Brilliant, Neuroticparent! Nice to see we have a truly talented writer among us.
It could be worse. There could be a fluoridation thread active, too.
Fantastic, Neurotic!
Roald Dahl has been mentioned several times in this thread, and his having lost a child to measles.
I don’t know where my mind was, but I never put two and two together, or realized that one of his other kids is Ophelia Dahl, married to Paul Farmer and they run Partners in Health. We donate to PIH every year, so we get all kinds of literature from them and I always saw Ophelia Dahl’s name and signature, but just never put it together. So then I looked it up and saw that her mother (and Roald’s wife) was Patricia Neal. Talk about a legacy of family members who have been very successful in their career endeavors!
Ophelia Dahl did an interview with Katie Couric about the death of her sister and current vaccination debate.
http://news.yahoo.com/katie-couric-talks-to-ophelia-dahl-about-the-measles-outbreak-162553932.html?ch=5&utm_content=buffer05c43&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign
A very powerful piece from an autistic woman (admittedly I can’t verify this) about what it means to her that parents would rather their child die than be like her.
Even if vaccinations are MANDATED, how are u going to VERIFY they were actually administered?
Every year, for back-to-school registration, we have to perfunctorily submit the kids’ immunization records along w a doctor’s signature on the medical form. I’ve always thought it a big farce that some random doctor is supposed to validate vaccinations administered a dozen years ago in a different country.
My kids’ original pediatrician isn’t even contactable bcs he died, and his practice is shuttered. The only records I have of their infant shots are a hard-to-read, grainy fax. If I was an anti-vaxer, it would be an easy matter to simply lie.
Is this thread vaccinated? If not, maybe it will get a preventable disease and die and tranquilmind will get her wish.
romani, that column is amazing and really gets at the underlying point that has been bothering me about the anti-vaxers’ irrational fear of autism in their children:
This is beautiful, too. Have some tissues handy.
people who have been recently vaccinated with a live virus, can be contagious?
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSnGNX4dQRYl+1ce+GNW20150202?irpc=932
Calling @jaylynn to address this . . .
If this is the cause then how come these diseases were nearly eliminated while most people were vaccinated?
H and I just got a measles vaccine, the live vaccine. If I was just injected with a live virus my assumption is I HAVE THE VIRUS. And, as has been pointed out many a time in the this thread, one is contagious before one shows symptoms, so the assumption SHOULD be one is contagious after vaccination with live virus.
Maybe we could mandate quarantine sections in the local WF’s …then the little bumpkins and their generators can drink wheat grass and kombucha while waiting for release back into the general public.
I believe so. When my kid was vaccinated with live polio, we had to caution our nanny from Haiti. Nothing happened. She didn’t get sick.
Leslie Manookian is, notably, not a doctor or epidemiologist or anything of the kind. She is, however, a noted raw milk advocate. (because unregulated raw milk won’t kill you faster than the pertussis vaccine). This seems to fit nicely under @pizzagirl’s category of “mommy-woo”
Writer / Producer, Leslie Manookian was a successful Wall Street business executive and is now a documentary film producer and activist. Manookian chose to leave Wall Street at the height of her career in order to pursue a more meaningful path. Her career in finance took her from New York to London with Goldman Sachs. She later became Director of Alliance Capital in London running their European Growth Portfolio Management and Research business. While living and working in London, Manookian learned of the vaccine debate and determined that one day she would make a documentary exploring the issue. The award winning documentary The Greater Good is the result of 11 years of work. She has been featured in dozens of TV, radio, print and internet interviews as well as appearing at numerous conferences discussing vaccine issues. She has been featured in a cover article in Barron’s as well as in other financial publications. She has served on the board, managed or consulted for many organizations in her community and successfully led the charge to defeat a proposed coal plant in her state and helped secure legislation providing consumer access to raw milk. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA from Middlebury College.
I’ll look into this, but once again, it’s an anti-vaxx article written by a NUTRITION organization that seeks to “prevent” disease with massive amounts of vitamins A & C.
Can we please consider the source before making any claims? Oy
ETA: I just randomly clicked on three of the journals and every single one refuted the article. This is common of anti-vaxxers, they link to prestigious sounding articles hoping no one will fact check them.
If anything, if it is transmissible, that is an even greater reason to get the vaccine when you’re a baby and you’re supposed to. That way you have no one to transmit it to as infants, generally, aren’t around a bunch of unvaccinated people.
That is completely incorrect. This is a live attenuated vaccine. The attenuated virus in the MMR vaccine does not have the ability to replicate in the cells and cause the disease.
Health care professional to the rescue!
Which vaccines are normally live?
Romani I found the link on reddit front page. I can’t read much so I was hoping someone else would read it for me.
http://www.vaccines.gov/more_info/types/