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I guess you missed the section of the blog with links to all of the relevant scientific studies? Not his studies or opinions, but the peer-reviewed scientific studies of people with domain expertise.
Regarding peer-reviewed studies, it still confounds me that naysayers will question and criticize experts in the field, experts with a multitude of relevant qualifications and decades of experience, but will take anecdotal information and opinions of people with no education in the field as fact. I'd really love to understand the logic behind that, because it makes no sense to me.
I really amazes me that some people will except so-called "peer-reviewed scientific studies" that say NOTHING about any of the so-called scientists....next to nothing about the studies done( most to all done with vaccinated people)...your link above is basically useless, and tells me nothing....I'll believe Dr. Viera Scheibner over any of the above basically anonymous "scientists"...at least she is not afraid to say who she is...what studies she's done ..and why she did them......and she has been studying and researching vaccines for many, many years.....
To the OP...if you're still interested.....there is a NEW disease out there now....it`s called atypical measles...and is an especially viscious form of measles that affects only vaccinated children...and has a considerable mortality rate.
To the OP...if you're still interested.....there is a NEW disease out there now....it`s called atypical measles...and is an especially viscious form of measles that affects only vaccinated children...and has a considerable mortality rate.
Wrong. Not new. Studies go back to at least 1985. One of the causes is incomplete immunization.
I really amazes me that some people will except so-called "peer-reviewed scientific studies" that say NOTHING about any of the so-called scientists....next to nothing about the studies done( most to all done with vaccinated people)...your link above is basically useless, and tells me nothing....I'll believe Dr. Viera Scheibner over any of the above basically anonymous "scientists"...at least she is not afraid to say who she is...what studies she's done ..and why she did them......and she has been studying and researching vaccines for many, many years.....
Viera Scheibner??? Can you spell c-r-a-c-k-p-o-t?
This woman is not a doctor. She has no background in medicine at all. She's a palentologist got that? She studies fossils.
She got a "bee in her bonnet" and one day decided to start complaining about vaccinations. Perhaps, her silliest moment was when she ran around her home country, Australia, gabbering that vaccines caused Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The problem with that notion is that SIDS rates have fallen dramatically in the last forty years, while vaccination rates have increased.
This clown won something called the "Bent Spoon Award" for conducting the worst scientific research in Australia.
Honestly, if you are going to ignore credible sources like the CDC and established medical journals to come up with a "contrarian point of view" on vaccination at least find some support from someone who isn't an out-an-out looney.
One of the problems that I have with the rotavirus vaccine is that it sheds in the fecal matter of the infant post vaccine so if the baby is in daycare and the daycare worker changes the baby's diaper and does not wash his or her hands properly afterwards or clean the diaper changing table properly, rotavirus can then be spread to other infants in the same daycare center. Detection of fecal shedding of rotavirus vaccine in ... [Vaccine. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
I breastfeed. I don't send my kids to daycare. I know how to manage acute diarrhea at home and if it becomes more severe I know when to call my doctor and seek further medical care such as going to the hospital for an IV.
Telling me that I am an irresponsible parent for skipping this particular vaccine is insulting and is incorrect. If I wasn't breastfeeding or was unable to recognize the signs of dehydration from diarrhea or was living in a 3rd world country then I would reconsider. I see no reason to unnecessarily inject my child for something just because it's on the schedule and people think that everyone needs to follow the same schedule whether it's relevant for them or not.
To the OP...if you're still interested.....there is a NEW disease out there now....it`s called atypical measles...and is an especially viscious form of measles that affects only vaccinated children...and has a considerable mortality rate.
All the info I found online about atypical measles is in scientific papers from the 80s and says that it is caused by the killed version of measles vaccine used in the 60s (last used in '67).
Edit: I take that back. There is one paper talking about atypical measles in a type of primate from 1999, but it also says it is from the inactivated vaccine that hasn't been used in years (way before I was even born).
One of the problems that I have with the rotavirus vaccine is that it sheds in the fecal matter of the infant post vaccine so if the baby is in daycare and the daycare worker changes the baby's diaper and does not wash his or her hands properly afterwards or clean the diaper changing table properly, rotavirus can then be spread to other infants in the same daycare center. Detection of fecal shedding of rotavirus vaccine in ... [Vaccine. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
I breastfeed. I don't send my kids to daycare. I know how to manage acute diarrhea at home and if it becomes more severe I know when to call my doctor and seek further medical care such as going to the hospital for an IV.
Telling me that I am an irresponsible parent for skipping this particular vaccine is insulting and is incorrect. If I wasn't breastfeeding or was unable to recognize the signs of dehydration from diarrhea or was living in a 3rd world country then I would reconsider. I see no reason to unnecessarily inject my child for something just because it's on the schedule and people think that everyone needs to follow the same schedule whether it's relevant for them or not.
Well that's all nice in theory, but rotavirus can be spread by hands, objects such as toys and surfaces, food, and water, so unless you live in a cave, merely keeping your child out of daycare will do nothing. If you go, well pretty much anywhere, rotavirus is present, think MacDonalds, grocery carts, restaurants, etc. That in of itself is not the issue. If your child is healthy they will pull through just fine, newborns, the elderly, and those who are immunocompromised are very vulnerable.
The irresponsible aspect is having no qualms about your healthy child recovering easily from VPD, but infecting someone who doesn't fare as well. Why is that so hard to understand?
Well that's all nice in theory, but rotavirus can be spread by hands, objects such as toys and surfaces, food, and water, so unless you live in a cave, merely keeping your child out of daycare will do nothing. If you go, well pretty much anywhere, rotavirus is present, think MacDonalds, grocery carts, restaurants, etc. That in of itself is not the issue. If your child is healthy they will pull through just fine, newborns, the elderly, and those who are immunocompromised are very vulnerable.
The irresponsible aspect is having no qualms about your healthy child recovering easily from VPD, but infecting someone who doesn't fare as well. Why is that so hard to understand?
Rotavirus is transmitted through the fecal oral route which means that vaccinated children are just as likely and able to spread rotavirus as unvaccinated children since the virus sheds in their feces in the days following vaccination. Would you dare call the parents who do vaccinate for rotavirus irresponsible? Their child is just as able as an unvaccinated child to spread the virus to someone who might not fare so well. They are also more likely to be out in public while contagious since they won't actually show signs of illness.
I referenced daycare because children in daycare are more at risk for the reasons mentioned above.
We know that breastfeeding is a protective factor. Would you dare call a mother who was unwilling to breastfeed irresponsible for not doing everything in her power to protect her child from rotavirus? (Please note that I said unwilling, not unable).
There are 20 deaths per year in the US from rotavirus. That is less then one third the amount of people who die each year in the US from being struck by lightening. We live in a country where we have access to IV's if our children (or our grandparents or our immunocompromised uncle) need to be hydrated due to dehydration caused by diarrhea caused by rotavirus.
One of the problems that I have with the rotavirus vaccine is that it sheds in the fecal matter of the infant post vaccine so if the baby is in daycare and the daycare worker changes the baby's diaper and does not wash his or her hands properly afterwards or clean the diaper changing table properly, rotavirus can then be spread to other infants in the same daycare center. Detection of fecal shedding of rotavirus vaccine in ... [Vaccine. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
I breastfeed. I don't send my kids to daycare. I know how to manage acute diarrhea at home and if it becomes more severe I know when to call my doctor and seek further medical care such as going to the hospital for an IV.
Telling me that I am an irresponsible parent for skipping this particular vaccine is insulting and is incorrect. If I wasn't breastfeeding or was unable to recognize the signs of dehydration from diarrhea or was living in a 3rd world country then I would reconsider. I see no reason to unnecessarily inject my child for something just because it's on the schedule and people think that everyone needs to follow the same schedule whether it's relevant for them or not.
Rotavirus is very stable and may remain viable in the environment for months if not disinfected."
"Wouldn’t good hygiene be enough to prevent rotavirus disease?
Better hygiene and sanitation have not been very effective in reducing rotavirus disease. This is illustrated by the fact that virtually everyone in the world is infected by rotavirus disease by age five years, despite differences in sanitation between countries."
"Each year in the United States rotavirus is responsible for more than 400,000 doctor visits, more than 200,000 emergency room visits, 55,000-70,000 hospitalizations, and 20-60 deaths."
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