I care about my children, not the general population. There are plenty of evidence of vaccine side effects.
To all vaccinators: Why don’t we vaccinate adults? Why adult vaccination is not mandatory? Why we do not vaccinate prison population?
Answer: Because adults would not allow government to vaccinate them. Even convicted felons have more rights than newborns.
There haven’t been any cases of naturally occurring smallpox in quite a few years, and the vaccine is no longer recommended. Since smallpox only exists in people, this makes sense.
But even if there were no cases of tetanus in the world for a hundred years, we couldn’t stop tetanus vaccinations because the tetanus bacterium lives in the soil. It’s not something that only exists in people.
I’m not sure what the situation is with polio. I just wanted to make the point that successful vaccination doesn’t necessarily eliminate the agent that causes the disease. Some diseases are like smallpox, but others are like tetanus.
I, personally, almost died from anaphylactic shock when I was immunized as a child. Please compare the number of children with serous side effects from vaccination and the number of children that died from measles in USA in the last decade.
<I had chickenpox when I was 2. When I was about 22, I had my first case of shingles. When I was about 25, I had another outbreak, this time into my eye. I have continued to have these since the 80’s, the worse case in 1996 when it took the entire year to control it.
I would do anything, including vaccinating my kids every year, to prevent them from going through the paid I’ve gone through.>
I'll advice a shingles vaccine for you. It is very useful. I got it.
The probability of getting shingles after chickenpox vaccination is very high. In other words, chickenpox vaccination may lead to shingles infection later in life. This is exactly the reason, why my children are NOT vaccinated against chickenpox.
Vaccines are working. They are great for the population. However, vaccines may be very harmful for individual child. I care about my children, not the population, in general.
@californiaaa The reason the last natural case happened 4 decades ago is because most of the population gets the vaccine. http://www.immunize.org/askexperts/experts_pol.asp as you can see here the polio vaccine possibly able to confer lifelong immunity. This is why that was the last outbreak, all those travelers might be immune for life BECAUSE OF THE VACCINE which makes them unable to bring ti back to the US and start another outbreak.
“I, personally, almost died from anaphylactic shock when I was immunized as a child. Please compare the number of children with serous side effects from vaccination and the number of children that died from measles in USA in the last decade.” But you didn’t. There are also tests which can be done to determine what children are allergic to so things like that don’t happen. Also you say to compare the number of children who have serious side effects to the number that die of measles. The reason the numbers are even comparable is because MOST PEOPLE ARE VACCINATED thus there is a very small sample population which is even at risk of getting the measles. Trying to compare the side effects to the drastically reduced ability of measles to actually infect people would never hold up in any scientific journal or with anyone who knows how to compare samples. The population that gets vaccinated and is able to have side effects is massive and the population that doesn’t and thus can get measles is small. You are attempting to compare raw numbers when the actual rate is completely different. Try learning a little about how statistics work before bring up bad ones.
The long-term duration of protection from varicella vaccine is unknown, but there are now persons vaccinated more than thirty years ago with no evidence of waning immunity, while others have become vulnerable in as few as six years. Some vaccinated children have been found to lose their protective antibody in as little as five to eight years.
Do you plan to re-vaccinate your children every 10 years? Somehow, I doubt it
“2. The probability of getting shingles after chickenpox vaccination is very high. In other words, chickenpox vaccination may lead to shingles infection later in life. This is exactly the reason, why my children are NOT vaccinated against chickenpox.” Read and understand. Vaccines are not injections of active virus particles. Shingles is caused by the same virus that chickenpox is. If you get vaccinated and DON’T GET THE VIRUS then you won’t get shingles form the virus. http://www.livescience.com/45804-chickenpox-vaccine-cause-shingles.html
@californiaaa
“Do you plan to re-vaccinate your children every 10 years? Somehow, I doubt it”
If it would mean preventing a chronic, debilitating illness I would imagine that parents would be begging to get their child vaccinated.
This is your choice. I vaccinated my children on individual schedules. All 4 children. Yes, I had to drive to doctor’s office, etc. It was my choice. Luckily, they don’t have allergies and asthma, like most vaccinated family members (including me).
" Luckily, they don’t have allergies and asthma, like most vaccinated family members (including me)."
Your family and its history of probably genetic illnesses is not representative of your local or the global population. You are not that significant. Don’t try using a sample of 4 or 5 to make claims about billions.
< A childhood friend of mine wore hearing aids and struggled in school because she was hard of hearing. Why did this happen to her? It was a result of her mother having caught rubella during her pregnancy.>
This is exactly the reason to re-new rubella vaccination in your 20s. Why mother of your friend didn’t do it? Why people want to vaccinate others, instead of vaccinating themselves?
I postpone rubella vaccination of my girls until they are late teens. I want them to have rubella immunity when it matters, not when they are 3-year olds. Personally, I did rubella booster shot before I planned my first pregnancy. And checked rubella titer during all pregnancies.
CDC should publish actual data about a significant risk within the US where diseases are prevalent. For example, small pox vaccination rates are irrelevant as long as there is no small pox outbreaks.
@californiaaa "
I want them to have rubella immunity when it matters, not when they are 3-year olds"
The reason the young are vaccinated is because they have weak immune systems. It is because these diseases are much more likely to kill them than they are when they are in their teens. Vaccines are a precautionary measure not a treatment.
I am not the one who posted about the friend who was hearing impaired but depending on how old this person is, the vaccine quite possibly didn’t exist at the time. Which would easily explain her mother not getting it.
Why does it apply to children, only? Why adults are not mandatory vaccinated? Immigrants (a population of several millions) are not vaccinated according to USA protocols. Many doctors are not vaccinated themselves (even when they are working with vulnerable population, even when they are at high risk of spreading diseases). Doctors, nurses, receptionists, facility managers at hospitals, … why no one talks about vaccinating this population? Adults working at Disneyland spread infection during the last outbreak, yet no one mentions mandatory vaccinating of adults that are in close contact with children.
Why are we so focused on vaccinating newborns (sensitive subject), yet so lax on vaccinating medical professionals (which would make bigger impact on herd immunity than newborns)?
