Hundreds 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)
Childhood diseases
I am 56 years old. Healthy as a horse. Had chicken pox as a child. Had the German measles as a child. Had the red measles as a child. Had the mumps as a child. Had a smallpox vaccination as a child that I reacted to ending up with a large (size of a quarter) scar on my leg. I've never used intravenous drugs. I was a virgin who married a virgin, so I guess that means I'm not promiscuous...no need for Hep B or HPV vaccines. Instead of vaccinating...eat healthy, wash your hands, stay at home if you think you are getting ill, get plenty of rest and healthy exercise, and wise up. All of my siblings had the childhood diseases that we vaccinate for these days. They are all healthy and fine. Today's "health" system is ALL about money. I have had doctors try and tell me that I had lymphoma (I didn't). Or that I needed some surgery for scoliosis and that I couldn't have children (I gave birth to eight healthy beautiful children). Or that I needed to have my lungs x-rayed every six months because there was a spot (there is none now). Or that I needed this or that...healthcare has become a business. It's all about making a profit. When I am 96 (and I will be) I will remember hiking with my grandchildren in the mountains of Colorado, or reading them stories at bedtime, not spending my days in a doctor's office or some outpatient clinic.
I am a student
I am a student doing research for multiple papers on vaccines and on autism. All research that I have done has disproved the theory that the mercury in vaccines cause autism.
I am sure that there are possibilities of contracting diseases, disabilities, and other illnesses through vaccines, but isn't better "to be safe than sorry."
There are so many DEADLY diseases caused by viruses that could be easily prevented by receiving a vaccination. Many of these diseases are creating a come back in our society due to our reluctance to vaccinate our children.
I do not know if we should force vaccination of our children, but there is no way that I could ever, in good conscious, say "No, I will not vaccinate my children due to fears that SOMETHING, something that's not likely to happen, might happen."
If more detailed studies come out that prove beyond a doubt that vaccines cause certain disabilities more often than they prevent others, then maybe I will consider it. But at this point, there is no evidence that supports this.
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PLEASE FOR ANYONE FOR OR NOT FOR VACCINATING READ THIS INFO BEFORE YOU MAKE A CHOICE
http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/A61/A61_10-en.pdf
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I am a student doing research kids vaccination. This article give me very brief idea but I am not I can support all these stuff
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I enjoyed the many different opinions that are expressed on this page. Boy, you people really are 1000% sure, each and every one of you. While I take a neutral stance, I do hear both your perspectives and think that when children are young they are frail. When children are older, let's say in middle school or high school, that is too old to get vaccines as the damage would have already been done.
Argh. Parents.
I cna understand the emotional drive for parents that have children with autism, but the link seems unproven to me.
Certainly there's a balance here where the health industry could offer to reduce the "mass vaccinations" where kids get 3-6 shots in one sitting. That might back off the critics, since some of the evidence points harder at these types of vaccinations?
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New & Under Used Vaccines
I read the WHO report on World Wide Vaccinations someone posted in the comments. The section "New & Under-used Vaccines" is insightful to the goals of this community. By their own definition, an under-used vaccine is simply any new vaccine that has not been adopted on a large scale world wide. The WHO asserts that any new vaccine entering the market should immediately be included in every nations immunization schedule...and if the new vaccine is not immediately adopted world wide, the vaccine is underused, and therefore by definition should be used more simply by virtue of it's being on the market.
The countries with the most "advanced" immunization programs, are simply the ones that require the most vaccines, under the most coercive conditions.
It's a horrible crime to experiment with virology, and other cutting edge gene transplant & genetic engineering technology on a large scale, with our children as the guinea pigs.
I find it interesting that there are so many people that equate rejecting vaccinations with some type of crime against humanity. As if it's our duty to poison our children, simply because other people are doing it, and it would not be fair for their children to suffer the consequences, while ours remain healthy. Misery loves company.
Its shocking how quickly the pediatric community rushes to embrace each new vaccine, even when the disease the vaccine is designed to prevent is non-existent in the community. Our Pediatrician tried so hard to give my son an MMR booster shot, I told her no, and she just continued to prepare the injection, and told her assistant to hold my son still, as I was continuing to tell her that I didn't want it...finally I had to physically get in between the doctor and my son, and tell her that she would not be giving my son an injection, regardless of her intentions.
I don't know why there appears to be a world wide effort to expose children to dangerous diseases and viruses, heavy metals, and other toxins. It's clearly degrading the mental potential of our youth.
Perhaps that's the goal. Maybe the idea is to create a citizenry that's too stupid to ever complain, or reject tyranny. If you are a feudal lord, you want your serfs to be docile, and if their short term memory is totally shot, then all the better, as they won't remember the last time you fooled them, and how to defend against it.
Since when is the pharmacuetical community to be trusted? and the government research community? Trustworthy? Just ask the participants of the Tuskeegee experiments...oh, well I guess you can't because they are all DEAD.
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Thousands of unvaccinated children enter schools
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This article naively does not address the ENVIRONMENTAL factors that can compound the health risks FROM the vaccines. Consider an immune-compromised child, lives in the home of a chain-smoker, formula-fed as an infant and raised in a daycare with other children... then turn this kid into a vaccine pin-cushion. The combination of environmental factors plus the mercury/metals/chemicals in the shots is going to do a number on the child, including, no surprise, conditions such as autism. REASON, people, REASON.
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?
Oh wait, wait... these comments above were all written by secretive Merck reps, weren't they?
Yummy kool-aid drinkers, listen...
This article naively does not address the ENVIRONMENTAL factors that can compound the health risks FROM the vaccines. Consider an immune-compromised child, lives in the home of a chain-smoker, formula-fed as an infant and raised in a daycare with other children... then turn this kid into a vaccine pin-cushion. The combination of environmental factors plus the mercury/metals/chemicals in the shots is going to do a number on the child, including, no surprise, conditions such as autism. REASON, people, REASON.
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?
Oh wait, wait... these comments above were all written by secretive Merck reps, weren't they?
Yummy kool-aid drinkers, listen...
This article naively does not address the ENVIRONMENTAL factors that can compound the health risks FROM the vaccines. Consider an immune-compromised child, lives in the home of a chain-smoker, formula-fed as an infant and raised in a daycare with other children... then turn this kid into a vaccine pin-cushion. The combination of environmental factors plus the mercury/metals/chemicals in the shots is going to do a number on the child, including, no surprise, conditions such as autism. REASON, people, REASON.
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?
Oh wait, wait... these comments above were all written by secretive Merck reps, weren't they?
Actually, I would argue that
Actually, I would argue that it is the parent of the unvaccinated child who is responsible for any ostracism that child suffers due to their decision not to vaccinate. It is not incumbent on parents of vaccinated children to bend over backwards to accommodate non-vaccinators.
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Si definimos a un artista contemporáneo como un creador de metáforas y como un creador de nuevas y mejores metaforas. Igual si definimos que hay que interpretar o analizar nuestra realidad son dos premisas distintas. Sin embargo premisas falsas no llevan a realidades eficientes.
What can the medical or
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?
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quotations in this article shows that some people are not clear about vaccination issue
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