The measles outbreak and vaccines: We need civil discourse
There has been an outbreak of measles, a vaccine preventable disease, along with an outbreak of people yelling at each other. There have been angry exchanges between people who would like all children vaccinated according to the recommended guidelines and people who support the rights of parents to choose which vaccines to give their children, if any, and when to give them. There has been much focus on the assertion, particularly, that the measles/mumps/rubella vaccination (MMR) might cause autism. There is no believable evidence to support that assertion, but the questions of whether vaccination is safe and whether it sho...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 1, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Janice Boughton, MD Tags: Meds Infectious disease Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
What doctors must learn from the anti-vaccination movement
A cartoon of an angry looking physician, a spotted boy, and some anxious parents in The New Yorker reads, “If you connect the measles, it spells out, ‘My parents are idiots’.”
A facetious article in GomerBlog announces, “Big Pharma Admits They’re Just Trying to Kill Everyone with Vaccines.”
Even television host Stephen Colbert gets in on the make-fun-of-anti-vaxxers act, recently declaring, “The anti-vax movement has a lot of things that I love: Star power, science denial, and hipster appeal. ‘Cause penny-farthings and handlebar mustaches are cool, but nothing is more vintage than dying of rubella.”
Con...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 24, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Sayantani DasGupta, MD, MPH Tags: Conditions Infectious disease Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Vaccination Outbreak Forces Orange County To Declare State of Emergency.
Orange County - Shortly after Disneyland became ground zero for the largest vaccine preventable disease outbreak the United States has seen in decades, unvaccinated children of Orange County families overwhelmed doctors' offices and local healthcare clinics fearfully seeking immunizations against measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough and other childhood illnesses. This surge in vaccination cases left government officials no choice but to declare a vaccination state of emergency."Due to the actions of a few thousand heartless pseudo-anti-vaxx parents who abandoned their principles at the first sign of a little ...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - February 10, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Tamer Mahrous Source Type: blogs
Vaccination and the Social Contract
Patrick J. Michaels
There are two distinct classes of vaccinations: those for communicable diseases like measles, rubella, and chicken pox, and those for non-communicable ones like tetanus.
There is no reason to be vaccinated against non-communicable diseases if you don’t want to. If you believe that your small chance of getting tetanus isn’t worth the (very, very) much smaller risk of crippling Guillan-Barre syndrome after the vaccination, that’s your business.
But vaccination for communicable diseases is part of a social contract that maintains civil society with a general ethic that no one has the right to ha...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 4, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Patrick J. Michaels Source Type: blogs
Immunization Idiocy
<p style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">I knew that I was going to write this blog post about the news concerning the resurgence of measles and its relationship to the dangerous and misguided anti-vaccination movement. The difficulty was with all the lunacy out there I did not quite know where to start. I grew up in the era prior to vaccination against childhood diseases. I had measles, mumps, rubella and chicken pox. I remember the fear people had of these infectious diseases and...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 3, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Hayley Dittus-Doria Tags: Health Care Bioethics and Public Policy public health ethics syndicated vaccines Source Type: blogs
This is Why You Should Not Blindly Follow Your Doctor’s Advice to Vaccinate
Conclusion
Most of us have been trained to believe that vaccines are safe and prevent disease. It is very confusing to first realize that this may not be true.
Tremendous pressures exist from physicians, hospitals, family and the public school systems to vaccinate ourselves and our children. Physicians are taught to recommend vaccinations as a first-line defense against disease, while they are not taught the serious health damages created by vaccines.
Physicians often blindly follow the recommendations of their professional organizations to vaccinate, without doing any independent research. Those few physicians and nurses ...
Source: vactruth.com - January 2, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Top Stories American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) American Medical Association (AMA) Hepatitis B vaccine Vaccine Exemption Source Type: blogs
Is breast best?
Is it oversharing to tell you I wasn’t breastfed as an infant? Tough. I don’t feel that being bottlefed formula milk did me any harm. Breastfeeding is natural but it’s not always possible for new mothers and the push from the healthcare workers for breast is best waxes and wanes as any social fashion.
There is a lot of guilt poured on mothers who (a) choose to breast feed their infant (b) choose not to breast feed their infant (c) cannot breast feed their infant. Take your pick, there’s guilt from every angle. If it’s physiologically possible it should be every mother’s personal choice, ...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - November 5, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Top stories in health and medicine, October 14, 2014
From MedPage Today:
ID System Reduces NICU Errors. Mistakes made when entering clinical orders in one hospital’s electronic medical records system were reduced after implementation of a unique naming system to reduce confusion and miscommunication in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Clinicians Explore EV-D68, Paralysis Link. The mysterious cases of acute flaccid paralysis in children might be an unusual manifestation of the enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) infections that are also circulating.
MMR Vax Proves Safe Over Time in U.S. Adults. Over a 10-year period, more than 3,000 U.S. adults who received the measles, ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 14, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: MedPage Today Tags: News Endocrinology Infectious disease Source Type: blogs
The CDC: A Truly Corrupt and Dangerous Organization
Conclusion
It is clear that the CDC cannot be trusted when it comes to giving advice about vaccinations. Over the years, evidence has shown that the CDC continually lies, withholds evidence and fixes data to obtain the results that they want to achieve.
Due to their continual dishonesty, many children have suffered lifelong disabilities as a result. Although, for many of their parents, the latest revelations have offered a glimmer of hope in a very dark world, it has also caused many parents to just break down and weep, like one mother known to myself.
This is a tragic waste of the future potential of thousands of children...
Source: vactruth.com - September 11, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories autism Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Guillian-Barre syndrome miscarriage Polio Thimerosal truth about vaccines Vaccine-associated Polio Paralysis (VAPP) Source Type: blogs
Are Vaccines Right for Your Child? Debunking the Myths of the DTaP Vaccine
Conclusion
As a journalist and a mother myself, I found Dr. Lewis’s paper to be poorly written, lacking in substance and containing very few credible references. If parents are given poor information and very few facts, how can they ever make an informed decision about vaccinations?
Parents are continually being lied to by the medical profession, the mainstream media, the pharmaceutical industry and world governments, and it needs to stop. How can we trust a person paid to vaccinate our children? Let’s face it – Dr. Karen Lewis is, after all, the Medical Director of the Arizona Department of Health Services. She is h...
Source: vactruth.com - August 17, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Dr. Karen Lewis DTaP vaccine dtp Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) truth about vaccines Source Type: blogs
Fact vs. Fiction: Judge Upholds Barring Unvaccinated Children from Public Schools
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
Vaccination is one of the great success stories of public health. People who receive vaccinations against disease are far less likely to contract that disease. In 1900, 30.4% of all deaths from infectious disease were to children under the age of 5 and the top three causes of death were pneumonia, tuberculosis and diarrhea-enteritis. By 2010, the only infectious disease in the top ten list was influenza and pneumonia at 9th place. In 2012, 91.4% of adolescents are immunized for measles, mumps & rubella, 92.8% for Hep B, and many others.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 27, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Craig Klugman Tags: Cultural Featured Posts Health Regulation & Law Pediatrics Philosophy & Ethics Politics Public Health vaccination Source Type: blogs
The Scary Truth About the New York City Flu Vaccine Mandate
Conclusion
Families should not be forced to inject their child with toxic substances. They should not be forced to receive a vaccine that is ineffective and dangerous. They should not be forced to give up their preferred choice for quality, early childhood education and care programs in order to avoid forced vaccination. Families should be allowed to make the choices for their health and well-being that are best for their family.
If your child attends day care or preschool in New York City, we urge you to contact your elected officials and tell them you are against forced vaccination for your child. In addition, you may ex...
Source: vactruth.com - April 21, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Missy Fluegge Tags: Missy Fluegge Recent Articles Top Stories Flu Vaccine FORCED VACCINATION truth about vaccines vaccine mandate Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Update Satellite — 03-25-2014
Patients gone wild. Really wild. 70 year old Brookdale Hospital nurse Evelyn Lynch gets knocked to the ground by patient Kwincii Jones and has her head stomped. She was knocked unconscious and suffered severe facial fractures. Also underwent brain surgery, so it is likely she suffered a brain bleed or has brain swelling as well.
Congratulations to the antivaccination movement for increasing the worldwide incidence of pertussis and measles. Measles and mumps are now “crushing” the UK. Patients with “religious exemptions” to receiving vaccinations were reportedly the source of one recent California p...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - March 25, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs
Pro vaccination campaign – Rubella
There is a lot of #BS talked about the harm vaccines might cause, most of it unproven scaremongering by patient advocates, lawyers, quacks and tabloid journalists. There is almost a religion growing out of the antivax campaign that seems to walk hand-in-hand with conspiracy theory nonsense and the gibberish peddled by those who think governments shouldn’t advise us on what to do when it comes to health, even if it could save lives. Here are a few answers to the antivax brigade.
Baby cataracts from Wiki here – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubella,_congenital – Babies that contract rubella in the womb are ...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - February 10, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Tips to Avoid the The Flu - Flu is Spreading Across the United States
Most of the country is now experiencing high levels of influenza like illness (Flu) according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Courtesy of the CDC http://www.cdc.govMayo Clinic specialists are offering advice and dispelling some misconceptions about the influenza to help people stay healthy.Here are some tips for avoiding the FluWash your hands thoroughly and frequently with water and soap or alcohol-based hanWoman sneezing and coughing with a cold of flud sanitizer. This is particularly important before leaving the bathroom, eating or touching your face.A good rule of thumb is to wash your hands for 20 seconds, ...
Source: I am an Alzheimer's Caregiver - January 16, 2014 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
