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re: The Anti-Science Advocates have won: Measles Outbreak in NYC
Posted on 3/16/14 at 11:08 pm to SettleDown
Posted on 3/16/14 at 11:08 pm to SettleDown
quote:Is that a problem, yes, but the number of people not vaccinating their children is growing.
No. But we've gotten much less adamant about the levels of demands we place on immigrants. I wonder if this is one of them?
As a future pediatrician (hopefully), there are few things that truly infuriate me more than those who put their children at risk like that.
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Posted on 3/16/14 at 11:10 pm to Scruffy
The infuriating part for me isn't that they are putting their kid at risk.
It's that they convince themselves that they are doing it for their own good
It's that they convince themselves that they are doing it for their own good
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:16 am to Scruffy
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As a future pediatrician (hopefully)
Great to hear! My sister is going into peds, she 's anxiously awaiting the e-mail saying she's matched today
Posted on 3/17/14 at 10:55 am to Scruffy
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As a future pediatrician (hopefully), there are few things that truly infuriate me more than those who put their children at risk like that.
Let me ask you this. We selectively don't immunize. For example, we decline the chicken pox vaccine. We will not go with the HPV vaccine when my daughters are older. We also avoid any vaccine with the WI-38 or MRC-5 developmental lines.
Does that infuriate you as well?
Posted on 3/17/14 at 12:02 pm to Scruffy
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the number of people not vaccinating their children is growing.
I do not know the full set of statistics about any decline in vaccinations but here is a little anecdote.
Twenty-four years my younger sister got a bad case of the measles. None of the docs she saw in the DFW area could figure out what she had. We flew her home and my Uncle, a general practice physician knew it was the measles as soon as he saw her. The hospital (OLOL) let us go in to visit her (wearing masks of course) and we all got the measles as well. I missed 3 weeks of school during my final semester at LSU.
My point is that she had been vaccinated (we all had been vaccinated) but still ended up with the measles. I think that a stronger strain has developed and we will have to change the vaccine to compensate.
This post was edited on 3/17/14 at 12:10 pm
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