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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnybody know what the vaccination laws are like in civilized countries like in Europe?
Just wondering if they have the same kind of anti-vaxx stupidity we have here.
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Anybody know what the vaccination laws are like in civilized countries like in Europe? (Original Post)
Brigid
Feb 2015
OP
The Dutch have a Bible Belt full of vaccine refusing people and they've had outbreaks of measles,
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2015
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PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)1. France & Measles outbreak 2011
http://www.vaccinestoday.eu/vaccines/why-france-has-not-yet-eliminated-measles/
This is a vaccination schedule for several different countries.......
http://www.euvac.net/graphics/euvac/vaccination/vaccination.html
This is a vaccination schedule for several different countries.......
http://www.euvac.net/graphics/euvac/vaccination/vaccination.html
Brigid
(17,621 posts)3. Thanks for the info, PumpkinAle!
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)2. The Dutch have a Bible Belt full of vaccine refusing people and they've had outbreaks of measles,
mumps, polio.....
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)5. The Dutch? Where is this Dutch Bible Belt that has polio?
Pakistan, Syria, Cameroon, Afghanistan, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Israel, Somalia and Nigeria are the countries that have had polio cases, with the majority in Pakistan.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)4. Not sure how they look at it in civilized countries like Europe.
I am curious though.
Chemisse
(30,808 posts)6. Great Britain has had this problem a well.
Although the UK saw immunisation rates drop after a now discredited 1998 study by Dr Andrew Wakefield linking the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine and autism, the US has not had a significant change.
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-26722871
U.K. public health officials are racing to contain a rash of measles outbreaks among older British children that threatens to spread the highly contagious disease throughout the country. The budding epidemic has been linked to a debunked 1998 anti-vaccine study that caused U.K. vaccination rates against measles to plummet.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/21/2040051/uk-measles-outbreak-anti-vaccine-study/
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-26722871
U.K. public health officials are racing to contain a rash of measles outbreaks among older British children that threatens to spread the highly contagious disease throughout the country. The budding epidemic has been linked to a debunked 1998 anti-vaccine study that caused U.K. vaccination rates against measles to plummet.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/21/2040051/uk-measles-outbreak-anti-vaccine-study/
Telcontar
(660 posts)7. What European countries do you think are civilized
Lived in Europe (Germany, Turkey, Great Britain) for eight years. Trying to figure out which country you might mean.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)8. The ones that actually have . . .
A functioning government, universal health care, a functioning educational system, intact infrastructure, and the like.
Telcontar
(660 posts)9. Still cant think of one with all those characteristics
pampango
(24,692 posts)10. Here's an article regarding vaccinations in Sweden
What Sweden can teach America about measles vaccinations
More Americans aren't getting the vaccination that provides coverage for measles, mumps and German measles, also known as rubella. In some areas of California, 13 percent of young children haven't been immunized. Compare that with a place like Sweden, where vaccination coverage is estimated to include all but 5 percent of the entire population. That's because Swedes show up for all sorts of optional immunizations in droves, providing the sort of "herd immunity" that Americans can only envy.
Elizabeth Bruenig, a staff writer at The New Republic, says Swedes tend to approach vaccination campaigns very differently than Americans do. "When I think about my flu shot every year, and whether or not I really want to go through getting the needle in the arm, I'm generally thinking about my own health: Do I want to sick this year?" Bruenig says. "In Sweden, it's very common to think of vaccines as something that you do because you're going to be in contact with people who are vulnerable to illness. It's a way of protecting them."
Those vulnerable groups include the elderly, children who are too young to be vaccinated and the immuno-compromised such as people going through chemo-therapy, or those with HIV and AIDS. Others turn out to be at risk because the measles vaccine isn't 100 percent effective for everyone who receives it.
When Swedish parents think about getting their children immunized, they act because "it's something that we do where we all use our bodies sort of as human shields for people whose bodies just don't have the capacity to be vaccinated or to withstand these diseases."
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-01-29/what-sweden-can-teach-america-about-measles-vaccinations
More Americans aren't getting the vaccination that provides coverage for measles, mumps and German measles, also known as rubella. In some areas of California, 13 percent of young children haven't been immunized. Compare that with a place like Sweden, where vaccination coverage is estimated to include all but 5 percent of the entire population. That's because Swedes show up for all sorts of optional immunizations in droves, providing the sort of "herd immunity" that Americans can only envy.
Elizabeth Bruenig, a staff writer at The New Republic, says Swedes tend to approach vaccination campaigns very differently than Americans do. "When I think about my flu shot every year, and whether or not I really want to go through getting the needle in the arm, I'm generally thinking about my own health: Do I want to sick this year?" Bruenig says. "In Sweden, it's very common to think of vaccines as something that you do because you're going to be in contact with people who are vulnerable to illness. It's a way of protecting them."
Those vulnerable groups include the elderly, children who are too young to be vaccinated and the immuno-compromised such as people going through chemo-therapy, or those with HIV and AIDS. Others turn out to be at risk because the measles vaccine isn't 100 percent effective for everyone who receives it.
When Swedish parents think about getting their children immunized, they act because "it's something that we do where we all use our bodies sort of as human shields for people whose bodies just don't have the capacity to be vaccinated or to withstand these diseases."
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-01-29/what-sweden-can-teach-america-about-measles-vaccinations