Measles making an alarming comeback

[Scutter01]

Mayo Clinic physician: Mistaken fear of measles shot has 'devastating' effect

Measles was once on track to be eradicated, just like polio, but is now making a significant comeback due to fears over vaccinations. Indigenous cases in the US were zero. We're up to 150 this year alone.

 

[redneckmedic]

There is always a portion of the population that fits standard deviation, and when you have a population of millions or billion of people that number increased significantly, surprised it took this long, or more surprising is that measles haven't resisted the vaccine of the last few decades.

Rambone in 3....2....1....

 

[turnandshoot4]

I have seen some of the warnings at work. This is bad if it really starts to spread.

 

[Zombiekilloftheweek]

I guess we should start stockpiling up ammo now for when all hell breaks loose

 

[tyler34]

I'm gonna make bracelets that say WWRD what would rambone do? I feel those will be just as effective as vaccines.

 

[Bunnykid68]

If you have had your vaccine you have nothing to worry about, correct?

 

[jmiller676]

If you have had your vaccine you have nothing to worry about, correct?

Unless it's a mutated strain. I think...

 

[88GT]

It's not the science behind the vax or even the vax material itself. It's the additives required to make vaxing worthwhile and cost efficient on a large scale. A point anti-vaxers often refuse to acknowledge. So instead of the argument being "we need safer vaxes" or something similar it becomes "vaxes have bad components that have nothing to do with the immunity-boosting aspect, but we need to get rid of vaxes altogether anyway." They'll also leave out the extremely pertinent detail that there are vaxes that are "pure" and not combined. I know a girl who's family history includes severe reactions to mass produced vaxes. Instead of eschewing them altogether, she opted for the individual vaxes without the additives and an extended vaxing schedule. Granted, it's more expensive, but so is the full blown disease.

We went through a similar thing with whooping cough recently.

And you can thank the illegal immigration problem for contributing to this.

 

[jmiller676]

It's not the science behind the vax or even the vax material itself. It's the additives required to make vaxing worthwhile and cost efficient on a large scale. A point anti-vaxers often refuse to acknowledge. So instead of the argument being "we need safer vaxes" or something similar it becomes "vaxes have bad components that have nothing to do with the immunity-boosting aspect, but we need to get rid of vaxes altogether anyway." They'll also leave out the extremely pertinent detail that there are vaxes that are "pure" and not combined. I know a girl who's family history includes severe reactions to mass produced vaxes. Instead of eschewing them altogether, she opted for the individual vaxes without the additives and an extended vaxing schedule. Granted, it's more expensive, but so is the full blown disease.

We went through a similar thing with whooping cough recently.

And you can thank the illegal immigration problem for contributing to this.

Maybe it's just me but between al the vaxes I'm lost in this post lol.

 

[mrjarrell]

If you have had your vaccine you have nothing to worry about, correct?

Not quite true. The vaccine lessens your chance of contracting it or having a really bad case. None of them are 100% effective. My SIL was vaccinated and still caught measles. Twice. They just weren't bad cases. Still makes sense to get vaccinated, tho. Some diseases just aren't worth fooling around with.

 

[printcraft]

 

[G_Stines]

If you have had your vaccine you have nothing to worry about, correct?

Kinda, a vaccine is simply the introduction of the dead or rendered dormant virus into the human system in hopes that the body will learn how to contain, negate, and destroy it. That means that someone could get Rubeola (measles technical name) from the injection. Due to the rarity of cases in recent years, there have been people who have neglected to get themselves or their children inoculated.

Unless it's a mutated strain. I think...

If it has mutated, the majority of the vaccinations will be rendered useless and it will come down to the body or the scientists to fight it off.


However, I am sure that these recent cases are being observed, if not investigated as a precaution to the potential outbreak that could occur. That being said, I am sure there are lab rats who are breaking down this virus and investigating whether or not the strain is the previous generation or a mutated one and are developing an action plan to battle it pending their results.

Then they will market it, for an outrageous amount of money because it will be the new and improved vaccine and many many people will want it for themselves and their children.

 

[Bunnykid68]

So, before there were vaccines, everyone got the measles, polio, and the whoopin cough?

Thanks to those that answered my question, I was just trolling the conversation along.

 

[eldirector]

So, before there were vaccines, everyone got the measles, polio, and the whoopin cough?

Of course not. The incidence was much higher, though. As was the mortality rate.

Vaccines are not on/off switches like so many folks think. They just better your odds.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Plus, they reduce the incidence and therefore your chance of exposure, which is a virtuous circle. My mom tells stories of peoples' houses having quarantine signs on them, when the kids would have measles or whatever. The grocery delivery would be put on the porch, and they'd come out for it after the guy left.

 

[steveh_131]

This article provided no proof that this increase is because of people not vaccinating.

This article provided no proof that vaccinations do not increase odds of autism spectrum disorders.

This article provided a bunch of opinions and speculation.

"Hey, guys. We don't have the slightest idea why your kid is autistic. But we know for SURE that it isn't from the vaccinations that we told you to give him."

 

[rambone]

What a swell propaganda piece from the medical establishment.

 

[ATOMonkey]

As 88GT, vaccination in principle is a great idea. The first vaccine was done by scraping puss off of small pox sores with a knife and then cutting the arm of a healthy person.

In Washtington's Continental army this reduced the cases of lethal infection dramatically.

I say we go back to cutting.

 

[Bunnykid68]

What a swell propaganda piece from the medical establishment.

Well, kind of in line with the bird flu thingy, which I just saw mentioned in an article somewhere yesterday

 

[ATOMonkey]

I saw on TV that the bird flu is going to kill everyone. Matt Damon said so.