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I would rather suffer a bout of mumps, measles and rubella than spend the rest of my life allergic to peanut butter.
The bureaucratic mind is created by the mismanagement of neural transmissions caused by the adjuvants in vaccines.
I usually don't respond to you ergohead, er, Statutory Ape, but really! You'd rather be dead (in the case of measles), sterile (in the case of mumps) or responsible for a baby infected with congenital rubella syndrome (in the case of rubella) than allergic to peanut butter?
I usually don't respond to you ergohead, er, Statutory Ape, but really! You'd rather be dead (in the case of measles), sterile (in the case of mumps) or responsible for a baby infected with congenital rubella syndrome (in the case of rubella) than allergic to peanut butter?
And what does that have to do with Morris Heights NY ?
I commented that the demographics of Morris Heights was immigrant.
Another poster ASSumed they were all Mexican.
Well they are not so stats on Mexico mean nothing.
The majority there are Dominicans. What's the stats on DR's vaccination programs ?
The immigrant issue is moot. Immigrants living here --- legal or illegal --- are not the source of measles outbreaks.
For the record, the Dominican Republic has about a 79% immunization rate against measles. Cases in DR are also imported, as measles is no longer endemic there either.
Diseases mutate. Vaccines become ineffective. Immigrants legal or otherwise bring it over.
New malaria strains are drug resistant.
Unvaccinated Americans travel abroad and bring it home. If everyone who traveled to countries where measles still circulates took the vaccine there would be very few measles cases in the US.
There is no evidence that the measles virus is mutating or that the vaccine is becoming ineffective.
I'm trying to point out they are not Mexican like so many are ASSuming here.
Mexicans only make up 13% of NYC immigrants.
You can't force everyone on this planet to get vaccinated.
You can't eliminate all diseases no matter how hard you wish it.
if you got your shots then just live your life. Those that didn't are willing to take the risk.
No, not all who are unvaccinated are willing to take the risk. The unvaccinated category includes all infants under the age of one year. i assure you the majority of the parents of those babies do not want them to get measles.
People with defective immune systems are at risk, too, even if they have been vaccinated.
Death rates for measles were on the decline prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine.
Death rates, perhaps. But not actual rates of disease, which always carries the possibility of death, mental retardation via encephalitis, deafness and other complications.
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