You know what: I am a responsible parent who will do whatever, pay whatever to whomever to protect my child from any preventable disease. Immunization prevents diseases........not vice versa..........
I don't care what other people think: I know what life was like before vacination, children died and suffered life long complication from diseases.
These diseases do exist in other parts of the world. Do you not think that people travel and then expose people in the USA and Canada to diseases especially if that child has no immunity to the disease.....please........
Like I said before: A large group of people from a religious organization did not "believe" in vacination. They had their own school that their children attended, as these children cannot enter a public school system without the required immunization, nor daycare. Well to make a long story short, most( a very high percentage) of these children, adults, pregnant women were infected with German Measels from ONE person who came over from another country. Even adults who never set foot in this school , but who were part of this religous organization caught this disease from their children......
This one person and this religious organization put the whole general public at risk. I took my children to the Doctors to get them another shot against German measels.....just in case. I choose to protect them because this disease is now in the general public because of ONE person.
I erred on the side of caution and protection of my kids health....even though I live at least 300 miles from this city where this happened.
Other parents choose to do the same......protect our kids..........
That is what vacination do, protect your children from diseases........plain and simple........
For example:
Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) is a bacterium that can infect the outer lining of the brain causing meningitis. Hib is transmitted from person to person through mucus droplets that are spread by coughing or sneezing. Invasive Hib disease occurs most often at three months to three years of age, peaking at six to seven months of age. The disease is uncommon after age five years.
Hib can cause a wide variety of serious infections, including pneumonia, severe throat swelling that makes breathing difficult (epiglottitis), and infections of blood, bones, joints, and the covering of the heart. Complications of Hib meningitis include blindness, deafness, mental retardation, learning disabilities, and death. About 5% of children (500 out of every 10,000) with Hib meningitis die despite antibiotic treatment
The first Hib vaccine was licensed in 1985. Scientists later reformulated the vaccine so that it would be effective in children under 18 months of age, and the FDA licensed this improved version in 1987. The currently used Hib vaccine protects infants as young as six weeks old.
Prior to universal Hib immunization, Hib was the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in infants and preschool-age children, and caused approximately 20,000 cases of invasive disease annually.
Even if my child was not in daycare - I would still do everything possible in the off chance that he/she may come into contact with a child(say at a park, playgroup, shopping mall, friends place) to contract this illness......
I know for sure my child is protected when they are immunized, why would I play "russian roulette" with their health when a simple vacination will ensure they are protected......and then further protected with "boosters" as required.
Before the polio vaccine, 13,000 to 20,000 people were paralyzed by polio, and about 1,000 people died from it each year in the United States. Most of those infected were elementary school children so it was often called 'infantile paralysis.'
The incidence of paralytic polio peaked in the U.S. in 1952 with 21,000 reported cases and numerous deaths. Following licensure of the Salk (inactivated) polio vaccine in 1955, the incidence of the disease fell dramatically. The disease was further reduced by the advent of the Sabin (oral) polio vaccine in 1961. The last cases of paralytic polio from natural poliovirus in the U.S. were in 1979, and the most recent case from outside the U.S. occurred in 1993.
In my province(state) children cannot enter daycare or school until PROOF is supplied that they have had all of the required immunzation. After all, the daycare and school do not want to put ALL children at risk because of ONE child........if this information is not provided the child cannot enter daycare or school. Also the child will be suspended from daycare or school if a "spot" check reveals that the child does not have up to date immunization.
I rather make the drug companies money, then to "risk" my child getting very sick.........that is my choice.........as a responsible parent........who cares about my children's health.........who has the means and opportunity to prevent my child from getting any preventable disease.......
Can you imagine what life was life without immunization............all of the diseases that have been prevented by immunization would be common....in every child in every school........in every state, in every country.......
Isn't modern medicine great......prevents illness and death..........especially in the most vulnerable persons in society.....and the most valuable....our children.......
You see I don't have a medical degree nor did I go to medical school, so when my child's doctor tell me that if I choose not to immunize my child I am being "negligent" in my child's health and "long term best interest" because of what I "believe" or what "others" have told me. That is "irresponsible" as the parent "thinks" they know more than the:
<LI>Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
<LI>American Academy of Pediatrics
<LI>American Academy of Family Physicians
I also ensure that every member of my family gets the "flu" shot every year also. My friend choose not immunize herself and her kids and one child got the flu and then everyone got the flu,(extended family members came over for two weeks to care for the family) it was a " big time mess"......one of her kids ended up in the hospital........this year she will be first in line "so she can protect" her family when the flu season hits. Prevention is the best medicine......
Anyone who does not "believe" in vacination because they "think" that the big drug business in trying to "gouge" them, should take a look at their children and then their wallet and decide what is more important.......money or their kids health.......I would say......let me think about this for half a nanosecond....my kids health........to vacinate them against peventable diseases..........
I don't care what other people think: I know what life was like before vacination, children died and suffered life long complication from diseases.
These diseases do exist in other parts of the world. Do you not think that people travel and then expose people in the USA and Canada to diseases especially if that child has no immunity to the disease.....please........
Like I said before: A large group of people from a religious organization did not "believe" in vacination. They had their own school that their children attended, as these children cannot enter a public school system without the required immunization, nor daycare. Well to make a long story short, most( a very high percentage) of these children, adults, pregnant women were infected with German Measels from ONE person who came over from another country. Even adults who never set foot in this school , but who were part of this religous organization caught this disease from their children......
This one person and this religious organization put the whole general public at risk. I took my children to the Doctors to get them another shot against German measels.....just in case. I choose to protect them because this disease is now in the general public because of ONE person.
I erred on the side of caution and protection of my kids health....even though I live at least 300 miles from this city where this happened.
Other parents choose to do the same......protect our kids..........
That is what vacination do, protect your children from diseases........plain and simple........
For example:
Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) is a bacterium that can infect the outer lining of the brain causing meningitis. Hib is transmitted from person to person through mucus droplets that are spread by coughing or sneezing. Invasive Hib disease occurs most often at three months to three years of age, peaking at six to seven months of age. The disease is uncommon after age five years.
Hib can cause a wide variety of serious infections, including pneumonia, severe throat swelling that makes breathing difficult (epiglottitis), and infections of blood, bones, joints, and the covering of the heart. Complications of Hib meningitis include blindness, deafness, mental retardation, learning disabilities, and death. About 5% of children (500 out of every 10,000) with Hib meningitis die despite antibiotic treatment
The first Hib vaccine was licensed in 1985. Scientists later reformulated the vaccine so that it would be effective in children under 18 months of age, and the FDA licensed this improved version in 1987. The currently used Hib vaccine protects infants as young as six weeks old.
Prior to universal Hib immunization, Hib was the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in infants and preschool-age children, and caused approximately 20,000 cases of invasive disease annually.
Even if my child was not in daycare - I would still do everything possible in the off chance that he/she may come into contact with a child(say at a park, playgroup, shopping mall, friends place) to contract this illness......
I know for sure my child is protected when they are immunized, why would I play "russian roulette" with their health when a simple vacination will ensure they are protected......and then further protected with "boosters" as required.
Before the polio vaccine, 13,000 to 20,000 people were paralyzed by polio, and about 1,000 people died from it each year in the United States. Most of those infected were elementary school children so it was often called 'infantile paralysis.'
The incidence of paralytic polio peaked in the U.S. in 1952 with 21,000 reported cases and numerous deaths. Following licensure of the Salk (inactivated) polio vaccine in 1955, the incidence of the disease fell dramatically. The disease was further reduced by the advent of the Sabin (oral) polio vaccine in 1961. The last cases of paralytic polio from natural poliovirus in the U.S. were in 1979, and the most recent case from outside the U.S. occurred in 1993.
In my province(state) children cannot enter daycare or school until PROOF is supplied that they have had all of the required immunzation. After all, the daycare and school do not want to put ALL children at risk because of ONE child........if this information is not provided the child cannot enter daycare or school. Also the child will be suspended from daycare or school if a "spot" check reveals that the child does not have up to date immunization.
I rather make the drug companies money, then to "risk" my child getting very sick.........that is my choice.........as a responsible parent........who cares about my children's health.........who has the means and opportunity to prevent my child from getting any preventable disease.......
Can you imagine what life was life without immunization............all of the diseases that have been prevented by immunization would be common....in every child in every school........in every state, in every country.......
Isn't modern medicine great......prevents illness and death..........especially in the most vulnerable persons in society.....and the most valuable....our children.......
You see I don't have a medical degree nor did I go to medical school, so when my child's doctor tell me that if I choose not to immunize my child I am being "negligent" in my child's health and "long term best interest" because of what I "believe" or what "others" have told me. That is "irresponsible" as the parent "thinks" they know more than the:
<LI>Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
<LI>American Academy of Pediatrics
<LI>American Academy of Family Physicians
I also ensure that every member of my family gets the "flu" shot every year also. My friend choose not immunize herself and her kids and one child got the flu and then everyone got the flu,(extended family members came over for two weeks to care for the family) it was a " big time mess"......one of her kids ended up in the hospital........this year she will be first in line "so she can protect" her family when the flu season hits. Prevention is the best medicine......
Anyone who does not "believe" in vacination because they "think" that the big drug business in trying to "gouge" them, should take a look at their children and then their wallet and decide what is more important.......money or their kids health.......I would say......let me think about this for half a nanosecond....my kids health........to vacinate them against peventable diseases..........
It's been pretty miserable. They did tell them they were close to a better vaccine.
