Vaccine Critics Turn Defensive Over Measles

[riversedge]

Article says it is getting vicious. Well--measles can kill--and it is spreading. I fear for kids in day care and schools. The illnesses are all so unnecessary


Vaccine Critics Turn Defensive Over Measles

http://nyti.ms/1yWgxay


Vaccine Critics Turn Defensive Over Measles

By JACK HEALY and MICHAEL PAULSONJAN. 30, 2015


HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. —

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The anti-vaccine movement can largely be traced to a 1998 report in a medical journal that suggested a link between vaccines and autism but was later proved fraudulent and retracted. Today, the waves of parents who shun vaccines include some who still believe in the link and some, like the Amish, who have religious objections to vaccines. Then there is a particular subculture of largely wealthy and well-educated families, many living in palmy enclaves around Los Angeles and San Francisco, who are trying to carve out “all-natural” lives for their children.

.......Members of the anti-vaccine movement said the public backlash had terrified many parents. “People are now afraid they’re going to be jailed,” said Barbara Loe Fisher, the president of the National Vaccine Information Center, a clearinghouse for resisters. “I can’t believe what I’m seeing. It’s gotten so out of hand, and it’s gotten so vicious.”

In San Geronimo, Calif., a mostly rural community of rolling hills and oak trees about 30 miles north of San Francisco, 40 percent of the students walking into Lagunitas Elementary School have not been inoculated against measles, according to the school’s figures. Twenty-five percent have not been vaccinated for polio. In all, the state says that 58 percent of Lagunitas kindergartners do not have up-to-date vaccine records.
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“A lot of people here have personal beliefs that are faith based,” said John Carroll, the school superintendent, who sent a letter home to parents last week encouraging them to vaccinate their children. The faith, Mr. Carroll said, is not so much religious as it is a belief that “they raise their children in a natural, organic environment” and are suspicious of pharmaceutical companies and big business.......

[Downwinder]

1. I was always told that if you got a childhood

disease as an adult you were much sicker. They are not doing their kids a favor.

[4now]

2. Of course they have no concern for the damage they could cause other families.

It is all about them.
Anti-vaxers should be shunned by normal people.

[KingCharlemagne]

3. Their kids should be removed from their custody on the grounds of

child endangerment and threats to the public health.

[longship]

4. Yes, and anti-vaxxers are posting OPs here, too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026161630

Just a lot of anti-vax rubbish. Poster actually cited Age of Autism, the Mecca for anti-vax lunatics.

These people are dangerously ignorant.

[HuckleB]

7. That poster is always reposting the same debunked nonsense.

It never ends with that one.

[bluestateguy]

5. Anti-vaxxers are allowed to vote

That needs to change.

[Historic NY]

6. NY State is now experiencing an outbreak....

Health officials announced that a college student diagnosed with measles recently traveled across New York on a train, potentially exposing untold numbers of travelers to the virus, according to news reports.

The infected individual, a student at Bard College, boarded a a 1:20 p.m. Sunday Amtrak train from New York City’s Penn Station to Rhinecliff, N.Y., according to ABC News. The train stopped in Albany before traveling on to Niagara Falls, ABC reported.

“Anyone traveling on Amtrak train #283 from Penn Station in NYC to Albany on January 25, 2015, and who is not immune to measles or not sure of their measles immunity, should contact their primary care physician if they become ill with fever,” the New York State Department of Health said in a statement, according to the Associated Press.

New York requires that college students taking six credits or more show proof of immunity to measles, according to university guidelines.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/01/31/amid-growing-vaccination-debate-measles-continues-to-spread-and-is-now-in-new-york-state/

Lovely....measle mania spreads. Of course what they didn't mention is people from Canada also travel this train to Buffalo. I'm thinking its time to get tough, early 20th century style on them.

*It will be interesting to find out if a fraudulent document was submitted to the college by the student. It is a crime.