Yes. There seems to be no link from the article to the original post. I am slightly more sceptical Than I would be otherwise.
If this is true,
Yes. There seems to be no link from the article to the original post. I am slightly more sceptical Than I would be otherwise.Not just that but even if a link were to be provided, can't be shown that it's actually meant.
However vaccinate!.
Why did she get sarky comments from an anti=-vax group?I'm suggesting that her comment shows up her anti vac views.
I'm suggesting that her comment shows up her anti vac views.But ut was on ananti-vax group, who would surely agree with her!
But ut was on ananti-vax group, who would surely agree with her!And the rest of the world saw it, which is why it became news.
We don't vaccinate routinely against measles. In fact, doctors don't recommend it because it is ineffective.
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Our children are currently given only Triple Antigen and Polio drops. We don't vaccinate routinely against measles. In fact, doctors don't recommend it because it is ineffective.
For those of us who are old enough, anyone remember the measles parties? I actually went to one, and caught measles at a young age. I've also had whooping cough, chicken pox and mumps in my childhood. Two of the most dreaded diseases of that time(40s/early 50s) were diphtheria and polio. I well remember the polio outbreak in Hull in 1961, when everyone queued outside of schools etc. to receive the Salk vaccine on a sugar lump.
Thank goodness for the various vaccinations of today, which have saved millions of lives.
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Our children are currently given only Triple Antigen and Polio drops. We don't vaccinate routinely against measles. In fact, doctors don't recommend it because it is ineffective.
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Let’s put this into more familiar language. Vaccine-hesitant parents frequently say they worry about putting something foreign into their children’s bodies, so young and pure. They talk about not wanting to put something unnatural into their pure children’s bodies. They worry that vaccines may contain “poisons” and “toxins” and “contaminants”, like thimerosal. That is the semantic expression of the purity/degradation moral value. The more deeply hesitant parents and outright vaccine refusers say these things too. But they also go further: They state that they don’t like the government or the medical community telling them what to do, which is a reflection of the liberty/oppression value, and that they don’t trust those institutions’ promises that vaccines are safe, which means that they aren’t motivated by the moral value of respect for authority (again, at least not on this issue).
I don't know why you say the measles vaccine is ineffective, sririam. The disease has been virtually eradicated because of it and if a child does catch it, it's very mild indeed.
Yes, Robbie, it's a very mild disease. www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46387167I think Robbie was suggesting that in those few cases that children have been vaccinated catch measles that it is usually mild, rather than it is a mild disease itself
I have heard of German Measles parties, not that I went to one but people liked girls to catch it because it's dangerous for pregnant women so best to get it out of the way. It's not a horrible, serious illness, doesn't last long. I remember having it but there's a vaccine for it now. I also had measles although I'd been vaccinated but it was mild, and whooping cough & chicken pox. I don't think there was a vaccination for chicken pox.
Sririam we vaccinate for smallpox, TB and polio and it's possible to be vaccinated against meningitis. People over sixty have an anti influenza jab if they want, also those working in certain professions who are at risk.
I don't know why you say the measles vaccine is ineffective, sririam. The disease has been virtually eradicated because of it and if a child does catch it, it's very mild indeed.
...This info is somewhat out of date. The current scheduled vaccinations and options for the UK are given here:
Sririam we vaccinate for smallpox, TB and polio and it's possible to be vaccinated against meningitis. People over sixty have an anti influenza jab if they want, also those working in certain professions who are at risk.
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