destroy us.
The other thing is: if all
The other thing is: if all the kool-aid drinkers fully-vaccinate their own children, then who cares if other kids aren't vaccinated? Why, their own kids have the "silver bullet" that stops ALL diseases and they will be complete unaffected by those diseases that the unvaccinated harbor, so who cares?
Amen! The only reason to
Amen! The only reason to FORCE it on people is to FORCE money out of their wallets. The only alleged consequences are to those kids whose parents CHOSE not to get it. Seriously, how intellectually neutered do people have to be to not realize this?
Vaccines and Autism
Cases of Autism were documented back in the 1940's well before vaccines were produced. Has anyone thought that perhaps a pre-disposition to autism and a combination of environmental factors are to blame? Have you read a food label lately? There are words in there that I cannot pronounce. Those preservatives and additives weren't around back in the 40's, 50's and 60's. Rates of autism have gone up as technology has advanced. Autism has gone up as we have genetically engineered our food and made our foods more "convienent." Nothing is home made or home grown anymore. If vaccines caused autism then wouldn't the rate of autism be MUCH higher than it is? All three of my children have been vaccinated and well, none of my children have been diagnosed as autistic.
The truth of the matter is that yes, autism is very unfortunate and tragic, but until you can find concrete evidence as to the cause of autism it's not fair to blame one particular thing versus another.
Back in the 1943 Dr. Leo Kanner said that autism was a product of "refrigerator mothers."
When Dr. Andrew Wakefield's study concluded that the MMR vaccine causes autism, no one knew that what he forgot to mention was that he was paid a substantial sum of money from attorney Robert Barr to come up with that conclusion so that Barr could sue the pharmacutical companies. Dr. Wakefield didn't mention that 8 out of the 12 children in the study were the children of parents who had hired Robert Barr to sue on their behalf. All of this was proven and that's the reason why Dr. Horton, the editor-in-chief of the Lancet retracted the article. What's more is that NO ONE had EVER been able to reproduce the same results that Dr. Wakefield and his collegues claimed to have found.
Read Dr Wakefields book for
Read Dr Wakefields book for the whole story, not just big pharma sponsored media coverage. I wonder how the human race survived all this time without going extinct, seeing as how vaccines are a relatively new invention. Heavy metals are found in all kinds of canned, preservative filled, microwavable dinners and such. Our lifestyle is heavy metal filled, and vaccines for some children tip the scale into disease. Vaccines would not be so offensive if the medical community gave parents actual informed consent, telling them of the real dangers.
Dr, Wakefield
This doctor has recently been DISCREDITED and BANNED from practicing medicine in the UK. Is this really the guy that you want to be taking advice from?
The refusal of significant
The refusal of significant numbers of parents to vaccinate their children has created a sizable group of people needing very much to be studied, and has raised a number of important public health issues. Thanks.
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People don't blame anyone
People don't blame anyone when their child has Down Syndrome, because they are inteligent enough to know that it's a chromosomal problem that cannot be prevented. There is a definite trend that children show signs of autism after receiving certain vaccines. I'm not saying not to vaccinate, merely that your anger regarding the subject does not make the trend untrue. Just because your child is vaccinated doesn't mean he or she will never get the disease. Intelligent parents who love their children will study both sides of the issue with an open mind.
disease exposure or vaccine injury
Not all people who choose to reject vaccination are afraid or ignorant - most are awake, clear-minded, critical thinkers using their powers of intelligent discernment, who see the medical & pharmaceutical industries' scientifically unsupported denial of the obvious as a very typical & tiresome - if not technically criminal - position regarding iatrogenesis. The mushrooming expolsion of autism has perfectly correlated with the increase in the number of mandated childhood vacinations; the state with the most vaccines mandated has the highest rate of autism...more than 1%. There is plenty of credible science linking mild to severe brain & neurologic, immune system, and organ damage to vaccines (as well as other environmental toxins -vaccines are the most universally applied & consistent exposure). The pro-vaccination mainstream medical paradigm is wrong again and, as usual, unwilling to admit it. Insurance companies refuse to cover vaccine injury - wonder why? Too much risk involved.
The 112 unvaccinated people referenced in the article - and all unvaccinated people everywhere -who contracted measels naturally are now stronger and now have LIFELONG IMMUNITY, which is the only true immunity by definition - and NONE of the vaccinated people have anything but 'possible' and 'limited' and 'temporary' protection from contracting the disease naturally & achieving lifelong immunity. Yet they all have been exposed to the avoidable risk of vaccine injury, damage & death. Meases is an extremely benign disease in childhood; childhood vaccination leaves one vulnerable to possible serious complications from adult measles. This also is true of mumps and other infections.
The great majority of purtussis deaths occur in babies under 2 months of age who are not even eligible for vaccination; why are they not vigilantly protected from exposure to contact with recently vaccinated people? Pertussis vaccination does not provide immunity, nor does contracting pertussis; the vaccine is not 100% effective for protection, and carries more risks - injury, permanent damage & death - than benefits for those who receive it.
SIDS is the #3 cause of death in babies under 1yr of age; 78% of all SIDS deaths occur within 3 weeks of vaccination, Side effects, adverse reactions, etc. listed on the manufacturer's package inserts of ALL vaccines list death as a possible result of administration...yet vaccine injury does not even appear on the list of risk factors for SIDS according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. What's wrong with that picture?
I could go on because the facts regarding the risks & benefits of both the vaccines and the diseases are very clearly defined by the CDC, the FDA, the drug manufacturers, etc...most people don't bother to read the information given fully, so only get the front page, take it at face-value "...vaccines are safe & effective" and "everyone has to/should be vaccinated" propaganda/PR/salesmanship/scare tactics/hype/BS. A poorly informed choice is no choice at all; mainstream medicine's - as well as the government's - lack of committment to upholding and adhering to the Nuremburg & Helsinki codes, on which the principles & law of informed consent are based, is deeply offensive & disgraceful...and in fact, technically criminal.
Do some research, why don't
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.
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Just because the article was
Just because the article was withdrawn does not make it untrue. Money talks at the end of the day! I have done months and months of research on this subject and I know that vaccines are linked to many many problems. Have a look around and do some reading. Read the testimonials and Doctors advice. Vaccines like everything else is a business and they don't care about your child. The head of one of the biggest companies confessed that he would not vaccinate his kids and grandkids!! Each parent must decide for themselves but make it an educated decision not a fear based one!!
Many articles are retracted
Many articles are retracted due to pressure from drug lobbies (advertising dollars and funding are threatened). The point is that it doesn't matter whether or not it causes it. You can't say it undoubtedly does not any more than you can say it does. There is little money in research to point out drawbacks, but tons of money in saying how 'good' it is. The point is people can choose. The simple fact is choosing not to imposes no risk to those that take the vaccine, if they believe in its efficacy, and no NEW risk to those who choose not to.
Seriously, your anger does
Seriously, your anger does nothing but make you seem like a very invalid source. Personal attacks are illogical and empowering to your opponent because they make you look way too defensive and afraid of being proved wrong. Of course parents of unvaccinated children would not rather have their children be permanently injured or die because of a disease long eradicated due to a stupid theory. And I would bet that almost every parent who has CHOSEN not to vaccinate their child has thought about the subject much more than the average parent who chooses to vaccinate their child. Maybe you should put more thought into your responses, especially ones challenging other people to think.
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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
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Kinda ironic that Offit would
Kinda ironic that Offit would want vaccines when he actually produced one and then sold it for millions.
Kinda ironic that Offit would
Kinda ironic that Offit would want vaccines when he actually produced one and then sold it for millions.
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Only constant questioning will get us better vaccines
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.