Spain has first diptheria case in 30 years. VACCINATE YOUR ****ING CHILDREN
What the hell is the matter with people?!!? VACCINATE YOUR G-D D----D CHILDREN!!!http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/spain-s-first-case-diphtheria-28-years-due-lack-vaccination
Diphtheria is a bacterial infection that spreads through coughing or sneezing, according to the World Health Organization. Once infected, sufferers can experience a sore throat, fever and swollen glands in the neck. Diphtheria can lead to serious complications even with treatment, with 10% of cases resulting in death. Spain’s Health Ministry had to scramble to find the drug to treat the child as there had not been a case of diphtheria in Spain for almost 28 years due to the country’s high vaccination coverage (over 95%). The antitoxin was eventually delivered from Moscow to Barcelona by the Russian ambassador.
“The family is devastated and admit that they feel tricked, because they were not properly informed,” Catalan public health chief Antoni Mateu told El País. “They have a deep sense of guilt, which we are trying to rid them of.”
The child remains in critical condition in Vall d’Hebron hospital’s intensive care unit, but is responding to treatment. Health officials have launched an investigation to find the original carrier, which they admit could be difficult if the carrier isn’t showing any symptoms. All those in contact with the child are under surveillance, and his classmates have been checked to see if they’ve been vaccinated. As a cautionary procedure, they have also given the children preventive medicine.
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...of a 6 yr old who was sooooooooooooooooo relieved that her daughter did not have any immunizations due at this visit. After her boosters at the 5 yr visit, the little girl developed a rash on her butt 8 weeks later - not 8 minutes, not 8 hours, not 8 days. In talking with other moms, this parent had one other parent report, "OMG, the exact same thing happened to my son." She is now convinced that there was a casual relationship between the rash and the boosters shots. Now, I don't remember much at all from the one statistics course I suffered thru, but I do remember that a sample size of N=2 does not allow you to draw any meaningful conclusions.
She took the child to a dermatologist, who diagnosed eczema/contact dermatitis. Mom doesn't agree, and has been treating it with Epsom salts, "because they really pull the toxins out."
I did not faint from shock when the mom said she home schools.
"Fucking children" are probably too old for a parent to vaccinate (though maybe there are exceptions). And the category would definitely not include infants and toddlers, who are those in the greatest need of vaccinations.
Also, a parent who views his children as damned probably isn't the sort who would love them enough to vaccinate them.
Direct correlation between introduction of vaccine and the drop in pertussis rates.
Where are the new cases coming from in the slight uptick recently? Funny you should ask, as it is coming primarily from those too young to be fully immunized.
Must important way to stop pertussis is to immunize on time beginning at 2 months and taking the boosters on time to build protection.
And if an unvaccinated 6 year caught it from someone who let there protection lapse, all the more reason to immunize children in case of herd immunization breakdown.
Other than medical necessity, there is zero reason to not follow the childhood vaccination schedule to the T.
Graphs from the CDC, by the way.
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The Diphtheria vaccination only last for 10 years. I suppose that is why they included it in the Tetanus vaccination, recommend every 10 year.
Herd Immunity for Diphtheria and Pertussis?
http://www.medicaldaily.com/adult-vaccination-rates-rise-still-far-too-low-tdap-shots-only-13-percent-246702
85% of adults are needed to be vaccinated with boosters for Herd Immunity. With only 13% getting that Tdap shot (85% have gotten a tetanus TD booster?), is there any Herd Immunity? Pass laws mandating all children get vaccinated? That will not work for vaccinations which require boosters in adulthood.
Who travels on planes to foreign countries? Children or adults? I am simply saying that some people cannot see the forest (entire population) for the trees (little children).
I was last vaccinated in my 20's but only because I was in the military. I'm 42 and do not have any plans on getting them now, or any new ones for that matter. I have several allergies to both foods and medicines (developed after I left the Air Force, Hmmm..) so I put stock in eating well and the fact that I am OCD about everything (also didn't become that way until after the Air Force, Heh..) 
