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Kabu
You are so right about your warning! Actually, it's too bad that such warnings are still necessary - by now it should simply be part of 'common knowledge' that vaccinations are necessary for a number of diseases, among them measles, but I guess there are still some people who haven't heard yet, in addition to the ones who have idiotic religious reasons against vaccination (hence the recent emergence of polio in many Muslim countries)...
posted by
Nautikos
on November 23, 2013 at 4:25 PM
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Our girls got their shots when they were kids...
I can remember getting my innoculations as a kid, although I'm not sure about mumps...the big thing back then was getting shots for polio (3 I think)...
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posted by
Rumor
on November 23, 2013 at 11:52 AM
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Kabu
A person has to stand somewhere locve.
posted by
BC-A
on November 23, 2013 at 10:58 AM
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Clever Dangerous Viruses
The most dangerous virus today is the one causing HIV-AIDS. Our hopes have been raised only to be dashed time and again over the past 20 years by Scientists announcing that they were on the verge of a major breakthrough in developing a vaccine against the deadly virus and nothing so far has come from their efforts. It is postulated that these bugs outwit the scientists by mutating all the time and render the vaccines useless.This is what happens to the influenza virus yearly. Last year's vaccine is inefective for this year's virus. Forget about vaccines for the common Cold or 'Flu. Washing your hands after touching even clean surfaces has proved very effective in preventing infection with thes bugs.Try it.
posted by
Setaki
on November 23, 2013 at 7:59 AM
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I think parents here arent getting the shots here and not just the measles but all of them. I am not quit sure but I think something changed in the law that parents had to get the shots before kids could start school
posted by
Lanetay
on November 23, 2013 at 7:22 AM
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Thanks for the info of what was and can be a very serious problem. I believe in the 'preventive' medicines and actions so my husband & I both had the shingles vaccine a couple of years ago because I saw what my mom & mother-in-law went through. I do remember the measles and mumps in my childhood and my childrens'. I have a few scars from the chickenpox!!
posted by
Butterfly-1950
on November 23, 2013 at 7:14 AM
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We all had measles as kids and jaundice, hooping cough, mumps, German measles, nits , impetigo, warts, well that was just a few of the things we had. Of course it is wise to have the vaccine if available. I understand your theory at the time there were some bad reactions to some vaccines I am sure. I forgot tonsils and chilblains and bleeding knees and frostbite and thorns sticking in ones hands and wasp stings. Can I help you down Nurse. And dog bites and cats scratches and nails sticking in ones foot encouraging tetanus. 
posted by
C_C_T
on November 23, 2013 at 1:21 AM
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I had what my Father called, the German Measles when I was a kid, and yet I understand why some refuse to get their shots, as the fear of Autism and Asburgers spreads like fire, but I would not risk it for my kids...They had their shots.
posted by
UtahJay
on November 22, 2013 at 11:53 PM
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So important. When I was small, four of us siblings had a very long bout of pertusis (whooping cough). I'll never forget that. Now, of course there are DPT shots. I wouldn't want anyone to have to go through that if they don't have to. Also two of my dad's little sisters died of diphtheria and my brother's friend died of tetanus. Some people don't even want their children to have DPT.
posted by
TAPS.
on November 22, 2013 at 3:01 PM
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Kabu
In the States we are having all sorts of diseases coming into the country because we have so many undocumented people coming in from God knows where. Yes we have, from some sort of propaganda, stopped automatically vaccinating our children. I was in college and one of the test students for Dr. Salk on the Polio vaccine. I took every shot available and still I had measles and chickenpox from which I have since had shingles. Get vaccinations. 
posted by
Justi
on November 22, 2013 at 2:04 PM
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You have told me those horrible stories of when you worked with those dear people...I cry to think of one inparticular. Yes, I am angry too that people take such stupid, needless risks with their health and the health of their children. I am thankful that your sons did not end up with such a horrible fate. Don't blame yourself...at the time, you knew no better. But the ignorance must end. I love you.
posted by
lovelyladymonk
on November 22, 2013 at 12:30 PM
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I, too, am saddened and frightened what is happening by parents not having their kids get vaccinnes to diseases like Measles, Whooping Cough and so on and so forth.
I know that in America some vaccinnes in a study were blamed for causing autism. However, the study was debunked. Sadly, the damage has been done, and people still bring up that study as fact.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on November 22, 2013 at 11:27 AM
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Two of my grandma Lucy's babies died of measles pneumonia
when they were about a year old. The second caught the infection from pajamas worn by the first one a year earlier - they'd been laundered, but the virus lived on. I had the 3-day measles a couple of times - this was before there were vaccines - and I remember the dark room, fever dreams. Maybe the medium some vaccine are carried in are dangerous, but so are the diseases. It's a matter of how much risk one can live with.
posted by
Pat_B
on November 22, 2013 at 11:25 AM
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Thanks for sharing this timely warning!
It is so easy to confuse 'common' with 'insignificant.' I, too, had measles as a kid, and remember no big deal about it. My kids had their vaccines. Which reminds me, I should get that vaccine against shingles.
posted by
Ciel
on November 22, 2013 at 11:10 AM
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