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'Big Pharma, the CDC and other public health organizations tell the mainstream media (MSM) what to report about outbreaks and epidemics. So you may have the impression that recent measles outbreaks are occurring because of MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccination refusals.
According to official public health documents kept from public attention, the opposite is true. Many stricken with measles have had the full array of three MMR vaccinations.
There have been many, and the various public health organizations, including the CDC, are well aware of them. Yet, pediatricians convince and school boards coerce parents into making sure their children get three MMR vaccinations in short succession. Obviously, not enough know of measles breakouts among the vaccinated.
Medical authorities eager to vaccinate maintain it takes a population vaccination rate of 90% to ensure an “immunized” disease will not break out within that community. This high percentage was contrived as necessary for “herd immunity,” which would prevent any outbreak from occurring.
Prison Planet has been debunked. Those weren't children who were infected during the outbreaks who were vaccinated. But unvaccinated children and adults.
You can blame Jenny McCarthy and her BS from Andrew Wakefield whose discredited research was done so he could get rid of the MMR vaccine and promote his own vaccine.
You can also blame religious fundies.
There are over 150,000 deaths to Measles each year and they are in people who didn't get the vaccine. The measles is then picked up by travelers who didn't vaccinate their kids and infants and brought back to the US and it then spreads around.
My daughter got such a bad case of the flu the year before last that it put her in the hospital. She had a flu vaccine.
Some may argue that without it things might have been worse. Some may argue its all a scam.
I don't know which to believe.
The flu vaccine is one of the least effective. Your daughter may have had a strain that was not included in the vaccine or she might have been infected before the vaccine had time to work. I would not use her experience as a reason not to take the vaccine.
'Big Pharma, the CDC and other public health organizations tell the mainstream media (MSM) what to report about outbreaks and epidemics. So you may have the impression that recent measles outbreaks are occurring because of MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccination refusals.
According to official public health documents kept from public attention, the opposite is true. Many stricken with measles have had the full array of three MMR vaccinations.
There have been many, and the various public health organizations, including the CDC, are well aware of them. Yet, pediatricians convince and school boards coerce parents into making sure their children get three MMR vaccinations in short succession. Obviously, not enough know of measles breakouts among the vaccinated.
Medical authorities eager to vaccinate maintain it takes a population vaccination rate of 90% to ensure an “immunized” disease will not break out within that community. This high percentage was contrived as necessary for “herd immunity,” which would prevent any outbreak from occurring.
This argument has been around long enough that the people who continue to use it know it is misleading. That means they are deliberately lying by omission. What it fails to consider is how many people do not get sick.
Let us take a hypothetical group of 10000 people. About 95% of the US population is vaccinated: 9500 are vaccinated, 500 are not.
Expose the whole group to measles. The measles vaccine is 95% effective after one dose and 99% after three. Let's use the lower number. That means that 5% of the vaccinated group is not protected by the vaccine: 5% of 9500= 475.
Measles is so contagious that if you are exposed and susceptible you will probably catch it. That means that all 500 of the unvaccinated people get it and 475 of those who had the vaccine. So that means the vaccine is no better than being unvaccinated, right? Wrong!
What about the 9025 people who were vaccinated and did not catch measles? Conveniently forgotten by the "vaccinated catch measles, too" crowd.
Risk of measles without the vaccine if you are exposed: 100%.
Risk with the vaccine: 5% if you have one dose, 1% if you have three.
But wait! There's more! That calculation assumes that everyone in the group has an equal risk of being exposed. In truth, unvaccinated people tend to flock together, so they have a higher risk of being exposed if one in the group gets it. So in the US, most cases are indeed in unvaccinated people.
From Jan to Aug 2013, of 159 cases, 131 were known to be unvaccinated.
Prison Planet has been debunked. Those weren't children who were infected during the outbreaks who were vaccinated. But unvaccinated children and adults.
You can blame Jenny McCarthy and her BS from Andrew Wakefield whose discredited research was done so he could get rid of the MMR vaccine and promote his own vaccine.
You can also blame religious fundies.
There are over 150,000 deaths to Measles each year and they are in people who didn't get the vaccine. The measles is then picked up by travelers who didn't vaccinate their kids and infants and brought back to the US and it then spreads around.
Yep. I used to be on the fence about this issue. No longer. People spreading this kind of misinformation around are putting everyone in danger, especially the children who cannot receive the vaccine for one reason or another.
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