Comments on: San Diego Measles Outbreak Growing

Five More Kids Diagnosed, Bringing Recent Total To 11

[erasmus6]

"When I grew up everyone got the measles, mumps, and chicken pox. It was a fact of life then." posted by coppertales

When I grew up I had the measles, chicken pox etc. too. And I had also had my vaccinations. The part I think you are not getting is that just because you are vaccinated doesn''t mean you won''t get them. What it does mean though, is that when you do get them, you won''t get them as bad, it will be mild. If you get them without having a vaccine you will get one hell of a lot sicker and you can DIE!!

[erasmus6]

"There is no proof that vaccines cause autism." posted by docpeter.

Yes, I know, I stated that in an earlier post.

[bb19631]

immunizations people! Get them! Measles are nothing to mess with. Immunizations linked to Autism is purely ridiculous in my opinion. When we were young we all got our shots and none of us got Autism. Mercury is not used in the shots anymore so shut up that *****.I thought schools and daycares required immunizations before enrollments. Do us all a favor and get your shots to protect us that have done so.

[coppertales]

When I grew up everyone got the measles, mumps, and chicken pox. It was a fact of life then. Too many people want to raise their kids in a steril enviornment. They give them antibiotics at the drop of a hat for everything that comes along, thus, resistant germs........chris3

[mollydtt]

Polio is contagious. You can be the cleanest person on the planet, but if everyone else has not been vaccinated, your chances of getting it would be very high.

[docpeter-2009]

RE: erasmus6 wrote, "I find it amazing that people are so worried about their child getting autism which would be very unlikely and yet they are willing to let them get the diseases ( which most will) that they can get severe complications from and even die! Does that make sense?" There is no proof that vaccines cause autism. I have had probably more vaccines in my life than most people. My father was an ob/gyn and we were vaccinated every summer for something before we could go swimming. Personally I question the sudden rise in autism cases as 1. better methods of detecting, 2. doc who don''t know what else could be wrong, 3. increased recreational drug use in the late 60s and 70s. Who knows what all of those drugs did, on the chromosomal level, to America''s youth, and finally 4. our dirty environment, who knows what is in our air that a pregnant woman is breathing.

[mc1525]

You were making sense until the chromosomal damage non-sense. By the way, an active dose of caffeine or aspirin does more "chromosomal damage" as almost all other recreational drugs, especially the psychedelics and pseudo-psychedelics used in the 60s and 70s.

[docpeter-2009]

RE: mollydt who stated, "I just mention this as an example, because for all of you that have proudly announced that you aren''''t vaccinated against polio, you owe your good health to the millions that did get vaccinated, and therefore didn''t spread the disease to you. Same thing with rubella, whooping cough and diphtheria." I am assuming that you, like I, grew-up in the lat40s or 50s. While the Salk vaccine did help a lot to reduce the occurrance of polio, sanitation and treatment of our national water supplies as well as our waste water had an even bigger role. While vaccination may reduce the likelyhood for the individual, it does nothing for the population as a whole. I am not anti-vaccination, I am for clean.

[erasmus6]

Here in Canada all vaccines are also free, except one, and I think it is the chickon pox vaccine, not sure.

[mollydtt]

Here in Austin, TX, there are numerous free immunization clinics. No questions asked, no proof of inability to pay, etc. For any parent that doesn''t want their child immunized, they simply fill out a form saying they don''t want their child subjected to any vaccine. That form is kept on file in the school district''s administration office. (Again, no questions asked, no need to have a doctor''s permission, or religious objection--just parents'' perogative) But--all school immunizations can be gotten for free.

[velika-2009]

What about those who are citizens of the US and are uninsured? none mentions them in these posts. Quite possibly the children already had autism and it shown up just after the immunizations.It''s bad enough that some of those kids probastnerap dah yl bthat couldn''t afford it , if teir parents are un willing itis because of the so called autism connection. but whatwas never mentioned is some parents'' inability to pay for immunization