Required for college:
Institutions(click here) that provide on-campus housing must inform students about meningococcal disease and vaccine and must document receipt of information and whether they choose to be immunized (Health and Safety Code, Sections 120395-120399)*
Madeline was school mate. From our very first days in Kindergarten. We graduated high school together. Our class dispersed into some of the finest universities in the country.
September came with a phone call from home. Madeline had died from spinal meningitis.
This isn't about vaccines, it is about disease. Has the public looked at the list of disease prevented from vaccine medications?
I have said this before; I think parents can withhold vaccines until after the first birthday. If the child is in child care outside of a family home environment the parents really should vaccinate.
As far as mercury? Really? Mercury? It is a toxic metal. What's it doing there?
Tetanus is probably the biggest success story in the USA. It is virtually wiped out. The populations that succumb to tetanus are the elderly and Hispanic. The opportunity for infection of tetanus is always present. A wound from a fall off a bicycle can cause death if there is no resistance to tetanus. The elderly are always immune compromised. They probably haven't been given a booster. The Hispanic at any age, except those in school, may not have received vaccines by ignorance and/or language barrier and/or financial problems.
Weekly
April 1, 2011 / 60(12); 365-369 (click here)
Tetanus is a life-threatening but preventable disease caused by the toxin of Clostridium tetani, a ubiquitous, spore-forming, gram-positive bacillus found in high concentrations in soil and animal excrement. Reported tetanus cases have declined >95%, and deaths from tetanus have declined >99% in the United States since 1947, when the disease became reportable nationally. To update a previous report (1) and to determine the populations at greatest risk for the disease, CDC analyzed cases reported to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) during 2001--2008. This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which found that 233 tetanus cases were reported during 2001--2008; among the 197 cases with known outcomes, the case-fatality rate was 13.2%. Average annual incidence during that period was 0.10 per 1 million population overall and 0.23 among persons aged ≥65 years. Incidence among Hispanics was nearly twice that among non-Hispanics....
I have never met a parent with a dead child from vaccines IN THE USA. There may be some, but, I don't see documentation about it. There may have been lawsuits.
Most of the deaths from vaccines occur outside the USA. They occur frequently because there is something wrong with a particular bottle of the vaccine. It may not have been refrigerated or it wasn't handled correctly when administering, but, it is a very rare occurrence when there is a death of a child in the USA from vaccines.
The authority to require vaccines falls into the public health of any hospital or institution. Public health is about the majority of Americans and what will protect them from any health danger. The vaccines do their job. They protect the majority.
There has been no clear link between vaccines and autism. I think there are issues with vaccines, but, CLEARLY the benefits outweigh the problems. The USA is a compassionate country and if there is a danger to health all the red flags go up. There may be a need to complete independent research to develop better vaccines, but, in all honesty it is a better in the USA because their citizens receive vaccines.
I think it's appropriate to continue to demand better vaccines and more precise effects on children, but, to completely eliminate vaccines we would have to live in a sterile world. That will never happen. At the very least, human beings have benevolent bacteria in their digestive system. There will never be a perfect world to eliminate vaccines. It is a fact of life.
Institutions(click here) that provide on-campus housing must inform students about meningococcal disease and vaccine and must document receipt of information and whether they choose to be immunized (Health and Safety Code, Sections 120395-120399)*
Madeline was school mate. From our very first days in Kindergarten. We graduated high school together. Our class dispersed into some of the finest universities in the country.
September came with a phone call from home. Madeline had died from spinal meningitis.
This isn't about vaccines, it is about disease. Has the public looked at the list of disease prevented from vaccine medications?
I have said this before; I think parents can withhold vaccines until after the first birthday. If the child is in child care outside of a family home environment the parents really should vaccinate.
As far as mercury? Really? Mercury? It is a toxic metal. What's it doing there?
Tetanus is probably the biggest success story in the USA. It is virtually wiped out. The populations that succumb to tetanus are the elderly and Hispanic. The opportunity for infection of tetanus is always present. A wound from a fall off a bicycle can cause death if there is no resistance to tetanus. The elderly are always immune compromised. They probably haven't been given a booster. The Hispanic at any age, except those in school, may not have received vaccines by ignorance and/or language barrier and/or financial problems.
Weekly
April 1, 2011 / 60(12); 365-369 (click here)
Tetanus is a life-threatening but preventable disease caused by the toxin of Clostridium tetani, a ubiquitous, spore-forming, gram-positive bacillus found in high concentrations in soil and animal excrement. Reported tetanus cases have declined >95%, and deaths from tetanus have declined >99% in the United States since 1947, when the disease became reportable nationally. To update a previous report (1) and to determine the populations at greatest risk for the disease, CDC analyzed cases reported to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) during 2001--2008. This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which found that 233 tetanus cases were reported during 2001--2008; among the 197 cases with known outcomes, the case-fatality rate was 13.2%. Average annual incidence during that period was 0.10 per 1 million population overall and 0.23 among persons aged ≥65 years. Incidence among Hispanics was nearly twice that among non-Hispanics....
I have never met a parent with a dead child from vaccines IN THE USA. There may be some, but, I don't see documentation about it. There may have been lawsuits.
Most of the deaths from vaccines occur outside the USA. They occur frequently because there is something wrong with a particular bottle of the vaccine. It may not have been refrigerated or it wasn't handled correctly when administering, but, it is a very rare occurrence when there is a death of a child in the USA from vaccines.
The authority to require vaccines falls into the public health of any hospital or institution. Public health is about the majority of Americans and what will protect them from any health danger. The vaccines do their job. They protect the majority.
There has been no clear link between vaccines and autism. I think there are issues with vaccines, but, CLEARLY the benefits outweigh the problems. The USA is a compassionate country and if there is a danger to health all the red flags go up. There may be a need to complete independent research to develop better vaccines, but, in all honesty it is a better in the USA because their citizens receive vaccines.
I think it's appropriate to continue to demand better vaccines and more precise effects on children, but, to completely eliminate vaccines we would have to live in a sterile world. That will never happen. At the very least, human beings have benevolent bacteria in their digestive system. There will never be a perfect world to eliminate vaccines. It is a fact of life.
